How is WhyIQ AI Radar different from Profound?

The products serve different buyers. Profound is built for enterprise brand teams: its $99/mo Starter (billed yearly) covers ChatGPT only with 50 prompts, 1 seat, and no data export, and its $399/mo Growth tier reaches 3 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews). Claude and Gemini coverage sits in its custom-priced Enterprise tier. WhyIQ AI Radar is built for agencies and SMBs: the $29/mo SMB tier covers 5 engines flat (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) with 30 prompts weekly and CSV export, billed monthly with no annual commitment. Competitor details verified against Profound's public pricing page on 17 July 2026.

Is Profound self-serve, and does it have a free trial?

Yes on both counts at the non-enterprise tiers, and this page says so plainly. Profound's own pricing FAQ answers the setup question with the word Instant, its Starter tier has a self-serve Get Started flow, and its Growth tier carries a Try for free option. The Enterprise tier is sales-led. The practical differences are elsewhere: Profound's listed prices are billed yearly, its entry tier covers one engine with one seat and no export, and its packaging meters five axes (engines, prompts, responses, agent credits, seats) that step buyers toward a custom-priced Enterprise contract. AI Radar bills monthly, includes all 5 engines at every tier, and publishes every price.

What does Profound do that WhyIQ AI Radar does not?

Three genuinely differentiated things, all concentrated at the enterprise tier. Agent Analytics: server-log analysis of AI crawler activity, integrated at the CDN layer, which measures which AI bots fetched which pages. That is a different measurement type from response tracking and is real infrastructure work. Prompt Volumes: modeled estimates of what users ask AI engines, built on licensed opt-in panel data. And enterprise procurement coverage: SSO, SOC2, up to 10 engines, dedicated support. If those are the job to be done, Profound's enterprise tier is the right tool. AI Radar measures responses: whether the engines cite and recommend you when buyers ask, tracked weekly.

What engines does AI Radar cover at the $29 tier?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. All 5 are included on the free one-time check, the $29 SMB tier, and the $149 Agency tier, with no per-engine charges. Profound's $99 tier covers ChatGPT only, and its $399 tier covers 3 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews). Neither of Profound's self-serve tiers includes Claude or Gemini; those sit in its custom-priced Enterprise tier.

What is the 3-pass confidence band on AI Radar Agency?

AI engine responses are probabilistic: run the same prompt twice and the citations can differ. Industry analysts have criticised AI share-of-voice numbers built from single runs for exactly this reason. AI Radar's Agency tier ($149/mo) runs each prompt 3 times per engine per week and averages the passes into a confidence band on the dashboard, for example cited in 2 of 3 passes. Profound's public materials do not advertise a multi-run confidence measure on its self-serve tiers. The band treats noise as noise instead of presenting one lucky or unlucky run as the weekly truth.

What does WhyIQ AI Radar cost compared to Profound?

AI Radar: $29/mo for 30 prompts across 5 engines weekly, or $149/mo Agency for 40 prompts per client across 5 client domains with 3-pass tracking, $35 per additional domain, billed monthly. Profound: $99/mo Starter billed yearly for 50 prompts on ChatGPT only with 1 seat and no export, $399/mo Growth billed yearly for 3 engines with 100 prompts and 3 seats, and a custom-priced Enterprise tier for up to 10 engines with Agent Analytics, SSO, and SOC2. Figures from Profound's public pricing page, verified 17 July 2026.

Which is right for an agency managing client brands?

Profound's public tiers do not advertise client workspaces or white-label reporting, and its per-tier seat counts (1 on Starter, 3 on Growth) are shaped for a single in-house brand team. An agency running Profound across several clients is looking at Growth-tier pricing per engagement. AI Radar's Agency tier is $149/mo for 5 client domains (then $35 each), with per-client prompt banks, per-client dashboards, and weekly per-client scan emails, self-serve with the price on the page. For a small agency reselling AI-visibility monitoring to clients, that is the job AI Radar is shaped for.

What does WhyIQ AI Radar NOT replace from Profound?

Server-log AI crawler analytics (Agent Analytics) requires CDN-layer integration that AI Radar does not attempt; AI Radar measures responses, not crawls. Prompt Volumes panel data, SSO, SOC2, and custom enterprise integrations are also outside AI Radar's scope. Enterprise procurement teams that require those will evaluate Profound. AI Radar's position is that agencies and SMBs should not need an enterprise contract to know whether AI engines cite them: a free check, published prices, monthly billing, and all 5 engines at the floor.

Enterprise platform vs self-serve agency tool

Profound is built for enterprise brand teams. AI Radar is built for the agencies and SMBs below them.

Profound's $99/mo entry tier (billed yearly) covers ChatGPT only, with 50 prompts, 1 seat, and no data export; 3-engine coverage starts at $399/mo, and Claude and Gemini sit behind a custom-priced Enterprise contract. WhyIQ AI Radar's SMB tier covers 5 engines flat (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) at $29/mo, billed monthly, with a free one-time check and every price on the page. Both are self-serve at entry. They are simply built for different buyers.

Updated 2026-07-18 · Competitor details verified against Profound's public pricing page on 17 July 2026

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8 prompts × 5 engines. No account. About 10 minutes. Emailed to you.

	Profound	WhyIQ AI Radar
Entry price	$99/mo, billed yearly	$29/mo, billed monthly
Engines at entry	1 (ChatGPT only)	5 flat, no add-ons
Mid tier	$399/mo: 3 engines, no Claude or Gemini	$149/mo Agency: same 5 engines, 3-pass
Prompts at entry	50	30, checked weekly
Data export at entry	None	CSV included
Free entry point	Try for free on the $399 tier	Free check, no account, about 10 min
Setup time	Instant (their own FAQ)	Instant
Client workspaces	Not advertised on public tiers	5 client domains on Agency, $35 each after
Multi-run confidence	Not advertised on public tiers	3-pass band on Agency
Built for	Enterprise brand teams	Agencies and SMBs, self-serve

Profound figures from tryprofound.com/pricing, verified 17 July 2026. Their pricing may change; ours is at whyiq.ai/radar/pricing.

What WhyIQ AI Radar replaces

The parts of Profound an agency or SMB does not need

Profound is shaped for enterprise procurement and a single in-house brand team. AI Radar covers the weekly citation-tracking job for agencies and SMBs without the enterprise packaging.

The annual-commitment enterprise ladder

Profound's listed prices are billed yearly, and its packaging meters five axes at once: engines, prompts, responses per month, agent credits, and seats. Each one steps buyers toward a custom-priced Enterprise contract. That ladder makes sense for a Fortune 500 brand team. AI Radar is the opposite shape: monthly billing, every price published, all 5 engines at every tier, cancel from the dashboard.

The single-engine $99 floor

Profound's $99 tier covers ChatGPT only, with 1 seat and no data export. Its $399 tier reaches 3 engines and still does not include Claude or Gemini; those sit in the custom-priced Enterprise tier. AI Radar's $29 SMB tier covers all 5 mainstream engines flat. The $29 tier alone is broader engine coverage than anything below Profound's Enterprise contract.

Single-run noise presented as certainty

AI engine responses are probabilistic, and industry critics have called out AI share-of-voice numbers built from one run per prompt as precision that cannot be audited. Profound's public materials do not advertise a multi-run confidence measure. AI Radar Agency runs every prompt 3 times per engine per week and shows the spread, so a customer sees whether a citation is reliable or a one-off.

Client reporting without an enterprise contract

Profound's public tiers do not advertise client workspaces or white-label reporting, and seat counts of 1 and 3 are shaped for one in-house team. AI Radar's Agency tier is built around clients: 5 domains included, per-client prompt banks and dashboards, weekly per-client scan emails, $35 per extra domain, with the price on the page and no demo call required.

Honest about limits

What WhyIQ AI Radar does not replace

Profound's enterprise tier has real moats. AI Radar does not try to compete in that segment. If your procurement requires what is below, Profound is the right call.

Server-log AI crawler analytics (Profound's Agent Analytics; CDN-layer integration measuring crawls, where AI Radar measures responses)

Prompt Volumes panel data (modeled estimates of what users ask AI engines, from licensed opt-in panels)

SSO and SOC2 compliance bundled at the enterprise tier

Custom enterprise integrations, 10-engine bundles, and dedicated technical account management

When each is the right call

Use AI Radar when

You want all 5 mainstream AI engines tracked weekly from $29/mo, billed monthly
You run an agency with client brands and want per-client domains at $149/mo for 5, then $35 each
You want the price on the page and a checkout, not a pricing ladder shaped for procurement
A 3-pass confidence band matters because single-run citation data feels like noise
You want the WhyIQ Scanner CRO product on the same account as your citation tracking

Use Profound when

Server-log AI crawler analytics (Agent Analytics) is the load-bearing job to be done
Enterprise procurement requires SSO, SOC2, and a contracted vendor relationship
Leadership wants a single enterprise system of record for AI search, and budget is not the constraint
Modeled prompt-volume data from licensed panels matters to your planning

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Run one free check across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. No account. About 10 minutes, emailed to you. Then track weekly from $29/mo with all 5 engines included, or take the Agency tier for client domains and the 3-pass confidence band.

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