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Mention alternative

Mention moved upmarket: one plan at about $599/mo, sold through a demo, with the API as an unpriced add-on and the publishing features removed. Small teams and solo developers want the alerts without the enterprise shape, and agents want a self-serve API with a quote before each call.

What you keep

  • Standing alerts on a brand or competitor across mainstream social, news, and review sites.

What changes

  • A developer-shaped source list with Discourse, GitHub, Hacker News, and Stack Exchange first class.
  • Self-serve units and quotes instead of a demo call and an annual contract.
  • Push to an agent: a webhook, a Claude Code command, a Doozy todo, or a GitHub dispatch.
  • Agent surfaces: REST API today with a trial key, MCP with OAuth planned for phase 3.
  • Active content. Mention’s blog is dormant since April 2025; discatch’s pages are dated 2026-09-10.

How to move

Three steps. Your AI assistant can do all of them with only the domain name.

  1. 1

    Get a trial key

    No email, no credit card, and a free amount of usage on free sources. Enough to try discatch on the terms you watch today.

    the agent does

    curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/keys/trial
  2. 2

    Get a price quote for your terms

    Turn each Mention keyword into a search and price it. Before anything runs, discatch tells you the most it can cost. Compare that number to what you pay now.

    the agent does

    curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/quote \
  -d '{ "query": "\"your product\"", "sources": ["hackernews", "discourse", "web"], "since": "7d" }'
  3. 3

    Set up standing searches with a destination

    One standing search per term, delivered to a webhook, a Claude Code or Codex command, a Doozy todo, or email. Run both tools side by side for a week. Searches that find nothing cost nothing.

    the agent does

    curl https://api.discatch.com/v1/catches -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISCATCH_KEY" \
  -d '{ "name": "your product", "query": "\"your product\"", "sources": ["hackernews", "discourse", "web"], "interval": "15m", "destination": { "type": "webhook", "url": "https://example.com/hooks/discatch" } }'

Before you move

  • Check whether you use the API. Mention’s API requires request-access approval. discatch’s API works with a trial key today.
  • Note which sources you actually read. If mainstream social is most of your feed, the coverage is comparable in name if not in freshness.
  • Try the free tier first. Catches that fire nothing cost nothing.

The dormant blog

Mention published zero blog posts in 2026. Its 58 comparison pages are stamped "2025 review" with stale prices. Its "Publish" and "Respond" features were removed. If you are evaluating Mention today, check whether the numbers on its pages still match the product.

The move upmarket

Mention discontinued its Solo, Pro, and ProPlus self-serve tiers in July 2025. The only plan is Company at about $599/mo, sold through a demo, with the API as an unpriced add-on. For a solo developer or an agent that wants to run a handful of queries, this is the wrong shape. discatch has a free tier, per-unit pricing, and an API on every plan.

Mention’s REST API at dev.mention.com supports creating and fetching alerts, fetching and streaming mentions, curating, tagging, and per-network metadata guides for X, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. OAuth2 authentication. No OpenAPI file was found on 2026-09-10. The marketing page at /media-monitoring-api/ was last modified on 2020-09-09 and says "Request Access."

Questions

How much does Mention cost?

Mention shows one Company plan and renders the price in the browser; third-party trackers put it at about $599/mo on an annual contract as of 2026-09-10. API access and history are add-ons with no listed price.

Does Mention have an MCP server or llms.txt?

No. On 2026-09-10 mention.com served neither. Its API page had not changed since 2020. The API requires a request-access form.

Is Mention still actively maintained?

The last blog post was published on 2025-04-24. Zero posts in 2026. The "Publish" and "Respond" features were removed and redirected to Agorapulse per the pricing FAQ.

Can I use Mention with an agent?

Only through the REST API at dev.mention.com, which requires request-access approval and has no published rate limits. There is no MCP server, no llms.txt, and no OpenAPI spec.

Does Mention cover Hacker News or Discourse?

No. Mention has zero blog posts mentioning Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, or Telegram. Its source pages cover Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and the web.

Why did Mention drop its self-serve tiers?

Mention discontinued Solo, Pro, and ProPlus self-serve tiers in July 2025 and moved to one sales-led Company plan. The pricing FAQ confirms the removal of "Publish" and "Respond" features.

Does Mention post for me?

Not anymore. The "Publish" and "Respond" features were removed. discatch never posts on your behalf; a reply-draft playbook runs in your agent and you post.

How do Mention’s 58 comparison pages hold up?

All 58 "A vs B" pages were published between March 22 and March 31, 2025, and stamped "2025 review." Prices are stale. discatch’s pages cite 2026-09-10 numbers.

Does Mention have free tools?

Mention has 26 free tool pages: Instagram caption generators, TikTok hashtag generators, LinkedIn post generators, a Reddit username generator, a share-of-voice calculator, and more. These are link magnets, not monitoring tools.

How does Mention’s API work?

Mention’s API at dev.mention.com supports Alerts (create, fetch, update, pause), Mentions (fetch, stream, curate), Accounts, Statistics, and per-network metadata. OAuth2 auth. No OpenAPI file found on 2026-09-10. The marketing page says "Request Access." Rate limits are documented but the page body did not load.

Last reviewed by , founder, dcouple. Mention facts read on 2026-09-10 from mention.com/en/pricing/, dev.mention.com. Research: docs/seo/competitor-map.md.