AthenaHQ vs Scrunch

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 24 September 2026.

Compared on	AthenaHQ Free plan · from $245/mo Visit Remove	Scrunch Free trial · from $250/mo Visit Remove
What it is	AEO and GEO platform that tracks AI search visibility and recommends content actions	AI search monitoring plus a platform that serves AI agents an optimised version of your site
Free plan	$25 of free credit (300 credits; 1 credit = 1 AI response) on ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot; the page does not say whether the credits renew	No
Cheapest paid plan	$245/mo billed annually (Starter)AthenaHQ pricing	$250/mo (Core)Scrunch pricing
What it covers	Includes 3,600 credits a month (1 credit = 1 AI response) across 11 AI models; API access and extra credits cost extra.	Includes 125 prompts, 5 site audits a month, 1 brand workspace and 5 user licences.
Free trial	None stated	7-day free trial of the Core plan, which becomes a paid plan unless cancelled
Platforms	Web, API	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Trying AI visibility tracking on a free plan before paying Getting AI visibility tracking and content recommendations in one tool Tracking a wide set of AI models, including Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI	Tracking AI visibility across several teams in a mid-size or enterprise brand Controlling what AI agents read on a site without changing the pages people see Tracking AI visibility for agency clients
Watch out for	The only paid self-serve plan costs $295 a month ($245 billed annually) API access and extra credits are paid add-ons on Starter, priced on request Tracking in multiple regions and languages is an Enterprise feature	No free plan; Core costs $250 a month after the 7-day trial Core covers four AI platforms, one country, one language and five competitors API, MCP and Looker Studio access, SAML SSO and AXP are Enterprise-only
Made by	AthenaHQ	Scrunch, a Sitecore company

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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