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Mentionkit is a good tool and the closest thing to us in the category — AI scoring, an API, an MCP server, priced for small teams. People leave it for two reasons, and which one applies decides where you should go next.
The closest replacement, and the one that solves both of the reasons above: 200 keywords at $49 against Mentionkit’s 10, unlimited projects on every paid plan, and a free tier that does not expire. Same shape otherwise — AI triage on every post, reply drafts that never post, a REST API and an MCP server. If you liked Mentionkit and outgrew it, this is the sideways move.
See how FishOut is priced →Worth looking at if you are a developer tool and source coverage was the thing you actually wanted. It reaches more sources than either of us, has customers you have heard of, and is priced accordingly at $199/mo, or $159 billed annually — roughly four times Mentionkit for a different kind of breadth.
FishOut vs Octolens →Its catalogue of about twenty sources reaches further than anyone here — podcasts and public Slack communities few others touch — but read the tiers before you compare. The $29.95 Entry plan is 3 community filters and 1 web filter with an API for matches and filter edits, but no AI filtering and no Slack integration; those start at $49.95, and webhooks, MCP and the archive API at $119.95. X (+$40/mo) and YouTube (+$20/mo) are add-ons on Standard and PRO, and there is no LinkedIn at all.
FishOut vs Syften →The nearest thing to a like-for-like at a lower price — a free tier, a $19 plan and sub-minute alerting on Reddit and Hacker News. Two things to read carefully: keywords are counted per platform, so the $19 plan is 20 Reddit and 20 Hacker News but only 1 LinkedIn; and the API, webhooks and MCP server start on the $79 Business plan, not the $19 one.
FishOut vs KWatch.io →If volume rather than triage is the problem, Awario Starter is $49/mo — $29 billed annually — for three topics, 30,000 mentions and unlimited keywords inside each topic, with its own crawler. It will find a great deal more than Mentionkit; it will not rank any of it, and the API is Enterprise-only.
FishOut vs Awario →| FishOut | Octolens | Syften | KWatch.io | Awario | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | Free, then $19/mo | $199/mo, $159 annually | $29.95/mo | Free, then $19/mo | $49/mo, $29 annually |
| Platforms | 10 platforms | About 15 | About 20 | 6 platforms | 10 platforms |
| MCP server | Every plan, including Free | Every plan (from $159/mo) | PRO only ($119.95), read-only | Business and up ($79/mo); manages alerts | Not offered |
| Alert destinations | 13, every plan | Webhooks; others not on its pricing page | Not on the pages we cite | Not on the pages we cite; webhooks from Business | Not on the pages we cite |
| Sales call needed | No | No — Enterprise is contact-sales | No | No | No |
200 keywords at $49, each post read for relevance on every plan, or unlimited keywords inside a topic at $49, or $29 annually, without it. The question is whether you want more things watched or more help deciding what matters.
Unlimited team members on every plan including Free, and unlimited projects on every paid plan. It is the specific gap that pushes agencies and multi-product teams off a single-project tool.
Both are built for this audience and both reach further than Mentionkit. Octolens at $199 with the polish, Syften from $29.95 with the sources and none of the AI.
FishOut’s free plan keeps 10 keywords with the API and MCP server; F5Bot emails you free for Reddit and Hacker News and has done since 2017. Neither expires.
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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.
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