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MonoRanks vs Profound and Peec: AI visibility on its own, or as part of the fix loop?
Profound and Peec are built for brand teams who need deep AI visibility data across many prompts and markets. MonoRanks samples AI answers for the questions your customers ask, and then does something about it: page briefs, AEO fixes, crawler rules, all on the same sites you already audit.
Side by side
| What you compare | MonoRanks | Profound / Peec |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Keeping websites healthy, quotable and mentioned, with fixes written and verified | Measuring and analysing brand visibility in AI answers at scale |
| AI answer sampling | Questions from your keywords asked weekly to three models; named, linked, who else is named; per-plan limits (5 to 100 questions per site) | Large prompt sets, many models and regions, daily sampling, share-of-voice analytics |
| What happens after the measurement | Answer gaps become page briefs; AEO readiness checks each page; crawler rules and llms.txt written through the connector | Dashboards, reports and recommendations for the brand team |
| SEO audit and fixes | Weekly crawl, issues by template, exact fixes (written for you on WordPress, with undo), rechecks that verify | Not the product |
| AI crawlers and llms.txt | Per-bot allow/block written to robots.txt; llms.txt detected, drafted and published | Crawler analytics in some products; no writes |
| AI Overviews | Presence and citation per tracked keyword, daily | Covered in their AI search tracking |
| Who it is for | Agencies, publishers, shops and small businesses who manage sites | Brand and marketing teams at larger companies |
| Price | Free for three websites; paid plans from $10/month | Peec AI from €85/month (Starter); Profound: free 7-day trial, other plans priced on request; checked September 28, 2026 |
| At a glance | MonoRanks | Profound / Peec |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly site audit with issues grouped by template | Yes | No |
| Writes the fix into the CMS (WordPress) after approval | Yes | No |
| Rechecks and verifies every fix before it counts | Yes | No |
| Samples AI answers and reports who is named | Yes | Yes |
| Thousands of prompts across models, countries and languages | No | Yes |
| Share-of-voice analytics for brand teams | No | Yes |
| AI crawler rules per bot, written to robots.txt | Yes | No |
| llms.txt detected, drafted and published | Yes | No |
| AI Overview presence and citation per keyword | Yes | Yes |
| AEO readiness checks per page (answer-first, author, dates, schema) | Yes | No |
| Client viewers and branded client reports | Yes | No |
| Free plan for three websites | Yes | No |
| API and webhooks | Yes | Yes |
Choose MonoRanks when
- You want AI mentions next to the audit and the fixes, for the sites you already manage.
- Your budget is a small business or agency budget.
- You want to act on the gap (write the page, fix the crawler rules), not only measure it.
Choose Profound / Peec when
- You are a brand team that needs thousands of prompts across models, countries and languages.
- Share-of-voice analytics and executive reporting are the deliverable.
Use both when
- A large brand may measure with Profound or Peec and fix with MonoRanks on the sites it controls.
Written September 28, 2026 from public information; tell us if something is out of date.
Questions about the comparison
How many questions can MonoRanks sample?
5 per workspace on Free, 15 on Starter, 60 on Agency, each asked weekly to up to three models.
Does MonoRanks tell the model about my brand?
No. Questions are asked exactly as written; mentions are detected afterwards in the answers.
Are the AI mentions part of the score?
No. They are observations, shown as a trend with the raw answers, never mixed into a score.
Measure the mentions, then fix the pages.
Five questions per website on the Free plan.