Profound vs Temso AI (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 Temso AI if

• Fits if you want answers read the way users see them, not through APIs
• Works for agencies: unlimited client brands and white-label reports start at $169 a month on yearly billing

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if Perplexity or Claude matter, as both are paid add-ons on Core
• Pricey if you're a single brand, at $254 a month on yearly billing, $299 monthly
• Tight if you need more: 50 extra prompts are $75 a month, 10 content pieces $49, 5,000 crawl pages $19
• Watch out: agency content is $149 per client brand a month extra, and the trial's length isn't stated
• Not for you if you run several brands, as Core covers one and more needs agency or custom pricing

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.

Temso AI

• Claude, Perplexity, Grok and Muse are paid add-ons on Core and agency Growth; only Scale includes every model.
• Extra prompts cost $75 a month per 50, extra crawl credits $19 per 5,000 pages, and 10 more content pieces $49.
• Agency content is an add-on at $149 per client brand per month.
• Core covers a single brand project; more brands need agency pricing or a custom plan.

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.

Temso AI

AI search analytics

Runs tracked prompts daily, or on demand, and reports mentions, rank against unlimited competitors and the sentiment and attributes AI links to the brand.

Agent and action plan

An agent ranks actions by impact, carries out some within limits you set and drafts the rest, such as content, outreach and page fixes, for sign-off.

Website audits

Crawls up to 100,000 pages a month on Core, checking technical AEO issues, broken pages and content gaps, and logs visits from AI bots.

Content marketing

Plans a content calendar, writes articles with generated images and publishes them straight to your CMS.

Backlinks and mentions

Checks backlinks to your domains and compares them with up to 20 competitors to find sites that AI answers trust and that do not link to you.

Agency tools

Pitch audits for prospects, unlimited client brands and seats, white-label reports and Looker Studio, MCP and API connections.

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.

Temso AI

• Launch (agencies)$8

  per month, billed yearly ($10 billed monthly)

  Unlimited pitch projects: a one-time snapshot of a prospect on 10 prompts and 3 AI models, with a branded audit link.

• Growth (agencies)$169

  per month for 125 prompts, billed yearly ($199 billed monthly)

  Unlimited client brands and seats, daily tracking, white-label reports and technical audits. The price rises with prompts, up to 1,000.

• Core$254

  per month for 200 prompts, billed yearly ($299 billed monthly)

  1 brand, tracked daily on ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI Overviews and AI Mode; 10 content pieces a month, unlimited users, API and MCP.

• Scale$1,699

  per month, billed yearly ($1,999 billed monthly)

  Everything in Core with all AI models, 50 content pieces a month, an AEO specialist, monthly strategy reviews and SSO/SAML.

Profound

No public discounts listed.

Temso AI

• Annual discount

  15% off with yearly billing

  Temso's pricing FAQ says paying yearly, billed once, saves 15% on every plan.