DeepSmith vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, DeepSmith and Profound share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and DeepSmith starts cheaper, at $80 a month against $99 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
DeepSmith grades higher on value for money. Profound grades higher on features. They get the same grade on the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
DeepSmith
AI search tracking paired with an on-brand article writer
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Which one is for you
Pick DeepSmith if
- Fits if you want AI tracking and a monthly allowance of articles in one tool
- Works for sites on Webflow or a headless CMS like Sanity, Strapi or Contentful
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need more than ChatGPT tracked on the $80 plan; Perplexity needs Grow at $160
- Tight if your team is bigger than 5, the cap on Pro, or you need more than 20 articles a month
- Not for you if you track several regions, which needs Enterprise
- Skip it if Claude or Google AI Overviews matter, as they're Enterprise only
- Watch out: the homepage names Google AI Mode, but no plan on the pricing page lists it
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
| 2.2GPADeepSmithFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CPro is $80 a month billed yearly ($99 monthly) for 50 prompts and 20 articles, between this category's middle and dearer quarter. But it's ChatGPT only: Perplexity needs Grow at $160, and Gemini Scale 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 7-day free trial with tracking and first drafts. The site 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 | CMention and citation rates, cited pages, rival sitemaps watched daily, topic gap mapping, idea agents and a content studio that publishes and repurposes. The gaps are in its own listing: Pro tracks ChatGPT only, and every self-serve plan covers one region. | 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's a Brand Kit, personas and a CMS to set up before the articles sound like you. | 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, publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Strapi, Sanity and Contentful, with Search Console data and CSV and API export. | 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 | content teams wanting tracking and articles in one | 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: DeepSmith and Profound. How we grade
Price against what you get
DeepSmith starts at $80 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 $19 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 15 score higher than DeepSmith 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
- DeepSmith also covers long-form writing and internal linking.
- Profound also covers AI agents and web analytics.
At a glance
| DeepSmith | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $80 per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial with tracking and first drafts; the site does not say whether a card is 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 | OneJam Cloudtech Private Limited | Profound |
| Price read from | deepsmith.ai | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
DeepSmith
- Engines depend on plan: Pro tracks ChatGPT only, Grow adds Perplexity, Scale adds Gemini; Claude, AI Overviews and the rest need Enterprise.
- The homepage says it tracks five engines, including Google AI Mode, which the pricing page does not list on any plan.
- Self-serve plans track a single region; multi-region tracking is Enterprise only.
- Team seats are capped at 5, 7 or 10 members, and articles at 20, 40 or 90 a month, by 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
DeepSmith
- AI search analytics
- Mention rate, citation rate and share of voice by engine, with the full answer behind each number. Tracked prompts run daily.
- Cited pages and competitors
- Shows which of your pages AI cites and which it ignores, ranks you against competitors, and watches competitor sitemaps daily for new pages.
- Topic gap mapping
- Sorts your pages and rivals' pages into topics and funnel stages to show what they cover and you do not: 1,500 to 8,000 pages a month by plan.
- Content idea agents
- Unlimited agent runs that turn losing prompts, keyword clusters or a competitor's winning page into article ideas, each with the data behind it.
- Content Studio
- Researches, drafts and optimizes articles with internal and external links and a cover image, grounded in your personas, products and voice.
- CMS publishing and repurposing
- Publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Strapi, Sanity or Contentful, and turns articles into LinkedIn posts, X threads and newsletters.
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
DeepSmith
Pro$80
per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
ChatGPT tracking only, 20 articles a month, 1,500 pages of gap mapping, 5 team members, CSV and API export, and CMS publishing.
Grow$160
per month for 100 prompts, billed annually ($199 billed monthly)
ChatGPT and Perplexity tracking, 40 articles a month, 3,000 pages of gap mapping, 7 team members and a larger Brand Kit.
Scale$299
per month for 200 prompts, billed annually ($399 billed monthly)
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini tracking, 90 articles a month, 8,000 pages of gap mapping and 10 team members.
EnterpriseCustom
All 9 answer engines, including Claude, Google AI Overviews, Grok, Meta AI, Copilot and DeepSeek, with multi-region tracking and custom limits.
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
DeepSmith
- Annual discount
Save up to $1,200 a year with annual billing
The pricing page's annual toggle lowers Pro to $80, Grow to $160 and Scale to $299 a month, shown as savings of $228, $468 and $1,200 a year.
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, DeepSmith or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, DeepSmith is cheaper to start with: $80 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. DeepSmith starts at $80 per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly), and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, DeepSmith or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither DeepSmith 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.