AI visibility trackers (GEO)
As of October 29, 2026, Scrunch AI's cheapest paid plan is Core (brands) at $250/month, per its own pricing page. Scrunch AI is built around tracking and improving AI visibility, while Paperboy writes and fact checks the articles those answers can cite, and the table shows where the two overlap.
| Row | Paperboy | Scrunch AI |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month | $250/month |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes | Not listed |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes | Partly |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly | No |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes | Yes |
Side by side
Every cell links the page it came from, with the day we read it.
| Feature | Paperboy | Scrunch AI |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Researches, writes, fact checks and publishes SEO articles to your own site, then learns from Search Console. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | AI visibility monitoring: 125 unique prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot on Core (9 LLMs on Enterprise), plus site audits, AI bot traffic and Agent Pages for AI crawlers. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter is $49 a month per site for 3 articles a week. Growth is $99 and Pro is $179. Yearly billing is two months free. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Cheapest paid plan is Core at $250 per month: 125 unique prompts, 5,000 responses per month, 5 site audits, 1 brand workspace, 5 user licenses, 4 LLMs. Agency Core is $500 per month. The page shows a per-month price; the answer to its annual pricing FAQ was not readable, so annual terms are not verified. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Free plan or trial | Yes The first article is free, no card. Any plan then starts with a 14-day trial (card required). SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Yes Yes. 7-day free trial of the self-serve Core plan, no sales call needed. After the trial you are upgraded to a paid plan unless you cancel. Whether a card is required is not stated on the pages read. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly Posts directly to WordPress and Ghost. Other sites use a hosted blog, a signed webhook or a prompt that builds a blog in your code. No Shopify, Webflow, Wix or Squarespace connector. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | No No. Scrunch's FAQ says Agent Pages does not publish new content. It makes an AI-optimized version of existing pages and serves it to AI agents at the CDN layer, leaving your CMS and human visitors unchanged. Core lists basic content generation but no CMS publishing. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes Every number and cited sentence is compared with the saved text of its source. An article that fails gets one rewrite, then is held for you. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Not listed Not stated. The pages read describe monitoring, sentiment, site audits and page optimization, and say nothing about checking article claims against cited sources. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes Optional read-only Search Console connection. It picks topics from your impressions and reports clicks per article. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Partly Partial. Scrunch's MCP docs index lists workflows that join Google Search Console queries with Scrunch data and bulk-create prompts from GSC query gaps. These run through your own AI assistant. The pricing page lists no native Search Console connector. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| Open source or self-host | Yes The engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host it with Docker and your own keys. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Not listed Not stated. Scrunch is a hosted product. Its scrunch-ai GitHub org has no public repos. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes A remote MCP server with eight tools and a REST API with an OpenAPI file. The CLI is built in the open but not on npm yet. Agents pay with credits, $20 for 100. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Yes Hosted MCP server with 51 tools (read and write) and Agent Skills; a May 2026 Scrunch blog says MCP is on all plans, while the pricing table shows MCP under Enterprise. Query, Responses, Signals, Site Optimization, Configuration and Agent Traffic APIs (the pricing table gates Query API to Enterprise). Looker Studio connector. The table has a CLI Access row, not included on Core. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
“Not listed” means we found no statement either way on the pages linked in that cell. It does not mean the answer is no. Vendors change their pages, so confirm before you buy.
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AI visibility monitoring: 125 unique prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot on Core (9 LLMs on Enterprise), plus site audits, AI bot traffic and Agent Pages for AI crawlers (scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026). Paperboy does not report how often AI answers mention your brand. It has a free check that shows whether AI crawlers can read your site, and nothing more on that side.
Paperboy writes the article, compares every cited claim with the saved text of its source and publishes it. On Scrunch AI's side: No. Scrunch's FAQ says Agent Pages does not publish new content. It makes an AI-optimized version of existing pages and serves it to AI agents at the CDN layer, leaving your CMS and human visitors unchanged. Core lists basic content generation but no CMS publishing (scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Measuring shows the gap. Fixing it takes a page that answers the question and cites sources a model can lean on, which is the part Paperboy writes. Scrunch AI on search data: Partial. Scrunch's MCP docs index lists workflows that join Google Search Console queries with Scrunch data and bulk-create prompts from GSC query gaps. These run through your own AI assistant. The pricing page lists no native Search Console connector (developers.scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Scrunch AI: Hosted MCP server with 51 tools (read and write) and Agent Skills; a May 2026 Scrunch blog says MCP is on all plans, while the pricing table shows MCP under Enterprise. Query, Responses, Signals, Site Optimization, Configuration and Agent Traffic APIs (the pricing table gates Query API to Enterprise). Looker Studio connector. The table has a CLI Access row, not included on Core (developers.scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026). Paperboy has a remote MCP server with eight tools and a REST API. Its CLI is not on npm yet.
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About Scrunch AI
Platform that monitors how AI search shows your brand and serves AI-optimized versions of your pages to AI agents through its Agent Experience Platform. (its own description, read Oct 29, 2026)
Brand name is Scrunch (scrunch.com); the app and MCP host use scrunchai.com. Plan names on the page today are Core and Enterprise. A WebFetch summary of the page showed different plan names and prices; the raw HTML and the vendor FAQ both show Core at $250, which is what is recorded here. The FAQ on annual pricing could not be read.
| Plan | Price | What the page says it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Core (brands) | $250/month | 125 unique prompts; 5,000 responses per month; 5 site audits per month; 1 brand workspace; 5 user licenses; 4 LLMs (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Copilot); 1 country; 5 competitors; 1 page optimization per month; basic content generation; AI agent traffic analytics |
| Enterprise (brands) | Custom | Custom prompts and responses; 9 LLMs; Agent Experience Platform; query API and advanced API access; Looker Studio; SSO (SAML, OIDC); dedicated account team |
| Agency Core | $500/month (per Scrunch pricing FAQ) | Agency plan for multiple clients; details not listed on the pages read |
| Agency Enterprise | Custom | Multi-client management and API access (per Scrunch pricing FAQ) |
From Scrunch AI's pricing page, read October 29, 2026. Paperboy's own prices are on our pricing page.
FAQ
As of Oct 29, 2026, Scrunch AI lists Core (brands) $250/month; Agency Core $500/month. scrunch.com is the source, so confirm there before you buy.
No. Scrunch's FAQ says Agent Pages does not publish new content. It makes an AI-optimized version of existing pages and serves it to AI agents at the CDN layer, leaving your CMS and human visitors unchanged. Core lists basic content generation but no CMS publishing (scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Partial. Scrunch's MCP docs index lists workflows that join Google Search Console queries with Scrunch data and bulk-create prompts from GSC query gaps. These run through your own AI assistant. The pricing page lists no native Search Console connector (developers.scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
The Scrunch AI pages we read do not say (github.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Hosted MCP server with 51 tools (read and write) and Agent Skills; a May 2026 Scrunch blog says MCP is on all plans, while the pricing table shows MCP under Enterprise. Query, Responses, Signals, Site Optimization, Configuration and Agent Traffic APIs (the pricing table gates Query API to Enterprise). Looker Studio connector. The table has a CLI Access row, not included on Core (developers.scrunch.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Sources
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