Profound API review
An enterprise GEO platform that captures answers from nine engines in the browser; its REST API, SDKs and MCP server come with the Enterprise plan only.
Our verdict
Profound API
Ranked #156.5 out of 10
Profound has the widest published coverage of the platforms we checked and documents its method: answers are captured in the browser, as users see them. The API comes with a custom-priced Enterprise plan and the terms forbid reselling the data, so it suits in-house brand teams more than agencies building their own product.
- Good fit if
- your brand team wants a full platform with an API for internal reporting and can buy an Enterprise contract
- Look elsewhere if
- you want to pay per prompt, test the API on a trial, or resell the data
Scores by criterion
- Engine coverage
- 9.0 / 10
- Data returned
- 10.0 / 10
- Price per 1,000 answers
- 2.0 / 10
- Integration
- 5.0 / 10
Strengths
- +Nine engines, captured in the browser as users see them
- +Python and TypeScript SDKs, OpenAPI spec, hosted MCP server
- +Share of voice, position, sentiment, fan-out and shopping endpoints
- +150+ regions and 30+ languages
Limits
- –API on the Enterprise plan only, price on quote
- –Terms forbid reselling or sublicensing the data
- –Sync only, 600 requests per hour by default
| Type | GEO platform with an API |
|---|---|
| Engines covered | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Exa Search |
| Collection method | real interface (what users see) |
| Data returned | raw answer, cited URLs, source categories, brand mentions, position, share of voice, sentiment, fan-out queries, shopping products |
| Pricing model | quote |
| Entry price | not published |
| Price per 1,000 AI answers | not published |
| Free trial | Free trial: 50 prompts run daily for 7 days on 3 engines, without API access |
| Countries | 150+ |
| Delivery | sync |
| Official SDKs | Python, JavaScript/TypeScript |
| MCP server | yes |
| Resale / white label | not allowed |
Read next
Sources
- tryprofound.com: pricing (opens in a new tab)
- docs.tryprofound.com: introduction (opens in a new tab)
- tryprofound.com: answer engine insights (opens in a new tab)
- docs.tryprofound.com: query answers v2 (opens in a new tab)
- docs.tryprofound.com: query visibility v2 (opens in a new tab)
- docs.tryprofound.com: llms.txt (opens in a new tab)
- docs.tryprofound.com: overview (opens in a new tab)
- docs.tryprofound.com: overview (opens in a new tab)