The short answer
- Consider Peec AI for a defined prompt panel and its documented archive workflow.
- Consider Otterly when raw response exports are central; confirm the countries and engine add-ons in the quote.
- Consider Scrunch when the site team wants to investigate its agent-facing delivery layer as well as monitoring.
- Stay with Profound when its quoted combination of answer monitoring, crawler analytics and marketing workflows fits the work.
- These are use-case comparisons, not a ranking or a hands-on test.
Peec AI: preserve a prompt series
Peec pricing lists daily tracking and three chosen models on its Starter, Pro and Advanced brand plans. Confirm engine, country and API entitlements for the panel you need.
Peec’s archive endpoint says archived prompts stop running while chats and history remain. Ask for a representative export and verify that the fields support your reporting process.
Explore the Peec AI profile for plan and export questions. Ask what changes when prompt wording or coverage changes.
Peec Actions also describes content recommendations and editing. Confirm which features and approval controls are included in your plan.
Otterly: retain raw answers
Otterly’s export guide, checked October 29, lists raw response exports in CSV and JSON on all plans. Inspect a sample for the prompt, timestamp and citation fields your report needs.
Otterly pricing, also checked October 29, lists separately priced engine add-ons. Verify today’s price and country coverage. Its profile covers the country-based prompt allowance and export questions.
Scrunch: investigate delivery to agents
Scrunch Agent Pages describes serving transformed site content to AI retrieval agents at the CDN. Monitoring selected answers and serving agent-facing content are different tasks; agree which one the team needs.
Different views of Scrunch pricing showed different plan names and allowances, with an entry offer from $250 per month. The brand table we saw lists AXP as custom on Enterprise, not Core. Request the current billing basis, quote and delivery entitlement.
Scrunch’s API FAQ describes response text and citations; its data FAQ says up to one year is available in the platform and via API. Confirm the endpoint and plan window. The Scrunch profile covers access and rollback.
When to stay with Profound
Profound Answer Engine Insights describes answer and citation monitoring; Agent Analytics describes crawler and traffic analytics. Its pricing page also describes reusable marketing agents. Ask for a demonstration of the specific workflow and approval controls.
The brand pricing view displays a free trial and custom Enterprise. Its agency view lists Agency Growth at $99 per month plus add-ons, with a full client workspace for $399 per month. Trial exports and API are unavailable in the table; confirm your order and retention.
If this combination meets the team’s needs and the quote is acceptable, a switch may add work without solving a problem. The Profound profile sets out the current plan uncertainty.
Profound Dynamic Bot Rendering also describes serving opted-in pre-rendered public pages to AI assistants at the CDN. Compare the actual routing and approval controls with Scrunch rather than assuming delivery exists in only one product.
Run the same evaluation
Give each vendor the same questions, engines, countries and date range. Compare underlying answers and cited URLs, not only the headline score. Ask how missing runs, changed prompts and bot identification are handled.
Have the site owner inspect any proposed delivery or log integration. Obtain plan, usage, export and cancellation terms in writing, then use the software trial guide to record the decision.
Before switching, export the old panel, raw answers and citations where available, together with definitions, dates, engine and region. Run an overlap period and retain the old baseline; changes in collection or scoring can create a break in the series.
Common questions
Which Profound alternative should I consider?
Consider Peec AI for its documented archive workflow, or Scrunch for its described agent-facing page delivery. Match either to your actual panel and quote.
Does monitoring prove an AI agent visited my site?
No. An answer mentioning or citing a page and a crawler request are distinct observations.
What does Profound cost?
The brand pricing view shows a free trial and custom Enterprise. The agency view lists $99 per month plus add-ons, including $399 per month for a full client workspace. Confirm current terms.
Are these products ranked?
No. The guide compares documented use cases; inclusion and order are independent of payment.
Sources and scope
We read the linked vendor documentation on the dates shown in the source references. This is documentation research, not hands-on testing; we have not run these products or verified their data, delivery or support.
Quillwell publishes these guides and also builds Adswell. Editorial inclusion and product order are independent of payment. Confirm current plan terms and test the workflow before buying.
Sponsorship does not buy an editorial ranking or a positive review. How we research.
Source references
- Peec AI: brand pricing
Checked 2026-11-05. Plan allowances and frequency; check region, model and API terms.
- Peec AI: archive prompt API
Checked 2026-11-05. Archive stops runs while retaining chats and history.
- Scrunch: Agent Pages
Checked 2026-11-05. Vendor description of CDN delivery to retrieval agents.
- Scrunch: pricing and plans
Checked 2026-11-05. Different pricing views; brand Core and Enterprise comparison, including AXP and Enterprise Data API entitlement.
- Scrunch: plan pricing FAQ
Checked 2026-11-05. Conflicting plan names and allowances; AXP description.
- Scrunch: APIs and response data
Checked 2026-11-05. Query and Responses API fields; confirm endpoint history and entitlement.
- Profound: Answer Engine Insights
Checked 2026-11-05. Answer monitoring, citations and collection claims.
- Profound: Agent Analytics
Checked 2026-11-05. Crawler and AI traffic analytics description.
- Profound: pricing
Checked 2026-11-05. Brand trial and Enterprise scope; agency Growth base and full-client-workspace add-on shown in the agency view; trial history, exports and API.
- Scrunch: data FAQs
Checked 2026-11-05. Up-to-one-year platform and API history and 72-hour collection claim; confirm endpoint and plan access.
- OtterlyAI: pricing and engine add-ons
Checked 2026-10-29. Supports monthly Lite pricing and separately priced engine add-ons.
- OtterlyAI: response and citation exports
Checked 2026-10-29. Supports response export formats and separate citation fields.
- Profound: Dynamic Bot Rendering
Checked 2026-11-05. Opted-in pre-rendered pages delivered to AI assistants at the CDN.
- Peec AI: Actions
Checked 2026-11-05. Recommendations, source opportunities and content workflow.