Mention does two jobs in one account: it listens across social and news, and it schedules your posts. For a small marketing team that genuinely does both, that combination is worth something and most of the alternatives below do not offer it.
Two things push people to look. Mention no longer publishes a price on its pricing page, so comparing means booking a call. And listening that ends in a dashboard is still a loop that runs outside where your team works. Here are eight alternatives, with the prices their vendors do publish.
Eko is on this list. Eko is a social listening tool, so yes, we are ranking ourselves: the scoring rubric is published below, and Mention keeps its place on merit.
Prices and facts last checked
Quick comparison
Mention alternatives compared on 2026-09-21
Tool
Best for
Slack
Discord
Entry price
Eko
Teams who work in chat and want to act on a mention without leaving it
Reads and acts inside it
Reads and acts inside it
$49/month for 10,000 credits
Mention
Teams that want listening and scheduled publishing from one account
Listed, direction unclear
Not published
not published
Brand24
Reporting-heavy monitoring where someone presents the numbers upward
Alerts in, one way
Not published
$199/month billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
Awario
Precise boolean monitoring with historical reporting in one place
Alerts in, one way
Not published
€29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly)
Mentionlytics
Teams monitoring several languages who want sentiment broken down per market
Alerts in, one way
Not published
$49/month billed yearly (listed at $69)
Determ
PR teams who want clean media monitoring without an enterprise contract
Listed, direction unclear
Not published
€99/month (€990/year)
Sprout Social
Social teams that need scheduling, an inbox and listening on one seat
Listed, direction unclear
Not published
$79 per seat/month billed annually; listening is an add-on and its price is not published
F5Bot
Watching a few keywords on Reddit and Hacker News at no cost
Prices change without notice. Every row names the vendor page and the date it was read: check before you decide.
What Mention does well
Listening and publishing in the same tool. Eko does not post to your social accounts and is not trying to; if scheduling is half your week, dropping it to gain a chat-native workflow is a bad trade.
A broad published source list including Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, news, blogs, forums and, by their own claim, more than seventy-five review sites.
A free trial is offered, which is more than the enterprise platforms in this market do.
Where teams hit a wall
The price is no longer on the pricing page. Both the English and French pages render a single Company Plan with the number absent, so you cannot compare Mention against anything without a sales conversation. That is a real cost even if the eventual price is fair.
Slack is listed as an integration, but Mention does not say which direction it runs, so nothing here claims it either way.
Discord is absent from the published sources, like almost everything else in this category.
How we scored these
Where the work actually happens
Almost every tool here can push an alert into Slack. The question is what you do next. If reading the alert sends you to a web app to act, the tool is a notifier and your team still context-switches.
Is Discord a source or a destination?
Most tools that mention Discord mean they can post to it. Reading what is said inside community servers is a different capability. Of every vendor checked here, exactly two publish it: Eko and Common Room.
Does it judge, or only match?
A keyword matcher returns everything containing your word, homonyms included. A tool that judges relevance returns fewer things and is wrong sometimes. Which you want depends on whether you have time to sort.
Does it draft the reply?
Finding the mention is half the job. Tools differ on whether they leave you staring at a blank box afterwards.
Breadth of sources
Eko loses this one. The enterprise platforms cover print, broadcast and image recognition, and Brand24 publishes the longest source list of the mid-market tools. If breadth is the requirement, buy breadth.
Historical data and reporting
Eko loses this one too. She is built to catch what is happening now, not to let an analyst slice three years of archive. If you need to present trends to a board, a dashboard tool is the right purchase.
Time to first useful result
Boolean query builders are powerful and they are also why plenty of monitoring seats go unused. Measured from signing up to a result somebody reads.
Is the price on the website?
Four of the tools here do not publish one. That is a real cost: it means a sales call before you can compare, and it is why several rows in these tables say 'not published' rather than a number someone guessed.
The 8 best Mention alternatives
1. Eko
A listening employee rather than a listening dashboard: she reads the public web and community Discord servers, decides what is actually about you, and brings it into Slack or Discord with a drafted reply. $49 a month, 2,500 credits free with no card. She does not schedule posts, so if you picked Mention for publishing this is not a replacement, it is a different purchase.
Runs in:
Slack, Discord and Teams
Entry price:
$49/month for 10,000 credits
Free tier:
2,500 credits, no card, they do not expire
Best for:
Teams who work in chat and want to act on a mention without leaving it
2. Mention(no price published on its pricing page)
Kept second, because the listening-plus-publishing combination is genuinely uncommon and worth staying for if you use both halves. The reason to leave is the workflow or the opacity of the pricing, not the product.
Runs in:
A web dashboard you log into
Entry price:
not published
Free tier:
A free trial is offered; the length is not published.
Best for:
Teams that want listening and scheduled publishing from one account
Better than Eko at:
Publishing. Eko does not post to your social accounts and is not trying to. Mention also claims 75+ review sites.
The listening-only upgrade: eighteen published source types, strong sentiment, presentable reports, at $199 a month billed annually. No publishing, and Slack is one way.
Runs in:
A web platform you log into
Entry price:
$199/month billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
Free tier:
14-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:
Reporting-heavy monitoring where someone presents the numbers upward
Better than Eko at:
Presentation-grade reports and the broadest published source list of the mainstream tools, including Twitch, podcasts and app stores.
The cheapest mainstream dashboard with a published price: €29 a month billed annually with boolean control and exportable history. Narrower sources than Mention, and no publishing.
Runs in:
A web dashboard you log into
Entry price:
€29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly)
Free tier:
7-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:
Precise boolean monitoring with historical reporting in one place
Better than Eko at:
Boolean query control and a historical archive you can slice and export. If you want to write the query yourself, Awario lets you and Eko does not.
Confusingly similar name, different company. $49 a month billed yearly, multilingual sentiment, BI connectors. A straight listening tool with the price on the website, which is the main thing it has over Mention today.
Runs in:
A web dashboard
Entry price:
$49/month billed yearly (listed at $69)
Free tier:
14-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:
Teams monitoring several languages who want sentiment broken down per market
Better than Eko at:
Multilingual sentiment across many markets at once, with BI connectors for Looker and Power BI.
€99 a month and the pick if your work is closer to PR: print, TV and radio alongside the web, with a five-day trial. Nothing else at this price watches broadcast.
Runs in:
A web dashboard, with Slack and mobile alerts
Entry price:
€99/month (€990/year)
Free tier:
5-day trial, no credit card
Best for:
PR teams who want clean media monitoring without an enterprise contract
Better than Eko at:
Press coverage: it watches print, TV and radio alongside the web, which Eko does not touch.
The proper replacement if you chose Mention for publishing rather than listening. A full social suite at $79 per seat per month billed annually, with a thirty-day trial and no card. Be aware that listening is a paid add-on and its price is not published, so the real cost is higher than the seat price.
Runs in:
A web suite, priced per seat
Entry price:
$79 per seat/month billed annually; listening is an add-on and its price is not published
Free tier:
30-day trial, no credit card
Best for:
Social teams that need scheduling, an inbox and listening on one seat
Better than Eko at:
Running an actual social media operation: scheduling, approvals and a unified engagement inbox.
Free forever for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. Not a Mention replacement by any measure, but if the honest audit is that you mainly watch a couple of keywords, it costs nothing to find out.
Runs in:
Email, with Slack and Discord webhooks on the top plan
Computed from the same verified prices as the table above, not a hand-kept list. A tool that does not publish a price cannot appear here, because there is no way to know.
Eko — $49/month for 10,000 credits · 2,500 credits, no card, they do not expire
Awario — €29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly) · 7-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Syften — $29.95/month · 14-day trial on the PRO plan, no credit card. No free plan.
F5Bot — Free forever; Silver $9.99/month, Gold $49.99/month · Free tier is permanent, no card
Mentionlytics — $49/month billed yearly (listed at $69) · 14-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Google Alerts — Free, no paid tier published · Free
Publish no price at all
All else equal, a hidden price costs you a sales call before you can compare anything. That is not a reason to rule them out, it is a reason to start elsewhere.
Mention — A media monitoring and social media management tool with listening, publishing and alerts.
Brandwatch — An enterprise consumer intelligence and social listening suite with deep historical data and advanced analytics.
Talkwalker — An enterprise social listening and consumer intelligence platform known for source breadth and image recognition.
Meltwater — An enterprise media intelligence and PR platform covering news, social and broadcast.
How to choose
Where the work actually happens Almost every tool here can push an alert into Slack. The question is what you do next. If reading the alert sends you to a web app to act, the tool is a notifier and your team still context-switches.
Is Discord a source or a destination? Most tools that mention Discord mean they can post to it. Reading what is said inside community servers is a different capability. Of every vendor checked here, exactly two publish it: Eko and Common Room.
Does it judge, or only match? A keyword matcher returns everything containing your word, homonyms included. A tool that judges relevance returns fewer things and is wrong sometimes. Which you want depends on whether you have time to sort.
Does it draft the reply? Finding the mention is half the job. Tools differ on whether they leave you staring at a blank box afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Mention cost in 2026?
Mention does not publish a number. Both mention.com/en/pricing and the French page show a single Company Plan with the price element empty, alongside a note about annual billing. A free trial is offered without a stated length. Checked on 21 September 2026. Anyone quoting you a specific Mention price from a comparison article is repeating an old number.
Which Mention alternative also schedules posts?
Sprout Social and Hootsuite are the real publishing suites here, at $79 per seat per month and $99 per user per month respectively, both billed annually. Note that Sprout sells listening as a separate add-on with an unpublished price. Every other tool on this page, Eko included, is listening only.
Is there a Mention alternative with a published price?
Most of this page. Awario at €29 a month billed annually, Syften at $29.95, Eko and Mentionlytics at $49, Determ at €99, Octolens at $159, Brand24 at $199, Sprout at $79 per seat. The ones that do not publish are Mention, Brandwatch, Talkwalker and Meltwater.
What is the difference between Mention and Mentionlytics?
Different companies with unfortunately similar names. Mention combines listening with social publishing and does not publish a price. Mentionlytics is listening only, leans on multilingual sentiment and BI connectors, and publishes $49 a month billed yearly. If a comparison article blends them, it has not checked.
Is this list biased since Eko is on it?
Eko is first on its own site, which is a bias worth naming rather than hiding. The rubric above the ranking includes two criteria Eko loses, Mention is kept second, and every competitor row states something it does better. Prices come from vendor pages read on a stated date, and where a vendor publishes nothing this page says so instead of guessing.