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Robot Visible vs Profound
By Marcus Bransbury · Founder, Robot Visible · Published 19 July 2026
The short answer
Profound published Starter at $99/month billed yearly for 50 tracked prompts on ChatGPT only, Growth at $399/month billed yearly for 100 prompts across 3 answer engines, and custom Enterprise pricing covering up to 10 engines, all checked on 19 July 2026. Robot Visible charges £29/month for Monitor and £99/month for Fix & Prove, with a free scan that needs no account. Profound is built for enterprise marketing teams running an ongoing analytics programme. Robot Visible is built for founders and small teams fixing one site.
Profound pricing
From $99/month billed yearly (Starter, 50 prompts, ChatGPT only). Figures below are copied from Profound’s own pricing page and were checked on 19 July 2026.
| Plan | Published price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99/monthbilled yearly, 2 months free | 50 prompts tracked, ChatGPT only |
| Growth | $399/monthbilled yearly, 2 months free | 100 prompts tracked, 3 answer engines |
| Enterprise | Custom | Tailored prompt tracking, up to 10 answer engines |
| Robot Visible | Free · £29 · £99/month | Free scan with no account; Monitor at £29/month; Fix & Prove at £99/month with reviewable fix publishing and post-change verification. See plans |
Both headline prices assume annual billing. Confirm monthly rates with Profound directly, as they are not published.
Who each one suits
Choose Profound when
Larger marketing organisations that need prompt-volume research, answer-engine benchmarking, crawler and referral analytics, enterprise governance, and content workflows running at scale across brands and markets.
Choose Robot Visible when
You want a diagnosis and a shipped fix instead of an analytics programme. The entry tier's ChatGPT-only limit is also worth checking against reality, because plenty of buyers reach a site through Perplexity or Google AI Overviews.
Where the two differ
Engine coverage at the entry price
Profound's $99/month Starter plan tracks ChatGPT and nothing else. Multi-engine coverage starts at Growth, which is $399/month billed yearly. Robot Visible checks answers across the grounded engines it supports on its paid plans without holding multi-engine coverage back for a higher tier. That gap matters if your buyers use Perplexity or Google AI Overviews as much as ChatGPT.
A programme or a single fix
Profound is designed to run continuously, with governance, benchmarks and content orchestration for a marketing organisation. Robot Visible is built to shorten one path: from a diagnosed constraint to a useful fix. That is a smaller job and the product is priced accordingly.
Proving a specific change worked
Both products track trends over time. Robot Visible also keeps a public before-and-after record for an individual change, so you can point at one fix and what followed it instead of pointing at an aggregate line that moved for any number of reasons.
Common questions
How much does Profound cost?
Profound published Starter at $99/month billed yearly for 50 prompts tracked on ChatGPT only, Growth at $399/month billed yearly for 100 prompts across 3 answer engines, and custom Enterprise pricing for up to 10 engines, all checked on 19 July 2026. Both headline prices assume annual billing with two months free.
Is Profound worth it for a small business?
Usually not at the Starter tier, because $99/month billed yearly buys ChatGPT-only tracking of 50 prompts, and most small teams want more than one engine. Profound earns its price when you grow into the enterprise features. Below that, OtterlyAI ($29/month), Knowatoa ($59/month), Trakkr (£79/month) or Robot Visible (free scan, then £29/month) cover more ground for less.
Which is better for AI bot crawling analysis, Profound or BrightEdge?
Profound was purpose-built for answer-engine intelligence and includes crawler and AI referral analytics as a core capability. BrightEdge extends a mature enterprise SEO platform into AI search, so it brings deeper traditional SEO context. Profound publishes entry pricing and BrightEdge does not, so comparing cost means getting a quote from BrightEdge first.
What is a good Profound alternative?
Scrunch AI ($250/month) is the nearest match on enterprise breadth, and Evertune ($800/month) goes deeper on model-level brand analysis. For smaller teams, OtterlyAI ($29/month), Knowatoa ($59/month) and Trakkr (£79/month) cost far less. Robot Visible scans free and starts at £29/month if you want fixes rather than benchmarks.
Does Profound's Starter plan track Perplexity or Google AI Overviews?
No. As checked on 19 July 2026, Profound's $99/month Starter plan tracks ChatGPT only, and coverage of three answer engines begins on the Growth plan at $399/month billed yearly. If multi-engine tracking matters at entry level, OtterlyAI covers four engines from $29/month and Trakkr covers eight from £79/month.
How this comparison was prepared
Every price on this page was copied from Profound’s own published pages on 19 July 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a price, this page says so rather than reproducing a third-party estimate. Products and prices change quickly, so the vendor’s own pages remain the source of truth. This comparison describes product focus and published packaging; it does not claim that any platform controls or guarantees inclusion in AI-generated answers.
The full rules we follow when publishing another company’s prices, and a dated log of every correction we have made, are on our methodology and corrections page.
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