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Profound vs advisible

Profound vs advisible: Profound sells a 7-day trial and quote-based Enterprise with SOC 2 and SSO; advisible runs on your own provider keys, with five engines.

By the advisible teamLast updated 11 October 20268 min read
Key takeaways
  • Choose advisible if you want published, self-serve access with five engines daily, bring-your-own keys, and sample sizes and confidence intervals on every number.
  • Choose Profound if you need SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML and a sales-led enterprise rollout today, or browser-captured consumer answers.
  • Profound publishes only a free trial (50 prompts run daily for 7 days, 3 engines) and a quote-based Enterprise tier, so there is no public paid price to compare.
  • Both products fact-check AI claims against facts you register; Profound does it against a Knowledge Base it builds from your domain, on Enterprise only.

The short answer

Choose advisible if you want published, self-serve access: five engines run daily, your own provider keys billed at your provider's prices, and every number shown with its sample size and interval. Choose Profound if you need SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML and a sales-led enterprise rollout today, or browser-captured consumer answers. Profound sells a 7-day free trial and quote-based Enterprise; advisible runs on your own provider keys, with no sales call.

Side-by-side comparison

Every row below was read from each vendor's own pricing, features or docs pages on 2026-10-11. Where a fact could not be verified it says so; we do not quote prices from third-party listicles.

RowadvisibleProfound
Engines coveredChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Claude. All five run daily for every workspace; nothing is gated behind a higher tier (there are no tiers).Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9 answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, Google AI Overviews, Exa Search). A marketing FAQ also names Grok, which the pricing table does not.
How answers are collectedEach provider's official API, called with your own provider key.Browser capture, stated on their features page: “Other tools pull AI responses from the API. We capture directly from the browser”.
MetricsVisibility, Average position, Sentiment (0 to 100, 50 neutral), Share of voice, citation share. Each shown as “based on N answers”; estimates marked est.Visibility score, share of voice, brand sentiment, keyword themes and recurring narratives, citation sources with Citation Authority, competitor rankings, accuracy score from FactCheck.
Perception and fact-checkingAssociation and Market prominence per attribute, each with a 95% confidence interval; recurring objections; claims judged against your brand facts (Contradicted / Supported / Inconclusive / Not covered). Scores stay hidden until there are enough answers.FactCheck extracts every factual assertion about your brand and checks it against a Knowledge Base you own (built from your domain, uploaded files, Drive or Notion), scores accurate and inaccurate, and traces each wrong claim to the driving URL. Enterprise only, no extra cost. Association or prominence scores: not found on their pages.
Citations and sourcesCited domains per answer, source lists by domain with CSV export, and every original answer kept so history can be re-analysed.Citation Tracking and Analysis with Citation Authority (which sites influence AI answers and how authoritative they are), a Query Fanout view, and per-claim source attribution in FactCheck.
APIRead-only REST API on every workspace. The key-creation UI is disabled for now; already-minted keys keep working.REST API on Enterprise only (the Trial lists API as “None”), with CSV and JSON exports. We found no mention of an MCP server on their pages.
SeatsUnlimited team members, never metered.Unlimited seats on both Trial and Enterprise, stated on their pricing page.
Pricing modelRuns on your own provider key. Tokens bill at your provider's prices through your own key, never marked up.Free Trial plus quote-based Enterprise; agents billed on credits (each agent run consumes credits relative to complexity). No published paid dollar price on 2026-10-11.
What it lacksOne market (English/US) for now. No alerts, no recommendations, no Google AI Overviews or Copilot. You supply your own API keys. A younger product than Profound, with no SOC 2 or SSO today.No public paid price. The Trial lasts 7 days with no API, no exports, no history and no support, and its prompts cannot be customized. FactCheck sits behind Enterprise.

Where Profound is stronger

Profound is the enterprise-grade option of the two, and four of its advantages are things a security review or a data-science team will ask about.

  • Procurement checkboxes today. SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML, RBAC, daily backups, tiered support options including a dedicated Slack channel with a 24-hour SLA. advisible holds no SOC 2 and no SSO; we are the younger product and it shows in exactly this row.
  • Browser-captured consumer answers. Profound states it captures from the browser rather than provider APIs, on the theory that this matches what a signed-in user sees. If your question is literally that, its method answers it directly.
  • Mature FactCheck against a Knowledge Base you own. Profound crawls your domain or syncs Drive and Notion to build the reference, then scores every claim and traces wrong ones to the URL that drove them. It is Enterprise-only but included at no extra cost there.
  • Prompt Volumes and agent tooling. A dataset of real user prompts behind the tracking, credit-priced agents that research and write in-platform, and Agent Analytics wired into CDN and log integrations. That is a wider product than advisible's measurement scope.

Where advisible is stronger

advisible is narrower and easier to buy: no sales call, no quote, and numbers that declare how much data is behind them.

  • Published, self-serve, runs on your own provider keys. Profound gives you 7 days and then a demo call. advisible gives you an account today, unlimited team members, and token costs at your provider's prices because you bring your own key.
  • Five engines from day one, ungated. Profound's trial covers 3 engines for 7 days and reserves up to 9 for Enterprise. Every advisible workspace runs ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Claude daily from the first run.
  • Sample sizes and intervals everywhere. Every figure carries “based on N answers”, perception scores ship with a 95% confidence interval (the range the true value most likely falls in), and scores stay hidden until there are enough answers to trust them.
  • Four fact-check verdicts, and the raw answers. Claims are judged Contradicted, Supported, Inconclusive or Not covered against your brand facts, each traced to the cited pages, and every original answer is kept so history can be re-analysed when the analysis improves.

Who should stay with Profound

Stay with Profound if procurement, certification or a named vendor contact is a hard requirement, or if you want answers captured from the browser.

Concretely: enterprises that must show a SOC 2 Type II report and SSO/SAML to security review this quarter, teams that want Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and up to 9 engines under one contract, buyers who value browser-captured consumer answers over provider-API answers, and organizations that want credit-priced agents doing content work inside the same platform. On those requirements Profound is the better fit today.

Also fair: advisible is younger than Profound, has no SOC 2 or SSO, covers a single market, and has no alerts or recommendations. What it offers instead is self-serve access with published terms, five engines without tier gating, and every number carrying its sample size and interval, all of which you can verify in an afternoon without a demo call. There is also no trial clock on our side: the workspace keeps running after the first report, so you can compare a full month here against Profound's seven days before deciding. The wider market context is in best AI search visibility tools, and the full buyer context for this exact move is in Profound alternatives.

Common questions

How much does Profound cost?

Profound publishes no paid dollar price. Its pricing page shows a free Trial (50 prompts run daily for 7 days, 3 engines) and a custom Enterprise package, with agents billed on a credit model. Its FAQ mentions Starter and Growth tiers without figures, so treat Profound pricing as quote-based.

Is Profound free?

Only for 7 days: the Trial runs 50 unique prompts daily for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with no history, no exports, no API and no support, and prompts cannot be customized. Ongoing use requires an Enterprise quote.

What does Profound do that advisible does not?

SOC 2 Type II and SSO/SAML on Enterprise, browser-captured answers, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode coverage, up to 9 answer engines, a Prompt Volumes dataset of real user prompts, and credit-priced content agents. advisible has none of those today.

What does advisible do that Profound does not?

Published self-serve access with no sales call, five engines on day one with no tier gating, bring-your-own API keys with no markup, a 95% confidence interval and sample size on every number, scores hidden until there are enough answers, and an answer archive that keeps every original reply.

Does advisible have SOC 2?

No. advisible is a younger product and does not hold SOC 2 today, while Profound lists SOC 2 Type II and SSO/SAML on Enterprise. If your procurement process requires that certification, ask us directly and plan on Profound in the meantime.

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advisible runs your prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Claude every day, and every number shows how many answers it is based on.