Clovion vs Profound.
Profound built the category. We took the lessons and built something tighter — daily refresh, real consumer prompts, and a free tier that actually works.
Side-by-side comparison. Updated November 2026.
Teams that switched
The hard parts most comparison pages skip.
Engine counts and pricing matter, but the real distance is in how each tool sees, refreshes, and acts on what AI is saying.
Real prompts, not synthetic.
Profound queries the model APIs directly, then reports what comes back. That's clean to engineer, but the responses you see in a developer console aren't what a real user sees in ChatGPT — system prompts differ, retrieval shapes differ, freshness differs. Clovion captures from a 1.8B+ panel of opt-in consumer prompts and the surrounding session. You see what buyers actually ask and what AI actually answers, not what a sterile API call returns.
Daily refresh, not weekly.
AI sentiment is volatile. A press hit, a model update, a competitor launch — any of these can shift your share of voice inside 24 hours. Profound refreshes most accounts on a weekly cycle. Clovion refreshes daily on every paid plan and most free runs, so when something moves you see it the next morning. Your team isn't briefing the board on data from last Tuesday.
Suggestions, not just monitoring.
Profound is a strong dashboard. It tells you where you stand and where you slipped. That's useful. It's also where most of the product stops. Clovion ranks the next fix — schema patches you can paste in, citation paths ranked by influence per engine, retrieval-shaped drafts for the sub-queries you're losing. Each shipped fix gets before-and-after tracking, so you prove the lift before you move on.
Free tier that actually scores.
Profound's free AEO Report is a one-time PDF, email-gated, with limited prompts. It's a lead magnet. Clovion's free score covers four engines, 20 tracked prompts, weekly refresh, three competitors, and the top 10 prioritized fixes — no card, no sales call, no expiry. The goal is to show you the work. Teams that need the full picture upgrade. Teams that don't, don't.
The whole picture, one table.
Eighteen dimensions teams actually weigh when they evaluate. Sourced from sales conversations with customers who ran both tools.
- Engines tracked108
- Prompt source1.8B+ opt-in consumer panelModel API queries
- Refresh cadenceDailyWeekly (most accounts)
- Sentiment scoring per engine
- Citation analysisPer engine, per queryPer engine
- Suggestion engine—
- Schema patchesAuto-generated, paste-readyManual guidance
- CMS integrations83
- Free tierUnlimited, no cardOne-time PDF, email-gated
- Self-serve pricingPublishedSales-gated
- Starting price$99 / monthQuote on request
- REST API + MCP serverREST only
- SOC 2 Type II
- Time to first data24 hours5–10 business days
- Support response (paid plans)Same-day on Growth+Next business day
- Performance guaranteeLift or refund (Growth+)—
- Minimum contractMonth-to-monthAnnual standard
- CancellationIn-app, anytimeEmail account manager
Notes verified November 2026 from public docs, support transcripts, and a 12-month-old Profound contract reviewed with permission. If anything here is out of date, tell us.
Our share of voice on Perplexity went from invisible to dominant in six months. We finally have a real number for AI visibility, refreshed daily, against the right competitors.
Switching from Profound
Eight questions teams ask on almost every migration call. If we missed yours, we have a switcher specialist on most demos.
Profound supports CSV export of tracked prompts, sentiment history, and citation logs from the dashboard. Our migration team will walk through the export with you, then map fields into your Clovion workspace so your historical baseline carries over. Most teams complete the export inside an afternoon.
Yes. We ingest your Profound prompt list, dedupe against our panel coverage, and backfill what we have from our own historical panel data — typically 6 to 18 months depending on the prompt. You'll see a clean before-and-after view on day one, not a fresh-start chart.
Profound is quote-on-request, so we can't post a public number. What we hear from migrated customers is that Clovion typically lands at 40 to 60 percent of comparable Profound spend at the same prompt count, with self-serve Starter at $99 and Growth at $399. Enterprise pricing scales by brand and seat, not by query volume.
Of course, and we encourage it for the first 30 days. Run Clovion alongside Profound, compare the daily-refresh data against weekly snapshots, check our suggestion engine against your in-house GEO backlog. Most teams cut the Profound contract at the next renewal once the comparison is clear.
First visibility score in 24 hours. Full prompt list mirrored from Profound inside the first week. Most migrations are fully done — historical data, integrations, team access, alerting — inside two weeks. Enterprise migrations with SSO and custom data pipelines take three to four weeks.
Less than you'd expect. The mental model is similar — engines, prompts, sentiment, citations — so the muscle memory carries. The new surface is the suggestion engine, and we run a 45-minute onboarding for your GEO lead. Most teams are productive in week one.
If you're locked into an annual contract, we'll happily run in parallel until your renewal date so you're not paying twice in spirit. A handful of customers also negotiated early exit by showing Profound the data — we can share the talking points that worked for them.
Notion, Brex, Loom, Figma, and Webflow all moved off Profound in the last 18 months. The most common driver is engine coverage (Meta AI, DeepSeek, AI Mode), with daily refresh and the suggestion engine as the close-the-deal moments. Happy to connect you with any of them as a reference.
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No card, no sales call. Four engines, twenty prompts, top ten fixes, refreshed weekly on the free tier. Upgrade when it earns it.