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Askadia vs Profound: enterprise AI marketing suite or a $29 tracker?

Profound is an AI marketing platform for enterprise teams: up to nine AI assistants, real-user prompt volumes, content agents, a sales-led contract. Askadia tracks what ChatGPT and Google's AI recommend, for founders of software products, built so their coding agent can work through it with them: what they lose, why, and what to change. They rarely compete for the same buyer: if you have an enterprise budget and many markets, Profound; if you're a small team that wants to start today, Askadia.

Who wrote this: we make Askadia. Every price and feature comes from each vendor's own website, checked on October 31, 2026, linked where it's stated; the numbers about what ChatGPT recommends come from the same buying questions we ask it for every tool, three times a week, live. Spot something out of date? Tell us.

At a glance

How they differ

• Buying it: for a brand, Profound offers a free 7-day trial of 50 prompts it picks for your industry, which you can't edit, then Enterprise at a custom price after a demo; its paid self-serve plan is for agencies, $99 a month plus $399 per client workspace (Profound pricing). Askadia is $29 a month, everything included, self-serve, cancel anytime.
• Assistants: Profound's Enterprise covers up to nine, among them ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot and Claude. Askadia covers three of them: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.
• Where the answers come from: both ask the assistants the way people do: Profound says it captures the consumer front end, “not API outputs” (Profound); Askadia asks the real ChatGPT, not the API, and a logged-out Google search.
• How the numbers count: Profound's visibility is your share of the answers that name any brand, and its position an average over the answers that name you (Profound's metric docs). Askadia counts questions as x of n, a question counting when most of its answers do, and shows your rank in every answer, the ones that leave you out included.
• Agents: Profound's API and MCP server are on Enterprise (Profound MCP). Askadia's API, MCP server and agent skill are included in its one plan, built so an agent can do everything you can in the app except the plan and the team: review your questions and say which need work, pause, resume and reschedule them, read every answer and its raw page, and sort which products are your competitors (Askadia's API docs).

Where Profound is better

• Breadth: up to nine assistants, 150+ regions and 30+ languages, ChatGPT Shopping.
• Prompt Volumes: how often real people ask about a topic, from a licensed panel of real user prompts. Askadia has no search-volume data.
• An enterprise suite: AI crawler analytics, content agents and workflows, integrations from Slack to WordPress, SSO and SOC 2, dedicated support.

Where Askadia is better

• Your agent works the whole loop with you: it goes through the questions you lose, reads every raw answer behind them, makes a plan, and carries it out on your word: questions added, paused or resumed, competitors tracked, names merged, feedback sent. You decide; it does the legwork.
• A schedule that moves with you: each question on its own schedule on each assistant, changed any time by you or your agent, daily for a baseline or a launch and Mon/Wed/Fri in between.
• You can start today for $29 and keep going, the API and MCP server included: no demo, no trial that ends, your own questions from the first day.
• Built for products: buying questions, the top pick, who each assistant recommends instead, and the pages it read.
• A free checkup of your product right now: 10 questions, every answer in full, no sign-up.

Which ones ChatGPT recommends: our own data

We ask ChatGPT 40 questions buyers ask about AI visibility tools, the same ones for every tool, on Mon, Wed, Fri: in the ChatGPT app, logged out, from the US, a new chat each time. A tool counts for a question when most of that question's answers recommend it, as the top pick or an option. The questions were published before its first answer, and every answer is public, word for word.

Questions, counted when most of their answers recommend the tool; since November 11, 2026. Under 28 days of answers so far, so this shows who's recommended more than the exact order. Every tool, every question and every answer.

Which to pick

Pick Profound if you're an enterprise marketing team or a large agency, you need many assistants, markets and integrations, and a sales-led contract is how you buy.

Pick Askadia if you build a software product, ChatGPT and Google are where your buyers ask, and you want to start now for $29 a month, with an API your agent can use.

Questions

What can an AI agent do in Askadia?

Give Claude Code, Cursor or any agent one line, the docs address, and approve it once; or add Askadia's MCP server to Claude Code or Cursor, or as a connector in Claude.ai or ChatGPT, which signs in without a key to copy. Then it can:

• Work through what you lose: find the questions where an assistant leaves you out, read every answer behind them down to the raw page, and come back with a plan for you to approve.
• Review your questions on four checks (a real buyer, neutral wording, specific, the way buyers ask), say which are good and which need work, and suggest questions to add, pause or replace. You accept, edit or dismiss each one, in Reviews or in the chat.
• Add, pause and resume questions, and set each one's assistants and how often on each: daily for a baseline, Mon/Wed/Fri once it's steady, daily again for a launch or campaign.
• Read every number and every answer word for word on each assistant: the products named in order, the pages cited, Google's top 10 beside each AI Overview, and each answer's raw page as it reached us, to check our reading or run its own analysis.
• Find the questions you lose and to whom, and compare the pages each assistant cites with yours.
• Sort which products are your competitors, count two names of one product as one, and add your pages elsewhere, like an app-store listing, so their citations count.
• Propose a correction when an answer was read wrong, send us feedback (we reply to it), and keep the site's notes for the next agent.

With no account, it runs your free checkup and signs you up: you enter an emailed code and pay. The plan and your answers are always your click. It's all in the $29 plan, and reading is unlimited (the agent docs).

How much does Profound cost?

For a brand, Profound doesn't publish a price: a free 7-day trial, then Enterprise after a demo. Agencies can buy Agency Growth at $99 a month plus $399 per client workspace. From Profound's pricing page on October 31, 2026.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Profound for a small team?

Askadia is $29 a month for 2,000 answers on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. For more assistants on a small budget, see Profound alternatives.

Do both use the real ChatGPT?

Both say they ask the assistants' consumer interfaces rather than the API. Why that matters: ChatGPT app vs API.

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