Profound Alternatives: Tools With Public Prices and the Same Query Method
Profound publishes no price for brands, so the right alternative depends on what you want to replace: the missing price, the queries through the user interface, the engine coverage of Enterprise or the agency workspaces. Peec AI, Otterly.AI, SE Visible and SISTRIX query the interface like Profound and publish their prices. Data as of October 30, 2026.
What you replace when you leave Profound
Profound, based in New York City, has 4 offers: a free trial and Enterprise with custom pricing for brands, and Agency Growth and Agency Enterprise on request for agencies. The details are on the Profound pricing page, and 3 of the offers have a documented scope you can replace:
- Trial: free for 7 days, with 50 prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, 1 region and 1 language. You get a recommended prompt set for your industry and cannot customize the prompts. There is no history, no export and no API (application programming interface).
- Enterprise: custom pricing for up to 9 answer engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search. The contract sets regions, languages and prompts.
- Agency Growth: $99 a month plus $399 per client workspace. One client workspace runs 100 prompts daily on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. With one workspace, you pay $498 a month for about 9,000 answers, or about $55 per 1,000 answers, counting one answer per prompt, day and platform. The plan adds 10 pitch workspaces a month with 25 prompts each for 7 days.
Profound sends every prompt through the front-end browser, not through API calls, according to its article Profound vs Scrunch. Its documentation does not describe the query method. According to its privacy policy, Profound is hosted in the US. According to its documentation, regions can be set as a country, state or city, with Germany not named.
Cheaper than Profound for the standard setup
Profound can only be calculated as Agency Growth with one client workspace, so that plan is the baseline. The overview shows the tools with public plans that cover the standard setup for less, and what you give up or gain with each. It uses the same calculator as the AI visibility tools comparison.
For 50 prompts daily in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Profound costs $498 per month for this (Agency Growth plan).
- ziptie.ai $44 per month Starter (Preset) $9.78 per 1,000 answers
- Dageno $49 per month Starter $11 per 1,000 answers
- Superlines $88 per month Starter $20 per 1,000 answers
- Finseo $94 per month Starter $21 per 1,000 answers
- Promptwatch $95 per month Essential $21 per 1,000 answers
Alternatives that also query the user interface
Among the tools with public prices that say they query the user interface are these five, and their plans differ in prompts, engines, location and hosting:
- Peec AI: Starter costs $95 a month for 50 prompts daily on 3 models, which adds up to 4,500 answers. The Peec AI documentation describes logged-out interface queries. You set the location per prompt, Germany included, and data is stored in the EU in Frankfurt. Perplexity is an add-on model at extra cost.
- Otterly.AI: Lite costs $29 a month for 15 prompts daily on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. According to its help center, it uses the public web interfaces, and only Claude runs through the API. Germany is available as a location, and hosting is in Frankfurt.
- SE Visible: Basic costs €80 a month for 75 prompts daily and 11,250 answers on ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and Copilot. Each location counts as a separate prompt, and Germany is available.
- SISTRIX Prompt Monitoring: included in the SISTRIX SEO suite, which starts at €119 a month (Start plan) with 9,300 prompt updates a month, one update being one prompt on one model, on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Germany is available as a location.
- Gauge: Growth costs $599 a month for 600 prompts daily and 54,000 answers on ChatGPT, AI Mode and Copilot. Its documentation says it measures the logged-out ChatGPT with web search turned on.
The evidence differs as well. Profound describes its query method only in a vendor article, while the five alternatives state theirs in documentation, help center or pricing page.
Enterprise engine coverage without a sales call
Promptwatch, Rankscale and AthenaHQ include all 11 engines of the comparison in their paid entry plans, so you get broad engine coverage without an Enterprise contract. Besides ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Copilot, that means Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Mistral:
- Promptwatch: Essential costs $95 a month for 50 prompts daily and 6,000 answers. Germany can be selected as a location.
- Rankscale: Pro costs $99 a month for up to 4,800 answers (1,200 credits), with the same 11 engines on every plan. Essentials costs $17 a month with annual billing only, for 480 answers.
- AthenaHQ: Starter costs $295 a month for 3,600 credits, and 1 credit equals one AI answer.
Promptwatch and Rankscale query through the interface or the model API depending on the engine, according to the vendors, and AthenaHQ does not name its method. None of the three lists Exa Search.
Alternatives for agencies
Profound Agency Growth bundles one client workspace with pitch workspaces, while four tools with public prices let you size agency plans by credits, prompts or answers:
- Peec AI: according to the Peec AI agency pricing page, Essential costs $245 a month for 10,000 credits, Growth $495 for 25,000 credits and Scale $795 for 65,000 credits. One credit is one prompt on one model for one day, and each project needs at least 900 credits.
- Otterly.AI: the partner program runs on Standard ($189 a month, 100 prompts) or Premium ($489 a month, 400 prompts). You get one workspace per client, pitch workspaces for audits and custom Looker Studio reports with your branding.
- Rankscale: Growth costs $385 a month for up to 22,000 answers, and white-label dashboards with API start on this plan.
- SE Visible: Agency costs €355 a month for 1,000 prompts and 180,000 answers on ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Copilot, with Claude announced.
What you give up or gain when you switch
Profound documents 5 core features: sources, share of voice, sentiment, competitor comparison and fan-out queries, the searches an AI system runs before it answers. ChatGPT Shopping and the API are Enterprise only, export starts with Agency Growth for client workspaces, and Enterprise adds single sign-on via SAML and SOC 2 compliance. The overview compares these features with Peec AI, Promptwatch and Rankscale.
Profound offers 9 of the 12 features, including 3 that fewer than half of the tools offer: Fan-out queries, Shopping and products and Looker Studio / BI. For 3 features the provider does not say.
With Peec AI Starter plus the Perplexity add-on, 50 prompts daily in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews cost $95 a month, $403 less than Profound Agency Growth. You give up the Looker Studio connection. Peec AI includes the Looker Studio connection only from the Advanced plan at $495 a month. Profound includes shopping tracking only from Enterprise on request, while Peec AI includes it in Starter. Profound does not document prompt suggestions or Search Console connection.
With Promptwatch Essential, 50 prompts daily in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews cost $95 a month, $403 less than Profound Agency Growth. You give up CSV export and Looker Studio connection. Promptwatch includes CSV export and Looker Studio connection only from the Professional plan at $245 a month. Profound includes the API only from Enterprise on request, while Promptwatch includes it in Essential. Profound does not document prompt suggestions or Search Console connection.
With Rankscale Pro, 50 prompts daily in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews cost $99 a month, $399 less than Profound Agency Growth. You give up none of the features in Profound Agency Growth. Profound includes shopping tracking only from Enterprise on request, while Rankscale includes it in Pro. Profound does not document prompt suggestions.
| Feature | ProfoundAgency Growth · $498 | Peec AIStarter · $95 | PromptwatchEssential · $95 | RankscalePro · $99 | How common |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sources and citations | yes | yes | yes | yes | 33 of 35 tools |
| Sentiment | yes | yes | yes | yes | 27 of 35 tools |
| Share of voice | yes | yes | yes | yes | 31 of 35 tools |
| Competitor comparison | yes | yes | yes | yes | 31 of 35 tools |
| Prompt suggestions | not stated | yes | yes | yes | 26 of 35 tools |
| Fan-out queries rare | yes | yes | yes | yes | 16 of 35 tools |
| Shopping and products rare | Enterprise · on request | yes | Business · $579 | yes | 12 of 35 tools |
| API | Enterprise · on request | Pro · $245 | yes | Pro+ · $229 | 26 of 35 tools |
| Export (CSV) | yes | yes | Professional · $245 | yes | 26 of 35 tools |
| Looker Studio / BI rare | yesLooker, plan not stated | Advanced · $495 | Professional · $245 | yes | 15 of 35 tools |
| Search Console | not stated | yesplan not stated | yes | not stated | 14 of 35 tools |
| White label | not stated | not stated | Enterprise · on request | Growth · $385 | 11 of 35 tools |
Rare means fewer than half of the 35 tools in this comparison offer the feature according to their docs.
Frequently asked questions about Profound alternatives
Is there a free alternative to Profound?
AthenaHQ has a free Essential plan with 300 credits on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews and Copilot. AthenaHQ does not say whether the credits renew.
How does Profound compare with Peec AI?
Only Peec AI has a price you can calculate as a brand, and for agencies Peec AI costs less per answer. The Profound vs Peec AI comparison sets both side by side on engines, query method, location and data storage.
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