Compare · Ternly vs Profound
A Profound alternative for apps and small teams.
Profound is an AI marketing platform for large companies. Its AI Marketer tracks AI answers across up to nine assistants, then drafts and rewrites pages for your team to approve. After a 7-day trial it’s sold as a custom package, through a demo. Ternly is for indie developers, studios and small SaaS teams: published prices, a free plan, and your app’s store listings next to your AI answers.
Profound’s plans and features checked
Profound fits if
- You’re a large marketing team and want agents that draft content and stage it in your CMS.
- You need DeepSeek, Google’s AI Mode or ChatGPT Shopping tracked, across many regions and languages.
- You need SSO, SAML and SOC 2 for your security review.
- You want AI crawler and AI referral data from Akamai, Fastly, AWS and other CDNs.
Ternly fits if
- You make an app or a SaaS product and want to start today, with prices on the page.
- You want your App Store and Google Play listings checked and your store ranks tracked.
- You want Google rank tracking, Search Console, backlinks and content briefs beside your AI answers.
- You’d rather start free, and see what every AI says about you within minutes of signing up.
Side by side
| Ternly | Profound | |
|---|---|---|
| AI answers | ||
| Assistants | ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot on every paid plan, Claude on Studio and Agency. Google’s AI Overviews come with rank tracking. | Trial: ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews. Enterprise: up to 9, including Perplexity, Copilot, Claude, DeepSeek and AI Mode. |
| How often | Weekly, or daily | Daily |
| Who’s named, in what place, sources cited, tone, share of voice | ||
| Wrong facts about you | Out-of-date facts, checked against your site, listings and notes | FactCheck, against your knowledge base |
| Content | Content briefs to write from | AI Marketer drafts and rewrites pages, staged for approval |
| AI crawler visits to your site | For sites on Cloudflare, on every plan | Agent Analytics: Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS, Akamai, Fastly and others |
| Countries and languages | One market per site | Custom on Enterprise |
| Your website and Google | ||
| Can AI crawlers read your site? | AI crawler access, llms.txt and JavaScript, in a 70+ check site audit | AI Marketer finds pages AI crawlers can’t read |
| Google rank tracking, with AI Overview citations | — | |
| Search Console, GA4 and Bing Webmaster Tools | Google Analytics, for visits from AI assistants | |
| Backlinks | — | |
| Apps | ||
| App Store and Google Play listing checks, ratings and reviews | — | |
| Store keyword ranks, yours and rival apps’ | — | |
| Plans | ||
| To start | Free plan: 1 app and 1 website, 3 questions asked of ChatGPT and Gemini daily | 7-day free trial: 50 prompts a day |
| Plans | Indie $29 a month (3 apps, 2 websites), Studio $149, Agency $449 | Enterprise packages, priced after a demo |
| SSO, SAML and SOC 2 | — | |
| Team | Unlimited on paid plans; Free is one person | Your whole team on Enterprise |
Prices are monthly, in US dollars. Profound’s details come from tryprofound.com/pricing and its homepage on 27 October 2026; a dash means we couldn’t find it there. Spotted something out of date? Write to aiden@ternly.io and we’ll fix it.