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

Pick Limy if

• Fits if you need AI search tied to sales, demo requests or sign-ups, not just mentions
• Works for teams that can connect CDN or server logs to see AI crawler activity

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a price or to sign up without a demo, as no price is published
• Skip it if you want to try it first, as there's no free plan or trial on record
• Skip it if you want content written or fixes drafted, as no writing tools are listed
• Tight if you can't connect CDN or server logs, as the pixel alone only shows visitors from AI chats
• Watch out: Limy Ads, for ads inside ChatGPT, was only a waitlist when read

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

Limy

• No prices are published; every page leads to booking a demo, so cost is not listed here.
• Crawler tracking needs a CDN or server log connection; the pixel alone shows only visitors from AI chats.
• The docs name ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, Claude and Grok as the engines whose bots it detects.
• Limy Ads, for ads inside ChatGPT, was only a waitlist when read.

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.

Limy

AI visibility and competitors

Shows the prompts, answers, mentions and cited sources behind a brand's presence in AI search, and compares it with competitors you pick, by topic and prompt.

AI attribution

Follows an AI-driven visit to an action on your site, such as a purchase, demo request or signup, so the result can be credited to the prompt and page.

AI bot traffic monitor

Reads server or CDN logs to show which AI crawlers visit, how often, which pages they favor and which regions or pages they fail to reach.

Limy Analytics

A pixel reports visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, with pages, time on site, device and country, without collecting personal data, Limy says.

CDN and tag setup

Connects through Google Tag Manager, a WordPress plugin, or log feeds from Cloudflare, Vercel, Akamai, Fastly, Netlify, CloudFront, Google Cloud CDN or Nginx.

REST API and MCP server

An API exposes prompts, topics, competitors, traffic and raw AI answers, and an MCP server connects the data to Claude, Cursor and other AI clients.

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.

Limy

Pricing could not be confirmed. See limy.ai.

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.