Analyze AI vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound grades higher than Analyze AI: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Analyze AI 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.
Analyze AI
AI search visibility tracking tied to GA4 traffic, with content tools
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Which one is for you
Pick Analyze AI if
- Fits if you want AI visibility and AI referral traffic on the same screen
- Works for teams that need many logins, as every plan has unlimited seats
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you want to track more than a couple of dozen prompts, at $99 for 25
- Skip it if Gemini or Claude matter to you, as they're paid add-ons below Custom
- Not for you if you want an API or a yearly discount, as neither is offered
- Tight if you lean on content work on Growth, with 1 writer and 1 optimizer workflow
- Watch out: the trial's length and whether it needs a card aren't stated
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
| 2.0GPAAnalyze AIFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CGrowth is $99 a month for 25 prompts tracked daily on 3 engines, with unlimited seats. That's at this category's dearer quarter, and the listing itself calls the prompt count low for the price. There's no yearly discount. | 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 | CBoth plans offer a free trial, but the pricing page doesn't say how long it lasts or whether a card is needed. There's no free plan. | 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 | CVisibility, sentiment and rank per engine, unlimited competitors, cited sources, GA4 traffic, writer and optimizer workflows, and alerts for risky terms. The gaps: Growth covers only ChatGPT, AI Mode and Perplexity, and 25 prompts is thin. | 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 connect GA4, set prompts and competitors, and then run the content workflows, so there's a bit to set up. | 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, with Google Analytics 4 as its one listed connection. No API is listed, and custom integrations need the Custom plan. | 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 | AI visibility next to the GA4 traffic it brings | 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: Analyze AI and Profound. How we grade
Price against what you get
Analyze AI starts at $99 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Profound starts at $99 a month and scores 2.7.
Profound scores higher for the same starting price. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 80 score higher than Analyze AI 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
- Analyze AI also covers reports.
- Profound also covers AI agents.
At a glance
| Analyze AI | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month for 25 prompts tracked daily | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | Free trial offered on Growth and Pro; its length is not stated | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Analyze AI, Inc. | Profound |
| Price read from | tryanalyze.ai | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Analyze AI
- Growth covers ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Perplexity only; Gemini, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek are paid add-ons below the Custom plan.
- Tracked prompts are low for the price: 25 a day on Growth and 35 on Pro.
- Prices are shown per month with no annual option, and the trial length is not stated on the pricing page.
- Daily recommendations, unlimited workflows and custom integrations need the Custom plan.
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
Analyze AI
- Visibility and rankings
- Visibility, sentiment and position per prompt and per engine, with your brand ranked against unlimited competitors and the prompts you lose.
- Cited sources
- Lists the domains and pages each engine cites for your prompts, grouped by type such as blog, review or social.
- AI traffic analytics
- Connects Google Analytics 4 to show AI referral visits, which engines send them, which pages convert and the overall trend.
- Content Writer and Optimizer
- Workflows that draft content aimed at AI answers and suggest changes to existing pages; 1 of each on Growth, more on Pro.
- Ad hoc prompts
- One-off checks of any prompt across engines, for testing new prompts or competitors: 50 a month on Growth, 100 on Pro.
- Brand governance
- Watches for risk terms and negative descriptions of your brand in AI answers, with weekly email digests.
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
Analyze AI
Growth$99
per month for 25 prompts tracked daily
ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Perplexity, 2,250 answers and 50 ad hoc prompts a month, 1 writer and 1 optimizer workflow, GA4 traffic.
Pro$250
per month for 35 prompts tracked daily
A fourth AI engine, 3,150 answers and 100 ad hoc prompts a month, 10 writer and 5 optimizer workflows.
CustomCustom
All engines, custom prompt volumes, unlimited workflows, daily recommendations, custom integrations and an account manager.
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.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Analyze AI or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, they start at the same price. Analyze AI starts at $99 per month for 25 prompts tracked daily, and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, Analyze AI or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Analyze AI 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.