# MentionAgent review (2026): is it worth $99 a month? > AI agent that finds blogs, pitches editors and sends from an inbox Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** MentionAgent (since 2026) - **Website:** https://mentionagent.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're willing to pay for placements, as it turns those sites down. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **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 | $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. | Read from https://mentionagent.ai/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MentionAgent before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Founders and solo marketers who want links without running outreach by hand - Agencies running separate outreach for several client sites - Brands chasing mentions on blogs that AI assistants cite ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but 50 credits on sign-up with no card, about 25 drafts. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee. - **Features: C.** Blog 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web 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. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among link building tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Link outreach: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: A network of real inboxes that open and answer your emails. - You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude, Cursor and Codex among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude, Cursor, Codex, Telegram, Gmail **Tags:** Link outreach, AI agents, Inbox warm-up, AI search visibility ## Alternatives - [Pitchbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pitchbox): Outreach platform for link building and digital PR teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentionagent-vs-pitchbox) - [BuzzStream](https://toolgpa.com/tools/buzzstream): Outreach CRM for link building and digital PR. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buzzstream-vs-mentionagent) - [OutreachFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/outreachflow): Credit-based guest post outreach with AI pitches and price haggling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentionagent-vs-outreachflow) - [Linkomatic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/linkomatic): Link prospect lists with verified editor contacts, paid for in credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/linkomatic-vs-mentionagent) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://mentionagent.ai/ - https://mentionagent.ai/about/ - https://mentionagent.ai/mcp/ - https://mentionagent.ai/terms/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mentionagent Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).