Agentrail vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound grades higher than Agentrail: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Agentrail grades higher on value for money. Profound grades higher on features and platforms. They get the same grade on the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Agentrail
Shows how AI agents use your docs, APIs and MCPs, and where they fail
Free plan
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Free trial · from $99/mo
Which one is for you
Pick Agentrail if
- Fits if you make a developer tool and more of your users now arrive through coding agents
- Works for teams fixing docs, sign-in or an MCP server for agent use
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to know how AI chat answers mention or rank your brand
- Not for you if you sell to consumers rather than developers
- Tight if you have heavy agent traffic and a fixed budget: it's $0.10 per journey and $1 per simulation
- Too light for more than one product on the free tier, which covers 1 surface and 100 journeys that don't roll over
- Watch out: setup depends on your stack and no integrations are named, so expect engineering time
Pick Profound if
- Fits if you're a large brand that wants answers tracked on up to 9 engines and can sign a custom contract
- Works for agencies running pitch audits for prospects, at $99 a month for 10 short workspaces
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to sign up and pay without a sales call, as brands can't
- Pricey if you're an agency with several clients, at $399 a month per client workspace on top of $99
- Tight if you want to test your own questions, since the trial's prompts are fixed
- Watch out: custom prompts, the API, exports and SSO all come only with Enterprise
- Watch out: agents spend credits, and extra credits need an Enterprise package with overage billing or a pause
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAAgentrailFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo monthly plan: after the free allowance it's $0.10 per agent journey and $1 per simulation, with volume tiers and an optional spend cap. So 1,000 journeys a month comes to about $90 before discounts, in the category's usual range. | DBrands get no published price: past the trial it's a custom Enterprise quote, given only on a sales call. Agency Growth is $99 a month, but that buys 10 short pitch audits, and each real client workspace is $399 a month on top. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree every month with no card: 100 agent journeys, 10 simulations, weekly readiness scans and fixes, on 1 product surface. Any product with real agent traffic will pass 100 journeys, and nothing rolls over. | CNo free plan, but a 7-day trial runs 50 preset prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews. You can't edit those prompts, so you see the questions Profound picks, not your own. |
| Features | CJourney stitching across docs, APIs, SDKs and MCPs, failure detection, sandboxed agent runs, readiness scans and fixes with a prompt or pull request. It does that job fully, but it's a smaller one, and it doesn't track AI chat answers. | BDaily answers with citations, sentiment and competitor ranking on up to 9 engines, Claude, Copilot and DeepSeek among them, plus an AI Marketer, reusable agents, Prompt Volumes and crawler analytics across unlimited domains. It covers the whole job; the agents run on credits. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. How it connects depends on your stack, and the vendor only says it works from signals in your existing systems, so expect some engineering time. | CNo rating on record. Brands are onboarded through sales, and custom prompts, exports and the API only arrive with Enterprise, so there's set-up before it's really yours. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, and no integrations are named in the listing, though it looks at how agents use your own APIs, SDKs and MCP servers. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects to Google Analytics, Search Console, Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress, Webflow, Slack and G2, and the API comes with Enterprise. |
| Best for | seeing where coding agents fail on your product | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Agentrail and Profound. How we grade
Where they differ
- Profound also covers content optimization.
In commonWebPublic APIAI agentsWeb analyticsAI search visibility
At a glance
| Agentrail | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | Free every month: 100 agent journeys, 10 simulation runs, weekly Agent Readiness scans and recommendations, on 1 product surface. No card needed. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Aeternus Inc. | Profound |
| Price read from | agentrail.co | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Agentrail
- Beyond the free allowance it bills $0.10 per agent journey and $1 per simulation run, with graduated volume tiers and an optional monthly spend cap.
- It studies agents using your product; it does not track how AI chat answers mention or rank your brand.
- Free allowances reset on the 1st of each month and do not roll over; the free tier covers one product surface.
- How it connects depends on your stack; the vendor says it works from signals in your existing systems.
Profound
- Brands have no self-serve paid plan: after the 7-day trial, ongoing tracking needs a custom-priced Enterprise contract.
- Trial users get a recommended prompt set and cannot edit it; custom prompts, API access, exports and SSO come with Enterprise.
- On Agency Growth, each full client workspace is a $399-a-month add-on and 5 more trial workspaces cost $199 a month.
- Agent runs use credits; extra credits beyond the plan need an Enterprise package, with overage billing or a pause set by the account team.
Key features
Agentrail
- Journey reconstruction
- Stitches separate requests to the website, docs, APIs, SDKs and MCP tools into the single task an agent was trying to complete.
- Breakpoint detection
- Finds where agents retry, loop, give up or fail, and ranks the problems by how many journeys they affect.
- Simulations
- Runs real coding agents on your prompts in clean sandboxes to see whether they choose your product and finish the task.
- Agent Readiness scans
- Weekly scans of the website, docs and app as agents see them, with and without JavaScript, each finding with evidence and a fix prompt.
- Recommendations
- Ranked fixes across docs, authentication, APIs, SDKs and MCPs, each with a prompt or pull request to ship it.
Profound
- Answer Engine Insights
- Runs set prompts daily and reports where a brand appears in the answers, which sources are cited, sentiment and how it ranks against competitors.
- Wide engine coverage
- Enterprise can track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search.
- AI Marketer and agents
- An assistant that finds gaps in AI answers and drafts or rewrites pages, plus reusable agents for recurring work. Agents run on credits.
- Agent Analytics
- Tracks AI crawler visits and AI-referred traffic across unlimited domains by connecting to CDNs and hosts such as Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS and Vercel.
- Prompt Volumes
- Estimates what people ask AI answer engines about a topic; the trial allows 5 searches.
- Agency workspaces
- Agency plans manage short pitch workspaces for prospects and full client workspaces from one dashboard with consolidated billing.
Plans
Agentrail
Free$0
100 agent journeys and 10 simulation runs a month, weekly readiness scans, recommendations, 1 product surface and community support.
Profound
Agency Growth$99
per month for up to 10 pitch workspaces a month
For agencies: 10 seven-day pitch audits a month on ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, 5 agency seats. Each full client workspace is $399 a month extra.
EnterpriseCustom
For brands: tailored prompt tracking on up to 9 answer engines, AI Marketer credits, all-time history, CSV and JSON exports, API, SSO and dedicated support.
Agency EnterpriseCustom
For large agencies and networks: tailored client and trial workspaces, a dedicated agency partner, go-to-market help and Slack support.
Ways to pay less
Agentrail
- Startups
Credits for startups and open-source maintainers
Agentrail says early-stage startups and open-source maintainers can apply for credits by contacting the team.
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Agentrail or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Agentrail publishes no starting price, and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, Agentrail or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Agentrail has a free plan. Profound does not, though it has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.