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Answergist vs Profound
How Profound positions itself: The enterprise platform — panel data, marketing agents, SOC 2, Gartner-cited; priced and built for teams.
Here's how the two compare on what you actually walk away with, what the public can see, and then price, cadence and engines. Where Profound is ahead of us, it says so.
Starter $99/mo billed yearly (ChatGPT only, 50 prompts, 1 seat) · Growth $399/mo billed yearly (3 engines, 100 prompts, 3 seats) · Enterprise custom (up to 9 engines). There is no monthly option.
| Dimension | Profound | Answergist |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | an enterprise AI-visibility platform, bought through a plan year | a generator on a monthly plan: it writes the pages, then measures the same prompts |
| What you walk away with | agents can generate and publish content on the higher tiers | generated files — FAQ + JSON-LD, comparison drafts, checklist, llms.txt — rewritten after your weekly scan when your losing prompts change |
| Public visibility surfaces | reports and dashboards for your team | public Visibility Index profile — a followed link to your site once you verify ownership, Organization schema, your category and tracked rivals — plus a labeled, nofollow front-page board row |
| Entry price for the same three engines | $399/mo, billed yearly only — $4,788 up front | $39/mo, monthly, cancel anytime |
| Free tier | signup-gated brand report | full scorecard — work-email signup, no card |
| Cadence | daily | weekly |
| Prompts | 50 on Starter, 100 on Growth | 15 buyer-intent questions, generated from your own site |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II; enterprise security features | none claimed — we're honest about being early |
| Company scale | ~$155M raised; conference; research panel | small by design; you talk to the people who build it |
When Profound is the better choice
- You are an enterprise team, and procurement will ask for SOC 2 Type II
- Agents that generate and publish for you on the higher tiers
- Up to nine engines, daily, with panel data behind them
- Multi-region and multiple seats
- The budget to commit to a plan year
When Answergist is the better choice
- A founder budget, and no plan year to sign
- Deliverables on day one, not on the enterprise tier
- No sales call
- A free, public MCP over the index — no tier to reach
Facts checked September 2026 — tell us if something's out of date: hello@answergist.com