Profound vs Siftly (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound and Siftly share a 2.2 GPA, and only Siftly has a free plan.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Profound grades higher on features. Siftly 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
Siftly
AI search visibility tracking with content, outreach and an agent
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 Siftly if
- Fits if you want to see weekly AI answers about your brand before paying anything
- Works for content teams that want articles published and outreach sent from their own Gmail
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, with 10 prompts on 2 engines checked once a week and 30 days of history
- Pricey if you need GA4, Search Console and crawler tracking, which start at Growth for $249 a month
- Skip it if you need more than 3 engines or more than one country on Starter, as both are capped by plan
- Watch out: every AI answer counts against a monthly allowance, so one prompt on 4 engines daily uses 4 a day
- Skip it if you need SSO, as it's Enterprise only
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAProfoundFair | 2.2GPASiftlyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 $79 a month for 50 prompts on 3 engines, billed monthly, with 20% off yearly. That's this category's usual range. GA4, Search Console and crawler tracking need Growth at $249. |
| 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. | CA free plan of 10 prompts and 100 answers a month on 2 engines, refreshed weekly, with 30 days of history. You'll outgrow it fast. Paid plans also have a 7-day trial with no card. |
| 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 rank and share of voice with sentiment, citation tracking, articles with FAQ schema, outreach campaigns, and an agent with MCP and an API. The gap the listing names: engines are capped by plan, 3 on Starter, and Starter tracks one country. |
| 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. Engines, countries and a monthly answer allowance to juggle, where one prompt on 4 engines checked daily uses 4 answers a day. |
| 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 publishes to Webflow, Wix, Ghost, Framer and other CMSs, sends from Gmail, and has GA4, Search Console, Slack, MCP and a REST API. |
| Best for | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines | a free start, then content and outreach on top |
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 Siftly. 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. Siftly starts at $79 a month and scores 2.3.
Profound scores higher, and starts $20 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 13 score higher than Siftly 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
- Siftly also covers link outreach.
At a glance
| Profound | Siftly | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) | $79 per month for 50 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | 10 prompts and 100 tracked AI answers a month on 2 engines, refreshed weekly, with competitor tracking and 30 days of history. |
| 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 of any paid plan, no card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Profound | Siftly, Inc. |
| Price read from | tryprofound.com | siftly.ai |
| 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.
Siftly
- Engines are capped by plan (2, 3, 5 or 8) from a list of ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Claude.
- Starter tracks one country; GA4, Search Console and AI crawler tracking start at Growth for $249 a month.
- Each AI answer counts against the monthly allowance: one prompt on 4 engines refreshed daily uses 4 answers a day.
- SSO comes only with Enterprise.
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.
Siftly
- Brand monitoring and share of voice
- Daily visibility, rank and share of voice against competitors for each tracked prompt and each AI engine, with sentiment.
- Citation tracking
- Lists the pages and domains AI answers cite in your market, including the ones cited instead of you.
- GEO content
- Drafts articles with FAQ schema and images and publishes them to Webflow, Wix, Ghost, Framer, Sanity, Strapi, Duda or a custom CMS.
- Citation outreach
- Runs outreach campaigns to sites that AI answers cite, sent from your own Gmail address; higher plans include a dedicated outreach manager.
- AI crawler and traffic tracking
- Shows when AI crawlers read your pages and, with GA4 and Search Console connected, the human visits AI engines send.
- Siftly agent, MCP and API
- An agent answers questions about your data and drafts fixes; an MCP server with 14 tools and a REST API expose the same data.
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.
Siftly
Free$0
10 prompts, 100 AI answers a month on 2 engines, weekly refresh, competitor tracking and 30 days of history.
Starter$79
per month for 50 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly
4,500 AI answers a month, daily refresh, 90 days of history, 8 blog posts a month with auto-publish and 5 outreach campaigns.
Growth$249
per month for 100 prompts on 5 AI engines, billed monthly
30,000 AI answers a month, 2 countries, 30 blog posts a month with FAQ schema, Reddit engagement, AI crawler tracking, GA4 and Search Console.
Scale$599
per month for 150 prompts on 8 AI engines, billed monthly
108,000 AI answers a month, 3 countries, 60 multi-language posts a month, social distribution, 30 outreach campaigns and 5 seats.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited answers, prompts, countries and seats, SSO, a dedicated success manager, a 2-hour SLA and weekly strategy reviews.
Ways to pay less
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Siftly
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
Siftly's pricing page has a Monthly/Annually switch and says annual billing, paid upfront, saves 20% compared with monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Profound or Siftly?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Siftly is cheaper to start with: $79 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies), and Siftly starts at $79 per month for 50 prompts on 3 AI engines, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Profound or Siftly?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Siftly has a free plan. Profound does not, though it has 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.