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CiteHawk vs Profound.
One engine at the entry price, three on the next rung, nine only at custom pricing. CiteHawk includes all 8 platforms on every plan and keeps every answer as evidence.
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Feature-by-feature comparison
Competitor pricing and features as published in each vendor’s own materials, read on the dates below. “Not published” means the vendor’s public materials didn’t specify a value at the time of reading.
Sources
- [1] Profound pricing page · checked September 13, 2026
- [2] Profound homepage (The Profound Index) · checked September 13, 2026
Review log
- September 13, 2026. Pricing page read in a browser and screenshotted: Starter $99 a month billed yearly, ChatGPT tracking only, 50 prompts, 1,500 responses a month, 1 seat, no exports; Growth $399 a month billed yearly, three answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews), 100 prompts, 9,000 responses a month, CSV and JSON exports, 3 seats; Enterprise custom, up to nine answer engines, API and SSO. No white-label wording on the page. Homepage names The Profound Index.
- September 2, 2026. Prices and plan structure read from the pricing page for the homepage comparison and /upgrade (competitor verification doc).
Disclosure: CiteHawk is our own product and this comparison is ours. We do not publish an AI visibility tools board in the CiteHawk Index, so there is no self-ranking behind this page. Every board we do publish is computed from AI responses only and is not for sale, ours included. How the Index is built →
Coverage by rung, or coverage on every plan.
Profound’s Starter plan tracks ChatGPT only; Growth, at $399 a month billed yearly, tracks three answer engines; the full nine are an Enterprise conversation. CiteHawk includes all 8 platforms from the $99 Starter plan, so the coverage question is settled before you compare anything else.
- All 8 platforms on every plan vs one engine at entry and three on the next rung
- Full response evidence and model version on every data point
- Exports and the API on every paid plan, not gated by tier
Evidence and a public Index, not just a score.
CiteHawk keeps the verbatim text of every AI answer it measures, links every citation, and publishes the CiteHawk AI Index: monthly, immutable rankings of what the leading AI models recommend, with the receipts. Profound publishes its own Profound Index and an AEO Report; its plan pages describe responses analysed per month rather than stored answers.
- Every measured answer kept verbatim, with the model version and capture time
- Frozen monthly Index editions you can cite and claim
- Prompt battles and source gaps built from the same evidence
The agency tier that white-labels.
Profound’s pricing page carries an agency toggle and credit allowances per client workspace, but no white-label tooling. CiteHawk’s $999 Agency plan is a client delivery system: white-label subdomain and custom domain, a lead-capturing funnel page, an embeddable audit widget, 30 white-labeled prospect audits a month and a read-only client portal.
- White-label subdomain + custom domain: CiteHawk stays invisible
- 30 white-labeled prospect audits a month, funnel and widget feeding your pipeline
- Client portal with read-only access, scheduled reports included
Frequently asked questions
Profound sells coverage by rung: Starter is $99 a month billed yearly and tracks ChatGPT only, Growth is $399 a month billed yearly and tracks three answer engines, and the full nine engines sit on a custom Enterprise plan. CiteHawk monitors all 8 platforms from the $99 Starter plan, stores the full text of every answer, and adds the public AI Index and an agency tier that white-labels.
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