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Scrunch AI pricing and Scrunch AI alternatives compared

Scrunch AI pricing starts at $250 a month on Starter billed yearly, or $300 month to month, for 350 custom prompts and 3 seats. Growth is $417 a month yearly or $500 monthly, and Enterprise is quoted. MentionRadar is a Scrunch AI alternative from $49 a month that tracks AI answers and the web mentions behind them in one plan.

  • AI answers plus web mentions in one plan
  • Starter at $49, Growth at $149 a month
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Every Scrunch AI plan and price in one table

List prices from the Scrunch pricing page, checked in October 2026. Yearly billing takes 17 percent off, which Scrunch describes as two months free.

Scrunch AI plans with monthly price and limits
Plan Billed yearly Month to month Custom prompts Industry prompts Page audits Seats
Starter $250 a month $300 a month 350 1,000 5 3
Growth $417 a month $500 a month 700 2,500 10 5
Enterprise Custom quote Custom quote Custom Custom Custom Custom

Scrunch Starter for one year, billed yearly

$3,000

Each extra Scrunch seat, per month

$25

MentionRadar Starter for one year, billed yearly

$288

Scrunch's own help center still lists an older lineup, a Core plan at $250 with 125 prompts and an Agency Core plan at $500 a month. The pricing page is newer, so the table above follows it. If you are quoted on the old plans at renewal, ask which limits apply to your contract.

What you pay for with Scrunch, and what you do not get

Scrunch is built for one job: measuring and improving how a brand shows up in AI answers. You get a large prompt allowance, personas that run the same question as different buyer types, page audits that check whether AI crawlers can read your site, and coverage of seven AI surfaces including Meta AI and Google AI Mode.

What it does not do is brand monitoring of the open web. A Reddit thread calling your onboarding slow, a review on G2, a news story or a Hacker News post will not show up in Scrunch. Those are often the exact pages AI engines cite, so many teams end up paying for a second listening tool next to it.

MentionRadar puts both views in one plan. Every weekly AI run stores whether you are named, your position, whether you are recommended, the competitors named instead and the cited pages, and the same workspace collects mentions from news, blogs, forums, Reddit, reviews, YouTube and X. The AI visibility tracker page shows that view in detail.

Scrunch AI vs MentionRadar feature by feature

An honest table. Scrunch tracks more AI engines and far more prompts per dollar, and we say so.

Scrunch AI compared with MentionRadar
Scrunch AI MentionRadar
Entry price $250 a month yearly, $300 monthly $49 a month, half off billed yearly
Prompts on the entry plan 350 custom prompts 15 prompts run weekly
AI engines ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Meta AI ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, plus Gemini and Claude from Growth
Personas and page audits
Pages AI engines cite From Growth
News, blogs, forums and review sites
Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube and X mentions
Sentiment and share of voice on mentions
Alerts on negative or high reach mentions Email on every plan, Slack from Growth
Seats on the entry plan 3, extra seats $25 a month 1 on Starter, 5 on Growth
Trial 7 days of Starter One-time brand scan before signup
SSO Enterprise Enterprise

Pick Scrunch if AI search is a full program for you, with hundreds of prompts, persona testing and technical audits run by an SEO team. Pick MentionRadar if you need to know what AI assistants and the web say about your brand and your competitors, and 15 to 150 tracked prompts cover the questions your buyers ask. All limits are on the MentionRadar pricing page.

Scrunch AI alternatives by budget

Public list prices, checked in October 2026. They change often, so confirm on each vendor's site before you buy.

Otterly AI

Budget prompt tracking from $29 a month on Lite. Gemini, AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons.

Otterly AI alternatives and pricing

Peec AI

Self-serve AI search analytics with daily runs and multi-country prompts, priced per engine.

Peec AI alternative compared

Profound

Enterprise AI visibility with the widest engine list, sold through sales to large brands.

Profound alternatives for smaller teams

MentionRadar

AI answer tracking plus web mentions, sentiment and share of voice from $49 a month.

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Which MentionRadar plan replaces your Scrunch plan

Match the work you actually do in Scrunch today with the plan that covers it, web mentions included.

Testing AI visibility

MentionRadar Starter

$49 a month

15 weekly prompts in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, 3 keywords, 3 competitors and 5,000 web mentions a month.

Scrunch Starter, small team

MentionRadar Growth

$149 a month

40 prompts in five AI engines with cited pages, 30,000 mentions, 5 seats, Slack alerts and scheduled PDF reports.

Agency client reporting

MentionRadar Agency

$499 a month

15 client workspaces, 150 prompts, 150,000 mentions, white-label reports and read-only client access.

Scrunch Enterprise

MentionRadar Enterprise

$999 a month

300 prompts, 300,000 mentions, unlimited seats, SSO (SAML), audit log and a 99.9 percent uptime SLA.

Prompt count is the one number to check before you move. If your Scrunch account runs 300 or more prompts and someone reviews them every week, MentionRadar will not replace that, and Scrunch is the better value per prompt. If you track a few dozen buyer questions and spend the rest of your time on what people say about you online, you are paying for capacity you do not use. Agencies can see how client workspaces work on the page about reputation management software for agencies.

Move from Scrunch in an afternoon

  1. 1

    Export your best prompts

    Pick the prompts that drive decisions, usually the "best tool for" and "alternative to" questions buyers ask. Those become your weekly prompts here.

  2. 2

    Scan your brand at the top

    Enter your brand and one competitor. You see recent web mentions and a real AI answer before you create an account.

  3. 3

    Add keywords and competitors

    Your brand, product names and rivals start collecting mentions from news, Reddit, reviews and forums on the first day.

  4. 4

    Set alerts and a monthly report

    Turn on alerts for negative or high reach mentions, schedule the PDF report, then stop Scrunch before the renewal date.

Who should stay with Scrunch

Stay if you need Meta AI or Google AI Mode in the report, if persona testing and AI crawler audits are part of your SEO work, or if you run hundreds of prompts and a $250 to $500 monthly bill is small next to that program.

Who should switch

Switch if you mainly want to know whether ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend you, which pages they cite, and what Reddit, reviews and the press say in the same week. That is the daily work of our AI rank tracker and reputation monitoring software, both in the same plan.

Questions buyers ask about Scrunch AI pricing and alternatives

How much does Scrunch AI cost?

Scrunch AI costs $250 a month on the Starter plan when billed yearly, or $300 a month month to month, for 350 custom prompts, 5 page audits and 3 seats. Growth is $417 a month billed yearly or $500 monthly, with 700 prompts and 5 seats. Enterprise is priced by quote and adds SSO and a data API.

Does Scrunch AI have a free trial?

Yes. Scrunch lists a 7 day trial of Starter with instant signup and no credit card on its pricing page, covering 350 custom prompts, 3 personas, 5 page audits and 3 users. Older help center pages still describe a card-required trial, so read the terms at signup. MentionRadar offers a one-time brand scan at the top of this page instead.

Which AI engines does Scrunch AI track?

Scrunch lists ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Meta AI on its pricing page. That is wider coverage than MentionRadar, which tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on Starter and adds Gemini and Claude from Growth. Neither tool needs you to pay per engine.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Scrunch AI?

Yes. MentionRadar Starter is $49 a month and Growth is $149, both with AI answer tracking plus web mentions from news, Reddit, reviews and forums. Otterly AI starts at $29 a month for prompt tracking only. Peec AI is another self-serve option. The trade off is prompt volume, where Scrunch Starter gives far more prompts than either.

What is the difference between Scrunch Starter and Growth?

Growth doubles custom prompts from 350 to 700, raises industry prompts from 1,000 to 2,500, page audits from 5 to 10, personas from 3 to 5 and seats from 3 to 5. The price goes from $250 to $417 a month billed yearly, or from $300 to $500 month to month. Extra seats cost $25 a month on any plan.

Who are Scrunch AI competitors?

The closest Scrunch AI competitors are Profound and Peec AI for dedicated AI search visibility, Otterly AI at the budget end, and Semrush with its AI toolkit for teams already paying for SEO software. MentionRadar competes where a team wants AI answer tracking and brand monitoring of the open web in the same dashboard.

See what AI assistants say about you before you sign a contract

Scan your brand and one competitor. You get recent web mentions and a real AI answer in about a minute, then pick a monthly plan with AI tracking included.