Prompt Volumes Overview

Last updated: November 18, 2025

Use Prompt Volumes to analyze Profound’s large dataset of prompts that have been submitted to AI answer engines. With Prompt Volumes you are able to identify trending questions, surface emerging topics, and recognize action opportunities for your brand. 

Prompt Volumes allows you track the macro-trends occurring across AI answer engines, which enables you to craft content that will cater to how users are interfacing with these tools. This knowledge-driven approach allows you to focus on initiatives that will maximize your brand’s presence across AI platforms. 

Prompt Volumes Dataset

The Prompt Volumes dataset is an aggregation of real prompts submitted to AI answer engines by actual users.

Profound builds this dataset by licensing AI answer engine conversations, cleaning the data, and applying probabilistic modeling to create meaningful extrapolations and digestible visualizations. This gives you access to real-world answer engine usage insights

Profound currently aggregates prompt data from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.

All prompt data is anonymized, aggregated, scrubbed of PII, and fully compliant with GDPR and CCPA.

Keywords

Keywords are concise words or phrases used to search across the Prompt Volumes dataset.

Profound measures the prevalence of a keyword (or similar phrases) across conversations between AI answer engines and end users. These insights allow you to adjust your brand strategy based on the specific language being used across answer engine tools.

Lists

Lists are collections of keywords related to your projects. You can group related keywords within a list and track their prevalence over time.