Profound vs Writesonic (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Profound and Writesonic share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Writesonic starts cheaper, at $79 a month against $99 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Profound grades higher on features. Writesonic 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
Writesonic
AI search visibility tracking with an article writer and site audits
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 Writesonic if
- Fits if you want the gaps found and the articles to fill them written in one place
- Works for solo marketers, since Starter is built for one user and one project
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if Perplexity, Claude or AI Mode matter, as all need Enterprise
- Pricey if your team grows, at $50 a month for each extra user, up to 5 in all
- Tight if you want sentiment, which starts at Growth for $399 a month
- Watch out: the full Action Center is Enterprise only, and Growth gets just a limited trial of it
- Too light for more than one market or project, as Starter allows one of each
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAProfoundFair | 2.2GPAWritesonicFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 billed annually, $99 monthly, for 50 prompts, 15 articles and 10 site audits. That's this category's usual range. Extra users are $50 a month each, and sentiment waits for Growth at $399. |
| 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. | CNo free plan, but a 7-day free trial with no credit card needed. |
| 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 tracking with ads monitoring, an article writer, site audits, agent workflows, and an Action Center from Growth. The gap the listing names: self-serve plans track only ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, so Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and AI Mode mean Enterprise. |
| 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. Tracking, articles, audits and agent runs each have their own monthly limits to learn. |
| 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 WordPress and reads Google Analytics 4, with Looker Studio on Enterprise. |
| Best for | big brands tracking AI answers on many engines | AI tracking with an article writer attached |
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 Writesonic. 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. Writesonic 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 Writesonic 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.
- Writesonic also covers long-form writing and site audit.
At a glance
| Profound | Writesonic | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $99 per month (Agency Growth, the self-serve plan for agencies) | $79 per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 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, no credit card needed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Profound | Writesonic, Inc. |
| Price read from | tryprofound.com | writesonic.com |
| 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.
Writesonic
- Self-serve plans track only ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok and AI Mode need Enterprise.
- Extra users cost $50 a month each, up to 5 users in total on Basic and Growth.
- Growth can add 20 articles for $100; the full Action Center is Enterprise-only.
- Starter is limited to 1 user, 1 project and 1 market.
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.
Writesonic
- AI visibility tracking
- Tracks set prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on self-serve plans, with ads monitoring included.
- AI article writer
- Writes articles aimed at both search and AI answers: 15 a month on Starter, 25 on Basic and 50 on Growth.
- Site audits
- Crawls the site for problems, from 10 audits of 100 pages on Starter to 50 audits of 2,500 pages on Growth.
- Action Center
- Prioritized on-page, off-page and technical actions. Growth gets a trial of 5 off-page and 5 on-page actions a month; Enterprise gets full access.
- Agentic workflows
- Agents that run content and SEO tasks; self-serve plans get a set number of trial runs, from 10 to 100.
- Sentiment and AI search tools
- Growth adds sentiment analysis; Enterprise adds AI search volume, Brand Explorer, Prompt Explorer, Page Tracker and alerts.
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.
Writesonic
Starter$79
per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews tracked daily, 15 AI articles and 10 site audits of 100 pages a month, 1 user and 1 project.
Basic$199
per month for 100 prompts, billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
300 answers tracked daily, 25 articles and 20 site audits of 1,200 pages a month, 2 users and 1 project.
Growth$399
per month for 200 prompts, billed annually ($499 billed monthly)
Adds sentiment analysis and a limited Action Center trial, with 50 articles and 50 site audits a month, 3 users and 2 projects.
EnterpriseCustom
All 9 AI platforms, custom prompts, regions and languages, the full Action Center, Looker Studio, SSO/SAML and an AI search strategist.
Ways to pay less
Profound
No public discounts listed.
Writesonic
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
Writesonic's pricing page lists a 20% saving on annual billing: Starter is $79 a month instead of $99, saving $240 a year.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Profound or Writesonic?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Writesonic 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 Writesonic starts at $79 per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Profound or Writesonic?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Profound nor Writesonic 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.