Scrunch AI and Peec AI both publish self-serve prices, and that is where the similarity ends. Scrunch sells one $250-a-month Core plan with 125 prompts on four fixed engines, then pushes larger teams to Enterprise for Agent Pages, which serve AI crawlers an optimised copy of your site. Peec sells three self-serve tiers from $95 a month, with daily runs, unlimited users and an agent that turns data into ranked actions. Every price and limit below was read on both vendors' live sites on 1 November 2026 and is linked in the sources. We make Mentionova, a third option, and we cover it last and plainly.
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What are the key takeaways?
- Peec is cheaper to start and cheaper per answer. Peec Starter is $95 a month for 50 prompts and 4,500 AI answers. Scrunch Core is $250 a month for 125 prompts and 5,000 responses.
- Peec runs every prompt daily; Scrunch collects daily for a new prompt's first 14 days, then moves to a default 72-hour refresh that you can trigger by hand.
- Peec gives unlimited users on every plan. Scrunch Core includes 5 user licenses.
- Scrunch includes Perplexity and Copilot in Core. Peec lets you choose three models, with Perplexity sold as an add-on on self-serve plans.
- Scrunch's edge is the crawler layer: Agent Pages on Enterprise. Peec's edge is the action layer: ranked actions, a content optimizer and the Peec Agent on every plan.
- Mentionova is the third route: six engines including Reddit on Scale, drafts pushed to your CMS, with scans that refresh weekly rather than daily.
How do Scrunch AI and Peec AI compare at a glance?
Scrunch AI is a single self-serve plan plus Enterprise, built around monitoring, site audits and serving AI agents an optimised site. Peec AI is a tiered self-serve tracker with daily runs, unlimited users, SOC 2 on every plan and an agent for actions. The table compares both, read 1 November 2026.
| Scrunch AI | Peec AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price (monthly) | Core $250/mo | Starter $95/mo |
| Self-serve tiers | 1 (Core) | 3 (Starter, Pro, Advanced) |
| Entry prompts | 125 | 50 |
| Monthly responses on entry plan | 5,000 | 4,500 |
| Engines on entry plan | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Copilot | Any 3 of ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini, Naver AI |
| Engines at the top | 9 on Enterprise | Up to 13 on Enterprise |
| Cadence | Daily for a new prompt's first 14 days, then every 72 hours by default | Daily on every self-serve plan |
| Users | 5 on Core | Unlimited on every plan |
| Countries | 1 on Core | 1 on Starter, 3 on Pro and Advanced |
| API | Enterprise | Pro and above |
| MCP | Enterprise (custom) | Every plan |
| SSO | Google SSO on Core; SAML and OIDC on Enterprise | Enterprise |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II audit completed | Included on every plan |
| Free trial | 7 days of Core; credit card required | Free trial offered |
Is Scrunch AI or Peec AI cheaper?
Peec AI is cheaper at every self-serve step. Starter costs $95 a month against Scrunch Core at $250, and Peec's Pro gives 150 prompts for $245. Per tracked prompt, Scrunch Core works out at $2.00 a month and Peec at $1.90, $1.63 and $1.41 across its three tiers.
Monthly billing, read 1 November 2026:
| Tier | Scrunch AI (scrunch.com/pricing) | Peec AI (peec.ai/pricing) |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | Core $250: 125 prompts, 5,000 responses, 4 engines, 5 users, 5 site audits a month | Starter $95: 50 prompts, 3 models, 4,500 answers, 1 project, 1 country |
| Mid | None published | Pro $245: 150 prompts, 3 models, 13,500 answers, 2 projects, 3 countries, API |
| Upper | None published | Advanced $495: 350 prompts, 3 models, 31,500 answers, 5 projects, Looker Studio connector |
| Enterprise | Custom: Agent Pages, complete site audits, API, SSO (SAML, OIDC), 9 engines, dedicated account team | Custom: unlimited prompts and models, daily or weekly runs, API, SSO, up to 13 models |
Peec takes 15% off for annual billing. Cost per AI answer on the entry plans tells the same story. Scrunch's $250 buys 5,000 responses, so $0.05 each. Peec's $95 buys 4,500, so about $0.021 each, falling to about $0.018 on Pro and $0.016 on Advanced.
Peec counts answers as prompts multiplied by active models and days. Its pricing FAQ gives the formula: 25 prompts across 3 models for 30 days is 2,250 AI answers.
For agencies, Scrunch's pricing FAQ lists Agency Core at $500 a month and Agency Enterprise on custom pricing. Peec sells agency plans by credits, where 1 prompt on 1 model for 1 day is 1 credit: Essential $245 a month with 10,000 credits, Growth $495 with 25,000 and Scale $795 with 65,000.
How often does each tool run your prompts?
Peec runs each prompt once every 24 hours on every model you selected, on all self-serve plans. Scrunch collects responses daily for a new prompt's first 14 days, then shifts to a default 72-hour refresh, and lets you refresh prompt data at any time. Peec Enterprise can also run weekly.
Why it matters for the numbers you report:
- Trend lines. Peec's FAQ describes its daily cadence as giving "apples-to-apples trend data across dates, models, and regions". On Scrunch, a prompt older than two weeks contributes a fresh data point roughly every three days unless you refresh it.
- Volume. Scrunch meters Core by responses, 5,000 a month. Peec meters by answers, which the plan defines: 4,500, 13,500 or 31,500.
- History. Scrunch keeps up to 12 months of history, or since your environment was created if that is shorter.
AI answers move from day to day, so a daily series catches swings that a 72-hour series smooths over. A 72-hour series costs fewer runs per prompt, which is how Scrunch fits 125 prompts into 5,000 responses.
Which AI engines does each tool track?
Scrunch Core covers four fixed engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. Peec's self-serve plans let you choose three from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI. Scrunch Enterprise reaches 9 engines; Peec Enterprise reaches up to 13 models, adding API-based models.
| Engine | Scrunch Core | Scrunch Enterprise | Peec self-serve (pick 3) | Peec Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google AI Overviews | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Copilot | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Perplexity | Yes | Yes | Add-on | Yes |
| Google AI Mode | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gemini | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Claude | No | Yes | No | Claude Sonnet 4 (API) |
| Grok | No | Yes | No | Yes (API) |
| Meta AI | No | Yes | No | Meta Spark (API) |
| Naver AI | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, GPT 5 Search | No | No | No | Yes (API) |
The trade-off is plain. On Scrunch Core you get Perplexity and Copilot together but no Gemini or AI Mode. On Peec you can put Gemini and AI Mode in your three picks, but Perplexity costs extra. Neither self-serve plan includes Claude.
Scrunch's data FAQ says it collects responses through a mix of browser automation and official platform APIs, choosing the method per platform.
What does each tool do with the data?
Scrunch works on how AI reads your site: site audits, page optimizations, AI bot traffic and, on Enterprise, Agent Pages that serve AI agents an optimised version of each page. Peec works on what to do next: ranked actions, an in-app content optimizer for existing pages and the Peec Agent with 30 built-in skills.
Scrunch, from its pricing page and FAQs:
- Monitoring. Funnel stages, citations and sources, sentiment, 1 persona and 5 competitors on Core.
- Site audits. 5 a month on Core, with a 25-page site map; complete audits on Enterprise.
- Optimize. 1 page optimization a month and basic content generation on Core; advanced on Enterprise.
- Agent Pages (AXP). Detects AI traffic through platforms such as Akamai, Cloudflare and Vercel, strips and restructures the page, and serves optimised HTML to AI agents while people see the normal site. Enterprise only.
- AI Search Trends. 3 topics on Core.
Peec, from its pricing page and 13 October 2026 changelog:
- Recommended actions. Ranked opportunities grouped by earned and owned, with gap analysis down to URL.
- Content optimizer. Suggested edits to an existing page in an in-app editor, accepted or rejected one by one.
- Peec Agent. 500, 750 or 1,000 agent credits by plan, 30 built-in skills and 20+ MCP connectors such as Notion and Linear.
- Brand perception. Attribute scoring and fact-checking of AI answers against facts you set: 5 prompts on Starter, 10 on Pro, 25 on Advanced.
- Crawler data. A crawlability audit across 40+ AI bots and crawl insights from 4.5 million bot visits a month on Starter.
Neither pricing page lists publishing new content into a CMS.
Which tool fits which team?
Scrunch AI fits teams that want Perplexity and Copilot in the base plan, care most about how AI crawlers read a hard-to-parse site, and expect to move to Enterprise for Agent Pages. Peec AI fits teams that want daily data, unlimited users, more prompts per dollar and ranked actions on a self-serve plan.
Choose Scrunch AI if:
- Perplexity and Copilot must both be tracked without add-ons.
- Your site is JavaScript-heavy or hard for AI crawlers to read, and Agent Pages on Enterprise is the goal.
- You want 125 prompts on a single plan and five users is enough.
- You track Grok or Meta AI at Enterprise level.
Choose Peec AI if:
- Your budget is under $250 a month. Starter is $95.
- You report daily trends, not 72-hour snapshots.
- The whole marketing team needs access. Users are unlimited on every plan.
- Security review wants SOC 2 on a self-serve plan, and MCP from day one.
- You want Gemini or AI Mode inside the base price.
What is the verdict, criterion by criterion?
Peec wins on entry price, cost per answer, cadence, seats and self-serve depth. Scrunch wins on base-plan engine mix and crawler-side optimisation. Mentionova wins only where Reddit coverage and drafts pushed to a CMS matter more than daily runs. Every verdict below uses the live pricing and FAQ pages.
| Criterion | Scrunch AI | Peec AI | Mentionova | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $250/mo | $95/mo | $125/mo, $99 annual | Peec |
| Cost per answer at entry | $0.05 | About $0.021 | Weekly scans, not metered per answer | Peec |
| Cadence | Daily 14 days, then 72-hour default | Daily | Weekly | Peec |
| Users | 5 on Core | Unlimited | 3 per plan | Peec |
| Base-plan engines | 4 fixed, incl. Perplexity and Copilot | 3 of your choice | 3 on Starter, 6 on Scale | Scrunch on Core; Mentionova on Scale |
| Serving AI crawlers | Agent Pages (Enterprise) | Not offered | Not offered | Scrunch |
| Actions and agent | Insights, 1 page optimization a month | Ranked actions, optimizer, agent | Opportunities with briefs, drafts | Peec |
| New content to CMS | Not listed | Not listed | WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity, webhook | Mentionova |
| Reddit as a tracked source | Not listed | Not listed | Tracked engine on Scale | Mentionova |
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Where does Mentionova fit as a third option?
Mentionova publishes prices like both, from $99 a month billed annually, and covers six engines including Claude, Gemini and Reddit on Scale for $400 a month or $320 billed annually. It drafts new content into your CMS, which neither pricing page lists. Scans refresh weekly, not daily, and each plan has 3 seats.
| Mentionova (pricing, read 1 Nov 2026) | |
|---|---|
| Starter | $125/mo, or $99/mo billed annually: 25 prompts, 3 engines, 100 agentic tasks a month |
| Scale | $400/mo, or $320/mo billed annually: 100 prompts, 6 engines, 500 agentic tasks |
| Enterprise | $999/mo, or $799/mo billed annually: 250 prompts, 6 engines, 2,500 agentic tasks |
| Engines | Starter: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google. Scale and Enterprise add Claude, Gemini and Reddit |
| Cadence | Scans refresh weekly |
| Content | Drafts pushed to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or a webhook, always as drafts for a person to publish |
| Lists the threads your engines cite and drafts a reply for you to post; Mentionova never posts for you | |
| Trial | Free trial on every paid plan, no card |
Where Mentionova is weaker: no daily runs, fewer seats than Peec, no Copilot or AI Mode, and no crawler-serving layer like Agent Pages. Pick it if the job is turning citation gaps into published pages and Reddit threads matter in your category.
More detail: Mentionova vs Scrunch AI, Mentionova vs Peec AI, Scrunch AI alternatives, Peec AI alternatives and Otterly.AI vs Peec AI.
Why does AI cite your competitors and not you, and which tool shows it?
AI engines name the brands that appear in the sources they retrieve. When competitors own the review sites, listicles and forum threads an engine reads, they get the mention. All three tools show which sources each engine cited. They differ in what they do once you see the gap.
- Scrunch shows citations and sources, audits how AI consumes your pages, and on Enterprise serves AI agents an optimised version through Agent Pages.
- Peec runs a gap analysis of sources that name competitors but not you, then ranks earned and owned actions and lets the agent or the optimizer work on them.
- Mentionova shows cited sources across six engines on Scale, ranks gaps as opportunities with briefs, and drafts the content or the Reddit reply for a person to publish.
How do you test Scrunch AI and Peec AI before you commit?
Scrunch offers a 7-day trial of Core that requires a credit card and converts to paid unless you cancel. Peec offers a free trial from its pricing page. Run both in the same week on the engines they share, ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Copilot, and compare category-level results.
A one-week plan:
- Day 1. Start both trials and load the same unbranded buying questions, such as "best [category] software". In Peec, pick ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Copilot so the engines match Scrunch.
- Days 2 to 6. Let the data build. Scrunch collects daily for new prompts in this window, so cadence is equal during the test.
- Day 6. Compare mention rate and cited sources on the shared engines.
- Day 7. Take the biggest gap to each tool's action layer: Scrunch's page optimization, Peec's recommended actions. Note which gives you something to ship that week.
- Before the Scrunch trial ends. Cancel or confirm, since the trial upgrades to paid automatically.
Where does each number come from?
All pages read on 1 November 2026.
- Scrunch AI: scrunch.com/pricing (Core and Enterprise limits and features); pricing FAQ (Agency Core $500); free-trial FAQ (credit card required); data collection FAQ (14-day daily, 72-hour default); supported platforms FAQ; Agent Pages FAQ; history FAQ; SOC 2 FAQ.
- Peec AI: peec.ai/pricing (tiers, models, answers, features, annual discount); agency pricing; changelog, 13 October 2026; peec.ai (daily cadence FAQ).
- Mentionova: pricing; plans overview; publishing targets.
What else do people ask about Scrunch AI and Peec AI?
Is Scrunch AI or Peec AI better?
Neither wins for every team. Peec is better for daily tracking, unlimited users and more prompts per dollar on self-serve plans. Scrunch is better if you need Perplexity and Copilot in the base plan and want Agent Pages for AI crawlers on Enterprise.
How much does Scrunch AI cost?
Core is $250 a month for 125 prompts, 5,000 responses, 5 users and 4 engines. Enterprise is custom. Agency Core is $500 a month and Agency Enterprise is custom.
How much does Peec AI cost?
Starter is $95 a month, Pro $245 and Advanced $495, with 15% off on annual billing. Enterprise is custom. Agency plans run $245, $495 and $795 a month.
Does Scrunch AI need a credit card for the free trial?
Yes. Scrunch's FAQ says a credit card is required to start the 7-day trial, and the account upgrades to a paid subscription when the trial ends unless you cancel.
Does Peec AI track Perplexity?
Yes, as an add-on model on self-serve plans, and as part of Enterprise. Peec's included self-serve choices are ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI.
Which tracks more AI engines, Scrunch AI or Peec AI?
On entry plans Scrunch covers four engines and Peec three of your choice. At the top, Peec Enterprise tracks up to 13 models and Scrunch Enterprise tracks 9.
What is a third option besides Scrunch AI and Peec AI?
Mentionova starts at $99 a month billed annually ($125 monthly) for 25 prompts on 3 engines, and Scale covers six engines, including Reddit, for $320 a month billed annually. It drafts content into WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or a webhook, with weekly scans rather than daily runs.
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