Crayon starts at $2,000+/mo and won't quote enterprise pricing publicly. MyIntelBrief starts at $79.99/mo — published, month-to-month, no sales call. AI strategy advice is in every paid plan; white label (your logo, your name) is a Pro add-on. Same daily competitor briefs. Different orders of magnitude.
Crayon does not publish pricing — every contract is quoted per organization. The figures above come from buyer-reported ranges compiled by third-party pricing round-ups such as ClientCues and Parano, which place Crayon in the $25,000–$50,000/yr range. Treat that as an estimated list price, not a quote. Quote-only pricing means the number moves per buyer — by seat count and competitor count, but also by how the deal is judged: your company size, your logo, how the quarter is going, and whether the rep reads you as a fit worth discounting for. Two companies buying the same product in the same month can pay very different amounts, and neither will ever know. Our $79.99/mo is the price for everyone.
There is a second effect worth knowing about. Quotes are built from variables — seat count, tracked competitors, feature tier, contract length, onboarding — so no two configurations are quite the same. The practical consequence is that even a buyer who publishes what they paid has not told you what you would pay: their number describes their bundle, not the product. That is why the public ranges vary so widely and why comparison is so hard. You end up negotiating once, against a team that does this daily and knows what every comparable account settled at.
And the subscription is not the whole bill. Implementation and onboarding for these platforms is commonly quoted separately in the five figures, with integrations and dedicated support reported to add a further 15–30%. That work is not padding — a product built around an analyst genuinely needs workflows built and someone trained to run them. MyIntelBrief has no onboarding fee and no analyst seat. Nothing about it requires a person inside your company whose job becomes keeping the tool in use and arguing for its renewal. The brief simply arrives. $79.99/mo, and that is the bill.
And if the briefs stop being worth reading, you cancel and the subscription ends at the end of the period you have already paid for. No exit negotiation, no notice window to miss, no annual term left to run. That is the part a month-to-month price actually buys you: we have to earn the next one every month, which is a considerably harder test than being embedded in an annual contract nobody wants to re-open.
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| Feature / Cost | MyIntelBrief | Crayon |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $79.99/mo — public | Quote-only — buyers report $25,000+/yr on G2/Capterra |
| Enterprise price | $499.99/mo Super-Pro or $1,499.99/mo Enterprise — white-label included | Quote-only — annual contract |
| Free trial | ✓ 7-day trial, cancel anytime | Demo with sales rep, no self-serve trial |
| Daily AI intelligence brief | ✓ Auto-delivered every morning | ✓ Manual + analyst summaries |
| Competitor website change detection | ✓ Daily monitoring | ✓ Tracked |
| Competitor pricing alerts | ✓ Same-day | ✓ Tracked |
| AI Business Advisor (Major Concerns) | ✓ Type your worries, get an AI action plan | ✗ Human analyst service only (extra fee) |
| Google reviews competitor comparison | ✓ Built-in vs You table | ✗ |
| Google Trends competitor alerts | ✓ Pro & Enterprise — spike/drop alerts | ✗ |
| BBB rating change alerts | ✓ Pro & Enterprise | ✗ |
| Reddit mention monitoring | ✓ Enterprise | ✗ |
| AI SEO audit (your own site) | ✓ Weekly automated | ✗ |
| Industry regulatory / threat intel | ✓ Federal + state monitoring | ✓ via separate add-on |
| White-label for consultants | ✓ Pro Whitelabel $419.98/mo | ✗ Enterprise add-on, ~$10K+/yr |
| Student tier | ✓ $9.99 one-time (.edu) | ✗ Not offered |
| Target customer | SMB → consultants → mid-market | Mid-market & enterprise only |
If you have a dedicated competitive-intelligence analyst on staff, a $50K+ budget, and complex enterprise workflows (sales-team collaboration across a 20-person sales org, deep CRM integration, custom analyst reports), Crayon's full platform is more comprehensive than ours. We are deliberately optimized for owner-operators, consultants serving SMB clients, and lean marketing teams — not Fortune 500 procurement cycles.
It is tempting to read Crayon's missing price as a detail. It is the decision. Quote-only pricing is a deliberate and rational choice at enterprise scale — a five-figure annual commitment deserves a conversation, and a sales team needs to qualify an account before quoting. Nobody is being cagey.
But it loads the front of the process with friction. To learn the price you submit a form, wait for a rep, take a discovery call and sit through a demo — usually a week or more before you know a number. Nobody is turned away — small buyers just drop out along the way, either because the path is too long to bother walking, or because they walk it and discover the admission price was never within reach. If you would not spend a week of calls to find out a price, that friction decides for you — not the feature list. Crayon is built for a buyer who expects a procurement process, and that buyer may not be you.
MyIntelBrief turns away no one. No qualification call, no minimum seat count, no annual commitment, and nobody deciding whether your business is large enough to be worth a quote. A sole proprietor with one competitor and a fifty-person firm with thirty sign up the same way: pick a plan, pay, and the first brief arrives the next morning. Whether that is worth $79.99 is your call to make — not a question you have to qualify for the privilege of asking.
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