AthenaHQ vs Scrunch AI

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

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Scrunch AI currently outpaces AthenaHQ across AI assistants, scoring 27 overall versus 11, and getting named in 26 of 61 answers compared to AthenaHQ's 14 of 61. The gap holds across the board: Claude gives Scrunch AI 49 to AthenaHQ's 23, ChatGPT gives 21 to 6, and Perplexity gives 11 to 5. Head-to-head, Scrunch AI is named more often in 10 of 20 shared questions, the two tie in another 10, and AthenaHQ is never named more often. Scrunch AI shows up in every answer for "best GEO tools" (3 of 3), while AthenaHQ's strongest showings top out around 2 of 3 or 2 of 4 answers.

Head to head

metric	AthenaHQ	Scrunch AI
score	11	27
questions won	11	16

By assistant

AthenaHQ

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	6	10% of answers	#5.0
Claude	23	50% of answers	#9.1
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	5	10% of answers	#7.0

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 AthenaHQ gets named for

nothing exclusive

Only Scrunch AI gets named for

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