Scrunch AI Review and Alternatives
Scrunch AI is repositioning as an Agent Experience Platform. If you need the off-site half of the problem, here are six alternatives that do different things.
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Scrunch AI
scrunch.comAI search monitoring moving toward what the company now calls an Agent Experience Platform: brand citations, agent traffic on your own site, and site audits aimed at how AI agents read it.
Published price
- Core $250/mo (125 prompts, 4 engines, 1 brand workspace, 5 licences, 5 site audits a month, 7-day free trial)
- Enterprise Custom (9 engines, API access, SSO (SAML, OIDC), the Agent Experience Platform, dedicated account team)
Pick them when
You care as much about what AI agents do on your site as what they say about you elsewhere. Their agent traffic and site-audit work is the most developed in the category, and their entry tier is a genuine monthly price with a free trial.
Checked facts
- Its entry tier, Core, is $250 a month for 125 prompts and tracks four engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- All nine engines, API access and SSO are Enterprise only, at a price the page does not publish. (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- The company is repositioning from AI visibility monitoring to an "Agent Experience Platform", which its own announcement calls "no longer just a part of our product, but the product itself". (source, checked 2026-08-23)
Ranked by how far each one takes you
The job runs in three steps: read what the answer engines say, find the pages and people behind those answers, then send the approach. Most tools in this category do the first step only. Every cell below comes from the vendor's own published pages, and a field we have not checked says so rather than counting against them.
| Tool | Reads answer engines | Finds who can cite you | Drafts and sends | Cheapest paid tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mentionry (this site) | Yes | Yes | Yes | $99/mo |
| 2 | Featured.com | Yes | Yes | Not checked | $29/mo |
| 3 | AirOps | Yes* | No | No | Not published |
| 4 | Otterly.AI | Yes | No | No | $29/month |
| 5 | Peec AI | Yes | No | No | $80/mo |
| 6 | Profound | Yes | No | No | $99/month |
| 7 | Scrunch AI | Yes | No | No | $250/mo |
* AirOps: ChatGPT only, and only from its Solo tier up — the rest of the product is content production.
Why Mentionry is first: it is the only row that does not stop at the reading. It records what the answer engines on your plan say about you every day, then takes the pages those answers cited and finds the journalists, podcasts, awards and contributor programmes behind them, plus the pages linking to your competitors and not to you. Each opening is judged one at a time, and the ones worth taking arrive with the email already written. As with every tool here, the engines depend on the rung: $99 a month runs ChatGPT alone, $399 runs 3 engines, and the quoted tier runs every engine that can run.
Mentionry sends from your own connected mailbox. Whether a page then cites you is the publisher's decision, not ours, and nothing here is promised.
Why look for a Scrunch AI alternative
Scrunch AI announced in 2026 that it is no longer just an AI visibility tool. The company now calls its product an Agent Experience Platform. This means its development focus is on how AI agents read your website and what they do there.
That is a specific and valuable problem. It helps once an answer engine has already decided to send an agent to your site. Getting named in the answer in the first place is a different job. It happens on other people's pages.
If your work is off-site visibility, being cited and linked from pages you do not control, the tools you need are different. The rest of this page covers the real alternatives, each with what it is, its published price, who it suits, and where it falls short.
Scrunch AI
Scrunch AI is an AI search monitoring tool moving toward what the company calls an Agent Experience Platform. It tracks brand citations across answer engines, analyzes agent traffic on your own site, and runs site audits aimed at how AI agents read your content.
Its published Core plan is $250 a month. This includes 125 prompts, tracking across four engines, one brand workspace, five user licences, and five site audits per month. A seven-day free trial is available. All nine engines, API access, and single sign-on are reserved for a custom Enterprise tier.
Scrunch AI covers AI answer visibility and LLM visibility tracking. It does not cover journalist requests, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, bylined articles, unlinked mentions, outreach drafts, or backlink gap analysis.
- Pick Scrunch AI when you care as much about what AI agents do on your site as what they say about you elsewhere. Its agent traffic and site audit work is the most developed in the category.
- Pick an alternative when you want the off-site half. Its audits tell you how to make your own pages readable to an agent. That only helps once the answer already reaches your site.
Featured.com
Featured.com is an AI PR co-pilot that finds media opportunities and helps you pitch them. It is the company behind Connectively, which was formerly HARO. The tool surfaces journalist queries, podcast booking requests, speaking opportunities, award entries, and chances for bylined articles.
Its published pricing includes a Free tier with a daily credit allowance, a Lite plan at $29 a month billed annually, and a Pro plan at $79 a month billed annually. A Pro+ tier scales usage. The homepage lists link gap analysis and finding backlinks among its capabilities, but its pricing page does not include these features.
Featured.com covers journalist requests, finding journalists, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, bylined articles, AI answer visibility, and unlinked mentions. It does not cover backlink gap analysis, link prospecting, or resource page link building.
- Pick Featured.com when you want the earn channel and nothing else, you want it inexpensive, and you are happy to work inside a chat interface. It is good at this.
- Pick an alternative when you also need the links your competitors already have. That half of the problem is not in its product.
Peec AI
Peec AI is an AI search analytics tool. It tracks how often a brand appears in AI assistant answers and reports share of voice. The focus is on measurement.
Its published prices are annual billing prices presented as monthly figures. Starter is $80 a month for 50 prompts and three models. Pro is $205 a month for 150 prompts. Advanced is $420 a month for 350 prompts. A custom Enterprise tier offers up to eleven models and API access. All paid tiers let you choose three models from a list that includes ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and others.
Peec AI covers AI answer visibility and LLM visibility tracking. It does not cover journalist requests, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, bylined articles, unlinked mentions, outreach drafts, or backlink gap analysis.
- Pick Peec AI when you want measurement and nothing else, you have somebody to act on it, and you track a lot of prompts. At 350 prompts on Advanced it is cheaper per prompt than some alternatives.
- Pick an alternative when you want the reading and then the work. Measurement tells you that you are absent. It does not get you named.
Profound
Profound is an answer engine optimisation platform. It tracks how a brand appears across AI answer engines, reports estimated prompt volumes and agent traffic, and runs content agents against what it finds.
Its published prices are annual billing prices. The Starter tier is $99 a month and tracks ChatGPT only. The Growth tier is $399 a month and adds two more engines. A custom Enterprise tier is the only one with single sign-on and tracking for up to nine answer engines.
Profound covers AI answer visibility and LLM visibility tracking. It does not cover journalist requests, finding journalists, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, bylined articles, unlinked mentions, outreach drafts, or backlink gap analysis.
- Pick Profound when you are an enterprise, you want the deepest measurement in the category, and you want prompt volumes and agent traffic alongside it.
- Pick an alternative when you want the reading and then the work. Its agents write content. Others find the people who can cite you and draft the approach. You may also prefer a monthly term.
AirOps
AirOps is a content production platform with AI search visibility layered on top. It tracks prompts and pages, then runs workflows and agents to write and refresh content against what it finds.
Its pricing page publishes a figure for one tier only. The Insights tier is free. The Solo, Pro, Pages, and Enterprise tiers carry limits but no published price. The Solo tier's AI search insights cover ChatGPT only. Multi engine insights start at the unpublished Pro tier.
AirOps covers AI answer visibility and LLM visibility tracking. It does not cover journalist requests, finding journalists, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, unlinked mentions, outreach drafts, or backlink gap analysis.
- Pick AirOps when your bottleneck is producing content rather than knowing where you stand. The workflow and grid tooling is strong, and the free tier lets you try it.
- Pick an alternative when you want to know what a plan costs before you book a call. And when you want the off-site half: the pages the answers cited and the approach drafted and sent.
Otterly.AI
Otterly.AI is an AI search monitoring tool. It tracks brand mentions and link citations across AI answer engines, and includes prompt research and a generative engine optimisation audit.
Its published prices are monthly prices. The Lite tier is $29 a month for 15 prompts across four engines. Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Mode are paid add ons on every tier. The Standard tier is $189 a month, and Premium is $489 a month. Extra prompts are sold in blocks.
Otterly.AI covers AI answer visibility and LLM visibility tracking. It does not cover journalist requests, finding journalists, podcast guest booking, speaking opportunities, industry awards, bylined articles, unlinked mentions, outreach drafts, or backlink gap analysis.
- Pick Otterly.AI when you want to start cheaply and you want a monthly term. $29 for fifteen prompts across four engines is the lowest published monthly price in this category.
- Pick an alternative when fifteen prompts is not enough to answer what to do about being absent. Some tools read the answers, then find the pages and people behind them.
Mentionry
Mentionry finds the specific places a business can get a backlink, and writes the thing you have to send to get it. You give it a domain. It works out who that site competes with, then runs two engines. One finds pages that link to competitors and not to you, plus resource pages and directories. The other finds journalists asking for sources, podcasts booking guests, conferences taking speakers, awards taking entries, and articles that already name you without linking.
It also measures what the answer engines say about the business. The user writes the questions their buyers actually ask. Each one is run on a schedule, and the answer text, the sites it cited, the brands it named, and the queries the model searched are recorded. This measurement covers the engines on your plan, which can include Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.
Every opportunity comes with a drafted email, form submission, or reply, sent from the user's own connected mailbox. Links are verified after the fact. A link removed or turned nofollow later shows as a change. Mentionry sends the pitch. It cannot place or publish a link on somebody else's page.
- Pick Mentionry when you want the off-site half. It reads the answers, finds the pages and the people behind them, and drafts the approach from your own mailbox.
- Its gaps are part of the design. HARO, Source of Sources, and Connectively queries are not pulled in automatically. You paste one in and it is judged and drafted. Its AI answer visibility channel reads Google AI Overviews. The other engines are what answer engine tracking records. Several channels are not built, including broken link building, registries, and relationship inventory. Pricing starts from $99 a month on a monthly term, with an Agency tier that is quoted.
How to choose
The right tool depends on which half of the problem you are solving. If the work is on your own site, making it readable and actionable for AI agents, Scrunch AI and AirOps are built for that. If the work is off your site, being named and linked from pages you do not control, the tools split again.
For measurement alone, Peec AI and Profound offer depth and scale. For the outreach alone, Featured.com is inexpensive and capable. For both reading the landscape and acting on it, Mentionry and Otterly.AI combine the two, with Otterly.AI starting cheaply and Mentionry focusing on the actionable output.
Check the published price and the billing term. Several tools here advertise a monthly price that is only available on an annual contract. Others do not publish a price for the tier you need. The only way to know what you are buying is to read the pricing page.
Questions people actually ask
What is Scrunch AI's main focus now?
Scrunch AI is repositioning as an Agent Experience Platform. Its development focus is on how AI agents interact with your own website, including site audits and agent traffic analysis. This is distinct from tools that focus on getting your brand mentioned on other sites.
Which alternative is best for finding journalist queries and media opportunities?
Featured.com is built specifically for this. It surfaces queries from journalists, podcast booking requests, speaking opportunities, and award entries, and helps you pitch them. It is the successor to the HARO service and operates on a freemium model.
I just need to track my visibility in AI answers. What is the most cost effective option?
For pure measurement at scale, Peec AI's Advanced tier offers 350 prompts for a published $420 a month on an annual term, which is a low cost per prompt. For a low cost monthly entry, Otterly.AI's Lite tier is $29 a month for 15 prompts across four engines.
Does any tool automatically find and pitch for backlinks my competitors have?
Mentionry is built for this. It finds pages that link to your competitors and not to you, including resource pages and listicles. It then drafts the outreach email to be sent from your own mailbox. It does not place links, but it finds the opportunities and drafts the pitch.
Why do some tools have unpublished pricing?
Tools like AirOps and the Enterprise tiers of others use custom quotes to tailor packages for larger customers. This often includes higher limits, more engines, single sign on, and dedicated support. If you need a published price before a call, look at the tools with fully public pricing pages.
Run this against your own domain
Give it a domain and it works out who you compete with, mines the pages that link to them and not to you, judges every opening one at a time, and writes the email, the form or the reply. It sends them from your own mailbox, so the replies come to you.
Find out what your domain is missing
Every answer the engines give about you, read daily, with every source behind it sorted by who controls it. Some sites already have a pool worth working and some have everything left to earn, and this is the reading that tells them apart.
Know what the answer engines say about you, every day.
- Prompts tracked
- 50
- Readings a day
- 1
- Engines
- ChatGPT
- Every answer kept in full, not a score over it
- Which sites the engines cited, and who they named instead of you
- Marketplaces and paid placements filtered out, twice
Watch measures and stops there. Writing the pitches, sending them from your own mailbox and checking weeks later whether the citation appeared is what Earn adds.
Measure it, then go and change it.
- Prompts tracked
- 100
- Readings a day
- 1
- Engines
- ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
- Every answer kept in full, not a score over it
- Which sites the engines cited, and who they named instead of you
- Marketplaces and paid placements filtered out, twice
- All fourteen channels, judged one at a time with the reason kept
- The email, the form or the reply drafted for each opening
- Sent from your own mailbox, so the replies come to you
- Checked weeks later: which pitches actually became citations
One desk, every client's answer surface.
- Prompts tracked
- 400
- Readings a day
- 1
- Engines
- ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Claude and Google AI Overviews
- Every answer kept in full, not a score over it
- Which sites the engines cited, and who they named instead of you
- Marketplaces and paid placements filtered out, twice
- All fourteen channels, judged one at a time with the reason kept
- The email, the form or the reply drafted for each opening
- Sent from your own mailbox, so the replies come to you
- Checked weeks later: which pitches actually became citations
Creating an account takes no card. Billing is a person reading an email, so the plan you ask for is the plan you get.