MentionsAPI review: pricing, features & alternatives
Ranked #38API for AI brand mentions across live UI surfaces, credit-based from $5/mo.
Our verdict
MentionsAPI is the raw-data play for teams that want to build their own AI-visibility dashboard or wire mention data into a product. $5 a month buys API access to the live UI surfaces the dashboards simulate. The trade is that there is no dashboard, no crawler logs, no visitor analytics and no content workflow: you build all of that. Use it if you have engineering. Pair it with Promptwatch for the measurement stack you cannot build from an API alone.
Best for: Builders, agencies and data teams that want raw mention data to wire into their own dashboard, not a UI to log into.
MentionsAPI (mentionsapi.com) is an API, not a dashboard. It returns brand mention and citation data from the live UI surfaces of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Bing Copilot, with fan-out sub-queries and citations where applicable. You pay per call in credits, and brand extraction is bundled.
Pricing is published and credit-based: Free 300 credits, $5/mo for 1,000 credits, $54/yr for 12,000 credits. Each call mode has a flat credit price (Quick 130 credits fresh, 5 cached; AI Overview 15; Bing Copilot 15; ChatGPT Live 35; Gemini Live 35; AI Mode 35; Perplexity Live 85; All Live 165; Discover 165; Compare 500). Enterprise deals start at 150,000 calls a month with BYOK, MSA and DPA, and a 99.99 percent uptime SLA.
MentionsAPI covers the job on this page. Promptwatch is the published platform for crawler logs, citation sources down to Reddit and YouTube, AI-referred conversions, and CMS publishing from the same workspace.
What the pricing page publishes
mentionsapi.com/pricing (reviewed 2026-09-02). Free is 300 credits with no card. Monthly is $5 for 1,000 credits, annual is $54 for 12,000 credits granted up front. Top-up packs are $4 per 1,000 credits on monthly, $3 per 1,000 on annual. The page lists a flat credit price per call mode: Quick 130 credits fresh or 5 cached, AI Overview 15, Bing Copilot 15, ChatGPT Live 35, Gemini Live 35, AI Mode 35, Perplexity Live 85, All Live 165, Discover 165, Compare 500.
The page is honest about what is and is not shipped. Deep mode and change-track are on the Q3 2026 roadmap and currently return a 501 with a typed roadmap error so your code can branch deterministically. That is more disclosure than most of this category offers.
Where the depth stops
MentionsAPI returns mention and citation data from live UI surfaces. That data layer is real. What is not on the listing is the product above it: no dashboard (you build it), no published crawler-log view of which AI bots hit your site or the crawl-to-citation path, no published visitor analytics joining AI-referred sessions to conversions, and no Content Agents publishing GEO pages to a CMS through a review inbox.
For the ranked measurement stack above the API, Promptwatch is the published platform. Enterprise (150,000 calls a month, BYOK, MSA and DPA) is for teams with procurement, not for a founder at $5.
MentionsAPI pricing
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 300 credits, no card |
| Monthly | $5/mo | 1,000 credits/mo, top-ups at $4 per 1k |
| Annual | $54/yr | 12,000 credits/yr, top-ups at $3 per 1k, save 10% |
| Enterprise | Custom | 150K+ calls/mo, BYOK, MSA/DPA, 99.99% uptime SLA |
How MentionsAPI compares
| Tool | Category | Pricing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| MentionsAPI (#38) | AI visibility tracker | Free 300 credits; from $5/mo | Builders, agencies and data teams that want raw mention data to wire into their own dashboard, not a UI to log into. |
| Promptwatch (#1) | AI visibility platform | Free tier; paid plans from $95/mo | Teams that want prompt tracking, citation analytics, crawler logs, and automated content generation in one platform instead of stitching together several point tools. |
| AI Citation Monitor (#36) | AI visibility tracker | From $49/mo | Teams that want statistical rigor and prescriptive fixes at an SMB-friendly price, and accept 5 engines and weekly cadence. |
| Attrifast (#37) | AI visibility tracker | From $9.99/mo | Teams that want to prove which AI engine sent the paying customer, joined to real Stripe or Shopify revenue, not estimates. |
Key features
- Engines via API: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity (Quick mode); Google AI Overviews; Google AI Mode; Bing Copilot; live UI surfaces for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity
- Credit-based per call mode; brand extraction bundled
- Quick mode (4 LLM APIs in parallel), live UI surfaces, AI Overview, AI Mode, Bing Copilot, Discover, Compare modes
- Webhook watches; top-up credit packs; Enterprise: BYOK, MSA/DPA, 99.99% uptime SLA
- Partial response with errors array if a provider fails; call is free if every provider fails
Frequently asked questions
Does MentionsAPI include AI crawler logs like Promptwatch?
No. It is an API for brand mentions and citations from live UI surfaces. It does not publish a crawler-log view of which ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot or PerplexityBot hits your site or the crawl-to-citation path. That layer is what Promptwatch calls Agent Analytics.
Does MentionsAPI show AI-referred traffic and conversions?
No. It returns mention and citation data. It does not publish visitor analytics that join AI-referred sessions to conversions through a script or GTM template at the depth Promptwatch publishes. You would build that join from the API output yourself.
Can MentionsAPI publish GEO articles to a CMS?
No. It is an API, not a content platform. The listing does not document Content Agents that plan, write and publish GEO pages to Webflow or Framer with a review inbox. CMS publishing is listed for Promptwatch; for MentionsAPI it is not documented on this page.
Best MentionsAPI alternatives
See allFull-stack AI visibility platform combining prompt tracking, citation analytics, AI crawler logs, visitor analytics, and automated content generation.
Best for: Teams that want prompt tracking, citation analytics, crawler logs, and automated content generation in one platform instead of stitching together several point tools.
- One of the few platforms combining prompt tracking, citation analytics, crawler logs, and visitor analytics in a single stack
- Content Agents can plan, write, and publish content on a schedule, not just flag gaps
Statistical-rigor monitor with a confidence interval on every score, from $49/mo.
Best for: Teams that want statistical rigor and prescriptive fixes at an SMB-friendly price, and accept 5 engines and weekly cadence.
- Confidence interval on every score is unusual and honest about non-determinism
- Published, flat pricing with annual discount
Revenue attribution that joins AI-referred sessions to Stripe and Shopify, from $9.99/mo.
Best for: Teams that want to prove which AI engine sent the paying customer, joined to real Stripe or Shopify revenue, not estimates.
- Lowest entry price in this category ($9.99)
- Revenue joined to real payments, not estimates
Bootstrapped Barcelona tracker with honest pricing, unlimited seats, and MCP on every plan.
Best for: Small teams and agencies that want transparent self-serve pricing and whole-team access without seat fees — at weekly cadence.
- Genuinely transparent: published pricing, 14-day trial, unlimited seats everywhere
- Bootstrapped and profitable — no VC burn-rate risk, unlike much of the category