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CrunchJunkie vs Frase

Frase is built to produce content for AI search: research, briefs, drafting, scoring and publishing, with AI-visibility tracking on 2 to 5 engines by plan, from $39/mo billed yearly. CrunchJunkie is built to measure and report: all 10 engines on every plan from €14/mo, next to ad and analytics channels. It drafts briefs, not articles.

Facts about Frase last checked 14 Oct 2026 on frase.io. The table notes and price cards name each source.

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Who should choose Frase

  • Producing content is the bottleneck. Frase drafts, scores and publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity and Wix.
  • You want an agent that drafts and publishes in your brand voice.

Who should choose CrunchJunkie

  • You need more than 5 engines, or Claude and Gemini below Frase's Scale plan.
  • You report to clients: CrunchJunkie connects ad platforms and GA4 revenue, where Frase's performance data is Search Console and GA4 AI referrals.
  • You want white-label reports on a standard plan. Frase keeps white-label for Enterprise.

Feature by feature

Side by side, including where Frase is stronger.

CapabilityCrunchJunkieFrase
AI visibility trackingFrase tracks share of voice, citations and daily prompts against competitors you choose
AI engines trackedFrase tracks 5 engines in total (ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and gates them by tier: 2 on Starter, 3 on Professional, 5 on Scale. CrunchJunkie offers all 10 on every plan, including Solo at €14102–5
Prompts trackedNo prompt cap on any paid CrunchJunkie plan. Frase: 50 (Starter), 200 (Professional), 500 (Scale)Unlimited50–500
Content briefs & optimisationThis is Frase's core strength — research, briefs, drafting, scoring and publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity and Wix, and a 'Frase Agent' that drafts and auto-publishes in your brand voice. CrunchJunkie builds briefs from your scan data and re-scans the prompt afterwards to measure the change, but does not write or publish for you
AI crawler monitoring
Marketing reportingFrase has no ad-channel connectors. Its performance data comes from Google Search Console and, in an AI Referrals tab, from GA4 (AI-assistant sessions and conversions, per its GA4 documentation)—
Ad-channel connectorsCrunchJunkie connects Google Ads, Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Amazon Ads, Reddit Ads and ChatGPT Ads, next to GA4, Search Console, Matomo, Piwik PRO, Facebook & Instagram, Brevo and Mailchimp.7—
AI traffic and conversions (GA4)Both connect GA4. Frase's AI Referrals tab shows sessions per AI assistant, share of traffic, week-over-week movement and conversions; its documentation names no revenue. CrunchJunkie shows GA4 sessions, conversions and revenue from AI assistants next to AI visibility and your ad channelsSessions + conversions
White-label client reportsFrase reserves white-label, branded client portal and custom domain for Enterprise. CrunchJunkie white-labels from Starter and adds a custom domain from ProEnterprise
MCP serverBoth ship MCP on every plan. Frase's is read and write across research, briefs, drafts and publishing; CrunchJunkie's is 68 tools on one client-agnostic server covering reports, AI visibility, citations, content gaps, signals and the GEO audit68 tools
Public REST APICrunchJunkie ships a read-only REST API (v1) on Pro, Agency and Scale; its MCP server is on every paid plan. Frase includes API access on every plan, its API, MCP and CLI requests are metered at 5,000 / 20,000 / 50,000 a monthRead-only · Pro+
Bring-your-own AI keysPay providers' rates, no markup—
Starting priceFrase Starter is $39/mo billed yearly, or $49 month to month — 1 user, 1 site, 2 AI engines, 50 prompts€14/mo$39/mo

Pricing, side by side

Where each one starts, with the source and date under each card.

CrunchJunkie

AI visibility + reporting, one subscription.

  • Solo1 brand, 1 user, no white-label
    €14/mo
  • Starter5 brands, white-label reports
    €59/mo
  • Pro20 brands, custom domain, REST API, Looker Studio
    €149/mo
  • Agency40 brands, unlimited users
    €224/mo

All 10 AI engines on every plan (4 switched on for a new project), with no per-engine fee · Run them on your own API keys at the providers' rates, or on Managed AI from €25/mo (€0.05 a check beyond the allowance; ChatGPT, Claude and Grok count as 3 checks each) · Annual billing saves up to 17% (14% on Solo) · 14-day trial, card required; during the trial, AI-visibility scans run on Perplexity at no cost and other engines on your own keys · All prices exclude VAT.

Frase

Content operating system for AI search.

  • Starterbilled yearly ($49 monthly) · 1 user, 1 site · 2 engines, 50 prompts
    $39/mo
  • Professionalbilled yearly ($129 monthly) · 3 users, 5 sites · 3 engines, 200 prompts
    $103/mo
  • Scalebilled yearly ($299 monthly) · 5 users, 10 domains · 5 engines, 500 prompts
    $239/mo
  • Enterpriseall named engines · SSO/SAML · white-label
    Custom

Prices shown are billed yearly; Frase says yearly billing saves 20% · 7-day free trial, no card · Extra users $29/mo on Professional and Scale · Metered by articles (10/40/100), audit pages (50/250/1,000), AI-visibility prompts (50/200/500) and API, MCP and CLI requests (5,000/20,000/50,000) per tier · No ad-channel connectors and no BI export; Search Console plus Google Analytics (AI Referrals tab with sessions and conversions, per docs.frase.io's GA4 page) are its performance sources · Re-checked 14 Oct 2026 from frase.io/pricing and docs.frase.io's Google Analytics 4 connector page (Starter $49/mo, $39 annual; Professional $129/$103; Scale $299/$239).

FAQ

Frase vs CrunchJunkie: common questions

Frase tracks five in total (ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini): 2 on Starter, 3 on Professional and 5 on Scale. CrunchJunkie offers all 10 of its engines on every plan, including Solo at €14/mo.

Billed yearly: Starter $39/mo, Professional $103/mo and Scale $239/mo; month to month they are $49, $129 and $299. Enterprise is custom. Plans meter articles, audit pages, AI-visibility prompts (50, 200 and 500) and API, MCP and CLI requests. Re-checked on frase.io on 14 October 2026.

Yes. Frase connects Google Analytics 4 for an AI Referrals tab; its GA4 documentation lists sessions from each AI assistant, their share of traffic, week-over-week movement and conversions, and names no revenue figure. Search Console is its other performance source, and it has no ad-channel connectors. CrunchJunkie shows the GA4 sessions, conversions and revenue that came from AI assistants, next to Google Ads, Meta and your other channels.

No. It drafts content briefs from your scan data and re-scans the prompt after you publish to measure the change, but it doesn't write or publish articles.

Yes. Both track AI visibility, generate content briefs, monitor AI crawlers and offer an MCP server. Frase adds writing and publishing; CrunchJunkie adds all 10 engines and client reports across ad and analytics channels.

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