Profound vs Siteline (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound and Siteline share a 2.2 GPA, and only Siteline has a free plan.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Profound grades higher on features. Siteline 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
Siteline
AI agent traffic analytics with brand visibility tracking in AI chats
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 Siteline if
- Fits if you want measured AI agent traffic from your server, not only simulated prompts
- Works for developer tools that want to see which coding agents read their docs
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need to know which AI engines are tracked before you pay, as the table doesn't name them
- Not for you if you can't change your hosting or CDN setup, since it collects on the server side
- Tight if you stay free: prompt tracking, MCP and the API all start on Starter at $49 a month
- Watch out: prices are monthly only, with no yearly saving and no stated trial on paid plans
- Tight if you want Slack support, which starts on Scale at $99 a month
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAProfoundFair | 2.2GPASitelineFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 $49 a month for 500 prompt runs, 2 websites and 500,000 analytics events. That's between the cheaper quarter of this category and its middle. Only monthly prices are shown, with no yearly saving. |
| 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 with no card: 1 website and 50,000 agent analytics events a month. That covers the bot traffic side, but prompt tracking, MCP and the API all start on Starter. |
| 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. | CAgent analytics, human visits from AI platforms, prompt tracking, citations, ranked fixes and an insights agent. The gap: the pricing table says all major AI platforms without naming them, and the charts show only ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini. |
| 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. It collects through your host or CDN rather than a browser script, so there's setup on the server side before you see traffic. |
| 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 through Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, Azure CDN, CloudFront, Next.js, WordPress and Fastly, with MCP and a reporting API from Starter. |
| Best for | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines | real AI agent traffic plus prompt tracking |
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 Siteline. 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. Siteline starts at $49 a month and scores 2.3.
Profound scores higher, and starts $50 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 10 score higher than Siteline 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 content optimization.
- Siteline also covers reports.
At a glance
| Profound | Siteline | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) | $49 per month for 500 prompt runs |
| Free plan | None | 1 website integration and 50,000 agent analytics events a month. No credit card required. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial: 50 preset prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Profound | Large Language Analytics, Corp. |
| Price read from | tryprofound.com | siteline.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.
Siteline
- Prompt tracking, MCP access and the reporting API start on the $49 Starter plan; the free plan covers agent analytics.
- The pricing table lists "all major AI platforms" without naming them; the charts on the page show ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini.
- The page shows monthly prices only, with no annual billing option or stated free trial on paid plans.
- Slack support starts on Scale; Starter has email support only.
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.
Siteline
- Agent Analytics
- Shows every AI agent, chatbot and crawler on your site by platform, with the pages they fetch, visit counts and where they get stuck.
- Human referrals from AI
- Counts the human visits that arrive from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Meta AI and other AI platforms, next to the agent visits.
- Visibility tracking
- Suggests the prompts that matter in your category, then tracks your visibility, ranking and positioning against competitors in AI answers.
- Citation monitoring
- Lists the sites and pages AI chatbots cite when they answer questions about your brand, and whether you are mentioned in them.
- Recommendations and insights agent
- Ranks content and technical fixes by impact and effort, and an insights agent answers follow-up questions in the app or over MCP.
- Server-side integrations
- Connects through Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, Azure CDN, AWS CloudFront, Next.js, WordPress or Fastly rather than a browser script.
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.
Siteline
Free$0
1 website and 50,000 agent analytics events a month, for exploring AI agent and bot traffic.
Starter$49
per month for 500 prompt runs
2 websites, 500,000 analytics events, 10 products or competitors, data exports, MCP access, the reporting API and email support.
Scale$99
per month for 1,100 prompt runs
5 websites, 2 million analytics events, 50 products or competitors, and Slack and email support.
Pro$299
per month for 4,000 prompt runs
Unlimited websites, 10 million analytics events, and unlimited products and competitors.
EnterpriseCustom
High-volume events and prompt tracking, custom reporting and consulting, and a dedicated account manager.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Profound or Siteline?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Siteline is cheaper to start with: $49 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies), and Siteline starts at $49 per month for 500 prompt runs.
Which has a free plan, Profound or Siteline?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Siteline 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.