Ahrefs Brand Radar vs Scrunch AI

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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Ahrefs Brand Radar edges out Scrunch AI on overall mentions, named in 28 of 61 answers versus 26, but Scrunch AI scores higher overall, 27 to 22. The split shows up by assistant too: Claude favors Scrunch AI, 49 to 37, while ChatGPT leans slightly toward Ahrefs Brand Radar, 24 to 21, and both trail badly on Perplexity, 10 and 11. Head-to-head across shared questions, it's an even split, 5 wins each and 10 ties. Ahrefs Brand Radar stands out for AI search ranking alerts and citation tracking, while Scrunch AI leads on GEO tools and enterprise platform questions. Neither gets named for open-source tracking or crawler access questions.

Head to head

metric	Ahrefs Brand Radar	Scrunch AI
score	22	27
questions won	18	16

By assistant

Ahrefs Brand Radar

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	24	35% of answers	#4.1
Claude	37	90% of answers	#10.5
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	10	15% of answers	#4.7

Scrunch AI

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	21	30% of answers	#4.0
Claude	49	80% of answers	#5.1
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	11	20% of answers	#6.3

Where they differ

Only Ahrefs Brand Radar gets named for

What's the best AI visibility tool for a small startup budget?
What's the best tool to track AI visibility for a local or regional business?

Only Scrunch AI gets named for

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