Suparanku vs Profound
Profound is the best-known and best-funded product in this category, and on several points below it is genuinely ahead of us — more engines, daily measurement, and content that it drafts and publishes for you. Suparanku is a smaller, narrower system: one loop, any market, starting free, with Japan served the way a Japanese company serves it. This page says where each one wins.
Suparanku
- Your business
- Measure
- Prioritise
- Publish — on and off your site
- Record URL
- Measure again
and round again
You publish · nine brand languages · from ¥0
Profound
- Measure
- Recommend
- Draft
- Publish to your CMS
- Measure again
and round again
It publishes · nine engines · Enterprise for the full set
Feature by feature
Each bar shows which product is stronger on that point, and by how clear a margin. It is our reading of the facts in the two cards below it — never a score we made up.
What each product measures
AI engines
Profound covers nine engines. We cover four. There is no way to read this in our favour.
Suparanku
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
- Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Google AI Mode are not measured
Profound
- Nine: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek
- Tracks specific model versions, not just the product
- All nine need Enterprise; the $99 plan is ChatGPT only
Where the data comes from
Profound has three independent data sources. We have one, plus your Google accounts.
Suparanku
- We ask the questions ourselves and record every answer
- Demand is weighted from your Search Console where connected, otherwise estimated
Profound
- Its own daily scans, plus a licensed opt-in panel of real AI conversations
- That panel tells you what people actually ask — but searching it is Enterprise-only
- Plus real crawler logs from your CDN. They publish the modelling caveats openly
How often it measures
Profound measures every day. On paid plans we measure weekly.
Suparanku
- Weekly scans on paid plans, with movement shown scan by scan
- Free runs one scan ever — a snapshot, so no trend
Profound
- Every tracked question runs once a day
- New questions need 24–48 hours before data appears
How each measurement is taken
We average three answers per engine at every measurement, and we publish the method. Profound does not publish its.
Suparanku
- Every question asked three times per engine, then averaged — three is the floor, two is never valid
- Each answer marked with whether the model used web search
- The app warns you itself when a sample is too thin to trust
Profound
- Visibility is defined openly: answers naming you ÷ answers naming any brand
- How many times a question is asked per day is not documented publicly
What you learn from each answer
Each reports something the other does not. Neither list contains the other.
Suparanku
- Named or not, where in the list, and in what tone — with the reason
- Split by topic, buying stage, and branded vs unbranded
- The full text of every answer, and which sources it quoted
Profound
- Visibility, share of voice, sentiment by theme, citations and full answers
- Checks AI claims about you against your own facts and flags what is wrong
- Shows the searches models run behind a question, and how fast a citation decays
Crawler signals from your site
Profound reads your server logs. We read your Google data — a proxy, and we say so.
Suparanku
- AI traffic comes from your Search Console and GA4 — indirect, and documented as such
- No crawler-level telemetry — we do not have this
Profound
- Every AI crawler that requests a page, from your CDN, with no tag to install
- Nine documented integrations: Cloudflare, Vercel, Akamai, Fastly, AWS and more
Scoring your pages
We score every page 0–100 on whether an assistant can read it, as often as you like.
Suparanku
- Full-site crawls scoring every page 0–100 — not metered on any plan
- Deeper per-page checks with a page-speed measurement
Profound
- Finds pages blocked to AI bots, slow responses, JavaScript AI cannot parse, missing llms.txt
- Discovers your whole site from the sitemap and shows citation status per page
- A per-page readability score is not documented publicly
Turning findings into work
This is where Profound goes furthest, and where our boundary is deliberate.
What it tells you to do
Both turn measurements into a prioritised list. The shapes differ more than the substance.
Suparanku
- Three queues: your business facts, your website, your content
- Each card carries priority, effort and the playbook version that produced it
- Website fixes arrive with a snippet ready to paste, and close themselves once fixed
Profound
- Recommendations combining crawlability and citation data
- An assistant that watches your numbers and reacts when thresholds are crossed
- Reviewers report the dashboards need an analyst to read well
Producing content
Profound drafts the piece and publishes it to your CMS. We write the brief and stop.
Suparanku
- A full brief: what to write, plus a prompt for your own AI assistant
- We do not write or publish — a brief is not an article, and briefs are 0 on Free
Profound
- Agents research, draft and publish into your CMS, behind a human approval step
- Templates for content refresh, FAQ generation and net-new pieces
- Each agent run spends credits
Getting quoted on other sites
We tell you which sites to aim for. Profound runs the outreach and pays for the placement.
Suparanku
- Briefs name which outside sites to publish on, and why each was chosen
- A URL published anywhere becomes a tracked source
- We do not contact publishers or buy placements
Profound
- Identifies the publishers and authors most quoted in your category
- Hands that list to a partner that negotiates and pays for placements
Proving something worked
Both re-measure after you act. Ours needs you to record the URL; theirs watches pages for you.
Suparanku
- A published URL becomes a tracked source the next scan looks for
- Charts mark the first scan after you marked something published
- Content items do not close themselves — you must record the URL
Profound
- Watched pages, and a half-life measure for how fast a citation fades
- Because it published the page, it already knows which URL to watch
Where each one works
Japan and other languages
Profound is English-first and US-first. For a Japanese buyer that is the clearest difference on this page.
Suparanku
- Built in Tokyo: Japanese product and support, prices in yen, data in Japan
- Nine brand languages, questions asked in your market’s language
- Japan-specific tactics, not translated ones
Profound
- 30+ languages and 150+ regions claimed, from servers in 80+ countries
- Custom languages and regions are Enterprise-only
- No Japanese interface, docs, yen pricing, Japan data residency or Japan office documented. Japan is absent from both published panel country lists
If you are an agency
Their agency programme is more established. Ours hands you a report with your own name on it.
Suparanku
- Client reports co-branded “Suparanku × your logo” on every page
- A free audit you can run on any prospect’s domain
- No agency console and no full white-label yet
Profound
- A client portal, multi-brand tracking and a public partner directory
- A dedicated in-house agency team
- White-label reporting is not documented publicly
Getting in
What it costs to start
We start at ¥0, permanently. Profound has no free plan, and its cheapest tier is ChatGPT only.
Suparanku
- Free forever: one real scan across two engines, a site audit and a PDF report, no card
- Paid plans ¥29,800 and ¥148,000 a month, all four engines on Business
- Free gives one scan ever, 15 questions, no briefs, no MCP
Profound
- $99/month Starter — ChatGPT only, 50 questions, 1 seat, no exports
- $399/month Growth — three engines. Nine engines, the API and multi-brand need Enterprise
- No free plan — a free trial on Growth, then $99 or $399 a month, or two months free paid yearly
Access for your own tools
Profound offers more kinds of access; ours is unmetered on every paid plan.
Suparanku
- An MCP server with ~90 tools — read and write, on every paid plan
- No public REST API by design, and MCP is off on Free
Profound
- A documented REST API, Python and TypeScript SDKs, and a hosted MCP server
- API access is Enterprise-only
Which one is right for you
Pick Suparanku if…
- You sell in Japan or across languages and want that handled natively — Japanese product, support, yen and Tokyo data residency.
- You want to see real results before paying anything. Our free tier is permanent; Profound has no free plan.
- You want every page on your site scored 0–100 for AI readability, with no crawl quota.
- You want the sampling method published — three answers averaged at every measurement, and a warning when the sample is thin.
- Your budget is a mid-market budget: all four engines, briefs and MCP without an Enterprise contract.
- You are an agency that wants a report carrying your own logo, and a free audit to open doors with.
Pick Profound if…
- You need engine breadth: Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Google AI Mode are all covered, and we cover none of them.
- You want to know what people actually ask, from a licensed panel of real AI conversations — we estimate demand, they observe it. Enterprise plans only.
- You want the content drafted and published for you, and off-site placements negotiated and paid for. We stop at the brief.
- You want crawler telemetry from your own server logs, with no tag to install.
- You measure daily rather than weekly.
- You are an enterprise buyer who wants SSO, SOC 2, a REST API and a vendor with $154M behind it.
How Suparanku works: the closed loop
Suparanku is built around one repeatable cycle. GEO, LLMO and AEO are tactics inside this loop — the loop itself is the product.
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1. Your business, structured
A profile of what you sell and how buyers ask, built from your site and editable. Every number below depends on it.
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2. Measure what AI says
Real questions asked to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google AI Overviews: are you named, where, in what tone, next to whom, from which sources.
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3. Get a prioritised list
Three queues — your business facts, your website, your content — each card stamped with the version of the playbook that produced it.
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4. Publish, on and off your site
Briefs cover your own page and the outside sites the engines already quote in your market. Your team or agency writes and ships it.
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5. Record what you published
The URL becomes a tracked source, so the next scan knows what to look for.
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6. Measure again
Weekly scans show whether the answers moved — scan by scan, with a marker wherever the measured questions changed.
Sources
Every claim about the competitor on this page was checked against the sources below on September 1, 2026. Products change fast. If something here is no longer accurate, tell us and we will correct it.
- Profound — Answer Engine Insights (engines, metrics)
- Profound — Prompt Volumes (licensed panel method)
- Profound — Agents (drafting and publishing to CMS)
- Profound — Agent Analytics crawlability
- Profound — Citations and Earned Media Opportunities
- Profound — Noble nodes (off-site outreach and payment)
- Profound — Pricing
- Profound — Answer Engine Insights overview (daily cadence, visibility formula)
- Profound — Create and manage prompts (regions, languages, 24–48h)
- Profound — Agent Analytics integrations (CDN paths)
- Profound — API and SDK documentation
- Profound — MCP server announcement
- Profound — Series C, $96M at $1B valuation
- Profound — Solutions for agencies
- Profound — product changelog
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