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FishOut vs Mentionlytics

Mentionlytics is a full monitoring and analytics suite: owned social profiles, Facebook and Instagram, sentiment and emotion, share of voice, white-label reports and an 18-month archive. It meters keyword rules, and keyword rules are expensive. If you are reporting on a brand, it is built for you. If you are finding conversations to join, the keyword maths decides it.

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

 FishOutMentionlytics
Starts at
Free
$59/mo, $49 annually
Sales call needed
No
No below Business; demo offered above
API & MCP
Every plan, incl. Free
API and MCP from Pro, $499/mo
[01] AT A GLANCE/ SIDE BY SIDE

FishOut and Mentionlytics, feature by feature

Ties are marked as ties, and Mentionlytics's wins as wins.
FishOut compared with Mentionlytics, feature by feature
 FishOutMentionlytics
Coverage
SourcesBehind: 10Advantage: Web, news, reviews, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky, Threads
Hacker News, GitHub, MediumAdvantage: YesBehind: Not listed
Update frequency at entryAdvantage: Hourly on every planBehind: Every 12 hours on Basic
HistoryBehind: 2–90 day backfill by planAdvantage: 18-month archive
AI
SentimentBehind: YesAdvantage: Yes; emotion from Advanced
Relevance triage and Reply callAdvantage: Every post, every planBehind: Not offered
Reply draftsAdvantage: Plus and upBehind: Not offered
Alerts
Alert destinationsAdvantage: 13, every planBehind: Email, Slack, push, desktop
Price per alert destination at entryEntry price divided by the destinations it includesAdvantage: $0 on Free; $1.46 on PlusBehind: $14.75 ($59 ÷ 4)
Developer
MCP server — which planAdvantage: Every plan, including FreeBehind: Pro and up ($499/mo); not on trials
REST API — which planAdvantage: Every plan, including FreeBehind: Pro and up ($499/mo)
Team
White-label reportsBehind: Not offeredAdvantage: Business and Enterprise
Seats at entryEven: Unlimited on every planEven: 2 on Basic; unlimited from Advanced
Price
Keyword rules or keywordsA Mentionlytics rule can hold several termsAdvantage: 50 at $19/moBehind: 3 at $59; 10 at $169; 40+ at $749
Free plan or trialAdvantage: Free forever, 10 keywords, 500 relevant/moBehind: 14-day trial, no card
Sales call neededEven: No — self-serve, cancel any timeEven: No below Business; demo offered above
[02] WHAT IT COSTS/ SAME NEED

What each need costs on FishOut and on Mentionlytics

The plan you would need on each side for the thing you came for.
To getFishOutMentionlytics
10 keywordsFreeFree$169/moEssential
25 keywords$19/moPlus$499/moPro
40+ keywords$19/moPlus$749/moBusiness
MCP and the APIFreeFree$499/moPro

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

[03] WHERE MENTIONLYTICS IS STRONGER/ HONESTLY
Mentionlytics is social and web monitoring with AI analytics, for brands and agencies, and there are things it does that we do not.

Facebook, Instagram, Threads and your own profiles

Mentionlytics covers Facebook, Instagram and Threads, analyses the social profiles you own, and adds review sites. FishOut covers none of those. For a consumer brand, that can be most of the conversation.

Reporting a client will accept

Share of voice, earned media value, top influencers, emotion analysis and, on Business, white-label reports. FishOut has a Daily brief and an Insights view; it does not produce agency-grade reports.

An 18-month archive and a managed service

Every plan carries an 18-month archive, and from Pro you can buy a managed service. FishOut backfills 2 to 90 days when you add a keyword.
[04] WHERE FISHOUT WINS/ WITH PROOF

Fifty keywords for $19

Mentionlytics Essential is 10 keyword rules for $169 a month; Pro is 25 for $499; Business is 40-plus for $749. FishOut Plus is 50 keywords for $19/mo. A rule can hold several terms, so the units are not identical — but the gap is large enough that it survives the caveat.
To get 10 keywords

FishOut

Free

Them

Essential, $169/mo

MCP and the API without a $499 plan

Mentionlytics opens its API and MCP connector from Pro, and the MCP connector is not on standard trials. FishOut’s are on every plan, including Free, so you can try the integration before paying for anything.

A reply, not just a reading

Mentionlytics measures sentiment and emotion. FishOut decides whether a post deserves an answer, labels why, and drafts the reply in your Voice for you to post.
Draft replyYour voice

Six people and one shared inbox is the exact shape where filters stop helping, because the problem is not sorting, it's deciding.

I work on AcmeMail — it sorts the inbox by what needs you, so you read the fifteen that matter.

Copy and open threadFishOut never posts — you send it yourself

Hacker News, GitHub and Medium

Developer and technical audiences talk in places a social suite does not list. FishOut covers them alongside Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube and Bluesky.
Sources
Reddit
X
LinkedIn
Bluesky
Hacker News
YouTube
TikTok
Medium
GitHub
Google News
[05] WHO SHOULD PICK WHICH/ SHORTCUTS

If you…

Who we would send to Mentionlytics, and who to us.
You report on owned social profiles to clientsMentionlyticsOwned-profile analytics, Facebook and Instagram, and white-label reports are its home ground.
You need an archive longer than a quarterMentionlyticsEighteen months on every plan.
You want conversations to join, and more than a handful of keywordsFishOut50 keywords for $19/mo, with triage, reply drafts, MCP and the API.
[06] WITHOUT A SALES CALL/ SELF-SERVE

Without the sales call. Mentionlytics: no below business; demo offered above. FishOut: from $19/mo, or free, cancel any time.

MCP and the REST API, from Free

Mentionlytics: pro and up ($499/mo); not on trials for MCP; pro and up ($499/mo) for the API.

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13 alert destinations

Mentionlytics: email, slack, push, desktop. FishOut: Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, email, Zapier, webhooks and six more.

Alert to13 destinations
and six more
[07] SEE IT ON YOUR KEYWORDS/ FREE PLAN

What you get instead of Mentionlytics

Your brand and your competitors, sorted by what needs a person — the job you would buy Mentionlytics for, at a price on the page.
Switchers· Best first7
86
YouTubeOpsWithDana9h

Three shared inboxes compared after a month each

Reply, carefullyComparisonQuestion
85
Google NewsSaaS Weekly1d

AcmeMail named in “ten tools to watch” for customer support

WatchPraisePress
88
Google NewsThe Inbox Report4h

Notchmail raises prices for teams of ten or more

WatchCompetitor news
YouTubeOpsWithDana9h

Three shared inboxes compared after a month each

Comment thread: “Which of the three would you pick for a team that is half on Outlook?”

Relevance

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ComparisonSpecific needLarge audience

Labels · Reply call

Reply, carefullyComparisonQuestion

Let the creator answer first; add a fact, not a pitch

Draft reply

For half-Outlook teams the deciding feature is mixed-provider inboxes. Disclosure: I work on AcmeMail, which supports it; Notchmail added it in beta this spring.

  • Says who you are
  • Fair to the competitor
Copy and open threadFishOut never posts
Start freeSee every plan

Questions

More on Mentionlytics

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Sources

  • FishOut pricing — checked 19 October 2026. lib/pricing-data.ts — the same data the pricing page renders.
  • Mentionlytics pricing — checked 20 October 2026. Defaults to the yearly view. Billed monthly: Basic $59 (shown against a struck-through $69, "limited time offer"), Essential $169, Advanced $299, Pro $499, Business $749, Enterprise from $1,299. Billed yearly, per month: $49, $141, $249, $416, $624, from $1,083. Keyword rules 3 / 10 / 15 / 25 / 40+ / 100+; mentions 5k / 15k / 50k / 100k / 200k+ / custom; updates every 12h on Basic, 6h on Essential, continuous from Advanced; users 2 / 10 / unlimited from Advanced; 18-month archive on all. AI sentiment on all; emotion analysis from Advanced; mention clustering, API, MCP, Telegram and podcast sources from Pro; white-label reports on Business and Enterprise, which show "Book a Demo". Email, push, desktop and Slack alerts on all. Sources: web, news, blogs, forums, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky, Threads, reviews. 14-day trial, no card. AI Visibility is an add-on from Essential, price not published.
  • Mentionlytics MCP — checked 20 October 2026. MCP at a token-in-URL endpoint, with a token from Settings → API / Access Tokens. "API access is available on Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans." "The MCP connector is not available on standard trials."

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