Profound vs Searchable (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound and Searchable share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Profound starts cheaper, at $99 a month against $125 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Profound grades higher on features. Searchable grades higher on value for money. 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.
Profound
AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in
Searchable
AI search visibility tracking with an agent, articles and site audits
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 Searchable if
- Fits if you want tracking, articles and site audits on one bill
- Works for teams where many people need access, as projects and seats are unlimited on every plan
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if Gemini or AI Mode matter, as both are add-ons priced only through sales
- Tight if you need the API, Looker Studio or white-label reports, which start at Scale for $400 a month
- Not for you if you want live citations from Claude or Grok, as the Lite add-ons have web search off
- Watch out: Pro keeps only 12 months of data, and yearly prices are hidden until you flip the toggle
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAProfoundFair | 2.2GPASearchableFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CPro is $125 a month, billed monthly, for 100 prompts per model, 20 articles and 200 audits. That's the top of this category's usual range, just under the dearest tenth at $129, and add-on engines are priced only through sales. |
| 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 a 14-day free trial of Pro with no credit card needed. Two weeks is longer than most here give. |
| 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. | CDaily mentions and citations, an AI agent, a content studio, technical audits, agent analytics and AI shopping data. The gap the listing names: only ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Perplexity are included, so Gemini, AI Mode, Copilot and Claude cost extra. |
| 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. Projects, prompts and countries to set up, and any add-on engines arranged through sales before you see the full picture. |
| 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. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects to Google Analytics, Search Console, HubSpot and Salesforce, with MCP on every plan; Looker Studio and the API start at Scale. |
| Best for | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines | AI tracking with articles and site audits bundled |
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 Searchable. 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. Searchable starts at $125 a month and scores 2.3.
Profound scores higher and starts $26 a month lower. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than Profound for less, and 23 score higher than Searchable 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, web analytics and content optimization.
- Searchable also covers long-form writing, reports, site audit and schema markup.
At a glance
| Profound | Searchable | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) | $125 per month for 100 prompts per model, 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 | 14-day free trial of Pro, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Profound | Searchable Limited |
| Price read from | tryprofound.com | searchable.com |
| 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.
Searchable
- Only ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity are included; Copilot, Gemini, AI Mode, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek are paid add-ons priced through sales.
- Claude Lite and Grok Lite add-ons answer from training data with web search off, so they show no live citations.
- Pro keeps 12 months of data and has no API, Looker Studio or white-label reports.
- Annual billing is offered, but the page does not show its prices without switching the toggle.
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.
Searchable
- AEO Insights
- Tracks mentions, citations and competitor visibility in AI answers daily, across unlimited countries and projects.
- AI agent
- A chat agent that learns the brand and answers questions like where competitors are winning, then drafts fixes such as an llms.txt file.
- Content Studio
- Writes blog posts, landing pages and product descriptions aimed at AI citation: 20 a month on Pro, 80 on Scale and 200 on Enterprise.
- Technical audits
- Site audits look for schema markup gaps, content structure issues and crawlability problems that affect AI engines.
- Agent analytics and AI shopping
- Reports AI crawler and agent visits to the site, with region-level analytics and data on AI shopping answers.
- Reports, MCP and API
- Every plan creates reports and exports data and includes MCP; Looker Studio, white-label reports and the API start at Scale.
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.
Searchable
Pro$125
per month for 100 prompts per model, billed monthly
ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Perplexity checked daily, 20 articles and 200 site audits a month, unlimited projects and seats, 12 months of data.
Scale$400
per month for 500 prompts per model, billed monthly
80 articles and 1,000 audits a month, with Looker Studio, white-label reports, the API and unlimited data retention.
Enterprise$999
per month for 1,250 prompts per model, billed monthly
200 articles and 3,000 audits a month and a dedicated specialist. Sold through sales.
CustomCustom
Custom prompt tracking on any models, daily or weekly checks, unlimited projects, SSO and a dedicated AEO specialist.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Profound or Searchable?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound is cheaper to start with: $99 a month, against $125 a month for Searchable. Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies), and Searchable starts at $125 per month for 100 prompts per model, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Profound or Searchable?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Profound nor Searchable 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.