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The best Mention.com alternative: a straight answer
AyeWatch for most small teams, Mention or Brand24 for sentiment reports, and short answers to the price, coverage and switching questions.
The best Mention.com alternative for most small teams is AyeWatch. You can buy it on the website for $9 a month, it watches topics, webpages and social accounts, and each alert comes with a short summary of what happened. The exception is a team whose job is producing sentiment and share-of-voice reports; Mention still does that well. Below are short answers to the questions that usually follow.
Why look for an alternative at all?
Because Mention changed. Agorapulse acquired it in 2025. Mention's publish and respond features are being retired, with Agorapulse recommended for that work. The Mention pricing page now offers a single Company plan with no listed price and a demo button, and API access and historical data are paid add-ons. People who bought small self-serve plans need somewhere else to go.
What makes AyeWatch the pick?
Three things.
You describe what you want instead of building a query. A monitor is a sentence, such as "customer complaints or outage reports about our app, not giveaways or casual name-drops". AyeWatch's AI judges new items by meaning, so you see fewer irrelevant hits than a keyword match produces.
It watches more than mentions. Besides topics across more than a billion sources, you can paste a URL and get told when a meaningful detail on that page changes, or follow an X profile, a subreddit, a YouTube channel, LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok.
It is bought like software, not a contract. No sales call, no contract and no cancellation fee.
How much does it cost?
| Plan | Monthly price | Key detail |
|---|---|---|
| Free Preview | $0 | 3 lifetime runs, up to 3 topics, no card |
| Pro | $9 | Hourly monitoring |
| Pro+ | $19 | ASAP mode for urgent topics |
| Max | $39 | Larger plan |
| Ultra | $99 | Largest plan |
Usage is counted in monitoring credits. Most checks cost one credit and some platform sources cost more, and the app shows an estimate per day before you save. Checking more often uses more credits.
Mention's price is not published; you get a number after a demo.
Where do alerts go?
To the AyeWatch feed and as push notifications on web, iOS and Android, on every plan. Paid plans add email, a daily digest email, Slack, Discord, HMAC-signed webhooks and a REST API. You choose the channels per monitor.
What does Mention do that AyeWatch does not?
Sentiment analysis, share of voice, influence scoring, monitoring of more than 75 review sites, and white-label reports. AyeWatch has no sentiment reports and no social inbox. If a client pays for a monthly brand health deck, stay on Mention or look at Brand24, which publishes its prices and starts at $199 a month billed yearly.
How fast are the alerts?
That depends on the plan and the schedule you pick. Pro checks hourly. Pro+ adds ASAP mode, meant for urgent topics such as breaking news or a competitor launch. On paid plans, Auto mode checks more often while a topic is busy and less often when it is quiet, so you do not have to manage a schedule by hand.
Is there a free option?
Talkwalker Alerts is free and sends keyword matches from news, X, blogs and forums by email. It has no analytics and matches words, not meaning. AyeWatch's Free Preview is a trial of three runs, not a permanent free plan.
How do I switch?
There is nothing to export. For each Mention alert, write one AyeWatch monitor that names the brand or topic and says, in plain words, what to skip. Run both for a week, compare what each one flagged, then cancel what you no longer read.
The short answer, once more
If you used Mention to know when your brand, a competitor or a topic came up, AyeWatch is the best Mention.com alternative: cheaper to start, broader in what it watches, and quieter in your inbox. Try the free preview with your busiest alert first.