MentionAgent vs Outlink AI (2026): which should you pick?

Pick MentionAgent if

• Fits if you want blog mentions without running outreach by hand
• Works for brands that want their own domain kept out of cold email

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you're willing to pay for placements, as it turns those sites down
• Tight if you need volume soon: a new inbox starts at 5 emails a day and reaches 40 in week four
• Pricey if you run several sites, at $99 a month per extra site and $80 a month per extra inbox
• Not for you if you want a free plan: sign-up gives 50 credits once, about 25 drafts
• Too light for content, audits or keyword research, as it only does off-page outreach

Pick Outlink AI if

• Fits if you want link outreach to run with little of your time each week
• Works for agencies that need client approval of outreach copy and white-label reports

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you won't give a card for a trial: the 7-day trial needs one and covers only the first workspace
• Pricey if you run many clients, as each workspace is billed as its own subscription
• Tight if placements cost money, as Starter caps autopilot spend at $25 a month and Growth at $100
• Watch out: Qwoted pitches are drafted for you, but you still submit each one yourself
• Skip it if you want to send anything for free, as sending needs a paid plan

MentionAgent

• There is no free plan: sign-up gives 50 credits once, and paid plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee.
• A new inbox starts at 5 emails a day and reaches 40 in week four; one site tops out at 80 a day unless extra inboxes are added at $80 a month each.
• Extra client sites cost $99 a month each, with their own inbox and 5,000 credits; credits pay for drafts at 2 per outreach or reply email.
• It covers off-page outreach only: it does not write content, audit sites or research keywords, and it turns down sites that ask for payment.

Outlink AI

• There is no free plan: you can preview prospects and sample pitches free, but sending needs a paid plan after the 7-day card-backed trial.
• Each workspace is billed as its own subscription, and the trial covers only the first one.
• Plans cap what the autopilot spends for you each month on prospect data and placements ($25 on Starter, $100 on Growth), apart from the subscription.
• Outlink drafts Qwoted pitches but does not submit them; you approve and send each one yourself.

MentionAgent

Blog prospecting and qualification

The agent works out what your site sells, searches for blog posts on that subject and checks each domain's authority and relevance before drafting anything.

Contact lookup and verification

For each post it finds the editor or author and verifies the email address before sending, to keep bounce rates down.

Pitches written per post

Each email is drafted about the specific article found. Drafts wait for your approval by default; auto-send can be switched on once warmup has started.

Sending domain and inbox included

It registers a separate sending domain, sets up a Gmail inbox on it and warms it up, so your own domain never sends cold email. The domain is transferred to you free on request.

Replies, follow-ups and deals

It follows up on quiet threads, drafts answers to editors, proposes the exact sentence to add once a deal is agreed and records the link when it goes live.

AI visibility checks and MCP

Twice a month it asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini buyer questions and shows answers that mention you. An MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or Codex review drafts and replies.

Outlink AI

Prospect discovery and screening

Finds candidate sites each cycle, scores them on relevance and authority, and filters out spam sites and private blog networks before any outreach.

Pitches sent from your inbox

Writes each email around a detail from the prospect's own page and sends it from Gmail or Outlook connected over OAuth, rotating inboxes within warm-up and daily limits.

Follow-ups and reply handling

Sends capped, timed follow-ups, sorts and negotiates replies, and passes the ones that need a decision to you.

Placement checks

Crawls each page where a link was placed, re-checks it on a schedule and confirms index status through Google Search Console.

Qwoted auto-apply

Watches your Qwoted alerts, matches journalist requests to your topics and drafts a pitch you submit on Qwoted in one click.

Agency workspaces and reports

One workspace per client with an agency overview, client approval of outreach copy through a link, and scheduled white-label proof reports.

MentionAgent

• Starter$99

  per month for 1 site and 1 sending inbox, billed monthly

  Up to 40 outreach emails a day once the inbox is warmed up, and 5,000 credits a month, about 2,500 drafts.

• Growth$179

  per month for 1 site and 2 sending inboxes, billed monthly

  Up to 80 outreach emails a day for one site and 10,000 credits a month.

• Scale$329

  per month for 2 sites and 4 sending inboxes, billed monthly

  Up to 160 outreach emails a day across two sites and 20,000 credits a month.

• Agency$629

  per month for 4 sites and 8 sending inboxes, billed monthly

  Up to 320 outreach emails a day across four sites and 40,000 credits a month.

Outlink AI

• Starter$70

  per month for 150 sends a day, billed annually ($88 billed monthly)

  3 connected inboxes, 10 concurrent campaigns, a $25 monthly spend cap, all 5 tactics, Qwoted auto-apply and link monitoring with a weekly digest.

• Growth$156

  per month for 500 sends a day, billed annually ($195 billed monthly)

  Everything in Starter with 10 inboxes, 25 concurrent campaigns and a $100 monthly spend cap.

• Scale$500

  per month for unlimited sends, billed annually ($625 billed monthly)

  Everything in Growth with unlimited sending, inboxes and concurrent campaigns, and no monthly spend ceiling.

MentionAgent

No public discounts listed.

Outlink AI

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  Outlink AI's pricing page lists annual billing at 20% off: Starter is $70 a month ($840 a year) instead of $88 billed monthly.