Ayzeo vs Scrunch: Budget GEO Platform vs Mid-Market AI Visibility Suite

The headline gap is six-to-one: Ayzeo's Starter is $39/mo, while Scrunch's Core plan is $250/mo, roughly a $3,000-per-year commitment (Scrunch reserves annual discounts for Enterprise). But the entry price alone flattens what are really two different packages, so here is the honest math.

Where Scrunch's price buys real depth: Core includes 125 unique prompts and 5,000 responses a month across four engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Copilot), with persona, funnel-stage, and sentiment analysis. Ayzeo's $39 plan tracks 20 prompts across two engines, expandable in +10-prompt packs at $15/mo. If your program needs 100+ prompts with Copilot in the mix from day one, Scrunch's packaging is fair value, not a markup.

Where Ayzeo's price stretches further: seats and engines. Ayzeo includes unlimited seats on every plan; Scrunch Core includes five user licenses, with extra users at $25/mo each. On engines, the math now favors Ayzeo: adding all five add-on models to a single project comes to $184/mo ($39 + 5 × $29) for seven engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek on request), still below Scrunch Core's $250/mo for four. Scrunch tracks Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Meta AI, and Grok only on its custom-priced Enterprise plan. The mixes still differ: Scrunch Core includes Copilot, which Ayzeo does not offer.

Two Scrunch capabilities have no direct equivalent in most GEO tools, including Ayzeo, and they deserve a straight explanation rather than a dismissal.

AXP ("Agent Experience Platform"), part of Scrunch's Enterprise plan, serves an AI-friendly version of your website to AI agents and crawlers — structured pages designed for machines rather than humans. Where most tools stop at telling you what AI engines see, AXP changes what they see. Ayzeo approaches the same problem from the opposite direction: instead of a hosted agent layer, it generates the artifacts — JSON-LD, an LLMs.txt file, AI-optimized content, meta tags — that you implement on your own site, directly or through its WordPress plugin. Hosted layer versus owned-site implementation is a genuine philosophical split: teams that want every change living on their own domain usually prefer Ayzeo's approach, while teams that want zero implementation work lean toward AXP.

Personas and funnel stages let Scrunch break visibility down by modeled buyer persona (1 on Core, custom on Enterprise) and by funnel stage — so a brand can see, for example, that it surfaces well in late-stage comparison questions but is invisible in early-stage research. Ayzeo has no persona layer; its closest analogue is prompt-level tracking organized with tags, plus GA4 and Search Console integration on Pro to measure what AI visibility actually delivers in traffic.