AthenaHQ vs Scrunch AI

AthenaHQ tracks brand visibility across up to nine AI models with prompt and response analysis, competitor insights, and content optimization agents, with a real free tier. Scrunch monitors AI visibility and optimizes what AI agents see: prompt tracking with citations and sentiment, site audits of how AI consumes your pages, and an enterprise Agent Experience Platform. They compete only where the categories overlap; the ledger below lines them up dimension by dimension so the differences carry the decision.

AthenaHQ. AthenaHQ tracks brand visibility across up to nine AI models with prompt and response analysis, competitor insights, and content optimization agents, with a real free tier. Pricing: Essential free (300 credits, five models including Claude), Starter $295 a month (3,600 credits, nine models) with API access as a paid add-on, Enterprise custom.

Scrunch AI. Scrunch monitors AI visibility and optimizes what AI agents see: prompt tracking with citations and sentiment, site audits of how AI consumes your pages, and an enterprise Agent Experience Platform. Pricing: Core $250 a month after a 7-day trial: 125 prompts on four LLMs, one country, one page optimization; Claude, Gemini, Grok, the API, Looker and MCP are Enterprise features.

Every cell below was read from the vendor’s own rendered pages (athenahq.ai/pricing; scrunchai.com/pricing), as of August 2026. Where a vendor’s public pages neither confirm nor deny a capability, the cell says so.

Open questions on each side, from the same rendered pages. AthenaHQ: the step from free to paid is $295; aPI access bills as an add-on on Starter; no Google, local or long-form publishing surface. Scrunch AI: claude, Gemini and Grok wait behind Enterprise; looker, API and MCP are Enterprise-only; no Google rank or local surface.

Rank.ai is built for the loop that usually falls between these two products. It puts your market’s buying questions to seven AI engines every day, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews and DeepSeek, three samples per engine, and records every answer with the brands named and the sources cited. It checks your Google rankings daily on every plan and scans a geo-grid of your Google Maps rank across your service area. And it finishes the job: the article pipeline researches, writes and publishes the missing pages into WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or WordPress.com with your approval, 10 a month included on the $0 plan.