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Profound tracks how you appear in AI answer engines. AgenticSEO tracks the same signals — then closes the gap on your site automatically.
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Profound built the category for AI answer-engine analytics: brand mentions, share of voice, and citation tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. AgenticSEO does the tracking too — grounded in your actual site crawl — and adds the execution layer Profound leaves out: crawler-access audit, JSON-LD, llms.txt, ai:* tags, and one-click push to WordPress, Webflow, GitHub, or HubSpot.
| Capability | AgenticSEO | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| Track AI citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity | Yes | Yes |
| Share of AI Voice benchmarks vs competitors | Yes | Yes |
| Crawler access audit (GPTBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot) | Yes | No |
| Answer-readiness sub-scores per page | Yes | No |
| JSON-LD schema generation | Yes | No |
| ai:* / agentic AI meta tags | Yes | No |
| Site-wide llms.txt generation | Yes | No |
| One-click push to WordPress, Webflow, GitHub, HubSpot | Yes | No |
| Dynamic SEO (auto-publish event pages from Google Calendar) | Yes | No |
| Starts at AgenticSEO: free 3-page preview, $29 one-time, $49/mo subscription. Profound: enterprise-only pricing. | Yes | Partial |
Bottom line
Profound is a monitoring platform — it tells you where AI is skipping you. AgenticSEO is a monitoring platform plus a fix engine — it tells you the same thing and then ships the JSON-LD, llms.txt, and answer-ready content to close the gap, live to your CMS. If you already own Profound, keep it; run AgenticSEO alongside to execute against its findings. If you're picking one, AgenticSEO does both jobs at a fraction of the price.
Frequently asked questions
Is AgenticSEO cheaper than Profound?
Substantially. AgenticSEO starts free (3-page preview, no card), $29 one-time for a full site report, or $49/mo for continuous tracking + auto-publish. Profound is priced for enterprise and doesn't publish self-serve tiers.
Does AgenticSEO track the same AI engines as Profound?
Yes — ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are all covered on the Tracked Prompts page. Prompts are grounded in your actual site crawl, so the questions are relevant to your buyers, not generic templates.
What can AgenticSEO do that Profound can't?
Ship the fix. AgenticSEO generates the JSON-LD schema, the ai:* meta tags, the llms.txt index, and the answer-readiness content — then pushes them into your live site via WordPress, Webflow, GitHub, or HubSpot. Profound reports the gap; AgenticSEO closes it.
Can I use both?
Yes. Many teams run Profound for board-level reporting and AgenticSEO for the actual remediation loop. Nothing in the workflow requires you to remove Profound to add AgenticSEO.
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