The best AirOps alternatives in 2026 are Profound for enterprise AI search with marketing agents, AthenaHQ for AI search tracking with content that publishes to your CMS, Jasper for brand-governed content agents, Scrunch for optimizing your site for AI agents, and Peec AI for simple tracking. CharacterQuilt is the pick when you want campaigns across every channel, with AI search as one play.
Updated October 19, 2026
| Tool | Best for | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| 1. CharacterQuilt | Teams that want campaigns launched across every channel, with AI search as one play | Custom campaign in under 24 hours; packages on the pricing page. |
| 2. Profound | Enterprise teams that want deep AI search data and marketing agents in one platform | Free trial, then a custom Enterprise package with agent credits. |
| 3. AthenaHQ | Teams that want AI search tracking plus content actions they can run themselves | Free Essential tier, a self-serve Starter plan, and custom Enterprise pricing. |
| 4. Jasper | Content teams that want brand-governed AI agents across many channels | Self-serve Pro plan with a 7-day free trial; Business is custom. |
| 5. Scrunch | Teams that want their website itself optimized for AI agents | Published Core plan with a 7-day free trial; Enterprise is custom. |
| 6. Peec AI | Teams that only need simple, daily AI search tracking | Starter, Pro and Advanced plans priced by prompts and models; Enterprise is custom. |
CharacterQuilt is an AI marketing companion. Its AEO play checks how AI assistants answer your buyers and writes pages for the gaps, and other plays run ABM, ad optimization, events and email inside the tools your team already uses.
Profound gives you software and agents rather than AirOps' pairing of a platform with strategists. It tracks how brands appear across up to nine answer engines on Enterprise, adds prompt volume data on what people ask AI, and runs AI Marketer agents that draft AEO content, social posts, sponsored answers and launch materials for your approval. Reusable workflows and Profound Sheets let your team run those agents at scale.
AthenaHQ fits teams that want to run AI search work themselves rather than through AirOps' platform-plus-strategists engagement. It tracks brand visibility across 11+ AI platforms, traces answers to the sources behind them, and turns gaps into content, citation outreach and commerce work. You can start on a free Essential tier or a self-serve Starter plan, with Enterprise features such as the Citation Engine on custom plans.
Jasper is an agent workspace for marketing teams, with 100+ specialized agents, content pipelines and a GEO and AI optimization offering. Jasper IQ carries brand voice, style and visual guidelines into every asset.
Scrunch works on your website itself, where AirOps focuses on researching, publishing and refreshing content. Its Agent Experience Platform delivers an optimized version of your site to AI agents without changing what people see, alongside prompt monitoring, site audits and AI bot traffic analysis. A published Core plan with a 7-day free trial lets you start as self-serve software instead of a platform-plus-strategists engagement.
Peec AI is for teams that only need visibility tracking, not the full content operation AirOps runs. You set up prompts, pick the models to track, and see visibility, position and sentiment against competitors, refreshed daily. Starter, Pro and Advanced plans are priced by prompts and models, with unlimited users on every plan.
If you want experts to help run the program, AirOps brings strategists. If your team wants to run it alone, self-serve tools like AthenaHQ, Peec AI or Jasper fit better.
Decide between AI search only, content at scale, or all of marketing. Profound and AthenaHQ center on AI search, Jasper centers on content, and CharacterQuilt spans campaigns across channels.
Check the CMS, marketing automation and ad platforms each tool can publish to, and whether a person approves before anything goes live.
Tasks, credits and prompts all scale with usage. Price your real monthly volume before you commit.
Choose Profound or AthenaHQ for AI search depth with content actions, Jasper for brand-governed content across channels, Scrunch for an AI-ready website, and Peec AI for simple tracking. Choose CharacterQuilt when AI search is one part of a bigger plan and you want on-brand campaigns launched across your whole stack.
For AI search depth, Profound or AthenaHQ. For brand-governed content at scale, Jasper. For simple tracking, Peec AI. If you want campaigns across ABM, ads, events and email with AI search as one play, CharacterQuilt.
AirOps Solo and Pro plans let you start for free. For tracking alone, Peec AI and Scrunch publish entry plans, and Jasper has a self-serve Pro plan for content. Compare at your real monthly volume.
Yes. AthenaHQ, Peec AI, Scrunch and Jasper offer software your own team can run, and Profound offers a free trial before an Enterprise package. CharacterQuilt agents do the campaign work in your tools while your team reviews and approves it.
AirOps is an AI discovery platform with strategists, built to win AI search through content, placements and ChatGPT ads. CharacterQuilt is a marketing companion with AEO monitoring as one play, built to launch on-brand campaigns across ABM, ads, events and email. Many teams can use both.
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