Which assistants do you measure, and are they fixed from month to month?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok on Index, the same every month. Higher tiers add more. Plans

Can I read the actual answers, or only a score?

Yes. You get the raw answers, the scores and the changes side by side in your dashboard. Plans

Is the scoring method published somewhere I can check?

Yes. AIVI and AIRS come from Mohanty (2026). The DOIs are on our About page.

What happens when there is not enough data for a score?

AIRS reads unmeasured, never zero, below 8 scored observations. The method

Who does the work after the report, my team or yours?

We do. Index measures. Growth adds the content engine, and Authority adds the full agent system. Plans

Does paying you change my score? (It should not.)

No. Payment cannot change an index score. Plans

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Profound alternatives

Thinking about leaving Profound, or choosing between it and something else? Start with what it offers. Then decide what you need that it does not give you.

Every fact about another company on this page comes from that company's own website, read on 2026-10-14, and the link sits next to each claim so you can check it yourself instead of trusting us. See the sources.

What Profound offers

Here is what the vendor's own pages say, quoted or closely paraphrased, with a link on every line so you can check it against the live page today. Nothing added.

"The AI marketing platform built for the agentic era." source
Home page names ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Overviews. Enterprise lists up to 9 answer engines tracked. source
Free trial. Enterprise is custom. source
Trial runs 50 prompts daily for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. source

Why people compare

People look past Profound for a few reasons. The free trial covers three engines for a week, and after that the only plan on the pricing page is a custom Enterprise quote, which means a sales call before you see a number source.

Some buyers want a price on the website first. Others have no team to run a platform. Fair reasons, both.

Questions to ask any AI visibility vendor

Put these to every vendor on your list, us included, and hold each answer up against what the vendor actually shows you before you sign anything. Ours are below.

Which assistants do you measure, and are they fixed from month to month? ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok on Index, the same every month. Higher tiers add more. Plans
Can I read the actual answers, or only a score? Yes. You get the raw answers, the scores and the changes side by side in your dashboard. Plans
Is the scoring method published somewhere I can check? Yes. AIVI and AIRS come from Mohanty (2026). The DOIs are on our About page.
What happens when there is not enough data for a score? AIRS reads unmeasured, never zero, below 8 scored observations. The method
Who does the work after the report, my team or yours? We do. Index measures. Growth adds the content engine, and Authority adds the full agent system. Plans
Does paying you change my score? (It should not.) No. Payment cannot change an index score. Plans

Where CTRL Reality fits

Pick CTRL Reality if you want the work done for you and the result measured the same way every month.

Same prompts. Same engines. Recorded answers you can read.

The full side by side is on CTRL Reality vs Profound.

Sources

https://www.tryprofound.com/, read 2026-10-14
https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing, read 2026-10-14
https://ctrlreality.ai/plans, read 2026-10-14
https://ctrlreality.ai/about, read 2026-10-14

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