Axegem vs Profound
Enterprise AI-visibility platform or Shopify-native AI sales channel manager? An honest, side-by-side breakdown of pricing, features, and the segments each one actually serves best.
- Axegem is built for Shopify merchants: a free plan plus plans from $14.99/month (a fresh credit allowance every month), with one-time credit packs as top-ups. It makes your store sellable by AI and fixes it in-store — four pillars: Sellable → Truthful → Cited → Proven.
- Profound is available through custom enterprise pricing (no public price list), is sales-led, and is built for enterprise brand teams managing brand visibility across many channels and panels.
- If you're a Shopify SMB with a real catalog, Axegem is built for you. If you're an enterprise brand team that needs broad panel data across many engines, Profound is the right tier.
When you should pick Profound
- You're a Fortune 500 brand or large enterprise with a dedicated marketing analytics team
- You need broad prompt-volume panel data across many AI engines (10+)
- You have SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA procurement requirements
- You have budget for a sales-led implementation and an annual enterprise contract
- Your marketing team already has top-tier AI-search consultants on retainer and just needs the data layer
- Customers Profound publicly names on its own site include Target, Walmart, Ramp, MongoDB, Figma, Charlotte Tilbury, and US Bank
When you should pick Axegem
- You're a Shopify SMB with a real catalog — products AI shopping surfaces could be selling today
- You want to know, per product and per AI channel, whether AI can actually sell it — and fix the gaps in one click, in your store
- You want a ~3-minute setup with your first scan running in the background, not a sales call
- You want corrections for what AI gets wrong about you pushed to your store (with your approval), not just dashboards that show you "you're invisible"
- You want AI revenue counted honestly — tagged links, AI referrers, and AI-only codes, reported as a floor, not an estimate
- You want a free plan to start, plans from $14.99/month with a fresh credit allowance, and one-time packs for overflow — credits never expire
Feature breakdown.
| Axegem | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free plan + plans from $14.99/month; one-time credit packs as top-ups | Custom enterprise pricing (no public price list) |
| Onboarding time | ~3-minute setup; first scan runs in the background (free) | Sales call → demo → contract → implementation |
| Built for Shopify | Native integration with Shopify Admin API | Generic — Shopify not first-class |
| Fix in your store | One-click fixes and publishes in Shopify — approved by you, reversible | Manual export, you implement |
| AI engines | 4 scan engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) + tracks 4 AI shopping channels | 10+ |
| Prompt-volume panel data | Verified, scored queries per your catalog | Broad panel data across many sectors |
| Visibility trend | before/after per fix, sample size shown — never per-question rank | Yes |
| False-claim detection + fix | Detection + corrections pushed to your store with your approval | Detection only |
| Verified post-fix change | Re-scan after each fix, before/after shown honestly | No |
| AI revenue attribution | tagged links, AI referrers, AI-only codes — a floor, not an estimate | No |
| AI sales-channel readiness | per-product checks: channel publication, live price consistency, crawler access — one-click fixes | No |
| Answer-shaped store content | comparison pages and buying guides drafted from your verified facts, published to your own store | No |
| Self-serve start | Free plan + 500 welcome credits + free onboarding scan | Demo-gated |
Pricing
Axegem has a free plan: per-product AI-channel status, readiness checks, price and crawler checks, one-click publish — plus a free onboarding scan and 500 welcome credits, no card required. Paid plans start at $14.99/month (Starter, 2,000 credits/month) and $39/month (Growth, 6,000 credits/month), each with a fresh credit allowance every month. One-time packs cover overflow: $25 → 3,000 credits, $75 → 10,000, $199 → 30,000. Credits never expire — cancelling only stops future allowances. A product scan costs 15–30 credits depending on engines, an applied fix costs 50.
Profound previously offered Lite plans at $99–$399/month; in early 2026 those tiers were removed, and the public pricing page now reads “currently available through customized enterprise pricing.” Per public press reports, Profound raised a $96M Series C at a reported $1B valuation in February 2026 — the company is heavily focused on enterprise expansion. If you're a Shopify SMB, you're not their target customer.
If you're moving from Profound to Axegem
We support data import for visibility baselines and competitor lists. Start with the free audit — it runs right now, no signup — to see what ChatGPT actually says about your store. When you create an account, your free onboarding scan and 500 welcome credits are included, no commitment.
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Comparison reflects publicly available information about Profound — including pricing, funding, and customer references — as of August 2026. Profound is a registered trademark of its respective owner. We update this page when material product or pricing changes are announced.