Comparison · 2026

Scrunch alternative: Citedin vs Scrunch (2026)

AI-agent experience platform: monitors how AI agents read your site and can serve them an optimized version (AXP).

Scrunch

AI-agent experience platform: monitors how AI agents read your site and can serve them an optimized version (AXP). Prices: Core $250/mo (125 prompts, 5 site audits, 5 users) or Starter $250/mo billed annually / $300 month-to-month.

Citedin

A SaaS that gets one site found on Google and cited by AI answers: a 64-rule audit, weekly sampling on 5 engines, and fix drafts you approve.

The short answer

AI-agent experience platform: monitors how AI agents read your site and can serve them an optimized version (AXP). Citedin runs the whole loop — weekly sampling on 5 engines, a 64-rule audit, fix drafts you approve, and recrawl verification — built to get one site (or a small portfolio) cited, with founding prices from €19/mo.

Side by side

ScrunchCitedin
Entry priceCore $250/mo (125 prompts, 5 site audits, 5 users) or Starter $250/mo billed annually / $300 month-to-month€19/mo (founding, final at launch)
Weekly samplingCore: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot (Enterprise: 9 LLMs)5 engines × 3 samples per prompt
Technical auditvariesyes
Written fix plannoyes
Publishes without approvalnono
Try without an accountnot listedyes

What Citedin does that Scrunch does not

Entry price 5× Citedin's planned solo tier, with 125 prompts.

No keyword rankings or GSC-based drop diagnosis.

Where Scrunch is the better pick

Deepest product thinking about how agents read pages (AXP, agent traffic analytics).

Site audits are part of the product, not an afterthought.

Prices:

  • Core $250/mo (125 prompts, 5 site audits, 5 users) or Starter $250/mo billed annually / $300 month-to-month (2026-10-26)
  • Agency Core $500/mo; Enterprise custom (2026-10-26)
  • 7-day free trial (2026-10-26)
  • Switching from Scrunch

    The prompts you already use in Scrunch paste straight into onboarding; the first weekly run fires when you confirm the site. Nothing publishes without your approval, so you can compare a full week before deciding.

    Questions people ask

    Can I use Scrunch and Citedin together?
    Yes. Plenty of teams keep Scrunch for monitoring and use Citedin for the audit and the fixes; the free check makes a one-week comparison cost nothing.
    How much does Scrunch cost?
    Core $250/mo (125 prompts, 5 site audits, 5 users) or Starter $250/mo billed annually / $300 month-to-month Agency Core $500/mo; Enterprise custom 7-day free trial Read 2026-10-26; verify on their page.
    Do you cover the same engines?
    Citedin samples ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews and AI Mode; Claude and Copilot are toggles. Scrunch: Core: ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot (Enterprise: 9 LLMs).
    Do you write the content?
    Only the fixes: passages, tables and FAQs with every claim linked to a crawled source. No generic blog filler.
    Do you publish to my CMS?
    No. Nothing publishes without your approval; shipping stays yours.
    Why trust this comparison?
    Prices read from the vendor's own site or dated third-party reviews on 2026-10-26. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we write "not listed" — we never guess.

    How we compare

    Prices read from the vendor's own site or dated third-party reviews on 2026-10-26. Where a vendor does not publish a price, we write "not listed" — we never guess. We make Citedin — this is a vendor's comparison. Corrections ship within 48 hours.

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