Mention alternative and Mention competitors for teams priced out of the Company plan
MentionAlert is a Mention alternative for small and mid sized US teams that want instant keyword alerts without a $7,188 annual commitment. Since July 2025 Mention sells new customers a single Company plan that starts at $599 a month on yearly billing, with 5 alerts and 50,000 mentions. MentionAlert Starter costs $24 a month billed yearly for 5 keywords and instant email alerts, and Team is $74 a month with Slack, webhooks and 20 keywords. Mention still covers Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, which MentionAlert does not.
Mention compared with MentionAlert, limit by limit
Mention figures come from its public pricing page and help center as checked in October 2026. Mention does not print the dollar amount on its pricing page, so the $599 figure is the starting price stated in its plan documentation and confirmed by Capterra and Toolradar. Confirm the current quote with Mention before you decide.
| Mention | MentionAlert | |
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| Plans sold to new customers | One Company plan | Starter, Team, Agency, Enterprise |
| Entry price | From $599 per month, billed yearly ($7,188 per year) | $24 per month billed yearly ($288 per year), or $49 monthly |
| Month to month billing | Through sales only, at a higher price | Yes, on every plan, cancel in your account |
| Alerts or keywords on the entry plan | 5 alerts with Boolean queries up to 2,000 characters | 5 keywords on Starter, 20 on Team, 80 on Agency |
| Mentions per month | 50,000 shared across all alerts | 5,000 Starter, 25,000 Team, 100,000 Agency, 500,000 Enterprise |
| Users | Multi user access on the Company plan | 1 seat Starter, 5 Team, 15 Agency |
| API | Paid add-on | Included on Agency and Enterprise |
| Historical data | Paid add-on | 30 days Starter, 12 months Team, 24 months Agency |
| Social publishing | Retired on January 30, 2026 | Not offered, monitoring only |
| Sources | Social networks including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, X, Reddit and YouTube, plus news, blogs, forums and 75+ review sites | News sites, blogs, forums, Reddit, X, YouTube, review sites, Hacker News, Bluesky, Q&A sites |
| Alert delivery | Email notifications and the Mention app | Instant or daily digest per keyword by email on every plan, Slack and webhook from Team |
MentionAlert collects only public sources through official APIs and public feeds under each platform's terms. It does not collect Instagram, TikTok or Facebook.
What a keyword alert feed looks like after leaving Mention
| Source | Mention | Sentiment |
|---|---|---|
| Review site | Review siteA customer says your support team solved a billing issue in one replyPositive | Positive |
| RedditA founder asks which monitoring tool replaced Mention for their startupNeutral | Neutral | |
| News | NewsA trade publication quotes your CEO in a story about the categoryPositive | Positive |
| Hacker News | Hacker NewsA commenter says your status page lagged behind the actual outageNegative | Negative |
Illustrative sample, not your data.
Why teams look for a Mention alternative in 2026
Most people searching for a replacement used Mention on one of the old self serve plans. Solo, Pro and Pro Plus were affordable entry points for a founder or a small marketing team, and in July 2025 Mention stopped selling them to new customers. Anyone setting up a new account, or a team whose legacy plan ends, now looks at a Company plan that starts at $599 a month and is sold on an annual contract. For a company that tracked its brand name and two competitors, that is a jump of several thousand dollars a year for the same job.
The second change came on January 30, 2026, when Mention retired its Publish and Respond features after the move into Agorapulse. Teams that used one tool to listen and reply now need two subscriptions anyway, which makes it a natural moment to ask whether the listening half is worth $7,188 a year.
The third reason is fit. Mention's 50,000 monthly mentions are shared across five alerts and every workspace. A broad alert on a common word can eat most of that cap in a week, while the alerts that matter to sales or support compete for the same budget.
When you should stay with Mention
Mention is the better choice if your customers talk about you on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Pinterest. MentionAlert does not collect those networks, so a consumer brand built on visual social channels would lose coverage by switching. Mention's Boolean queries of up to 2,000 characters also give an analyst more room for one complex search than a list of separate keywords does.
Mention also suits a larger marketing team that already pays for Agorapulse and wants listening from the same vendor, or one that uses most of the 50,000 mentions every month. At that volume, $599 a month is a reasonable price per mention, and the multi user access covers a whole department.
Why teams pick MentionAlert over Mention
The first reason is price at small volume. If you track a brand name, a few products and two or three competitors, you need 5 to 20 keywords and a few thousand mentions a month, not 50,000. That costs $24 or $74 a month on MentionAlert, billed in dollars, with monthly billing available on every plan.
The second is routing. Each keyword keeps its own sources, exclude words and delivery. Your brand name can send an instant email to the founder, complaint phrases can post to the support channel in Slack, and competitor names can go to a daily digest for product. The alert that needs a reply in the next hour does not sit in the same inbox as a broad industry search.
The third is where B2B buyers talk. Software, professional services and hospitality companies get reviewed on review sites, debated on Reddit and Hacker News and quoted in trade press. Those sources sit at the center of MentionAlert, together with Bluesky and Q&A sites. See every capability on the media tracking software page, or how alerts reach the right person on monitor brand mentions.
How to move from Mention to MentionAlert in one afternoon
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Open each Mention alert and copy the Boolean query, the excluded terms and the languages.
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Split each Boolean query into the phrases that need someone to act. A query like brand OR product OR misspelling becomes three keywords, each with its own delivery.
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Create the keywords in MentionAlert. Excluded terms become exclude words on the same keyword.
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Choose sources per keyword. Put review sites, Reddit and news on the brand keyword, and keep competitor keywords on news, forums and Hacker News.
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Set delivery. Instant email for the brand name, Slack for complaint phrases, a daily digest for broad category terms.
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Run both tools side by side until the Mention renewal date, then compare which one surfaced the mentions you acted on.
Mention's history stays in Mention, so export the reports and data you need before access ends. MentionAlert starts collecting the moment a keyword is saved.
Which MentionAlert plan replaces the Mention Company plan
| How you used Mention | Closest MentionAlert plan | Yearly price | What changes |
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| One brand, a few alerts, one or two people | Starter | $24 per month ($288 per year) | 5 keywords with their own delivery, 5,000 mentions, review sites and Hacker News included |
| A marketing team watching brand, products and competitors | Team | $74 per month ($888 per year) | 20 keywords across 3 brands, Slack and webhook routing, 5 seats, weekly PDF report |
| An agency running client alerts | Agency | $199 per month ($2,388 per year) | 15 client workspaces, white-label reports scheduled to clients, API included |
| A company group with many brands | Enterprise | $499 per month ($5,988 per year) | 50 brands, 300 keywords, 500,000 mentions, SSO and SLA |
Yearly billing saves 50 percent and is the default. All limits are on the media monitoring tools page.
Questions buyers ask before leaving Mention
The best Mention alternative depends on your sources and budget. MentionAlert fits US teams that need instant keyword alerts from news, Reddit, review sites and YouTube from $24 a month. Brand24 suits consumer brands that need Instagram and TikTok from $199 a month, and Awario gives the most mentions per euro for broad social listening.
Mention's Company plan starts at $599 a month on an annual contract, which is $7,188 a year, according to its plan documentation in October 2026. It includes 5 alerts and 50,000 mentions a month. API access and historical data are paid add-ons, and month to month billing is available only through sales.
Yes. Mention stopped selling the Solo, Pro and Pro Plus plans to new customers in July 2025. New accounts can only buy the Company plan, which starts at $599 a month billed yearly.
Yes. Mention is part of Agorapulse, and on January 30, 2026 it retired its Publish and Respond features, so publishing and replying now run in Agorapulse. Mention itself is a monitoring and listening tool, priced separately from Agorapulse's publishing plans.
Yes. Type your brand on the homepage demo to see recent public mentions with sentiment, with no card and no account. Many teams then start a monthly plan and run it alongside Mention until the renewal date.
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