MentionAgent review (2026): is it worth $99 a month?
AI agent that finds blogs, pitches editors and sends from an inbox
MentionAgent report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for blog mentions without paying for links
MentionAgent reads your site, finds blog posts on your subject and pitches each editor from a sending domain and Gmail inbox it sets up and warms for you. Most deals are mutual mentions, it turns down sites that ask for payment, a new inbox starts at 5 emails a day, and each site costs $99 a month.
Who MentionAgent is for
- Fits if you want blog mentions without running outreach by hand
- Works for brands that want their own domain kept out of cold email
Who MentionAgent is not for
- 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
Why MentionAgent gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is $99 a month for 1 site, 1 inbox and 5,000 credits, the top of this category's usual range. Extra inboxes are $80 a month each and extra client sites $99 each.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan, but 50 credits on sign-up with no card, about 25 drafts. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee.
- CFeaturesBlog prospecting, verified editor emails, a pitch per post, its own sending domain and inbox, replies and follow-ups, and AI visibility checks. The gap: it turns down sites that ask for payment, so it trades mentions rather than buying links.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. It sets up the domain and inbox itself, but you approve drafts by default, and a new inbox takes four weeks to reach 40 emails a day.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only. An MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or Codex review drafts and replies, and it works with Telegram and Gmail. No desktop or phone app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MentionAgent's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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MentionAgent's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 26 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 28 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $99 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 31 of the 41 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 51 link building tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. MentionAgent’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 8 of 50, level with 26
- CFree plan and trialAbove 20 of 50, level with 22
- CFeaturesAbove 4 of 50, level with 34
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 50, level with 43
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 28 of 50, level with 22
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 45 link building tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep MentionAgent, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace MentionAgent you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $1,188 a year.
What you could make
- Link outreach: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- A network of real inboxes that open and answer your emails.
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- It plugs into other products, Claude, Cursor and Codex among them.
What this rests on. MentionAgent’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is MentionAgent?
MentionAgent is a web-based link building agent. It reads your site, searches for blog posts on the same subject, finds and verifies each editor's email, drafts a pitch about that post and sends it from a sending domain and Gmail inbox it registers and warms up for you. Most deals it proposes are mutual mentions rather than paid placements, and it also checks twice a month whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention your brand.
Worth knowing
- 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.
Key features
- 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.
MentionAgent pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, MentionAgent is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per month for 1 site and 1 sending inbox, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $99 per month for 1 site and 1 sending inbox, billed monthly
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 50 free credits on sign-up, enough for about 25 drafts; no credit card needed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99per 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 | $179per 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 | $329per 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 | $629per 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. |
Read from mentionagent.ai on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MentionAgent before you buy.
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Common questions
Does MentionAgent have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. MentionAgent is listed for Web.
Does MentionAgent have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. MentionAgent is listed for Web.
Is MentionAgent open source?
MentionAgent is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.