AI Rankly vs Profound
Comparing AI Rankly and Profound?
Profound's Growth plan is $399 for three engines, 100 prompts and three seats, billed yearly; they publish no month-to-month price. AI Rankly Professional is $349 for five engines, 300 prompts and unlimited seats. The gap is widest where the two companies charge exactly the same: both entry plans are $99, and theirs buys one engine, 50 prompts and a single login.
- Both entry plans are $99. Ours tracks three engines and 100 prompts, theirs tracks one engine and 50.
- $349 against their $399, with five engines to three and 300 prompts to 100.
- $1.16 per tracked prompt against $3.99, and unlimited seats against three.
- 5 answer engines
- 300 prompts, re-run daily
- 10 competitors tracked
- Unlimited team seats
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The same brief. The question is what each plan actually includes.
Capabilities sorted by whether the mid-tier plan on each side actually includes them, or holds them back for a higher tier, an add-on or a contract.
AI RanklyProfessional · $349/mo9 of 11
included on this plan
- Gemini tracking
- Google AI Mode tracking
- Shopping / commerce tracking
- More than one language or region
- More than three team seats
- Support beyond email
- Data exports
- Prompt-volume demand data
- Claude & Grok tracking
- REST API
- SSO / SAML
ProfoundGrowth · $399/mo2 of 11
included on this plan
- Gemini tracking
- Google AI Mode tracking
- Shopping / commerce tracking
- More than one language or region
- More than three team seats
- Support beyond email
- Data exports
- Prompt-volume demand data
- Claude & Grok tracking
- REST API
- SSO / SAML
The plan you'd actually buy, side by side
| Feature | AI RanklyProfessional · $349/mo | ProfoundGrowth · $399/mo |
|---|---|---|
| The plans you can actually buy | ||
| Price per month | $349 | $399 |
| Cost per engine | $70 | $133 |
| Cost per tracked prompt | $1.16 | $3.99 |
| AI answers analysed each month | 45,000 | 9,000 |
| Answer engines included | 5 | 3 |
| Prompts tracked | 300 | 100 |
| Team seats | Unlimited | 3 |
| Languages and regions | Multiple | 1 and 1 |
| Brands tracked on this plan | Unlimited | 1 |
| The $99 entry plan, side by side | ||
| Answer engines | 3 | 1 |
| Prompts tracked | 100 | 50 |
| Cost per tracked prompt | $0.99 | $1.98 |
| AI answers analysed each month | 9,000 | 1,500 |
| Team seats | Unlimited | 1 |
| Data exports | ||
| Engines you get on this plan | ||
| ChatGPT | ||
| Perplexity | ||
| Google AI Overviews | ||
| Gemini | ||
| Google AI Mode | ||
| Microsoft Copilot | ||
| How the measurement is done | ||
| Scored across many runs, not one screenshot | ||
| Captured from the consumer product, not the model API | ||
| City-level and "near me" tracking | ||
| Questions asked in each market's own language | ||
| Turning findings into work | ||
| Agent that drafts the fixes | ||
| Content drafting workspace | ||
| E-E-A-T scoring | ||
| Entity accuracy ledger | ||
| White-label client reports | ||
| Data & access | ||
 WordPress | ||
 Webflow | ||
 Framer | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Outbound webhooks | ||
 Zapier & Make | ||
Profound figures were read from their public pricing and product pages on August 31, 2026 and may have changed since, so check www.tryprofound.com/pricing. Rows compare each vendor's mid tier, Professional · $349/mo against Profound Growth · $399/mo, because that's the plan most teams buy; a ✕ means it is not included on the plan compared. Both prices are month-to-month. AI Rankly also bills annually at $291/mo. Our pricing is public in full.
Measure it, then actually move it
Track
Every buyer question, re-run daily
Add the questions your buyers actually ask. We run them through every engine on your plan, every day, and capture the full answer text, not just whether you were named.
Cover
Five engines on the plan you buy
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, all included on Professional rather than parcelled out as add-ons or held back for a contract.
Benchmark
See exactly who gets recommended instead
Share of voice against the competitors you name, per prompt and per engine, so you can tell the difference between losing everywhere and losing one question that matters.
Act
Fixes drafted, not just findings filed
The supervised agent turns each gap into reviewable work: the page edit, the schema, the citation to chase. You approve it; you don't write it from scratch, and it isn't metered in credits.
Same $99. One engine, or three.
Read Profound's own comparison table as a buyer. Gemini: Enterprise. Google AI Mode: Enterprise. Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Claude: Enterprise. ChatGPT Shopping: Enterprise. The REST API and SSO: Enterprise. One language and one region on both self-serve plans. One seat on Starter, three on Growth, and exports listed as "None" on Starter.
AI Rankly draws the lines elsewhere. Unlimited team seats on every plan, including the $99 one, which tracks three engines across 100 prompts against their one engine across 50. Gemini and Perplexity are on Professional, not held for a contract. Exports are on every plan.
Credit where it is due, because a comparison that only flatters us is no use to you. Profound's agency motion is genuinely self-serve at $99/mo plus $399 per client workspace, Agent Analytics covers unlimited domains on every tier, and their crawler-verification work is more detailed than ours. This is not a company hiding everything behind a sales call. It is one that draws the line at engine coverage, and draws it early.
Buy AI Rankly if you want the widest engine coverage you can get without a sales call, and you want the whole team in the account. Buy Profound if you need their crawler-verification depth or an Enterprise contract covering nine engines.
Six months, three teams, numbers they signed off
E-commerce+244%
AI-referred sessions in six months
$5,600 in sales attributed to AI search.
E-commerce+193%
AI-referred sessions in six months
$32,462 in sales attributed to AI search, from zero.
B2B SaaS+900%
AI-referred sessions in six months
50 customers acquired from AI search, from zero.
Before you decide
Yes, at both ends. Professional is $349/mo against Profound Growth at $399, with five engines to their three, 300 tracked prompts to their 100 and unlimited seats to their three: $1.16 per tracked prompt against $3.99. At the entry tier both companies charge $99, and ours covers three engines and 100 prompts against their one engine and 50. One caveat worth knowing: Profound's published prices are yearly-billed rates, so a month-to-month buyer should ask them what they actually charge.
Several things, and some of them are good. Their crawler verification is more detailed than ours, a published matrix of around forty bots checked by reverse DNS, IP range and heuristics. FactCheck traces each inaccurate claim back to the specific URL that caused it, and their Noble integration will get third-party copy corrected for you. Their prompt-volume data comes from a panel of over a billion real AI conversations across 35 countries. They also publish Citation Decay with a half-life per page, run Profound University, and cover nine engines on Enterprise including Copilot and DeepSeek, which we don't track at any tier.
AI Rankly Starter tracks three: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. Professional adds Perplexity and Gemini for five. Enterprise adds Claude and Grok for all seven. Profound Starter tracks ChatGPT only; Growth adds Perplexity and Google AI Overviews for three; everything else, including Gemini and Google AI Mode, is on their Enterprise tier.
AI Rankly Professional at $349 a month against Profound Growth at $399, plus the two $99 entry plans side by side. Professional covers five engines, 300 prompts re-run daily, ten tracked competitors and unlimited seats. Growth covers three engines, 100 prompts and three seats, and Profound publish that $399 as a yearly-billed rate with two months free rather than a month-to-month price. At $99 the same comparison is three engines and 100 prompts here against ChatGPT tracking only, 50 prompts and a single login there.
Everyone, on our side. Seats are unlimited on Starter, Professional and Enterprise, with Owner, Admin and Member roles, and AI Rankly has never charged per user on any plan. Profound's Starter is a single login and Growth includes three seats; going beyond three is an Enterprise conversation rather than a self-serve add-on. If the account has to hold a marketing team, a content lead, an SEO and someone from product, count the logins before comparing the two sticker prices, because that is where $349 and $399 stop being comparable numbers.
Profound publish the figure themselves, which makes this easy to compare: 9,000 AI responses a month on Growth, from 100 prompts across three engines run daily, and 1,500 a month on their $99 Starter. The same arithmetic on AI Rankly Professional, 300 prompts across five engines every day, is 45,000, and our $99 Starter analyses about 9,000, as many answers as their $399 plan. More runs means a longer, more consistent series, not proof that any single day's movement is meaningful, and we would rather say that than sell you significance.
AI Rankly exports to CSV, Excel and JSON on every plan, including the $99 one, and ships an MCP server on every plan; the REST API, the CLI and the Looker Studio connector begin on Professional. Profound's own plan table lists exports as None on Starter, and their REST API is an Enterprise line. Outbound webhooks are a tie: their Agents include a POST node that sends data to an endpoint, alongside Slack and Teams alerts. Zapier and Make are the gap on their side, appearing nowhere in their integrations directory.
Three days on the plan you are considering, running its real engines against your own brand rather than a demo account, with the prompts and competitors you configure carrying over if you stay. After that you pay monthly or annually in advance and can cancel at any time from account settings, with access running to the end of the period you have paid for; fees are not refundable for partial periods or unused prompts. Worth putting the same question to Profound, since the $399 they publish is a yearly-billed rate and no month-to-month price appears alongside it.
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