Peec AI vs. trendos: a feature-by-feature breakdown

Key takeaways:

• Peec AI launched in early 2025, raised $30M+, and is already used by Wix, Glide, and Merge. Trendos launched in March 2026, backed by Tesonet (the group behind NordVPN and Hostinger), with a free database covering 2.5 million brands.

• Trendos has a genuine free plan and a $169/month Pro tier. Peec starts at around €205/month with a 14-day trial only.

• Peec shows you citation sources: the specific URLs AI platforms cite when your brand comes up. Trendos doesn't expose the underlying AI answers, which makes its sentiment scores hard to verify independently.

• Both tools are monitoring-only. Neither writes content, identifies optimization paths, or connects to your CRM.

• Peec wins on agency features, GDPR compliance, and language coverage (115+ languages). Trendos wins on free access, pre-loaded historical brand data, and speed to first insight.

• If you're starting from zero budget, Trendos is the only real option. If you're managing client accounts or operating under EU data regulations, Peec is the better fit.

The AEO space right now

I've been tracking the AI visibility monitoring space for a while, and honestly, it's become a crowded mess. In 2025, three or four tools were doing this. By mid-2026, there are dozens. Most claim to be the definitive way to know whether ChatGPT is recommending you.

Peec AI and Trendos are two of the more interesting ones, for different reasons. Peec got to market first, grew fast, and built a serious enterprise product. Trendos came later but launched with a free tier and a 2.5 million brand database backed by one of Europe's more credible infrastructure companies.

I tested both, dug through independent reviews, and read what people in SEO and marketing communities are actually saying. Below is what I found. Where I'm uncertain or couldn't verify something, I'll say so plainly.

At a glance

Peec AI is a Berlin-based AI search analytics platform that launched in early 2025. It hit €650K ARR within 4 months, closed a $21M Series A by November 2025, and reached a $100M+ valuation inside its first year. The platform uses UI scraping to simulate real user interactions with AI tools, meaning the data reflects what an actual user would see, not an API approximation. It tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews by default. Clients include Wix, Glide, Graphite, and Merge.

Trendos is a product of Tesonet, the Lithuanian tech group behind NordVPN, Hostinger, and Oxylabs. It launched commercially in March 2026 after starting as an internal tool. The pitch: a global AI search visibility platform with real-time data on more than 2.5 million brands, across 13+ regions. It covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Gemini, and others. Unlike most tools in this space, Trendos offers a meaningful free plan.

1. AI engine coverage

Peec includes 3 engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Want to track Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, or Grok? Each is an add-on at €20-30/month. On the Essential plan (€205/month), getting comprehensive coverage across 7 engines realistically costs €285-325/month.

Trendos covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Gemini, and others, with 5 LLMs accessible even on the free plan.

What I like about Peec:

• The base 3 cover the platforms most B2B buyers actually use for research

• UI scraping methodology captures real-world responses, not API approximations

What I don't like about Peec:

• The add-on pricing understates the real cost; you find out after you've signed up

• Stacking Claude and Gemini alone adds €40-60/month to every plan

What I like about Trendos:

• 5 LLMs on a free plan is genuinely unusual in this category

• Most competitors lock multi-engine coverage behind $400+/month plans

What I don't like about Trendos:

• Can't see underlying AI answers, so it's hard to spot-check data quality across engines

2. Pricing

Here's the pricing as of mid-2026:

Peec AI:

• Essential: ~€205/month (~111 prompts, 3 brands, 3 pitch projects)

• Growth: ~€425/month (~277 prompts, 10 brands)

• Scale: ~€675/month (~722 prompts, 25 brands)

• No free plan; 14-day trial only

Trendos:

• Free: 100 custom prompts, 10 brands, 5 LLMs

• Pro: $169/month (unlimited brands, API access, AI insights, operations reports)

The gap is real. Trendos gives you a working product for $0. Peec asks you to decide whether €205/month is worth it within 14 days, before you've accumulated enough data to properly judge.

What I like about Peec:

• Unlimited seats on every plan; no per-user cost for large agency teams

• Transparent, self-serve pricing, no demo calls required

What I don't like about Peec:

• 14 days is too short for meaningful AI visibility data to accumulate

What I like about Trendos:

• The free plan is a real product, not a stripped demo

• Pro includes API access, which Peec doesn't offer at any non-enterprise tier

What I don't like about Trendos:

• The "AI insights" feature in Pro is vaguely documented; I couldn't find detailed user-level descriptions of what it actually generates

3. Source data and transparency

This is where the two tools diverge most sharply.

Peec shows you citation sources. When ChatGPT mentions your brand in an answer, Peec tells you which URLs it was citing: a Reddit thread, a G2 review, a TechCrunch article, your own product page. Sources are categorized by type (editorial, UGC, corporate, reference) and labeled by ownership. You can see the gap list: sources that frequently cite competitors but not you.

Trendos doesn't expose the source data. You can see that your brand's sentiment is "neutral," but you can't see the actual AI answers generating that score. A Cybernews review flagged this directly: it makes the findings hard to verify across real tests. If I can't see the raw answer, I can't trust the interpretation.

What I like about Peec:

• Citation-level source tracking is rare and genuinely actionable

• The gap list tells you exactly which publishers to target for PR or content outreach

What I don't like about Peec:

• Surfaces the gap but doesn't help you close it; no content suggestions or optimization guidance

What I like about Trendos:

• Fast, clean interface for high-level competitive snapshots

• Good for quickly benchmarking where you and your competitors stand

What I don't like about Trendos:

• Opaque sentiment analysis is a real trust problem

• Brand taxonomy inconsistency (individual Apple laptop models appear as separate brand entries, distinct from Apple itself) distorts competitive data

4. Historical data and brand database

Peec only tracks from the moment you sign up. No retroactive data. If you want to understand your AI visibility trajectory from 6 months ago, you start from a blank slate.

Trendos launched with a pre-built database of 2.5 million brands and carries historical data from its training period. Since it launched in March 2026, "historical" is still limited, but the pre-loaded brand database means immediate competitive context without weeks of setup.

What I like about Trendos:

• Walking in and immediately seeing how your brand sits against millions of others saves real setup time

• No waiting period before you start seeing competitive data

What I don't like about Peec:

• Starting from zero is a disadvantage when you need to build an internal case for AEO investment; you can't show a trend from before you paid

5. Agency and team features

Peec has Pitch Workspaces on every plan, designed specifically for agencies. You package AI visibility data into client-facing presentations. Unlimited seats across all plans means no per-user math when you bring on a new analyst.

Trendos doesn't appear to have agency-specific workflows. The Pro plan handles unlimited brand tracking, but there's no equivalent to Pitch Workspaces for structured client reporting.

What I like about Peec:

• Pitch Workspaces solve a real agency problem; manually exporting data to slides is tedious

• Unlimited seats removes the question of whether it's worth adding another team member

What I don't like about Trendos:

• No white-label reporting, no client-facing output layer; may come with product maturity but absent right now

6. International and language support

Peec supports 115+ languages for AI visibility tracking. That's the broadest coverage in the category by a considerable margin. For agencies serving non-English markets, this is a meaningful differentiator.

Trendos covers 13+ regions including the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia, China, and Japan. Both are meaningfully better here than most competitors, which tend to treat English US as the default and everything else as an afterthought.

7. GDPR and data compliance

Peec is built in Berlin with EU data residency baked into the architecture. For European companies, especially in healthcare, finance, or the public sector, this removes a real procurement barrier.

Trendos is backed by Tesonet, a Lithuanian EU-based company. I'd expect reasonable GDPR compliance given NordVPN's privacy positioning. But Trendos doesn't document its data architecture as explicitly as Peec does. If GDPR is a hard procurement requirement, verify before committing.

What Reddit is saying

I'll be transparent: Trendos launched in March 2026, so dedicated Reddit threads about it are sparse. Most community discussion about AI visibility monitoring centers on Peec, Profound, Gauge, and Otterly.

In a thread on r/ProductMarketing about the top tools for monitoring brand presence in AI, users consistently named Peec alongside Profound as the main contenders. One commenter summarized it plainly:

"I think definitely the big ones seem to be Profound and Peec.ai."

In r/b2bmarketing's generative engine optimization thread, the monitoring-only ceiling came up repeatedly across the discussion. One commenter describing Profound also captured the broader category frustration:

"Deep monitoring and analysis. Feels more enterprise / research-grade. Great if you want long-term tracking and reporting for stakeholders — but you still have to figure out what to do next yourself."

A candid take from r/seogrowth (a thread with 130+ comments on AEO tools), on Peec's practical usability:

"Otterly felt a bit more operational than Peec. Peec is cleaner but there's less to do after you've looked at the dashboard."

That matches my experience. Peec's interface is well-designed, but once you've absorbed the visibility score, the tool leaves you to figure out the rest.

From r/SideProject, where someone was building their own AI visibility solution after evaluating the existing options:

"Every tool I found (Profound, Peec, Otterly) wanted me to sign up for expensive plans. None of them actually help you fix the problem, just stare at it."

Trendos isn't immune to that criticism either.

Third-party reviews and what users are saying

Peec AI on G2: 5.0/5 based on 2 verified reviews. Small sample, but both are detailed.

Grégoire D., Head of Growth at a small business, wrote:

"The UI is clear and intuitive. The pricing is fair and includes the main LLMs from the start. The support team is super reactive, and I liked the onboarding call with Leon. I'd love more insights about how LLMs pick their sources."

Maximilian M., CEO of a mid-market company, called it "the best GEO analytics tool on the market":

"Easy to use, setup is extremely fast, you get immediate insights and you finally get some data to better understand where and how your brand is mentioned in LLMs. What I love is that I can also see the URLs that were quoted. Super helpful to understand how to optimize for this prompt."

Crystal Carter, Head of SEO Comms at Wix, said publicly: "Peec allows us to pinpoint the exact types of content that are surfaced in specific LLMs." Wix reportedly saw 5x year-on-year AI visibility results. Slashdot users rated it 5.0/5 and called it "the best tool to track AI chat visibility."

Trendos on third-party platforms: I couldn't find G2 or Capterra listings for Trendos with meaningful review counts as of June 2026. It launched in March 2026 and hasn't had time to accumulate formal reviews. The most thorough independent coverage I found is from Cybernews, which recommended it for "most marketers due to its clarity, speed, and ease of use" while flagging the brand taxonomy issues and opaque sentiment data. A separate Cybernews comparison against Profound described Trendos as "best suited for teams that need structured workflows, clear processes, and fast execution around trending content." That framing feels accurate to me.

Who should pick which

Peec AI is the better fit if:

• You're a European agency or company where GDPR is a hard procurement requirement

• You need Pitch Workspaces for client-facing reporting

• Citation-level source transparency matters: you want to know why competitors appear, not just that they do

• Your brand operates across multiple languages (115+ languages covered)

• You have a team that benefits from unlimited seats without per-user pricing

Trendos is the better fit if:

• You need to start tracking with zero budget; the free plan is real and substantial

• You want immediate competitive context from a 2.5 million brand database without setup time

• A quick, clean snapshot across multiple regions is more useful than deep source analysis

• You're comfortable drawing your own conclusions from data

• API access at $169/month fits your technical workflow

Verdict

Peec AI is the more mature product. It's better-funded, more transparent about its data methodology, and better suited to agencies and established B2B teams. The citation source tracking is its clearest advantage: knowing the exact URLs driving AI recommendations in your category is more actionable than a sentiment score you can't interrogate.

Trendos is the better starting point if you want to understand the market before committing budget. The free plan is substantive, the brand database removes setup friction, and the multi-region coverage is solid for a product that shipped 3 months ago. It has rough edges (the taxonomy issues are real, the black-box sentiment is a legitimate concern), but Tesonet's track record of building large-scale data products is a real signal that this gets better.

Both tools share the same ceiling: they show you the score but won't help you change it. To actually improve your AI visibility, you'll need additional resources: a content strategy, an AEO specialist, or a tool with an execution layer on top.

The practical approach for most teams: use Trendos' free plan for a month to understand your baseline and map where you and your competitors actually stand. Then evaluate whether Peec's citation-level data and agency features justify the cost increase for your specific situation.