Ranking / #8 Profound
Last reviewedProfound
Enterprise answer engine optimization platform
#8 of 95.5/10
Deep enterprise AI answer coverage, but the price and the API sit behind a sales call.
- Best for
- Enterprise brand and AEO teams who want the widest answer engine coverage and agent analytics, sold on a custom contract.
- Skip if
- You want a public price, a self-serve plan beyond a 7-day trial, or API access without Enterprise.
Scores
- AI answer visibility 25%9The widest engine coverage here, with citation and sentiment tracking.
- Search fundamentals 20%3Little classic SEO data.
- Changes it makes 20%5Agents write content; publishing is yours.
- API and MCP access 15%4API only on Enterprise; no MCP listed.
- Pricing you can check 10%3No public price beyond the trial.
- Evidence you can inspect 10%7Citation-level data and CSV/JSON exports on Enterprise.
Scored against the rubric on how we rank.
Strengths
- Up to 9 answer engines tracked on Enterprise.
- Agent Analytics for AI-sourced traffic via Cloudflare, Vercel, Fastly and other integrations.
- AI Marketer agents that research and write with your brand context.
Limits
- No public price beyond the free trial; Enterprise is custom.
- API and exports only on Enterprise.
- No classic keyword or backlink data.
Pricing and access
- Price (from)
- Custom (Enterprise); ask Profound for a quote
- Pricing model
- Custom contract with AI Marketer credits
- Free start
- Free trial: 50 prompts daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
- API
- Enterprise only
- MCP
- Not listed on its pricing page; ask Profound
- AI engines
- Up to 9 on Enterprise, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek
- Measures AI answers
- Structured prompts across AI platforms, tracking citations, sentiment, ranking and competitors.
- Improves AI answers
- AI Marketer agents draft content and suggest opportunities.
Sources
- Trial and Enterprise plans (www.tryprofound.com/pricing)
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