Asky vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Asky grades higher than Profound: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Asky grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Asky
SEO and AI search platform that tracks answers and ships the fixes
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Which one is for you
Pick Asky if
- Fits if you publish in several languages and regions and want each one tracked
- Works for teams on Webflow, WordPress or Sanity that want approved pages published for them
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you want the writing done for you, as that starts at €399 a month
- Tight if you watch more than three engines, as each plan covers three and Claude is an add-on
- Skip it if you need prices in dollars, since the page shows euros only
- Too light for content work on Core, whose 250 credits cover about 3 articles
- Watch out: API access and SSO are add-ons, and automatic fixes start at €899 a month on Momentum
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
| 2.4GPAAskyFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CCore is €99 a month billed monthly for 50 prompts on 3 engines, around where this category's dearer quarter starts. The page shows no dollar price. Writing and publishing need Scale at €399. | 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 | CNo free plan, but a 7-day free trial of all features. The page doesn't say whether it needs a card. | 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 | BAnswer tracking through each AI's own interface, technical audits, brand fact checks, and briefs, drafts and translations published to your CMS, plus MCP on every plan. The limit is 3 engines per plan; Claude is an add-on. | 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. Core leaves the work to your team, and the later plans mean approval queues and a CMS to connect. | 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, connected to Webflow, WordPress, Sanity, Notion, Linear and Grain, with MCP for Claude and ChatGPT. The API is an add-on. | 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 | teams that want SEO and AI fixes shipped | 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: Asky and Profound. How we grade
Price against what you get
Asky starts at about $110.94 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Profound starts at $99 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Profound starts $11.94 a month lower. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than Asky 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
- Asky also covers keyword research, site audit and internal linking.
- Profound also covers AI agents.
At a glance
| Asky | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | €99 per month for 50 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of all features | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Asky Labs AB | Profound |
| Price read from | askylabs.com | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Asky
- Prices are in euros; the pricing page shows no US dollar prices.
- Each plan covers 3 engines of your choice; more engines and Claude are add-ons, and API access and SSO are add-ons too.
- Credits pay for work: an article is 80 credits, a translation 40 and a discovery run 20, so Core's 250 credits cover about 3 articles.
- Automatic fixes, internal link automation and drafted social replies start at Momentum, at €899 a month.
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
Asky
- Front-end answer tracking
- Agents run prompts in each AI interface rather than through APIs, varying language, region, login state and phrasing, and record mentions, citations and sentiment.
- Choice of answer engines
- Pick 3 engines from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot; Claude is an add-on.
- Brand alignment
- Checks what each engine says about facts you set, such as prices and features, quotes wrong statements and drafts corrections; from Scale.
- Content and CMS publishing
- From Scale, prepares briefs, new pages, refreshes and translations with updated links and publishes them to Webflow, WordPress or Sanity on approval.
- Technical audits and fixes
- SEO and AI visibility audits of 500 to 3,000 pages a month by plan; Momentum fixes supported issues and internal links automatically.
- Asky MCP
- Every plan can query visibility, citation and competitor data from Claude, ChatGPT or other MCP clients and add prompts or launch audits there.
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
Asky
Core€99
per month for 50 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly
250 credits, weekly opportunity list, technical scans of 500 pages a month and unlimited seats. Your team does the execution.
Scale€399
per month for 200 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly
1,000 credits, briefs, drafts, refreshes and translations published to your CMS on approval, brand fact checks and Reddit and LinkedIn finds.
Momentum€899
per month for 200 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly
Adds automatic technical fixes, internal linking, automatic brand corrections on your pages, drafted social replies and the Authority Map.
EnterpriseCustom
Every major answer engine, custom volumes across brands and markets, SSO, enterprise agreements and a dedicated strategist.
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
Asky
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Asky's pricing page offers annual billing with two months free compared with paying monthly.
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Asky or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound is cheaper to start with: $99 a month, against about $110.94 a month for Asky. Asky starts at €99 per month for 50 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly, and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, Asky or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Asky 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.