AI search visibility

Scrunch AI vs Profound

Updated September 2026

Scrunch AI if you want to know how different buyers get answered and which page to fix, with seven assistants included and a pricing page that tells the whole story. Profound if you need arrivals rather than mentions, because counting AI crawlers on your own servers is something answer sampling cannot produce.

Both tools are assessed against the same criteria, scored before any commercial conversation. How we rank.

These two sit near the top of our AI visibility ranking and are regularly shortlisted together, which is reasonable, because they are the two most capable products in the category. They are not, however, measuring the same thing, and a team that picks on price will often find it bought the wrong instrument.

The deciding question is: do you need to know how you are being described, or who actually arrived?

Scrunch AI answers the first more thoroughly than anything else we assessed. It models the asker rather than the question, tracking how a finance lead and a practitioner get answered differently, and it attaches findings to individual URLs so a gap points somewhere you can go and fix. Profound answers the second, by connecting to your CDN or hosting platform and reading AI crawler and agent traffic hitting your own site. No amount of answer sampling produces that number.

The prices on the marketing pages are not comparable

Both publish figures, and only one of those figures describes a product most buyers would actually buy.

Profound's advertised entry plan watches ChatGPT and nothing else, with a single seat, so the honest comparison runs against its Growth tier at $399 a month. Scrunch AI's entry plan includes seven assistants with no surcharge and three user licences. Comparing the advertised numbers rather than the equivalent configurations is the error every round-up in this category makes.

The short answer

Scrunch AI

3.5 / 5

Pick Scrunch AI if Pick Scrunch AI if the job is diagnosis. Persona modelling shows how different buyers get answered on the same question, findings attach to a URL rather than to the brand in aggregate, and seven assistants are included without a surcharge at the entry level.

Where it falls short: Page audits are the real constraint rather than prompts, at five a month on the entry plan, and seats are capped low enough that a fourth person forces a tier change. Programmatic access sits on an unpriced tier and support commitments are not published.

From: $250/mo
Free plan: No

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Profound

4.0 / 5

Pick Profound if Pick Profound if you need to show arrivals to somebody who does not accept sampled mentions as evidence. Reading AI crawler traffic from your own CDN is a different class of measurement, and it is the only vendor here putting a response time in writing.

Where it falls short: The advertised entry plan covers one assistant and one seat, so the realistic figure is four times the number on the marketing pages. The nine-assistant ceiling and programmatic access both belong to a tier that publishes no price at all.

From: $99/mo
Free plan: No

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Side by side

	Scrunch AI	Profound
What it actually measures	How engines answer, modelled per buyer persona	How engines answer, plus AI crawler traffic reaching your servers
Assistants covered on the entry plan	Seven, with no surcharge	ChatGPT alone
The plan most buyers will need	The entry plan, at $250 a month on the annual commitment	Growth at $399 a month
Whether the published page tells the whole story	Yes; tiers, seats, audits and the monthly premium are all stated	No; the advertised plan is not a configuration most teams could use
Where a finding points you	An individual URL you can go and change	Brand-level position and competitor benchmarks
Seats on the cheapest plan	Three, and capped low above that	One
Programmatic access	Enterprise only, with no published figure	Marked unavailable on both published tiers
Support commitment in writing	Nothing published that we could find	A contractual response time, the only one in the category
Working across several clients	Not a stated capability	Agency workspaces with per-client credits
Peak assistant coverage	Seven, included rather than gated	Nine, on the tier with no published price

Which one, given what you are trying to do

Work out why you are losing and what to change. Scrunch AI. Persona modelling and page-level findings turn a visibility problem into a list of URLs, which is the difference between a dashboard and a work queue.

Prove to a finance director that any of this matters. Profound. Traffic read from your own servers is evidence in a language the rest of the business already accepts, and sampled mentions are not.

Run this across several client accounts. Profound, on agency workspaces and per-client credits. Scrunch AI states nothing equivalent, and its seat caps make sharing access awkward.

Budget the whole thing before committing. Scrunch AI, comfortably. Everything that decides the bill is on its pricing page, whereas Profound's published figures do not describe the plan you would end up on.

A small team that needs several people looking. Neither is generous, and this is the shared weakness worth naming: three seats on one and one on the other. If uncapped access matters more than either product's headline strength, look at Peec AI instead.

What neither of them will tell you

Both reserve programmatic access for a tier with no published price, so on either product a reporting pipeline into your own dashboards cannot be scoped from the public pages. If pulling this data into what you already run is part of the plan rather than a later nice-to-have, raise it in the first conversation, because it will change which tier you are quoted.

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Scrunch AI or Profound?

They answer different questions. Scrunch AI is the better diagnostic, because it models how different buyers get answered and attaches findings to individual pages. Profound is the better evidence, because it reads AI crawler traffic arriving at your own servers rather than inferring reach from sampled answers.

Which is cheaper?

Scrunch AI, once you compare equivalent configurations rather than advertised ones. Its entry plan runs $250 a month on the annual commitment with seven assistants and three seats, while Profound's advertised plan covers one assistant and one seat, putting the realistic comparison at $399 a month. Figures checked against both vendors' published pages.

What does Profound do that Scrunch AI cannot?

Count arrivals. Connecting Profound to your CDN or hosting platform lets it observe AI crawlers and agents hitting your site, which is a measurement rather than an inference. It also publishes a response time commitment and supports agency workspaces with per-client credits, neither of which Scrunch AI states.

What does Scrunch AI do that Profound cannot?

Two things. It models the person asking, so you can see a finance lead and a practitioner getting different answers to the same question, and it attaches each finding to a specific URL. Between them those turn a visibility report into a list of pages to fix rather than a score to worry about.

Can either one push data into our own dashboards?

Not on any published plan. Both reserve programmatic access for an unpriced tier, so a reporting pipeline is a sales conversation on either product. Raise it early, because it changes which tier you are quoted and neither public page lets you budget for it.

How did we assess these two?

From each vendor's own published pages, read at source, and scored against our five review criteria. We have not run either product on a live account, so ease of use is left unscored on both reviews rather than estimated, and everything here about capability comes from published specification rather than from output we have seen.

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