AI visibility tools, head to head
ZipTie.dev vs Profound
Pricing, features and differences, researched August 2026.
ZipTie.dev and Profound both help teams measure how often their brand appears in AI search results and find ways to improve that visibility. Each platform tracks tools such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. That overlap makes them relevant options for SEO teams and agencies that need one place to monitor AI search performance. The main differences come down to intended customer size, data sources, workflow depth, and pricing approach. ZipTie.dev focuses on AI search monitoring, query suggestions, competitor and source analysis, and content guidance for SEO teams, agencies, and brands. Profound targets enterprise brands and agencies with added capabilities such as consumer prompt data, crawler and referral analytics, citation data, and automated content workflows. This comparison looks at the AI platforms each tool tracks, the visibility and citation data they provide, how they support content improvements, and which teams may find their feature sets a closer fit.
At a glance
ZipTie.dev
Pick it if three engines cover the surfaces you care about, because that is all it tracks.
- Entry price
- $69/mo
- Tracked prompts
- 500–2,000 checks/mo; 1 check = all 3 engines
- Free trial
- 14 days, 75 checks
Profound
Pick it if you are buying for a large team, and check the prompt allowance first, because the entry plan tracks 50.
- Entry price
- $99/mo, billed yearly
- Tracked prompts
- 50 / 100; custom on Enterprise
- Free trial
- 7 days (Growth)
Hi, MooseOur AEO tool
Pick it if you want the fix shipped rather than scored: an agent that publishes the change, audio repurposing no other tool here offers at any price, and a built-in model so the AI can cost you nothing.
- Entry price
- $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included
- Tracked prompts
- No hard limit on any plan
- Free trial
- n/a - free plan, no expiry
The row SEOs read first
Founders have SEO backgrounds?
A tool built by people who have done the work makes different choices.
Full comparison
202 rows across 20 categories. Values are quoted as published; where a vendor does not publish a number, the cell says so.
| Feature | ZipTie.dev | Profound | Hi, Moose Our AEO tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & cost model | |||
| Free plan available | No - 14-day trial | No - free one-off AEO Report only | Yes - free forever, no card |
| Free daily visibility runs, no cap | No | No | Yes - local runs unlimited on every plan |
| Engines free to run daily | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Entry paid price | $69/mo | $99/mo, billed yearly | $39/mo BYOK; $79/mo AI included |
| Annual billing discount | Yes - 15% | Yes - 2 months free | Yes - BYOK 2 months free; managed plans ~10% |
| Pricing model | Monthly check allowance, 3 tiers | Per prompt + Agent credits | Flat plan with monthly AI credit balance, or BYOK |
| Bring your own API key | No | No | Yes - OpenRouter |
| Can run with $0 AI cost to vendor | No | No | Yes |
| Usage metered in one transparent unit | No - separate check, summary, optimization caps | Partial - credits meter Agents only | Yes - AI credits, published rate card |
| In-app usage dashboard | Not published | Yes - credit admin panel | Yes - % used, reset date, pace warning |
| Agency / reseller tier | No - custom plans on request | Yes - Agency Mode, 2 tiers | Yes - $149 BYOK Agency; $449+ AI included |
| Affiliate program | Not published | Partner program - referral commissions | Yes |
| Annual contract required | No | Yes on both self-serve tiers | No |
| Free trial length | 14 days, 75 checks | 7 days (Growth) | n/a - free plan, no expiry |
| Paid plans pricing range | $69–$159/mo + custom | $99–$399/mo + custom Enterprise | $39–$1,999/mo |
| Deployment, privacy & data ownership | |||
| Native desktop app | No | No | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Browser-based app | Yes | Yes | No |
| Local-first data storage | No - cloud SaaS | No - cloud SaaS | Yes - local database on the device |
| Works offline | No | No | Partial - local models and stored data; engine checks need the web |
| On-device AI Inference | No | No | Yes |
| Local model sizes offered | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Data export on cancellation | CSV anytime; post-cancel terms not published | CSV/JSON, Growth and up | CSV, PDF, DOCX exports plus full local backup |
| SOC 2 certification | No - none published | SOC 2 Type II | Pending |
| ISO certification | No - none published | Not published | No |
| Local backup and restore | No | No - vendor-side daily backups | Yes - export and import a backup file |
| Visibility & prompt tracking | |||
| Engines tracked | 3 | 9 total; 1 on Starter, 3 on Growth | 10; 5 of them also collected locally |
| Real consumer-surface capture | Yes - browser capture with screenshots | Yes - browser capture, not API | Yes - 5 engines read from the device, no API |
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes - all plans | Yes |
| Claude | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Gemini | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Google AI Mode | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes | Growth and up | Yes |
| Grok | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Bing Copilot | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| DeepSeek | No | Enterprise only | Yes |
| Meta AI | No | No | Yes |
| Tracked prompts included | 500–2,000 checks/mo; 1 check = all 3 engines | 50 / 100; custom on Enterprise | No hard limit on any plan |
| Samples per prompt configurable | No | No - response cap set by plan | Yes |
| Run cadence options | Daily or weekly | Daily only | Multiple times a day, weekly, monthly, and on-demand |
| On-demand run now | Yes - manual checks draw on allowance | No | Yes |
| Instant one-off check | No - no free public tool | Free AEO Report, 3 engines | Yes |
| Prompt manager | Yes | Yes - edit, add, disable | Yes |
| Branded vs non-branded classification | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Prompt categories and topics | Yes - automatic tagging | Yes - topics + content clusters | Yes |
| Per-prompt model selection | No - all 3 engines per check | No - set per config | Yes |
| Brand name variant support | Not published | Yes - asset configuration | Yes - secondary brand terms |
| Brand multi-domain support | Partial - separate project per brand | Yes - unlimited domains | Yes - secondary owned domains |
| Suggested prompts from Google Search Console | Yes | No - GSC is reporting only | Yes - real GSC questions |
| Suggested prompts from competitor gaps | Partial - competitor source lists | Partial - from Prompt Volumes + brand config | Yes |
| Perplexity | Yes | Growth and up | Yes |
| Scoring & analysis | |||
| Mention detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Citation detection | Yes | Yes - citation share + authority | Yes - domain and page level |
| Sentiment scoring | Yes - scored against query intent | Yes | Yes |
| Average position / rank | No | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Voice | Partial - competitor leaderboards | Yes | Yes |
| Share of Mentions | Partial - mention leaders list | Yes - "Visibility Score" | Yes |
| Share of Citations | Partial - citation leaders list | Yes - "Citation Share" | Yes |
| Narrative drift detection | No - sentiment trend only | Partial - sentiment + keyword themes | Yes - scored against a brand truth profile |
| Feature-parity / accuracy scoring | No | Yes - FactCheck vs ground truth | Yes |
| Untracked brand extraction | Yes - all detected brands in export | Yes | Yes - with sentiment and average rank |
| Cited source categorization | Partial - social and directory sources called out | Partial - domain ranking, not typed | Yes - 8 source types |
| Topic-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Engine-level breakdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Competitor tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes - or promote any brand seen in results |
| Competitors included | Not published | Per configuration, not published | 15 |
| Visibility gap analysis | Yes - content and source gaps | Yes - Opportunities, Growth and up | Yes |
| ChatGPT fan-out capture | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| AI Mode grounding queries capture | No | No | Yes - the live grounding searches |
| Bing Index probe | No - Google indexing only | No | Yes |
| AI crawler access check | No | Partial - log-based, not robots check | Yes - retrieval, live fetch and training |
| Reporting & exports | |||
| Executive dashboard | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI-written narrative summary | Yes - 5–100/mo by plan | Partial - Aim, Enterprise only | Yes |
| Data export | Yes - CSV with full answer text | Yes - CSV, JSON, API, Looker | Yes - CSV |
| Branded PDF report | No | No | Yes |
| Scheduled email reports | Not published | Partial - Slack/Teams alerts | Yes - paid, per-user opt-in |
| Action log with export | No | Partial - Aim project tracking | Yes - CSV on paid managed plans |
| Historical data retention | Not published | All time | No cap - stored on device,. Paid plans offer 400 day backup on-cloud; audio analytics 180–365 days |
| Taking action (the AEO loop) | |||
| Covers full loop: track → fix → verify → deploy | Partial - no deploy step | Yes - via Agents + Aim | Yes |
| Page-level AEO audit | Partial - per-query content check | No - no scored page audit | Yes |
| Scored categories | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| Retrieval-readiness scoring | No | No | Yes - deterministic dense retrieval |
| Evidence tiers on recommendations | No | No | Yes - proven, directional, best-practice |
| Element-level rewrite suggestions | Partial - gap answers, not element edits | No - full-page rewrite only | Yes - element, character budget, before and after |
| Second-model QA pass | No | No - human approval step | Yes - pass, revised or needs human review |
| Static crawler-view snapshot | No | No | Yes - full-page screenshot, JavaScript off |
| Audit input sources | Pasted text only, not a URL | n/a | Live URL, pasted text, file, WordPress, Webflow, Grav |
| Baseline vs verification re-runs | Partial - trends over time, no compare view | Partial - Aim impact tracking | Yes - compares against the baseline |
| Recommendation status tracking | Not published | Yes - Aim projects and tasks | Yes - planned, staged, completed |
| Visibility data sets page priority | Yes - per-query score | Yes | Yes - defend, recover, convert, earn |
| Search Console sets page priority | Partial - GSC imports queries only | Partial - GSC integration | Yes - protect, balanced or expand |
| Branded audit PDF | No | No | Yes |
| CMS integration & publishing | |||
| WordPress | No | Yes - publish via Agents | Yes - official plugin, production and staging |
| Webflow | No | Yes | Yes - OAuth MCP, pages and collection items |
| Framer | No | Yes | On roadmap |
| Grav | No | No | Yes - official plugin |
| Shopify | No | Log ingestion only, no publishing | On roadmap |
| Surgical element-level edits to live page | No | No - publishes whole content | Yes |
| Preview before applying | No | Yes - approval step | Yes |
| Staging environment support | No | No | Yes - WordPress, with promote to production |
| One-click rollback | No | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Patch history per site | No | No | Yes - WordPress |
| Visual placement picker | No | No | Yes - pick the spot on the rendered page |
| Push Schema JSON-LD into page | No | Not published | Yes - FAQPage schema |
| Publish approval gate | n/a - never publishes | Yes - human-in-the-loop | Yes - always, including scheduled runs |
| Agentic capability | |||
| Truly agentic (agent chooses its own steps) | No | Yes - Aim, Enterprise only | Yes - plans and executes against the live web |
| Fixed-workflow automation only | No workflow builder either | Agents are node-graph workflows | No - workflows exist alongside the agent |
| Agents can run on local model at zero cost | No | No - credit-metered | Yes |
| Multi-agent panel | No | No - Aim spawns sub-agents | Yes - two extra agents, paid plans |
| Live browser view | No - browser runs server-side, unseen | No | Yes |
| Take control mid-run | No | No | Yes |
| Steer agent while running | No | Partial - chat with Aim | Yes - talk to any agent mid-job |
| Background execution | No | Yes - Aim runs continuously | Yes - with notify on completion |
| Approval gate before real-world actions | n/a - takes no actions | Yes - before publishing | Yes |
| Long-running deep work jobs | No | Partial - Aim projects | Yes |
| Scheduled agent jobs | No - scheduled checks only | Yes - scheduled Agent runs | Yes - daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly |
| Agent produces saved artifacts | No | Yes - Documents and Sheets | Yes - briefs, drafts, FAQs, audits |
| Evidence capture | Yes - answer text and screenshots | Partial - cited data in briefs | Yes - screenshots and captured proof |
| Searchable job history | No | Yes - run history | Yes |
| Chat & assistant | |||
| Agentic chat with mid-answer tool calls | No | Yes - Aim, Enterprise only | Yes |
| Model picker per conversation | No | No | Yes |
| LLM models available | n/a | Not disclosed; 16 in Agent research | 27 hosted + 3 local; any model on BYOK |
| Chat memory across conversations | No | Partial - project context | Yes - semantic search over past chats |
| Live web search | No | Yes - Exa, Firecrawl, Perplexity nodes | Yes |
| Fetch and read URLs | Partial - reads a URL to suggest prompts | Yes - web scrape node | Yes |
| Semantic search over your own site | No | Partial - knowledge base, sitemap | Yes - on-device index |
| Topic coverage check | Yes - content gap analysis | Yes - content gap vs sitemap | Yes - covered, partial or not covered |
| File attachments | No | Partial - Google Drive, knowledge base | Yes - txt, md, doc, docx, pdf, images |
| In-app screenshot capture | Partial - screenshots of AI answers | No | Yes - screen or window, with crop |
| Custom specialists with own tool access | No | Yes - Skills + custom Agents | Yes - plus 6 presets |
| Image generation | No | Not published | Yes |
| Content generation | |||
| Research-backed briefs | Partial - gap list per query | Yes - Aim execution briefs | Yes |
| Live SERP / PAA research | Partial - Google rankings compared to AI results | Partial - DataForSEO, Perplexity nodes | Yes - plus related searches and AI search snapshots |
| Full draft generation | No | Yes | Yes |
| Brand voice grounding | No | Yes - Brand Kit | Yes |
| Brand truth profile | No | Partial - Brand Kit + FactCheck | Yes |
| Internal linking placement | No | Not published | Yes |
| Featured image generation | No | Not published | Yes |
| FAQ generation with schema export | No | Yes - AEO FAQ template | Yes - HTML and JSON-LD |
| Key points extraction | No | Not published | Yes - pushable into the live pag |
| AI-tell removal pass | No - flags AI-written text, no rewrite | No | Yes - paid, toggleable |
| Artifact library | No | Yes - Documents | Yes |
| Export formats | CSV | CSV, JSON; CMS publish | Markdown, HTML, DOCX, PDF, TXT |
| Revise artifacts in place | No | Yes - Documents editor | Yes |
| Deploy directly to CMS | No | Yes - 10 CMS connectors | Yes |
| Content repurposing / audio | |||
| Turn any page into audio | No | No | Yes - URL, pasted text or file |
| Two-voice conversation format | No | No | Yes |
| Voices | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Languages | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Length options | n/a | n/a | Short, standard, deep dive |
| Embeddable audio player | No | No | Yes |
| Player theming and layout | No | No | Yes - theme, layout, accent, title, transcript |
| White-label audio attribution | No | No | Yes - agency plans |
| Attribution backlink to agency | No | No | Yes - real link in page HTML |
| Listening analytics | No | No | Yes - plays, completion, listen time |
| BYOK audio generation | No | No | Yes |
| Site crawl & monitoring | |||
| Automatic site discovery | Partial - carried-over indexing module | Partial - sitemap read by Aim | Yes |
| Scheduled full-site crawl | Partial - index monitoring, not AEO | No - reads AI bot logs, not your site | Yes - weekly or on demand |
| Monitored page management | No | No | Yes |
| Batched change digests | No | No | Yes |
| On-device semantic index | No | No | Yes |
| Page freshness tracking | No - index status only | Partial - content decay signals | Yes |
| Entity & knowledge graph | |||
| Site-wide entity graph | No | No | Yes |
| Inferred relationships | No | No | Yes |
| Salience scoring | No | No | Yes |
| Graph readable by AI agent | No | No | Yes |
| Graph export | No | No | Yes - CSV and PDF |
| Automation & workflows | |||
| Visibility-threshold triggers | No | Partial - Aim surfaces, doesn't fire | Yes - mentions or citations, all or one topic |
| Pre-built recovery recipe | No | Yes - Content Refresh template | Yes - detect, locate, audit, stage a fix |
| Conditional branching | No | Yes - node-graph builder | Partial - branches on whether a matching page exists |
| Scheduled content cadence | No | Yes - scheduled Agent runs | Yes - daily to monthly |
| Workflow reports | No | Yes - run logs + Aim reports | Yes - posted to the inbox |
| Alerts & inbox | |||
| Unified project inbox | No | Partial - Aim opportunity feed | Yes |
| Native OS notifications | No | No - web only | Yes - Windows and macOS |
| Customized notifications with severity thresholds | Not published | Not published | Yes - per project |
| Email digest | Not published | Partial - Slack/Teams integrations | Yes |
| Teams & workspaces | |||
| Seats included | 1 | 1 / 3 / custom | Unlimited on paid managed; 10 BYOK Premium, 25 BYOK Agency |
| Cost per additional seat | Not published - no seat add-on offered | Not published - upgrade tier | $0 on paid managed plans, +$7 per seat for BYOK plans |
| Shared allowance across team | n/a - single seat | Yes - shared credit pool | Yes |
| Per-member usage visibility | n/a - single seat | Partial - admin usage panel | Yes |
| Multi-project workspaces | Yes - separate projects per brand | Enterprise / Agency Mode only | Yes |
| Projects included | Not published | 1 workspace; multi on Enterprise | 1 free, 3–10 managed, 25–unlimited agency; +$10 each |
| Archive and restore projects | Not published | Agency Mode only | Yes |
| Per-project API keys | No - no API | No - org-level, Enterprise | Yes - rotatable |
| SSO / SAML | No | Enterprise only | Roadmap |
| Agency & white-label | |||
| White-label PDF reports | No | No | Yes - visibility report and audit |
| Custom logo, color and link | No | No | Yes |
| White-label audio player | No | No | Yes - custom attribution text and link |
| Client-facing backlink | No | No | Yes |
| Dedicated agency tier | No - custom plans on request | Yes - Agency Growth + Enterprise | Yes - four tiers |
| Client sub-accounts | No - 1 seat, separate projects | Yes - client + pitch workspaces | No - clients are projects, no client logins |
| Integrations | |||
| Google Search Console | Yes - imports queries | Yes | Yes - OAuth, credentials stay on device |
| Google Analytics | No | Yes - plus Adobe Analytics | Roadmap |
| MCP connector support | No | Yes - hosted server + Claude connector | Partial - Webflow connects over MCP |
| Public API | No | Enterprise only | No - project keys for own plugins only |
| Slack | No | Yes - plus Microsoft Teams | No |
| Zapier | No | No - 40+ native connectors | No |
| Custom connection support | No - CSV export only | Yes - custom log drain + API nodes | Yes - request a connection, paid plans |
| Platform & support | |||
| UI languages | 1 (English) | 1 (English); tracks 30+ | 6 |
| Troubleshooting and recovery tools | No | No - status page only | Yes |
| In-app help agent | No | Yes - Aim assistant | Yes |
| Done-for-you service available | Yes - consulting on request | Partner agency directory | Yes |
| Team | |||
| Founders have SEO backgrounds | Yes. | No. James Cadwallader and Dylan Babbs, a design engineer who previously worked on maps and location services at Uber; neither founder came from a search or marketing background. | Yes. Founder Sam Morris has 15+ years in SEO and software engineering. |
Which one to pick
ZipTie.dev and Profound both cover core AI visibility tracking. ZipTie.dev suits teams that want browser-based monitoring across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. Profound suits larger organizations that need SOC 2 Type II certification, Slack or Teams alerts, extensive connectors, API access, or enterprise workflow controls.
Hi, Moose fits teams that want broader coverage and a lower-cost starting point. Its free plan has no card requirement, includes unlimited local daily visibility runs, and covers five engines for daily checks. Paid plans start at $39 per month with BYOK, compared with $69 for ZipTie.dev and $99 per month on Profound’s annual Growth plan. Teams can also use an OpenRouter key or local models, which can reduce AI costs to $0 for the vendor.
The desktop model also gives Hi, Moose a different approach to data control. It stores data in a local database, supports local backup and restore, and offers on-device AI inference with three local model sizes. ZipTie.dev and Profound run as cloud SaaS products. Profound has the stronger published compliance position today with SOC 2 Type II, while Hi, Moose lists its certification as pending.
For day-to-day AEO work, Hi, Moose tracks 10 engines, including Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Grok, Bing Copilot, DeepSeek, and Meta AI. It supports no-hard-limit prompt tracking, per-prompt model selection, configurable samples, on-demand checks, and schedules ranging from multiple runs per day to monthly. It also captures Google AI Mode grounding queries, ChatGPT fan-out data, and page-level citations.
Hi, Moose also connects tracking to implementation. It runs page-level AEO audits across nine scored categories, gives evidence-tiered recommendations, prepares element-level edits, and compares verification runs against a baseline. Its WordPress, Webflow, and Grav connections support previews and approval gates before publishing. WordPress users can also use staging, rollback, patch history, and a visual placement picker.
Agencies may prefer Profound when client sub-accounts, enterprise controls, and custom integrations matter most. Hi, Moose offers four agency tiers, white-label PDF reports, branded audio players, and agency attribution links, but it does not offer client logins. For SMBs, independent SEOs, and agencies that need broad AI search coverage, local data control, practical audits, and approved publishing in one product, Hi, Moose provides the more complete fit.
Sources and research date
Researched August 2026
Every value comes from vendor pricing pages, public docs or a live account. Where a vendor does not publish a number, the cell says not published instead of an estimate. Plans change often. If a row is wrong, tell us and we will date the correction.
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