GetIntel vs Profound (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, GetIntel and Profound share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and GetIntel starts cheaper, at $29 a month against $99 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA
GetIntel grades higher on value for money. Profound grades higher on the free plan and features. They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
GetIntel
Daily AI visibility scores with fixes your coding agent can ship
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Which one is for you
Pick GetIntel if
- Fits if you're a founder who runs your own marketing and can review code changes
- Works for developers who want fixes delivered as changes to their own site
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: the 7-day trial needs a card and charges on day 8, and refunds are at GetIntel's discretion
- Too light for acting on gaps at $29, as Monitor only tracks; tasks, drafted fixes, Reddit signals and AI traffic start at Pro for $79
- Skip it if Claude matters, as it's only on Growth at $149 and checked weekly
- Pricey if you're an agency with many clients, at $79 a client a month for 3 to 9 clients and $59 from 10
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
| 2.2GPAGetIntelFair | 2.2GPAProfoundFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BMonitor is $29 a month for 25 buyer questions checked daily on 4 engines, inside this category's cheaper quarter, which starts at $29. It only tracks, though: tasks and drafted fixes start at Pro, $79. Yearly billing saves 20%. | 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 | DNo free plan. The 7-day trial needs a card and charges on day 8 for the plan picked at signup, and refunds are at GetIntel's discretion. | 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 | CDaily topic scores from the engines' own screens, ranked tasks with drafts such as schema or llms.txt, Reddit signals and AI traffic. The gaps the listing names: Monitor only tracks, and Claude is weekly and on Growth only. | 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 pick the buyer questions and rivals, and fixes go out through Claude Code, Cursor, WordPress or Ghost after you review each change. | 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, with no desktop or phone app. It connects Search Console, Looker Studio, Ahrefs, WordPress and Ghost, with API and MCP access on every 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 | founders who ship fixes with a coding agent | 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: GetIntel and Profound. How we grade
Price against what you get
GetIntel starts at $29 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 $70 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 6 score higher than GetIntel 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
- GetIntel also covers reports, link outreach and schema markup.
- Profound also covers AI agents, web analytics and content optimization.
At a glance
| GetIntel | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $29 per month for 25 buyer questions, billed monthly | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial with Pro features on 25 buyer questions; a card is required and charged on day 8 | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits |
| Web | ||
| Made by | GetIntel | Profound |
| Price read from | getintel.ai | tryprofound.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
GetIntel
- The trial needs a card and charges on day 8 for the plan picked at signup; the terms say refunds are at GetIntel's discretion.
- Monitor only tracks: tasks, drafted fixes, Reddit signals and AI traffic start at Pro, $79 a month.
- Claude is tracked only on Growth, and weekly rather than daily like the other four engines.
- Agency plans are per client: $79 a client a month for 3 to 9 clients, $59 from 10 clients, and custom from 25.
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
GetIntel
- Daily topic scores
- Buyer questions are grouped into topics, each scored daily on citation rate, share of voice and average position against the rivals AI names.
- Answers from the live interfaces
- Captures what each engine shows in its own interface rather than an API response, and records whether you were recommended, mentioned or left out.
- Ranked, drafted fixes
- From Pro, each gap becomes a task across on-page, off-page, community and technical work, with a draft such as llms.txt, schema or a Wikidata entry.
- Fixes shipped by your coding agent
- Fixes go to Claude Code or Cursor as a reviewable change to your own site, or publish to WordPress or Ghost where connected. Nothing ships unapproved.
- Reddit signals and AI traffic
- Pro adds a weekly read of the Reddit threads in your market, brand perception, and the AI crawlers and AI visitors reaching your site.
- Reports, API and MCP
- Pitch reports on prospects, 10 to 75 a month by plan, plus a Looker Studio connector, CSV export, and API and MCP access on every plan.
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
GetIntel
Monitor$29
per month for 25 buyer questions, billed monthly
One brand on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews daily, 5 competitors, 1 market and 2 seats. Monitoring only.
Pro$79
per month for 60 buyer questions, billed monthly
Adds ranked tasks with drafted fixes, head-to-heads, brand perception, Reddit signals, AI traffic, several markets and unlimited seats.
Growth$149
per month for 120 buyer questions, billed monthly
Everything in Pro with 20 competitors, 75 pitch reports a month and Claude added as a fifth engine, checked weekly.
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
GetIntel
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
GetIntel's pricing page lists a 20% saving when the brand plans are billed annually instead of monthly.
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, GetIntel or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, GetIntel is cheaper to start with: $29 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. GetIntel starts at $29 per month for 25 buyer questions, billed monthly, and Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies).
Which has a free plan, GetIntel or Profound?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither GetIntel 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.