Profound vs Trakkr

Profound removed its $99 Starter and $399 Growth brand plans in mid-September 2026. Brands now get a free seven-day Trial (50 prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews) or a custom Enterprise quote with up to 9 answer engines. Agencies can buy Agency Growth at $99/month plus $399/month per client workspace. Trakkr Growth is $100/month for all 8 AI models with a 14-day free trial, Scale is $500/mo with ten-brand support and white-label client portals included, and Enterprise starts at a $1,000 monthly equivalent, paid yearly.

Yes. Profound offers a free seven-day Brand Trial with limited AI Marketer credits: 50 prompts run daily on ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. It ends after seven days, with no history, exports, or API, so it is not ongoing tracking. Trakkr offers a 14-day trial across paid plans and self-serve signup, with the first AI visibility scan completing in under two minutes.

Profound Enterprise/custom packaging is where buyers should expect the full product: broad AI platform coverage, Prompt Volumes panel data, ChatGPT Shopping visibility, custom limits, API access, procurement support, and SOC 2 Type II. Buyers should verify the exact quote, included models, prompt limits, seats, and contract terms directly with Profound.

Profound is the better choice in two specific cases. First, when Prompt Volumes panel data is the dataset you need: it is the most distinctive research product in the category and Trakkr does not have an equivalent. Second, when SOC 2 Type II is non-negotiable for procurement today and you cannot wait for ours to land. ChatGPT shopping is no longer a reason on its own: Profound includes it on Enterprise, and Trakkr sells it as a $49 per brand monthly add-on. Outside those cases, Trakkr is usually the cleaner buy.

Trakkr is the better choice when the buyer wants fixed pricing, self-serve signup, daily prompt execution, broader platform coverage on every plan, Reddit intelligence, crawler analytics (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther), and a 14-day trial to validate before committing. That covers almost every mid-market team, agency, in-house growth team, and startup. The asymmetry is structural: Profound was built around enterprise sales cycles, Trakkr was built around product-led growth.

Yes. Export the Profound prompts table as CSV, then choose Use existing prompts in Trakkr’s tracking setup. Review the text, topic labels and tags before saving. You can also paste competitor website domains during setup. Run both tools during Trakkr’s 14-day trial, using the same market and overlapping engines. Historical scores and answers are not imported.

Trakkr tracks all 8 AI models on every plan: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek, and Google AI Overviews. Profound's free Trial covers ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, Agency Growth client workspaces cover ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and Brand Enterprise covers up to 9 answer engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews, and Exa Search. Trakkr does not gate platform coverage by tier.

The Profound alternatives page on Trakkr ranks the full shortlist with pricing, free trial status, platform coverage, and use-case fit for each. The honest summary is that Trakkr is the cleanest like-for-like swap on price and platform coverage, but several other tools earn a place on the shortlist depending on whether you want a self-serve EUR-priced option, an SEO suite with an AI visibility layer, or an action-oriented credit-based platform. The dedicated alternatives page is the right place to compare.