Mentionova vs Profound

Mentionova is the better pick for most brands and agencies; Profound is the better pick for large enterprises with procurement and security requirements. Mentionova publishes its prices, from $99 per month billed annually, tracks six engines on Scale and has agents draft the fixes for your approval. Profound sells one paid plan, Enterprise, on custom pricing, and tracks up to 9 answer engines with SSO/SAML and SOC 2. Pick Mentionova if you want to start this week at a known price; skip it if your security team needs SSO and SOC 2 paperwork before anything else.

Sources: Mentionova and Profound official pricing pages, fetched October 20, 2026.

What’s the real difference between Mentionova and Profound?

The biggest difference is how you buy. Mentionova lists three self-serve plans with monthly and annual prices: Starter is $99/mo billed annually ($125 monthly) with 25 tracked prompts, 100 agentic tasks a month and 3 engines; Scale (“Most popular”) is $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly) with 100 prompts, 500 tasks and 6 engines; Enterprise is $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly) with 250 prompts and 2,500 tasks. Every paid plan starts with a free trial and you can start with no card.

Profound has a free Trial and then Enterprise, described as “Tailored packages” with custom pricing. Enterprise covers up to 9 answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search), custom languages and regions, ChatGPT Shopping, AI Marketer credits for the whole team, dedicated support and SSO/SAML with SOC 2 compliance.

Both tools go past dashboards. Mentionova runs agents that turn gaps into ready briefs, content and Reddit reply drafts; it drafts replies and never posts on your behalf. Profound offers an AI Marketer that runs on credits, reusable Agents, Suggestions, a Context Manager and Profound Sheets, plus Agent Analytics that connects to Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS, Akamai, Fastly, WordPress and others. Read the full Mentionova review and Profound review.

Which is better for AI engine coverage?

Profound, at the top end. Its Enterprise plan tracks up to 9 answer engines, including Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and Exa Search, which Mentionova does not list.

Mentionova covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Reddit on Scale and Enterprise. Starter covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google. Reddit tracking and reply drafting matters if Reddit threads are the sources AI answers cite in your category, and Mentionova calls Reddit “the source the models trust most.”

Below Enterprise the picture flips. Profound’s Trial covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews only, so Perplexity and Claude need a sales contract. On Mentionova, Perplexity is on the $99 Starter plan. If Perplexity matters to you, see our Perplexity tracking tools roundup.

Which is better for small teams and agencies?

Mentionova. You can see the price, start a trial without a card and stay monthly with the option to cancel anytime. Mentionova also has a separate agencies view on its pricing page.

Profound’s Trial is generous on seats (unlimited) but limited in depth: no history, exports, API or support, and the AI Marketer gets limited credits. Anything beyond the 7 days is a sales conversation.

Which is better for large enterprises?

Profound, if your checklist includes SSO/SAML, SOC 2, dedicated support and custom regions and languages. Those are listed on Profound’s Enterprise plan. Mentionova’s pricing page does not list SSO or SOC 2, so confirm those with Mentionova directly before a security review.

How much do Mentionova and Profound cost?

Source: mentionova.com/pricing and tryprofound.com/pricing, fetched October 20, 2026.

Over a year, Mentionova Starter costs $1,188 billed annually or $1,500 month to month; Scale costs $3,840 billed annually or $4,800 month to month (our arithmetic from the listed prices). Profound does not publish a paid price, so we do not estimate one. See Mentionova pricing for the full plan breakdown.

The 80/20 verdict

Pick Mentionova if you want to start this week at a known price, need Perplexity on the entry plan or Claude and Reddit on Scale, and want agents to draft the fixes rather than only report gaps. Pick Profound if you are a large brand that needs up to 9 engines, unlimited seats and enterprise security, and you are comfortable buying through sales.

Skip Mentionova if SSO and SOC 2 are hard requirements on day one. Skip Profound if you need a price before a demo or a budget under an enterprise contract.

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Key takeaways

• Mentionova: published plans from $99/mo billed annually, 6 engines on Scale, agent-drafted fixes, free trial with no card.
• Profound: free 7-day Trial, then custom-priced Enterprise with up to 9 engines, SSO/SAML and SOC 2.
• Smaller teams and agencies get predictable cost from Mentionova; large enterprises get broader coverage and controls from Profound.

How we verified this page

We fetched Mentionova’s and Profound’s official pricing and home pages, plus Profound’s Answer Engine Insights page, on October 20, 2026 and took every price, limit and feature from those pages. We did not use review sites or third-party price lists. Read our methodology.