Searchly vs Scrunch
Searchly starts at $99 a month and shows the full answer behind every score, plus Google Analytics 4 AI visits and Search Console clicks for each page. Scrunch Core costs $250 and keeps its APIs, MCP server and shopping data for higher plans.
Our verdict
Our pick: Searchly
Searchly is the better choice for most teams: its $99 Starter plan includes the REST API, the MCP server and AI shopping. Scrunch charges $250 for Core, starts its MCP server on Agency Core at $500 and puts its APIs and shopping data on Enterprise. Searchly also shows Google Analytics 4 AI visits and Search Console clicks beside the AI citations for each page; Scrunch's public pages document neither a GA4 connection nor Search Console.
| Searchly | Scrunch | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99 a month (Starter) | $250 a month (Core) |
| 50 prompts, 3 engines, daily | $99 a month | $250 a month |
| Engines on the entry plan | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot |
| Site data on the entry plan | AI crawler logs once you connect a source, GA4 AI visits and Search Console | AI bot traffic on Core; AI referrals, plan not stated; Search Console not documented |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | 7 days |
strengths
Where Searchly comes out ahead.
From each company's own pricing pages and documentation, checked Oct 21, 2026. Each point links to its source.
Where Searchly is stronger
- Each tracked prompt runs once a day on every engine in your plan. Scrunch moves each prompt to a 72-hour default after its first 14 days; at that default, Core's 125 prompts on 4 engines use about its full 5,000 responses a month (est.). Source
- The REST API and MCP server on the $99 Starter plan; Scrunch starts its MCP server and CLI on Agency Core at $500 and offers its Responses, Query and agent-traffic APIs on Enterprise, billed by AI responses collected. Source
- AI shopping on every plan, Starter included: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are, where they rank and their price, rating and retailer. Scrunch keeps Product Observability, its shopping data, for Enterprise. Source
- Every answer behind a score opens in the app with its date and citations; answers, prompts, page data and crawler logs export as CSV on every plan. Scrunch documents full answers, citations and metadata through its Enterprise Responses API and does not document an in-app answer export. Source
- Google Analytics 4 AI visits with no extra script and Search Console clicks for each page, next to the citations it earns in AI answers, on Starter. Scrunch does not document Search Console or a GA4 connection and does not say which plan includes its AI referral metrics. Source
Where Scrunch focuses
- Copilot as a fourth engine and 5 site audits a month (25 sitemap pages) on Core at $250; full site audits and five more engines need Enterprise. Source
- Agent Pages, an Enterprise feature that serves optimized HTML to AI agents at the CDN; Scrunch says this approach does not publish new content to your CMS. Source
capabilities
Feature by feature, with sources.
The same capabilities, in the same words, for both tools. A tag beside the status names the plan or the limit, and each note links to the page it came from. Not documented means we could not find it in Scrunch's public pages.
| Capability | ||
|---|---|---|
| TrackingWhat is tracked, how often and for how many brands. | ||
| AI enginesIncluded means five or more named engines on a published plan, counting paid add-ons. | Included3 included, 2 add-ons ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity on every plan; Gemini and Claude as paid add-ons (Starter +$50 and +$100 a month, Pro +$150 and +$300, Business +$250 and +$500, Custom included); Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and Grok coming soon. Source | Limited4 on Core 4 on Core (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Copilot); 9 on Enterprise, adding Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Google AI Mode and Grok. Source |
| Tracking cadenceIncluded means a daily run is available on a published plan. | Included Each tracked prompt runs once a day on every engine in the plan. Source | LimitedDaily for first 14 days Daily for a new prompt's first 14 days, then a 72-hour default, with on-demand refresh. Source |
| Prompt suggestions and researchSuggested prompts or a prompt database; the note says whether volume data is shown. | IncludedNo volume data Buyer prompts suggested from your site and topics, tracked only after you accept them, or typed, pasted or uploaded as CSV and tracked at once; no search volume or difficulty. Source | Included3 topics on Core AI Search Trends (3 topics on Core) and query fan-out (limited on Core). Source |
| Competitor benchmarkingCompetitors measured on the same answers. | Included Benchmark the competitors you choose on visibility, share of voice, position and citations. Source | Included5 on Core 5 competitors on Core, custom on Enterprise. Source |
| Several projects or brandsTwo or more projects, brands or workspaces on one published plan. | Included2 on Pro, 3 on Business 1 project on Starter, up to 2 on Pro and up to 3 on Business, sharing one prompt budget; more on Custom. Source | IncludedAgency Core 1 brand workspace on Core; Agency Core ($500) has 3 brand and 3 pitch workspaces. Source |
| Answer evidenceWhat you can open and take away from each answer. | ||
| Full answer textThe full answer behind each result, exportable or available through an API. | IncludedAPI fallbacks labelled Open the answer behind every score with its date and citations; API fallback answers are labelled and kept out of headline metrics, and Claude is collected through Anthropic's API; answers export as CSV. Source | Sales plan onlyEnterprise API Full answers, citations, sentiment and metadata through the Responses API on Enterprise; in-app answer export not stated. Source |
| Citations and sourcesCited pages and domains for each answer, with source analysis. | Included Cited domains and pages per answer, the sources that cite competitors but not you and content types including Reddit threads and YouTube videos. Source | Included Citations and sources on Core. Source |
| SentimentHow answers describe the brand, per answer or per brand. | Included How AI answers describe you, positive, neutral or negative, and why. Source | Included Sentiment on Core. Source |
| Data exportsCSV or spreadsheet exports of answers, prompts or citations. | IncludedCSV CSV exports of answers, prompts, page evidence and crawler logs on every plan; articles export as Markdown, HTML or text on Pro and up. Source | Not documented Reporting dashboard on Core and Looker on Agency Core and Enterprise; CSV export not stated. Source |
| Site evidenceWhat your own site data adds. | ||
| AI crawler logsAI crawler requests read from server, CDN or edge logs. | Included Requests from AI crawlers, verified or declared, after you connect Cloudflare (Logpush or Worker), Vercel, Next.js, Netlify, WordPress or the HTTP API; 90-day retention; CSV export. Source | Included AI Agent and bot traffic on Core, split into training, indexing and retrieval; multi-domain on Enterprise. Source |
| AI referral visitsHuman visits from AI assistants, from GA4 or the vendor's own script. | IncludedVia GA4 Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and other AI assistants, read from Google Analytics 4 through a read-only connection, with no extra script. Source | IncludedPlan not stated AI referral traffic listed among trackable metrics; plan and a GA4 connection not stated. Source |
| Google Search ConsoleSearch Console data inside the product. | Included Search Console clicks, impressions, CTR and position by query, page, country and device beside the AI evidence for each page; no indexing data. Source | Not documented Search Console is not documented in the pages read. Source |
| Site auditIncluded means a multi-page technical or AI-readiness audit. | LimitedHomepage only Site Health checks your homepage and selected root files, including AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt and structured data, with a fix for each; not a whole-site crawl. Source | Included25 pages, 5 a month 5 site audits a month on Core (25 sitemap pages); full site audits on Enterprise. Source |
| Taking actionWhat happens after a finding. | ||
| Recommendations or action queueA ranked list of next steps or tasks. | Included Opportunities: a ranked list of next steps tied to the evidence, from setup and on-page fixes to sites worth pitching; outreach is drafted, nothing is sent. Source | Included Insights and recommendations on Core; Site Optimization page by page. Source |
| Content generationIncluded means article generation that is generally available. | IncludedPro and up Content Studio on Pro, Business and the Pro trial: full articles or writer briefs in 8 formats from verified sources, readiness checks and accept or reject revisions; English only, hourly generation caps, no monthly article quota. Source | LimitedBasic on Core Basic content generation and 1 page optimisation a month on Core; advanced on Enterprise. Source |
| CMS publishingIncluded means content sent to two or more CMSs, as drafts or live. | LimitedWebflow drafts, Pro and up Approved articles go to your Webflow CMS as drafts on Pro and up; WordPress, Framer and Shopify publishing are not built. Source | Not offered Scrunch says its agent-facing pages do not publish new CMS content; Agent Pages (Enterprise) serve optimised HTML to AI agents at the CDN instead. Source |
| AI agent or assistantAn in-app agent that works on the product's own data. | Included Agent on every paid plan and the Pro trial: ask about your AI visibility in plain language; it reads your Searchly data, opens the right page and proposes changes such as new prompts or competitors that you confirm; it does not write or publish articles. Source | Included Scrunchie in-app assistant, with Signals alerts and Explorer charts, on every plan since Jul 21, 2026. Source |
| Access and teamsHow data leaves the tool and who can sign in. | ||
| REST APIA documented API for the visibility data. | Included REST API with an OpenAPI spec and scoped, expiring keys on every plan; operations that generate content need an active subscription or the Pro trial. Source | Sales plan onlyEnterprise Responses, Query and agent-traffic APIs on Enterprise, billed by AI responses collected; Query API partner-only on Agency Core. Source |
| MCP serverA documented MCP server for the visibility data. | Included MCP server on every plan for AI tools that support Streamable HTTP and a custom Authorization header (bearer key, no OAuth). Source | IncludedAgency Core and up MCP and CLI on Agency Core ($500) and Enterprise; not on brand Core. Source |
| Agency plans and client reportingAn agency plan, client workspaces or branded or shareable client reports. | Not offered No agency plan, white label, scheduled or PDF reports or share links; client data leaves as CSV or through the API. Source | IncludedAgency Core, $500 Agency Core at $500 a month with brand and pitch workspaces (pitch for partners) and Looker; white label not documented. Source |
| SSO (SAML or OIDC)Company identity-provider sign-in; Google sign-in does not count. | Not offered No SSO, SAML, SCIM or audit log; customers sign in with email and password or Google. Source | Sales plan onlyEnterprise SAML or OIDC SSO on Enterprise; Core has Google sign-in, which it calls Google SSO. Source |
| Shopping and adsProducts and ads inside AI answers. | ||
| AI shopping visibilityIncluded means the products AI answers show are captured and tracked; the tag names the engines. | IncludedChatGPT AI shopping on every plan: the products ChatGPT shows for your prompts, whose they are, their price, rating and retailer and where they rank. Source | Sales plan only Product Observability on Enterprise for ChatGPT and Copilot, with Perplexity announced as coming. Source |
| AI ads trackingIncluded means ads inside AI answers captured on two or more surfaces. | Not offered AI ads tracking is not built. Source | Not documented AI ads tracking is not documented in the pages read. Source |
| BuyingPublic prices and free trials. | ||
| Published priceA public price for a paid plan that tracks AI answers, listed on the vendor's pricing page. | Included Starter $99, Pro $239 and Business $499 a month; yearly billing is 10 times monthly; Custom is quoted. Source | Included Core $250 a month, Agency Core $500; annual terms not captured. Source |
| Free trial or free tierA documented free trial or free tier that includes AI-answer tracking. | IncludedOn Pro, 14 days 14-day trial on Pro ('Start for free'); Starter and Business have no trial; the free AI visibility report is a one-off sample, not a trial. Source | Included7 days 7-day trial on Core. Source |
pricing
The same workload, priced on both.
One brand, 50 buyer prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, checked once a day in one country: a common base for AI visibility tracking. Every Searchly plan includes all three engines; where Scrunch counts or includes engines differently, the note says so.
| Item | ||
|---|---|---|
| Covers the workload | Covers it | Covers part of it |
| Plan | Starter | Core |
| Monthly price | $99 | $250 |
| Billed yearly | $990 a year ($82.50 a month) | Not captured |
| The three engines | All three included | Included: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot |
| Extra cost | None | None |
| Free trial | None on Starter; a 14-day trial of Pro ($239 a month after) | 7 days |
| What the plan counts | 50 prompts on 3 engines once a day: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, the whole Starter allowance | 125 prompts and 5,000 responses a month; daily runs for this workload use about 4,500 (est.) |
Scrunch runs a new prompt daily for its first 14 days, then every 72 hours by default, with an on-demand refresh; at the default, this workload uses about 1,500 responses a month (est.).
Prices before tax, in each company's own currency, as published on Oct 21, 2026. est. marks our arithmetic from published units. Units differ: Searchly counts runs, up to 4,500 in 30 days on 50 prompts.
Sources: Searchly: Searchly pricing; Scrunch: Scrunch pricing (brand and agency views), Collection methods FAQ
fit
Which one to choose.
Choose Searchly if…
you want Google Analytics 4 AI visits and Search Console clicks for your pages, with the REST API, MCP server and AI shopping included, for $99 a month rather than $250.
Scrunch may suit you if…
you run a complex or script-heavy site, have an Enterprise budget and want Agent Pages to control what AI agents read at the CDN.
switching
Moving from Scrunch, or running both.
- Your prompts.Scrunch's public pages do not state a CSV export; ask Scrunch how to export your prompt list. Source In Searchly, paste or upload your prompts as CSV. Prompts you add are tracked at once; the ones Searchly suggests wait until you accept them.
- Competitors.Add the competitors you follow in Scrunch. Searchly benchmarks the ones you choose.
- History.Past results stay in Scrunch. Scores are not comparable between tools, because engines, collection methods and formulas differ, so compare trends from the same start date.
- Site data.Connect Google Analytics 4 and Search Console read-only, and send AI crawler logs from Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, WordPress, Next.js or the HTTP API by following a setup guide. Searchly installs nothing on your site.
- Run both.Track the same prompts in both tools during the 14-day Pro trial before you decide.
evaluation
Put both tools to the test.
Use your own brand, the same buyer prompts and the same dates in both tools. Ask the other vendor these three questions.
- How often will each prompt run after its first 14 days, and does an on-demand refresh count against the 5,000 responses?
- Which plans include the API, the MCP server and shopping data? What does each cost?
- Can you open and export every full answer with its citations on Core, without the Enterprise Responses API?
sources
Sources and scope.
How we compare. We read each company's own pricing page, documentation and changelog, noting the day we checked each one. A capability we could not find is marked Not documented; Not offered means the company's own pages say it is not part of the product. Both columns follow the same rules. We do not compare visibility scores between tools: engines, collection methods and formulas differ.
Scrunch sources
- Scrunch pricing (brand and agency views)
- Pricing FAQ
- Collection methods FAQ
- APIs FAQ
- Products FAQ
- Shopping (Product Observability)
- Agent traffic
- Signals, Explorer and Scrunchie (Jul 21, 2026)
- AXP versus CMS publishing FAQ
Searchly sources
Spotted an out-of-date detail about Scrunch? Email piotr@trysearchly.com and we will check it against Scrunch's pages.
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