Chatbeat vs Profound

Chatbeat

Chatbeat answers a question traditional brand-monitoring tools cannot: how AI chat products describe and rank your brand versus competitors, backed by Brand24's existing mention database rather than a from-scratch dataset. It is priced and built for marketing teams already tracking brand metrics, not for a solo user who just wants to peek at one AI answer occasionally.

Pros

• +Tracks brand mentions across eight or more AI answer engines at once
• +Reports concrete metrics: brand score, position, and share of voice
• +Backed by an established, publicly known company

Cons

• −Entry price is $99/month, with no free ongoing tier
• −Full seat and white-label features require the higher tiers
• −Value depends on already caring about AI-answer visibility as a metric

Profound

Profound is the enterprise end of AI-visibility measurement: it covers more answer engines than most rivals, adds crawler analytics and ChatGPT Shopping that the cheaper trackers lack, and has the funding and customer list to still exist next year. The price is the reason to hesitate - there is no published figure, the free trial is seven days of fifty prompts, and the self-serve agency plan exists only as a line in the FAQ. Mid-market teams will get most of the signal from a tracker with a public price; brands with real budget and a procurement team are the audience here.

Pros

• +Tracks up to nine answer engines, including AI Overviews, Copilot and DeepSeek, not just ChatGPT
• +Agent Analytics shows which AI crawlers visit and cite the site, a layer most trackers skip
• +Prompt Volumes estimates real user questions rather than relying on your own prompt list
• +SOC 2 Type II, SSO and an API, so it passes enterprise review

Cons

• −No published price; the only listed plans are a free trial and a custom Enterprise contract
• −Trial is 7 days, 50 prompts and three engines, with no exports or history
• −No legal entity, address or terms page found on the site
• −The agency plan is named in the FAQ but not in the plan table

Is Chatbeat cheaper than Profound?

Chatbeat starts at $99/mo; Profound prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Which has a public API, Chatbeat or Profound?

Profound ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Chatbeat is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.