# Profound — AI answer engine visibility platform with content agents and AI crawler analytics. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/profound (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-09 Profound is an answer engine optimisation platform that tracks how AI assistants describe a brand and pairs that monitoring with agent-built content workflows. It also ingests server logs to show how AI crawlers and AI-referred visitors reach the site. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://www.tryprofound.com | | Price | from $99/month billed monthly, $82.50/month billed annually | | Free trial | Partly | No standing $0 plan is published: the table starts at Starter $99/month. The Growth card's call to action reads "Try for free", but no trial length, usage limit or card requirement is stated anywhere on the pricing page. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — Core product: Profound queries answer engines on a stored prompt set and reports where the brand surfaces, on every plan. > Profound runs structured prompts across AI platforms daily, analyzing where and how your brand appears in responses, tracking citations, sentiment, ranking, and competitive presence. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Frequently asked questions, "How does Profound measure AI visibility?" **Optimises your content** · Yes — Agent templates analyse a page you already have and return ranked AEO changes; running them consumes the plan's monthly Agent credits. > Analyze a given article to produce clear, high-impact Answer Engine Optimization suggestions by leveraging our Content Optimization algorithm and relevant AEO insights. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/agent-templates · Discover templates, Content Optimization section, "Content Optimization Suggestions" card **Generates content** · Yes — Agents draft whole articles, FAQs and translations from a topic input, metered at 100 credits monthly on Starter and 400 on Growth. > Generate complete articles from a topic prompt, structured to the citation format AI engines reward in your category. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/agents · Use Templates section, "Net-New Content Creation" template description **Publishes to your site** · Yes — Agents can push finished drafts into a connected CMS; WordPress, Contentful, Sanity, Drupal, Framer and Adobe Experience Manager each have connection docs. > Once connected, the WordPress site will appear as an available integration and can be selected inside Agents. > — https://docs.tryprofound.com/integrations/wordpress/connect-wordpress-to-profound · Connect Wordpress to Profound, closing paragraph after the connection steps **Technical AEO** · Partly — Crawler-side work is limited to verified bot logging and pushing new URLs at AI crawlers; I found no schema markup, llms.txt or robots directive management for your own site. > Submit new content directly to AI crawlers for faster discovery. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/agent-analytics · "Understand and influence how AI systems interact with your site", Submit to AI Search block **Done-for-you service** · No — Profound sells the platform to agencies rather than doing the work; its in-house agency team is partner support, not campaign delivery. > Profound empowers agencies to rapidly evolve the AEO strategy of their brand partners. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/solutions/agencies · "Built for agencies" section introduction ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is the one engine present on every tier, and it is the only engine the $99 Starter plan tracks at all. > ChatGPT tracking only > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan cards, Starter feature list, first bullet **Perplexity** · Partly — Perplexity starts at the $399 Growth plan, which covers three engines; the Starter plan is restricted to ChatGPT only. > 3 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Growth plan card feature list; comparison table "Answer Engines tracked" row lists ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews for Growth **Gemini** · Partly — Google Gemini appears only in the Enterprise column's nine-engine list; the self-serve Starter and Growth plans do not track it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **Google AI Overviews** · Partly — Google AI Overviews is one of Growth's three tracked engines and is absent from Starter, which covers ChatGPT alone. > 3 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Growth plan card feature list; comparison table "Answer Engines tracked" row lists ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews for Growth **Google AI Mode** · Partly — Google AI Mode appears only in the Enterprise column's nine-engine list; the self-serve Starter and Growth plans do not track it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **Claude** · Partly — Anthropic Claude appears only in the Enterprise column's nine-engine list; the self-serve Starter and Growth plans do not track it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **Microsoft Copilot** · Partly — Microsoft Copilot appears only in the Enterprise column's nine-engine list; the self-serve Starter and Growth plans do not track it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **Grok** · Partly — Grok appears only in the Enterprise column's nine-engine list; the self-serve Starter and Growth plans do not track it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **DeepSeek** · Partly — DeepSeek appears only in the Enterprise column's nine-engine list; the self-serve Starter and Growth plans do not track it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **Meta AI** · No — The Enterprise column caps coverage at nine named engines and Meta AI is not among them, so no plan tracks it. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — Coverage is stated but heavily tiered: one engine on Starter, three on Growth, and all nine only on the custom-quoted Enterprise plan. > Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, "Answer Engines tracked" row, Enterprise column "Capability for:" list ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — Citation reporting names the domains and pages feeding answers about your brand and scores their authority over time. > See which websites influence AI-generated answers about your brand and track their authority. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights · "Understand and control your AI Presence", Citation Authority block **Competitor tracking** · Yes — Rival brands sit in the same view for share-of-voice comparison, and the daily prompt runs cover competitors as well as you. > Compare your presence against industry leaders and competitors. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights · "Understand and control your AI Presence", Competitive Benchmarking block **Brand sentiment** · Yes — Sentiment reporting extracts the themes and narratives AI attaches to the brand rather than only counting mentions. > Analyze how AI describes your brand. Identify key themes, topics, and recurring narratives. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights · "Understand and control your AI Presence", Sentiment & Keyword Insights block **Recommendations** · Yes — It names the gaps and hands them to Agents to act on; the Aim-powered Projects work plan, however, is Enterprise-only. > Find the topics and prompts where competitors get more visibility and citations than you. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights · "The most sophisticated technology…", Content optimization at every stage block **AI crawler analytics** · Yes — Agent Analytics reads server or CDN logs to show verified AI bot hits, with unlimited tracked domains on every plan. > Track when, how often, and which AI bots access your content. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/agent-analytics · Feature highlights, AI Crawler Visibility block **Wrong answers about you** · Yes — FactCheck flags false claims AI makes about the brand and points at the sources producing them, with follow-up agent templates. > FactCheck shows you inaccurate claims and their sources, so your team can correct the narrative > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights · FactCheck section, "See what AI is getting wrong about your brand" ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Allowances are published per tier: 50 prompts and 1,500 responses monthly on Starter, 100 and 9,000 on Growth, custom on Enterprise. > 50 prompts tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Starter plan card; comparison table "Responses Analyzed Per Month" row **Projects or brands** · Partly — Self-serve tiers are built around one brand; tracking several companies is listed only under the custom-quoted Enterprise plan. > Multiple companies tracked > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Enterprise plan card, second bullet **Countries** · Partly — Region and language are real reporting dimensions, but Starter and Growth each include one region and one language; more is Enterprise-only. > Break a single asset's Visibility Score down by which AI model, region, or persona generated the answer. > — https://docs.tryprofound.com/cookbook/visibility/segment-by-model · Segment Visibility by model, region, or persona, page summary line **How often it checks** · Yes — Every tracked prompt reruns daily on all three tiers, which the vendor justifies by answer variance between runs. > We run every tracked prompt daily so your visibility score reflects your true average across all responses. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights · "The most sophisticated technology…", Daily visibility runs block **Self-serve signup** · Yes — Two published tiers are explicitly self-serve with sign-up by email, and the vendor puts setup time at instant. > The self-serve Starter plan comes with 100 credits per month. The self-serve Growth plan comes with 400 credits per month. > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Frequently asked questions, "How does Profound Agents pricing work?" ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — A documented REST API with Python and JavaScript SDKs exists, but the plan table marks API No on both self-serve tiers and access is granted on request. > This feature is only available upon request. To request access, please contact support. > — https://docs.tryprofound.com/rest-api/introduction · Introduction, note above Overview; pricing comparison table API row reads No, No, Yes **MCP server** · Yes — A hosted MCP server exposes reports, prompts and Agents to any MCP client over OAuth; the API-key route additionally needs an enterprise plan. > Profound MCP uses OAuth 2.1. When your client prompts for authentication, complete the browser sign-in with your Profound account. > — https://docs.tryprofound.com/mcp/authentication · Authentication, OAuth section **BI export** · Partly — Starter gets no exports at all; Growth and Enterprise get CSV and JSON, while the Tableau connector and Looker integration run through the Enterprise-gated API. > CSV, JSON > — https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing · Plan comparison table, Data section, Exports row ## Coverage elsewhere | Source | Kind | Read | | --- | --- | --- | | fortune.com | Independent source | 2026-08-23 | | rankability.com | A competitor's comparison | 2026-08-23 | ## CitedIndex in AI answers 0 of 4 answers cite CitedIndex. | Engine | Result | Question | Asked on | Other sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ChatGPT | Does not cite CitedIndex | Profound alternatives | 2026-10-12 | get-spotlight.com, prismnews.com, humanizeai.com, athenahq.ai, amicited.com, g2.com | | Claude | Listed no sources | Profound alternatives | 2026-09-04 | — | | Gemini | Does not cite CitedIndex | Profound alternatives | 2026-09-04 | collinsdictionary.com, vocabvictor.com, responstosay.com, yourdictionary.com, thesaurus.com, thesaurus.plus | | Perplexity | Does not cite CitedIndex | Profound alternatives | 2026-10-12 | blog.hubspot.com, trackmyvisibility.com, ayzeo.com, g2.com, alhena.ai, arobis.ai | ## What changed - 2026-09-09 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-09-01 — Capabilities · Free tier - 2026-08-31 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price - 2026-08-23 — Alternatives · Crunchbase link · Documentation link · LinkedIn link · Repository · Summary · Tagline ## Corrections If you represent Profound, or anything here is wrong or out of date, send a correction with a source. The operations this site accepts from an agent are listed at https://citedindex.com/.well-known/agents.json — that catalog needs no key to read, and each entry states its own auth.