The same 4 criteria for both
every figure carries the page it was read off| Criterion |  Profound | CiteRankthis product |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | Custom (Enterprise); no self-serve paid price publishedProfound restructured its pricing after this row was read on 9 September 2026. The page now carries two plans, Trial at Free and Enterprise at Custom, described as "tailored packages for companies operationalizing AI search insights and running marketing agents at scale". The $99/month Starter and $399/month Growth this row recorded are both off the page, so there is no self-serve paid price left to compare.read 2026-09-18 | $5/mo (Solo)One brand, ten questions, weekly. Founder is $12/mo for three tracked brands and twenty-five questions on all five engines; Studio is $19/mo for six brands and fifty questions.read 2026-09-18 |
| Free tierwhat the vendor gives you at $0, in its own words, and whether it is a plan that keeps running or a metered trial | Free (Trial)Profound now publishes a free plan called Trial, "for companies who want to trial Profound before getting a demo". It is capped rather than open ended: limited AI Marketer credits, 10 prompts run once, ChatGPT only, and no history, exports or API. This row read "Not published" on 9 September 2026, when the page carried no free plan.read 2026-09-18 | A free one-off checkThe free checker answers whether the engines name you today. It is not a plan, nothing is tracked week to week without a subscription, and saying otherwise would be the same overstatement this table exists to catch elsewhere.read 2026-09-18 |
| Engines at that pricethe row none of these vendors puts next to its headline price, and the one that decides the comparison: fifty prompts on one engine and fifteen on four are sold within thirty dollars of each other and are not the same product | 1 on the free Trial (ChatGPT); up to 9 on EnterpriseTrial tracks ChatGPT and nothing else. Enterprise is "Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked", listed as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search. The Starter and Growth tiers this row compared on 9 September 2026 no longer exist.read 2026-09-18 | 3 on Solo, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI OverviewsAll five, adding Gemini and Claude, from Founder at $12/mo.read 2026-09-18 |
| Prompts at that price | 10 on the free Trial, run onceTrial is "10 unique prompts" at a prompt frequency of "one time". Enterprise is a "Tailored prompt tracking plan" with daily frequency and no number on the page. The 50 prompts on Starter this row recorded on 9 September 2026 went with the Starter plan.read 2026-09-18 | 10 questions on Solo25 on Founder, 50 on Studio. Deliberately smaller than everything else on this table: most single-product companies have between eight and twenty questions a buyer would genuinely type, and padding a list to fill a plan makes the report worse.read 2026-09-18 |
Every page these figures were read off
Profoundwww.tryprofound.comCheapest paid plan, Free tier, Engines at that price, Prompts at that price. Read 2026-09-18.https://www.tryprofound.com/pricingWhat the table says
read off the cells aboveOn cheapest paid plan, Profound is Custom (Enterprise); no self-serve paid price published and CiteRank is $5/mo (Solo). On free tier, Profound is Free (Trial) and CiteRank is A free one-off check. On engines at that price, Profound is 1 on the free Trial (ChatGPT); up to 9 on Enterprise and CiteRank is 3 on Solo, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. On prompts at that price, Profound is 10 on the free Trial, run once and CiteRank is 10 questions on Solo. CiteRank publishes this table and is one of the things in it, so read the case for the other side below rather than taking the table's word for it. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
The questions this pair raises
4 answeredProfound vs CiteRank, cheapest paid plan?
Profound: Custom (Enterprise); no self-serve paid price published. Profound restructured its pricing after this row was read on 9 September 2026. The page now carries two plans, Trial at Free and Enterprise at Custom, described as "tailored packages for companies operationalizing AI search insights and running marketing agents at scale". The $99/month Starter and $399/month Growth this row recorded are both off the page, so there is no self-serve paid price left to compare. CiteRank: $5/mo (Solo). One brand, ten questions, weekly. Founder is $12/mo for three tracked brands and twenty-five questions on all five engines; Studio is $19/mo for six brands and fifty questions. Read from tryprofound.com and citerank.thecompound.tech on 2026-09-18.
Profound vs CiteRank, free tier?
Profound: Free (Trial). Profound now publishes a free plan called Trial, "for companies who want to trial Profound before getting a demo". It is capped rather than open ended: limited AI Marketer credits, 10 prompts run once, ChatGPT only, and no history, exports or API. This row read "Not published" on 9 September 2026, when the page carried no free plan. CiteRank: A free one-off check. The free checker answers whether the engines name you today. It is not a plan, nothing is tracked week to week without a subscription, and saying otherwise would be the same overstatement this table exists to catch elsewhere. Read from tryprofound.com and citerank.thecompound.tech on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0, in its own words, and whether it is a plan that keeps running or a metered trial.
Profound vs CiteRank, engines at that price?
Profound: 1 on the free Trial (ChatGPT); up to 9 on Enterprise. Trial tracks ChatGPT and nothing else. Enterprise is "Up to 9 Answer Engines tracked", listed as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search. The Starter and Growth tiers this row compared on 9 September 2026 no longer exist. CiteRank: 3 on Solo, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. All five, adding Gemini and Claude, from Founder at $12/mo. Read from tryprofound.com and citerank.thecompound.tech on 2026-09-18. Engines at that price here means the row none of these vendors puts next to its headline price, and the one that decides the comparison: fifty prompts on one engine and fifteen on four are sold within thirty dollars of each other and are not the same product.
When should I pick Profound, and when CiteRank?
Profound, You are a marketing team at a company large enough that the answer has to survive a procurement review, and you need agents, attribution and AI-sourced traffic analytics rather than a weekly report. Profound is the category leader by funding and headcount, its Enterprise tier tracks up to nine answer engines including Gemini, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Claude, and nothing smaller in this table does agent-driven content generation at all.