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Aeonav is an open-source AI visibility platform for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) — an alternative to tools like Profound, Peec, and Otterly that you can self-host for free or run on Aeonav Cloud. It tracks how AI answer engines — including ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot — mention and describe your brand, which competitors appear alongside you, and which sources each model cites.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) — also called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) or LLM Optimization (LLMO) — is the practice of measuring and improving how often AI answer engines mention and cite your brand. Instead of ranking in a list of blue links, the goal is to be the source an AI quotes in its answer.

SEO is about ranking pages in traditional search results, while AEO and GEO are two names for the same newer discipline: getting mentioned and cited inside AI-generated answers from tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The two overlap, because AI engines run web searches and cite the pages they find, but success is measured differently — by how often and how favorably an AI names your brand, not by your position on a results page. Aeonav measures the AEO side, including the web searches AI engines fan a prompt out into and the sources they cite.

Aeonav tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Claude, plus models like Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi. Consumer products like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode are scraped from the real interface your customers see, not approximated through an API. For each answer, Aeonav records whether your brand appears, which competitors show up alongside it, and which sources the model cites.

Aeonav runs a fixed set of prompts across AI engines on a schedule and scores each prompt by how often your brand appears in the answers, from 0 to 100%. It also calculates share of voice (your share of brand mentions versus your competitors), sentiment (whether the answers that mention you praise or criticize you, scored 0 to 100), and position (where you rank among the brands an answer names), and breaks down which domains and URLs the models cite. Because AI answers vary from run to run, Aeonav samples repeatedly and reports trends, not single results.

Add your website to Aeonav and its Prompt Wizard generates the questions your buyers are likely to ask ChatGPT, based on your products, competitors, and personas. Aeonav then runs those prompts in ChatGPT on a schedule and records every answer: whether your brand was mentioned, which competitors were named, and which sources were cited. Every Aeonav Cloud plan includes ChatGPT, starting with the $29/mo Starter plan.

Aeonav is much cheaper and simpler to buy. Profound's pricing page lists a free trial and an Enterprise plan quoted by sales, while Aeonav Cloud is self-serve with public prices, starting at $29/mo for the Starter plan. From the $99/mo Basic plan, every prompt is checked 4× a day, where Profound checks daily. Pro ($299/mo) and Business ($649/mo) add more brands, more prompts, and premium grounded models, and self-hosting Aeonav is free.

Aeonav is free and open source to self-host — there is no license fee and no per-seat pricing. You only pay for your own infrastructure and any AI provider API keys you choose to use. If you'd rather not run it yourself, managed Aeonav Cloud starts at $29/mo, and white-label plans are available for agencies.