Profound vs Scrunch AI
Two enterprise AEO platforms, two very different DNAs.
Part of our honest comparisons.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Profound | Scrunch AI |
|---|---|---|
| Query fanout decompositionAuto-expand seed queries into intent variants | Partial | |
| Brand share-of-voice trackingTrack citation share over weeks/months | ||
| Agent crawler graphMap how AI agents traverse your site | ||
| Site infrastructure auditRender bots, robots.txt, agent UAs | Partial | |
| Funded round size | Partial | |
| Free public audit | ||
| Self-serve signup | ||
| Sub-$500/mo tier | ||
| Honest rubric exposureEvery signal weight visible | ||
| Schema.org generator built-in |
A check is a first-class feature, “Partial” means it exists in some form, a cross means it isn’t offered.
- Profound (San Francisco) raised $30M Series A from Khosla, K9, Tribe Capital (Aug 2025).
- Scrunch AI (Salt Lake City) raised $14M from CRV, focused on agent-readable site infrastructure.
- Both are enterprise-tier ($1500+/mo), with no public free audit and a sales-led motion.
- Sources: techcrunch.com/2025/08, scrunchai.com/about, tryprofound.com/changelog.
- Competitor prices are as their sites listed them when this was written (2026). They change often, so check the vendor's own pricing page.
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