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Comparison · researched 15 September 2026

Veritas vs Profound

By Advik Jain, Co-founder & CEO, Optivus Technologies · Published 11 September 2026 · Updated 15 September 2026

Profound is the most heavily funded dedicated AI visibility platform, and its Agents now draft and publish content. Veritas also tracks AI answers and drafts content, but it is an SEO and content platform first, with keyword research, site audits and cited drafts in one workspace.

The verdict

If AI search is the main job, Profound goes deeper, with real prompt volume data and crawler analytics. Veritas suits teams that want five engines on their first tracking plan, alongside SEO tooling and cited drafts.

Choose Veritas ifOurs

You want five engines on your first tracking plan, plus keyword research and site audits.

Choose Profound if

You want real prompt volume data, crawler analytics and enterprise controls such as SSO.

At a glanceVeritasProfound
Starting price for AI tracking₹20,000/mo$99/mo
AI engines on that plan5 of 71 of 7
RefreshEvery two weeksNot published
Score, by our published rules70 of 10059 of 100

Scores are calculated by our published rules, not assigned.

Feature by feature

What each tool does today, on the plans named in each row. Not described means the vendor’s pages do not mention it, which is not the same as the product lacking it.

FeatureVeritasProfound
AI engines on the cheapest tracking plan
ChatGPTYesYes
ClaudeYesNo
GeminiYesNo
PerplexityYesNo
AI OverviewsYesNo
AI ModeNoNo
CopilotNoNo
Tracking
Real prompt volume dataNoPrompt Volumes
AI crawler analyticsSite audit for AI crawlersAgent Analytics
Tracked prompts25 or 50 prompts50 or 100 prompts
Team members5 or 10 included1 or 3 seats
Fixing the gaps
Drafts content from findingsCited to your documentsAgents, with approvals
CMS publishingWordPress, on Marketing SuiteCMS integration for Agents
SEO
Keyword research, backlinks and site auditsYesNot described
Buying
Starting price for AI tracking₹20,000/mo$99/mo
Free trial7 daysOn Growth only
Published security postureNone publishedSSO and SOC 2, Enterprise
Sources and details for every rowWhat each cell is based on, and the plan it refers to

AI engines on the cheapest tracking plan

Tracking

Fixing the gaps

SEO

Buying

  • Starting price for AI tracking. The cheapest published plan that tracks AI answers: Content + SEO Premium for Veritas, Starter for Profound. Veritas: source, 12 Sept 2026Profound: source, 11 Sept 2026
  • Free trial. Profound offers “Try for free” on Growth; none is listed on Starter. Veritas: source, 12 Sept 2026Profound: source, 11 Sept 2026
  • Published security posture. Profound’s pricing page lists SSO, SAML and SOC 2 compliance on Enterprise; we did not find a separate security page. Profound: source, 11 Sept 2026

Tracking AI answers alongside your SEO work?

Veritas tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews from Content + SEO Premium, beside keyword research, site audits and drafts cited to your own documents. Try it on one domain first.

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What a year costs

The cheapest published plan that fits each team, over twelve months, with seat fees and required add-ons. Where no published plan fits, the note says why instead of guessing.

ToolOne marketer, one brand1 seat, 50 tracked prompts, 1 brandTeam of five, one brand5 seats, 100 tracked prompts, 1 brandAgency, three brands10 seats, 300 tracked prompts, 3 brands
Profound$1,188lowestNo published fit1No published fit1
VeritasOurs$3,780off scaleNo published fit1No published fit1
  1. 1No published plan tracks the prompts this setup needs; larger volumes are arranged with the vendor.

Bars share one scale across the whole table, so cost growth shows as well as rank. A figure far above the rest is marked off scale.

How each figure was worked outPlan, seats and add-ons behind every number

One marketer, one brand

  • Profound: Starter at $99 a month, over twelve months
  • Veritas: Marketing Suite at $315 a month converted from rupees, over twelve months

Team of five, one brand

  • Profound: No published plan tracks 100 prompts; larger volumes are arranged with the vendor.
  • Veritas: No published plan tracks 100 prompts; larger volumes are arranged with the vendor.

Agency, three brands

  • Profound: No published plan tracks 300 prompts; larger volumes are arranged with the vendor.
  • Veritas: No published plan tracks 300 prompts; larger volumes are arranged with the vendor.

Standard monthly rates, without annual discounts unless a vendor publishes only a yearly price. Taxes, overage and negotiated terms are excluded. Indian rupee figures are converted at 95.2 INR to the US dollar, a rate we maintain by hand and review periodically. It is an approximation, not a live rate, and Veritas bills in rupees.

Veritas’s price covers keyword research, site audits and cited drafting as well as tracking.Start a 7-day trialSee pricing

Side by side, question by question

Measurement depth

For pure AI search analytics, Profound is ahead.

Edge: Profound

Veritas
Prompt-level mentions, citations and share of voice across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, re-checked every two weeks.
Profoundedge
Answer Engine Insights, Prompt Volumes built from what people actually ask AI systems, and Agent Analytics for crawler behaviour, across up to nine engines on Enterprise.

From finding to content

Both act on findings; they differ in how drafts show their sources.

Even

Veritas
Gaps open into an editor that drafts from your knowledge graph, with a citation on each knowledge-based claim and a live content score.
Profound
Agents create net-new content, refresh declining pages and generate FAQs from your brand kit and knowledge base, with approvals before publishing through a CMS integration.

SEO beyond AI answers

If you also need classic SEO tooling, Veritas covers it.

Edge: Veritas

Veritasedge
Keyword research, keyword gap, competitor and SERP analysis, site audits, backlinks, Search Console and GA4.
Profound
Keyword research, backlinks and technical site audits are not described on its product pages.

Engines at the price you pay

For several engines on a mid-market budget, Veritas costs less.

Edge: Veritas

Veritasedge
All five tracked engines on Content + SEO Premium at ₹20,000 a month excluding GST, with 5 users.
Profound
ChatGPT only on the $99 Starter with one seat, three engines on the $399 Growth with three seats, and up to nine on Enterprise.

Enterprise readiness

For security reviews at large companies, Profound is better documented.

Edge: Profound

Veritas
A dedicated customer success manager on Marketing Suite and SLA-backed support on Marketing Plus.
Profoundedge
SSO and SAML, SOC 2 compliance, dedicated Slack support and multiple companies tracked on Enterprise.

What would change our verdict

  • Profound publishing trial terms and how Agent usage is metered, both of which are absent from its pricing and Agents pages.
  • Profound offering more than one engine below $399 a month, which would remove the entry-price gap this page turns on.
  • Veritas adding crawler analytics or real prompt volume data, which is where Profound is genuinely ahead.

Questions people ask

Is Profound more accurate than Veritas?

Both sample live AI answers and record mentions and citations; neither can see inside a model. Profound goes deeper, with real prompt volume data and crawler analytics, and covers more engines on Enterprise. Veritas covers five engines and connects each finding to SEO tooling and a cited draft.

Can Profound create content?

Yes. Profound Agents create net-new content, refresh pages and generate FAQs using your brand kit and knowledge base, with approvals before publishing. An earlier version of this page said the writing happened in another tool, which was wrong.

Which is cheaper for tracking several engines?

On prices read 11 September 2026, Profound’s three-engine Growth plan is $399 a month. Veritas tracks five engines on Content + SEO Premium at ₹20,000 a month excluding GST.

The full reviews

Every feature, price, pro and con, each fact linked to the vendor page it came from.

Veritas: full reviewDrafts from your own documents with a citation on every claim, beside the SEO and AI visibility tools that decide what to write.

Veritas

Our productCited content, SEO and AI visibility

Best for: B2B marketing teams of three to ten whose content makes claims a reviewer has to verify, and who want SEO and AI visibility in the same workspace.

Veritas is an AI content and SEO platform built by Optivus Technologies. It organises a company’s own documents into a knowledge graph and drafts marketing content from it, attaching a numbered citation to every knowledge-based claim that opens the passage it came from. Claims it cannot trace to your material are left out rather than filled in.

Around the editor it bundles keyword research and gap analysis, competitor and SERP analysis, a live content score, site audits, backlinks, Google Analytics with Search Console, and AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Plans are priced per workspace in INR with users included.

What it does

  • Drafts from a knowledge graph of your documents, with a numbered citation on every knowledge-based claim that opens its source.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • A live 0 to 100 content score that updates as the draft is written.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Keyword research, keyword gap and competitor analysis for the domains you work on.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Site audits graded for Google and for AI crawlers in one crawl.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, prompt by prompt, with share of voice against named competitors.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Backlink monitoring and brand mentions from Content + SEO Premium; local SEO geogrids, LinkedIn and WordPress auto-publishing on Marketing Suite.source, 12 Sept 2026

Pros

  • Every knowledge-based claim in a draft opens the passage it came from, so review is a check rather than a rewrite.
  • Research, writing, scoring, audits and AI visibility sit in one workspace instead of three or four tools.
  • Users are included in a flat workspace price, which matters most for teams of three to ten.

Cons

  • AI answers are re-checked every two weeks, with on-demand checks in between. Several dedicated trackers refresh daily. source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Five engines are tracked. Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode are not. source, 12 Sept 2026
  • There is no public API or MCP server. source, 12 Sept 2026
  • AI visibility is not on the entry plan; it starts on Content + SEO Premium. source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Keyword and backlink research covers the domains you work on, not a market-wide historical database. source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Billing is in INR through Razorpay only, and there are no published customer case studies yet. source, 12 Sept 2026

Pricing

  • Content + SEO Pro
    3 users included, excl. GST; ₹9,600/mo billed annually
    ₹12,000/mo
  • Content + SEO Premium
    5 users included, excl. GST; ₹16,000/mo billed annually
    ₹20,000/mo
  • Marketing Suite
    10 users included, excl. GST; ₹24,000/mo billed annually
    ₹30,000/mo
  • Marketing Plus
    Per engagement

Trial: 7 days on one SEO domain; nothing is charged until it ends. source, 12 Sept 2026

Not the right fit for: Solo writers, teams that need market-wide historical SEO data or an API, and anyone who needs AI answers re-checked daily.

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Profound: full reviewEnterprise AI visibility analytics with real prompt volume data, plus Agents that turn findings into content.

Profound

Answer engine optimization platform

Best for: Enterprise brands that want the deepest AI answer analytics and an agent layer to act on it.

Profound is a dedicated answer engine optimisation platform built for large brands. Its core modules are Answer Engine Insights for how brands appear in AI conversations, Prompt Volumes for what people actually ask AI systems, and Agent Analytics for how AI crawlers read your site, across engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek and Google AI Overviews.

It has added execution on top of measurement. Profound Agents create net-new content, refresh declining pages and generate FAQs using your brand kit, knowledge base, Answer Engine Insights and prompt data, with human approval before anything is published through a CMS integration. Profound raised a $96 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation in February 2026.

What it does

  • Answer Engine Insights: visibility tracking of how your brand is represented in AI conversations.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Prompt Volumes: intelligence on what people ask AI systems, rather than prompts generated from keywords.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Agent Analytics: crawl tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and more.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Agents that create net-new content, refresh pages and generate AEO FAQs from your brand kit and knowledge base, with human-in-the-loop approvals.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • CMS integration for publishing Agent output directly.source, 12 Sept 2026
  • Shopping, for product discovery optimisation in AI answers.source, 12 Sept 2026

Pros

  • The deepest measurement of any dedicated tracker compared here, including real prompt volume data.
  • Agents close the loop from finding to draft, with approval steps before publishing.
  • Enterprise controls on the top plan: SSO, SOC 2 and dedicated support.

Cons

  • The $99 Starter plan tracks ChatGPT only, with 50 prompts and one seat. source, 11 Sept 2026
  • Tracking three engines requires the $399 Growth plan; more than three is Enterprise. source, 11 Sept 2026
  • Keyword research, backlinks and technical site audits are not described on its product pages. source, 12 Sept 2026
  • The Agents page does not say which plans include Agents or how usage is metered. source, 12 Sept 2026

Pricing

  • Starter
    ChatGPT only; 50 prompts; 1 seat
    $99/mo
  • Growth
    ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews; 100 prompts; 3 seats
    $399/mo
  • Enterprise
    up to 9 answer engines
    Custom

Trial: “Try for free” offered on Growth; none listed on Starter. source, 11 Sept 2026

Recent changes

  • Raised a $96 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, announced 24 February 2026. source, 12 Sept 2026

Ratings, as the vendor states them

  • Profound’s own comparison page describes it as #1 on G2 for AEO with 300+ reviews. source, 12 Sept 2026

Not the right fit for: Small teams tracking more than ChatGPT on a budget, or anyone who needs a full SEO toolkit alongside.

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How the scores are calculatedThe arithmetic behind each score
ToolWeighted scoreCriteria scoredStrongest criterion
Veritas
Our product
708 of 8What happens after a gap
Profound596 of 8Prompts per dollar

Eight rules, each applied to the published facts in the reviews and weighted to a total out of 100. The rules and weights are set out in our methodology.

How we researched this pageMethod, what each vendor does not publish, and the update log

What each vendor does not publish

Where a figure below is missing, the charts say so rather than estimate it.

Veritas
  • Veritas does not publish security certifications, so this page claims none. Ask us directly if your procurement needs them.
Profound
  • Profound does not publish how often it refreshes results.
  • Profound does not say which plans include its Agents, or how Agent use is billed.

How we researched this page

Every fact about a tool other than Veritas comes from that vendor’s own pricing page, product pages, documentation or announcements. Each one is linked where it appears, with the date we read it.

We build Veritas and use it every day. We have not run paid accounts of every other tool on this page, so we describe what each vendor publishes rather than scores from tests we did not run. Where a capability was not described on a vendor’s pages, the table says exactly that, which is not the same as saying the product lacks it.

G2, Capterra and TrustRadius blocked our automated reads, so any rating shown is the figure the vendor publishes about itself, labelled as such.

Prices and plans change. We re-read every vendor page at least every 90 days and record what changed in the update log below.

The scores and cost figures on this page are calculated, not assigned. Our full methodology sets out every rule, what each criterion is worth, and where our evidence runs out.

Disclosure. Veritas is our product. It appears on this page because it competes in this category, and we have tried to state its limits as plainly as anyone else’s. If anything here is wrong or out of date, write to support@getveritas.io and we will correct it and note the change in the log.

Update log

  1. 15 September 2026Rebuilt verdict first: a short verdict with calculated figures, an engine-by-engine coverage grid and yearly cost charts, with full reviews, specs and method folded below. The intro was shortened; no facts were removed.
  2. 12 September 2026Rebuilt as a full review from each vendor’s product pages, documentation and announcements, not only pricing pages, with pros and cons, recent changes, a method section and this log. Corrected: Profound Agents create and publish content; the earlier version said writing happened in another tool.
  3. 11 September 2026Published.

How this page was made. Veritas is our product. This page was written with AI assistance and checked against the vendor pages linked beside each fact, on the dates shown. Scores and costs are calculated by our published rules.

Where this lives in Veritas

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