MentionAgent vs Pitchbox (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 Pitchbox if

• Fits if you're an agency running link building for many clients and can commit for a year
• Works for in-house SEO teams that pitch publishers directly instead of hiring out

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're one person, as every plan is a year's commitment and Pro alone is $2,520 a year
• Tight if more than 2 people pitch, as Pro has 2 users and 2 mailboxes
• Watch out: recurring campaigns, email rotation, Slack and the API start at Advanced for $420 a month
• Not for you if you want to try it yourself, as trials only come after a demo with a product specialist
• Pricey if you pay monthly, as expert onboarding then costs $2,000 to $4,000

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.

Pitchbox

• Every plan needs a one-year commitment, whether billed monthly or annually; cancelling keeps access until the term ends.
• Pro has 2 users and 2 mailboxes; recurring campaigns, email rotation, Slack and the API start at Advanced for $420 a month.
• There is no self-serve trial: trials are arranged after a demo with a product specialist.
• Expert-led onboarding costs $2,000 to $4,000 by plan on monthly billing and is included with annual billing.

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.

Pitchbox

Prospecting

Search by topic, keywords, competitor sites or advanced search operators, filter by SEO metrics, and get sites back with contact details found and verified.

AI personalization and replies

AI reads each prospect's site to draft a personal pitch, and an AI Reply Agent can answer and negotiate replies. Both are on every plan.

Email sequences

Multi-step follow-ups with conditional templates, holiday scheduling and one-click unsubscribe. Rotating sends across mailboxes starts at Advanced.

Deliverability monitoring

From Advanced, a built-in MXRight service scores each mailbox daily and watches more than 80 blacklists.

Link partner CRM and inbox

One inbox for every mailbox and client, with follow-up reminders, out-of-office detection that snoozes a thread, tasks and pipeline stages.

Link monitoring and reports

Checks won links are live, indexed by Google and pointing at a healthy page: 1,000 to 10,000 links by plan, with white-label client 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.

Pitchbox

• Pro$210

  per month, billed annually ($300 billed monthly)

  2 users, 2 email accounts, 2,000 outreach emails and 25 campaigns a month, 1 workspace and 1,000 links monitored.

• Advanced$420

  per month, billed annually ($600 billed monthly)

  Unlimited users, 6 email accounts, 5,000 emails a month, 25 workspaces, email rotation, deliverability monitoring, Slack and the API.

• Scale$825

  per month, billed annually ($1,200 billed monthly)

  Unlimited users, 20 email accounts, 25,000 emails a month, unlimited workspaces and campaigns, approval workflow and Looker Studio.

• Enterprise PlatformCustom

  For large companies: single sign-on, a service level agreement, vendor security review, private training and dedicated support.

MentionAgent

No public discounts listed.

Pitchbox

• Annual discount

  Save 30% with annual billing

  Pitchbox's pricing page says annual billing saves 30% against monthly payments: Pro is $210 a month instead of $300.