Updated May 2026
Found by AI vs PromptMonitor
A budget monitoring dashboard with outreach hooks. Or someone producing the content for you.
PromptMonitor is a tightly-built budget monitoring tool with unusually broad coverage for the price - 8 engines from $29/mo, daily refresh on Growth, plus two features no competitor matches: publisher contact extraction (who to pitch for citation building) and AI crawler analytics. For teams that will run outreach and write content themselves, it's a fair deal. Found by AI is built for a different situation: lightweight monitoring (€14/month annual) plus recurring done-for-you AI Content production (€199-€799/month). PromptMonitor gives your team the tools to do the work. We do the work for you.
Stop at the dashboard.
Show the gap. Don't address it with content production. A client looking at a monitoring dashboard with no content production is not a recurring conversation; it's a quarterly question.
Write briefs from keyword tools.
Briefs come from search-volume guesswork. They produce useful articles, but the priorities don't reflect what AI assistants are actually citing for the client's category.
Turn monitoring evidence into the next brief.
Last month's monitoring evidence - competitor appearances, citation gaps, missing facts, weak topics - becomes next month's content brief. Then the monthly proof report shows what changed.
The wedge is the loop, not any single layer of it.
What each one is for
A monitoring dashboard with outreach tools.
Or done-for-you content production.
PromptMonitor is a clean, well-built self-service monitoring tool with an honest price-to-feature ratio. For $29-39/mo it covers 8 AI engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and AI Mode - with daily refresh, unlimited seats on Growth, and unique features no competitor matches: publisher contact extraction (emails and social profiles from cited sources) and AI crawler analytics (which AI bots visit your site, how often). It ships fast, with weekly releases. For teams that will run outreach and write the content themselves, it does what it says cleanly.
Found by AI is built for a different situation. Monitoring (€14/month annual) is a calm weekly read on whether AI is mentioning your business - citation, sentiment, and competitor benchmarking on every tier. AI Content (€199-€799/month, AI Monitoring Minimum included on every plan) is the recurring done-for-you work - structured articles, comparisons, FAQs, refreshes, publishing support, and optional profile inclusion when useful at no extra cost. PromptMonitor gives your team the tools and publisher contacts to do the work. We do the work for you each month. Two jobs.
Where each one sits
What PromptMonitor is best at
- Engine breadth at the budget end. 8 AI engines on every plan from $29/mo with daily refresh and unlimited seats on Growth ($39/mo)
- Publisher contact extraction. Emails and social profiles from cited sources - a unique feature for teams running outreach campaigns
- AI crawler analytics tracking which AI bots visit your site, what they read, and how often - useful technical-side intelligence
What Found by AI is best at
- Lightweight ongoing monitoring at a calm price (€14/month annual on Minimum; €39/month on Growth with a personalized site-aware monthly playbook) - citation, sentiment, and competitor benchmarking on every tier
- Recurring done-for-you AI Content production (€199-€799/month) - structured articles, comparisons, FAQs, refreshes, publishing support, and optional profile inclusion when useful at no extra cost
- Monitoring and content in one subscription. AI Content includes AI Monitoring Minimum on every plan, so the read and the work live together
The operating difference
Monitoring shows the gap. AI Content does the work.
Found by AI pairs low-cost AI Monitoring with recurring content production. The found-by.ai profile is an optional included surface, not a separate product or proof claim.
| Generates content? | Publishes for you? | Publishing surface | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PromptMonitor | — | — | — |
| Found by AI | Yes | Yes | Recurring AI Content; optional found-by.ai profile |
PromptMonitor
Found by AI
AI Monitoring is the diagnostic. Recurring AI Content is the paid work; the optional profile is included and can be skipped without changing price.
Feature comparison
Different products, side by side. Most rows aren't a contest - they show the categorical difference.
| Found by AI | PromptMonitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring entry price | €14/mo annual (Minimum: 15 prompts, 3 engines) | $29/mo (Starter: 25 prompts, 8 engines, twice-weekly refresh) |
| Monitoring mid-tier | €39/mo annual (Growth: 50 prompts, 5 engines, personalized site-aware playbook) | $39/mo (Growth: 50 prompts, 8 engines, daily refresh, unlimited seats) |
| AI engines covered | 3 (Minimum: ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Perplexity), 5 (Growth: + Microsoft Copilot, Claude) | 8 on every plan (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, AI Overview, AI Mode) |
| Monthly playbook | Standard (Minimum); personalized site-aware (Growth - LLM scans your site monthly) | Data dashboards only - no playbook |
| Publisher contact extraction | — | Yes - emails and social profiles from cited publishers (unique feature) |
| AI crawler analytics | — | Yes - tracks AI bot visits to your site in real time |
| Optional found-by.ai profile | Recurring AI Content production (€199-€799/mo); optional profile when useful at no extra cost | — |
Key Differences
Choose PromptMonitor if...
- You want a deep monitoring tool and you'll write your own content. 8 engines at $39/mo with daily refresh and unlimited seats is a fair deal
- You want to extract publisher contacts for outreach campaigns - a unique feature no other tool offers
- You want AI crawler analytics on your own site - useful technical intelligence for engineering teams
Choose Found by AI if...
- You want cheap honest monitoring (€14/month annual) AND someone producing the recurring AI Content for you, with optional profile inclusion when useful
- You want a clear monthly playbook telling you what to prioritize - not a dashboard to explore
- You want one purchase: AI Content (€199-€799/mo) includes AI Monitoring Minimum on every plan
- You'd rather have recurring AI Content produced from monitoring gaps than chase publisher contacts yourself
Frequently asked questions
What does PromptMonitor actually do?
PromptMonitor is a focused, well-built budget AI visibility monitoring tool: brand mention tracking across 8 engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, AI Mode), sentiment analysis, competitor visibility scoring, plus two unique features no competitor matches - publisher contact extraction (emails and social profiles from cited sources for outreach teams) and AI crawler analytics (which AI bots visit your site, how often). Plans are $29 Starter and $39 Growth with daily refresh and unlimited seats on Growth. It ships weekly and does what it says cleanly. For teams that want the broadest cheap monitoring dashboard with outreach hooks, it's a fair deal.
Does PromptMonitor produce content for me?
No, and they don't claim to - PromptMonitor is a monitoring tool, not a content production service. It tells you what to track and gives you publisher contacts to pitch; your team does the outreach and writes whatever comes next. Found by AI is built for the work that follows: we produce customer-site AI Content with publishing support and optional profile inclusion when useful at no extra cost (€199-€799/mo, AI Monitoring Minimum included on every plan). Monitoring shows the gap; AI Content addresses it. If your team will pitch publishers and write content, PromptMonitor is the right tool. If you want the content produced for you, that's what AI Content does.
PromptMonitor tracks 8 engines. Why does Found by AI cover only 3-5?
Because PromptMonitor's engine breadth is strong at the price match it. If you need broad reads across the AI search landscape on a tight budget, their 8-engine coverage at $29-39/mo is a fair deal. Found by AI covers the engines that drive the bulk of AI referral traffic - ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, and Perplexity on Minimum, plus Microsoft Copilot and Claude on Growth - and puts the rest of the budget into producing the recurring content that addresses monitoring gaps. Different priorities for different jobs.
What is PromptMonitor's publisher contact extraction and is it useful?
It's unique - it extracts contact details (emails and social profiles) from publishers whose content is cited by AI engines in your category, so outreach teams know exactly who to pitch for citation building. No other tool ships this. If you're running an active outreach program to build citations into AI-search-relevant publishers, it's a real reason to pick PromptMonitor. Found by AI takes a different angle: instead of helping you find publishers to pitch, we produce the customer-site AI Content from the monitoring gaps. PromptMonitor helps your team do the work. We do the work for you.
Should I use Found by AI instead of PromptMonitor?
Depends on what you have in-house. If your team will write content and run outreach campaigns themselves, PromptMonitor is a fair deal - $39/mo for 8 engines, daily refresh, unlimited seats, plus publisher contact extraction and AI crawler analytics nobody else offers. Found by AI is for businesses that want cheap honest monitoring (€14/mo annual) AND someone producing the recurring AI Content for them each month - done-for-you rather than dashboard-and-tools. Two jobs.
Bottom line
PromptMonitor is a focused, well-built budget monitoring tool - 8 engines from $29/mo with publisher contact extraction and AI crawler analytics nobody else ships. It does what it says cleanly. If you have a content team that wants the broadest cheap monitoring dashboard with outreach hooks, it earns the slot. Found by AI is built for a different situation: lightweight monitoring (€14/month annual, €39/month for Growth with a personalized site-aware playbook) plus recurring done-for-you AI Content production (€199-€799/month, AI Monitoring Minimum included on every plan). PromptMonitor helps your team find publishers to pitch and write the content. We produce the content for you each month, with optional profile inclusion when useful. Two different jobs - pick based on whether the work happens in-house or you want it handled.
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