3 Profound alternatives for service businesses (2026)

What should you look for in a Profound alternative?

Start with what the tool measures and how often. A tracker that checks a handful of prompts once a week tells you less than one that checks dozens of buyer questions across several AI engines on a schedule, so ask how many prompts are included and how frequently they run.

Then look at which engines are covered. Otterly's own features page states it tracks all 7 major AI search engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude. Profound's pricing page lists a narrower set: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. If your buyers use Perplexity or Copilot, a tool that skips them leaves a gap in what you can see.

Check whether the price is fixed or scales with team size and prompt volume. Otterly's pricing page lists tiers from 15 search prompts Tracking of 4 AI Search Engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot up to an Enterprise tier, with Otterly's Premium tier priced at $ 489 /month. Profound's page mentions AI Marketer credits for your whole team, which ties cost to usage rather than a flat seat price.

Last, decide whether you want a dashboard that reports a problem or a service that also fixes it. A score or a chart tells you where you stand. Writing and publishing pages is what changes where buyers land, so ask whether the tool stops at measurement or does something with what it finds.

How do these options compare at a glance?

The table below compares ReachKit, Profound and Otterly on price and on what each one's own page says it does, read from their pricing and features pages. Use it to see where the gap in price lines up with a gap in what you get, rather than assuming more expensive means more thorough.

Prices are shown in the currency each vendor publishes; none is converted.

Prices last checked 6 October 2026.

The spread is wide: ReachKit sits at €49 a month, Profound's entry package starts at $99 a month, and Otterly's Standard plan is $189 a month before any paid add-ons. What stands out is that Otterly's base tier does not include every engine by default. Its features page claims coverage of seven engines, but its pricing page notes the Standard plan at $189 per month unlocks multiple workspaces, unlimited recommendations, a Looker Studio connector, and API access, and lets you add Claude, Google AI Mode, and Gemini as paid extras. So the headline engine count and the engines included at the entry price are not the same thing.

How were these options compared?

Each option was read from its own pricing and features pages on the dates listed in the sources: Profound's and Otterly's pages on 6 October 2026, and third-party pricing summaries on 13 October 2026. The products were not tried or tested. Figures and features are stated as those pages state them, against the same criteria set out above: engine coverage, prompt volume, price, and whether the service publishes content or only reports on it.

What does Profound offer?

Profound is an AI visibility tracker aimed at marketing teams who want to see how brands appear across AI answers. Its own pricing page is no longer fully transparent: it emphasizes customized enterprise pricing, while third-party reviewers still surface a roughly $99 Starter and $399 Growth signal, with Enterprise custom and demo-led. A separate summary states plainly that Profound's entry-level package starts at $99/month, with the Growth plan at $399/month.

Its pricing page also lists 50 prompts run daily for 7 days and tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, plus Limited AI Marketer credits on lower tiers. Profound suits a marketing team with budget for a demo-led enterprise tool and a need to track a large prompt volume across those three engines specifically. Its limit: pricing above the entry tier is not published, so you negotiate rather than read a number and sign up.

What does Otterly offer?

Otterly is a tracking tool priced in public tiers, which makes it easier to compare than Profound's demo-led upper tiers. Its Standard plan is listed at $ 189 /month, and its Premium tier at $ 489 /month, with an Enterprise tier described as Enterprise Custom Starting from 1,000 search prompts.

Otterly's features page states it Tracks all 7 major AI search engines and Monitors 65+ countries and languages, and its pricing page notes Unlimited team members on its plans. A third-party summary adds that its Lite plan is $29 per month (or $25 annual) for 15 tracked prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot. Otterly suits a team that wants broad engine and language coverage and is willing to add paid extras for full engine access at the entry tier. Its limit: the full seven-engine claim on its features page does not match its own pricing page, where Claude, Google AI Mode and Gemini are paid extras on the Standard plan.

What does ReachKit offer?

ReachKit is built for a founder or business owner who wants to know where AI answers and Google send buyers instead of to them, and then do something about it. The subscription is €49 per month, VAT included, billed in advance through Stripe, covering one page published for your site every day, new or updated, and your market re-measured every week.

We run 12 searches in Google that buyers in your market make, and record who is on the first page of each. Every Monday we ask Google AI Mode and ChatGPT the 25 questions a buyer in your market would ask, each one twice, because AI answers change from one run to the next. ReachKit suits a small business or service business that wants a flat price and pages published, not just a report. Its limit: it does not track Perplexity, so a business whose buyers rely heavily on that engine sees a gap in coverage.

Which one should you choose?

Choose Otterly if your buyers are spread across Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot and you want one dashboard covering both, and you have budget past the $189 a month Standard tier once you add the engines you need. Otterly's own features page names Perplexity and Copilot explicitly, which neither Profound's pricing page nor ReachKit's tracking list does.

Choose Profound if you run a marketing team that wants a high daily prompt volume, specifically 50 prompts run daily for 7 days, and you're comfortable with enterprise pricing settled by demo rather than published upfront.

Choose ReachKit if you want one flat price, a weekly re-measure of your whole market, and a page written and published for your site every day rather than a dashboard alone. That suits a small business, local business or e-commerce site that doesn't have a marketing team to act on what a tracker reports.

What does ReachKit do about this itself?

ReachKit starts with a free scan that shows where AI answers and Google search send buyers to your rivals instead of you, and shows how often AI names you against which rivals it names instead. From there, our pricing page lays out the single plan: one page a day, written and published for you, plus a weekly re-measure of your whole market, for €49 a month, VAT included.

Every page waits a day for you to read it or stop it before it goes live, and you can cancel in one click, yourself. You can read how ReachKit works to see the 12 Google searches and 25 AI questions behind the weekly measure, and the About page to see that ReachKit is built by Tim in Berlin, Germany. One measurement found that AI answers named reachkit.app for 0 of the 12 buyer questions they answered on 12 October 2026, against semrush.com cited for 5 of the same 12, a gap the daily page is built to close.

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Sources

• Pricing - Profound, read on 6 October 2026
• OtterlyAI Pricing - Transparent & Simple, read on 6 October 2026
• Generative Engine Optimization Features OtterlyAI Platform, read on 6 October 2026
• Profound Alternatives: 9 AI Visibility Trackers 2026 DeepSmith, read on 13 October 2026
• 8 top Profound alternatives your marketing team can actually use - BBK Marketing - BlackBoxKey, read on 13 October 2026