Sailiently in one minute
Sailiently answers one question — does AI recommend you? — and then helps you change the answer. The AI Visibility Tracker measures your buyers’ real questions across six engines and tells you where you are cited, mentioned, absent, or where nobody owns the answer yet. Citation Radar shows the open web those answers are drawn from. The GEO Optimization tools then audit the competitor pages that won, and draft the page that beats them. Re-run and see what moved.
What sets it apart against Profound and the rest of the category: it is pay-per-use — $1 = 1 credit, no subscription, a quiet month costs nothing — and it ends in a fix, not a dashboard. Every score is reproducible: paste any URL, including a rival’s, and check it yourself.
What Profound costs, and what that buys
Profound's own pricing page is demo-led, so figures below come from dated third-party sources rather than a live checkout. Treat them as reported, and confirm in a demo.
| Plan | Reported price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | reported ~$99/mo | ChatGPT only, around 50 tracked prompts (multiple reviews, May–June 2026). |
| Growth | reported ~$399/mo | About 100 prompts across three answer engines, single brand workspace. |
| Lite / Standard | reported ~$499/mo | 3 seats, unlimited domains, 24,000 responses analysed monthly (Arvow, May 2026). |
| Enterprise | custom | Third-party reviews in 2026 place enterprise deployments from roughly $2,000 to $5,000+ per month. |
Sources disagree, which is itself worth knowing: one 2026 review notes Profound does not publish official pricing and routes buyers to a demo. Verify before you budget.
Where the gap usually shows up
The engine you need is usually one tier up
Reviewers repeatedly note the entry plan tracks ChatGPT only — the moment you want Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews you are on the higher tier. Sailiently measures across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode with no tier to climb.
Prompt quotas price the experiment
Tracked-prompt limits mean you ration what you ask. With pay-per-use you decide what a question is worth, job by job.
Monitoring is the product
Profound's strength is intelligence and reporting depth. Turning that into a changed page is still your job — Sailiently's audit hands you a ranked fix list and the rewrite hands you a draft.
What Sailiently does instead
Six engines, no tier to climb, and a fix at the end
- All six engines in every job. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode — not ChatGPT on the entry plan and the rest one tier up.
- No prompt quota rationing your questions. You decide what a question is worth, job by job, rather than budgeting against a monthly allowance.
- A full site pass costs about $85, once. Not $399 every month, whether you used it or not.
- The deliverable is the work, not the dashboard. An impact-ranked fix list and a publish-ready draft grounded in your own content.
Start with the Tracker
Every question the AI Visibility Tracker measures comes back as one of four states: It runs across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, over multiple passes, because a single query is noisy.
CITED MENTIONED ABSENT OPEN
- CITED — Your domain appeared in the answer's source list.
- MENTIONED — Your brand was named in the answer text, without a link.
- ABSENT — Neither named nor cited — a competitor took the answer.
- OPEN — Nobody owns this answer yet — an opportunity to build the page.
A ten-prompt, six-engine run is 15 credits; thirty prompts is 35, or 45 with the LLM Mentions add-on, which shows the domains AI keeps drawing on across your whole category — including sites you would never have thought to check. That is what turns outreach into something targeted rather than guesswork.
Then fix what it found
Sailiently is pay-per-use. There is no monthly fee and nothing to cancel. You run a job, it costs credits, and the output is work you can hand to a client — measured across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode.
| Job | Cost | What you get back |
|---|---|---|
| Site Check | Free | Crawler-by-crawler access matrix — can AI engines reach you at all. |
| AI Visibility run | 15–45 credits | Your buyers' questions across six engines, multi-pass. 10 prompts × 6 engines is 15; 30 prompts is 35, or 45 with the LLM Mentions add-on. |
| URL Audit | 5 credits | Per-engine readability score for one page, with the evidence behind every factor and a ranked fix list. |
| Gap Analysis | 5 credits | Benchmarks your page against named competitor pages, gap by gap. |
| Page Rewrite | 10 credits | A publish-ready draft grounded strictly in your own content. Never auto-published. |
| Audit + Rewrite together | 12 credits | The pair, priced below buying them separately. |
| Citation Radar | 5–20 credits | Citations or Mentions 5 each; Rankings or AI Overviews 10 each; Citations + Rankings 15; All-in-One 20. |
$1 = 1 credit. Volume bundles: 100 credits for $85 · 250 credits for $175 · 500 credits for $350 · 1,000 credits for $700. A seven-page site pass is 7 × 12 = 84 credits ($84 at list), so the 100-credit bundle at $85 covers it with credits to spare. Every account starts with 15 free credits and no card.
Where Profound is genuinely stronger
We would rather you buy the right tool than buy ours. These are real advantages:
- Breadth of engine coverage at the enterprise tier is genuinely ahead of ours, and its Conversation Explorer reporting is widely praised for client presentations.
- It has far more historical data and a much larger research operation behind it — it raised $96M in February 2026.
- If you need daily always-on tracking of hundreds of prompts for one big brand, that is what it is built for and we are not a substitute.
Who should switch, and who should stay
Switch if…
You run client work per project, you want the fix rather than the dashboard, and a four-figure monthly commitment is not something your billing model supports.
Stay if…
You are an in-house team at a large brand with a standing AI-visibility budget, you need daily tracking across hundreds of prompts, or you need enterprise procurement, SSO and a named account manager.
Don’t take our word for it — reproduce it
Every signal we measure is a checkable fact: crawler access, structured data, server-rendered content, sitemap declaration. Paste any URL — ours, theirs, or a client’s — and reproduce the result. A Site Check is free and needs no card.
What we do not claim
- Per-engine scores are directional estimates, not a guarantee of placement.
- We measure what is on your page and what engines return. We do not measure off-domain authority, and we never promise citations, rankings or traffic.
- A rewrite is a draft grounded in your existing content. It invents no facts and it never publishes itself.
Frequently asked questions
Is Sailiently a direct replacement for Profound?
Not in every case, and we say so above. Profound is stronger on the points listed in the section above. Sailiently replaces it well if you want per-project economics and a fix list rather than a monitoring dashboard.
How much does Sailiently cost?
There is no subscription. $1 = 1 credit. A URL audit is 5 credits, a gap analysis 5, a page rewrite 10. A seven-page site pass is 7 × 12 = 84 credits ($84 at list), so the 100-credit bundle at $85 covers it with credits to spare. Every account starts with 15 free credits and no card.
Which AI engines do you measure?
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. All six are included; there are no per-engine add-ons.
Do you guarantee I will get cited?
No, and you should be wary of any tool that does. Citation depends on factors beyond your page, including off-domain authority we do not measure. We report what is measurable and hand you the highest-impact fixes.
Do credits expire?
Credits are bought as bundles and drawn down as you run jobs. There is no monthly fee underneath them, so there is nothing to cancel if you go a month without a project.