Which BrandMentions alternatives have an API on every plan?

FishOut includes its REST API and MCP server on every plan, Free included.

Is there a free alternative?

FishOut Free (10 keywords, five platforms) and Google Alerts (web and news, email or RSS).

Which alternatives cover review sites?

Mentionlytics covers reviews on every tier. FishOut does not.

Which are billed monthly at entry?

FishOut, Brand24, Mentionlytics and Awario all offer monthly billing at entry. BrandMentions Starter is billed quarterly.

What should I export before leaving BrandMentions?

Retention is 3 months on Starter, 6 on Pro and 12 on Expert, so anything older is already gone. Export your mention lists to Excel (Starter caps exports at 1,000 rows) and save any shareable reports you send to clients before the plan ends.

BrandMentions

Alternatives · 5 compared

BrandMentions alternatives, ranked by fit

For a small team that hit the five-keyword Starter cap, or needs an API without Enterprise: FishOut. For a reporting suite with MCP: Brand24. BrandMentions’ strengths — the open web, reviews and white-label reports — are real, and two picks here keep them.

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[01] WHY PEOPLE LOOK/ BRANDMENTIONS

Five keywords at entry

Starter is 5 keywords, one user and daily updates for $99 a month, billed quarterly.

API on Enterprise only

Its pricing table puts the API on Enterprise, from $1,299 a month. We found no MCP server.

Short retention at entry

Data retention is 3 months on Starter, 6 on Pro, 12 on Expert.

[02] THE ALTERNATIVES/ RANKED BY FIT

5 tools worth looking at instead

Ordered by fit for someone leaving BrandMentions, not by who pays us — nobody does. Every price and platform count comes from the vendor's own materials and carries a date on the comparison pages. Pricing in this category moves, so check anything you are about to sign for.

FishOut

That's usFree, then $19/mo10 platforms

10 keywords free and 50 at $19/mo, hourly on every plan, the API and MCP from Free, and reply drafts. It does not read the open web or review sites.

See how FishOut is priced →

Brand24

$249/mo15+ platforms

Monitoring and reporting with published tiers, MCP on every plan and realtime from Pro.

FishOut vs Brand24 →

Mentionlytics

$59/mo, $49 annually9 socials plus web and reviews

Web, social and reviews with an 18-month archive, 3 keyword rules from $59; API and MCP from Pro.

FishOut vs Mentionlytics →

Awario

$49/mo, $29 annually10 platforms

Boolean topics with unlimited keywords each and 30,000 mentions from $49 a month.

FishOut vs Awario →

Google Alerts

FreeGoogle’s index

If what you used BrandMentions for was web and news mentions of your name, Google Alerts does that for free.

FishOut vs Google Alerts →

[03] SIDE BY SIDE/ THE SHORTLIST

The shortlist on the rows that decide it

From each vendor's own pages; unpublished figures say so.

BrandMentions alternatives compared on price, platforms, MCP, alerts and sales
	FishOut	Brand24	Mentionlytics	Awario	Google Alerts
Starts at	Free, then $19/mo	$249/mo	$59/mo, $49 annually	$49/mo, $29 annually	Free
Platforms	10 platforms	15+ platforms	9 socials plus web and reviews	10 platforms	Google’s index
MCP server	Every plan, including Free	Every plan (from $249/mo)	Pro and up ($499/mo); not on trials	Not offered	Not offered
Alert destinations	13, every plan	Not on the pages we cite	Email, Slack, push, desktop	Not on the pages we cite	Email or an RSS feed
Sales call needed	No	No — Enterprise is contact-sales	No below Business; demo offered above	No	No — free

[04] HOW TO CHOOSE/ SHORTCUTS

You hit the five-keyword cap

FishOut

50 keywords for $19/mo.

You need white-label reports

Stay, or Mentionlytics

BrandMentions from Expert; Mentionlytics from Business.

You only need web and news alerts

Google Alerts

Free.

[05] SEE IT ON YOUR KEYWORDS/ FREE PLAN

What you get instead of BrandMentions

What a team gets on the first evening, without a demo: switchers, complaints and press in one inbox, each with its reason. BrandMentions measures the conversation; this tells you which part to answer.

Views

Reply now4

Leads9

Switchers7

Complaints3

Press5

Filtered318

Saved views

Competitor pricing

Q4 launch

Switchers· Best first7

LinkedInTomás Ferreira3h

We moved 40 agents off Notchmail last quarter

Reply, carefullyComparisonPraise

LinkedInAnika Osei6h

Looking for a support inbox that our sales team can see too

Reply nowAsking for recommendationsHas a problem

r/sysadminquiet_pager1d

AcmeMail search keeps timing out on old threads

Reply nowHas a problemComplaint

LinkedInTomás Ferreira3h

We moved 40 agents off Notchmail last quarter

We moved 40 support agents off Notchmail last quarter. Happy to share what went well and what did not — ask away.

Relevance

Switching storyCompetitor namedInfluential author

Labels · Reply call

Reply, carefullyComparisonPraise

Ask a real question; do not claim the win

Draft reply

Would love to hear how you handled the archive migration — that is where most teams stall. (I work on AcmeMail, for context.)

Says who you are
Asks rather than sells

Copy and open threadFishOut never posts

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Questions

Before you compare prices

Several tools in this category publish an annual rate as the headline and meter something other than keywords. We read every pricing page ourselves and wrote down what each plan actually limits.

BrandMentions pricing, explained →

Alternatives to other tools

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