Profound Pricing in 2026 and the Profound Alternative for AI Citation Tracking: Why Xtrusio Starts Free and Shows Which Page Got Cited

As for Profound pricing itself: Profound's pricing page lists two plans for brands. The free Trial (50 prompts run daily for 7 days) covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise is priced on request through a demo, with a tailored prompt plan and up to nine answer engines. The page shows no dollar figure for Enterprise. Flip the same page to its agency view and a priced plan appears: Agency Growth at $99/month plus $399 per client workspace.

The table compares each entry plan. The last two columns are a worksheet to fill in during your own trial, because the number that matters is what you pay for each page an engine actually cites.

Each price comes from the vendor's own pricing page, read on these dates: Profound on October 10, 2026, Otterly.AI and Semrush on October 9, 2026, and Peec AI on October 7, 2026.

What does Profound cost in 2026?

Profound's pricing page, reopened on October 10, 2026, has two views behind a toggle: a brand view with two plans, and an agency view with plans of its own.

Trial (free). Its 50 prompts run daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, alongside limited AI Marketer credits and five Prompt Volumes searches. Profound's own FAQ says Trial users get a recommended prompt set based on their industry and cannot customize those prompts. The Trial also shows no history and no exports. So the Trial lets you see the product, but it cannot test the questions your own buyers ask.

Enterprise (custom). You book a demo and get a tailored package: AI Marketer credits for the whole team, a tailored prompt tracking plan, up to nine answer engines, daily runs, all-time history, CSV and JSON exports, and dedicated support.

Agency Growth ($99/month, agency view). Agencies pay $99/month plus add-ons, and each full client workspace is listed as "+1 Client Workspace for $399/month". Each client workspace covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews with 100 prompts run daily, and the plan adds 10 short pitch workspaces a month for prospect audits. Networks with dozens of clients are steered to a custom Agency Enterprise package.

Profound's Prompt Volumes product draws on more than a billion AI conversations (per Profound). That shows demand, not whether your page was cited.

A note on older price lists. Many articles still list self-serve Profound plans with monthly prices. Profound's pricing page no longer shows those plans for brands, and it publishes no Enterprise price. Treat any brand-plan dollar figure from another site as unconfirmed until Profound gives you one in a demo. The $99 and $399 agency figures above are different: they sit on Profound's own page today.

Why "which page got cited" matters more than a mention count

Most trackers report a score: how often your brand is named, your share of voice, your average position. Useful, but one step short of what a content team needs.

An engine's answer usually cites a handful of pages: review sites, Reddit threads, LinkedIn posts, industry blogs, press coverage and, sometimes, yours. To improve the answer, you need to know:

1. Which pages the engine cited on that exact question.
2. Which of your pages, or which placement you paid for, should have been cited.
3. Whether, after you publish or place it, the engine now cites that exact URL.

If your tool cannot answer the third point, you cannot tell whether your content spend worked. That is the gap Xtrusio is built to close.

Xtrusio: shows which page got cited, on which question

Xtrusio is our product, so we have put it first. Here is what it does, in plain terms.

It asks your buyers' questions on seven engines. Xtrusio asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode the questions your buyers ask before they buy. It keeps every full answer, brand named and page cited, and reports visibility, share of voice, sentiment, average position and citations by engine, topic and buyer persona.

It plans from what the engines search. In Xtrusio's checks, ChatGPT and Claude search the web on every answer; Gemini and Grok decide when to search. Xtrusio records the searches ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok run, and the sites they cite. From that it drafts a content plan for each buyer question, with the right channel for each piece: your blog, LinkedIn, Medium, Reddit, YouTube, guest posts or PR. You approve the plan.

It drafts the pages your plan calls for. Xtrusio writes and scores Citation-Grade Content, checks every link before approval, and publishes to your blog where it is connected. From each article it drafts LinkedIn posts, YouTube scripts, Medium essays and press releases.

It wins placements off your site. Xtrusio places content through a publisher network of about 2,000 sites. PR runs through Connectively, Featured, HARO and SourceBottle, with a journalist team.

It shows which page got cited. Link Strategy follows each guest post, PR placement and published piece through to its live URL, with citation proof for each one. A page counts as a win only when an engine's answer to the question it targets cites that exact URL in a later scan. For each placement you see whether that page was cited, and on which question.

It watches your current Google pages too. Xtrusio connects to Google Search Console and flags pages losing position, demand or freshness, with the reason in plain words.

It fits how you want to work. Start on the free self-serve plan and run it yourself, or let our team run it as a managed service with a free trial, then tiered plans (details on request).

For a feature-by-feature view, read Xtrusio vs Profound.

Narrower monitoring options, and the job each one fits

These tools track AI answers well. Each fits a narrower job than finding, fixing and proving the cited page.

Profound suits large teams that want Enterprise-scale tracking on up to nine engines, Prompt Volumes demand data and AI Marketer agents.

Otterly.AI has the lowest paid entry price at $29 a month for 15 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. On Lite, Gemini and Google AI Mode are $9 a month each and Claude is $29, so price those in if your buyers use them.

Peec AI starts at $95 a month for 50 prompts on three models you pick, in one project. It suits an in-house team that wants regular numbers and will plan and write the follow-up itself.

Semrush AI Visibility is $99 a month per domain (25 prompts). Those custom prompts run on ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity. It suits teams that already do their SEO in Semrush.

SE Ranking Core ($129/month, or $103.20 billed annually) includes AI prompt tracking (its pricing page lists 100 prompts); the AI Search add-on ($89/month) adds 200 checks a month, where one check is one prompt on one engine, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. It suits a team that reports classic rankings and AI answers together.

For the wider list, see our Profound alternatives guide.

How to use the cost-per-cited-page worksheet

A sticker price tells you what you pay, not what you get back.

Cost per cited page = (plan cost + add-ons + your team's hours × hourly rate) ÷ pages confirmed cited on a named question

Fill it in like this:

1. Pick 10 to 20 real buyer questions. Use the same list for every vendor.
2. Check the plan holds them. If you need 18 questions on three engines, Otterly's Lite plan (15 prompts) cannot cover the set, so price the next plan up. Peec's Starter holds 18, but only if your three engines are the three models you choose. Profound's Trial uses its own recommended prompts, so it cannot hold your list at all.
3. Add the engines your buyers use. Include add-on costs, such as Claude or Gemini on Otterly.
4. Count your team's hours. Planning, writing, placing and rechecking take far longer than reading a dashboard.
5. Count only confirmed citations. A page goes in the "Pages confirmed cited" column only when you can open the engine's answer to a named question and see that exact URL cited.

A $29 tracker that finds ten gaps nobody fixes has nothing to divide by. A tool that also plans, writes, places and confirms the page lowers the top of the formula and fills in the bottom.

How will you know it worked?

Run this test on any option, Xtrusio included:

1. Record which pages each engine cites today for your questions.
2. Publish or place the pages the plan calls for.
3. Run the same questions again and count the exact URLs now cited, question by question.
4. Divide everything you spent, plan and hours, by that count.

If the vendor cannot show step 3 on a named question, you are paying for a score. Xtrusio is built to run all four steps in one place.

See what each Xtrusio plan includes and start free with your own buyer questions.