The best Profound alternatives in 2026
The loop from question to published answer to re-ask, on a card, from $99 a month.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.
The alternatives
Profound’s pricing page lists a free trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan. If you want AI visibility on a card, here is the field, every price read off the vendor’s own page. Rankli leads it because it also writes and publishes the answers for the questions you are losing, then re-asks them.
Rankli
7 days free, then $99/month: 50 questions asked of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini every week, 30 articles aimed at the ones you are losing, published to your CMS and re-asked 7 and 14 days later.
Best for: Teams who want the losing questions answered and published, with a self-serve price and a re-ask after every article.
Peec AI
Starter $95/month for 50 prompts on 3 models of your choice, tracked daily, per their AI-instructions page.
Best for: Marketing teams who want daily visibility analytics and will write the pages themselves.
AIclicks
Starter $59/month for 30 prompts on 3 engines and 5 AI-optimized articles, with a 3-day free trial.
Best for: Small teams who want tracking and a few articles on one low-priced plan.
Ahrefs Brand Radar
Custom Prompts from $50/month and a 449M-prompt AI Visibility Index at $199/month.
Best for: Teams already on Ahrefs who want AI visibility beside their SEO data.
Writesonic
Starter $79/month billed annually for 50 prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, with 15 AI articles.
Best for: Teams who want tracking, site audits and an article writer on one annual plan.
Rankli and Profound, side by side
| Row | Rankli | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistants asked | ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on every plan, with Perplexity added on Scale and Agency. | ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on the Trial. Enterprise lists up to 9 answer engines, Claude, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot among them. |
| Questions tracked | 50 on Growth, 150 on Scale, 400 on Agency, asked every week. | Trial: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days, from a recommended set that cannot be edited. Enterprise: a tailored prompt plan, tracked daily. |
| Questions you are losing, and who wins them | Each round lists the questions where AI recommends someone else, and who it picks instead. | Answer Engine Insights: how your brand and competitors appear in AI platforms, with citations, sentiment and ranking. |
| Writes the answer pages | About 30% of each month's articles are planned at the questions you are losing, and Rankli writes them. | AI Marketer researches and writes content on credits: limited on the Trial, sized per team on Enterprise. Their content-teams page says it creates net new content. |
| Publishes to your CMS | 10 connections: WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Ghost, Notion, Framer, Webhook and Next.js Blog. Live or as a draft. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Re-asks the question after publishing | Each article's question is asked again 7 and 14 days after it goes live. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Before and after, per article | On every article: named in how many answers before and after, and whether AI cited the page. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Price | Growth $99, Scale $249, Agency $499, billed monthly. | Trial is free. Enterprise is custom-priced through a demo. Their FAQ mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan without a price. |
| Free trial | 7 days free on every plan. A card starts it; cancel during the trial and nothing is charged. | Free: 50 prompts daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited AI Marketer credits. |
Every Profound cell was read on from tryprofound.com/pricing and tryprofound.com/solutions/content-teams. Every Rankli figure on this page is a rule, a limit or a price in the running product; every figure about the other product was read off their own live page on the date stamped above.
- Publishing to your CMS: not listed on their pricing page. WordPress appears there as a traffic-analytics integration.
- Re-asking a question after a page goes live, and before and after per page: not listed on the pages we read.
Why teams switch
- Rankli starts each month's plan with the questions you are losing and publishes the articles to your CMS.
- The answers are published for you, to any of 10 connections, then re-asked 7 and 14 days later with before and after on each article.
- Priced on the page and bought with a card: Growth is $99 a month with 50 questions and Claude included.
Questions
Profound writes content too. What is different?
Rankli ties each article to a question you are losing, publishes it to your CMS, and asks that question again 7 and 14 days after it goes live. The article page shows how many answers named you before and after, and whether AI cited it.
What does Rankli cost next to Profound?
Growth is $99 a month for 50 questions asked every week and 30 articles published. Scale is $249 and Agency $499. Every plan starts with 7 days free, bought from the pricing page.
How do I switch from Profound to Rankli?
Add the questions your customers ask, connect your CMS, and start the 7-day free trial. Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini that week, lists the questions you are losing and plans articles at them. It publishes to any of 10 connections and re-asks each one 7 and 14 days after it goes live.
See which questions you are losing this week.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.