Mentionova vs Scrunch AI (2026)

Both platforms address the AI visibility problem, but they approach it differently, and the differences matter for teams that need more than a monitoring dashboard. According to data compiled by omnibound.ai, 94% of B2B buyers used a generative AI tool during their most recent purchase process. That number means the brands that appear inside AI-generated answers are capturing research intent before a prospect ever visits a search results page.

Mentionova is built to track that entire loop: measure visibility, diagnose the gaps, and generate the content plays needed to close them, across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Reddit on a single platform.

Key takeaways

• Mentionova tracks 7 named metrics per engine run, mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, and AI visibility score, giving teams a more complete diagnostic picture than single-score tools.
• The 14-day free trial on all self-serve plans (Starter, Scale, Enterprise) provides full-platform access, compared to the 7-day trials offered by Scrunch AI.
• Mentionova includes a dedicated Reddit engagement module with thread discovery, AI-drafted replies, and human-approval queuing, a social-AI signal path not present in Scrunch AI's self-serve offering.
• The agency pricing structure publishes separate tiers (Launch, Growth, Enterprise) with explicit multi-workspace scaling to 50+ workspaces, giving agencies a transparent cost structure for multi-client operations.
• Every content optimization opportunity Mentionova surfaces ships with a pre-written brief, a title, an angle, the sources AI engines currently trust, and an AI-generated article seed, the gap becomes an action, not just an observation.

What is Mentionova?

Mentionova is an AI visibility tracking platform trusted by 70+ brands and agencies that monitors brand presence across six AI engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Reddit. The platform runs buying questions on a schedule the user sets, daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly, and logs every mention, citation, position, and sentiment per engine per run.

The core workflow follows three steps: Track, Analyze, Optimize. On the tracking side, Mentionova measures mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, engines cited count, citation velocity, sentiment score, and AI visibility score simultaneously.

On the analysis side, the drift detection product diffs each run against the previous one, emitting five typed events: mention lost, mention gained, position improved, position declined, and sentiment shift. Before-and-after wording shows teams exactly which phrase changed and which competitor took the position. On the optimization side, every detected visibility gap receives a 0 to 1 impact score, recomputed nightly, and a complete content brief ready to hand to a writer.

Mentionova also ships a content grid (Grids) at the Enterprise tier, where spreadsheet columns can run LLM drafts, citation checks, brand-voice tests, and Search Console sync.

An Ask Agent module lets users query their own workspace data in plain language. The first visibility signal arrives in approximately 2 minutes with no code, pixel, or tag installation. Agency plans isolate each client's workspace entirely and support white-label reporting with up to five branding elements.

For agencies, Mentionova publishes three separate plans, Launch at $200/month billed annually (3 workspaces), Growth at $799/month (10 workspaces), and Enterprise custom (50+ workspaces), giving multi-client teams a transparent scaling path.

What is Scrunch AI?

Scrunch AI is an AI visibility and site-readiness platform that monitors brand presence across AI search engines and audits website content to make it more accessible to AI agents. Scrunch AI describes itself as "The AI Customer Experience Platform" that tracks brand mentions, citations, share of voice, and traffic impact.

The Core self-serve plan monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Copilot with 125 unique prompts and 5 site audits per month, priced at $250/month.

An Enterprise plan expands to 9 engines including Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Google AI Mode, and Grok, with custom prompts, API access, and SSO. Scrunch's FAQs describe a four-step workflow: monitor prompts, audit pages for AI accessibility barriers, optimize content with recommendations, and accelerate via the Agent Experience Platform (AXP), which serves AI-optimized page versions directly to AI agents. Per a June 2026 review by Rankability, Scrunch's AXP feature was still in testing with select customers at that time.

Key Features

• AI Monitoring Dashboard tracking brand mentions and sentiment across covered engines
• Prompt analytics showing per-prompt brand performance using actual AI-generated answers
• Competitor benchmarking and share-of-voice metrics with configurable prompt topics
• AI traffic attribution via Google Analytics GA4 integration with daily data updates
• Site audits identifying barriers that prevent AI agents from accessing pages
• Agent Experience Platform (AXP) serving AI-optimized page content to AI crawlers

Pricing

Scrunch AI's Core plan is priced at $250/month on annual billing, or approximately $300 month-to-month. Enterprise pricing is custom. A detailed review from farmanrind.com notes an annual 17% discount, and additional seats can be added at $25/month per user or $75/month for up to 5 additional users per Scrunch's pricing page.

Feature-by-feature comparison

Pricing breakdown

Mentionova pricing

Mentionova publishes separate pricing lanes for brands and agencies, all verified from the Mentionova pricing page.

For brands:

• Starter: $99/month billed annually ($125/month monthly), 25 prompts, 1 workspace, 3 seats, 3 engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity)
• Scale: $320/month billed annually ($400/month monthly), 100 prompts, 1 workspace, 3 seats, all 6 engines
• Enterprise: $799/month billed annually ($999/month monthly), 250 prompts, 3 workspaces, 3 seats, all 6 engines, adds Workflows, Grids, contacts, and priority support
• Custom: contact sales, unlimited prompts, adds SSO/SAML, SLA, and dedicated CSM

For agencies:

• Launch: $200/month billed annually ($250/month monthly), 50 prompts, 3 workspaces, 3 seats, 3 engines
• Growth: $799/month billed annually ($999/month monthly), 200 prompts, 10 workspaces, 3 seats, all 6 engines
• Enterprise: custom pricing, 600+ prompts, 50+ workspaces

All self-serve plans include a 14-day free trial.

Scrunch AI pricing

Scrunch AI's Core plan is priced at $250/month on annual billing, or approximately $300 month-to-month. Enterprise pricing is custom.

The pricing gap between the two platforms at entry is $99/month for Mentionova versus $250/month for Scrunch AI's Core plan on annual billing.

Where Mentionova stands apart

Seven metrics, not one score

Most AI visibility tools output a single composite score. Mentionova logs six distinct signals per engine on every run: mention presence, domain citation, citation position, answer sentiment, share of voice versus rivals, and how many of the six engines named the brand.

Across the platform, seven named metrics are tracked, mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, and AI visibility score. Citation velocity, which measures week-over-week citation momentum with anomaly flags, does not appear in any other competitor's published metric set.

This metric granularity matters when diagnosing drops. A brand might hold steady on mention rate while losing citation position, or gain share of voice on one engine while sentiment declines on another. A single composite score obscures the direction to fix.

Reddit as a tracked and actionable channel

Mentionova includes Reddit in its six-engine coverage and goes further: the platform finds relevant threads where the brand, competitors, or category questions appear, queues them for review, AI-drafts a reply in brand voice, and holds every draft in a Draft → Approved → Posted queue that requires human sign-off before anything posts. No reply goes live automatically. The Reddit engagement product is available on Scale plans and above.

From alert to brief in one platform

When drift detection fires a "mention lost" or "position declined" event, Mentionova surfaces a before-and-after diff. The diff shows the exact wording the engine used and which competitor replaced the brand. The alerts and drift product links each event directly to the opportunity that generated it. Opening that opportunity surfaces a pre-written content brief with a title, angle, the domains AI engines currently trust in that category, and an AI-generated article seed. According to the product documentation, 100% of opportunities ship with a written brief and an article seed.

Scrunch AI identifies content gaps and optimization opportunities but centers its optimization pathway on the AXP feature, which was still in testing with select customers as of mid-2026.

Published agency tiers with isolated workspaces

Mentionova is the only platform in this comparison with a published, tiered agency pricing structure scaling from 3 workspaces to 50+. The agency AI reporting product isolates each client workspace entirely, separate prompts, citations, history, and access controls. Three roles (admin, strategist, viewer) control tab-level access per member. White-label reports carry up to five branding elements and issue tokenized links with configurable expiry and view tracking.

Scrunch AI's Core plan provides one brand workspace. Multi-client architecture is available at Enterprise, where pricing is custom.

14-day trial across all self-serve plans

All Mentionova self-serve plans include a 14-day free trial. Scrunch AI offers a 7-day trial on the Core plan. The difference matters for teams running their first AI visibility project: a 14-day window covers two full weekly prompt cycles, which gives a more representative sample of drift behavior and citation patterns than a single-week snapshot.

Who should use Mentionova

B2B content teams running Track → Analyze → Optimize cycles find the most value in Mentionova's full loop. The platform tracks nightly, identifies the gap in the morning brief, ranks it by impact, and ships a ready-to-act content brief, the team moves from "we dropped" to "we shipped the fix" without switching tools.

Digital agencies managing AI visibility for multiple clients are served by the published, scalable agency pricing with isolated workspaces, white-label reports, and role-based access. A sample agency dashboard in the reporting product shows 72% mention rate and 6/6 engine coverage reported under the agency's own brand.

Brands investing in Reddit as a citation source can use Mentionova's thread discovery, reply drafting, and human-approval workflow to build community-sourced signals that AI engines index and cite.

Teams evaluating before committing have 14 days of full-platform access to run real prompt sets, observe drift events, and open content briefs, a longer evaluation window than the 7-day trial at Scrunch AI.

Final verdict

For teams comparing Mentionova vs Scrunch AI, the core difference comes down to whether monitoring is the endpoint or the starting point. Mentionova extends from monitoring into action: ranked content plays with pre-written briefs, a Reddit engagement workflow, citation velocity tracking, and a published agency pricing structure that scales to 50+ workspaces.

The 14-day free trial on Mentionova's Starter plan at $99/month means teams can run their first prompt set, see their citation gaps scored and ranked, and open a written content brief before spending a dollar. That concrete path from visibility data to content action is what makes Mentionova the stronger choice for teams that need to do something with what they find.