Most "AEO" tools sell you a dashboard and stop. We track your citations hourly across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, score every page on your site for AI-citability before you publish, and auto-generate the fix. Outcome-based pricing because our marginal cost is GPU watts, not human time.
Three things shifted in the last 12 months. If your tracking dashboard pretends they didn't, you're flying blind.
62% of B2B buyers consult ChatGPT or Perplexity before SERP. (r/SaaS, Apr 2026). There is no "page 2" — if you're not in the 1-3 cited sources, you don't exist for that query.
"Most AEO tools are guessing. They scrape partial outputs or simulate prompts, not what real users see at scale." (verbatim, r/SEO, Mar 2026). A presence boolean is not the insight you pay for.
Athena's entry is $295/mo. Lucid's is $89. None bill in INR. None issue a GST invoice. None target the cash-strapped Indian SaaS or D2C founder.
A presence boolean is the price of entry. The actionable insight is the source: which Reddit thread, G2 review, or YouTube tutorial pushed AI to mention you (or your competitor). That's what you act on.
For every prompt we run, we parse the answer for cited URLs and classify each one — Reddit, G2, YouTube, blog, official docs, news. We attribute each URL to the brand whose mention it drove. Over time you see the actual lever: "my Reddit citations dropped 40% this month because two threads now favor competitor X."
Then auto-fix kicks in: we draft (not auto-publish) the comment / review / FAQ that re-balances the citation graph. You approve, you post — we're not Reddit-spamming on your behalf.
No marketing fluff. We did the research (live signups, screenshots, real pricing pages). Here's the honest table.
| Capability | Profound $1B Series C |
AthenaHQ YC-backed |
Lucid Engine EU launch |
GEOmind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persistent prompt tracking + history | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hourly tracking (vs weekly) | weekly | weekly | weekly | hourly |
| Engines covered (out of the box) | 10+ | 8 | 3 | 2 (4 by EOM) |
| Citation source attribution | domain only | "Citation Source Intelligence" | URL-level | URL-level + brand-attributed |
| Auto-generates fix content (not just gap report) | — | Enterprise only | — | PixelAPI auto-fix included |
| ACP / ChatGPT Shopping feed manager | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Visual GEO (CLIP+BGE image search scoring) | — | — | — | via SearchPixel |
| INR billing + GST invoice | USD only | USD only | EUR/USD | PayU + GST |
| Hindi / Hinglish prompts (geo-aware) | — | — | geo-localised | Phase 2 (this month) |
| Customer-named logos right now | SoFi · Coinbase · Slalom | 15+ enterprise | 12 SaaS | in progress · honest about it |
| Entry tier price (USD-equivalent) | $99 | $295 | $89 | $14 (₹1,199) |
| Pro tier price (USD-equivalent) | $399 | custom | $549 | $244 (₹19,999) |
We are behind on enterprise polish (no SoFi-tier logos yet — we know). We are ahead on attribution + auto-fix + INR billing. If you're a Series A SaaS in Bangalore selling to US SMB, that math works. If you're SoFi, you should buy Profound.
PixelAPI gives us a 4-GPU fleet (RTX 6000 Ada + 4070 Ti S + 4070 + 4060 Ti, ~93GB total VRAM) running our own LLM serving. Our marginal cost per prompt is electricity, not OpenAI API tokens.
Profound bills you $399/mo to track 100 prompts weekly because their cost is $0.001 per OpenAI call. Ours is GPU electricity. We can run the same 100 prompts hourly — that's 168× more data for less money.
OpenAI gpt-4o-mini and Perplexity sonar today. Adding Gemini and Claude this month. The cloud-API engines stay fresh; we add a local Qwen3-32B-bnb-4bit shadow run for cheap auto-discovery of buyer-intent prompts.
Domain → auto-suggest 6 competitors → auto-suggest 25 buyer-intent prompts → first crawl runs in ~30s. Tracking starts the next hour. No "wait 7 days for your first report."
The fix layer competitors can't match: detected gap → PixelAPI generates the alt text / schema / llms.txt / FAQ, SearchPixel scores image-search visibility (Pinterest Lens, ChatGPT Vision). Same login, same credits.
Profound, AthenaHQ, and Lucid all charge regardless of outcome. We can't — because human-staffed competitors' cost is human time, ours is GPU electricity. Indian SaaS founders are demanding outcome-based billing. We're the only GEO tool that ships it.
Across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude. Tracked hourly via our 4-GPU fleet — yes, hourly, the rivals run weekly.
Auto-fix runs (llms.txt, schema, alt text, OG tags). Optional: brand-audit + visual GEO + Indic prompts. Credits committed at acceptance.
If your blended SOV hasn't lifted by ≥5%, we automatically refund 50% of the credits you committed. No support ticket. No fight.
Profound is run by ex-Google PMs. AthenaHQ is YC engineers. Lucid is European marketers. We are running on local Qwen2.5-7B + Qwen2.5-VL-7B + CLIP+BGE on our own 4-GPU fleet. That means features they can't afford to ship.
Paste a draft blog post or URL. We score it 0–100 across 10 citability factors (entity density, concrete facts, schema hints, citation-friendliness) and give P0/P1/P2 edits before you publish. Free → try it now.
We screenshot your homepage at iPhone-13 viewport, hand it to a vision LLM (the open-source equivalent of GPT-4V), and surface what AI vision can't extract. None of the rivals have a vision model in their stack.
ChatGPT Vision and Pinterest Lens use embedding retrieval. We index your product images via SearchPixel and score whether buyers searching by image will find you. Zero rivals have this.
Diwali/Pongal queries in Mumbai vs Bangalore vs Hyderabad. Hinglish (mixed Devanagari + Roman) is how Indians actually search. Profound's prompt panel is English-only.
INR via PayU (with GST invoice on day one). USD via PayPal. 30-day rollover-on-recharge — top up before expiry and unused days roll forward.
For evaluation
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All paid tiers ship with GST invoice for Indian buyers. Annual discount available on request.
Verbatim quotes from public posts in the last 60 days. We did the research before we wrote the pitch.
"Piled cash into three AEO trackers thinking I'd own ChatGPT and Perplexity citations. Month 1 dashboards glow green, clients happy. Month 2 reality hits — no citations, no traffic spike, just excuses. One tool straight up lied about tracking Gemini prompts, another showed my site killing it but manual checks say bs. Now I'm out 2k."
"Citation attribution: does it track *why* you're getting cited in AI answers, or just *that* you are? The 'why' is where most tools fall apart since LLM citation logic isn't deterministic. Honestly I don't think anyone has fully cracked this category yet."
"When someone asks ChatGPT 'best growth marketing agency in India,' the model gives one answer and cites two or three sources. If you're not in those 1-3 citations, you don't exist for that query. In AI search, the threshold is binary: cited or invisible."