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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs Scrunch AI

Serve AI crawlers a cleaner site at the edge, or get the gaps diagnosed and the content written?

Choose Scrunch AI if you want AI crawlers served an optimised page without touching your CMS.

Choose Mentionova if you want gaps turned into briefs and drafts, not only existing pages restructured.

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14 days · no card · first growth signal in ~2 minutes

Case file · scrunchChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaScrunch AI

Engines

6

3 on Starter

7

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

Not stated

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$250/mo

Starter

Trial

14 days

no card

7 days

Scrunch AI's numbers come from its own pricing page, docs and changelog

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

Scrunch AI calls itself an Agent Experience Platform: it monitors seven engines, then serves AI crawlers an optimised HTML version of your pages at the CDN level, with page audits, bot analytics and a transparent $250-a-month Starter plan. It doesn't write briefs or new content.

Scrunch AI describes itself as “Agent Experience Platform (AXP)” and leads with “Monitor and improve your brand's visibility in AI search”.

Founded
2023; out of stealth in 2024
Based in
Salt Lake City
Funding
$26M (Mayfield, Decibel, Homebrew)
Sells to
Mid-market to enterprise brands and agencies

Choose Scrunch AI if

  1. 01

    You want AI crawlers served an optimised page without touching your CMS.

  2. 02

    You need bot analytics across Akamai, Fastly, CloudFront or Cloudflare.

  3. 03

    Your buyers use Copilot or Meta AI.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want gaps turned into briefs and drafts, not only existing pages restructured.

  2. 02

    Reddit matters in your category.

  3. 03

    Your own agents need an MCP server, which Scrunch doesn't publish.

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03 · Side by side

Fifteen questions, both answers.

The same questions on every compare page, so the table can't be tuned to flatter us. Each mark is a shape first and a colour second: a tick, a tilde for in part, a cross, a dash for not published.

The questionMentionovaas shipped 10 Oct 2026Scrunch AIfrom its own pagesChoose based on
Engines tracked
Yes: 6 on Scale and above: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google, Reddit. 3 on Starter.
Yes: 7 named: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI, Meta AI. No Grok, DeepSeek or AI Mode named; extra seats $25/month.
Which engines your buyers use; whether Starter's three are enough.
Scheduled runs
Yes: weekly, every two weeks or monthly; opportunities recomputed nightly.
Not published: Not published.
Daily snapshots, or scheduled runs with nightly opportunity scoring.
Metrics per run
Yes: mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, position-1 rate, sentiment, engine coverage, AI visibility score.
Yes: share of voice, position, citations, visibility, answer inclusion, sentiment.
Which numbers your reports have to show.
Drift alerts with diffs
Yes: eight typed drift events (a mention gained or lost, a position up or down, a changed description, a sentiment shift, a competitor entering or leaving) on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, in the Monitor feed, with a daily opportunities digest by email.
Not published: Typed change events are not published as a feature; see the long-form sections below.
Being told what changed, not handed a new number.
Prompt volume data
No: Not sold as a dataset. Opportunities are scored on gap, reach, effort and heat.
Yes: Published as a feature.
Whether you need demand estimates per prompt before you choose what to target.
Gaps turned into briefs
Yes: Opportunities recomputed nightly and scored 0–100 on gap, reach, effort and heat; each one carries a gap diagnosis, a specific action and a content brief.
Partly: Optimizer recommendations, or let Optimizer restructure pages automatically; AXP serves AI agents a clean HTML version at the CDN edge; no briefs or net-new drafting published (scrunch.com/faqs)
The gap diagnosed and a brief written, or a list to act on yourself.
Drafts pushed to your CMS
Yes: brief → research → keywords → article in your brand voice → fact-check → editor → approval → schema; drafts land in WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or any webhook, and nothing goes live without you.
Partly: Optimizer recommendations, or let Optimizer restructure pages automatically; AXP serves AI agents a clean HTML version at the CDN edge; no briefs or net-new drafting published (scrunch.com/faqs)
Whether the tool should draft and deliver, or only recommend.
Reddit tracked and engaged
Yes: Tracked as an engine on Scale and above; finds the threads, drafts the reply in your voice; a person adds the disclosure and posts.
Not published: Not published.
Whether Reddit shapes answers in your category, and whether you want replies drafted.
Client workspaces and white-label
Yes: isolated client workspaces (3 on Launch, 10 on Growth, custom on Enterprise) and a portfolio view; report links with a view count and revoke; white-label logo, colour, tagline and footer.
Partly: Partner program with special pricing, free seat on referred accounts, commissions up to 20%; guest access per brand; bulk CSV imports. Reporting: CSV and Excel export, PDF, prebuilt Looker Studio template, Query API; white-label terms not published.
How many clients you run and whether reports must carry your brand.
Integrations
Yes: 38 API connectors (Ahrefs, DataForSEO, Semrush, Moz, HubSpot, Contentful, Ghost and more) plus Search Console and GA4, and draft publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or a webhook.
Yes: Cloudflare Workers, Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Vercel, WordPress, Looker Studio, Data API.
Which of your systems need to connect without engineering.
API and MCP
Yes: v1 API on Scale and above; an MCP server with 56 tools for any MCP client.
Partly: API: included. MCP: not published.
Whether your own agents or scripts need to read and write the data.
Crawler log analytics
No: Not offered. AI traffic is attributed on pages; crawler logs are not ingested.
Yes: Published as a feature.
Whether you need to see which bots fetched which pages, from your CDN logs.
Site audit
Yes: 42 checks: crawlability, on-page and duplicates, structured data, Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights, mobile and security, internal links, hreflang, and four AEO checks (llms.txt, question H2s, entity and FAQ schema).
Yes: Included.
Whether technical and AEO checks belong in the same tool.
Try it on your own data first
Yes: 14-day free trial, no card: 5 prompts, 1 workspace, all six engines.
Yes: Trial: 7 days on Starter, no card. Free plan: no.
Whether you can see your own numbers before paying.
Entry price
Yes: $99/mo billed annually ($125 monthly) — Starter: 3 engines, 25 prompts, 100 agentic tasks.
Yes: Starter: $250/mo billed annually ($300 monthly). 3 users, 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts, 3 personas, 5 page audits.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · Scrunch AI column from its pricing page, docs and changelog · Mentionova column from the product as shipped the same day · Spot an error? team@mentionova.com

04 · Pricing

What the first invoice buys.

Both ladders as published on 10 Oct 2026, then the same three buyers priced on each side. Scrunch AI's numbers come from scrunch.com; a figure marked third-party wasn't on its site.

Mentionova

/pricing
Starter

$99/mo annual · $125 monthly

3 engines, 25 prompts, 100 agentic tasks

Scale

$320/mo annual · $400 monthly

6 engines incl. Reddit, 100 prompts, 500 tasks

Enterprise

$799/mo annual · $999 monthly

250 prompts, 2,500 tasks

Agencies

Launch $200 · Growth $799

3 or 10 client workspaces; Enterprise custom

Trial

14 days, no card

5 prompts, 1 workspace, all six engines

Scrunch AI

Pricing page
Starter

$250/mo billed annually ($300 monthly)

3 users, 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts, 3 personas, 5 page audits

Growth

$417/mo billed annually ($500 monthly): 5 users, 700 custom prompts, 10 page audits

Enterprise

custom

custom: SAML/OIDC, data API, dedicated team; extra seats $25/mo

Trial

7 days on Starter, no card

Billing: annual. Model: tiers.

Three buyers, two bills.

The same brief priced on each side with the published plan that fits it. Where a plan doesn't fit the brief, the nearest one and the gap are named.

  1. Buyer 01

    One brand, 25 prompts, three engines

    Mentionova
    Starter, $99/mo billed annually ($125 monthly)
    Scrunch AI
    Starter $250/mo billed annually ($300 monthly): 350 custom prompts, 3 users

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    Scrunch AI
    Growth $417/mo billed annually ($500 monthly): 700 prompts, 5 users; extra seats $25/mo

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    Scrunch AI
    Agency pricing on request, with a free seat on referred client accounts

Watch for, on Mentionova

  • Starter tracks three engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google) and 25 prompts; the other three need Scale
  • The API is on Scale and above; the MCP server and connectors are on every plan
  • Runs are weekly, fortnightly or monthly; opportunities are rescored nightly, not the prompts

Watch for, on Scrunch AI

  • No MCP published Source
  • No changelog or public docs Source
  • Run cadence not stated Source
  • Seat-limited plans, GDPR not stated. 3 or 5 users with $25 per extra seat. Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

Mentionova's column describes the product as shipped. The Scrunch AI column is built from its own pages. The edge line is our call, and it doesn't always go our way.

  1. 01

    Engines and cadence

    Choose based on: Which engines your buyers actually ask, and whether daily snapshots or scheduled runs with nightly scoring suit how you work.

    Mentionova

    Six engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google and Reddit. Starter covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google; Scale and Enterprise cover all six. Each workspace runs weekly, every two weeks or monthly, and opportunities are recomputed from the latest run every night. Google runs record the organic top ten; AI Overviews are pulled on demand through Nova rather than tracked on a schedule.

    Scrunch AI

    Scrunch AI names 7 engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI, Meta AI. No Grok, DeepSeek or AI Mode named; extra seats $25/month. Run cadence: not published.

    EdgeScrunch names seven engines; Mentionova six, with Reddit in place of Copilot and Meta AI. Scrunch doesn't state its run cadence. Even.

  2. 02

    What gets measured

    Choose based on: Which numbers your reports have to show, and whether you want to be told what changed rather than handed a new number.

    Mentionova

    Every run stores mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, position-1 rate, sentiment, engine coverage and an AI visibility score. Between runs the Monitor feed logs eight kinds of drift on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini: a mention gained or lost, a position up or down, a changed description, a sentiment shift, a competitor entering or leaving. A daily email digests the opportunities.

    Scrunch AI

    Scrunch AI reports share of voice, position, citations, visibility, answer inclusion, sentiment. Prompt volume or demand data: yes, published as a feature. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeBoth track share of voice, position, citations and sentiment. Scrunch aggregates over 90 days; Mentionova logs typed drift events between runs. Even.

  3. 03

    From gap to draft

    Choose based on: Whether the tool should diagnose the gap, write the brief and leave a draft in your CMS, or hand you a list to act on.

    Mentionova

    Opportunities are scored 0–100 on gap, reach, effort and heat, each with a diagnosis, a specific action and a content brief. The content workflow runs brief, research, keywords, article in your brand voice, fact-check, editor, approval and schema, then pushes a draft to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or any webhook. Nothing goes live without you.

    Scrunch AI

    Optimizer recommendations, or let Optimizer restructure pages automatically; AXP serves AI agents a clean HTML version at the CDN edge; no briefs or net-new drafting published (scrunch.com/faqs) Automation: AXP serves agent-optimised pages at the edge; no marketing agents.

    EdgeScrunch's Optimizer restructures existing pages, manually or automatically, but publishes no briefs or net-new drafting. Mentionova writes the brief and the draft. Mentionova.

  4. 04

    Reddit

    Choose based on: Whether Reddit threads shape the answers in your category, and whether you want replies drafted or only citations counted.

    Mentionova

    Reddit is a tracked engine on Scale and above: the threads where your category is discussed, the citations that reach AI answers, and reply drafts in your voice. A person adds the disclosure and posts; the agent never posts for you.

    Scrunch AI

    Scrunch AI doesn't publish Reddit tracking on any page we fetched.

    EdgeScrunch doesn't publish Reddit tracking. Mentionova.

  5. 05

    Agencies and reporting

    Choose based on: How many clients you run, and whether the report has to carry your brand without a BI tool in between.

    Mentionova

    Isolated client workspaces (3 on Launch, 10 on Growth, custom on Enterprise) with a portfolio view across them. Reports share by link with a view count and a revoke switch; white-label covers logo, colour, tagline and footer. Agency plans start at $200 a month.

    Scrunch AI

    Partner program with special pricing, free seat on referred accounts, commissions up to 20%; guest access per brand; bulk CSV imports. Reporting: CSV and Excel export, PDF, prebuilt Looker Studio template, Query API; white-label terms not published.

    EdgeScrunch has a partner programme with commissions and guest access per brand. Mentionova has priced client workspaces and white-label reports. Mentionova.

  6. 06

    Integrations, API and MCP

    Choose based on: Which of your systems need to connect without engineering, and whether your own agents will read and write the data.

    Mentionova

    38 API connectors, among them Ahrefs, DataForSEO, Semrush, Moz, HubSpot, Contentful and Ghost, plus Search Console and GA4. The v1 API is on Scale and above. The MCP server exposes 56 tools to any MCP client, so your own agents can create prompts, read runs and pull reports.

    Scrunch AI

    Scrunch AI lists 8 integrations: Cloudflare Workers, Akamai, CloudFront, Fastly, Vercel, WordPress, Looker Studio, Data API. API: included. MCP: not published.

    EdgeScrunch integrates five CDNs, WordPress, Looker Studio and a data API, with no MCP. Mentionova has 38 connectors, an API and an MCP server. Mentionova.

  7. 07

    Site audit and technical

    Choose based on: Whether technical and AEO checks belong in the same tool as the briefs, and whether you need crawler logs rather than page checks.

    Mentionova

    A 42-check audit: crawlability, on-page and duplicates, structured data, Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights, mobile and security, internal links, hreflang, and four AEO checks for llms.txt, question H2s, entity schema and FAQ schema. AI traffic shows up as page attribution; Mentionova doesn't ingest crawler logs.

    Scrunch AI

    Site audit: included. Crawler log analytics: included. Security: SOC 2 Type II; SAML and OAuth SSO; RBAC; GDPR not published.

    EdgeScrunch includes page audits and crawler analytics; Mentionova 42 checks without bot logs. Even.

06 · Credit where due

Where Scrunch AI is the better choice.

4 things it does that Mentionova doesn't, or does less of, each linked to the page that says so. Read these before the sales deck.

  1. 01

    Serves AI agents an optimised page at the edgeAXP works at the CDN level with no site changes.

    Source
  2. 02

    Transparent pricing with a 7-day no-card trial

    Source
  3. 03

    Prompt volume estimates from a consumer panel

    Source
  4. 04

    Bot analytics across five CDNs plus WordPressTraining, indexer and retrieval classification.

    Source

07 · Switching

From Scrunch AI to a baseline, in an afternoon.

About twenty minutes of your time, then thirty days of both tools running side by side. Nothing here touches your site.

  1. Step 12 min

    Start the trial

    No pixel, tag or code. Sign up, name the workspace, pick the engines. The first growth signal lands in about two minutes.

  2. Step 210 min

    Bring your prompts

    Export the prompt list from Scrunch AI and add it to the workspace; the API and the MCP server create prompts in bulk from a list. The first run sets your baseline on every engine the plan covers.

  3. Step 310 min

    Connect the systems

    Search Console, GA4 and your CMS, whether WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or a webhook, so briefs turn into drafts where your team already works.

  4. Step 40 min

    Run both for thirty days

    Keep Scrunch AI running. Compare the two on the questions above with your own data, then decide. Cancel either in a click.

What won't transfer

Scrunch AI's run history and dashboards stay in Scrunch AI; export them before you cancel anything. Prompts, competitor lists and brand-voice notes move in minutes. Mentionova starts its own history from the first run, so the sooner the trial starts, the longer the overlap you get to judge on.

Start the overlap

08 · FAQ

Mentionova vs Scrunch AI, asked.

Scrunch AI's entry plan is Starter at $250/mo billed annually ($300 monthly), which buys 3 users, 350 custom prompts, 1,000 industry prompts, 3 personas, 5 page audits. Mentionova's Starter is $99 a month billed annually ($125 monthly) for 25 prompts on three engines with 100 agentic tasks, and Scale is $320 for 100 prompts on all six. Compare what each plan includes, not the headline number.

A CDN-level layer that detects AI crawlers and serves them a clean HTML version of your pages, with no site changes. Mentionova doesn't do this; it fixes the page through its 42-check audit and the content workflow instead.

None is mentioned on any Scrunch page fetched on 10 October 2026; it offers a Query API and a Responses API. Mentionova's MCP server exposes 56 tools to any MCP client.

Yes. Export your prompt list, add the prompts to a Mentionova workspace (the API and the MCP server can create them in bulk from a list), and the first run gives you a baseline on every engine your plan covers. Your Scrunch AI history stays in your Scrunch AI exports.

Yes. Mentionova needs no pixel, tag or code, so the 14-day trial runs next to Scrunch AI without touching your site. Most teams compare a month of both before deciding.

Scrunch AI: cadence not published. Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every Scrunch AI fact comes from Scrunch AI's own pricing page, docs or changelog, fetched on 10 Oct 2026, and the claims that matter most link to the page they came from. Mentionova facts describe the product as shipped on the same date. If something has changed, email team@mentionova.com and we'll correct it.

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