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

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 RankBee if

• Fits if you want your pages rewritten and scored for AI answers, not just tracked
• Works for brands whose buyers mostly use ChatGPT, the only engine on Pro

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you only need tracking, as £99 a month buys ChatGPT alone
• Skip it if Perplexity or Grok matter, since both cost extra on every plan, and AI Overviews start at £199
• Not for you if you'd rather pay in dollars, as it bills in pounds sterling and annual prices weren't readable
• Watch out: the API and unlimited brands are on the £599 Agency plan, sold through a call
• Tight if you write a lot on Pro, with 10 content generations a month

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.

RankBee

• Prices are shown in pounds sterling, including to US visitors; annual prices sit behind a toggle that could not be read.
• Pro tracks ChatGPT only; Google AI Overviews starts at Content Growth, and Perplexity and Grok are paid add-ons.
• The free trial covers the Pro plan only.
• RankBee offers pro-rated refunds when a subscription is cancelled.

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.

RankBee

Content optimization with simulation

Takes a URL or text, rewrites it in many versions, tests them against competitors with its own prompt sets and gives a before and after score.

Attribute heatmap

Scores content by the product attributes AI models reason about, such as durability or price-to-value, and generates prompts from them.

Competitor dashboard

Tracks visibility, mentions and rank across hundreds of prompts and compares you with competitors.

Content Writer

Generates new articles aimed at AI answers, from 10 to 300 a month depending on plan.

Citations analysis

Shows which sources AI answers cite for the prompts you track.

Content API

The Agency plan has API endpoints for writing, rewriting and optimizing, and scoring content.

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.

RankBee

• Pro£99

  per month for 500 prompts, billed monthly

  1 brand, ChatGPT tracking only, 10 content generations a month and the content optimization engine.

• Content Growth£199

  per month, billed monthly

  50 content generations a month, ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, with Perplexity, Grok and more prompts sold as add-ons.

• Agency£599

  per month for 1,500 prompts, billed monthly

  Unlimited brands, 300 content generations a month and API access for writing, rewriting and scoring. Sold through a call.