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 updatedProfound 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 | Starter: ChatGPT only. Growth: three answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews). Enterprise lists Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude and Google AI Overviews as well. | 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 states it runs structured prompts across AI platforms daily; whether each platform is sampled through the web interface or an API is not stated on the pricing page. | 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 prompt frequency on all self-serve tiers. | One cycle every 72 hours, about 10–11 cycles per month; each prompt once per platform per cycle. |
| Prompt model | Priced by tracked prompts: 50 prompts (1,500 responses/month) on Starter, 100 prompts (9,000 responses/month) on Growth; one language and one region on Growth; custom on Enterprise. | Fixed 50 prompts per platform: 44 unbranded discovery/comparison prompts plus 6 branded fact checks. Not configurable on self-serve plans. |
| Evidence per run | Responses analysed for mentions, citations and sentiment; the level of raw evidence retained per response (screenshot, timestamp, region) is not documented on the public pricing page. | Per-task drill-down to task ID, status (answer / refusal / not triggered / failed / blocked), screenshot and sources; failures excluded from denominators; public sample at /en/report. |
| Pricing (public) | Starter $99/month and Growth $399/month when billed yearly (two months free); Enterprise custom. Agent credits included per tier. | 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 | Profound Sheets and agent workflows; export and API details vary by tier. | 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
- Whether Profound samples each engine through the web interface or an API, and which regions its non-enterprise tiers run from.
- 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 2026-09-10; 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