Profound alternative for AI visibility tracking, with the prices on the page

Profound alternative: the two products side by side

Profound is an AI marketing platform that also tracks brand visibility in AI answers. SerpBeats tracks Google rankings first and adds AI visibility as an add-on. Any Profound alternative has to be judged on what is public, so the table uses only what each company shows on its own pages.

Profound's side comes from its pricing page, checked on 4 November 2026. The page shows no monthly or annual amounts. Its FAQ mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan with 400 credits a month per client workspace, also without a price. SerpBeats' side comes from our pricing page. Prices are without tax. If you are weighing a Profound alternative, check these numbers on both pages yourself. If you see a different number, tell us and we will fix it.

One AI query is one question checked once on one platform. Both AI Bundles need an active rank tracking plan, and the cheapest plan is $10 a month, so the lowest total is $18.99 a month.

When a Profound alternative is the wrong choice

A Profound alternative will not fit every team. Profound is the better choice if:

• You need enterprise controls. Its Enterprise plan lists SSO/SAML, SOC 2 compliance and dedicated support. SerpBeats lists none of these.
• You need more engines. Enterprise tracks up to 10 answer engines, including Claude, Microsoft Copilot and DeepSeek. SerpBeats tracks four platforms.
• You track prompts at scale, in many languages or regions. Profound's Enterprise prompt, language and region limits are custom.
• You want more than tracking. Profound's page also describes its AI Marketer, which helps teams research, write and report. SerpBeats is a tracker, not a writing tool.
• You want daily AI checks. Profound's trial runs prompts daily. SerpBeats checks AI answers once to three times a week on its self-serve plans.

When SerpBeats is the right Profound alternative

These are the reasons to choose SerpBeats as your Profound alternative:

• You want to see the price first. Every plan and both AI Bundles are on the pricing page. A $10 Beginner plan plus an AI Bundle is $18.99 a month for 50 keywords, 1,500 AI queries and 3 AI platforms.
• Google rankings and AI answers belong on one screen. Every plan includes daily rank tracking, Google AI Overview, competitors and reports. The AI Bundle adds ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode.
• You run a local business. Local questions are asked of ChatGPT from your project's city, and the businesses shown on the map in the answer are recorded. An answer that recommends your Google Maps business counts as you being present.
• You watch a fixed list of customer questions. AI answers change from run to run. Checking the same questions every week turns that noise into a rate you can follow.
• You manage several small sites. Beginner has 5 projects, Growth 15 and Scale 40.

How SerpBeats measures AI visibility

Whichever Profound alternative you pick, ask how it decides that you are visible. In SerpBeats, each prompt is asked on the platforms you pick, on the days you pick. SerpBeats keeps the full answer and the sources it cites. A prompt counts as visible when your domain is one of the cited sources. For local questions it also counts when the answer recommends your Google Maps business, matched by its Maps ID, phone number or address. A name in the text that SerpBeats cannot confirm as your business is flagged but not counted.

You see the rate over time, the sites cited most often and the rivals the answer names. SerpBeats does not score sentiment. AI answers and citations are observed results that providers can change without notice, so SerpBeats reports what it sees and does not promise mentions.

How to test a Profound alternative in one week

1. Write the 10 to 20 questions a customer would ask an AI about your business.
2. Run them in Profound's free trial, which allows 50 prompts a day for 7 days.
3. Add the same questions to SerpBeats with an AI Bundle. You can cancel it from your billing settings, and it stays active until the end of the period you paid for.
4. After a week, compare what each tool saw: which answers named you, which sites were cited, and what you can act on.

Answers vary from run to run, so compare rates over the week, not single answers. For the background, read AI visibility tracking and the AI Overview tracker.

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