Teams searching for a Profound alternative are usually weighing an AI visibility platform against someone who will do the work the platform points at. This page sets Profound beside Suede AI SEO, a founder-run managed GEO service that ships the fixes into your own site: schema, an llms.txt, entity records and the third-party sources engines cite. They overlap less than the search suggests. Profound is software your team runs; Suede AI SEO is a service that changes the site.
Every statement about Profound comes from Profound’s own public pages, linked where it is used and checked October 9, 2026. Plans and prices change, so treat the live pages as the authority. Statements about Suede AI come from pages already published on this site.
What Profound is
Profound describes itself as an AI marketing platform for winning visibility in AI answers (tryprofound.com, checked October 9, 2026). Its home page lists ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Google AI Overviews. The products it names include Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes, Shopping and Agent Analytics, plus an “AI Marketer” with Agents, a Context Manager, Projects, Documents and Sheets. Governance items on the page include RBAC, SCIM and SOC 2.
Profound is not only a dashboard. Its home page describes agents that rewrite and stage pages in a CMS, draft content from briefs and prepare outreach to publishers, with most actions staged for human approval. That is software that helps your team ship work. The difference this page is about is who owns the shipping: your team, using the tool, or an outside operator working in your repo or CMS.
Profound pricing
Profound’s pricing page (checked October 9, 2026) lists two standard plans and mentions a third in its FAQ.
- Trial. Free: 50 unique prompts run daily for 7 days on three engines (ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews), with limited AI Marketer credits.
- Enterprise. Custom, not listed publicly (as of October 9, 2026). The page lists tailored prompt tracking, up to nine engines, custom AI Marketer credits, SSO/SAML, and support options that range up to a dedicated specialist.
- Agency Growth. Mentioned in the FAQ as self-serve with 400 credits a month per client workspace; price not listed publicly (as of October 9, 2026).
Nothing here is a price quote from Profound. Read the live page before you buy.
Profound and Suede AI SEO, side by side
| Compared on | Profound | Suede AI SEO |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Software: answer-engine tracking, prompt volumes, citation analytics, sentiment and agent analytics; its home page also describes an “AI Marketer” with agents that draft and stage content | A dated baseline of what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google answer on a prompt set you approve, the repairs to the sources the engines read, and a second measurement on day thirty |
| Who does the work | Your team, using the platform and its agents. The home page describes most agent actions as staged for human approval; Enterprise lists support options up to a dedicated specialist | The founder, with agents he built and maintains; not resold |
| What gets changed | What your team approves and publishes from the platform | Crawler access, schema, an llms.txt, entity records and page structure shipped to your production site, plus the third-party record engines cite, with a source diff and a live readback |
| Engines | Trial: 3 (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews). Enterprise: up to 9, adding Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude and Exa Search | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google |
| Pricing | Free trial: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days. Enterprise: custom, not listed publicly (as of October 9, 2026). Agency Growth: not listed publicly (as of October 9, 2026) | Free teardown, then the thirty-day answer-share sprint quoted case by case, then a monthly retainer quoted in a reply |
| What you can check | The platform’s dashboards; Enterprise lists CSV/JSON export and API access for Prompt Volumes | The captures, the source diff, the production URL, and the receipts page |
| Access needed | Account and integrations; the page lists 200+ integrations | Repo or CMS access for the repairs |
The Profound column is drawn from its home page and pricing page, checked October 9, 2026. The Suede AI column restates the comparison page and the implementation page.
When you want the fixes shipped for you
- Nobody has the hours. Software shows the gap; the gap stays open when the fixes sit in a backlog behind other work.
- The fix lives in engineering. Crawler access, schema, an llms.txt and entity records are changes to your site, shipped as pull requests and confirmed with a live readback.
- The answer depends on third-party sources. Engines cite press and directories, which is AI PR work.
- You want one operator. The work is done by the founder, not handed to an account team.
Using both
A platform and a service answer different questions, and they can run side by side. Suede AI measures on a fixed prompt set you approve, with dated captures, so a sprint does not depend on any tool. A team that already tracks in Profound can keep doing so and read the change there too. The free AI citation check takes one reading of your category, and the teardown is free and comes back within three business days.
For the same comparison against another tool, see the AthenaHQ alternative page, the Peec AI alternative page and the roundup of AI visibility tools.
Questions
How much does Profound cost?
Profound’s pricing page, checked October 9, 2026, lists a free trial (50 prompts run daily for 7 days on three engines) and custom Enterprise pricing that is not listed publicly (as of October 9, 2026). An Agency Growth plan is mentioned in its FAQ with price not listed publicly (as of October 9, 2026). Read the live page before you buy.
What is a Profound alternative for a team that wants the fixes done?
A managed GEO service. Suede AI SEO measures what the engines answer, ships the repairs to your site (schema, an llms.txt, entity records and page structure) and measures again on the same prompts. Compare services on who does the work, what ships in thirty days, and whether you can re-run the measurement yourself.
Which AI engines does Profound track?
Its home page lists ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Google AI Overviews. Its pricing page (checked October 9, 2026) shows three engines on the trial and up to nine on Enterprise.
Can I use Profound and Suede AI SEO together?
Yes. A tracker and a repair service answer different questions. Suede AI measures on a fixed prompt set you approve, with dated captures, so the sprint does not depend on any tool.
What does Suede AI commit to on AI answers?
The work and the evidence: a dated baseline, the repairs shipped to your site, and a second measurement on the same prompts. Engines write their own answers and no vendor controls them, so the commitment is to what you can check, backed by the refund terms on the terms page, published in full.
Sources
- Profound home page, https://www.tryprofound.com/, checked October 9, 2026.
- Profound pricing, https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing, checked October 9, 2026.
- Suede AI SEO scope and pricing: the comparison page, the implementation page and the terms page.
Jason Colapietro is the founder of Suede AI, which runs the SEO, AEO and GEO practice at seo.suedeai.ai from West Palm Beach, Florida. Suede AI is not affiliated with Profound, and Profound is a trademark of its owner. Facts about Profound are taken from its public pages as linked and checked October 9, 2026; plans and prices can change.