Chatbeat vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Chatbeat and Profound share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan and they start at the same price, so the choice depends on whether you care more about value for money, where Chatbeat grades higher, or platforms, where Profound does.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on the free plan, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Chatbeat
AI brand visibility, sentiment and source tracking from Brand24
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Which one is for you
Pick Chatbeat if
- Fits if you're new to AI search and want suggested prompts to start from
- Works for agencies on Business at $599 a month, which adds white-labeled client reports
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you only need a few prompts, at $99 a month for 30
- Skip it if Gemini, Copilot or AI Mode matter to you, since they start at $299 a month
- Not for you if you need Claude or an API, which are listed only on Enterprise
- Tight if you're on Essential, with 1 project, 2 seats and no exports
- Watch out: the pricing page doesn't say whether prices are billed monthly or yearly
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
| 2.2GPAChatbeatFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CEssential is $99 a month for 30 prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, with 1 project and 2 seats. That's where this category's dearer quarter starts. Gemini, Copilot and AI Mode need Advanced at $299. | 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 10-day free trial that needs no credit card. After that, the cheapest plan is $99 a month. | 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 | BIt covers the whole job: how often and where you're named, your share against rivals, suggested prompts, the sources answers draw on, sentiment and recommended actions. Engines are the catch, as Essential reads only three of the six. | 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. There are suggested prompts, but you still pick prompts and competitors and learn the dashboards before the numbers mean much. | 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. Looker Studio is the one connection listed, and the API is kept for the custom-priced Enterprise 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 answer tracking with suggested prompts | 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: Chatbeat and Profound. How we grade
Price against what you get
Chatbeat starts at $99 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 for the same starting price. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 20 score higher than Chatbeat 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
- Chatbeat also covers reports and dashboards.
- Profound also covers AI agents, web analytics and content optimization.
At a glance
| Chatbeat | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI models | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 10-day free trial, no credit card needed | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Brand24 Global Inc. | Profound |
| Price read from | chatbeat.com | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Chatbeat
- Essential tracks only ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews; Claude, Grok and DeepSeek are listed only on Enterprise.
- Essential allows 1 project and 2 seats; exports start at Advanced and white-label reports at Business.
- The pricing page does not say whether the monthly prices are billed monthly or yearly.
- Payments, billing questions and refunds are handled by Paddle.
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
Chatbeat
- AI visibility metrics
- Tracks where, how often and in what position a brand appears in answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other AI models.
- Competitive visibility
- Measures your share of visibility in AI answers and compares it with competitors.
- Suggested prompts
- Proposes the questions customers are likely to ask AI, to help pick prompts worth tracking.
- Key sources analysis
- Lists the websites AI answers draw on, so you can see where the brand needs to be present.
- Sentiment and context
- Shows whether answers describe the brand positively, neutrally or negatively, and how it is compared and recommended.
- Recommended actions
- Gives recommendations for improving visibility, sources and positioning in AI answers.
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
Chatbeat
Essential$99
per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI models
1 project and 2 seats; ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews refreshed daily, about 2,700 AI responses analyzed.
Advanced$299
per month for 100 prompts on 6 AI models
Unlimited projects and seats, adds Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Mode, about 18,000 responses analyzed, and data exports.
Business$599
per month for 300 prompts on 6 AI models
For agencies: about 54,000 responses analyzed, white-labeled client reports, a dedicated project manager and beta features.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited prompts and seats, all models including Claude, Grok and DeepSeek, an API, an AI visibility report and strategy workshops. Billed annually.
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, Chatbeat or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, they start at the same price. Chatbeat starts at $99 per month for 30 prompts on 3 AI models, and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, Chatbeat or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Chatbeat 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.