Profound vs Scrunch (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Profound if

• Fits if you're a large brand that wants answers tracked on up to 9 engines and can sign a custom contract
• Works for agencies running pitch audits for prospects, at $99 a month for 10 short workspaces

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want to sign up and pay without a sales call, as brands can't
• Pricey if you're an agency with several clients, at $399 a month per client workspace on top of $99
• Tight if you want to test your own questions, since the trial's prompts are fixed
• Watch out: custom prompts, the API, exports and SSO all come only with Enterprise
• Watch out: agents spend credits, and extra credits need an Enterprise package with overage billing or a pause

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

Profound

• Brands have no self-serve paid plan: after the 7-day trial, ongoing tracking needs a custom-priced Enterprise contract.
• Trial users get a recommended prompt set and cannot edit it; custom prompts, API access, exports and SSO come with Enterprise.
• On Agency Growth, each full client workspace is a $399-a-month add-on and 5 more trial workspaces cost $199 a month.
• Agent runs use credits; extra credits beyond the plan need an Enterprise package, with overage billing or a pause set by the account team.

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.

Profound

Answer Engine Insights

Runs set prompts daily and reports where a brand appears in the answers, which sources are cited, sentiment and how it ranks against competitors.

Wide engine coverage

Enterprise can track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Exa Search.

AI Marketer and agents

An assistant that finds gaps in AI answers and drafts or rewrites pages, plus reusable agents for recurring work. Agents run on credits.

Agent Analytics

Tracks AI crawler visits and AI-referred traffic across unlimited domains by connecting to CDNs and hosts such as Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS and Vercel.

Prompt Volumes

Estimates what people ask AI answer engines about a topic; the trial allows 5 searches.

Agency workspaces

Agency plans manage short pitch workspaces for prospects and full client workspaces from one dashboard with consolidated billing.

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.

Profound

• Agency Growth$99

  per month for up to 10 pitch workspaces a month

  For agencies: 10 seven-day pitch audits a month on ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, 5 agency seats. Each full client workspace is $399 a month extra.

• EnterpriseCustom

  For brands: tailored prompt tracking on up to 9 answer engines, AI Marketer credits, all-time history, CSV and JSON exports, API, SSO and dedicated support.

• Agency EnterpriseCustom

  For large agencies and networks: tailored client and trial workspaces, a dedicated agency partner, go-to-market help and Slack support.

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.