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ChatFeatured vs Profound

Profound and ChatFeatured both track AI answers, analyze cited sources and crawler traffic, and run agents that write content. Since September 2026 Profound sells to brands only as a custom Enterprise contract after a seven-day trial, with up to nine engines and prompt volume estimates from its own panel. ChatFeatured sells self-serve from $150/month, with MCP access, site audits that write the fix, and publishing to nine CMSs on every plan.

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The short answer

Which one fits your team?

Choose ChatFeatured if

  • You want to start on a self-serve plan with a published price, not a sales contract.
  • You want MCP access on every plan, so your team's AI tools can use the data now.
  • You want every audit issue to come with the fix written, and the agent to re-check it.
  • You want the agent's articles and audits counted in your plan, not metered in credits.

Choose Profound if

  • You need SOC 2 Type II, a HIPAA assessment and SCIM provisioning on day one.
  • You publish through Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal or Contentful.
Key differences

Where the two part ways.

  1. 01

    Self-serve or contract

    Profound removed its $99 Starter and $399 Growth brand plans in September 2026. Brands now get a seven-day trial on 50 fixed prompts, then a custom Enterprise contract with no public price. ChatFeatured publishes its prices: Starter at $150/month, Growth at $500/month, and Pro from $1,500/month.

  2. 02

    Access for your AI tools

    Profound's MCP server and REST API are Enterprise features. ChatFeatured includes MCP access on every plan, so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can query your visibility data from the first day. The REST API is part of ChatFeatured Enterprise.

  3. 03

    Engine coverage

    Profound Enterprise can track nine engines, including DeepSeek, Claude and Exa Search; its trial runs three, on 50 prompts you can't edit. ChatFeatured Starter tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI, Growth adds Gemini and Copilot, and Claude and Grok are add-ons. Every engine on your plan runs every tracked prompt daily, in every region, at a published price.

  4. 04

    Audits and fixes

    Profound's Pages feature checks page health, what bots can read and AEO readiness, and its agents rewrite pages whose citations are slipping. ChatFeatured audits your pages for technical, content and AEO issues, writes the exact code or copy change for each, re-checks fixed pages, and submits them for indexing. Audits are included on every plan, 200 to 4,000 pages a month.

Feature by feature

ChatFeatured and Profound, side by side.

What each one includes, from each company's own pages. A note under a value gives the plan or condition it depends on.

ChatFeatured vs Profound, feature by feature
FeatureChatFeaturedProfound
Answer engine tracking
Answer engines trackedChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, GrokClaude and Grok as add-ons3 on the trialChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews
Prompts on the entry plan50Starter, $150/month50 on the trialA recommended set you can't edit; custom on Enterprise
How often prompts runDailyDailyOn the trial
Countries and regionsUnlimitedOn every planEnterpriseOne region on the trial
SentimentYesYes
Cited sources and pagesYesYes
ChatGPT Shopping visibilityYesEvery planEnterpriseNot on the trial
Doing the work
Agent that plans the workYesAEO Agent turns gaps into prioritized tasksYesAI Marketer agents, metered by credits
Writes articles in your voiceYes10 to 200 a month, by planYesAgent workflows; credits limited on the trial
Publishes to your CMSYesWordPress, Ghost, Webflow, Framer, Shopify, Git-based CMS, HubSpot, Wix, SanityYesWordPress, Contentful, Sanity, Drupal, Framer, Adobe Experience Manager
Technical site auditsYes200 to 4,000 pages a month, by planPartialPage Health and AEO readiness, not a full site audit
Measuring results
AI crawler analyticsYesCloudflare, Vercel, AWS, WordPress or your logsYesAkamai, AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, GCP, Netlify, Vercel, WordPress
AI referral trafficYesGoogle Analytics and Search ConsoleYesGA4, plus the Profound Pixel for conversions
Plans and access
Entry price$150/monthCustomEnterprise only for brands since September 2026
Free trial7 days7 days50 fixed prompts on 3 engines
SeatsUnlimitedUnlimited
MCP serverYesEvery planEnterprise
REST APIEnterpriseEnterprise
Agency workspaces and white-label reportsYesAgency partner planYesClient workspaces at $399/month each
Pricing

What it costs to start.

ChatFeatured

  • Starter$150/month3 answer engines, 50 tracked prompts, 10 AI articles per month
  • Growth$500/month5 answer engines, 250 tracked prompts, 40 AI articles per month
  • ProFrom $1,500/month5 answer engines, 1,000 tracked prompts, 200 AI articles per month
  • AgencyPartner pricingUnlimited client projects, client workspaces, white-label reports

Every plan includes the AEO Agent, site audits with the fix written, AI crawler tracking, MCP access, unlimited regions and unlimited seats.

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Profound

  • TrialFree7 days, 50 fixed prompts, ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews
  • EnterpriseCustomUp to 9 engines, API, MCP, ChatGPT Shopping, SSO
  • Agency client workspace$399/monthPer client: 100 prompts and 400 agent credits a month

Profound removed its $99 Starter and $399 Growth brand plans in September 2026. Comparisons that still quote them are out of date.

Questions

ChatFeatured vs Profound, answered.

Sources

Everything this page says about Profound comes from the pages listed here, checked on . Pricing and features change. If something here is out of date, tell us at sales@chatfeatured.com.

  1. Profound pricing
  2. Profound homepage
  3. Profound docs: platform guides
  4. Profound docs: Pages
  5. Profound docs: MCP
  6. Profound docs index
  7. PricingSaaS: Profound pricing change, September 2026
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