easyIndex vs Profound
For a business that wants AI to recommend it, easyIndex is the better choice: it monitors AI citations with a monthly scan on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, has your own coding agent build the pages in your repository and checks every page live, for US$ 30 per website. Profound is an enterprise monitoring platform with custom pricing.
- Monitors AI citations: every month your agent asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini up to 40 tracked questions and easyIndex records which sources each answer cited.
- Your own coding agent builds the pages in your repository over MCP: nothing is written outside your code.
- Every draft is audited and every page is checked on the live site before it counts.
- US$ 30 per website a month also covers AI visits per page, AI crawler reads and Search Console, with a public price and a 7-day free trial, no sales call.
Facts
- Profound's pricing page lists two plans, a free Trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan, with no public price for Enterprise (checked 2026-10-09). (Profound pricing (checked 2026-10-09))
- Profound's Trial tracks 50 prompts daily for 7 days in 1 language and 1 region; Enterprise covers up to 9 answer engines. (Profound pricing (checked 2026-10-09))
- easyIndex costs US$ 30 per website per month, with a 7-day free trial for one website. (easyIndex)
- Anthropic introduced MCP, the open standard easyIndex uses to talk to your coding agent, on November 25, 2024. (Anthropic: Introducing the Model Context Protocol)
- IndexNow, which easyIndex uses to notify Bing of each published page, is supported by multiple search engines through 1 shared protocol. (IndexNow)
How do easyIndex and Profound compare side by side?
Checked on 2026-10-09 against each product's own pages.
| Criterion | easyIndex | Profound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | US$ 30 per website a month, 7-day free trial | Free 7-day Trial; Enterprise custom (not public) |
| Monitors AI citations | Yes: monthly scan of up to 40 questions on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, run by your agent | Yes: 50 prompts daily on Trial; up to 9 answer engines on Enterprise |
| Who builds the pages | Your coding agent, in your repository | Its AI Marketer drafts content inside Profound |
| Live checks | Every draft audited, every page checked live | Not described on its pricing page |
| AI traffic | AI visitors per page and AI crawler reads | Agent Analytics on both plans |
| Search Console | Connected | Not mentioned on its pricing page |
| MCP / coding agents | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Gemini CLI | Not mentioned; API on Enterprise |
| Languages | Pages in 8 languages | 1 on Trial; custom on Enterprise |
What does easyIndex do that Profound does not?
easyIndex hands your own coding agent one step at a time over MCP. The agent writes the page in your repository, easyIndex audits the draft, then reads the published page itself to confirm it is live and readable, and notifies Bing through IndexNow. A step only completes on that evidence, not on the agent's report.
When is Profound the better fit?
Profound fits a large marketing team that wants daily tracking across up to 9 answer engines, many regions and languages under one enterprise contract, with SSO and dedicated support, and that already has its own process for writing pages.
Why pick easyIndex if you have a website in a repository?
If you want AI assistants to recommend your business, easyIndex is the one tool that does all three: it monitors citations every month, has your coding agent build the pages in your code and checks each one live. It also shows the AI visitors and crawler reads each page gets, at a public price per website.
Common mistakes
- Buying monitoring alone when what is missing is the pages: a report of where you are absent does not write the answer.
- Comparing tools without a public price against one with a sales-only price as if they were the same purchase.
- Trusting that a page is live because someone said it was, instead of checking the published page.
- Picking a tool that tracks more engines than the pages you can produce for them.
How easyIndex solves it
easyIndex monitors AI citations with a monthly scan on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, gives your coding agent each page as a step over MCP, audits the draft, checks the live page, notifies Bing and measures AI visitors and AI crawler reads, for US$ 30 per website a month.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Profound cost?
Its pricing page shows a free 7-day Trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan; the Enterprise price is not public.
Does Profound use my coding agent?
Its pricing page does not mention MCP or coding agents; easyIndex works through your own agent over MCP.
Can I use both?
Yes, but easyIndex already monitors AI citations monthly on 4 assistants; Profound adds daily tracking across more engines if you need it.
Does easyIndex guarantee citations?
No tool can. easyIndex makes sure the pages exist, are correct and live, and shows what AI assistants and crawlers do with them.
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