Scrunch AI and GetIntel both track how AI assistants answer the questions your buyers ask, but they start at very different prices. As of 26 September 2026, Scrunch AI's cheapest plan, Starter, was $250 a month billed annually or $300 month-to-month, and it tracked seven engines on every plan, including Claude and Google AI Mode. GetIntel starts at $29 a month for 25 buyer questions checked daily on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and its $79 Pro plan turns every gap into a ranked fix task. Scrunch wins on engine breadth; GetIntel wins on entry price and on how much of the fixing it does for you.
Disclosure: GetIntel is an AI visibility tool and competes with Scrunch AI. Every Scrunch AI figure here was read from Scrunch AI's own website on 26 September 2026; GetIntel's figures are from getintel.ai on the same day.
GetIntel vs Scrunch AI at a glance
| What you get | GetIntel | Scrunch AI |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $29/mo (Monitor, 25 questions) | $250/mo billed annually, $300 month-to-month (Starter, 350 prompts) |
| Next tier | $79/mo (Pro, 60 questions); $149/mo (Growth, 120) | $417/mo annually or $500 (Growth, 700 prompts); Enterprise custom |
| Engines | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews daily; Claude weekly on Growth | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Meta on every plan |
| Seats | Unlimited on Pro and Growth | Three user licences on Starter |
| Fix workflow | Ranked tasks with drafted copy from Pro, workable over MCP | Five page audits a month on Starter, plus the Agent Experience Platform |
| Trial | 7 days, card required; free 20-question check with no signup | 7-day Starter trial, no card |
Scrunch AI figures read from its own site on 26 September 2026.
How much does Scrunch AI cost compared with GetIntel?
Scrunch AI has one published floor, and it is $250. On 26 September 2026, Starter was $250 a month on annual billing or $300 month-to-month, with 350 custom prompts, three user licences and five page audits a month. Growth was $417 a month annually or $500 monthly for 700 prompts, and Enterprise is priced on a call.
GetIntel's ladder starts lower and climbs in smaller steps: Monitor is $29 a month for 25 buyer questions, Pro $79 for 60 and Growth $149 for 120, or 20% less on annual billing. A founder who wants to see whether AI names the brand at all can do that for about a tenth of Scrunch's entry price.
The comparison flips on volume. Scrunch Starter's 350 prompts are nearly three times GetIntel Growth's 120, so a team that already knows it needs hundreds of tracked prompts gets more per dollar from Scrunch at that size. Below that, there is no Scrunch plan to buy.
Which AI engines does Scrunch AI track that GetIntel does not?
Scrunch AI tracks seven engines on every plan: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Meta AI. None of them is an add-on.
GetIntel checks four engines every day on every plan (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews) and adds Claude weekly on the $149 Growth plan. It does not track Google AI Mode or Meta AI.
If your buyers use Claude daily, or you need Google AI Mode tracked separately from AI Overviews, Scrunch covers ground GetIntel does not. If your buyers mostly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google, the four daily engines cover where they are.
Page audits or ranked fix tasks?
The fix workflow is where Scrunch AI and GetIntel differ most. Scrunch's Starter plan includes five page audits a month, each meant to surface specific fixes on a page, and its Agent Experience Platform generates an AI-friendly version of your site for AI agents that visit it.
GetIntel's Pro plan turns every gap it finds into a ranked task: a page to write or refresh, a roundup or review site that lists competitors and skips you, or a Reddit thread worth answering. It drafts the copy where it can write it, and a coding agent such as Claude Code or Cursor can work through the list over MCP in your own codebase while you review each change. Monitor, the $29 plan, is tracking only.
Five audits a month suits a team that fixes a few key pages by hand. A ranked list with drafts suits a team that wants the work queued up and mostly written.
Which tools do AI assistants recommend instead of Scrunch AI?
We asked ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini five questions a buyer types when leaving Scrunch AI, such as "What are the best alternatives to Scrunch AI for tracking AI search visibility?" and "Is there a cheaper alternative to Scrunch AI for AI visibility tracking?", once each on 26 September 2026: 15 answers in all.
| Tool | Answers naming it (of 15) | Named first |
|---|---|---|
| Peec AI | 13 | 1 |
| Otterly.AI | 13 | 7 |
| Profound | 11 | 6 |
| AthenaHQ | 9 | 0 |
| Ahrefs | 8 | 0 |
| Semrush | 7 | 0 |
Counts are answers naming each tool, from 15 answers measured 26 September 2026 (5 questions, one run each on ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini with web search). Scrunch AI itself is excluded.
Two tools dominate. Peec AI and Otterly.AI each appeared in 13 of the 15 answers, and the first recommendation split almost evenly between Otterly.AI (7 answers) and Profound (6). That split tracks the two reasons people leave Scrunch: Otterly.AI is the answer when the question is about price, Profound when it is about breadth. On average each answer named 8.5 tools, and on three of the five questions the three engines did not agree on which tool to name first, so which assistant a buyer asks changes the shortlist they see.
Should you choose Scrunch AI or GetIntel?
Pick Scrunch AI if you need Claude, Google AI Mode and Meta AI tracked from day one, want several hundred prompts, and a $250 floor (26 September 2026) fits the budget. Pick GetIntel if you are a founder or small team that wants to start at $29, wants gaps turned into drafted tasks from $79, and can live with four daily engines rather than seven.
How we checked the Scrunch AI figures
Every Scrunch AI price, plan and engine list in this comparison was read from Scrunch AI's own website on 26 September 2026. GetIntel's figures come from getintel.ai on the same day. The answer data comes from buyer questions we put to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini on 26 September 2026, one run each, so treat the counts as a snapshot rather than a trend.
For every Scrunch plan and how its pricing changed, see Scrunch AI pricing 2026. For the six tools buyers weigh instead of Scrunch, see Scrunch AI alternatives. The closest enterprise comparison is GetIntel vs Profound, and to weigh every option at once, compare AI visibility tools.