# Mentionary review (2026): is it worth $79 a month, billed yearly?

> Tracks brand mentions, citations and rivals in AI chat answers

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Mentionary monitors how AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity mention a brand when asked set prompts, and compares that with its competitors. It also tracks the outside sources those answers cite and scores the brand's own pages for content gaps. Plans are sold by the number of prompts tracked and scans run each month.

- **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO)
- **Made by:** Mentionary
- **Website:** https://mentionary.ai
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need daily tracking, as Starter and Professional scan weekly and daily scans come with Agency.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Mentionary is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $79 per month for 20 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of any paid plan, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $79 per month for 20 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | 200 scans a month on 3 AI platforms, scanned weekly, 2 competitors and 3 team members. |
| Professional | $239 per month for 100 prompts, billed annually ($299 billed monthly) | 1,500 scans a month on 5 platforms, weekly scans, 8 competitors, 10 team members and priority support. |
| Agency | $799 per month for 500 prompts, billed annually ($999 billed monthly) | 10,000 scans a month on all platforms plus custom models, 50 competitors, 50 team members and full API access. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited prompts, scans, competitors and team members, SSO, custom integrations and a dedicated AEO strategist. |

Read from https://mentionary.ai/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mentionary before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Mentionary's pricing page lists 20% off with annual billing, for example Professional at $239 a month instead of $299. Source: https://mentionary.ai/pricing
- **Special pricing for schools and nonprofits** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ asks educational institutions and nonprofits to contact Mentionary about special pricing; no figure is given. Source: https://mentionary.ai/pricing

## Key features

- **Prompt tracking:** Runs tracked prompts on AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and records mention rate, position and sentiment, weekly on the lower plans.
- **Prompt suggestions:** Predicts the prompts prospects are likely to ask while researching a purchase, labeled by role and type, such as comparison or niche questions.
- **Citation source tracking:** Shows which outside sites, such as Reddit, Trustpilot or blogs, AI answers rely on in your category, with an authority score for each source.
- **Competitor benchmarking:** Share of voice, head-to-head comparisons and a SWOT analysis against 2 to 50 competitors depending on the plan.
- **Content gap analysis:** Scores your pages on quality metrics, 5 on Starter and 15 from Professional, and suggests missing information that could get them cited.
- **Exports and API:** Every paid plan can export its data. Agency adds full API access, and Enterprise adds SSO and custom integrations.

## Good for

- Small marketing teams starting to track a brand in AI answers
- SEO teams looking for the sources AI engines cite in their market
- Agencies tracking several brands with an API on the Agency plan

## Worth knowing

- There is no free plan, and each plan caps monthly scans; one scan is one prompt run on one platform.
- Starter covers 3 platforms and Professional 5, but the pricing page does not say which ones; the platform page lists six, including Copilot and You.com.
- API access starts at the Agency plan, $799 a month billed annually; lower plans get data exports only.
- Starter and Professional scan weekly; daily scans come with Agency.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Mentionary tracks your prompts on AI assistants, shows which outside sites the answers lean on, and scores your own pages for content gaps. But Starter scans 20 prompts weekly on 3 platforms the pricing page doesn't name, monthly scans are capped, and daily scans and the API wait for the $799 Agency plan.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $79 a month billed yearly, $99 monthly, for 20 prompts scanned weekly on 3 platforms. That's between this category's $49 middle and its dearer quarter at $95, for a small, weekly allowance. Daily scans start at Agency, $799.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day free trial of any paid plan with no card needed.
- **Features: C.** Mention rate, position and sentiment, prompt suggestions, cited sources with an authority score, competitor benchmarks with a SWOT, and content gap scoring. The gaps the listing names: weekly scans below Agency, and the plans don't say which platforms they cover.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It suggests prompts, but you still pick prompts and rivals, and every plan caps scans, one prompt on one platform each.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations listed. Lower plans get data exports only, and the API starts at Agency for $799 a month.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mentionary's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among AI search visibility tools

- Mentionary's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 29 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 38.
- Its paid plans start at $79 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 77 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 60 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-visibility

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** Nothing Mentionary does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 90 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools grade higher. It costs $948 a year.

- 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: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
- You could not: An API that other software can build on.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** AI search visibility, Content optimization, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Otterly.AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otterly-ai): Daily brand and citation tracking across AI search engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentionary-vs-otterly-ai)
- [Peec AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/peec-ai): AI search analytics that tracks brand prompts across AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentionary-vs-peec-ai)
- [LLMrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/llmrefs): Keyword-based AI search visibility tracker with one flat plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/llmrefs-vs-mentionary)
- [Rankscale AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rankscale-ai): Credit-based AI visibility tracker covering 17+ AI engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentionary-vs-rankscale-ai)
- [Knowatoa](https://toolgpa.com/tools/knowatoa): AI search visibility tracking with an AI crawler console. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/knowatoa-vs-mentionary)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://mentionary.ai/pricing
- https://mentionary.ai/
- https://mentionary.ai/platform
- https://mentionary.ai/about
- https://mentionary.ai/terms-of-service

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