KoldOS vs Scrunch AI: a layer, or a rebuild?
Scrunch AI and KoldOS approach the same problem from opposite directions. Scrunch AI is an enterprise-oriented AI visibility platform that monitors brand presence across LLMs, publishes plans from $250 per month billed annually, and offers an Agent Experience Platform that "Creates a parallel, lightweight version of your site that's translated for AI agents". KoldOS is a generative engine optimisation agency in Australia that works on the original site instead: rendering, structured data, crawl pathways and the passages themselves. Both are legitimate routes to being readable by a model. One adds a machine-facing layer alongside the site; the other changes what the site serves everyone.
01Side by side
What each of us actually sells.
Scrunch AI claims checked 8 August 2026
| Dimension | Scrunch AI | KoldOS |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A platform to "Monitor and improve your brand's visibility in AI search", with Monitoring, Insights and an Agent Experience Platform as named modules.1 | An agency engagement covering measurement and then the technical and editorial remediation. |
| Published pricing | Starter at "$250 per month (billed annually) or $300 month-to-month". Growth at "$417 per month (billed annually) or $500 month-to-month". Enterprise is custom.2 | Scoped and quoted per engagement after a diagnostic. |
| Prompt volume | Starter lists 350 custom prompts and 1,000 industry prompts. Growth lists 700 custom and 2,500 industry.2 | A prompt set written for the category and published with the results. |
| AI platforms covered | "ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and AI Overviews, and Meta".2 | Chosen per client based on where that category's buyers are asking, and named alongside the results. |
| Approach to machine readability | The Agent Experience Platform "Creates a parallel, lightweight version of your site that's translated for AI agents", serving machine-readable, compressed pages.1 | The site itself is made server-rendered, crawlable and structured, so humans and agents are served the same pages. |
| Seats | Starter lists 3 user licences, Growth 5. Additional seats are published at "$25/month" each.2 | No seat model. |
| Page auditing | Starter lists 5 page audits, Growth lists 10.2 | Auditing is manual and scoped to the pages that carry commercial weight, then remediated. |
| Enterprise readiness | Published as "SOC 2 Type II compliant", with RBAC, SAML/OIDC on Enterprise and an Enterprise Data API.1 | Not published. Agency engagements are governed by contract terms rather than platform certification. |
| Trial | A "7-day free trial of the Starter plan" with "Instant signup, no credit card required".2 | No trial. Engagements begin with a paid diagnostic. |
Sources
Every claim about Scrunch AI above is quoted from those pages and was checked on 8 August 2026. Products change their pricing and their feature tiers without notice, so treat anything here as of that date and check the source before deciding on it.
02When to pick them
Pick Scrunch AI if the site cannot be changed on any reasonable timeline
Large organisations often sit on a platform where a rendering change is a two-quarter programme with three teams attached. In that situation an agency recommending server-side rendering is describing a road that will not be built this year. Scrunch AI's Agent Experience Platform serves agents a parallel machine-readable version of the site, which is a pragmatic answer to exactly that constraint, and the published SOC 2 Type II status and SAML/OIDC support are what enterprise procurement will ask for anyway.
03Questions
- What does Scrunch AI cost?
- Scrunch publishes Starter at "$250 per month (billed annually) or $300 month-to-month" and Growth at "$417 per month (billed annually) or $500 month-to-month", with Enterprise custom. Those figures were read from the Scrunch pricing page on 8 August 2026.
- Is serving a parallel site to AI agents the same as cloaking?
- The distinction that matters is whether the two versions say the same thing. A machine-readable rendering of identical content is a format decision, and search guidelines have tolerated format differences for years. A version that says something different from what a human is shown is a different matter entirely, and is worth asking any vendor about directly.
- Why would KoldOS change the site instead of adding a layer?
- Because most of the underlying fixes pay off on both surfaces at once. Server-side rendering, clean structured data and self-contained passages improve what search crawlers, answer-time agents and human readers all receive, from a single change to a single codebase.
- Does KoldOS work with enterprise procurement?
- KoldOS is a small Australian agency and does not publish SOC 2 certification or SSO support, because those are properties of software rather than of a services engagement. An organisation whose procurement process is built around vendor security review will find a certified platform a shorter path.
- Which domain is Scrunch AI on?
- scrunchai.com now issues a 301 redirect to scrunch.com, which is where the current product and pricing pages live. Both the capability and the pricing claims on this page were read from scrunch.com.
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