Scrunch vs Siteline (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Siteline grades higher than Scrunch: 2.2 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Siteline grades higher on value for money and platforms. They get the same grade on the free plan, features and ease of use.
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
Siteline
AI agent traffic analytics with brand visibility tracking in AI chats
Which one is for you
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
Pick Siteline if
- Fits if you want measured AI agent traffic from your server, not only simulated prompts
- Works for developer tools that want to see which coding agents read their docs
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need to know which AI engines are tracked before you pay, as the table doesn't name them
- Not for you if you can't change your hosting or CDN setup, since it collects on the server side
- Tight if you stay free: prompt tracking, MCP and the API all start on Starter at $49 a month
- Watch out: prices are monthly only, with no yearly saving and no stated trial on paid plans
- Tight if you want Slack support, which starts on Scale at $99 a month
How we grade them
| 1.8GPAScrunchWeak | 2.2GPASitelineFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | CStarter is $49 a month for 500 prompt runs, 2 websites and 500,000 analytics events. That's between the cheaper quarter of this category and its middle. Only monthly prices are shown, with no yearly saving. |
| Free plan and trial | 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. | CA free plan with no card: 1 website and 50,000 agent analytics events a month. That covers the bot traffic side, but prompt tracking, MCP and the API all start on Starter. |
| Features | 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. | CAgent analytics, human visits from AI platforms, prompt tracking, citations, ranked fixes and an insights agent. The gap: the pricing table says all major AI platforms without naming them, and the charts show only ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini. |
| Ease of use | 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. | CNo rating on record. It collects through your host or CDN rather than a browser script, so there's setup on the server side before you see traffic. |
| Platforms and integrations | 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. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects through Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, Azure CDN, CloudFront, Next.js, WordPress and Fastly, with MCP and a reporting API from Starter. |
| Best for | brands that want monitoring plus pages for AI agents | real AI agent traffic plus prompt tracking |
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: Scrunch and Siteline. How we grade
Price against what you get
Scrunch starts at $250 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Siteline starts at $49 a month and scores 2.3.
Siteline scores higher and starts $201 a month lower. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 98 score higher than Scrunch for less, and 10 score higher than Siteline for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Scrunch also covers site audit and content optimization.
- Siteline also covers reports.
At a glance
| Scrunch | Siteline | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $250 per month for 125 prompts | $49 per month for 500 prompt runs |
| Free plan | None | 1 website integration and 50,000 agent analytics events a month. No credit card required. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of the Core plan | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Scrunch | Large Language Analytics, Corp. |
| Price read from | scrunch.com | siteline.ai |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Siteline
- Prompt tracking, MCP access and the reporting API start on the $49 Starter plan; the free plan covers agent analytics.
- The pricing table lists "all major AI platforms" without naming them; the charts on the page show ChatGPT, AI Mode, Perplexity and Gemini.
- The page shows monthly prices only, with no annual billing option or stated free trial on paid plans.
- Slack support starts on Scale; Starter has email support only.
Key features
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.
Siteline
- Agent Analytics
- Shows every AI agent, chatbot and crawler on your site by platform, with the pages they fetch, visit counts and where they get stuck.
- Human referrals from AI
- Counts the human visits that arrive from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Meta AI and other AI platforms, next to the agent visits.
- Visibility tracking
- Suggests the prompts that matter in your category, then tracks your visibility, ranking and positioning against competitors in AI answers.
- Citation monitoring
- Lists the sites and pages AI chatbots cite when they answer questions about your brand, and whether you are mentioned in them.
- Recommendations and insights agent
- Ranks content and technical fixes by impact and effort, and an insights agent answers follow-up questions in the app or over MCP.
- Server-side integrations
- Connects through Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, Azure CDN, AWS CloudFront, Next.js, WordPress or Fastly rather than a browser script.
Plans
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.
Siteline
Free$0
1 website and 50,000 agent analytics events a month, for exploring AI agent and bot traffic.
Starter$49
per month for 500 prompt runs
2 websites, 500,000 analytics events, 10 products or competitors, data exports, MCP access, the reporting API and email support.
Scale$99
per month for 1,100 prompt runs
5 websites, 2 million analytics events, 50 products or competitors, and Slack and email support.
Pro$299
per month for 4,000 prompt runs
Unlimited websites, 10 million analytics events, and unlimited products and competitors.
EnterpriseCustom
High-volume events and prompt tracking, custom reporting and consulting, and a dedicated account manager.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scrunch or Siteline?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Siteline is cheaper to start with: $49 a month, against $250 a month for Scrunch. Scrunch starts at $250 per month for 125 prompts, and Siteline starts at $49 per month for 500 prompt runs.
Which has a free plan, Scrunch or Siteline?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Siteline has a free plan. Scrunch does not, though it 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.