How much does Profound cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Free Trial plan: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI…
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free trial. Free Trial plan: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits
Watch out for
- Service stops at the limit. Account can be configured to allow continued usage with overage billing or pause usage at the allotment
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve sign-up available for the Trial plan "Get Started"
- Setup
- Instant "Instant."
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise requires a demo / contact sales "Get a Demo"
- Support
- Enterprise: email, dedicated Slack, or dedicated specialist with 24 hour SLA; none on Trial "Dedicated Specialist with 24 hour SLA"
What Profound does
Profound monitors brand visibility, citations, sentiment and prompt volumes across AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. It also offers an AI Marketer with credit-based agents that draft and stage content, ads and outreach for approval.
- Good for
- Enterprise marketing, AEO, content and PR teams that want to track and improve brand visibility in AI search.
- Channels
- ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews, Exa Search
- Main product
- AI Marketer and Answer Engine Insights
- Also includes
- AI Marketer with credit-based Agents, Context Manager, Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes, Agent Analytics, ChatGPT Shopping tracking
- Connects to
- Akamai, AWS, Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Analytics, Google Cloud CDN, Netlify, Vercel, Vercel v0, WordPress, G2
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Tracks multiple AI engines
Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked
- Custom prompt monitoring
On Enterprise, you can edit, disable, or add prompts to tailor visibility tracking to your brand strategy.
- Citation source analysis
Citation AnalyticsSources cited across answers
- Competitor share of voice
Analyze how your brand and competitors appear in AI platforms
- Brand sentiment in answers
Measure your brand’s sentiment in Answer Engines
- AI content optimization
Rewrites pages with citation decay and stages them in your CMS.
- Includes classic SEO toolsNot stated
- API and integrations
Seamlessly integrate Profound into your existing tech stack with secure and scalable API access, enabling auto
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI SEO tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II compliant | "Profound is SOC 2 Type II compliant, demonstrating our commitment to robust security and data protection."enterprise |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise plan; SAML or OIDC | "Streamline access with SSO using SAML or OIDC, enhancing security and simplifying user authentication."enterprise |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | – | – | 50 prompts50 prompts run daily for 7 days | – | "50 prompts run daily for 7 days" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "Tailored packages" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Account can be configured to allow continued usage with overage billing or pause usage at the allotment "your account can be configured to either allow continued usage with overage billing or pause usage when your allotment is reached"
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Not stated
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Cooper Square Technologies Inc. (dba Profound)
- Online since
- May 30, 2024 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Trusted by a third of the Fortune 100" their claim
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Questions
Is Profound free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: Free Trial plan: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits.