AirPulse vs Profound
The category leader by scale; software your team operates, with no done-with-you delivery.
Read the comparisonThe best AI search visibility platforms, compared.
Eight head-to-head pages comparing prompt measurement, citation tracking, crawler evidence, publishing, verification and pricing, from dated, checkable sources.
Where the field differs
Done-with-you remediation, verified by live audits
AirPulse ships the fixes with your team (rendering, schema, sitemaps, llms.txt, content) and re-audits the live site before any score is reported. Across the field, only agency retainers (Daydream) and customer-operated software agents (Profound, Goodie) come close.
Agent Pulse: crawler and agent log analytics
As of the June 2026 review, crawler/agent log analytics existed at Profound, Scrunch, Hall and Adobe, and was absent from Peec, Bluefish, AthenaHQ, the Semrush Toolkit, Ahrefs and Surfer; Evertune now lists AI bot analytics on Enterprise (checked 2026-09-09). Agent Pulse reads that traffic and feeds the remediation queue.
A published evidence standard
Control groups, consistent measurement windows, per-day normalization, live re-verified audits, disclosed confounds. Attribution to traffic and revenue is still a near-universal gap; AthenaHQ and Goodie are the exceptions.
The eight comparisons
AirPulse vs Scrunch AI
Serves an optimized layer to agents; AirPulse fixes the source site.
Read the comparisonAirPulse vs Peec AI
Excellent tracker, deliberately monitoring-only, with no remediation and no crawler analytics.
Read the comparisonAirPulse vs Bluefish AI
Brand control and hallucination correction at enterprise scale; no GA4 attribution.
Read the comparisonAirPulse vs Semrush AI Toolkit
AI tracking bundled into the SEO suite; 1 domain on Starter, no crawler analytics.
Read the comparisonAirPulse vs Evertune
Biggest prompt samples in the category; measurement-first, execution stays with you.
Read the comparisonAirPulse vs AthenaHQ
Rare real revenue attribution; no bot-log analytics, execution is customer-operated.
Read the comparisonAirPulse vs Brandlight
Strong logos and an ads/commerce roadmap; depth not publicly verifiable.
Read the comparisonEvery tool we get asked about
Pricing for the 8 vendors with a dedicated page was re-checked on their own pricing pages on 2026-09-09 (Bluefish and Brandlight publish none). Other rows are from the June 2026 review; “reported” figures are third-party.
| Tool | Best for | Pricing | In one line vs AirPulse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | Fortune 500 + agencies wanting one enterprise suite | $99/mo (ChatGPT only) and $399/mo published; Enterprise custom | The category leader by scale; software your team operates, with no done-with-you delivery |
| Scrunch AI | Mid-market teams wanting agent-delivery middleware | Core $250/mo published; Enterprise custom; 7-day trial | Serves an optimized layer to agents; AirPulse fixes the source site |
| Peec AI | Marketing teams + agencies needing clean daily tracking | Self-serve, from about €89/mo (June 2026 review) | Excellent tracker, deliberately monitoring-only, with no remediation and no crawler analytics |
| Bluefish AI | Fortune 500 orgs needing brand-fact governance | Undisclosed; demo-gated | Brand control and hallucination correction at enterprise scale; no GA4 attribution |
| Semrush AI Toolkit | Existing Semrush customers adding an AI lens | Bundled from $199/mo (Starter); Enterprise custom | AI tracking bundled into the SEO suite; 1 domain on Starter, no crawler analytics |
| Evertune | Enterprise brand measurement at statistical scale | Pro $800/mo published; Enterprise custom | Biggest prompt samples in the category; measurement-first, execution stays with you |
| AthenaHQ | Self-serve teams wanting attribution + broad engines | Free tier; Starter $295/mo; Enterprise custom | Rare real revenue attribution; no bot-log analytics, execution is customer-operated |
| Brandlight | Enterprise CMO orgs buying through sales | Undisclosed; custom enterprise | Strong logos and an ads/commerce roadmap; depth not publicly verifiable |
| Goodie AI | Teams wanting a small full-stack vendor | Quote-only | Closest full-stack analog at tiny-vendor scale; one of the few with attribution |
| Ahrefs Brand Radar | Ahrefs shops adding AI-mention data | Reported ~$828+/mo all-in real cost | Monthly chatbot refresh, data-only; no Claude coverage listed as of June 2026 |
| Surfer AI Tracker | SMB content teams already on Surfer | Pricing in transition as of June 2026 | Five engines, content-team angle; no crawler analytics |
| Otterly | Solo marketers and SMBs testing the water | SMB price anchor for the category | Entry-level tracking |
| Daydream | Brands wanting a full-service AI-native agency | Reported $15K-50K/mo retainers | Done-for-you on agency retainer economics; AirPulse scopes engagements |
| Rankscale / Knowatoa / Hall / Gauge | Budget and indie testing | Low-cost tiers vary | Lightweight trackers; Hall offers crawler analytics |
| HubSpot AEO | HubSpot customers wanting a checkbox | $50/mo, 3 engines | AI visibility as a HubSpot add-on |
| Adobe LLM Optimizer / Yext Scout / Similarweb | Incumbent-stack enterprises | Enterprise; varies by suite | AI visibility as a feature of a bigger platform |
Results
Newton School: Google AI mention rate 51.4% to 93.3% (Baseline window May 20 to 25, 2026; end window Jun 8 to 10, 2026; Google AI).
Newton School: Blended visibility across four engines 55.8% to 74.2% (May 20 to Jun 10, 2026; Four engines (blended)).
BytePe, PropChk and Airmeet results are on the case studies page with their windows and cohorts.