How much does HotMention cost?

One plan, $99 a month, with two months free on annual billing. It includes 50 keywords, 500 scored leads a month, unlimited projects and three seats; extra keywords or leads are $20 a month per pack. A 3-day trial needs no card. Read from its homepage on 20 October 2026.

Are their score and verdict like FishOut’s?

Close enough to call it parity. HotMention scores 0–100 across intent, relevance, freshness, competition and visibility and gives a Reply / Careful / Skip verdict. FishOut gives a relevance with its reasons, labels, and a Reply call — Reply now, Reply carefully, Watch or Skip.

Yes. HotMention’s has 11 tools and comes with a CLI, on its one plan. FishOut’s is on every plan including Free.

Does HotMention track AI answers?

It tracks which threads AI assistants cite. FishOut does not measure what an assistant says about you; it finds the conversations themselves.

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FishOut vs HotMention

Q: Which platforms does each cover?

HotMention: Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Quora and YouTube. FishOut: Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News on every plan, plus YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn, TikTok and X on paid plans.

The most like-for-like comparison in this group. Both read each post for intent, give a verdict on whether to answer, draft a reply you post yourself, and ship an MCP server and an API. HotMention is one $99 plan covering six platforms, including Threads and Quora. FishOut covers a different ten, starts free, and charges $19 for the same 50 keywords.

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HotMention facts checked on 20 October 2026, from their own published material. Sources are listed at the foot of this page.

Starts at: Free; $99/mo
Keywords at entry: 50 for $19; 50 for $99
Platforms: 10; 6, incl. Threads, Quora

[01] AT A GLANCE/ SIDE BY SIDE

FishOut and HotMention, feature by feature

Ties are marked as ties, and HotMention's wins as wins.

FishOut compared with HotMention, feature by feature
	FishOut	HotMention
Coverage
PlatformsDifferent sets: Threads and Quora are theirs; HN, GitHub, Bluesky, Medium, News are ours	Even: 10	Even: 6: Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Quora, YouTube
Reddit	Even: Every plan, hourly	Even: Yes
AI
Intent on every post	Even: Relevance 0–100 with the reason	Even: 0–100 score across five factors
Whether to answer	Even: Reply call: Reply now, carefully, Watch, Skip	Even: Reply / Careful / Skip
Reply drafts	Behind: Plus and up, capped by plan	Advantage: Unlimited
Reply verification after posting	Behind: Not offered	Advantage: Day 1, 3 and 7
Alerts
Alert destinations	Advantage: 13, every plan	Behind: Slack, Telegram, webhook, email
Price per alert destination at entryEntry price divided by the destinations it includes	Advantage: $0 on Free; $1.46 on Plus	Behind: $24.75 ($99 ÷ 4)
Developer
MCP server — which plan	Even: Every plan, including Free	Even: Every plan — its one $99 plan
REST API — which plan	Even: Every plan, including Free	Even: Every plan — its one $99 plan
Team
Seats at entry	Advantage: Unlimited on every plan	Behind: 3
Price
Entry price	Advantage: Free, then $19/mo	Behind: $99/mo, one plan
Keywords	Advantage: 50 at $19/mo; 200 at $49/mo	Behind: 50, then +25 for $20/mo
Free plan or trial	Advantage: Free forever, 10 keywords, 500 relevant/mo	Behind: 3-day trial, no card
Sales call needed	Even: No — self-serve, cancel any time	Even: No — 3-day trial, no card

[02] WHAT IT COSTS/ SAME NEED

What each need costs on FishOut and on HotMention

The plan you would need on each side for the thing you came for.

To getFishOutHotMention

50 keywords$19/moPlus$99/moPro

200 keywords$49/moPro$219/moPro + 6 keyword packs

MCP and an APIFreeFree$99/moPro

Threads or Quora—Not offered$99/moPro

Monthly-billed. A keyword is not always the same unit on both sides.

[03] WHERE HOTMENTION IS STRONGER/ HONESTLY

HotMention is buyer-intent leads from six platforms, and the threads AI cites, and there are things it does that we do not.

Threads and Quora

HotMention covers Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Quora and YouTube. FishOut does not cover Threads or Quora at all. If those are where your buyers are, HotMention reaches them and we do not.

Reply verification and a reply budget

HotMention checks on day 1, 3 and 7 whether your reply is still live, rates how safe a subreddit is to post in, and lets you cap replies per day. Those are thoughtful guard-rails we do not have.

AI-citation tracking

It tracks which threads ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Claude cite, and adds them to the lead feed. FishOut reads the conversations; it does not measure what an assistant says.

[04] WHERE FISHOUT WINS/ WITH PROOF

The same shape from $0

HotMention’s 0–100 intent score and Reply / Careful / Skip verdict map closely onto FishOut’s relevance and Reply call — parity, said plainly. The difference is price: FishOut Free has triage and MCP, and 50 keywords are $19/mo against 50 at $99.

Why this is relevant

Matches your briefAsking for helpNot answered yetFresh

Reply nowAsking for recommendationsHas a problem

Where developers talk

Hacker News, GitHub, Bluesky, Medium and Google News are FishOut sources and not HotMention ones. For a developer tool, those are often the threads that convert.

Sources

Bluesky

Hacker News

YouTube

TikTok

Medium

GitHub

Google News

More keywords for less as you grow

Two hundred keywords is FishOut Pro at $49/mo. On HotMention it is the $99 plan plus six +25-keyword add-ons at $20 each, $219 a month.

To get 50 keywords

FishOut

Plus, $19/mo

Them

Pro, $99/mo

Thirteen destinations, unlimited seats

HotMention delivers to Slack, Telegram, webhooks and email, with three seats. FishOut delivers to 13 destinations with no seat limit.

[05] WHO SHOULD PICK WHICH/ SHORTCUTS

If you…

Who we would send to HotMention, and who to us.

Your buyers are on Threads, Quora or XHotMentionIt covers all three today. We cover none of them yet.

You want guard-rails on how often you replyHotMentionReply budgets, subreddit safety ratings and reply verification are built in.

Your buyers are developers, or $99 is a lot for one channelFishOutHacker News, GitHub and Bluesky included, from Free, and 50 keywords for $19/mo.

[06] IN AND OUT/ 10 SOURCES · 13 DESTINATIONS

10 places to listen

HotMention: 6. FishOut: Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News hourly on every plan, five more on paid plans.

Bluesky

Hacker News

YouTube

TikTok

Medium

GitHub

Google News

13 places to be told

HotMention: Slack, Telegram, webhook, email. FishOut: all 13, on every plan.

Slack

Teams

Google Chat

Discord

Mattermost

ntfy

Feishu

DingTalk

WeCom

Zapier

Webhook

[07] SEE IT ON YOUR KEYWORDS/ FREE PLAN

What you get instead of HotMention

This is the free plan. Instead of a feed of matches, a list sorted by who is asking — and unlike HotMention, alerts go to whichever of thirteen places your team reads.

Views

Reply now6

Leads14

Switchers5

Support9

Advocates7

Filtered212

Saved views

Competitor complaints

Launch week

Leads· Best first14

MediumShip Small2d

The five tools I would buy again for a two-person startup

WatchComparison

Blueskymara.builds5h

Comparing Notchmail and AcmeMail for our team this week

Reply, carefullyComparison

TikTok@founderdiaries1d

Comment on: How I answer 300 customer emails a week alone

Reply nowQuestionAsking for recommendations

MediumShip Small2d

The five tools I would buy again for a two-person startup

Number three is a shared inbox. The author says they tried AcmeMail and Notchmail and “never finished the comparison”.

Relevance

Names youComparisonEvergreen

Labels · Reply call

WatchComparison

No reply; add to the comparison doc

Draft reply

No public reply suggested. Saved to the Comparisons view for the next content round.

No public reply needed

Copy and open threadFishOut never posts

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Questions

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Sources

FishOut pricing — checked 19 October 2026. lib/pricing-data.ts — the same data the pricing page renders.
HotMention homepage and pricing section — checked 20 October 2026. One plan, Pro, $99/mo; annual is "2 months free". 50 keywords, 500 scored leads a month, unlimited projects, 3 seats. Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Quora and YouTube. 0–100 score across intent, relevance, freshness, competition and visibility, with a Reply / Careful / Skip verdict and drafts; never posts for you. Slack, Telegram, webhook and email. API and MCP access on Pro (11 MCP tools), plus a CLI. Add-ons: +250 leads or +25 keywords, $20/mo each. 3-day trial, no credit card. AI-citation tracking across ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity and Claude.

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Reply verification and a reply budget

AI-citation tracking

The same shape from $0

Where developers talk

More keywords for less as you grow

Thirteen destinations, unlimited seats

If you…

10 places to listen

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How much does HotMention cost?

Are their score and verdict like FishOut’s?

Which platforms does each cover?

Do both have MCP?

Does HotMention track AI answers?

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