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An honest comparison page: Profound, Otterly, Peec, and CiteWeek

Prices re-checked 2026-09-16 (Asia/Tokyo). Re-verify again the week you ship if that date has moved.

Honesty rules used here: only cite prices and plan shapes we could read on vendor pages (or CiteWeek’s own Whop plan). If a vendor hides the number, we say so. No invented search volumes, citation rates, or “X% of brands.” Category presence of CiteWeek is a desk hypothesis from organic checks, not a dashboard export.

Direct answer

If you need enterprise multi-engine visibility plus an AI marketing workspace, look at Profound (trial is free and limited; paid is sales-led). If you need daily prompt tracking across several AI surfaces at a published self-serve price, Otterly is the clearest public menu today (from $29/mo Lite). Peec is a strong brand/agency fit for AI search analytics, but its pricing page does not publish dollar amounts in HTML this week — you start checkout or talk to sales. CiteWeek is the indie weekly brief: free 3-query check, then Whop Starter at $29/mo (14-day trial) for 10 queries, weekly email, 2 engines — not nine engines, not white-label.

Use the comparison below to pick the job, not to crown a “best tool.”

What job are you buying?

Job Better fit (hypothesis)
One-off: “Does ChatGPT name me for my category?” Free check first (CiteWeek or any manual paste)
Weekly: named / cited-instead / what to publish next CiteWeek-shaped brief
Daily multi-engine prompt tracking with a public price list Otterly
Deep brand/agency AI search analytics (price often sales-led) Peec / Profound

Label: “better fit” is product-shape matching, not a ranking metric we measured.

Side-by-side (week of 2026-09-16)

Profound — tryprofound.com/pricing

What the live page shows today:

  • Trial — Free: limited AI Marketer credits; 10 prompts run once; ChatGPT only
  • Enterprise — Custom: up to 9 answer engines, tailored prompt plan, SSO/SAML + SOC2, dedicated support

Older secondary writeups still quote self-serve Starter/Growth dollar tiers. Those figures were not on the public pricing page when we checked this week, so this article does not treat them as current list prices.

Honest take: deepest “platform” shape in this set; not the indie weekly-brief wedge.

Otterly — otterly.ai/pricing

Published monthly (re-checked this week):

  • Lite — $29/mo: 15 search prompts; 4 engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot); Claude / Gemini / Google AI Mode as add-ons
  • Standard — $189/mo: 100 prompts; same base engines; API/MCP/Agent Analytics appear at this tier
  • Premium — $489/mo: 400 prompts
  • Enterprise: from $1,000/mo (page copy)
  • Annual billed ~15% off on the page

Honest take: clearest self-serve price ladder for ongoing prompt tracking.

Peec AI — peec.ai/pricing

What the live page shows today: Starter / Pro / Advanced / Enterprise plan names and feature matrix. No dollar amounts appeared in the page HTML on this check. Checkout is “Get started” / Enterprise is “Talk to Sales.” We are not repeating third-party ~$95/$245/$495 figures as facts.

Honest take: budget planning needs a live quote this week.

CiteWeek — citeweek.capyempire.com + Whop Starter

Product shape: weekly AI recommendation / citation checks for a category — were you named, who was named instead, what one page to publish next.

Paid path (Whop primary, plan_1epirh0mVXgF9):

Honest take / gap: CiteWeek still often absent on organic buyer prompts while Profound / Otterly / Peec get named (desk baseline).

How to choose in one minute

  1. Still never measured? Free check first.
  2. Daily multi-engine + public price? Otterly Lite if 15 prompts is enough.
  3. Enterprise engines / SSO? Profound trial → sales.
  4. Peec shape? Expect a quote — prices weren’t on-page this week.
  5. Weekly named/instead/publish-next? CiteWeek free check → Whop Starter.

Soft CTA

Run the free CiteWeek check →

Optional inline Whop: https://whop.com/checkout/plan_1epirh0mVXgF9?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=article-2-honest-comparison-page&utm_content=inline_link

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