Attensira vs Profound

What does ChatGPT say about Attensira vs Profound right now?

We track the question "Attensira vs Profound" in our own workspace, the same way a customer tracks theirs. On 3 October 2026 ChatGPT answered it with a table built almost entirely from the previous version of this page and our alternatives page. It said we read eight engines, which was never true. It quoted a Profound Starter plan and price that Profound's own pricing page no longer lists. And it said, fairly, that the most detailed comparison it could find was written by one of the two vendors, so it treated our claims as vendor claims.

That answer is the best argument for how this page is written. An engine repeats whatever the most specific page on the subject says, and for this question that page is ours. So every fact about Profound below was read from Profound's own pricing page on 4 October 2026, every fact about Attensira links to our public documentation, and our own prices and engine list are rendered from the same source our pricing page uses, so they cannot drift from it. The crew flagged the wrong engine count itself, in the Daily win plan it ran on our own site on 4 October, as a claim that needed a person's yes before it could be fixed.

How often do engines name each one?

From 21 September to 4 October 2026, ChatGPT and Perplexity gave 3,534 answers to the 61 questions we track. Profound was named or linked in 997 of the 3,666 competitor readings in that window, more than any other company we track. Attensira was named in 197 answers, and every one of those 197 came from the three questions that already contain our name. On the 58 category questions that do not, such as "best GEO tools" or "AI search visibility software", engines named us zero times. We are new, and that is what new looks like in the data. We show it because a comparison that hides its own baseline is not one.

What does Profound actually sell?

Profound calls its product an AI marketing platform, and its pricing page backs that up. There are three parts.

• Answer Engine Insights tracks how a brand and its competitors appear in AI platforms. On Enterprise it reads up to nine answer engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search.
• Agent Analytics tracks AI-sourced traffic and attribution across your domains, with integrations for Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, WordPress and the major clouds.
• AI Marketer is a credit-based assistant that knows your brand through a Context Manager, identifies opportunities, and runs Agents your team builds and reuses for recurring marketing work, at scale through Profound Sheets.

The packaging changed recently. On 4 October 2026 the page showed two options: a free trial that runs 50 prompts daily for seven days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and Enterprise at a custom price after a demo. The page's FAQ also mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan that "comes with 400 credits per month per client workspace"; no price for it is published on the page, so ask Profound for one before you budget.

It would be wrong to call Profound a monitoring tool. It has agents, and they write. The honest distinction is about who operates them: Profound's agents are tools a marketing team runs, and the page describes the team building, reusing and scaling those workflows.

Where is Profound the better choice?

There are four situations where we would point you to Profound without hesitation.

You have a team that wants instruments. If you employ people whose job is AI search, Profound gives them more to work with: more engines, prompt volumes, shopping data, agent analytics and an assistant that drafts alongside them. Attensira is built for the opposite case, where nobody has those hours.

You need engines we do not read. The engines row in the table above lists what Attensira reads today, and the FAQ below names the ones that are still coming. Profound's Enterprise list is longer than ours: if your buyers live in Copilot or DeepSeek, or you need Exa Search or AI Mode broken out, Profound reads them and we do not.

Your purchase goes through security review. Profound lists SSO, SAML and SOC 2 on Enterprise. Our public plan documentation names none of these. If those are line items on your procurement checklist, Profound answers them on its pricing page and we do not.

You need AI traffic attribution from day one. Profound's Agent Analytics is on its trial. Our Crawler Logs come with Growth and above, not with Starter.

What does Attensira do that Profound does not?

Attensira is software that does your AI-search visibility work: whatever it takes to win the answer. The difference from Profound is not that we have agents. It is that the agents are the service, and you are not the one running them.

Every morning a Daily win plan reads the prompts you are losing and the ones you are winning and does up to three pieces of work toward them. Each piece lands where it would land if an agency did it.

• A fix to a page becomes a pull request against your own repository, opened as a draft by default. We never push to your default branch, never push twice to the same branch, and merge only when you press Merge or have switched on auto-merge for safe changes such as structured data and alt text.
• A page that lives in Webflow or WordPress gets a draft in your own editor, not a silent publish.
• An article goes where your site can take it: a pull request, a CMS draft, a Notion page, or a copy to paste.
• An off-site placement starts with the pages an engine already cites for your questions that name a competitor and not you. The crew drafts the pitch or the listing; it goes from your own mailbox.
• A community reply on a Reddit or Hacker News thread that an answer cites is drafted for you to post from your own account. Nothing is ever posted for you.

Then every shipped change is re-read at +7, +14 and +30 days against the week before it, and each verdict says how many answers it rests on. A change inside the noise is reported as no change. That before-and-after is the receipt an agency rarely gives you and a tracker cannot, because a tracker does not know what was shipped.

What does the first week look like with each?

With Profound's trial you get seven days of daily readings on three engines for 50 prompts, limited AI Marketer credits and no history, exports or API. It is enough to see the product and decide whether to book the demo.

With Attensira, on day one the crew reads your site, drafts your business profile and takes a first reading of every question you track. By the end of the first week you see the answers you lose, ranked, and the first work arrives in your inbox to approve. Our trial is for Starter only and given once; a card is required, and the plan fee is charged when the trial ends unless you cancel.