GetMentionedByAIIndependent product profile
Profound
A full-stack AEO platform that runs daily structured prompts against up to nine AI answer engines from the real consumer-facing experience (not vendor APIs), pairs that with server-log-based AI crawler/traffic analytics, and closes the loop with agent-built, CMS-published AEO content.
- Entry price
- from $99/mo · annual billing
- AI coverage
- 9 engines
- Free trial
- Not published
- Collection
- real browser sessions, not vendor APIs
Product overview
What is Profound?
Profound bundles five modules into one platform: Answer Engine Insights (brand mention/citation/sentiment tracking with share-of-voice and competitive benchmarking across up to 9 engines), Prompt Volumes (a dataset of 1.3B+ real user AI prompts for demand research and content-gap analysis), Agent Analytics (log-drain-based AI crawler monitoring and AI-to-site traffic attribution via Cloudflare/Akamai/CloudFront/Fastly/Netlify/Vercel/WordPress/Shopify integrations, no JavaScript install required), Shopping (product visibility, keyword, and merchant tracking specifically for ChatGPT Shopping), and Agents (a drag-and-drop, credit-metered content workflow builder that researches, writes, and publishes AEO content directly into 10+ CMS platforms).
It states its visibility data comes from simulating the actual consumer experience on each platform rather than calling underlying vendor APIs, and runs each tracked prompt once per day.
Based on its published feature set, Profound brings brand mention monitoring, citation tracking, sentiment analysis, competitor benchmarking, prompt discovery, and share-of-voice reporting into one workflow, with 10 more verified capabilities documented below.
How it measures AI visibility
The recorded coverage spans ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek. Measures with real browser sessions, not vendor APIs · 1 run per prompt.
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Claude
Gemini
Google AI ModeGoogle AI Overviews
Microsoft Copilot
Grok
DeepSeekConfirmed boundaries
The published product does not include schema or llms.txt generation, revenue attribution, and A/B testing. Those are verified absences, not missing research.
Who it's for
Best for
Marketing practitioners (not engineers) on AEO, content, and PR/brand teams — self-serve Starter/Growth plans for small-to-growing companies, and a custom Enterprise tier explicitly for 'large companies and agencies building and orchestrating AEO marketing campaigns,' plus a separate agency pricing track and a partner directory of AEO/marketing agencies built on the platform.
Skip if
No schema markup / structured-data generator is named anywhere (Technical Optimization only finds structured-data gaps, it doesn't generate the markup) and no A/B testing feature is named across the platform's documented modules. AI Traffic Attribution is explicitly scoped to traffic and 'conversion events,' never revenue figures, and was independently re-verified via live WebFetch to confirm no revenue-attribution language exists on that specific feature description. No Chrome extension is mentioned anywhere on the site (also independently WebFetch-confirmed). The agency-specific pricing tab (white-label reports, multi-client workspace specifics) was not present in the harvested page text and could not be verified either way.
“States it draws visibility insights 'directly from the consumer experience, not API outputs' (i.e. simulating what a real user sees on each platform rather than calling vendor APIs), and positions itself as a full-lifecycle platform — demand research, visibility tracking, crawlability/traffic analytics, and content production all in one — rather than a tracking-only point solution.”
Profound, from their site
Pricing
Profound's pricing page ↗| Plan | Price | Engines | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99/moannual | 1 of 9ChatGPT | 50 prompts · 1 seat · Daily For small companies who want to monitor and understand their brand Full notesHide notes'For small companies who want to monitor and understand their brand's visibility online.' 50 unique prompts tracked, 1,500 responses analyzed/month, Daily prompt frequency, 1 language, 1 region. ChatGPT Shopping: No. Profound Agents: 100 credits/month (per FAQ, not the comparison-table fragment — see notes). Profound Sheets: Yes. Projects (Powered by Aim): None. Domains tracked (AI-traffic attribution): Unlimited, integrated with Akamai/AWS/Cloudflare/Fastly/Google Analytics/Google Cloud Platform/Netlify/Vercel/Wordpress. Prompt-volume 'Searches' insight: None. Relevant keywords: None. History: All time. Exports: None. API: No. Seats: 1. Support: Email. SSO: No. CTA 'Try for free' routes to platform.tryprofound.com/welcome (self-serve signup). |
| Growth | $399/moannual | 3 of 9ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI Overviews | 100 prompts · 3 seats · Daily Full notesHide notesMarked 'Popular'. 'For growing companies who want to monitor visibility and create AEO optimized content.' 100 unique prompts tracked, 9,000 responses analyzed/month, Daily prompt frequency, 1 language, 1 region. ChatGPT Shopping: No. Profound Agents: 400 credits/month. Profound Sheets: Yes. Projects (Powered by Aim): None. Domains tracked: Unlimited, same integration list as Starter. Searches insight: None. Relevant keywords: Yes. History: All time. Exports: CSV, JSON. API: No. Seats: 3. Support: Email. SSO: No. |
| Enterprise | Custom | 9 of 9ChatGPTPerplexityGoogle AI ModeGeminiMicrosoft CopilotGrokDeepSeekAnthropic ClaudeGoogle AI Overviews | Daily For large companies and agencies building and orchestrating AEO marketing campaigns. Full notesHide notes'For large companies and agencies building and orchestrating AEO marketing campaigns.' 'Multiple companies tracked', 'Tailored prompt tracking plan' (no fixed prompt count printed — recorded as null, not estimated). Responses analyzed: Custom. Daily prompt frequency. Languages: Custom. Regions: Custom. ChatGPT Shopping: Yes. Profound Agents: Custom credit package. Profound Sheets: Yes. Projects (Powered by Aim): Yes. Domains tracked: Unlimited, same integrations. Searches insight: Custom. Relevant keywords: Yes. History: All time. Exports: CSV, JSON. API: Yes. Seats: Custom. Support: Email, Dedicated Slack, and 'Dedicated Specialist with 24 hour SLA' (all three printed for this tier). SSO/SAML + SOC2 compliance: Yes. CTA 'Get a Demo' routes to /contact-sales, not a self-serve checkout. NOTE: this 9-engine list is taken from the pricing page's own 'Capability for:' tier table, which names 'Google AI Mode' as the 9th engine (distinct from 'Google AI Overviews', listed separately). The homepage marketing banner (research/raw/profound/home.txt, appearing twice, identical both times) lists a DIFFERENT 9th engine in the same slot — 'Meta AI' — with 'Google AI Mode' absent entirely from that list. This is a real conflict between two of the vendor's own pages, not a transcription error on my part; see notes for how it was reconciled (by using the pricing page, since this is the pricing slice, not silently picking one). |
What $99/mo actually buys
Profound supports 9 engines across its plans, but the Starter tier tracks just one. The coverage list is the whole product — not the entry plan.
Capabilities
19/20 answeredWhat it does
16 of 20| Monitors brand mentions | Yes |
| Tracks citations | Yes |
| Sentiment analysis | Yes |
| Competitor benchmarking | Yes |
| Prompt discovery | Yes |
| Share of voice | Yes |
| Recommends fixes | Yes |
| Writes content | Yes |
| Publishes content | Yes |
| Builds off-site citations | Yes |
| Generates schema / llms.txt | Doesn't |
| Technical audit | Yes |
| AI crawler analytics | Yes |
| Traffic attribution | Yes |
| Revenue attribution | Doesn't |
| A/B testing | Doesn't |
| Geo segmentation | Yes |
| AI advertising | Yes |
| Product catalogue optimisation | Yes |
| Does outreach | Not published |
Where it runs
4 of 6| Web app | Yes |
| Chrome extension | Doesn't |
| Public API | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes |
| Slack app | Yes |
| Requires a script on your site | Doesn't |
What you get out
4 of 11| CSV export | Yes | ||||||||
| JSON export | Yes | ||||||||
| PDF reports | Doesn't | ||||||||
| Looker Studio | Yes | ||||||||
| Google Sheets | Yes | ||||||||
| White-label reports | Not published | ||||||||
| Scheduled reports | Not published | ||||||||
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Agencies & teams
3 of 3| Multiple brands | Yes |
| Client sub-accounts | Yes |
| Role permissions | Yes |
Trust & compliance
2 of 5| SOC 2 | Yes | ||
| SSO | Yes | ||
| ISO 27001 | Not published | ||
| GDPR | Not published | ||
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Not published is not a no.Yes means it is on their site. Doesn't means we read a page that would list it and it wasn't there. A blank in their docs is a gap in ours — not a claim about their product.
Compare
Same research depth. One real difference on each row.
vs Peec AIWrites content: Profound yes · Peec AI no$80/mo
vs Otterly.aiWrites content: Profound yes · Otterly.ai no$25/mo
vs ScrunchWrites content: Profound yes · Scrunch no$250/mo
vs SemrushWrites content: Profound yes · Semrush no$139/mo
vs AhrefsWrites content: Profound yes · Ahrefs no$129/mo
vs RankScaleWrites content: Profound yes · RankScale no$20/mo
vs SuperlinesPublishes content: Profound yes · Superlines no€74/mo
vs PromptwatchBuilds off-site citations: Profound yes · Promptwatch no$95/mo
Funding
Sourced rounds only — we never add them into a running total.
Sequoia Capital · Kleiner Perkins · Evantic Capital · Saga VC · South Park Commons
$155M total raised, per a figure the company or press published as a cumulative sum — not our arithmetic on the rounds above.
In the press
FAQ
- How much does Profound cost?
- Profound starts at $99/mo on annual billing. The entry tier tracks 1 of 9 engines the product supports.
- Which AI engines does Profound cover?
- Profound tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek.
- What are alternatives to Profound?
- Tools checked to the same depth in this category include Peec AI, Otterly.ai, Scrunch, Semrush.
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- Best tools to track ChatGPT brand mentions (2026 shortlist)Verified AI visibility trackers for ChatGPT and other answer engines — including options under $50/mo — from the GetMentionedByAI index.
- Best AI visibility tools in 2026 — how we shortlistHow GetMentionedByAI picks the tools worth comparing: verified against live vendor sites, same capability schema, no invented star ratings.
- Profound vs Peec AI — what actually differsA side-by-side of two AI visibility platforms using only facts we verified on each vendor's site — engines, pricing shape, and what each says it won't do.