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Profound vs Scrunch AI: an honest comparison

Profound vs Scrunch AI for 2026: entry price, engines, Claude and Grok coverage. For seven AI engines checked daily from $39 a month, the pick is Cituna.

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Side-by-side matrix

Profound and Scrunch AI compared at entry pricing
What you getCitunaThat’s usProfoundScrunch AI
Entry price / month$39Enterprise, unpublished$250
Pricing modelFlat tiersCustom contractFlat tiers
AI engines at entry73 on the trial4
Claude tracked Enterprise Enterprise
Grok tracked Enterprise
Microsoft Copilot Enterprise
Google AI Overviews
Refresh cadenceDaily Daily on EnterpriseNot published
Search Console integration
MCP access at entry
Generated fixes Enterprise 5 site audits / mo
Content generationNot publishedNot published
Publishes to your CMSNot publishedNot published
Content languages50+Not publishedNot published
Free trial3 days (card)7 days, 3 engines7 days

Compiled from each vendor’s public pricing page: Profound figures from www.tryprofound.com/pricing, checked September 25, 2026; Scrunch AI figures from www.scrunch.com/pricing, checked October 1, 2026. Profound: a free 7-day trial on three engines, then a custom Enterprise contract. Scrunch AI: Core covers four engines, 125 prompts and 5,000 responses a month, with 5 user licenses. “Not published” marks a row the vendor does not state publicly; it is not a “no”. Cituna checks all seven engines daily and does not track Microsoft Copilot. MCP read tools are included from $39, write tools from Pro ($119); MCP is not exclusive to us. Prices change often: verify before buying. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it.

Entry price per month
  • Cituna$39
  • ProfoundNot published
  • Scrunch AI$250

Published entry-tier price per month from each vendor’s pricing page (dates in the matrix note above). Read it against what each tier includes, a lower price can mean fewer engines or prompts.

Which engines each tool tracks: Cituna, Profound, Scrunch AI
EngineCitunaProfoundScrunch AI
Claude??
Grok?
Microsoft Copilot?
Google AI Overviews

The four engines coverage varies most on. A dash-ringed “?” means we have not confirmed that vendor’s position on that engine (shown as “Not published” in the matrix), never a no we have not earned.

Reading the difference

The confirmed capability split between these two is narrow enough to state exactly: Scrunch AI covers Grok (enterprise) and Profound does not. That is the whole difference on the rows both vendors publish, everything else in the matrix either matches or is unpublished by one of them, and an unpublished row is not a “no”.

Worth knowing before you shortlist either: neither Profound nor Scrunch AI offers Search Console integration and an MCP server. If any of those is a requirement, this comparison is the wrong shortlist and you should widen it rather than pick the better of two tools that both miss what you need.

The tier ladders are worth reading side by side, because the entry price means something different on each. Profound: Free 7-day trial (3 engines, 50 prompts a day) · Enterprise, price not published (up to 9 engines). Scrunch AI: Core $250 (4 engines, 125 prompts, 5 licenses) · Enterprise custom (9 engines, API, SSO). Read each ladder against the engines you actually need, since one side names no price to compare.

They also genuinely overlap on Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and generated fixes, so those rows should not carry weight in the decision even though both vendors market them.

One practical difference that does not appear in any feature list: Profound sells a custom contract with no published price, while Scrunch AI puts its price on its pricing page. Ask Profound for a quote on your prompt volume before treating the two as comparable on cost.

Which to choose

Choose Cituna if…

For seven AI engines checked daily and the fixes written, on one plan from $39 a month, the pick is Cituna rather than Profound or Scrunch AI.

  • ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, all seven checked daily on the $39 Starter
  • the generated fixes to close the gaps, and articles written and published to your site
  • a Search Console integration to prove the result; neither Profound nor Scrunch AI offers one
  • MCP access from the $39 Starter; neither Profound nor Scrunch AI offers it

What you give up:

  • Microsoft Copilot, which Profound (enterprise) and Scrunch AI track and Cituna does not
  • SSO and SOC 2 for a security review, plus demand-level prompt-volume data, which Profound offers
  • sentiment analysis, which Scrunch AI includes

Choose Profound if…

Profound is the enterprise option, sold on a custom contract. Against Scrunch AI specifically, it publishes no price (the cost is set by contract) and it covers fewer engines at entry (3 on the trial against 4).

  • enterprise depth: demand-level prompt-volume data, agent analytics and conversation-level data
  • an Enterprise contract with all-time history, CSV and JSON exports, an API, unlimited seats, SSO and SOC 2, the items a security review asks for
  • a free 7-day trial, 50 prompts a day on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, to see your exposure before a sales conversation

What you give up:

  • no self-serve plan for brands: past the free trial, every plan is a custom Enterprise contract with no published price
  • the trial runs a prompt set Profound recommends for your industry, which you cannot edit, and keeps no history, exports or API
  • Grok is not on its engine list, and there is no Search Console integration, so AI-visibility movement is never tied back to real search clicks inside the product

Choose Scrunch AI if…

Scrunch AI is the mid-market platform, sold to teams rather than to individuals. Against Profound specifically, it publishes its price ($250 a month at entry) where Profound does not and it covers more engines at entry (4 against 3 on the trial).

  • a 7-day free trial of Core, so the product can be evaluated before a contract
  • five user licenses included at entry rather than one
  • Microsoft Copilot covered at entry, with sentiment analysis and AI bot traffic reporting on the same plan

What you give up:

  • a $250 floor with no smaller plan beneath it, which rules it out for solo operators and early-stage teams
  • Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Grok are held for the custom Enterprise plan, so Core covers four engines
  • no Search Console integration, and MCP only on a custom Enterprise plan

Drafted with AI assistance from our own research and Search Console data, and reviewed by Rahul A before publishing. Rules and prices change; check the linked official source before you act.

Frequently asked questions

Profound vs Scrunch AI: which should I choose?

Profound publishes no price for its paid plan: a free 7-day trial on three engines, then a custom Enterprise contract. Scrunch AI starts at $250 a month, so the cost comparison starts with a quote from Profound. Scrunch AI covers Grok (enterprise) where Profound does not. For a Search Console integration and an MCP server, which neither Profound nor Scrunch AI offers, plus seven AI engines checked daily and the fixes written, the pick is Cituna, from $39 a month. If Microsoft Copilot is a requirement, Profound (enterprise) and Scrunch AI track it and Cituna does not. If you need SSO and SOC 2 for a security review, plus demand-level prompt-volume data, Profound offers them.

Is Profound or Scrunch AI cheaper?

Scrunch AI publishes its price: $250 a month at entry (www.scrunch.com/pricing, checked October 1, 2026). Profound publishes none: a free 7-day trial on three engines, then a custom Enterprise contract (www.tryprofound.com/pricing, checked September 25, 2026). Comparing the two on cost starts with a quote from Profound. Cituna is $39/mo flat for all seven engines with no engine held back for a higher tier.

Does Profound or Scrunch AI cover more AI engines?

Scrunch AI, on published entry-tier counts: 4 against 3 on the trial for Profound. Engine counts are the most misread number in this category, so check what the entry tier actually includes rather than the total the site advertises, Scrunch AI’s entry tier Core covers four engines, 125 prompts and 5,000 responses a month, with 5 user licenses. Cituna publishes one number for this: seven engines, all of them on the $39 tier, all checked daily.

Do Profound and Scrunch AI track Claude and Grok?

Profound tracks Claude (enterprise) and does not track Grok (as of September 25, 2026). Scrunch AI tracks Claude (enterprise) and tracks Grok (enterprise) (as of October 1, 2026). Both engines are included in Cituna’s $39 Starter and checked daily, which is the gap this comparison most often turns on, Grok in particular is a blind spot across much of this category.

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