Profound vs SourcePick (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 SourcePick if

• Fits if you need AI visibility figures you can defend in an internal report, in Japan
• Works for brands focused on ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews, with GA4 and Search Console alongside

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you don't read Japanese or are buying as a private person, as it's sold to businesses only
• Skip it if Gemini, Claude or Perplexity matter, as they come only with the quoted Enterprise plan from ¥50,000 a month
• Watch out: only Lite has a trial, capped at 3 runs, and it turns into paid Lite unless you cancel
• Watch out: payments aren't refunded, even if you cancel partway through a month or a year
• Tight if you want to run checks yourself, as Lite has no manual runs and only Business adds one a week

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.

SourcePick

• The site and app are in Japanese, prices are in yen before tax, and it is sold to businesses and sole proprietors only.
• The listed plans track only ChatGPT and AI Overviews; Gemini, Claude and Perplexity come with a quoted Enterprise plan from ¥50,000 a month.
• Only Lite has a trial, limited to 3 runs; other plans start paid, and switching monthly to annual goes through staff.
• Payments are not refunded, including for cancelling partway through a monthly or annual term.

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.

SourcePick

Answer tracking with full records

Queries ChatGPT and Japanese-language Google AI Overviews for each question, judging mentions and citations apart and saving every answer, source and run condition.

Cited source breakdown

Groups the domains AI cites into 11 types, such as your own site, competitors and comparison sites, and links each figure back to the answers behind it.

Sentiment by aspect

Rates how answers describe the brand as positive or negative, broken down by aspects such as product and price.

Margin of error

Gives a plus-or-minus margin on the mention rate from the number of runs and engines, so a change can be judged against normal swings.

Weak prompts and action log

Lists the weakest questions first, suggests up to 10 actions, and marks the date an action was taken to compare the 4 weeks before and after.

GA4, Search Console and PDF reports

Counts AI-referred sessions and conversions from GA4 and shows Search Console data; reports for a chosen period print or save as PDF with the recipient's name.

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.

SourcePick

• Lite¥10,800

  per month for 20 prompts, billed annually (¥12,000 billed monthly)

  Before tax. 1 brand, ChatGPT and AI Overviews checked daily, no manual runs, 2 members and email support.

• Standard¥18,000

  per month for 40 prompts, billed annually (¥20,000 billed monthly)

  Before tax. Up to 2 brands, ChatGPT and AI Overviews checked daily, 5 members and support over Slack or similar.

• Business¥43,200

  per month for 100 prompts, billed annually (¥48,000 billed monthly)

  Before tax. Up to 5 brands, daily checks plus one manual run a week, 10 members and one-to-one support.

• Enterprise¥50,000

  per month and up, quoted individually

  For large companies and agencies, with Gemini, Claude and Perplexity available; the page's estimate for 200 daily prompts is ¥97,000 a month.

Profound

No public discounts listed.

SourcePick

• Annual discount

  10% off with annual billing

  Annual billing works out at 10% less: Lite is ¥129,600 a year before tax (¥10,800 a month) instead of ¥12,000 a month.