Is FishOut cheaper than Mentionkit?

At the entry point yes — FishOut has a free plan and starts at $19/mo, where Mentionkit is $49/mo with a 14-day trial. At the same $49, FishOut Pro carries 200 keywords and unlimited projects against Mentionkit’s 10 keywords and one project. Prices checked on Mentionkit’s own pricing page on 20 October 2026.

Do both have an API and an MCP server?

Yes. This is genuine parity and worth saying plainly: Mentionkit includes an API, MCP and webhooks on its plan, and FishOut includes them on every plan including Free. If programmatic access is your deciding factor, it should not decide between these two.

What does Mentionkit do that FishOut does not?

It covers Slack, which FishOut does not. It has one plan rather than four, which is simpler, and it has been in customers’ hands since March 2026 where FishOut is newer — neither of those is a feature we can add.

Which platforms does each cover?

Ten each, and nine overlap. FishOut covers Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Hacker News, YouTube, TikTok, Medium, GitHub and Google News. Mentionkit’s pricing table lists the same set with Slack in place of Google News. Slack communities are theirs; press and news coverage are ours.

Does either tool post replies automatically?

FishOut never posts. It drafts a reply and stops, and you send it from your own account. Tools that auto-post from pooled accounts get those accounts banned — Mentionkit’s own blog makes the same point.

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FishOut vs Mentionkit

The closest comparison in the category. Both use AI to judge which mentions matter, both ship an API and an MCP server, and both are priced for small teams rather than enterprises. The differences are in how much you get at each price, and in what happens after a mention is found.

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

Platforms: 10; 10
Starts at: Free; $49/mo
API & MCP: Every plan, incl. Free; API + MCP on its one $49/mo plan

[01] AT A GLANCE/ SIDE BY SIDE

FishOut and Mentionkit, feature by feature

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

FishOut compared with Mentionkit, feature by feature
	FishOut	Mentionkit
Coverage
PlatformsSame count, different sets: Google News is ours, Slack is theirs	Even: 10	Even: 10
Mentions	Behind: 500–40,000 relevant / mo by plan	Advantage: Unlimited
AI
AI relevance	Advantage: Yes, with Why chips and a Filtered view	Behind: Yes
Reply drafting	Even: Yes, never posts	Even: Yes
Automation rules	Advantage: Agents you write, from $19	Behind: Not documented
Alerts
Alert destinations	Advantage: 13, every plan	Behind: Slack, email, webhooks
Price per alert destination at entryEntry price divided by the destinations it includes	Advantage: $0 on Free; $1.46 on Plus	Behind: $16.33 ($49 ÷ 3)
Developer
MCP server — which plan	Even: Every plan, including Free	Even: Every plan — its one $49 plan
REST API — which plan	Even: Every plan, including Free	Even: Every plan — its one $49 plan
Team
Projects	Advantage: Unlimited on paid plans	Behind: 1
Seats at entry	Advantage: Unlimited on every plan	Behind: Up to 5, a soft limit
Price
Entry price	Advantage: Free, then $19/mo	Behind: $49/mo
Keywords at $49	Advantage: 200	Behind: 10
Free tier	Advantage: Free forever, 10 keywords, 500 relevant/mo	Behind: 14-day trial
Sales call needed	Even: No — self-serve, cancel any time	Even: No — 14-day trial

[02] WHAT IT COSTS/ SAME NEED

What each need costs on FishOut and on Mentionkit

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

To getFishOutMentionkit

10 keywordsFreeFree$49/moBase

50 keywordsIts one plan stops at 10 keywords$19/moPlusNot offered

The API and MCP serverFreeFree$49/moBase

A second project$19/moPlusNot offered

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

[03] WHERE MENTIONKIT IS STRONGER/ HONESTLY

Mentionkit is AI-first social listening, one flat plan, and there are things it does that we do not.

One plan, one price

Mentionkit is a single $49 plan with unlimited mentions. There is no tier to work out and no feature gated above you. If a flat price you never have to revisit is what you want, that is a real thing to want, and our four tiers are more to think about.

Slack, which we do not cover

Mentionkit’s pricing table lists ten platforms, and Slack is one of them. FishOut does not monitor Slack. If the conversations you care about happen in Slack communities, that is a real gap on our side.

They are further along

Mentionkit launched in March 2026 and has been in customers’ hands for months. We are newer. If you need a tool with a track record this quarter rather than a roadmap, that matters and no feature table changes it.

[04] WHERE FISHOUT WINS/ WITH PROOF

The same count, a different ten

We both cover ten platforms, and nine of them are the same. Mentionkit has Slack where FishOut has Google News, so if press and news coverage belong in the same inbox as your Reddit threads, that is the swap that matters. The bigger differences are in what happens to a post once it is found.

Sources

Bluesky

Hacker News

YouTube

TikTok

Medium

GitHub

Google News

Ten times the keywords at the same price

Mentionkit’s $49 plan carries 10 keywords and one project. FishOut Pro is $49 and carries 200 keywords and unlimited projects, with up to 15,000 relevant mentions a month. Keywords are the limit you hit first in this category — ten is enough for a brand and a few competitors, not enough to add the buyer-intent phrases that find new customers.

To get 10 keywords

FishOut

Free

Them

Base, $49/mo

Every post shows its working

FishOut reads every post against your Brief and gives it a relevance from 0 to 100 with the Why behind it — Matches your brief, Means the product, not the word, Asking for help, Not answered yet. Anything below the threshold goes to a Filtered view with its reason, so you can check what was left out instead of trusting that it was. That is the difference between a number you act on and one you stop trusting after a fortnight.

Why this is relevant

Matches your briefAsking for helpNot answered yetFresh

Reply nowAsking for recommendationsHas a problem

Thirteen places to send an alert

Mentionkit alerts through Slack, email and webhooks. FishOut delivers to 13 destinations — email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Telegram, Mattermost, ntfy, Feishu/Lark, DingTalk, WeCom, Zapier and signed webhooks — so an alert lands wherever your team already reads.

A free tier, not a trial

Ten keywords on Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News, free forever, with the REST API, MCP server and webhooks included. Mentionkit offers a 14-day trial. You can run FishOut for a month before deciding anything, and Plus is $19 when you do.

[05] WHO SHOULD PICK WHICH/ SHORTCUTS

If you…

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

You want one flat price and unlimited mentionsMentionkitOne $49 plan, nothing metered past it. If you never want to think about a tier, that is worth something.

Slack communities are where your buyers talkMentionkitIt lists Slack as a source. FishOut does not watch Slack.

You need more than ten keywords, or more than one productFishOut200 keywords and unlimited projects at the same $49, or 50 keywords at $19/mo.

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

10 places to listen

Mentionkit: 10. 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

Mentionkit: Slack, email, webhooks. 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 Mentionkit

The posts Mentionkit would have shown you, plus the ones on Hacker News, Bluesky and GitHub, already read: relevance with its reason, a label, a Reply call and a draft you post yourself.

Views

Reply now6

Leads14

Switchers5

Support9

Advocates7

Filtered212

Saved views

Competitor complaints

Launch week

Leads· Best first14

r/SaaSpatchwork_pm40m

What do you use to find people asking for a tool like yours?

Reply nowAsking for recommendations

YouTubeInbox Zero Weekly6h

Comment on: The shared-inbox setup I wish I had a year ago

Reply, carefullyQuestion

MediumShip Small2d

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

WatchComparison

r/SaaSpatchwork_pm40m

What do you use to find people asking for a tool like yours?

Keyword alerts give me fifty posts a day and maybe two are people actually shopping. Is there anything that reads them first?

Relevance

Matches your briefAsking for a toolNot answered yetFresh

Labels · Reply call

Reply nowAsking for recommendations

Answer the question, then say who you are

Draft reply

Fifty a day with two buyers is the usual ratio. I work on AcmeMail, so weigh that: we stopped reading alerts and started reading a list sorted by who is asking.

Says who you are
No claims you cannot back up
Follows the subreddit rules

Copy and open threadFishOut never posts

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Questions

More on Mentionkit

Mentionkit pricing, explained →Mentionkit alternatives, ranked →Mentionkit vs Octolens →

Sources

Mentionkit pricing page — checked 20 October 2026. Base plan $49/mo billed monthly: 10 keywords, 10 trackers, 1 project, unlimited mentions, API, MCP, webhooks, Slack and email alerts. Up to 5 seats as a soft limit. The pricing table lists 10 platforms: Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Slack, TikTok, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, Medium and GitHub — no Google News. "Start with a 14-day trial"; the card is not billed if you cancel during it. No permanent free tier.
FishOut pricing — checked 19 October 2026. lib/pricing-data.ts — the same data the pricing page renders.

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