Profound vs Superlines (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound and Superlines share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Superlines starts cheaper, at about $77.32 a month against $99 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Profound grades higher on features. Superlines 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
Superlines
AI search visibility data for enterprise marketing teams and agencies
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 Superlines if
- Fits if you want your AI visibility data inside Claude, Cursor or n8n through MCP
- Works for European companies that want to pay in euros
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want all the big AI engines tracked, as self-serve plans stop at 3
- Tight if you like long trend lines, with 1 month of history on Starter, 2 on Pro and 6 on Growth
- Pricey if you need the API, which starts at Growth for €333 a month billed yearly
- Not for you if you'd rather pay in dollars, as prices are in euros only
- Watch out: there's no free plan after the 7-day trial, and the listing doesn't say if the trial needs a card
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAProfoundFair | 2.2GPASuperlinesFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 €69 a month billed yearly, or €79 monthly, for 50 prompts on 3 engines with daily checks. That's roughly $80 a month, between this category's middle and its dearer quarter. |
| 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 7-day free trial on every plan, and no free plan after it. The listing doesn't say whether a card is needed to start. |
| 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. | CAnswers captured from the real interfaces, citations, share of voice, prompt sets built from Search Console, an Action Center, articles and AI bot logs. The gaps: self-serve plans cover only 3 engines, and Starter keeps 1 month of history. |
| 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. You choose your 3 engines, build prompt sets from Search Console or a CSV, and add competitors before the charts mean much. |
| 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. An MCP server on every plan links it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and n8n, it reads Search Console, and the API starts at Growth. |
| Best for | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines | European brands tracking AI answers on chosen engines |
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 Superlines. 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. Superlines starts at about $77.32 a month and scores 2.3.
Profound scores higher, and starts $21.68 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 Superlines 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 web analytics.
- Superlines also covers site audit and schema markup.
At a glance
| Profound | Superlines | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) | €69 per month for 50 prompts on 3 engines, billed yearly (€79 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 | 7-day free trial |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Profound | Grew Oy |
| Price read from | tryprofound.com | superlines.io |
| 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.
Superlines
- Self-service plans cover only 3 AI engines of your choice; up to 10 needs an Enterprise contract.
- Prices are in euros only.
- History is short on lower plans: 1 month on Starter, 2 on Pro and 6 on Growth.
- Agency plans cost the same as the brand plans but cover 5, 10 or 20 client brands; partner agencies get 15% off.
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.
Superlines
- Answers read from the real interfaces
- Captures what users see on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, DeepSeek, Claude, Mistral and Grok, not API output.
- Visibility and citation data
- Mentions, position, share of voice, citations and source URLs for each prompt, engine and market, with competitors tracked alongside.
- Prompt management
- Builds prompt sets from Search Console, your site, search results, Reddit, CSV or text, and suggests new prompts to track.
- Action Center and content tools
- Prioritized actions plus an article generator, a schema optimizer and, from Pro, site crawls and audits.
- AI bot analytics and cookieless tracking
- Shows AI crawler visits and measures site traffic without tracking cookies.
- MCP server and API
- Connect the data to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or n8n through MCP on every plan; the API starts at Growth.
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.
Superlines
Starter€69
per month for 50 prompts on 3 engines, billed yearly (€79 monthly)
1 brand, unlimited competitors, daily tracking, Action Center, MCP server, 5 AI articles a month and 1 month of history.
Pro€175
per month for 150 prompts on 3 engines, billed yearly (€199 monthly)
3 brands, CSV, Excel and JSON exports, monthly site audits, 15 articles a month and 2 months of history.
Growth€333
per month for 300 prompts on 3 engines, billed yearly (€379 monthly)
7 brands, API access, weekly site audits, 25 articles a month, 6 months of history and priority support.
EnterpriseCustom
Up to 10 AI engines, 400+ custom prompts, unlimited brands, all-time history, SSO and a dedicated AEO strategist.
Ways to pay less
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Superlines
- Annual discount
Save 12% with yearly billing
Superlines' pricing page lists yearly billing at 12% less, for example Starter at €69 a month instead of €79.
- Other savings
15% off for agency partners
Superlines says members of its agency partner program get a flat 15% discount on all packages, on any contract length.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Profound or Superlines?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Superlines is cheaper to start with: about $77.32 a month, against $99 a month for Profound. Profound starts at $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies), and Superlines starts at €69 per month for 50 prompts on 3 engines, billed yearly (€79 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Profound or Superlines?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Profound nor Superlines 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.