Search & SEO

Profound

Tracks and improves how brands appear in AI answer engines such as ChatGPT and Perplexity

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Pricing · FreemiumHot
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Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
High
Band
Saturation
Open
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Hot
Market trend

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The Brief

What Profound does

Profound is a marketing platform for AI search. It measures how brands appear in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and similar assistants, and provides agents that create and optimize content for those engines. Features include Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes (built on real user prompts), Agent Analytics for AI-driven traffic, shopping visibility tracking and FactCheck for answer accuracy. The company says it serves more than 1,000 enterprise brands, including a third of the Fortune 100.

How Profound compares with its closest alternatives

4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Profound does. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Bottally at $99 a month and the median is $249. 4 of the 5 offer an API, as Profound does. Profound offers a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Profound was founded in 2024; the alternatives were founded between 2021 and 2025, 1 of them earlier. Profound is based in New York, United States; 1 of the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the United States too, and the others in the United Kingdom and India.

Market position · Search & SEO

How Profound compares in Search & SEO

Profound has high opportunity and sits in the top third of 96 live Search & SEO tools on FalcoScan. Across Search & SEO, the average opportunity score is 69.7 and the average saturation score 23.9. FalcoScan rates Profound's own market position as open. 11 of the 96 operating Search & SEO tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 10 shutdowns in the category.

Profound compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
ProfoundFounded 2024 · New York, United StatesHighOpenFreemium—YesYesWeb, APIHot
RankControlHighOpenPaid$400/moNoYesWeb, API, CLIStable
BottallyHighOpenFreemium$99/moYesYesWeb, APIStable
geoSurgeFounded 2025 · London, United KingdomHighOpenFreemium—YesYesWeb, APIHot
SitefireFounded 2025 · Munich, United StatesHighOpenPaid$249/moYesYesWeb, APIStable
Outranking SEO AIFounded 2021 · Bengaluru, IndiaModerateOpenFreemium—YesNoWebRising

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Profound exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Text GenerationAgentsSearch MonitoringContent Optimization
Industry Verticals
MarketingTechnologyRetail
Tagged

Profound shows up when builders search for these

answer-engine-optimizationai-searchbrand-visibilitycontent-agentsmarketing-analytics
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Questions

Profound: common questions

Is Profound free?

Profound has a free tier, with paid plans.

What are the best alternatives to Profound?

The closest alternatives to Profound that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are RankControl, Bottally, geoSurge, Sitefire, and Outranking SEO AI.

Is Profound still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Profound as operating at tryprofound.com.

Where is Profound based?

Profound is headquartered in New York, United States.

Does Profound have an API?

Yes. Profound offers an API.

Who is Profound for?

Profound is built for marketing teams, content teams, agencies, and enterprises.

How do I sign in to Profound?

Sign in on Profound's own website, tryprofound.com. FalcoScan reviews Profound but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Profound directly.

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