Comparison

b/cited vs Profound

The enterprise end of the category, and the best-funded player in it.

Every Profound figure below is from their own pricing page, read on 2026-08-30. If they have changed it since, trust their page over ours.

What each costs.

b/cited

/ Free — $0 · 5 prompts · manual
/ Solo — $39/mo · 25 prompts · daily
/ Pro — $99/mo · 75 prompts · daily
/ Agency — $299/mo · 250 prompts · daily

ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity on every tier.

Profound

/ Starter — $99/mo billed yearly · 50 prompts tracked monthly, 100 agent credits
/ Growth — $399/mo billed yearly · 100 prompts tracked monthly, 400 agent credits
/ Enterprise — Custom · SSO/SAML, multi-company tracking, dedicated support

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on Starter and Growth.

Where Claude sits.

Claude is an Enterprise-tier engine on Profound, alongside Gemini, Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek. On b/cited, Claude is on every tier including Free.

Not listed on Profound’s page: Google Search Console integration, Content brief generation. That means absent from the page we read, not absent from the product — ask them.

What Profound does better.

/ Breadth of engines — Enterprise reaches Grok, DeepSeek, Copilot and Gemini, none of which b/cited tracks.
/ Agent credits for building autonomous AEO workers, which b/cited has no equivalent of.
/ Enterprise controls: SSO/SAML and multi-company tracking.
/ Depth of analytics, and the funding to keep building it.

Which to choose.

Choose Profound if

You need engine coverage beyond ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity, you have SSO and procurement requirements, or you are tracking many brands at once. Profound is built for that and b/cited is not.

Choose b/cited if

You want the Search Console half as well as the citation half — clusters, authority scores and briefs driven off the queries you already rank for — and you want Claude tracked without an Enterprise contract.

Common questions.

Is b/cited cheaper than Profound?

At the entry point, yes: b/cited Solo is $39/month against Profound Starter at $99/month billed yearly. But they are not the same product — Profound tracks more engines at the top end and sells to enterprises with procurement requirements b/cited does not meet.

Does Profound track Claude?

Their pricing page lists Claude among the engines Enterprise plans expand to, alongside Gemini, Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek. Starter and Growth list ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. b/cited tracks Claude on every tier, including the free one.

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Source: https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing, read 2026-08-30. Prices change; verify before deciding. bcited.ai is not affiliated with Profound.