Profound alternative: Citedin vs Profound (2026)
Enterprise answer-engine visibility: brand monitoring, prompt-demand data and large-brand reporting.
Profound
Enterprise answer-engine visibility: brand monitoring, prompt-demand data and large-brand reporting. Prices: Free 7-day trial for brands: 50 prompts/day on ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews.
Citedin
A SaaS that gets one site found on Google and cited by AI answers: a 64-rule audit, weekly sampling on 5 engines, and fix drafts you approve.
The short answer
Enterprise answer-engine visibility: brand monitoring, prompt-demand data and large-brand reporting. Citedin runs the whole loop — weekly sampling on 5 engines, a 64-rule audit, fix drafts you approve, and recrawl verification — built to get one site (or a small portfolio) cited, with founding prices from €19/mo.
Side by side
| Profound | Citedin | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free 7-day trial for brands: 50 prompts/day on ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews | €19/mo (founding, final at launch) |
| Weekly sampling | Up to 9 answer engines on Enterprise (trial: 3) | 5 engines × 3 samples per prompt |
| Technical audit | varies | yes |
| Written fix plan | no | yes |
| Publishes without approval | no | no |
| Try without an account | not listed | yes |
What Citedin does that Profound does not
No self-serve plan for brands right now — the entry point is a trial, then a quote.
Tracking and dashboards, not a weekly written fix plan verified against your site.
Where Profound is the better pick
The broadest engine coverage in the category (up to 9) and prompt-demand data from real search queries.
Enterprise reporting, SSO/SAML, SOC 2 and API access for large teams.
Prices:
Switching from Profound
The prompts you already use in Profound paste straight into onboarding; the first weekly run fires when you confirm the site. Nothing publishes without your approval, so you can compare a full week before deciding.
Questions people ask
Can I use Profound and Citedin together?
How much does Profound cost?
Do you cover the same engines?
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Why trust this comparison?
How we compare
Prices read from the vendor's own site or dated third-party reviews on 2026-10-26. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we write "not listed" — we never guess. We make Citedin — this is a vendor's comparison. Corrections ship within 48 hours.