Scrunch vs AthenaHQ

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	Scrunch Free trial · from $250/mo Visit Remove	AthenaHQ Free plan · from $245/mo Visit Remove
What it is	AI search monitoring plus a platform that serves AI agents an optimised version of your site	AEO and GEO platform that tracks AI search visibility and recommends content actions
Free plan	No	$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
Cheapest paid plan	$250/mo (Core)Scrunch pricing	$245/mo billed annually (Starter)AthenaHQ pricing
What it covers	Includes 125 prompts, 5 site audits a month, 1 brand workspace and 5 user licences.	Includes 3,600 credits a month (1 credit = 1 AI response) across 11 AI models; API access and extra credits cost extra.
Free trial	7-day free trial of the Core plan, which becomes a paid plan unless cancelled	None stated
Platforms	Web, API	Web, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	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	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
Watch out for	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	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
Made by	Scrunch, a Sitecore company	AthenaHQ

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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