Profound built the best-known platform for tracking how AI assistants answer, and in 2026 it brought that platform downmarket — $99/month now buys a real Profound subscription. This page won’t tell you their data is bad; it isn’t. It will show you exactly what each tier tracks at the price shown, and draw the one line that actually decides it for a local business: Profound is software your team operates. Deep AI Solutions is the work, done for you.
The short answer
Profound is answer-engine-optimization software for marketing teams. Its entry tier tracks ChatGPT only; the mid tier tracks three engines; and tracking for Claude, Gemini, and Grok sits behind custom Enterprise pricing. In every case, your team logs into dashboards and drives the fixes. Deep AI Solutions is a done-for-you subscription: we audit all five major models, then do the directory, schema, content, and review work that moves the number — and send one PDF a month with nothing for you to run. Teams with an in-house marketer should look hard at Profound. Owners who want the outcome, not another login, are who we built this for.
Software you operate, or work delivered
The comparison that matters isn’t price against price — it’s what you’re left holding a month later. With a monitoring subscription, the report is the product and the fixing is still your job. With a done-for-you engagement, the fixing is the product and the report just proves it moved.
| Dimension | Deep AI Solutions | Profound (tryprofound.com) |
|---|---|---|
| What you’re buying | A service — the audit and the remediation, done for you | Software your team operates: dashboards, tracking, agent credits |
| Models measured | All five in every audit: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok — plus the in-car assistant in every Tesla | Starter: ChatGPT only. Growth: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews |
| Claude, Gemini, Grok tracking | Included in every audit | Listed only under Enterprise (custom pricing) as of 2026-07-18 |
| Audit depth | 250-prompt audit — 50 real buyer prompts × 5 models — mention rate, citation rate, competitor share-of-voice, blind spots | Starter: 50 prompts. Growth: 100 prompts |
| Who does the remediation | We do — directory + schema, authority content, review response | Your team does, assisted by agent credits (100/mo Starter, 400/mo Growth) |
| What you log into | Nothing — one delta PDF on the 1st of each month | Dashboards you sign into and act on |
| Pricing | Subscription, scoped after the free audit | Starter $99 · Growth $399 (billed yearly) · Enterprise custom |
What each Profound tier actually tracks
These figures are a direct reading of tryprofound.com/pricing on July 18, 2026. Their plans may change — check the page yourself before deciding.
- Starter — $99/month, billed yearly. ChatGPT tracking only, 50 prompts, 1 seat, email support, 100 agent credits. No exports, no API.
- Growth — $399/month, billed yearly. Three engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — 100 prompts, 3 seats, CSV/JSON exports, 400 agent credits. No API.
- Enterprise — custom pricing. Up to 10 engines (this is where Claude, Gemini, and Grok tracking appears), API access, SSO/SAML, SOC 2, dedicated support. Genuinely deep — and priced for teams that operate it full-time.
The five things we do for you
A monitoring subscription hands you a number and a to-do list. A done-for-you subscription does the list. This is the same engagement for every client — productized, not bespoke — which is what keeps it affordable and lets the results compound.
- 250-prompt multi-AI audit. Fifty real customer prompts run across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok — plus the in-car assistant in every Tesla — measuring mention rate, citation rate, competitor share-of-voice, and category blind spots. Polished PDF within five business days.
- Directory + schema infrastructure. Bing Places, Foursquare, Healthgrades, schema markup, and name/address/phone cleanup across fourteen-plus directories — the fundamentals AI models actually parse.
- Authority content & citations. One quarterly comparison guide and one press release a quarter — the source types AI models cite most.
- Review-response system. Personalized responses within 48 hours across Google, Yelp, and Healthgrades — a pattern models weight as a trust signal.
- Monthly delta report. A PDF every thirty days showing mention-rate movement, new wins, lost ground, and competitor shifts. No dashboard to log into.
Who should pick which
We’d rather lose the wrong customer than sell you the wrong category.
Choose Deep AI Solutions if…
- You’re an owner-operator or lean team with no one whose job is to run an AEO dashboard.
- You want the fix delivered — directories, schema, content, reviews — with a before-and-after measured across all five models.
- You need Claude, Gemini, and Grok in the picture from day one, not behind an Enterprise quote.
- You’d rather receive one PDF a month than manage another subscription.
Choose Profound if…
- You have an in-house marketing team that will operate dashboards and act on them weekly.
- ChatGPT-only (Starter) or ChatGPT + Perplexity + Google AI Overviews (Growth) covers where your buyers actually ask.
- You’re an enterprise that needs their Enterprise tier — up to 10 engines, API, SSO. It is genuinely deep.
- You want the lowest self-serve entry price from a major vendor in the category.
Frequently asked questions
Is Deep AI Solutions an alternative to Profound?
For a specific buyer, yes — but they are different categories. Profound is answer-engine-optimization software: dashboards, prompt tracking, and agent credits that your marketing team operates. Deep AI Solutions is a done-for-you subscription: we run the multi-model audit and do the remediation — directory and schema infrastructure, authority content, and review response — and send one PDF a month. If you have someone whose job is to run a dashboard, Profound is a strong product. If you want the outcome delivered and nothing to log into, that is the gap we fill.
What does Profound cost?
As shown on tryprofound.com/pricing on July 18, 2026: Starter is $99/month billed yearly and tracks ChatGPT only, with 50 prompts and 1 seat. Growth is $399/month billed yearly and tracks three answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — with 100 prompts and 3 seats. Enterprise is custom-priced, with up to 10 engines, API access, and SSO. Tracking for Claude, Gemini, and Grok is listed only under Enterprise. Pricing changes — verify current details with Profound directly.
Is Profound worth it for a small business?
It can be, if two things are true. First, someone in your company has to own AI visibility as a job — the self-serve tiers are dashboards plus agent credits, and the execution is yours. Second, the tier's coverage has to match where your buyers actually ask: Starter tracks ChatGPT only, and even Growth does not track Claude, Gemini, or Grok. For a local business without a dedicated marketer, that combination usually means paying for a report about a problem no one on staff is tasked to fix — measured on a subset of the models that answer for your category.
Do I have to run the software myself with Profound?
Yes. Profound is a platform: you log into dashboards, review prompt tracking, and drive the fixes yourself, assisted by agent credits (100/month on Starter, 400/month on Growth, per their pricing page on July 18, 2026). Deep AI Solutions is the opposite model — there is no dashboard to log into. We run the audit and do the directory, schema, content, and review work, then send a delta PDF on the 1st of each month.
What's the difference between monitoring AI visibility and fixing it?
Monitoring tells you how often AI systems mention or recommend you — it measures the number. Fixing it is entity and retrieval work: consistent name/address/phone, schema.org identity, listings in the directories models parse, citations, and reviews. Both matter; only the second moves the number. Profound sells agent credits precisely because monitoring alone doesn't move it. Deep AI Solutions includes that work as the deliverable, measured across all five major models before and after.
See your number first
Before you pay anyone — us or Profound — see where you actually stand. Our 250-prompt audit runs your business against all five models and comes back as a PDF, free. Request it at [email protected] or from the free audit on the homepage, and read the AI Visibility vs SEO guide for how the measurement works.
All observations of Profound are based on the public pages of tryprofound.com, primarily tryprofound.com/pricing, as accessed July 18, 2026; their product, tiers, and pricing may change — verify current details with Profound directly. Profound is a mark of its respective owner; this page is an independent comparison and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Profound.