Enterprise AI marketing platform · Checked 9 October 2026

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Detectabli vs Profound

Profound is the biggest name in the category. It raised a $180M Series D in September 2026, counts a third of the Fortune 100 as customers, and now calls itself an AI marketing platform rather than a tracker.

In the same month it withdrew its two self-serve plans. Today you get a seven-day trial on three engines with prompts you can't edit, then an Enterprise contract.

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Every claim about Profound was read on its own pricing page, docs and changelog on 9 October 2026. What we read is listed below.

Where each is ahead

What Profound does better, and what we do.

Where Profound is ahead5

  • Prompt Volumes. A licensed panel of over a billion real AI conversations, refreshed weekly, so you can see how often a prompt is actually asked. Nobody else on this page has it, including us.
  • Agent Analytics reads your server logs through Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly or CloudFront and shows which AI crawlers hit which page, and which human visits came from an assistant.
  • ChatGPT Shopping analytics and an ads studio for the paid layer inside AI answers.
  • Agents that research, draft and publish into ten CMSs, with an approval step before anything goes live.
  • Nine engines on Enterprise, SOC 2, SSO, and a dedicated specialist on a 24-hour SLA.

Where Detectabli is ahead6

  • You can start today. Run a free scan, sign up, read the first results the same afternoon. Profound's trial runs three engines for seven days and then hands you to sales.
  • Brand accuracy on every plan. Profound's FactCheck is good work, and it is Enterprise only. Ours builds the answer key from your own site at signup, asks each engine with and without web search, and shows the gap between the two.
  • Profile audit. We read your LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, G2 and the rest and tell you where they disagree with your website. Profound doesn't look at your own accounts.
  • Schema written for you. One click produces the JSON-LD for a flagged page, typed to what the page is. Profound scores pages; it doesn't write the markup.
  • Search Console you can act on. Submit sitemaps and request indexing from inside the app. Profound reads Search Console.
  • A managed service if you'd rather not run the tool yourself.
Pick Profound if
You're a large enterprise with a procurement process, you want prompt demand data, and you have engineers to wire up CDN logs.
Pick Detectabli if
You're a mid-market team that wants to see what AI says about you this week and fix it, without a contract.

Side by side

Capability by capability.

Detectabli and Profound compared capability by capability, as read from Profound's own pages on 9 October 2026.
AI enginesDetectabli7ProfoundTrial: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9 incl. Copilot, DeepSeek, Exa
Run cadenceDetectabliOn demand, no capProfoundDaily, refreshed overnight Eastern; no on-demand run
Brand accuracyDetectabliEvery plan. Answer key built from your site. With and without web searchProfoundFactCheck, Enterprise only. Knowledge Base you build from a crawl, uploads or Drive
Recommended as its own signalDetectabliYesProfoundAverage position and visibility rank
On-site scanDetectabliCrawlability, freshness, schema health, content structure; per-page planProfoundPer-URL content score and a robots.txt audit
Schema generationDetectabliOne click, copy-pasteProfoundNot offered
Third-party pagesDetectabliEvery claim graded against your profile; authority and toneProfoundCited sources categorised: owned, earned, PR wire, social
Profile auditDetectabliYesProfoundNo
Reddit and QuoraDetectabliBoth, with the live questionsProfoundAgent template drafts a Reddit reply; no Quora
Content publishingDetectabliWordPress, as drafts; HTML, Markdown or Gutenberg exportProfoundPublishes to Webflow, Contentful, WordPress and seven more
GA4 AI referralsDetectabliYes, incl. Perplexity and ClaudeProfoundGA integration listed; the AI split comes from server logs
Search ConsoleDetectabliRead and writeProfoundRead
Crawler log analyticsDetectabliNoProfoundYes, across CDNs
AgencyDetectabliSeats, roster, white-label reporting from brand oneProfoundAgency Mode with pitch workspaces; white-label not published
Managed serviceDetectabliYesProfoundNo; hands-on onboarding
Getting startedDetectabliFree scan, self-serveProfound7-day trial, then sales

Questions

Before you decide.

Is Detectabli a Profound alternative?

For a company between a few million and a few hundred million in revenue, yes. The measurement overlaps a lot. Profound goes deeper on prompt demand data and enterprise plumbing. We go further on fixing what the scan finds, and on checking your own profiles and the pages that talk about you.

Can we use both?

You could, but you'd pay twice for the scan. If you're already on Profound, the parts of Detectabli you'd actually add are the on-site plan, schema generation and the profile audit.

What we read

On Profound's site, 9 October 2026.

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