Screpy is a lower-cost Profound alternative for AI visibility, technical SEO, rankings, Search Console, backlinks, performance, uptime, content, and reports. Profound goes deeper into enterprise AI search analytics, real prompt demand, factual accuracy, traffic attribution, and automated AEO workflows.
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Yes for teams that need a focused AI visibility baseline inside a wider SEO platform. Screpy starts at $19/month and connects prompt monitoring with audits, rankings, Search Console, backlinks, performance, uptime, content, and reports. Profound Starter costs $99/month with annual billing and is the stronger specialist for daily answer-engine analytics, prompt-demand research, AI traffic attribution, enterprise controls, and AEO automation.
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Screpy Pro is listed at $19/month. Profound Starter is $99/month with annual billing, while Growth is $399/month with annual billing. The plans are not equivalent: Screpy covers wider SEO operations; Profound provides deeper dedicated AEO analytics and automation.
Screpy Pro For small teams that need AI visibility with technical SEO, rankings, monitoring, and reports.
For one small company beginning to monitor its visibility in ChatGPT.
For growing companies that need wider engine coverage and AEO content workflows.
Prices checked September 3, 2026. Prices and limits were verified on September 3, 2026. Profound prices shown are monthly equivalents billed yearly. Taxes, promotions, prompts, engines, regions, languages, Agents credits, and enterprise terms can change the final cost.
Compare AI visibility, prompt intelligence, crawler analytics, SEO operations, content, reporting, API access, and enterprise controls before choosing a Profound alternative.
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|---|---|---|
| Pricing and workspace | ||
| Entry price | Included Screpy Pro includes five projects and five team seats. | Different scope Profound Starter tracks ChatGPT and 50 prompts for one seat. |
| Primary workflow | Included SEO operations with AI visibility Connect AI answers to crawl, ranking, search, performance, link, and reporting evidence. | Included Monitor answer engines, research prompt demand, analyze AI traffic, and automate AEO work. |
| Self-serve team access | Included 5 seats on Pro Built for a small team across the included projects. | Limited 1 Starter seat or 3 Growth seats Larger teams and custom controls move toward Enterprise. |
| AI visibility and answer evidence | ||
| Prompt tracking | Included Monitor a focused set of category, use-case, comparison, and decision prompts. | Included 50 Starter or 100 Growth prompts Profound sends structured prompts to supported Answer Engines daily. |
| Engine coverage | Included Choose platforms available in the current Screpy product and market. | Higher plan 1 engine on Starter, 3 on Growth, up to 9 on Enterprise Starter is ChatGPT-only; Growth lists ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. |
| Mentions, citations, and sentiment | Included Review mentions, position, sentiment, citations, source domains, and competitors. | Included Analyze visibility, citations, sentiment, positioning, share of voice, and competitive presence. |
| Response collection | Different scope Supported platform analyses Review the answer evidence collected by the current Screpy AI visibility workflow. | Included Profound says it captures the front-end experiences users see rather than substituting API outputs. |
| History and exports | Included Trends and data exports Review monitored results over time and export available prompt, mention, and source data. | Higher plan All-time history; exports from Growth Profound lists no Starter exports and CSV/JSON exports on Growth and Enterprise. |
| Prompt demand and competitive research | ||
| Real prompt-demand dataset | Not included No equivalent consumer-panel product Screpy does not claim Profound's licensed and modeled real-user prompt dataset. | Higher plan Profound analyzes anonymized, aggregated panel data to estimate frequency, intent, sentiment, and trends. |
| Prompt suggestions | Included Generate practical prompts, then choose a focused set for monitoring. | Included Recommended prompts and demand context Profound combines editable prompt sets with relevant keywords and, on eligible plans, broader prompt research. |
| Competitor benchmarking | Included Compare monitored brands across the same prompt set and period. | Included Regional, topical, and platform benchmarks Profound is stronger for specialist segmentation and enterprise-scale competitive analysis. |
| AI claim accuracy | Not included No FactCheck equivalent Screpy does not claim to verify every AI statement against a managed source of truth. | Included Compare extracted brand claims with a Knowledge Base, trace sources, and launch remediation workflows. |
| AI crawlers, traffic, and attribution | ||
| AI crawler monitoring | Included Connect supported traffic data to review crawler visits, pages, status codes, and trends. | Included Uses server logs and crawler verification to analyze AI bot access without a client-side tracker. |
| AI referral attribution | Different scope Traffic and website analytics context Review the connected data available in Screpy; confirm attribution requirements before switching. | Included AI traffic and conversion attribution Profound connects AI referrals with analytics and conversion events. |
| Infrastructure integrations | Limited Connect Cloudflare traffic, crawler, and real-user performance signals to Screpy. | Included Broad server-log connector set Profound lists Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud, Netlify, Vercel, WordPress, and analytics integrations. |
| Tracked domains | Higher plan Project limits apply The number of websites depends on the selected Screpy plan. | Included Unlimited Agent Analytics domains Profound lists unlimited tracked domains for Agent Analytics across its current plans. |
| Technical SEO and traditional search | ||
| Technical website audit | Included Review crawlability, indexability, metadata, links, images, structured data, and technical issues. | Different scope AI-readiness and crawler analysis Profound focuses on answer-engine accessibility and AEO effectiveness rather than a broad traditional SEO crawler. |
| Google rank tracking | Included 100 keywords per project on Pro Track devices, locations, competitors, movement, and history. | Not included Not a core Profound workflow A separate traditional rank tracker may still be needed. |
| Search Console opportunities | Included Queries, pages, CTR, decay, and quick wins Connect verified Google demand to prioritized SEO opportunities. | Different scope AEO-first demand and performance Profound's distinctive demand product is Prompt Volumes rather than a traditional Search Console workflow. |
| Backlinks, PageSpeed, and uptime | Included Review link authority, performance trends, and availability beside search visibility. | Not included Not the primary Profound scope Additional SEO and monitoring products may be required. |
| Content, reporting, API, and enterprise | ||
| Content generation | Included Generate structured drafts inside Screpy's wider SEO workflow. | Included Build credit-based workflows that research cited content, draft or refresh pages, and publish through supported CMS connections. |
| Automated AEO workflows | Limited Focused content workflow Generate and manage supported content tasks inside the wider Screpy SEO workflow. | Included Profound Agents supports prebuilt and drag-and-drop workflows for research, briefs, drafts, refreshes, and publishing. |
| Cross-channel SEO reports | Included Combine selected audit, ranking, performance, backlink, and visibility widgets. | Different scope AEO dashboards and exports Profound reporting centers on answer-engine, prompt, citation, and traffic intelligence. |
| API access | Higher plan Use supported project and analysis data in external workflows. | Higher plan Enterprise only Profound lists no API on Starter or Growth and API access on Enterprise. |
| Enterprise controls | Limited Team workspace and plan controls Confirm security, procurement, identity, and support requirements directly. | Included Enterprise SSO, SAML, SOC 2, RBAC, and dedicated support Profound is the stronger fit for complex enterprise governance and tailored adoption. |
Profound provides a specialist environment for daily prompts, engines, competitors, citations, sentiment, positioning, regions, topics, and historical analysis. Screpy keeps a smaller AI visibility workflow beside technical and traditional SEO.
Screpy connects AI visibility to technical audits, rankings, Search Console, backlinks, performance, uptime, content, and reports. Profound is an AEO platform, not a replacement for a full traditional SEO monitoring stack.
Profound's licensed prompt-panel data, consumer front-end responses, and server-log analytics answer different questions. Screpy does not claim an equivalent Prompt Volumes or FactCheck dataset.
Profound can remain the AI search intelligence and automation layer while Screpy manages technical health, rankings, Search Console, performance, uptime, backlinks, and broader SEO reporting.
Screpy fits teams that need broader SEO operations around a focused AI baseline. Profound fits organizations investing deeply in answer-engine intelligence, attribution, automation, and governance.
Choose Screpy when AI visibility must share one budget and workspace with audits, rankings, Search Console, links, performance, uptime, content, and reports.
Choose Profound when daily answer intelligence, real prompt-demand research, citation analysis, AI traffic attribution, and automated content workflows drive the decision.
Enterprise plans suit organizations needing custom engines, prompts, regions, languages, multiple companies, API access, SSO, SAML, security controls, and dedicated support.
Run the same prompts, competitors, engines, markets, pages, and reporting period before comparing evidence quality, workflow time, coverage, and total cost.
Move one representative brand first. Preserve historical baselines and keep Profound when prompt demand, log attribution, enterprise governance, or AEO automation remains essential.
List companies, brands, aliases, competitors, prompts, tags, topics, engines, regions, languages, schedules, citations, sentiment models, Prompt Volumes research, Agent Analytics connectors, Agents, Sheets, exports, API consumers, saved views, and stakeholder reports.
Export available answer, prompt, citation, source, sentiment, competitor, and traffic data. Record metric definitions, attribution rules, conversion events, dashboards, reports, and the last complete analysis date.
Use the same brand, competitors, prompts, platforms, country, language, and reporting period where supported. Add crawl, Search Console, rank tracking, uptime, PageSpeed, backlink, and content workflows only when they answer a real question.
Compare answer evidence, stability, source and competitor detail, prompt coverage, missing demand data, crawler and referral attribution, technical context, reporting effort, automation, governance, and total cost.
This comparison uses current public pricing, product, and help pages from Screpy and Profound. It separates synthetic prompt tracking, modeled prompt demand, crawler logs, human referral traffic, technical SEO, and traditional search rather than treating them as equivalent.
Screpy publishes this comparison and has a commercial interest in the result. Profound strengths, prices, plan boundaries, and limitations are checked against Profound's official pages. Product details can change after the verification date.
Compare Screpy with other platforms built for similar SEO workflows.
Choose by the work your team repeats. Screpy is the broader SEO operations platform; Surfer SEO is the deeper content optimization platform.
Screpy fits teams that need wider SEO operations around a focused AI baseline. Peec AI fits teams that need dedicated AI search analytics. Choose by the work the evidence must support.
Screpy is the better fit when recurring site monitoring and execution matter more than a broad marketing-intelligence suite. Semrush remains the stronger choice for large-scale keyword, competitor, PPC, and market research.
Screpy is the better fit when recurring site monitoring and execution matter more than a web-scale research database. Ahrefs remains the stronger choice for deep backlink, keyword, competitor, content, and historical research.
Answers about Profound pricing, AI visibility, prompts, citations, crawler analytics, SEO audits, traditional rankings, API access, and switching.
Screpy is a strong option when a focused AI visibility baseline must sit beside technical audits, rank tracking, Search Console, backlinks, performance, uptime, content, and reports. Profound remains the stronger specialist for deep AEO analytics, real prompt-demand data, log attribution, automation, and enterprise controls.
At the verified list prices, Screpy Pro is $19 per month. Profound Starter is $99 per month with annual billing, and Growth is $399 per month with annual billing. The plans are not equivalent, so compare prompt capacity, engines, data products, automation, and any replacement tools as well as price.
Not for every organization. Screpy can replace a focused AI visibility baseline while adding broader SEO operations. It does not claim Profound's real prompt-demand dataset, enterprise Answer Engine Insights depth, wide log connector set, Agents workflow, multi-company scale, or custom enterprise controls.
Profound is the stronger specialist when AI visibility is the primary product requirement and the budget supports deeper daily tracking, segmentation, citation analysis, prompt research, attribution, and enterprise workflows. Screpy is the better fit when a smaller prompt set must connect to broader SEO work at a lower entry price.
No. Profound's verified pricing page lists ChatGPT-only tracking on Starter. Growth lists three Answer Engines, while Enterprise offers up to nine. Always confirm current engine, region, language, and prompt limits before purchasing.
No. Screpy offers prompt suggestions and monitored AI visibility, but it does not claim an equivalent dataset built from licensed consumer-panel conversations and probabilistic demand modeling. Use Profound when that market-demand evidence is central to the decision.
AI visibility tools run or analyze prompts to see whether a brand appears in sampled answers. Crawler analytics records automated bot access to a website. Referral analytics records human visits from AI platforms, and conversion attribution connects those visits to outcomes. These datasets answer different questions.
Yes. Profound can handle specialist answer-engine intelligence, prompt demand, AI traffic attribution, and AEO automation while Screpy monitors technical health, Google rankings, Search Console, backlinks, PageSpeed, uptime, and broader SEO reporting.
No. Screpy does not claim an equivalent claim-verification system or drag-and-drop AEO agent builder. Use Profound when Knowledge Base-backed accuracy checks, source attribution, automated research, content refreshes, or CMS publishing are required.
Start with Screpy when AI visibility needs technical, ranking, performance, backlink, and reporting context without an enterprise AEO budget.