CiteAgent vs Profound
Profound is the best-funded company in this category ($180M Series D) and sells to enterprise marketing teams through demos. Public self-serve pricing is a free trial only. CiteAgent is self-serve, priced per client domain, and includes classic SEO.
Checked on 18 September 2026 against Profound's own pricing page. Prices in this category change often — verify before you buy.
What Profound is good at
- Deep enterprise platform: an AI Marketer assistant, agents, a context manager and a command centre
- Serious research and data output, quoted widely in the industry
- Used by large brands; strong choice if you have an enterprise budget and a team to run it
Where CiteAgent differs
- Profound's public pricing is a free trial (10 prompts run once, ChatGPT only) and then Enterprise via a demo. CiteAgent's prices are public and you can start without a call
- For agencies, Profound's client workspaces are an add-on at $399 per month each. CiteAgent is $399 for ten client domains
- Profound focuses on AI search. CiteAgent covers AI search and classic SEO in the same platform
Side by side
| Profound | CiteAgent | |
|---|---|---|
| AI visibility tracking | Yes — up to 9 engines on Enterprise | Yes — 5 engines on every plan |
| Classic SEO | No | Yes |
| Public self-serve price | Free trial, then demo | Yes — from $49/mo per domain |
| Cost per client (agencies) | $399/mo per client workspace | About $40 ($399 for 10) |
| Writes the fix for you | Agents and opportunities | Yes — the finished change, with your approval |
| Enterprise features (SSO, SOC 2) | Yes | No |
Profound pricing, as published
- Trial — free; 10 prompts run once, ChatGPT only
- Enterprise — custom, via demo; up to 9 answer engines, SSO/SAML, SOC 2
- Agency Growth — 10 pitch workspaces a month; client workspaces +$399/mo each
CiteAgent pricing
- Agent $49/mo per domain — 25 buyer questions, 5 engines, rank tracking, site audit, 5 fixes
- Agent Pro $129/mo per domain — 50 questions, 25 fixes, backlinks, off-page work
- Agencies $399/mo — 10 client domains, 50 fixes shared
- Free audit on any domain, no signup
Choose Profound if…
You're an enterprise with budget for a platform and a team, you need 9 engines and enterprise security, and a demo-led rollout suits you.
Choose CiteAgent if…
You want to start today without a sales call, you need SEO alongside AI search, or you're an agency where $399 per client doesn't work.
Questions
- Profound raised $180M. Why pick a smaller tool?
- Funding buys enterprise features and coverage, not per-client economics. If you run ten client domains, ten Profound workspaces is $3,990 a month; CiteAgent is $399. If you need SOC 2 and nine engines, Profound is the better fit.
- How was this comparison put together?
- Everything about Profound was read off their own site on 18 September 2026 and is linked above. If something here is out of date or wrong, email hello@citeagent.ai and it gets corrected.
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