Tool
Profound
Enterprise answer-engine intelligence.
$399/mo Growth · Enterprise custom · 6 engines · verified 2026-07-20
How much does Profound cost?
$399/mo Growth · Enterprise custom.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | $399/mo | Widely reported entry plan for the self-serve tier. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing, reported into the thousands per month. |
Which AI engines does Profound cover?
Profound covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, AI Overviews. Reported as covering 10 or more engines, the broadest coverage in this set.
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Copilot
- AI Overviews
Who is Profound for?
Large enterprises with procurement requirements and budget to match.
The safe enterprise pick, and the right answer if maximum engine coverage or a procurement checklist decides the deal. Weaker value for teams that need fixes shipped rather than findings reported.
What are Profound’s strengths and limitations?
Strengths
- Broadest engine coverage of any tool in this set.
- Strongest enterprise security and compliance story, which is often the deciding factor in procurement.
- Agent and crawler analytics are mature and well regarded.
- The most established brand in the category, which makes internal buy-in easier.
Limitations
- At $399/mo the entry plan is four times CiteCue's Pro tier, and there is no free plan to trial with real data.
- Reporting-led rather than remediation-led: it tells you what is wrong and leaves the fixing to you.
- We found no published equivalent of agent task testing or automatic page variants.
- Enterprise pricing is opaque, which slows evaluation for mid-market teams.
Assessment of Profound
What can Profound do?
10 of 23 capabilities documented
CiteCue leads the set at 23.
The same 23 capabilities we apply to every tool. A dash means we could not verify it in public documentation, not that it is absent — see our methodology.
| Capability | Profound |
|---|---|
| MeasurementWhat the tool can tell you about where you stand today. | |
| Prompt-level trackingTrack individual buyer questions rather than only aggregate scores. | Yes |
| Citation and source analysisWhich domains AI engines cite when answering your prompts. | Yes |
| Competitor benchmarkingSide-by-side visibility against named rivals. | Yes |
| Share of voiceYour proportion of brand mentions within a topic. | Yes |
| Sentiment analysisWhether AI describes you positively, neutrally or negatively. | Yes |
| False-claim detectionFlags incorrect statements AI makes about your brand. | Not documented |
| AI crawler analyticsServer-log view of which AI crawlers reached which pages. | YesAgent analytics is a headline capability |
| AI referral trafficSessions arriving from AI answer surfaces. | Yes |
| DiagnosisWhether the tool explains the cause, not just the symptom. | |
| Ranked citation-factor analysisAttributes a citation win or loss to specific, named factors. | PartialCitation and conversation analytics, without a published factor model |
| AI readiness auditCrawlability and render checks for AI user agents. | Not documented |
| Agent task testingAn AI agent attempts real tasks on your site and reports where it fails. | Not documented |
| Topic-level visibilityRankings grouped by subject area rather than single prompts. | Yes |
| ActionWhether the tool closes the loop or hands you a to-do list. | |
| Prioritised fix queueGaps converted into ordered, ready-to-apply changes. | Not documented |
| Content draftingGenerates draft copy aimed at winning citations. | Partial |
| Scheduled autopilot draftsProduces fix drafts on a recurring cadence without being asked. | Not documented |
| Automatic page variantsServes AI-optimised variants of live pages. | NoReports and recommends; does not serve page variants |
| llms.txt generation and servingBuilds and hosts an llms.txt manifest for you. | Not documented |
| Grounded AI assistantA chat analyst answering questions against your own scan data. | Not documented |
| PlatformHow well the tool fits an existing stack. | |
| Free planA no-cost tier, not just a time-limited trial. | No |
| API accessProgrammatic read access to your data. | Yes |
| MCP serverModel Context Protocol endpoint so AI coding agents can query the data directly. | Not documented |
| White-label reportsClient-facing reports under your own brand. | Not documented |
| SSOSingle sign-on for team access control. | Yes |
✓ Documented~ Partial✗ Absent– Not documentedA dash means we could not verify the capability publicly, not that the tool lacks it. See methodology.