AIclicks vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound grades higher than AIclicks: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
AIclicks grades higher on value for money. Profound grades higher on the free plan and features. They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
AIclicks
AI search visibility tracker with prompt monitoring and an action plan
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Which one is for you
Pick AIclicks if
- Fits if you want a ranked task list from your tracking, not just a chart
- Works for small teams tracking about 30 prompts on one site in one country
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a real trial, as it's 3 days and charges your card unless you cancel
- Tight if you have more than one site or country, since Starter covers one of each
- Pricey if you need the API, MCP or GA4, which start at $189 a month on Pro
- Skip it if you need more than 300 prompts or every platform, which means an Enterprise quote
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
| 2.0GPAAIclicksFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStarter is $59 a month for 30 prompts on 3 platforms, billed monthly, with up to 29% off yearly. That's this category's usual range, but GA4, the API and MCP need Pro at $189. | 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 | DNo free plan, and the 3-day trial needs a card that's charged unless you cancel before day 3. That's shorter than a week. | 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 | CDaily tracking with the full answers kept, citation sources, competitor benchmarks, a ranked action list, the Clicky agent and AI-written articles. The gap the listing names: Starter covers 3 platforms, 1 website and 1 country. | 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. You choose platforms, prompts and competitors per project, and connect GA4 on Pro to see the traffic. | 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 | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. Starter has a CMS connection, and Pro adds Google Analytics 4, the API and MCP. | 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 | daily prompt tracking turned into tasks | 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: AIclicks and Profound. How we grade
Price against what you get
AIclicks starts at $59 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Profound starts at $99 a month and scores 2.7.
Profound scores higher, and starts $40 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 11 score higher than AIclicks for less, and 1 scores higher than Profound for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Profound also covers web analytics.
At a glance
| AIclicks | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $59 per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI platforms, billed monthly | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 3-day free trial on every plan; a card is needed and is charged when the trial ends | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits |
| Web | ||
| Made by | AIclicks | Profound |
| Price read from | aiclicks.io | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
AIclicks
- There is no free plan; the 3-day trial needs a card and charges it unless cancelled before day 3.
- Starter covers 3 AI platforms, 1 website and 1 country; GA4, the API and MCP start at Pro for $189 a month.
- Pricing follows prompts and platforms, so tracking more than 300 prompts or every platform means an Enterprise quote.
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
AIclicks
- Daily prompt tracking
- Tracked prompts are run on each chosen AI platform every day, and the full AI answer is kept behind each data point.
- Choice of AI platforms
- Pick 3, 4 or 6 platforms by plan from a list that includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Claude, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek.
- Citation sources
- Shows which domains and pages AI answers cite for your prompts, and where competitors are cited and you are not.
- Competitor benchmarking
- Compares your visibility score and mentions against rival brands, filtered by AI platform and by country.
- Recommendations and the Clicky agent
- A ranked list of actions (new content, outreach to cited sites, Reddit threads) plus an agent and a monthly allowance of AI-written articles.
- Traffic from AI
- Pro and Business connect Google Analytics 4 to tie visibility to visits, and add API and MCP access.
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
AIclicks
Starter$59
per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI platforms, billed monthly
1 website, 1 country per project, 4,650 AI answers a month, 5 AI-optimized articles a month and the Clicky agent. CMS integration and email support.
Pro$189
per month for 150 prompts on 4 AI platforms, billed monthly
Unlimited websites and countries, 18,600 AI answers a month, 15 articles a month, GA4, API and MCP access, and Slack support.
Business$499
per month for 300 prompts on 6 AI platforms, billed monthly
Unlimited websites and countries, 55,800 AI answers a month, 30 articles a month and a dedicated account specialist.
EnterpriseCustom
A custom number of prompts, every AI platform, custom integrations and 30+ articles a month. Arranged on a call.
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
AIclicks
- Annual discount
Up to 29% off with yearly billing
The AIclicks pricing page has a Monthly/Yearly switch and says yearly billing saves up to 29%.
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, AIclicks or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, AIclicks is cheaper to start with: $59 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. AIclicks starts at $59 per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI platforms, billed monthly, and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, AIclicks or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither AIclicks nor Profound has a free plan. Both have 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.