emberos vs Scrunch (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrunch grades higher than emberos: 1.8 against 1.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
emberos grades higher on value for money. Scrunch grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Scrunch
AI search monitoring plus pages served to AI agents
Free trial · from $250/mo
Which one is for you
Pick emberos if
- Fits if you'd rather a team ships the fixes than read another dashboard
- Works for large brands whose legal reviewers need logins, as seats are unlimited
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want to see a price before talking to sales
- Skip it if Google's AI Overviews or AI Mode are where your buyers look
- Pricey if you're a small business, as emberos says it costs more than self-serve tools
- Watch out: Lite is a three-month term, and Standard and up are yearly contracts billed monthly
- Too light for hands-off work on Lite, which gives three recommendations a month for your team to act on
Pick Scrunch if
- Fits if you're a large brand weighing Agent Pages, which serve AI agents a cleaned-up copy of your site
- Works for agencies running several client brands and pitch workspaces from one account
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if Gemini, Claude or AI Mode matter, as they're tracked on Enterprise only
- Pricey if you're a small team: Core is $250 a month for one brand and 125 prompts
- Tight if you sell in several countries or watch many rivals: Core allows one country and 5 competitors
- Watch out: the API, SSO and Agent Pages are Enterprise only, and Enterprise prices aren't published
- Watch out: the only trial is 7 days of Core, and Scrunch became a Sitecore company in 2026
How we grade them
| 1.6GPAemberosWeak | 1.8GPAScrunchWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo price is published: emberos only gives one on a sales call after a demo, and says itself that it costs more than self-serve trackers. Pricing is per brand, and Standard and above are yearly contracts billed monthly. | DCore is $250 a month for 125 prompts and 5,000 responses, one brand and 5 users. That's well into this category's dearest tenth, which starts at $129. Agency Core is $500. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing free on record. There's no free plan and no trial, just a demo, and even Lite is a three-month term before it goes month to month. | CNo free plan, just a 7-day free trial of Core. A week is enough to see the first answers come in, not to watch a trend. |
| Features | CFive models on every plan, a prompt set it builds and rotates for you, forecasts it grades a month later, and fix packs shipped by its own team. But Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode aren't among the models it names, and on Lite your team does the fixing. | CPosition, sentiment and cited sources per prompt, with personas, funnel stages, site audits, AI bot traffic and product-level shopping data. The gap is engines: Core watches four, and Gemini, Claude, AI Mode, Grok and Meta AI need Enterprise. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. There's a demo to book before anything starts, and the work then runs on a monthly cycle with the emberos team. | CNo rating on record. You set prompts, competitors, personas and funnel stages before the data says much, and Core caps you at 5 competitors and one country. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, and the listing names no integrations or API. Every plan does allow unlimited logins, so your agency or legal team can look in. | CWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. Looker Studio is the one integration on record, and the API and SSO come only with Enterprise. |
| Best for | brands that want AI answer fixes done for them | brands that want monitoring plus pages for AI agents |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: emberos and Scrunch. How we grade
Where they differ
- emberos also covers reports.
- Scrunch also covers site audit, web analytics and content optimization.
In commonWebAI search visibility
At a glance
| emberos | Scrunch | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | $250 per month for 125 prompts |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 7-day free trial of the Core plan |
| Web | ||
| Made by | emberos | Scrunch |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | scrunch.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
emberos
- No prices are published; the plans (Lite, Standard, Professional, Premium, Enterprise) are quoted after a demo.
- Lite is a three-month term, then month to month; Standard and above are annual contracts billed monthly.
- Lite gives three ranked recommendations a month for your own team to act on; emberos ships fixes only from Standard up.
- Pricing is per brand or entity, and emberos says it costs more than self-serve tracking tools.
Scrunch
- Core covers four AI platforms; Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Grok and Meta AI are tracked only on Enterprise.
- Core is limited to 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses, 5 competitors and one country.
- API access, SSO and the Agent Experience Platform are listed for Enterprise only.
- Scrunch became a Sitecore company in 2026; it says it continues to run as a standalone platform.
Key features
emberos
- Five AI models on every plan
- ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok are all in the base price; no model is sold as an add-on or held back for a higher tier.
- Managed prompt index
- Instead of a fixed prompt allowance, emberos builds and rotates a prompt set from your category and competitors, and your team can add to it.
- Share-of-Prompt and forecasts
- Scores visibility by model next to competitors and forecasts the lift of each recommended change, then grades the forecast the next month.
- Fix packs
- From Standard up, strategists scope, write and ship 2 to 8 fixes a month and re-scan within 14 days to show what moved.
- Change alerts
- From Professional up, sends an alert when a tracked answer changes materially; Premium scopes an urgent fix within 48 hours.
- Unlimited seats
- Every plan allows unlimited logins, which can be shared with an agency, PR firm or legal reviewers.
Scrunch
- Monitoring and citations
- Tracks brand presence, position, sentiment and the sources cited for each prompt, with competitors, personas and funnel stages.
- Insights and recommendations
- Turns monitoring data into suggested changes; Core includes one page optimization a month and basic content generation.
- Agent Experience Platform
- Enterprise plans include Agent Pages, which deliver an optimized version of a site to AI agents that visit it.
- Site audits and bot traffic
- Audits pages for how well AI can read them and reports AI agent and bot visits; Core includes 5 audits a month.
- Shopping and query fan-out
- Product-level AI search performance and the follow-up searches AI tools run behind a prompt; fan-out is limited on Core.
- Agency workspaces
- Agency plans manage several client brands and pitch workspaces from one place, with access controls and white-label output.
Plans
emberos
Pricing could not be confirmed. See emberos.ai.
Scrunch
Core$250
per month for 125 prompts
For brands: 5,000 responses a month on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, 5 site audits a month, 1 brand workspace and 5 users.
Agency Core$500
per month for 250 prompts
For agencies: 10,000 responses a month, 3 brand workspaces, 3 pitch workspaces, 5 site audits per brand a month and unlimited users.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom prompts and workspaces, 9 AI platforms, the Agent Experience Platform, full site audits, API access, SSO and a dedicated account team.
Agency EnterpriseCustom
For large agencies: custom brand and pitch workspaces, full site audits, the Agent Experience Platform, SSO and a dedicated account team.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, emberos or Scrunch?
As of Oct 23, 2026, emberos has no price we could confirm, and Scrunch starts at $250 per month for 125 prompts.
Which has a free plan, emberos or Scrunch?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither emberos nor Scrunch has a free plan. Scrunch has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.