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QuQi vs Profound: deep AI search data, or a working crew

Profound is the deeper AI search tool: up to 9 engines read daily, prompt demand data, bot logs and Agents that publish to a CMS after approval. QuQi checks four engines weekly and spends its effort on the rest of one website’s work: articles, daily posts and page fixes. Pick Profound for enterprise measurement, and QuQi for getting the work done.

Choose Profound if
  • You report on AI search for a large brand and need daily data.
  • You want Claude, Copilot and Google AI Mode tracked as well.
  • Your site runs on Adobe Experience Manager, Contentful or Sanity.
Choose QuQi if
  • You run one website and want a plan you can start today.
  • You want posts on Instagram, TikTok and seven more channels.
  • You want page titles and schema fixed live, with an undo.

Who does the work, step by step

An AI search week, from the first check to the follow-up, with each tool.

01

Check the AI answers

With ProfoundPrompts run daily through each engine’s own web interface, on up to 9 engines with Enterprise.
With QuQiOn Wednesdays AI Visibility checks the prompts most due, up to 10 a run, on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews.
02

Find what to fix

With ProfoundAim spots openings and writes briefs, and Pages shows each URL’s citation share and health.
With QuQiEach prompt you lose turns into an idea for Copywriter, and SEO Auditor’s weekly audit lists the pages to fix.
03

Write the content

With ProfoundAn Agent drafts the article or refresh from a template, using what Context Manager knows about your brand.
With QuQiCopywriter reads the top results and writes it section by section in your voice, with pictures and internal links.
04

Publish

With ProfoundAfter approval, the Agent publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Contentful, Sanity or another connected CMS.
With QuQiIt goes to Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Ghost or Notion on its day, and new titles and schema go live through QuQi Edge.
05

Measure the result

With ProfoundAim measures the result in the same visibility data it started from.
With QuQiThe next run shows, prompt by prompt, whether you are now cited or only mentioned, and who still appears in your place.

QuQi vs Profound, feature by feature

What it does Profound QuQi
Articles and your website
Writes long-form SEO articles Yes Agents draft new articles, page refreshes and FAQs Yes Researched, written in your voice, with pictures and internal links
Publishes them to your website by itself Yes WordPress, Webflow, Contentful, Sanity and more, after approval Yes WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, Notion or a webhook; Wix as draftsEvery paid plan
Writes in your brand’s voice Yes Context Manager holds your positioning and brand guidelines Yes Read from your website, with the words to use and avoid
SEO and AI search
Audits the site’s technical SEO Partly Page health, content score and AI bot visits for each URL Yes A weekly audit of 56 checks
Puts page fixes live, with an undo Partly An Agent reworks a page and stages it in your CMS Yes Titles, descriptions and schema, live through QuQi EdgeEvery paid plan
Keyword and backlink database to explore Partly Prompt Volumes, plus Moz keyword and link data in Pages No It researches keywords for its own articles
Checks whether AI assistants recommend you Yes Up to 9 engines on Enterprise, answers captured daily Yes ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, weekly
Pictures and video
Makes on-brand pictures and carousels Partly Images from a prompt or references, and a Getty search Yes In your website’s fonts, logo and colours
How the work happens
Works on a calendar without being asked Yes Agents run on a schedule, or when visibility moves Yes Each teammate has its own days and times
Asks before anything goes live Yes Every Agent run has an approval step Yes Articles, posts and page fixes each have a switch
Answers any question, on any subject Partly AI Marketer researches and writes marketing work Partly Its chat is about your website and its marketing
Seats for a team Yes Unlimited seats for brands, 5 on Agency Growth Yes Owner, admin, editor and viewer roles
API Partly API on Enterprise, and an MCP server Yes REST API, webhooks and an MCP server

QuQi’s column is for a paid plan. The free plan audits and analyses the website, and publishing starts on a paid plan.

Profound’s details were checked on October 18, 2026 on its own pages: tryprofound.com/pricing, tryprofound.com/features/answer-engine-insights, tryprofound.com/features/agents, tryprofound.com/integrations, tryprofound.featurebase.app/changelog . Plans and features change, so check there before you buy. Profound is a trademark of its owner; QuQi is not affiliated with it.

What each one costs

Profound offers brands a 7-day trial and then an Enterprise package quoted through a demo, with Agents paid in credits; agencies get a self-serve plan and add client workspaces one by one. QuQi is priced per website on plans you choose yourself, and the whole crew draws on one monthly balance of credits.

Profound
EnterpriseCustom prompts, up to 9 engines, API, exports and SSO
Custom pricing
Agency GrowthFor agencies: 5 seats, pitch workspaces, clients extra
$99 a month
Agency EnterpriseTailored client workspaces and an agency partner
Custom pricing

A 7-day free trial · As listed on October 18, 2026 · Profound’s pricing page

QuQi
FreeAudits and analyses the website. Publishing starts on a paid plan.
Free
Starter300K credits a month for the whole crew
$29 a month per website$24.17 a month billed yearly
Growth800K credits a month for the whole crew
$79 a month per website$65.83 a month billed yearly
Scale2M credits a month for the whole crew
$199 a month per website$165.83 a month billed yearly

Billed per website. The whole crew shares the credits, and unused plan credits carry over for a month. See pricing

Where Profound is stronger

  • Engine coverage and freshness: up to 9 engines, Claude and Copilot included, read every day through their own web interfaces.
  • Prompt Volumes, a dataset of real prompts across 35 countries, to choose what is worth tracking.
  • Agent Analytics from Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, Vercel and other logs, with citation share for every page.
  • Enterprise readiness, with SSO, SAML and SOC 2 on its pricing page and a CMS list that includes Adobe Experience Manager.

Where QuQi is stronger

  • Social posting on nine channels every day, with a picture or carousel made for each post in your website’s fonts and colours.
  • A weekly audit of 56 checks, AI crawlers blocked in robots.txt among them, and page fixes live through QuQi Edge with an undo.
  • Short videos from Video Producer, with a voice, music and your shop’s own products.
  • Plans per website that a small business starts on its own, with team seats included.

Using Profound and QuQi together

A brand that already measures AI search in Profound can keep it for the reporting and hand QuQi the weekly output for one site: articles on Mondays and Thursdays, posts every day and fixes to titles and schema. Profound’s data then shows whether that work moves the answers.

Both reach your AI assistant. Profound has an MCP server for its data, and QuQi’s MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor start articles and posts, so one assistant can read the numbers and order the work.

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Every comparison

QuQi vs Profound: common questions

Is QuQi cheaper than Profound?

They are sold in different ways. Profound quotes brands an Enterprise package after a demo, and agencies pay a base plan plus each client workspace. QuQi lists its plans per website on its pricing page, with the crew and team seats included.

Can I use Profound and QuQi together?

Yes. Keep tracking the engines you report on in Profound, and add the same prompts to QuQi’s AI Visibility so both check the same questions. QuQi’s crew then does the writing, posting and page fixes for the site.

What is Profound’s AI Marketer?

AI Marketer, or Aim, is Profound’s always-on agent. It spots openings in your AI search data, writes briefs, builds Agents to do the work and measures what changed. QuQi’s crew is set up for you when you add a website, each teammate on its own days.

Does QuQi fix pages for AI search?

Page Optimizer rewrites titles, descriptions, schema and social previews and puts them live through QuQi Edge, and SEO Auditor flags AI crawlers that robots.txt blocks. Profound’s Pages view scores each URL and hands a fix to an Agent, and its Dynamic Bot Rendering serves AI bots a rendered page.

Meet your crew

Add your website. QuQi reads it, puts the crew together, and the SEO Auditor starts the first audit.

See what the crew does in your industry