Proofsource vs AnswerMonk
AnswerMonk is an audit-first ChatGPT tool: a free audit, then a monthly re-audit and action plan for a low price per brand. Proofsource tracks four engines, daily on Custom, with an interval on every percentage.
Proofsource and AnswerMonk in five facts
Price
- Proofsource
- Free trial, then Custom from $64 per brand per month (final price discussed on demo call)
- AnswerMonk
- Starter $19 and Full $99, each a one-time 30-day plan rather than an auto-renewing subscription; the first audit is free[1]
Free trial
- Proofsource
- 2 days free, 4 engines, no card
- AnswerMonk
- Free audit, no signup; results in 3 to 8 minutes[3]
AI engines covered
- Proofsource
- 4 on the trial, all 10 on Custom
- AnswerMonk
- 1: ChatGPT, measured in three search modes[3]
How often answers are re-read
- Proofsource
- Daily on Custom, or hourly
- AnswerMonk
- Monthly re-audit; weekly cadence listed as on the roadmap[3]
Seats
- Proofsource
- Unlimited on Custom
- AnswerMonk
- Not published
What AnswerMonk is, and who it is for
An audit, then a plan. AnswerMonk crawls your site, drafts 24 to 32 buyer questions across personas and locations, runs them in ChatGPT, traces the sources behind each answer and returns a 30/60/90-day action plan with impact scores.[2]
ChatGPT, three ways. It measures ChatGPT in three search modes (search off, model decides, search forced) and combines them into an AI share-of-voice score.[3]
Local and service businesses. Its use cases cover agencies, clinics and med-spas, law firms, hotels, regional SaaS and local businesses, and its published testimonials come from care operators and clinics.[1][2]
Proofsource is an AI intelligence platform that shows which buyer questions name your brand in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, who gets named instead, and exactly what to fix.
Proofsource and AnswerMonk, fact by fact
Each AnswerMonk cell links to the page it came from. Where AnswerMonk does not publish a detail, the cell says so instead of guessing.
| Question | Proofsource | AnswerMonk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free trial, then Custom from $64 per brand per month (final price discussed on demo call), arranged on a demo call | Starter $19 and Full $99, each a one-time 30-day plan rather than an auto-renewing subscription; the first audit is free[1] |
| Free trial | 200 answers. 25 Prompts/Question. Top AI engines. 2 days. Free. No card, no sales call | Free audit, no signup; results in 3 to 8 minutes[3] |
| AI engines covered | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews on the trial. Custom covers all 10 engines, adding Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI, switched on at onboarding | 1: ChatGPT, measured in three search modes[3] |
| How often answers are re-read | Daily on Custom by default, one answer per question per engine per UTC day, or hourly or any frequency you choose; the trial reads every engine on 2 consecutive days | Monthly re-audit; weekly cadence listed as on the roadmap[3] |
| Seats | Unlimited seats on Custom, with client workspaces, scoped members, Client Viewer seats and SSO set up at onboarding | Not published |
| How a number is measured | A 95% Wilson interval on every percentage; alerts wait until a change clears it | The same prompt panel replayed monthly across three search modes; methodology published[3] |
| What it does about a gap | Each gap names the pages the engine cited instead, with a draft fix held for your approval | Prioritised 30/60/90-day action plan; each completed fix re-checked and marked verified or not moved[2][3] |
Where each shines
Both tools are built well for different teams. Each point is a strength, read from that vendor's own pages.
Where AnswerMonk shines
- A low price per brand. Starter is $19 for a 30-day plan, paid once rather than renewed automatically, and the first audit costs nothing.[1]
- Fix verification. Each fix you mark complete is checked against the next re-audit and stamped verified or not moved.[3]
- ChatGPT search modes separated. Measuring with search off, on demand and forced shows whether you appear from the model's memory or from live retrieval.[3]
Where Proofsource shines
- Four engines instead of one. Proofsource reads ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews on every plan, the trial included. AnswerMonk focuses on ChatGPT.
- Daily, not monthly. Answer sets move day to day, so Proofsource re-reads every engine daily on Custom. AnswerMonk re-audits monthly.[3]
- A draft with each gap. Each Proofsource gap names the pages the engine cited instead and comes with a draft held for your approval alongside the task on a plan.
Proofsource or AnswerMonk: the fair verdict
Pick AnswerMonk if ChatGPT is the engine your customers use, a monthly check is enough, and you want the lowest entry price with a free audit first. It suits local and service businesses especially.
Pick Proofsource if your buyers also use Perplexity, Claude or Google AI Overviews, or if you need to see day-to-day movement rather than a monthly snapshot.
Choose AnswerMonk if you want
- A low price per brand
- Fix verification
- ChatGPT search modes separated
Choose Proofsource if you want
- Four engines instead of one
- Daily, not monthly
- A draft with each gap
Already using AnswerMonk?
You do not have to choose on day one. Here is how teams run Proofsource beside AnswerMonk and decide on their own data.
Keep AnswerMonk running
Nothing about trying Proofsource needs you to stop AnswerMonk. Your history and reports there stay where they are.
Bring your questions across
Export or copy the prompts you track in AnswerMonk and add them as buyer questions in Proofsource, so both tools ask the same things.
Run both side by side
Read the two for the same days on your own domain. Where the numbers differ, Proofsource shows the answers and the pages each engine cited, so you can see why.
Keep what serves your team
Many teams keep one tool for reporting and another for fixes. Pick on your own evidence, not on a comparison page.
Proofsource or AnswerMonk: what buyers ask
Are there alternatives to Scrunch AI that score my weighted share of AI-cited pages on the same scale as competitors?
When we asked AI engines this, some answers named AnswerMonk, which scores AI share of voice from 0 to 100 on ChatGPT against a competitor leaderboard. Proofsource shows how often you are named next to your competitors across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, with a 95% Wilson interval on every percentage. We have not verified Scrunch AI's method here.
Which AI engine does AnswerMonk analyse?
ChatGPT, in three search modes: search off, model decides and search forced.
Is AnswerMonk a subscription?
Its Starter and Full plans are one-time 30-day plans, not auto-renewing subscriptions, according to its pricing page.
Where each fact about AnswerMonk comes from
- AnswerMonk pricing, read 5 Oct 2026.
- AnswerMonk homepage, read 5 Oct 2026.
- AnswerMonk FAQ, read 5 Oct 2026.
Vendors change their pages. If a AnswerMonk fact here no longer matches their site, tell us through the contact page and we will correct it.
Your own trial settles this faster than any comparison page.
200 answers. 25 Prompts/Question. Top AI engines. 2 days. Free. No card, and the report is about your domain: which buyer questions name you, who gets named instead, and what to fix.
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