Profound alternative for small businesses
A price on the page and a card, not a demo: questions tracked, answers written and published, from $99 a month.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.
Rankli and Profound, side by side
Profound’s pricing page lists a free 7-day trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan. A small business usually wants a price it can see and a plan it can start today. Rankli is that: it tracks the questions your customers ask, writes and publishes the answers, and re-asks. Every Profound figure below was read off its own pages on 16 October 2026.
| 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.
When Profound fits better
- You are an enterprise that needs SSO, SAML and SOC 2 compliance, listed on Profound Enterprise.
- You want up to 9 answer engines tracked daily, including DeepSeek and Microsoft Copilot, on Profound Enterprise.
- You want a free look first: Profound’s Trial runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days across three answer engines.
- You want ChatGPT Shopping tracking, API access and all-time data history, listed on Profound Enterprise.
Questions
Is Rankli a Profound alternative for a small business?
Yes, if you want to buy from a pricing page. Growth is $99 a month for 50 questions and 30 articles published to your CMS, with 7 days free on a card. Profound’s page lists Enterprise as custom-priced.
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.
Which AI assistants answer in Rankli today?
Every plan lists ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, with Perplexity added on Scale and Agency. ChatGPT access is unavailable at the moment, so answers currently come from Claude and Gemini, plus Perplexity on Scale and Agency. On the free checker, when ChatGPT is unavailable, Claude answers and the report says so.
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.
Start with the free check: ask an AI assistant the questions your buyers ask and see who it names. Then start the trial to get the answers written.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.