Profound vs Promptmonitor (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound and Promptmonitor share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Promptmonitor starts cheaper, at $33 a month against $99 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Profound grades higher on platforms. Promptmonitor grades higher on value for money. 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.
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Promptmonitor
AI search tracking in 8 models, with citations and publisher contacts
Which one is for you
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
Pick Promptmonitor if
- Fits if you plan to pitch the sites AI answers cite, using the publisher contacts it pulls
- Works for teams that need prompts run from a particular city, from 200-plus locations
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need daily checks on Starter, which runs twice a week on 3 engines with 1 seat
- Tight if you want all 8 engines, which only come with Pro at $149 a month
- Not for you if you need an API, SSO or integrations, as the API and SSO need Enterprise and none are listed
- Watch out: every plan caps AI answers a month, and one prompt in one model counts as one
- Watch out: Pro's yearly toggle shows $83 a month, which doesn't match the stated 15% saving
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAProfoundFair | 2.2GPAPromptmonitorFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | CStarter is $33 a month billed yearly ($39 monthly) for 25 prompts, just above this category's cheaper quarter ($29 or less). It's thin, with 3 engines checked twice a week, and Growth, with 5 engines daily, is $67, above the $49 middle. |
| Free plan and trial | 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. | CNo free plan, but every paid plan has a 7-day free trial with no card needed. |
| Features | 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. | BEight engines, mentions and sentiment, share of voice, cited sources with publisher contacts, AI crawler logs and prompts run from 200-plus locations down to city level. It covers the whole job; the limits are which plan gets which engines. |
| Ease of use | 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. | CNo rating on record. You add prompts, pick locations and put a snippet on your site for the crawler logs, so there's some setting up. |
| Platforms and integrations | 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. | CWeb only, and the listing names no integrations. The API and SSO come only with the custom Enterprise plan. |
| Best for | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines | AI tracking with publisher contacts for outreach |
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: Profound and Promptmonitor. How we grade
Price against what you get
Profound starts at $99 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Promptmonitor starts at $33 a month and scores 2.3.
Profound scores higher, and starts $66 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than Profound for less, and 7 score higher than Promptmonitor 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
- Profound also covers AI agents and web analytics.
- Promptmonitor also covers link outreach and log file analysis.
At a glance
| Profound | Promptmonitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) | $33 per month for 25 prompts, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits | 7-day free trial on any paid plan, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Profound | Stackdirectory LLC |
| Price read from | tryprofound.com | promptmonitor.io |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Promptmonitor
- Starter tracks only ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity and checks prompts twice a week, not daily.
- Claude, DeepSeek and the other models need Growth or Pro; all 8 models come with Pro.
- API access and SSO come only with the custom Enterprise plan.
- Each plan caps the AI answers it runs a month; one prompt run in one model counts as one answer.
Key features
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.
Promptmonitor
- Eight AI models
- Tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode; Starter covers 3, Growth 5 and Pro all 8.
- Mentions, sentiment and share of voice
- Logs every answer with your brand's mentions and sentiment, and works out share of voice against competitors per model and prompt.
- Citation tracking and publisher contacts
- Lists every source an answer cites and pulls contact details for the publishers, with a suggestion to reach out or outrank.
- AI crawler analytics
- A snippet on your site logs visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers, page by page.
- City-level locations
- Prompts can be run from more than 200 locations, down to city level.
- Prompt research
- Shows the queries AI tools use when they search the web for answers that lead to your site.
Plans
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.
Promptmonitor
Starter$33
per month for 25 prompts, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly)
1 website, prompts checked twice a week, 1 seat, 2,250 AI answers a month, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity only.
Growth$67
per month for 50 prompts, billed yearly ($79 billed monthly)
2 websites, prompts checked daily across 5 models, unlimited seats, 4,500 AI answers a month.
Pro$149
per month for 150 prompts, billed monthly
5 websites, all 8 models daily, 14,000 AI answers a month. The yearly toggle shows $83 a month, which does not match the stated 15% saving.
EnterpriseCustom
More than 20 websites, custom prompt volume, SSO, API access and a dedicated manager.
Ways to pay less
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Promptmonitor
- Annual discount
15% savings with yearly billing
Promptmonitor's pricing page lists yearly billing at 15% savings: Starter is $33 a month billed yearly instead of $39 billed monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Profound or Promptmonitor?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Promptmonitor is cheaper to start with: $33 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies), and Promptmonitor starts at $33 per month for 25 prompts, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Profound or Promptmonitor?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Profound nor Promptmonitor 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.