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AttractOS vs Profound
These two tools answer the same question — does AI search cite you? — at opposite ends of the commitment spectrum. Profound is a subscription monitoring platform built for standing enterprise dashboards. AttractOS is a free scan plus a one-time $79 deep audit built to give you a diagnosis before you commit to anything recurring. Depending on which buyer you are, either can be the right call.
This is an editorial comparison. The Profound column is built from tryprofound.com's own public pricing and product pages as checked on 2026-07-22 — we have not run Profound first-hand and don't claim benchmark results against it. Vendor pricing moves; verify current details on their site. The AttractOS column describes our own product, whose methodology and pricing are public.
Side by side
| Criteria | AttractOS | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | One-time AI-visibility audit: free 5-intent scan + $79 deep audit (up to 25 intents) | Subscription AI-search analytics platform for ongoing brand monitoring |
| Pricing (checked 2026-07-22) | $0 scan · $79 one-time audit | Starter $99/mo, Growth $399/mo (both billed yearly), Enterprise custom via demo |
| Cheapest first read | Free — email-gated, no card | Growth tier offers a free trial; Starter starts at ~$1,188/yr billed yearly |
| Engines sampled | 3 lanes: OpenAI web-search API, Perplexity Sonar API, Gemini grounded API | Starter: ChatGPT only. Growth: + Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. Enterprise: many more (Gemini, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek, Claude…) |
| Prompts / intents covered | 5 free · 25 on the $79 audit (10 yours + 15 suggested, provenance-tagged) | Starter: 50 prompts (~1,500 responses/mo) · Growth: 100 prompts (~9,000 responses/mo) |
| Tracking over time | No — a dated single-sample snapshot; honest about that on every report | Yes — continuous monitoring and trend dashboards; this is the product's core job |
| Team dashboards | No — a report you read, share, and act on | Yes — built for marketing orgs reporting share-of-voice over time |
| Raw evidence shown | Yes — raw answer excerpts per intent × lane, plus a Source Placement Map of the pages assistants cited | Aggregated answer-engine insights and citations dashboards (per their public product pages) |
| On-page fixes | Deterministic checks on your pages (fetchability, llms.txt, schema, answer-capsule shape) + 5 prioritized recommendations with confidence labels | Platform insights and recommendations at the monitoring level |
| Commitment | None — one-time, 7-day no-questions refund on the audit | Subscription, headline prices billed yearly |
Where Profound wins
- Continuous monitoring. If you need to watch AI-citation share move week over week, a one-time audit structurally can't do that job. Profound can — it's the whole point of the product.
- Engine breadth at the top end. Its Enterprise tier covers engines we don't sample at all — Google AI Overviews, Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, DeepSeek and more. Our audit samples exactly 3 lanes and says so.
- Team reporting. Standing dashboards, share-of-voice trends, and an interface built for a marketing org. AttractOS produces a report, not a workspace.
- Response volume. Thousands of sampled responses per month vs our single dated run. If statistical smoothing over time matters to you, that volume wins.
Where AttractOS wins
- Cost of a first answer. $0 for the scan, $79 once for the full audit — vs a yearly-billed subscription starting around $1,188/yr. If the question is "do I even have an AI-visibility problem?", you shouldn't need a subscription to find out.
- No commitment mechanics. No card for the scan, one-time payment for the audit, 7-day no-questions refund. Nothing renews.
- Evidence-first output. Raw answer excerpts for every intent × lane and a Source Placement Map — every page the assistants actually cited, classified — so you can verify each claim in the report yourself.
- Fix-list, not just metrics. Deterministic checks against your own pages plus 5 prioritized, confidence-labeled recommendations — output aimed at the person who has to change the site, not just report on it.
Verdict by buyer type
- Enterprise marketing org that reports AI share-of-voice monthly: Profound. This is its home turf, and a one-time audit will not cover you.
- You suspect a problem but haven't spent anything yet: AttractOS. Run the free scan; if the gaps are real, the $79 audit gives you the evidence and the fix-list.
- You need engines beyond ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini-grounded (AI Overviews, Copilot…): Profound's higher tiers — we don't sample those lanes and won't pretend otherwise.
- You want the audit first, monitoring later: Do both in sequence — diagnose one-time for $0–79, then choose a monitoring platform (Profound included) with your gaps already mapped.
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Last updated 2026-07-22. Profound pricing and platform coverage were checked against tryprofound.com's live pricing page on 2026-07-22 and will change — verify on their site before buying. We have not run Profound first-hand and claim no benchmark results against it.