Miaowa GEO vs Profound: coverage, method, evidence and pricing compared
A dimension-by-dimension comparison of Miaowa GEO and Profound for exporters and cross-border brands: platforms, collection method, cadence, prompt model, evidence, exports and price, with what we could not verify stated plainly.
Version 1.1 · Last updatedMiaowa GEO is a self-serve subscription, not a managed agency service: the ChatGPT-only plan is ¥99 per month and the cross-platform plan ¥699 per month for one to three of six platforms, paid month by month with no auto-renewal; project and managed services are quoted separately. Profound is a US-based AI visibility platform that was the most-mentioned vendor in our September 2026 sample of 264 buyer-style answers across six AI assistants. Miaowa GEO is a Chinese company's monitoring product for outbound brands. They overlap on the core question — does AI mention and cite your brand? — and differ on who the product is built for, how prompts are priced and what evidence is kept per run.
Profound · Miaowa GEO
| Dimension | Profound | Miaowa GEO |
|---|---|---|
| Target market | Marketing and SEO teams at brands and agencies, primarily English-language markets; enterprise tier for large companies. | Chinese exporters, cross-border e-commerce and other outbound businesses that need to see how overseas AI platforms answer buyer questions; contracts, invoices and support in Chinese, site in zh/en/es/ja. |
| Platforms | Free trial: ChatGPT only (10 prompts, run once). Enterprise: up to nine answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search. | Six platforms: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Claude. Self-serve plans cover one platform or one to three platforms; more by project contract. |
| Collection method | Profound's Answer Engine Insights page says every tracked prompt runs daily and that responses are captured from the consumer front end, not from API outputs. | Controlled browser environments using each product's normal web entry point; API responses are never passed off as web results. Every run keeps answer text, screenshot, source URLs, timestamp, region and language. |
| Cadence | Daily on Enterprise; the free trial runs once. | One cycle every 72 hours, about 10–11 cycles per month; each prompt once per platform per cycle. |
| Prompt model | Trial: 10 prompts, one language, one region, run once. Enterprise: a tailored prompt-tracking plan with custom languages and regions. | Fixed 50 prompts per platform: 44 unbranded discovery/comparison prompts plus 6 branded fact checks. Not configurable on self-serve plans. |
| Evidence per run | Mentions, citation sources, sentiment and rankings; raw data export to CSV (CSV and JSON on Enterprise). Per-response screenshots are not documented on the pages checked. | Per-task drill-down to task ID, status (answer / refusal / not triggered / failed / blocked), screenshot and sources; failures excluded from denominators; public read-only dashboard of its own project at /report (Chinese interface). |
| Pricing (public) | The brand pricing page lists a free trial and custom-priced Enterprise; no self-serve paid price is shown (checked 2026-09-19). AI Marketer credits are limited on the trial and custom on Enterprise. | ChatGPT-only plan ¥99 per month; cross-platform plan ¥699 per month for one to three platforms; annual = 11 monthly prices for 12 months; one brand per subscription; no auto-renewal. Project and managed service quoted by scope. |
| Exports and integrations | CSV and JSON exports and an API on Enterprise, none on the trial; Profound Sheets and agent workflows. | Web report and per-task evidence in the workspace; PDF monthly report; CSV for structured outputs within scope; no general API. |
| Best fit | English-first brands that want daily tracking, a large prompt set and content agents inside one platform. | Teams that want a fixed, comparable evidence basis across overseas platforms, Chinese-language contracting and support, and are willing to trade prompt flexibility for it. |
When to choose Profound
- You need daily sampling and more than 50 prompts per engine.
- Your team works in English and wants content and agent workflows in the same tool.
- You do not need a Chinese contracting entity or Chinese-language support.
When to choose Miaowa GEO
- Your buyers are overseas but your team, contracts and invoices are in China.
- You want a fixed 44+6 prompt structure and a 72-hour cycle so that every cycle is comparable, and per-task screenshots you can hand to a content team.
- You want to start with one platform for ¥99 per month and pay month by month without auto-renewal.
What we could not verify
- Which regions and languages an Enterprise plan samples from by default.
- Profound's data retention and per-response evidence format.
- Any Profound price not shown on its public pricing page on the check date.
Competitor facts checked on 2026-09-19; source pages: tryprofound.com/pricing; tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights; help.tryprofound.com. This page restates what the other vendor's public pages showed on the check date and makes no claim about which product is better. Their pages may have changed since; verify on their site before buying. Report errors through our corrections policy. Corrections policy · All comparisons