Profound is the best-funded company in AI visibility, valued at a billion dollars after its 2026 Series C, and for enterprise marketing teams it is a serious platform. Saymetry is built for a different buyer. This comparison is factual, dated August 2026, and honest about where each side wins.
The short version
Choose Profound if you are an enterprise marketing team with budget for $399 or more per month, want best-in-class AI crawler analytics and Slack workflows, and have people to act on dashboards. Choose Saymetry if you want to know today what the AIs say about you across every major engine, want the fixes done rather than charted, or run an agency where per-domain enterprise pricing never made sense.
Price and coverage
| Profound | Saymetry | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $99/month billed yearly, ChatGPT only, 50 prompts | $99 once, all 8 engines, website audit and action plan included |
| Multi-engine | $399/month for 3 engines; up to 9 on custom enterprise contracts | 8 engines on every product, flat |
| Ongoing | Subscription only, annual billing on public plans | Tracking from $49/month on a 12-month term, $79 rolling, weekly runs with change alerts |
| Agencies | Single workspace on public plans; multi-company is enterprise | $199/month for 5 tracked client brands, agency named on the PDFs |
| Implementation | Not offered; you act on the data | Done-for-you from $1,990, report included at $2,990 |
Where Profound genuinely wins
- AI crawler analytics. Their bot-level data on which pages AI crawlers actually fetch, including CDN integrations, is the deepest in the market. Nothing at our price point matches it.
- Enterprise workflow. Slack alerts, agent automations, SSO, security reviews, a large customer success organization. If you need procurement-grade software, that is what the price buys.
- Prompt volume data. Their conversation-volume estimates are modeled, as all such numbers are, but the dataset behind them is large.
Where Saymetry wins
- All engines, every plan. Profound's entry tier covers one engine; full coverage is an enterprise conversation. Every Saymetry product runs ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral and Llama.
- You can buy it once. There is no $99-one-time anywhere else in this market. No annual contract to see your numbers.
- Statistical honesty. Published research shows identical AI prompts return the same brand list less than 1 time in 100 runs. We resample a fifth of every scan, report agreement, and give your rate a confidence interval. A single daily rank is noise dressed as precision.
- Tailored questions. Automated category detection misfires; we have seen a forex education site benchmarked against Bloomberg and a wealth manager. Saymetry asks you what you offer, who buys it, and where, and builds the questions from that.
- The work gets done. Every report ends in a prioritized plan, and for businesses without a growth team we implement it at a fixed price. Dashboards diagnose; someone still has to treat.
The bottom line
Profound sells excellent instrumentation to teams that fly the plane themselves. Saymetry measures with the same seriousness, then hands you the plan or does the flying for you, at prices a normal business can pay. The $99 scan is the cheapest way to decide: if the numbers say you need enterprise instrumentation, you will know, and if they say you need five fixes and a month of tracking, you will know that instead.