Profound is not enterprise-only any more, and that changes the comparison. It publishes two self-serve tiers — Starter at $99/month and Growth at $399/month — alongside a custom Enterprise plan. What those tiers buy is narrow: Starter tracks ChatGPT alone with 50 prompts, Growth covers three answer engines with 100. GetIntel's $99 Growth plan covers five engines and 120 prompts. Profound's real advantage sits at the Enterprise tier, where it reaches up to nine engines that nobody else matches.
Disclosure: GetIntel publishes this comparison and sells one of the two products in it. Profound's figures below come from its own pricing page.
In this article
- Is Profound enterprise-only?
- What does Profound cost?
- Which AI engines does each one track?
- What is Profound genuinely better at?
- What does GetIntel do differently?
- Which should you choose?
Is Profound enterprise-only?
No, and comparisons still saying so are out of date — including some of our own older pages. Profound publishes Starter at $99/month and Growth at $399/month as self-serve tiers, with Enterprise quoted on a sales call.
That matters because "enterprise-only, talk to sales" was the standard way to describe Profound for most of the last year, and it is no longer true. A team with $99/month can buy Profound today without a procurement cycle.
What does Profound cost?
$99/month for Starter, $399/month for Growth, both billed yearly, with Enterprise custom. What separates them is engine count and prompt volume, not features in the abstract.
| Profound | GetIntel | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $99 — ChatGPT only, 50 prompts | $29 — 4 engines, 30 prompts |
| Mid | $399 — 3 engines, 100 prompts | $49 — 4 engines, 60 prompts |
| Upper self-serve | — | $99 — 5 engines incl. Claude, 120 prompts |
| Enterprise | Custom — up to 9 engines | not offered |
The line worth sitting with is the first one. Profound's entry tier and GetIntel's top self-serve tier are both $99. At that price Profound tracks one engine and 50 prompts; GetIntel tracks five and 120.
That is not a claim that Profound is overpriced. It is a different product shape — Profound's self-serve tiers read as an on-ramp to Enterprise rather than as the product, and Enterprise is where its capability actually lives.
Which AI engines does each one track?
Profound reaches up to nine on Enterprise; its self-serve tiers reach one and three.
The full Enterprise set is ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Claude and Google AI Overviews. Starter covers ChatGPT alone. Growth covers three.
GetIntel covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on every plan, adding Claude on Growth.
So the honest engine comparison depends entirely on which Profound tier you mean. Against Enterprise, Profound covers surfaces GetIntel does not touch — Grok, DeepSeek, Copilot, Google AI Mode. Against Starter or Growth, GetIntel covers more engines for less money. Any comparison quoting Profound's nine-engine breadth next to a self-serve price is comparing two different products.
What is Profound genuinely better at?
Engine breadth, scale, and being the category's most established player. Three real advantages.
Nine answer engines is more than anyone else offers, and if your buyers ask questions in Copilot or Grok or DeepSeek, Profound is one of very few products that will tell you what happens there. It also tracks multiple companies under one account at Enterprise, supports larger teams, and has the funding and customer base that make it a safe procurement choice — which matters more than feature lists when someone else signs off the spend.
Its Agents credits model and integration list — Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Vercel, WordPress and others — are built for organisations with real infrastructure, not for a founder running marketing on the side.
What does GetIntel do differently?
It drafts the fix rather than stopping at the measurement. llms.txt entries, Schema.org and Wikidata markup, counter-article briefs and outreach emails, generated against the specific gaps found and shipped through Claude Code or Cursor as a reviewable diff, with optional publishing to WordPress, Ghost or Webflow.
Two honest caveats. A generated draft is a starting object, not a finished asset — a team with a good writer and spare time does better without it. And we have not run a controlled side-by-side test against Profound. Any figure presented as a head-to-head between these two products should be treated with suspicion, including from us. This comparison rests on each product's published pricing and capabilities, nothing more.
Which should you choose?
Choose on which engines you need and who is paying.
Choose Profound if you need coverage beyond the four big surfaces — Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode — if you are tracking several companies, or if you are buying through procurement where an established vendor with an enterprise contract is the safer choice. Its Enterprise tier does things nothing in this comparison matches.
Choose GetIntel if you are one team watching one or two products, want more than one engine at the price Profound charges for ChatGPT alone, and the thing that stalls your work is turning a finding into published output.
Look at neither yet if you have not established which engines your buyers actually use. That answer changes the recommendation more than any feature on this page, and it is free to find out — take your twenty most important buyer questions and check them by hand across each surface first.
You can start free to run that test, and our AI visibility tracking explains how the probes work. For the same comparison against an SEO suite rather than a dedicated competitor, see GetIntel vs Semrush.