Profound kills $99 and $399 paid tiers for a single free trial plan
What happened
Between the Sep 14, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026 captures of Profound's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Profound dropped paid self-serve tiers (Starter $99/mo, Growth $399/mo), replacing them with a single free Trial plan; Enterprise remains the only custom-priced tier; Enterprise plan's supported AI-platform coverage list swapped Grok for Exa Search; ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode/Gemini/Overviews, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, and Anthropic Claude coverage unchanged. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price hidden, feature change) with a downward direction.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Profound. Profound has been tracked since 2026-07-22.
In the same window Fireflies.ai and Fathom also changed their Marketing & Content pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Trial · Price visibilityRemovedpaid self-serve tiersNo paid self-serve tiers
- Enterprise · FeatureReplacedGrokExa Search
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | Price visibility | paid self-serve tiers | No paid self-serve tiers | Removed |
| Enterprise | Feature | Grok | Exa Search | Replaced |
Values as written on Profound's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Profound's pricing page (tryprofound.com) from Sep 14, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where the paid self-serve tiers no longer appears.
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Profound, pricing history
Full history- Oct 19, 2026packagingProfound adds Projects to free Trial plan, renames Opportunities tool
- Sep 28, 2026packagingProfound: Trial plan expanded to 50 prompts, adds Gemini + Google AI Overviews
- Sep 21, 2026packagingProfound kills $99 and $399 paid tiers for a single free trial plan · this change
Across Marketing & Content in the same window
All Marketing & Content changesQuestions about this change
Did Profound raise prices in September 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 14, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: price hidden, feature change.
What changed on Profound's pricing page between Sep 14, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026?
Trial price visibility: paid self-serve tiers → No paid self-serve tiers, removed; Enterprise feature: Grok → Exa Search, replaced. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 14, 2026 and Sep 21, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Profound change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Profound in the 90 days before this one; Profound has been tracked since 2026-07-22.