Profound vs AthenaHQ

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Written head to head: Profound vs AthenaHQ, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Profound Contact sales Visit Remove	AthenaHQ Free plan · from $245/mo Visit Remove
What it is	AI marketing platform that tracks brand visibility in AI answers and runs content agents	AEO and GEO platform that tracks AI search visibility and recommends content actions
Free plan	No	$25 of free credit (300 credits; 1 credit = 1 AI response) on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot; the page does not say whether the credits renew
Cheapest paid plan	Not publishedProfound pricing	$245/mo billed annually (Starter)AthenaHQ pricing
What it covers	Not stated	Includes 3,600 credits a month (1 credit = 1 AI response) across 11 AI models; API access and extra credits cost extra.
Free trial	7-day free trial: 50 prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits	None stated
Platforms	Web, API	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Running AI visibility tracking and content agents for a large brand in one platform Auditing AI visibility for agency prospects and clients Seeing which sources AI engines cite across a category	Trying AI visibility tracking on a free plan before paying Getting AI visibility tracking and content recommendations in one tool Tracking a wide set of AI models, including Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI
Watch out for	No self-serve plan for brands: after the 7-day trial, Enterprise is priced by quote The trial uses a recommended prompt set that cannot be customised and covers three engines Agents run on credits, and more than the allotment needs an Enterprise package	The only paid self-serve plan costs $295 a month ($245 billed annually) API access and extra credits are paid add-ons on Starter, priced on request Tracking in multiple regions and languages is an Enterprise feature
Made by	Profound	AthenaHQ

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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