AI-visibility tool alternatives

The AEO/GEO category is crowded. Here is the honest landscape, and where Avantas, a free, deterministic audit + monitor, sits among the funded players.

• Profound
  Enterprise AI-visibility platform built on licensed conversation data. From ~$499/mo.
• Peec AI
  Fast-growing mid-market AI-visibility tracker. From ~€75-90/mo.
• Otterly AI
  Budget AI-search monitoring. From ~$29/mo.
• Scrunch AI
  Premium brand-side AI-visibility platform. ~$250-300/mo.
• AthenaHQ
  Premium GEO analytics. ~$295/mo.
• HubSpot AEO Grader
  Free one-time grader feeding a $50/mo monitor.