Mentioned vs Profound: A Free Profound Alternative

Compared on	Mentioned	Profound
How you start	Sign up, free plan, no card	Free trial, then a demo for Enterprise
Free option	Free plan: 5 tracked queries weekly, 3 checks on us	Trial: 50 prompts, daily for 7 days
Paid plans	$39, $129 and $399 a month, self-serve	Enterprise, custom pricing. Agency Growth plan per client workspace
What you trackThe unit each plan counts	Tracked queries: one brand and category, five locked buyer questions each	Prompts
AI assistants	Claude and Gemini on our keys; ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Llama 3.3 and Perplexity on your API key	Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9, including Perplexity, AI Mode, Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude and Exa
Google AI Overviews and Copilot	Not covered	Covered on Enterprise
How often	Weekly; daily for 3 queries on Pro and 10 on Agency, or on your own key	Daily
What to fixBeyond the numbers	Actions: findings ranked by answers at stake, each with a playbook of usual fixes	Suggestions, agents and an AI marketer, per its pricing page
Traffic	Search Console and GA4, read-only, next to AI visibility	Agent Analytics for AI crawler visits
Enterprise controls	Shared workspaces on Pro and Agency; MCP access from Starter; CSV export	SSO, API and exports on Enterprise

Where Profound goes further

Coverage. Up to nine answer engines on Enterprise, including Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot. Mentioned covers none of those three.
Enterprise features. SSO, multiple languages and regions, ChatGPT Shopping, and prompt-volume research, per its pricing page.
Daily by default. Enterprise tracking runs daily. Mentioned runs weekly unless you use a daily slot or your own key.

Where Mentioned is different

Start without a sales call. A free plan that doesn’t expire, and paid plans you can buy on the pricing page from $39 a month.
The answer behind every number. Every figure links to the stored answers it was counted from, with your brand and your competitors highlighted.
Questions that stay the same. A tracked query’s five questions are locked when you create it, so a move in the trend is a change in the answers, not in the questions.
A ranked list of what to fix. Actions orders findings, such as a competitor quoted where you aren’t or a model that never names you, by the answers at stake. Each comes with the usual fixes, labelled as advice.
Claude on the free plan. Claude and Gemini run on our keys at every tier.

Who each one fits

Profound fits an enterprise brand or communications team that needs Google’s AI surfaces, many markets and languages, SSO and a vendor relationship. Mentioned fits a B2B marketing or SEO team that wants to see today, for free, whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini recommend them for the questions buyers ask, and get a list of what to change.

Questions

Is there a free alternative to Profound?

Mentioned has a free plan rather than a trial: 5 tracked queries, each five buyer questions, asked weekly on Claude and Gemini on our keys, plus 3 one-off checks. It covers fewer AI surfaces than Profound’s Enterprise plan, so it fits teams that want to start measuring before they buy an enterprise contract.

How much does Profound cost?

As of October 24, 2026, Profound’s pricing page lists a free trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan reached through a demo. Its FAQ also mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan per client workspace. Check tryprofound.com/pricing for current terms.

Does Mentioned track Google AI Overviews like Profound does?

No. Mentioned asks AI models directly through their APIs: Claude and Gemini on our keys, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Llama 3.3 and Perplexity on your own key. It doesn’t read Google AI Overviews, AI Mode or Microsoft Copilot. Profound’s Enterprise plan lists all three.

Can I use both?

Yes, and some teams will. A common split is an enterprise platform for the brand team’s reporting and a lighter tool for the product marketers who need to see the answers for one category and act on them this week.

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