Key takeaways
- Finseo's paid tiers run €84/€210/€479 per month (Starter/Business/Growth), with unlimited seats on every plan and an Enterprise tier for managed service work. All Finseo tiers cap you at 3 models at a time, even on Growth.
- Profound quietly killed its self-serve $99 Starter and $399 Growth plans in mid-September 2026. What's left is a 7-day trial and a custom Enterprise contract with no published price, reported anywhere from $2,000-$5,000+/month to a $50k/year floor.
- Promptwatch starts at $95/month (Essential) with every major model, the API, and MCP included at every tier, no engine unlocks required, which is the opposite of how Finseo and Profound gate their model access.
- If you need more than 3 simultaneous models or you want content generation and crawler logs without jumping to a custom contract, Promptwatch's Professional tier at $245/month is the closest thing to an apples-to-apples comparison with Finseo Business.
- A lot of third-party pricing pages (including some on G2) are still quoting Profound's old $99/$399 tiers. That information is stale as of this writing. Always check the vendor's own pricing page before you budget.
Why Finseo's pricing is worth a second look in 2026
Finseo doesn't get talked about nearly as much as Profound or Promptwatch in the GEO comparison content that's flooded the internet this year, and that's partly because it's a bootstrapped German company (Finseo GmbH, based in Gaildorf) that's never taken a dollar of VC money. No Series C announcement, no $1B valuation headline. Just a pricing page and 500+ customers, most of them in the DACH region, including names like Kellogg's, Panasonic, Lidl, Würth, and Jägermeister.
That matters here because Finseo's pricing structure reads less like a growth-stage SaaS company testing willingness to pay and more like a company that picked numbers and left them alone. Four tiers: Starter, Business, Growth, and a custom Enterprise/Managed Service option. Let's go through what each one actually unlocks, because the differences between them are bigger than the price jumps suggest.
Finseo Starter — €84/month (€70/month billed yearly)
This is the trial-adjacent tier. You get 50 tracked prompts, a choice of 3 AI models, unlimited users (a genuinely unusual flex at this price point), 1 project, MCP access, and daily or weekly tracking refresh. There are 300 agent credits thrown in "to try," but no Attribution, no Tasks, no bot traffic analytics, and no API.
The unlimited-seats thing is worth pausing on. Most competitors in this category gate seats hard: Profound's old Starter tier capped you at 1 seat, Peec.ai's entry tier is unlimited too, but plenty of others charge per seat once you go past 2 or 3. If you're a small team where three or four people need eyes on the dashboard, Finseo Starter avoids an annoying tax that shows up elsewhere.
Finseo Business — €210/month (€175/month yearly), "Most popular"
This is where Finseo becomes a real tool rather than a monitoring toy. You still get 3 models and 1 project, but prompts jump to 150, and you unlock Attribution, Tasks, bot traffic analytics, and full Agent access. That's roughly 13,500 AI answers a month, 7,500 credits, 15 AI-generated articles, and 210 crawlability checks. Still no API.
The missing API at this tier is the thing that'll bite technical teams. If you want to pull Finseo's data into your own BI stack or automate anything against it, Business won't let you. You have to go up a tier.
Finseo Growth — €479/month (€399/month yearly)
Growth adds API access, priority support, and bumps you to 5 projects, 350 prompts, roughly 31,500 AI answers a month, 25,000 credits, 50 articles, and 700 crawlability checks. Still capped at 3 models chosen from a pool that includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, and Mistral, plus regional options like Naver AI Briefing and Qwen.
That 3-model ceiling across every self-serve tier is the single biggest structural quirk in Finseo's pricing. You can pick which 3 you want, which is more flexible than Profound's old "ChatGPT only on Starter" approach, but if your brand needs to track ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot simultaneously, Finseo makes you choose 3 and leave one out, no matter how much you're willing to pay below Enterprise.
Finseo Enterprise / Managed Service — custom
The only tier that breaks the 3-model cap, going up to 11 LLMs concurrently, unlimited projects, custom prompt setup, a strategy paper on your markets, SSO/SAML, a dedicated contact and Slack channel, and an optional managed-service arrangement where Finseo's own team runs prompt strategy, content production, and citation outreach for you. Fact Check is available as an add-on at every tier, Enterprise included, which is a slightly odd choice for a feature that sounds foundational rather than optional.
Finseo also runs a separate agency track: Solo at €349/month for 5 client projects, Studio at €599/month for 10, and a usage-based Custom tier above that, with volume discounts kicking in once you manage 6+ projects. Minimum term is 6 months on all agency plans, which is longer than most self-serve SaaS commitments in this category.
| Finseo tier | Price/mo | Prompts | Models | Projects | API | Notable gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | €84 (€70 annual) | 50 | 3 | 1 | No | No Attribution, Tasks, bot traffic |
| Business | €210 (€175 annual) | 150 | 3 | 1 | No | No API |
| Growth | €479 (€399 annual) | 350 | 3 | 5 | Yes | Still capped at 3 models |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Up to 11 | Unlimited | Yes | Requires sales conversation |
Profound's pricing got a lot less transparent in September 2026
Here's the thing that a lot of comparison articles published earlier this year are going to get wrong if you're reading them right now: Profound used to have a public $99/month Starter plan (ChatGPT only, 50 prompts, 1,500 responses) and a $399/month Growth plan (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, 100 prompts, 9,000 responses). That structure existed from roughly June 2026 through mid-September.
Then Profound raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation on September 15, 2026, and around the same time it pulled both self-serve paid tiers from its pricing page entirely. What's left, based on a direct look at the current pricing page, is a 7-day free trial (50 prompts a day, ChatGPT/Gemini/Google AI Overviews only, limited agent credits, no exports, no API, no history) and a custom-quoted Enterprise tier covering up to 9 answer engines including Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, and DeepSeek.
There's no published dollar figure for Enterprise. Third-party estimates land anywhere from $2,000-$5,000+/month to a reported $50,000/year floor for teams as small as 10 people, based on community-reported contract figures. Worth noting that G2's Profound pricing page, last updated in late April 2026, still shows the old $99/$399 structure. If you've read a recent "best AI visibility tools" article that quotes Profound at $99/month, it's very likely working from stale data. Check the vendor's own page before you plan around any number you read elsewhere.
Profound does run a separate agency pricing structure that's held up better: Agency Growth is $99/month base plus $399/month per client workspace, each workspace getting 100 prompts/day across 3 engines and 400 agent credits. That $99 figure some sources still cite as "Starter" is actually this agency base fee now, not a brand self-serve tier.
Where Promptwatch fits in this comparison
Promptwatch takes a pretty different approach to all of this: instead of gating models, the API, or MCP behind higher tiers, everything gets every major model from the entry plan up. Essential at $95/month covers 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, all 9+ tracked LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode), plus API and MCP access, 5 AEO articles a month, and visitor analytics.
Professional at $245/month is the tier most teams actually land on: 150 prompts, 18,000 responses, 25M crawler logs, 15 AEO articles, state/city-level tracking, automated content generation, and shopping insights. Business at $579/month scales to 350 prompts, 42,000 responses, 100M crawler logs, and 30 AEO articles.
The practical difference against Finseo is the model cap. Finseo makes you pick 3 models on every self-serve tier, all the way up to Growth at €479. Promptwatch doesn't ask you to pick at all, you get the full model list at $95. Against Profound, the gap is even starker right now: Profound wants you in an unpriced Enterprise contract to get past 3 engines, while Promptwatch includes 9+ on its cheapest plan.
| Platform | Entry price/mo | Models included at entry | API/MCP at entry | Content generation | Crawler logs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finseo Starter | €84 | 3 (your choice) | No | 300 credits to try | No |
| Finseo Business | €210 | 3 (your choice) | No | Full agent access | Bot traffic analytics only |
| Promptwatch Essential | $95 | 9+ (all major) | Yes | 5 AEO articles | No (starts at Professional) |
| Promptwatch Professional | $245 | 9+ (all major) | Yes | 15 AEO articles, automated | Yes, 25M logs |
| Profound (current) | Trial only | 3 (trial) | No | Limited agent credits | Not on self-serve |
| Profound Enterprise | Custom, est. $2k-5k+/mo | Up to 9 | Yes | Profound Agents | Yes, unlimited domains |
What each platform is actually built for
Finseo's pitch leans hardest on the GDPR-native, EU-hosted angle. If your legal or procurement team cares a lot about data residency in Frankfurt and you're already comfortable with a bootstrapped vendor rather than a VC-backed one, that's a real differentiator, not a marketing line. It's also worth knowing Finseo has had some reported stability issues, the kind that show up "typical of early-stage SaaS products," according to third-party reviews, and customer support responsiveness has come up as a complaint in a few places.
Profound's strength is still its prompt-intelligence dataset and its Agents/Aim content layer, backed by serious funding and Fortune 500 logos like Target and Walmart. The problem in 2026 isn't the product, it's the access. Unless your budget clears an Enterprise contract, or you're an agency willing to pay per client workspace, there's genuinely nothing between the 7-day trial and a sales call. That's a structural change from earlier in the year, and it rules Profound out for a lot of smaller teams who could previously get in at $99.
Promptwatch's differentiator, beyond the model access at entry, is that it doesn't stop at telling you where you're invisible. Its Content Agents draft and publish fixes straight to Webflow, Framer, or WordPress, Agent Chat lets you query your own visibility data conversationally, and Unified Actions turns citation and crawler data into a prioritized to-do list rather than a static chart. That's a meaningfully different category of product than a prompt tracker, and it's why 1001 SEO Media uses it internally for GEO and AI visibility work across client accounts.
A note on the data behind all this
One thing worth keeping in mind when you're evaluating any of these platforms on prompt volume alone: not every AI engine cites the same number of sources per answer. Promptwatch's own data shows ChatGPT typically cites around 5 sources per web-search response, roughly half of what Google AI Overviews and Perplexity cite (both land close to 10 per answer), which makes each ChatGPT citation slot more competitive for the same content. Microsoft Copilot is the outlier, its average has swung from under 2 sources to nearly 17 per response within a few weeks, which tells you Microsoft is still rebuilding its retrieval pipeline. You can see the full breakdown in Promptwatch's average sources per response data. If a platform is charging you per-model access, it's worth knowing which models actually cite more often before deciding which 3 to pick on a Finseo-style plan.
So which one should you actually buy
If you're EU-based, need unlimited seats without a seat tax, and are fine picking 3 models rather than tracking everything at once, Finseo Business at €210/month is a reasonable mid-tier pick, especially if the content and attribution features matter more to you than raw API access.
If you want every major model tracked without picking favorites, plus API access and MCP from day one, Promptwatch Essential at $95 undercuts Finseo Starter on price while giving you more model coverage.
If you're already committed to an enterprise AEO program with a real budget and need the deepest prompt-intelligence dataset in the category, Profound's Enterprise tier is still the most capable option on paper, you just need to be ready for a sales conversation and a number nobody will confirm until you're on the call.
For teams still shopping around, the broader GEO software directory at bestgeosoftware.com is a decent place to see how these three stack up against the other 20-odd platforms that have shown up in this category over the past year.