Quolens vs Profound
Profound is the enterprise-heavy incumbent with a visual agent builder and US compliance certifications. Quolens is the instrument-grade reading: a Confidence Score on every number, the model-vs-live-grounding split, and an honest free tier. Here is where each one wins — including where we don’t.
Line by line — including where we lose.
We don’t hide the rows we don’t win. If Profound is the better tool for your job, this table should tell you — that’s the point.
Same prompt asked 3× per engine; the spread becomes a score on each datapoint.
No equivalent per-number reliability score in the public product framing.
Separates model memory from live web — the fix differs for each.
Strong source tracking; the explicit grounding split is not its framing.
Pull live readings straight into an MCP-capable client.
No public MCP endpoint we can verify; marked unknown rather than guessed.
Designed for EU data residency and GDPR from day one.
Compliant for EU customers via agreements, not EU-native by design.
One brand, a real reading across engines — no sales call.
Access is via demo / enterprise motion, not a public free tier.
Quolens is a measurement instrument, not an agent-building canvas.
A core, well-developed part of the Profound product.
We won’t claim certifications we don’t hold. On the roadmap, not done.
Established certifications for regulated US buyers.
Quolens reads answers; it has no licensed prompt-demand panel.
Licensed prompt-volume panels — a data moat nobody else matches.
Quolens measures the answer side, not your server logs.
Mature server-log AI-crawler analytics at scale.
We have no customer logos to show and won’t invent them.
A funded incumbent with 700+ customers, >10% of the Fortune 500.
Profound details reflect public positioning verified 2026-07-09; verify before quoting. Quolens is pre-launch — no customer logos or testimonials are shown, by design.
Pricing, with dates.
Free €0, Starter €49/mo, Pro €199/mo, Scale €499/mo — published, no card to start, 14-day full-depth trial.
Profound is sales-led: ~$99 Lite (ChatGPT-only), ~$399 Growth (3 engines), Enterprise ~$2k–5k+/mo for the full pool. Quolens publishes entry prices: Free €0, Starter €49, Pro €199.
Choose Profound if you need a visual no-code agent builder, real prompt-volume data, agent-traffic analytics, formal SOC 2 + HIPAA compliance, or an established enterprise vendor with a customer track record today. If your buying is US-enterprise procurement-first, Profound is built for that motion and Quolens is not — yet.
We’d rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one with our name on it. The honesty above is the whole product — an instrument that flatters itself isn’t one.
See exactly how we measureSee your own brand read against Profound.
A real reading across the engines that matter — your Share of Answer, a Confidence Score on every number, in about a minute. Free, no card.