CiteLadder vs Profound
Profound is built as a wide, hosted AI search suite. We are narrower: three engines, your keys, and a score you can open to the raw answer. Choose them for packaging. Choose us when procurement asks how the number was made.
Full-stack marketing platform for AI search.
| Dimension | CiteLadder | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| Engines | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude. Same prompts, one audit, your keys. | ChatGPT on Starter; three engines on Growth; nine on Enterprise.Sources: Profound product · Profound pricing |
| Scoring | Deterministic, versioned rules over persisted evidence. | Hosted daily analysis for citations, sentiment and rank. Methodology unpublished.Sources: Profound product |
| Evidence | Every metric opens the raw run, citations and query fanout. | Dashboards for share of voice, citations, sentiment and rank.Sources: Profound product |
| BYOK | Your keys only. Fernet-encrypted, never returned or logged. | Hosted platform keys. No BYOK on public plans.Sources: Profound product |
| Site health | Built-in Web Fundamentals + AEO audit with remediation. | Agent Analytics via CDN and server integrations. Not a built-in site-health audit.Sources: Profound product |
| Provenance | Analyzer + rule version stamped on every projection. | No published scoring/analysis versioning.Sources: Profound product |
| Pricing | Published self-serve plans; Enterprise by quote; provider usage not marked up. | Starter $99/mo · Growth $399/mo · Enterprise custom.Sources: Profound pricing |
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Comparison criteria: published product capabilities, pricing, evidence access, and measurement method. Source links appear beside the dimensions they support: Profound product (Engines, Scoring, Evidence, BYOK, Site health, Provenance) · Profound pricing (Pricing, Engines). Re-check before quoting.
Our verdict
Profound wins on enterprise packaging, agent workflows, and engine breadth at the top tier. We win when you need published self-serve pricing, BYOK, and a score that opens to the persisted answer.
Where Profound fits better
Large marketing orgs that want a hosted all-in-one platform with agents, demand data, SOC 2 and SSO.
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