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?

Mention's own answer is now Agorapulse, its new owner, which the Mention pricing page names as the official solution for publishing and responding. Among the tools compared here, Sprout Social and Hootsuite are the real publishing suites, 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 Note that Sprout sells listening as a separate add-on with an unpublished price.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.

Did Agorapulse buy Mention?

Yes. Agorapulse took over Mention in 2025, through a court-supervised recovery procedure in France, and the product is now branded Mention by Agorapulse. Its pricing page says the Publish and Respond features are being progressively deprecated in favour of Agorapulse. Checked on 25 September 2026.

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 The ones that do not publish are Mention, Brandwatch, Talkwalker and Meltwater.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, owned by Agorapulse since 2025, is refocusing on listening as its publishing features are retired, 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.

8 best Mention alternatives in 2026

Mention changed hands. Agorapulse took it over in 2025, out of a court-supervised recovery in France, and the pricing page now reads Mention by Agorapulse. The same page says the Publish and Respond features are being progressively retired, with Agorapulse named as the official solution for publishing and responding. What stays in Mention is the listening.

Three things push people to look now. The publishing half they may have chosen it for is leaving. The price is no longer on the 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 2026-09-25

Quick comparison

Mention alternatives compared on 2026-09-25
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 already publishing from Agorapulse that want listening from the same vendor	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	Alerts in, one way	Alerts in, one way	Free forever; Silver $9.99/month, Gold $49.99/month

Prices change without notice. Every row names the vendor page and the date it was read: check before you decide.

What Mention does well

It is now the listening side of Agorapulse, and the vendor says the two are being integrated more closely. If your team already publishes from Agorapulse, getting listening from the same company is a pairing nobody else on this list can offer.

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.

Publishing and responding are being retired from Mention itself. Its pricing page FAQ says both features are progressively deprecated and points to Agorapulse, so the one-account setup people picked Mention for now means two products.

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 a server 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 your Discord server, decides what is actually about you, and brings it into Slack or Discord with a drafted reply. $49 a month, and a 30-day free trial with 2,500 credits and no card. She does not schedule posts, and neither will Mention for much longer, so if publishing matters you are choosing a second tool either way.

Runs in:: Slack, Discord and Teams
Entry price:: $49/month for 10,000 credits
Free tier:: 30-day trial with 2,500 credits, no card
Best for:: Teams who work in chat and want to act on a mention without leaving it

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

2. Mention(owned by Agorapulse since 2025; retiring its Publish and Respond features; no price on its pricing page)

Kept second for its source breadth and its claimed review-site coverage, and it is the natural pick if your team already lives in Agorapulse. The reasons to leave are the workflow, the unpublished price, and the publishing features being moved out.

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 already publishing from Agorapulse that want listening from the same vendor
Better than Eko at:: Review-site breadth on paper: Mention claims 75+ review sites. And it now sits inside Agorapulse, so a team that publishes there gets listening from the same vendor.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-25

3. Brand24

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.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

4. Awario

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.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

5. Mentionlytics

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.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

6. Determ

€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.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

7. Sprout Social

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.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

8. F5Bot

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
Entry price:: Free forever; Silver $9.99/month, Gold $49.99/month
Free tier:: Free tier is permanent, no card
Best for:: Watching a few keywords on Reddit and Hacker News at no cost
Better than Eko at:: It is free, and for plain Reddit and Hacker News keyword alerts that is genuinely hard to beat. Start here before paying anyone, including us.

Vendor site · read 2026-09-21

Free and under-$50 Mention alternatives

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 · 30-day trial with 2,500 credits, no card
Awario — €29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly) · 7-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Syften — $29.95/month (Slack from the $49.95 Standard plan) · 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.
Talkwalker Alerts — Free · Free
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 web and social media monitoring tool, owned by Agorapulse since 2025, that is moving its publishing and reply features over to Agorapulse.
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 a server 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?: Mention's own answer is now Agorapulse, its new owner, which the Mention pricing page names as the official solution for publishing and responding. Among the tools compared here, Sprout Social and Hootsuite are the real publishing suites, 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.
Did Agorapulse buy Mention?: Yes. Agorapulse took over Mention in 2025, through a court-supervised recovery procedure in France, and the product is now branded Mention by Agorapulse. Its pricing page says the Publish and Respond features are being progressively deprecated in favour of Agorapulse. Checked on 25 September 2026.
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, owned by Agorapulse since 2025, is refocusing on listening as its publishing features are retired, 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.

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