The Profound Agency vs Placement API
A side-by-side look at the The Profound Agency and Placement API MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
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The Profound AgencyMarketingSearch, price and order press placements across 1,600+ publications. Free AI-visibility audits too.48FairAuth: no auth requiredVerdict: choose The Profound Agency for marketing work; choose Placement API for marketing over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
Which MCP server should you choose?
TChoose The Profound Agency when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Marketing domain.
- Its auth model fits you: No auth required.
- You want tools like
search_placements, quote_placements, plan_placements.
Choose Placement API when
- You need dedicated capabilities in the Marketing domain.
- You prefer a remote HTTP/SSE transport.
- You have the keys it needs:
PLACEMENT_KEY. - You want tools like
search_placements, plan_links, compare_domain.
Feature & specification comparison
Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | T The Profound Agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Marketing | Marketing |
| Quality signal | 48/100 · Fair | 48/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Not confirmed yet | Confirmed |
| Transport | — | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | No auth required | Not declared |
| Pricing | Free | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | PLACEMENT_KEY |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 0 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 6 | 5 |
| Full listing | View The Profound Agency | View Placement API |
Tools & capabilities
The Profound Agency tools 6
search_placementsSearch the network by price, Domain Authority, Domain Rating, category, region, turnaround, Google indexing and AI-crawler readiness.quote_placementsPrice a set of placements exactly as checkout would, fees included. Returns a link that opens the store with those placements in the cart. Reserves nothing.plan_placementsGive it a goal, audience and budget; get back a recommended set of publications, already quoted and inside budget.submit_campaign_briefAsk for a quote on a paid media campaign (display, CTV, social, search, audio, out-of-home). A person prices it and replies. Buys nothing.quick_visibility_checkAn instant check of five AI-visibility basics for any site: AI crawlers in robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data, title and description.request_auditRequest the full, free AI-visibility audit, scored out of 100. A person runs it and replies by email.
Placement API tools 5
search_placementsSearch ~550k priced placements deduplicated by domain, with verification, score and price plausibility on every rowplan_linksA brief in (links, topic, DR, budget, strategy) → a costed plan of named domains, each with `why`, held at price for four hourscompare_domainEverything about one publisher: listings and spread, verification, web-graph, survival, outcomes, Placement Score, market referencetarget_profileYour page's backlink profile and the competitor links you can reproducibly buy, pricedkeyword_winnersWhat the sites that rank for a keyword look like, and what they buy
Ready-to-paste client configs
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
The Profound Agency
No confirmed install command for The Profound Agency yet — follow the setup steps linked from its listing page rather than a guessed package name.
Placement API
{
"mcpServers": {
"placement-api": {
"url": "https://api.placementapi.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Frequently asked questions
The Profound Agency is categorized under Marketing and uses an install path we have not confirmed yet. Placement API belongs to Marketing and uses a remote HTTP/SSE transport. Pick The Profound Agency for marketing work and Placement API for marketing.
Copy the mcpServers block from the config section on this page into your client's config (for example claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json), then fully restart the client. The Profound Agency has no confirmed install command yet — follow its own setup instructions.
The Profound Agency is listed as free. Auth: no auth required. Placement API has no declared pricing — check the project's own site. If a server needs environment variables such as API keys, define them under the env key in your client's MCP config.
Yes. MCP clients support multiple servers: add the-profound-agency and placement-api as separate keys in the same mcpServers object, and your assistant will call tools from either one.
On AllMCPs, The Profound Agency has a quality signal of 48/100 (Fair) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars. Placement API has 48/100 (Fair) with 0 views, 0 installs and 0 GitHub stars.
