Skip to content

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.

Compared from Scrunch's own pricing and documentation, checked Oct 21, 2026. How we compare

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.

Key facts
SearchlyScrunch
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 planChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and PerplexityChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot
Site data on the entry planAI crawler logs once you connect a source, GA4 AI visits and Search ConsoleAI bot traffic on Core; AI referrals, plan not stated; Search Console not documented
Free trial14 days on Pro7 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.

Searchly and Scrunch: 25 capabilities, sources checked Oct 21, 2026
CapabilitySearchlyScrunch
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.

50 prompts on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity for one brand in one country, priced on Searchly and Scrunch
ItemSearchlyScrunch
Covers the workloadCovers itCovers part of it
PlanStarterCore
Monthly price$99$250
Billed yearly$990 a year ($82.50 a month)Not captured
The three enginesAll three includedIncluded: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot
Extra costNoneNone
Free trialNone on Starter; a 14-day trial of Pro ($239 a month after)7 days
What the plan counts50 prompts on 3 engines once a day: up to 4,500 runs in 30 days, the whole Starter allowance125 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.

  1. 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.
  2. Competitors.Add the competitors you follow in Scrunch. Searchly benchmarks the ones you choose.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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?

Frequently asked
questions

Everything you need to get started.

Talk to our team

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

  1. Scrunch pricing (brand and agency views)scrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  2. Pricing FAQscrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  3. Collection methods FAQscrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  4. APIs FAQscrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  5. Products FAQscrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  6. Shopping (Product Observability)scrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  7. Agent trafficscrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  8. Signals, Explorer and Scrunchie (Jul 21, 2026)scrunch.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  9. AXP versus CMS publishing FAQscrunch.comChecked Oct 19, 2026

Searchly sources

  1. Searchly pricingwww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  2. AI Visibility product pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  3. Agent Analytics product pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  4. Content Studio product pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  5. Technical optimization (Site Health) pagewww.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  6. Production OpenAPI documentapp.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026
  7. MCP documentationdocs.trysearchly.comChecked Oct 21, 2026

Spotted an out-of-date detail about Scrunch? Email piotr@trysearchly.com and we will check it against Scrunch's pages.

The positioning map and its method

get started

Make the comparison with your own brand.

Start a 14-day free trial of Pro. Track your own buyer prompts, open the answers and sources behind them and decide with evidence.