Agentcites vs Profound
We make Agentcites, and we wrote this page. Every fact about Profound links to Profound's own site, read on 10 October 2026. We say where Profound is ahead as plainly as where we differ.
tryprofound.com
Profound
“The AI Platform to Power Your Marketing”
Its own words, from its home page.
Large companies. Its pages talk about the Fortune 100, SOC 2, HIPAA and dedicated strategists.
agentcites.com
Agentcites
The AI visibility tool that shows you the exact answer, who was named instead of you, and a possible reason why.
One plan at $149 a month per website. The first scan of a new website is free, with no card.
Side by side
| Feature | Agentcitesagentcites.com | Profoundtryprofound.com |
|---|---|---|
| PriceWhat it costs to start, as each site publishes it. | ||
| Published price | $149 a month per website, one plan | No public price. Enterprise is priced on request |
| A free way to start | A free first scan: 20 questions, four assistants, no card | A 7-day trial with 50 prompts |
| What it asksWhich assistants, and how many questions. | ||
| AI assistants | 4 today: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9, including Perplexity, Claude and DeepSeek |
| Questions or prompts tracked | 50 questions per site | Trial: 50. Enterprise: set per contract |
| What it shows youWhether a figure can be checked against the answer behind it. | ||
| Every answer kept and shown word for word | Yes | Not stated |
| Questions that name you counted apartA question with your name in it is answered with your name, so mixing them in flatters you. | Yes | Not stated |
| Why each answer was lost, and whether a page could win it | Yes | Not stated |
| Fixing itWhat happens after a loss is found. | ||
| Writes the page for a lost answer | Yes, 50 a month | Yes, through its agents |
| For a larger companyWhere the bigger products are ahead of us. | ||
| Single sign-on | None | On Enterprise |
| API | None | On Enterprise |
“Not stated” means we could not find it on Profound's site on 10 October 2026. It does not mean Profound lacks it.
Where Profound is ahead
- Profound can ask up to nine assistants on its Enterprise plan. Agentcites asks four today.
- Profound publishes research from a far larger body of data, including a study of 883,000 cited pages.
- Profound sells single sign-on, an API and the security paperwork a large company asks for. Agentcites has none of these yet.
- Profound runs agents that do more of a marketing team's work than drafting a page.
Where Agentcites is different
- Agentcites publishes its price, and you can set up and run your first scan for free without talking to anyone.
- Every figure in Agentcites leads back to the answer an assistant actually wrote, kept word for word.
- Agentcites counts questions that name you apart from questions that do not, on every screen.
- Agentcites shows who was named instead of you and a possible reason, marked as a model's reading.
Questions
Is Agentcites cheaper than Profound?
Profound does not publish a price for its paid plan, so we cannot compare like for like. Agentcites is $149 a month per website, and the first scan of a new website is free.
Does Profound keep every answer word for word?
We could not find that stated on Profound's site on 10 October 2026. Agentcites keeps every answer and shows it beside every figure it produced.
Which is better for a large company?
Profound, today, if you need single sign-on, an API or more than four assistants. Agentcites does not offer those yet.