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CrunchJunkie vs Siftly

Siftly Answers tracks brands in AI answers, with engines gated by tier from 2 on its free plan to 8 at $599/mo; Siftly's documentation also describes Siftly Shopping, which rewrites product attributes and publishes them to Shopify, Merchant Center and Manufacturer Center. CrunchJunkie measures AI visibility and AI shopping visibility on all 10 of its engines and reports them next to your ad channels, but doesn't publish changes.

Facts about Siftly last checked 14 Oct 2026 on siftly.ai. The table notes and price cards name each source.

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Who should choose Siftly

  • You want optimised product attributes published back to Merchant Center, Manufacturer Center or Shopify (Siftly Shopping).
  • You want a free plan to start: 10 prompts on 2 engines, refreshed weekly.
  • You want blog and category pages generated and published for you.

Who should choose CrunchJunkie

  • You want all 10 engines, Claude included, without Enterprise pricing.
  • You want AI shopping visibility in the same report as Google Ads, Meta and your other channels.
  • You have a large catalogue: CrunchJunkie imports the whole product feed for readiness scoring; scans on your own keys aren't metered, Managed AI is metered per check, and per-SKU tracking is capped by plan ( 25 on Solo to 2,000 on Agency).

Feature by feature

Side by side, including where Siftly is stronger.

CapabilityCrunchJunkieSiftly
AI shopping visibilitySiftly's documentation (docs.siftly.ai) describes Siftly Shopping, with its own plans (Try, Starter, Growth, Pro, Enterprise; no public prices), which measures Share of Shelf. The prices on siftly.ai/pricing are for Siftly Answers
AI engines trackedSiftly Answers gates engines by tier: 2 on the free plan (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews), 3 at $79, 5 at $249, 8 at $599 — Claude is Enterprise-only, so all 9 needs custom pricing. CrunchJunkie offers all 10 on every plan102–8
Prompts / responses meteredSiftly Answers' plans meter tracked prompts (10/50/100/150) and monthly responses (100 to 108,000) per tier, with geographies capped (1/1/2/3). CrunchJunkie imports the whole product feed (10,967 offers on a real client account). Scans on your own keys aren't metered; Managed AI is metered per check, and per-SKU tracking is capped by planNot on own keys10–150 prompts
Feed import & Merchant CenterBoth connect Merchant Center. Siftly Shopping also WRITES optimised attributes back via a supplemental feed and to Manufacturer Center — CrunchJunkie reads and reports, it does not publish changes for you
Shopify integrationSiftly Shopping installs from the Shopify App Store, syncs the catalog in and publishes blog posts, Collection Pages and product updates back out—
Feed readiness scoringCrunchJunkie scores GTIN, availability, price, image, product type, link and title coverage across the whole feed and names the biggest win
Content generation & publishingSiftly generates blog and category pages and publishes them. CrunchJunkie produces briefs from your scan data and re-scans the prompt afterwards to measure the change, but does not publishBriefs
Marketing reportingSiftly has no ad-channel connectors. GA4 and Search Console appear only as AI-traffic enrichment, not as a reporting product—
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—
White-label client reportsSiftly's agencies page offers 'white-labelable reports' of its AI-visibility data; CrunchJunkie white-labels cross-channel client reports from Starter
Bring-your-own AI keysPay providers' rates, no markup—
Starting priceSiftly now has a free tier (10 prompts, 2 engines, weekly refresh); the first paid plan is $79/mo with 50 prompts and 3 engines€14/moFree / $79/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.

Siftly

Siftly Answers: GEO tracking + content bundles · engines gated by tier.

  • Free10 prompts · 100 responses · 2 engines · weekly refresh
    $0/mo
  • Starter50 prompts · 4,500 responses · 3 engines · 8 blog posts/mo
    $79/mo
  • Growth100 prompts · 30,000 responses · 5 engines · 2 geographies
    $249/mo
  • Scale150 prompts · 108,000 responses · 8 engines · 3 geographies
    $599/mo
  • Enterpriseunlimited · all 9 engines incl. Claude · SSO
    Custom

Plans shown are Siftly Answers, billed monthly (annual billing saves 20%; paid plans start with a 7-day trial, no card); Siftly's documentation also describes Siftly Shopping (Merchant Center, Manufacturer Center and Shopify publishing), whose plans are shown in the app. Paid tiers bundle GEO-optimised blog posts (8/30/60 per month). No ad-channel connectors; GA4 and Search Console are AI-traffic enrichment only. Re-checked on siftly.ai/pricing, /ai-instructions, /use-cases/agencies and docs.siftly.ai/shopping, 14 Oct 2026 (engines 2 / 3 / 5 / 8, Claude on Enterprise only; the free tier refreshes weekly, paid tiers daily).

FAQ

Siftly vs CrunchJunkie: common questions

Free (10 prompts, 2 engines, weekly refresh), Starter $79/mo (50 prompts, 3 engines), Growth $249/mo (100 prompts, 5 engines) and Scale $599/mo (150 prompts, 8 engines). Enterprise is custom and the only tier with Claude. These are Siftly Answers prices, billed monthly (annual billing saves 20%); Siftly Shopping is priced in the app. Re-checked on siftly.ai on 14 October 2026.

Siftly Answers tracks 2 engines on the free plan (ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews), 3 at $79, 5 at $249 and 8 at $599, with Claude on Enterprise only. CrunchJunkie offers all 10 of its engines on every plan.

No. Both connect Merchant Center, but CrunchJunkie reads and reports: it scores feed readiness (GTIN, availability, price, image, product type, link and title) and names the biggest gap. Siftly Shopping also writes optimised attributes back through a supplemental feed and to Manufacturer Center.

No. Siftly has no ad-channel connectors; it uses GA4 and Search Console only to enrich its AI-traffic data. CrunchJunkie reports AI shopping visibility next to Google Ads, Meta and your other channels.

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