Alvaro Peña de Luna 
Scrunch AI, now a Sitecore company, is an enterprise-grade AI visibility platform whose headline feature is the Agent Experience Platform: a version of your site served to AI agents. Its self-serve Core plan is a way to evaluate the product, and it shows: $250 a month for four engines, one country, one language, and no API or MCP. If Core is too narrow and Enterprise too big, these are the alternatives to compare.
Prices are the public list prices on each vendor’s site on 18 October 2026, except Otterly.AI and SE Visible, rechecked on 11 November 2026 after both changed their plans, and Peec AI, rechecked the same day. We build one of these tools, Mencoro, and describe the others as we would want ours described.
Why look for a Scrunch alternative
- Four engines on Core. ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Copilot. Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, AI Mode and Grok are Enterprise.
- One country and one language on Core.
- No API, MCP or Looker Studio below Enterprise.
- Data depth. G2 reviewers mention data limitations and restricted exports, and ask for a lighter plan.
Scrunch alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Entry price (list, Oct 2026) | Engines | API on entry plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mencoro | €15/mo for 200 checks | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, AI Overview, AI Mode, plus Google SERP | Yes, plus MCP |
| Peec AI | €85/mo, 50 prompts | 3 of your choice, more as add-ons | From Pro (€205) |
| Otterly.AI | $29/mo, 16 prompts | 7 in credits, at least 3 per workspace | From Standard ($189) |
| AthenaHQ | Free plan, Starter $295/mo | 11 on Starter | Paid add-on |
| SE Visible | €80/mo, 75 prompts | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot | Yes, plus MCP |
| Rankscale | $17/mo Essentials (yearly), $99/mo Pro | 17+, priced in credits | From Pro+ ($229) |
| Profound | Quote after a 7-day trial | Up to 9 on Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Brandlight | Demo only | Not listed in text | Not stated |
The best Scrunch alternatives
1. Mencoro
Mencoro gives you what Core leaves out at a much lower entry price: AI Mode and Claude alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overview, any of 196 countries per query (36 for Claude), the Google SERP and Shopping in the same project, and the REST API and MCP server on every plan. Mentions are classified into five types and scored for sentiment, and share of voice is weighted by both. Pricing is per check from €15 a month, with unlimited projects, competitors and users, and a Claude pass uses five checks. It does not have an equivalent of Scrunch’s agent-facing pages, and it does not track Copilot or Gemini.
2. Peec AI
Peec AI tracks daily with unlimited users from €85 a month for 50 prompts on three models of your choice, and has strong source analytics, AI Shopping and agent analytics. The API starts on Pro (€205), and the MCP server is on every plan.
3. Otterly.AI
Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month for 16 prompts and, since 10 November 2026, prices every plan in credits: all seven of its engines, the four of Scrunch Core included, are available on every plan, and each workspace picks at least three. Standard, at $189, gives 120 prompts on four engines with the API, the MCP server and a Looker Studio connector.
4. AthenaHQ
AthenaHQ covers 11 engines on its $295 Starter plan, including the five Scrunch reserves for Enterprise, with prompt volumes and content actions. It is also limited to one region on Starter.
5. SE Visible
SE Visible, from SE Ranking, starts at €80 a month for 75 prompts and five projects, with the API, an MCP server and a 10-day trial on every plan. The engines are ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot, and Claude comes only with Agency (€355, 1,000 prompts). Basic tracks one location per project; Core and Agency, unlimited locations.
6. Rankscale
Rankscale covers more than 17 engines and all regions on its $99 Pro plan, priced in credits per engine, with page audits, shopping analysis and an MCP server.
7. Profound
If Scrunch Enterprise is on your shortlist, Profound is its closest peer: up to nine engines, agent analytics, ChatGPT Shopping and content agents, priced by quote after a free trial.
8. Brandlight
Brandlight is the other enterprise option, built for Fortune 500 brands, with technical health monitoring, publisher intelligence and agentic commerce. There is no public price or trial.
How to choose
- If you need an API or MCP without Enterprise, Mencoro, SE Visible and Otterly.AI (Standard) include them.
- If you need several countries, Mencoro charges them per check and Rankscale Pro includes all regions.
- If agent-facing pages are the reason you chose Scrunch, compare it with the enterprise platforms rather than with trackers.
See also our comparisons of AI brand monitoring tools and AEO tools. To track more engines and countries from a small budget, Mencoro starts at €15 a month.
Which tool to choose for your case
Before it recommends a tool, ChatGPT asks who it is for, what you want to measure, your budget, the engines and the market. These are its options, in its words, with the tools we would compare for each one. Where another tool fits better, it comes first.
What's your main goal?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Whether ChatGPT recommends my business or brand | Mencoro, Peec AI, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro records every brand an answer names and classifies each mention into one of five types, from a direct recommendation to a passing reference, with its position in the answer and a 0 to 100 favorability score. You see whether ChatGPT recommends you, not only whether it names you. |
| Monitor competitors and share of voice | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. Add as many competitors as you want, each with its names and domains. Share of voice is weighted by the quality of each mention, and every answer lists the brands the AI names that you do not track yet, so a new rival shows up before it takes the category. |
| Whether my website gets cited in ChatGPT answers | Mencoro, Profound, Ahrefs Brand Radar | Yes. Every answer is stored with its sources. For ChatGPT they include the pages its web search retrieved even when the text does not cite them, which is where you find the sites that shape the answer. Mencoro shows how often your domain is cited and which of your pages. |
| Monitor sentiment and incorrect brand information | Mencoro, Peec AI | Yes. Every mention of your brand gets a favorability score and the full answer text is saved, so you can read exactly what ChatGPT says about your prices or features and catch a wrong claim. |
| Keyword rankings and AI search visibility for SEO | Mencoro, Semrush, Ahrefs | Yes. The same project tracks your Google top 10 for keywords next to AI Overview and AI Mode for the same searches, so you see when you rank and the AI answer still names someone else. |
| Build an automated monitoring dashboard or API | Mencoro, Profound | Yes. Everything in the app is in the REST API, with an OpenAPI contract, and in an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants, so your own dashboard reads the data with no CSV exports. |
| Track AI bots crawling my website and technical access | Mencoro free tools | Yes, for free. The AI crawler checker tells you which AI bots your robots.txt lets in, the log file analyzer shows which ones actually visited, and the AI crawler index lists every bot with a way to verify it is real. |
| Get my brand recommended by ChatGPT and other AI tools | Mencoro with Growwer, Scrunch, AthenaHQ | Partly. Mencoro tells you what to fix: the prompts where competitors appear and you do not, and the sites the AI cites in those answers. The fix is content and mentions on those sites. Growwer, from the same company, places articles on the media that AI engines cite. |
| Offer AI visibility reporting to clients | Mencoro, Peec AI, Semrush | Yes. Each client is its own project and sees only its data, and the white label puts your brand on the dashboards, report exports and emails. Projects are unlimited on every plan, so a new client costs only its checks. |
| Measure AI-driven traffic and conversions | Google Analytics 4, Mencoro | No. Mencoro measures whether and how AI names and cites you, not the visits that follow. ChatGPT visits arrive in Google Analytics 4 tagged utm_source=chatgpt.com, so measure traffic and revenue there and use Mencoro to explain why it moves. |
| Generate and optimize content | Writesonic, AirOps, Surfer | No. Mencoro does not write or rewrite content. It tells you which prompts you are missing and which pages the AI cites for them, which is the brief; a content tool does the writing. |
| Negative mentions, reviews, social media, and PR issues | Brand24 | No. Mencoro reads AI answers, not social networks, reviews or news. For social listening and PR alerts use a tool such as Brand24, and keep Mencoro for what ChatGPT and Google's AI say about you. |
What's your monthly budget?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Mencoro free tools, Ahrefs AI Visibility Checker, HubSpot AEO Grader | Partly. Mencoro has no free plan; the cheapest one is €15 a month. Its free tools need no sign-up: the AI visibility checker asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity three buyer questions about your category, and there are free checkers for ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. A one-off check is a snapshot, not a trend. |
| Under $30/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €15 (200 checks), €29 (400 checks). €29 tracks 20 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| Under $50/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €15 (200 checks), €29 (400 checks), €49 (1,000 checks). €49 tracks 50 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $30–$100/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €29 (400 checks), €49 (1,000 checks), €79 (2,000 checks), €99 (3,000 checks). €99 tracks 150 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| Under $100/month | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €15 (200 checks), €29 (400 checks), €49 (1,000 checks), €79 (2,000 checks), €99 (3,000 checks). €99 tracks 150 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $50–$150/month | Mencoro, Peec AI | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €79 (2,000 checks), €99 (3,000 checks), €162 (5,000 checks). €162 tracks 250 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $100–$300/month | Mencoro, Peec AI, Semrush | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €162 (5,000 checks). €162 tracks 250 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $100–$500/month | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. Mencoro plans in that range: €162 (5,000 checks), €319 (10,000 checks). €319 tracks 500 prompts on five engines every week, with every feature included. |
| $500+/month | Mencoro Enterprise, Profound | Yes. The largest plan is €799 a month for 25,000 checks, 1,250 prompts on five engines every week, and Enterprise adds custom volume and a dedicated account manager. At this budget, compare it with the enterprise platforms on depth of analysis, not on price. |
Who is it for?
| If you need | Start comparing | Why |
|---|---|---|
| My own business or marketing team | Mencoro, Otterly.AI, Peec AI | Yes. A Mencoro project is one brand: its names, its domains and as many competitors as you want. You write the prompts your customers ask and Mencoro checks them on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode and Google search. The entry plan, €15 a month, covers 10 prompts on five engines checked every week. |
| SEO agency managing clients | Mencoro, Peec AI, Semrush | Yes, it is the case Mencoro is built for. Every plan includes unlimited projects, unlimited competitors and multi-user access, so an agency keeps every client in one account and pays only for the checks it runs. Clients get white label reports, and the team can pull the data through the REST API or ask for it in Claude or ChatGPT through the MCP server. See Mencoro for agencies. |
| Freelancer or consultant | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. A consultant starts at €15 a month, opens one project per client at no extra cost and moves up a plan only when the prompt volume grows. The MCP server lets you query each client's data from Claude or ChatGPT while you write the report. |
| SaaS / technology | Mencoro, Peec AI, Profound | Yes. SaaS buyers ask AI for the best software in a category, for alternatives to a competitor and for one tool against another, and those are the prompts to track. Mencoro shows where you appear in each answer, which competitors are named instead of you (including the ones you do not track yet) and which pages the AI cites. |
| E-commerce | Mencoro, Profound, Semrush | Yes. Besides ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers, Mencoro tracks Google Shopping listings by seller in the same project, so a store sees its products and its brand side by side. See Mencoro for ecommerce. |
| Affiliate or content site | Mencoro, Ahrefs Brand Radar | Yes. An affiliate or media site wants to be the source the AI cites. Mencoro stores the sources of every answer, including the pages ChatGPT's search retrieved but did not quote, and shows how often your domain is among them. |
| Personal brand / creator | Mencoro, Otterly.AI | Yes. A person is tracked like any brand: your name and its spellings, your website and the people you compete with for the same questions. |
| Resell the software under my own brand | Mencoro, SE Ranking, AgencyAnalytics | Yes. With full white label your clients log in at your own domain and never see Mencoro: your logo, colors and font on the platform, the report exports and the emails. You set your own price to them, and every client project is unlimited. |
| API or data to build my own tracker | Mencoro, DataForSEO | Yes. The REST API gives you every answer, mention, citation and metric, with an OpenAPI contract, and embedded dashboards signed from your backend put them inside your own product. |
| Enterprise marketing team | Profound, Mencoro Enterprise, Semrush | Partly. Mencoro handles large prompt sets: up to 25,000 checks a month on the €799 plan, and Enterprise volume with a dedicated account manager beyond that. Large brands that want an enterprise-only platform usually also evaluate Profound. |
| Local business | Local Falcon, BrightLocal | Not for city-level local SEO. Mencoro sets the location by country, with no city or device targeting. A local business can still track prompts that name its city (“best dentist in Austin”), but for map pack and city grid rankings a local tool such as Local Falcon or BrightLocal fits better. |
Every option answered in full: who Mencoro is for.
Which alternatives to Scrunch AI does AI name?
We asked ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Google’s AI Overview 3 versions of this question in the United States: 7 answers, collected on November 2, 2026. The table gives the share of answers that name each tool. It is measured data, independent of the list on this page.
| Tool | All answers | ChatGPT | AI Mode | AI Overview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profound | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Otterly.AI | 85.7% | 100% | 66.7% | 100% |
| Peec AI | 85.7% | 100% | 66.7% | 100% |
| AthenaHQ | 71.4% | 100% | 33.3% | 100% |
| Semrush | 71.4% | 100% | 66.7% | 0% |
| Ahrefs | 57.1% | 100% | 33.3% | 0% |
| RadarKit | 28.6% | 0% | 33.3% | 100% |
| Rankability | 28.6% | 0% | 33.3% | 100% |
| Rankscale | 28.6% | 66.7% | 0% | 0% |
| ZipTie | 28.6% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 0% |
Questions asked: «Scrunch AI alternatives», «alternatives to Scrunch AI for ai visibility tracking», «tools like Scrunch AI to track my brand in chatgpt». Source: Mencoro (November 2026, answers collected through DataForSEO), in Which AI visibility tools does AI recommend?
