Scrunch vs ZeroRank (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, ZeroRank grades higher than Scrunch: 2.4 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Scrunch grades higher on the free plan. ZeroRank grades higher on value for money, features and platforms. They get the same grade on 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
ZeroRank
AI visibility tracker across 17 AI platforms, priced by answers
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 ZeroRank if
- Fits if you want Grok, Copilot and DeepSeek watched as well as ChatGPT
- Works for teams that want to query rankings from Claude or Cursor through MCP
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you track dearer models, as they use more of the answer budget
- Pricey if you want white-label client reports, which start at Growth for $169 a month
- Not for you if you'd rather count prompts than AI answers, as one prompt on 3 models uses 3
- Watch out: refunds cover only 14 days from first purchase with light use, and renewals aren't refunded
- Watch out: it's web only for now, with phone apps listed as coming, and SSO is Enterprise only
How we grade them
| 1.8GPAScrunchWeak | 2.4GPAZeroRankFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | BStarter is $33 a month billed yearly ($39 monthly) for 2,400 AI answers, about 26 prompts a day on 3 models, with MCP, API and unlimited seats. That's inside this category's cheaper quarter. |
| 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. | DNo free plan. The free trial is a full report on your domain before you enter a card, and the site doesn't say how long the trial runs after that. |
| 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. | B17 platforms checked daily, weekly or on demand, cited sources, prompt research with volume estimates, drafted fixes it re-tests, monthly AI articles and agent workflows. It covers the whole job; the limits are on budget, not on what it does. |
| 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. Answers, models and schedules all draw on one budget, so you need to plan which prompts run where. |
| 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 for now, with iOS and Android apps listed as coming. It has a REST API, Slack, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor. |
| Best for | brands that want monitoring plus pages for AI agents | 17 AI platforms tracked from $33 a month |
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 ZeroRank. 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. ZeroRank starts at $33 a month and scores 2.7.
ZeroRank scores higher and starts $217 a month lower. Of the other AI search visibility tools on the chart, 98 score higher than Scrunch for less, and 1 scores higher than ZeroRank 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 web analytics.
- ZeroRank also covers AI agents, long-form writing and reports.
At a glance
| Scrunch | ZeroRank | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $250 per month for 125 prompts | $33 per month for 2,400 AI answers, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of the Core plan | Free trial with no card needed: a full report runs before you enter one. The trial's length is not stated. |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Scrunch | ZeroRank |
| Price read from | scrunch.com | zerorank.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.
ZeroRank
- Plans are sized by AI answers a month, not prompts: one prompt on 3 models uses 3 answers, and higher-cost models use more of the budget.
- White-label dashboards and automated client email reports start at Growth ($169 a month, billed yearly); single sign-on is Enterprise only.
- Refunds cover 14 days from the first purchase if the service has not been used heavily; renewals are not refunded.
- iOS and Android apps are listed as coming soon; today it runs in the browser.
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.
ZeroRank
- Tracking across 17 AI platforms
- ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and more on every plan, checked daily, weekly, monthly or on demand.
- Prompt Research
- Turns a topic, a question or a competitor's domain into prompts worth tracking, each with an estimated AI search volume. 10 to 150 runs a month by plan.
- Sources and citations
- Shows which domains the models cite for your category, how often each is used and what type of page it is.
- Fixes and content
- Explains why an answer left you out, drafts the page edit and re-runs the prompt to check it. Plans also include a monthly quota of AI articles.
- Agentic workflows
- Scheduled workflows that pull rankings, find gaps, draft content for missing prompts and alert the team, on every paid plan.
- MCP server and REST API
- Query live rankings, run prompts and pull cited sources from Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or any MCP client, or over REST, on every paid plan.
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.
ZeroRank
Starter$33
per month for 2,400 AI answers, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly)
About 26 prompts a day on 3 models, 1 workspace, 10 Prompt Research runs, 2 AI articles and 2 content optimizations a month, MCP and API.
Growth$169
per month for 13,500 AI answers, billed yearly ($199 billed monthly)
About 150 prompts a day on 3 models, up to 10 workspaces, white-label dashboards, automated client email reports and 12 AI articles a month.
Agency$424
per month for 31,500 AI answers, billed yearly ($499 billed monthly)
About 350 prompts a day on 3 models, unlimited workspaces, 150 Prompt Research runs, 36 AI articles a month and a dedicated account rep.
EnterpriseCustom
An answer budget sized to your prompts, models and schedule, with single sign-on, dedicated support and custom content allowances.
Ways to pay less
Scrunch
No public discounts listed.
ZeroRank
- Annual discount
Save 15% with yearly billing
ZeroRank's pricing page takes 15% off for yearly billing: Starter is $33 a month instead of $39, which it states as a $72 saving a year.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scrunch or ZeroRank?
As of Oct 23, 2026, ZeroRank is cheaper to start with: $33 a month, against $250 a month for Scrunch. Scrunch starts at $250 per month for 125 prompts, and ZeroRank starts at $33 per month for 2,400 AI answers, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Scrunch or ZeroRank?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Scrunch nor ZeroRank has a free plan. Both have 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.