AI RankiaProfound pricing, side by side with AI Rankia
On October 9, 2026, Profound lists a free 7-day trial and a custom Enterprise plan for brands, and $99 a month plus $399 per client for agencies. AI Rankia publishes every self-serve price, from $99.
ChatGPT
Gemini
Perplexity
Claude
Grok
Google AI OverviewsGoogle AI Mode
AI Rankia$99/moentry plan, published
ProfoundCustomfor brands, after a free 7-day trial7 vs 3answer engines with web search: AI Rankia on every paid plan, Profound on Agency Growth
- 2 clients
- 7 clientsPrices meet at 7
- 30 clients
Profound per its pricing page, October 9, 2026. * From about 15 clients it may quote Agency Enterprise. Full chart ↓
Profound per its pricing page, October 9, 2026. Agency prices meet at 7 clients. Agency cost by clients ↓
What an agency pays, client by client
Profound: low base, flat $399 per client. AI Rankia: higher base, per-client rate that falls by tier.
- 2clientsProfound $400 lower
- 5clientsProfound $250 lower
- 7clientsPrices meet
- 15clientsAI Rankia $1,000 lower
- 30clientsAI Rankia $4,000 lower
Method and sources · Profound checked · * list-price math from about 15 clients
Profound, checked on its pricing page: $99 a month plus $399 per client workspace. Billing period not stated; excludes taxes and negotiated discounts.
* From about 15 clients, Profound’s bar is list-price math. Its FAQ: “If you serve many clients with complicated requirements, you are better suited for a custom Agency Enterprise plan.”
AI Rankia from src/lib/agencia.ts, what Stripe charges: $599 base plus $349 / $274 / $199 per client by tier, monthly.
Profound vs AI Rankia, from their own pages
| Feature | AI Rankia | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ||
| One brand, published monthly price | $99 / $349 / $899 a month | Not published (Enterprise is custom) |
| Free option | Free scan; no tracked prompts | 7-day trial, 50 prompts |
| Agency pricingProfound leadsBelow 7 clients | $1,297 for 2 clients, up to 30 | $99 + $399 per client ($897 at 2) |
| Largest accounts | Enterprise, about $7,500 (sales-led) | Enterprise, custom |
| Seats on the brand sideProfound leads | 2 / 3 / 4 by plan | Unlimited on Trial and Enterprise |
| Tracking | ||
| Answer engines with web search | 7 on every paid plan, plus 10 LLM APIs in a separate mode | 3 on Trial and Agency Growth; up to 9 on Enterprise |
| Run frequency | Daily, weekly or monthly | Daily |
| Cited sources and competitors | Yes | Yes |
| Consumer prompt-volume dataProfound leads | Not found advertised | Prompt Volumes: what people ask AI engines |
| Products shown in AI answers | ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity (off by default on a new prompt), on every paid plan | ChatGPT Shopping (Enterprise) |
| AI crawler and AI-referral traffic | AI Traffic: Cloudflare, Google Analytics 4 or server logs | Agent Analytics: 9 integrations on Trial and Enterprise; Google Analytics only on Agency Growth |
| Writes and publishes contentProfound leads | Content Hub, publishes to WordPress, from $349 | Agents: research, write and publish to your CMS; Pages hands a weak page to an Agent (no plan named) |
| Pushes schema to your site | From $349 | Not found advertised |
| Buys links on sites AI cites | AI Links, from $349 | Not found advertised |
| Prompts tracked per clientProfound leads | 50, daily, weekly or monthly | 100, daily |
| Credits per client a monthNot the same unit: one runs Profound Agents, the other pays for articles, pages and schema. | 8,000 credits | 400 Agents credits |
| Seats | 10 per client workspace | 5 agency seats |
| Audits for prospects | Insights ($249) and Agency | 10 pitch workspaces a month |
| White-label reports | Agency plan | Not found advertised |
| SSO / SAML and SOC 2Profound leads | Not found advertised | Enterprise |
Yes advertisedNot found advertised not found advertisedProfound leads its offer beats ours
Checked on on each vendor’s public pages and docs. ✗ means we did not find it advertised on that date, not that it does not exist.
Sources (6)
AI Rankia’s column is read from its own code (src/lib/constraints.ts, src/lib/agencia.ts), not from marketing copy.
The work after the report
The same engines on every plan
Monitor and Autopilot track the same 7 answer engines with web search. You pick daily, weekly or monthly runs per prompt.
- ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode
- Plus 10 LLM APIs without search, in a separate mode
- Perplexity, Claude and Grok start unticked on a new prompt
Schema pushed to your site
The Action Center finds missing or weak JSON-LD and pushes the fix through the WordPress plugin or a Cloudflare Worker.
- One URL, in bulk, or pages from Search Console
- We didn’t find Profound advertising schema on October 9, 2026
The sites AI cites, and a way in
Get Cited finds the pages engines cite that don’t mention you. AI Links lists the cited sites where you can buy a placement.
- Who wins on each cited publication
- We didn’t find Profound advertising link buying on October 9, 2026
Profound’s pricing page, as it was on October 9, 2026
For brands, no self-serve monthly price any more. For agencies, there is one.
Starter $99·Growth $399a monthPer the Wayback copy: Starter ChatGPT only, 50 prompts; Growth 3 engines, 100 prompts. Yearly gave 2 months free.- Both goneBrands get a free 7-day trial, then custom Enterprise. $99 is now the agency base fee.
Which one fits you
Where Profound’s published offer beats ours, where ours fits better, and two limits of our own.
Pick Profound if
- You need SSO/SAML and SOC 2 (Enterprise), and expect a sales-led contract.
- You want prompt-volume data: Prompt Volumes shows what people ask AI engines. We don’t offer it.
- You run fewer than 7 clients: at 2, $897 vs our $1,297 ($599 base, then $349 / $274 / $199 per client by tier, so the gap closes).
- You want 100 daily prompts per client (ours: 50), plus Agents that write and publish to your CMS and Pages.
- You want unlimited seats on the brand side (Trial and Enterprise); ours are 2 / 3 / 4 by plan.
Pick AI Rankia if
- You want a published price: $99 / $349 / $899 a month.
- You want 7 answer engines on every paid plan, not 3 below Enterprise.
- You want schema, link placements and white-label reports.
- You run 7+ clients: at 30, $12,069 list vs $8,069 (from about 15, Profound may quote custom).
Compare the same prompts, not the dashboards. Track 20 to 30 identical prompts, same country, same weeks, in both. Then compare who each tool says the engines recommend, not the score.
Bring your prompt list
History starts with your first run here; keep the Profound export for the earlier trend.
Export from Profound
Client workspaces and Enterprise export CSV or JSON.
Import into AI Rankia
A CSV or Excel file with one
promptcolumn, up to 200 prompts at a time.Pick country and engines
Chosen on screen, not in the file.
Questions people ask
Profound’s answers come from its pricing page on October 9, 2026 and the Wayback copy of September 14; ours from AI Rankia’s own billing code.
How much does Profound cost?
Does Profound still have a $99 Starter plan?
Does Profound have a free trial?
Which AI engines does Profound track?
Is AI Rankia cheaper than Profound?
See what AI says about your brand before you pick a tool
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