CrunchJunkie vs Profound
Profound sells to large brands through sales, after a free 7-day trial; agencies can buy Agency Growth at $99/mo plus $399/mo per client workspace. CrunchJunkie is self-serve with published prices from €14/mo, offers all 10 of its engines on every plan, and adds cross-channel client reporting. Profound goes further at the enterprise end, with real-user prompt volumes.
Facts about Profound last checked 14 Oct 2026 on tryprofound.com. The table notes and price cards name each source.
Who should choose Profound
- You are a large brand and want enterprise features: up to 9 engines, Prompt Volumes from real users, API access and SSO.
- You want AI agents for content and marketing work, such as Profound's Agents and its Aim agent.
- You want crawler analytics read from your CDN logs in near real time.
Who should choose CrunchJunkie
- You want to start self-serve, with published prices and month-to-month billing.
- You want AI visibility in white-label client reports next to Google Ads, Meta and GA4.
- You want AI visibility and AI-referred conversions in the same client report as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Microsoft Ads.
Feature by feature
Side by side, including where Profound is stronger.
| Capability | CrunchJunkie | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| AI visibility tracking | ||
| AI engines trackedProfound's free 7-day Trial runs on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews (50 prompts daily); its Agency Growth plan covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews; its Enterprise plan tracks up to 9 answer engines under a tailored package. CrunchJunkie offers all 10 (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI) on every plan. | 10 (all included) | Up to 9 (plan-gated) |
| Sentiment, competitors, citationsBoth track share of voice, sentiment and cited sources; Profound's Conversation Explorer and prompt-volume panel are strong at the enterprise end. | ||
| AI crawler / bot analyticsProfound Agent Analytics reads CDN server logs (near real-time); CrunchJunkie tracks crawler access (robots) + AI-bot visits from your logs. Comparable. | ||
| Real-user prompt-volume dataProfound's Prompt Volumes panel shows what real users ask AI: 5 searches on the Trial, a custom number on Enterprise. CrunchJunkie suggests prompts from your brand/site/competitors but doesn't sell panel demand data. | — | Trial (5 searches) · Enterprise |
| Alerts & automationsBoth keep a human-approval step before anything ships. CrunchJunkie's signals also cover the reporting channels, for example AI visibility and AI-referred conversions falling in the same period, and its visibility signals are raised at 95% confidence or more on the last 14 days against the 28 before. Profound's Agents (400 credits a month per client workspace on Agency Growth, limited on the Trial, custom on Enterprise) and its 'Aim' AI-marketer agent (launched Jul 2026) work on AI-search data. | ||
| AI traffic, conversions and revenue (GA4)Both connect GA4. Profound's Agent Analytics imports GA4 conversion and revenue metrics next to its AI-crawler and AI-traffic data. CrunchJunkie shows them next to AI visibility inside cross-channel client reports with your ad channels. | Yes (Agent Analytics) | |
| Cross-channel marketing reportingCrunchJunkie reports Google Ads, Meta, GA4, LinkedIn, Microsoft & more in white-label reports. Profound connects Google Ads (campaign, keyword and conversion data for its Agents) and OpenAI Ads (ChatGPT ads reporting); it lists no Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads or Microsoft Ads connector (its LinkedIn integration publishes posts) and no white-label client reports. | Google Ads + OpenAI Ads | |
| White-label agency reportingCrunchJunkie is built for agencies: flat plans, multiple clients, your logo (from Starter) and domain (from Pro). Profound's Agency Growth plan adds client workspaces at $399/mo each; no white-label client reporting is listed. | — | |
| Bring-your-own AI keysUse your own provider keys at cost — no public BYO-key option on Profound. | — | |
| Sample size + margin of error shownCrunchJunkie shows visibility with a ± margin of error and the number of answers behind it, so you can see whether a change is bigger than the noise. We couldn't find published confidence-interval / sample-size disclosure from Profound. | — | |
| Self-serve · on-demand scansSign up without a sales call and run a scan whenever you want. Profound's visibility is daily snapshots, and beyond the trial and the agency plan access is sales/demo-led (only its crawler logs are real-time). | Daily · demo-led | |
| Starting priceProfound's brand side lists a free 7-day Trial (50 prompts daily, ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews) and Enterprise at a custom price via a demo. Its agency tab sells a self-serve Agency Growth plan at $99/mo plus $399/mo per client workspace (100 prompts daily, ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews). CrunchJunkie publishes every price and starts at €14/mo, month to month. | €14/mo | Custom · agencies $99 + $399/client |
Pricing, side by side
Where each one starts, with the source and date under each card.
CrunchJunkie
AI visibility + reporting, one subscription.
- Solo1 brand, 1 user, no white-label€14/mo
- Starter5 brands, white-label reports€59/mo
- Pro20 brands, custom domain, REST API, Looker Studio€149/mo
- Agency40 brands, unlimited users€224/mo
All 10 AI engines on every plan (4 switched on for a new project), with no per-engine fee · Run them on your own API keys at the providers' rates, or on Managed AI from €25/mo (€0.05 a check beyond the allowance; ChatGPT, Claude and Grok count as 3 checks each) · Annual billing saves up to 17% (14% on Solo) · 14-day trial, card required; during the trial, AI-visibility scans run on Perplexity at no cost and other engines on your own keys · All prices exclude VAT.
Profound
Enterprise AI-search (AEO) visibility.
- Trial7 days · 50 prompts daily · ChatGPT, Gemini, AI OverviewsFree
- Agency Growthself-serve · +$399/mo per client workspace · ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews$99/mo
- Enterprisetailored prompt plan · up to 9 engines · SSO/SAML · via demoCustom
Re-checked 14 Oct 2026 from tryprofound.com/pricing and its integration pages: the Brands tab lists the free 7-day Trial and Enterprise (custom), the Agencies tab (tryprofound.com/pricing?tier=agencies, it loads client-side) a self-serve Agency Growth plan at $99/mo with client workspaces at $399/mo each and 400 credits a month per client workspace. The Starter $99 / Growth $399 brand plans from before August 2026 are gone · Enterprise is custom-priced; Profound publishes no figure · Up to 9 engines, API and SSO are Enterprise-gated; the Trial includes 5 Prompt Volumes searches · Profound MCP (Enterprise plan) connects Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients to Profound data — an integration, not Claude-as-a-tracked-engine, which stays Enterprise · Products include Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes, Shopping, Agent Analytics, AI Marketer, Agents and Aim · Profound integrates Google Analytics (conversion and revenue import into Agent Analytics), Google Ads and OpenAI Ads, and lists no white-label agency reporting.
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