Dageno vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Dageno if

• Fits if you sell in several countries and want AI visibility compared region by region
• Works for agencies on Scale at $410 a month, which handles 5 projects and 50 competitors

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you want each question on every platform, as each platform and region counts as a new prompt
• Pricey if you want AI shopping data, which starts on Growth at $199, or AI ads, on Scale at $410
• Skip it if Claude's answers matter to you, as it isn't among the nine platforms
• Watch out: Starter's $49 is shown as reduced from $89 with no end date, so it may rise
• Not for you if you want to trial the bigger plans, as only Starter has a trial

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

Dageno

• The same prompt tracked on another AI platform or in another region counts again against the prompt limit.
• AI Shopping data starts at Growth and AI Advertising data at Scale; Amazon Alexa needs a custom plan.
• The free trial applies to Starter only; a free market data lookup is offered separately at insight.dageno.ai.
• Yearly billing saves about 15%, for example $492 a year for Starter.

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.

Dageno

Brand visibility monitoring

Tracks custom prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot, Brave, Dola, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, with the original answers and cited URLs.

Market intelligence

Shows a brand's AI visibility rank against competitors by model and region, with data the vendor says covers 12,000+ market segments and 3 million brands.

Citation sources and ghost citations

Traces which domains and URLs AI answers cite in a category, so you can see where official content, reviews or channel coverage is missing.

Search intents and opportunity gaps

Maps buying scenarios and competitor selling points to show where a brand is absent from answers, with suggested actions.

AI shopping and ads data

Growth adds product card visibility in AI shopping answers, and Scale adds data on ads shown inside AI answers.

MCP, API and exports

Growth lets AI tools query Dageno data through MCP; Scale adds the API, batch configuration and data exports.

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.

Dageno

• Starter$49

  per month for 50 prompts, billed monthly

  1 project, 2 market segments and 5 selected competitors on all 9 platforms. Shown as reduced from $89 a month, with no end date given.

• Growth$199

  per month for 250 prompts, billed monthly

  2 projects, 5 segments and 10 competitors, plus AI Shopping data, issue and opportunity finding, change alerts, recurring reports and MCP access.

• Scale$410

  per month for 600 prompts, billed monthly

  5 projects, 12 segments and 50 competitors, plus AI Advertising data, the API, batch configuration, exports and monthly market reports.

• CustomCustom

  For custom platforms such as Amazon Alexa, special data sources, SSO or more capacity, priced after a requirements review.

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.

Dageno

• Annual discount

  Save about 15% with annual billing

  Dageno's pricing page offers about 15% off for annual billing; its plan data lists Starter at $492 a year, Growth at $2,028 and Scale at $4,176.

Profound

No public discounts listed.