Scrunch AI alternatives (2026): priced, with engines per plan

Scrunch, often searched as Scrunch AI, is built for teams that want AI agents served an optimized version of their site. People look elsewhere when $250 a month for four engines in one country (the Core plan our browser was shown) is more than they need, or when they want fixes published rather than suggested.

Scrunch is a serious product: monitoring, citations, site audits and AI-agent traffic on its Core plan, and on Enterprise an Agent Experience Platform (AXP) that serves AI agents an optimized copy of your pages. If that agent-facing layer is what you are buying, it is hard to replace. The reasons teams switch are about the entry plan around it. This guide groups the alternatives by the reason you would switch. Every Scrunch fact was read from scrunch.com/pricing in a browser on 18 October 2026; the other vendors were checked on their own pages on 17 October 2026.

Our bias, stated up front: Stellarcast is our product, and it is one of the options below. We have kept every other entry to what its own site says.

What Scrunch costs and covers

Scrunch Core is $250 a month with a 7-day free trial. It includes 125 unique prompts, 5,000 responses a month, 5 site audits a month, one brand workspace and five user licenses, and it tracks four engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. Core covers one country, one language and one persona, with five competitors, one page optimization a month and basic content generation. Enterprise is custom: nine engines (adding Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Google AI Mode and Grok), unlimited countries, AXP, API access and SSO. Scrunch serves two versions of this page: a non-browser fetch on 17 and 18 October 2026 got Starter at $250 a month billed annually ($300 monthly) for 350 prompts on seven engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Mode, AI Overviews and Meta), and Growth at $417 billed annually. Ask Scrunch which one you would be buying; the points below use the Core version.

Why teams look beyond Scrunch

• Four engines at $250 on Core. Gemini and Google AI Mode are Enterprise only on the Core version of the page.
• One country and one language on Core. More markets mean an Enterprise conversation.
• Suggestions, not publishing. Core lists one page optimization a month and does not list CMS publishing; AXP changes what agents see, not your pages.

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The alternatives at a glance

Sources: each vendor's own pricing page. Scrunch checked 18 October 2026, the rest 17 October 2026. US dollars per month. Top tiers and trials are in the full pricing table.

If you want every engine on the entry plan, plus fixes: Stellarcast

Every Stellarcast plan checks Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot daily, so Gemini and AI Mode are not an upgrade. Diagnosis turns the results into specific gaps: a buyer question where a competitor is named and you are not. From the $89 Starter plan, Stellarcast drafts a fix for each gap; nothing publishes until you approve it, and approved fixes go to WordPress as drafts. From Growth ($249), every lift claim is labeled MEASURED, LIKELY or TOO-EARLY with a P25 to P75 range, and adding a market draws on your tracked-prompt allowance rather than a sales call. See the plans.

Where Scrunch is the better fit: Stellarcast does not serve AI agents a separate version of your site, and it does not run Claude, Grok or Meta AI on self-serve plans (Claude and Grok are sold on Enterprise).

If budget is the constraint: Otterly.AI, Rankscale or Peec AI

Otterly's Lite plan is $29 a month for 15 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Copilot, the same four engines as Scrunch Core, with Gemini, AI Mode and Claude as paid add-ons. Rankscale's Essentials plan is $17 a month billed yearly only, and Pro is $99; it covers 21 engines on credits that each engine consumes at a different rate. Peec AI's Starter is $95 a month for 50 prompts on three engines you pick from six. All three are trackers first: none publishes fixes to your site.

If you need more than one market: SE Visible, Peec AI or Stellarcast

SE Visible's Basic plan is $99 a month ($79 on annual billing) for 200 prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode, Perplexity and AI Overviews, and it lists seven countries (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain) in five languages. Peec AI's Pro plan ($245) covers three countries with unlimited languages. On Stellarcast each market is measured with native-language prompts, and each prompt tracked in each market counts once against your plan's allowance.

If you want enterprise depth and agent traffic: Profound

Scrunch's Core plan reports AI agent and bot traffic. Profound's closest equivalent is Agent Analytics, which tracks AI-sourced traffic across unlimited domains with integrations including Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, Vercel and WordPress. Its brand plans are a free 7-day trial (50 prompts on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews) and then Enterprise by contract, with up to nine engines. Our Profound vs Scrunch comparison sets the two side by side.

If you want actions on a Shopify or Webflow site: AthenaHQ

AthenaHQ has a free Essential tier and a $295 Starter plan that tracks 11 engines, and its plans page lists on-page and off-page actions with Shopify and Webflow integrations. Its Starter plan covers a single market. Our AthenaHQ alternatives guide covers what sits around it.

How to choose

• Stay with Scrunch if serving AI agents an optimized site is the job and an Enterprise contract fits.
• Pick a budget tracker if you only need to know whether the same four engines mention you.
• Pick SE Visible or Peec AI for more prompts or more countries per dollar.
• Pick Profound for enterprise depth and agent traffic attribution.
• Pick Stellarcast if you want every engine we run on the entry plan, gaps fixed and the lift proven, at a public price.

For the wider field, see the best AI visibility tools in 2026.

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