Three different products show up when people search for a Mention alternative, so first check you're looking at the right one. Mention (mention.com) is a social listening and media monitoring app. Critical Mention is a separate company that does broadcast and news monitoring for PR teams. Social Mention was a free real-time search site and is no longer online. This page covers all three, then lists the alternatives we priced on 13 Nov 2026 for teams that mostly care about Reddit.
Disclosure: we sell a Reddit monitoring app and run a Reddit marketing agency. Both are labelled as ours.
Mention pricing
Mention's pricing page (read 13 Nov 2026) lists one Company plan, described as a complete media monitoring solution "tailored to your organization's specific monitoring needs and scale". It says "Starting at" a monthly figure, but the figure was blank when we loaded the page, and the main button is "Get a demo". The yearly toggle says you get 2 months free and save $360. So the answer to "how much is Mention" is to ask for a quote.
What the Company plan includes, from the same page:
| Included | Paid add-on |
|---|---|
| Real-time tracking across Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube and more | Historical data access |
| News, blogs and forums | API access |
| 75+ review sites, including Google, Trustpilot and Glassdoor | |
| Boolean search, sentiment analysis, share of voice, competitor benchmarking | |
| Team roles, white-label reports, Slack and Zapier | |
| A dedicated account manager |
If you used Mention for replies, one change matters. Its FAQ says it is "progressively" deprecating the Publish and Respond features and sending customers to Agorapulse for publishing. Mention is now a tool for listening, not for answering people.
Critical mention pricing and the old Social Mention
Critical Mention doesn't publish prices either. Its pricing page says "we will create a package to meet those needs" and lists broadcast monitoring, online news, social listening and podcast monitoring. It's built for PR and communications firms tracking earned media on TV, radio and in the news, and the page doesn't mention Reddit. If you came here for Critical Mention pricing, contact their sales team. It doesn't really compete with Reddit tools.
Social Mention (socialmention.com) used to be a free search engine for social mentions. On 13 Nov 2026 the domain didn't load at all. A Social Mention review is history now, and when people say Social Mention competitors today they mean the free and low-cost alert tools in the table below. F5Bot is the closest in spirit: free, simple, and email-based.
Mention alternatives at a glance
| Option | What it is | Suits | Price, as of 13 Nov 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mention | Social, web and review monitoring | Brands and agencies tracking mentions across many channels | Company plan on a demo, figure not shown |
| Critical Mention | Broadcast, news, podcast and social monitoring | PR firms measuring earned media | Custom packages |
| Brand24 | Mention tracking with sentiment and reports | Marketing teams that want published prices | $199 to $599 a month billed yearly, 14-day trial |
| Awario | Social listening with Boolean search | Budget-conscious teams | $29 to $249 a month billed yearly ($49 to $399 monthly) |
| Syften | Keyword alerts across Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, forums and more | Community monitoring | $29.95, $49.95 or $119.95 a month |
| F5Bot | Keyword alerts for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters | A free replacement for Social Mention | Free, $12.99 or $49.99 a month |
| Ours: Reddit monitoring app | Ranks Reddit threads by fit, drafts replies you post yourself | Founders and small teams answering Reddit threads | See pricing |
Why people look for a mention alternative
No price on the page. If you're comparing tools on a Friday afternoon, you can't put "book a demo" in a spreadsheet. Brand24 and Awario publish their prices.
One plan for everyone. The Company plan bundles review sites, white-label reporting and an account manager. A two-person team that only needs Reddit pays for all of it.
The reply tools are going away. Once Publish and Respond are retired, you'll need a second product to act on what you find.
Reddit is one row in a long list. Mention names Reddit as a source, but its pricing page doesn't say how it covers comments or which subreddits it watches. Test your own keywords during the trial.
Where mention is strong
A fair Mention review gives it credit for breadth. Social platforms, news, blogs, forums and more than 75 review sites in one feed covers a lot, and most Reddit tools don't monitor reviews at all. Boolean alerts of up to 2,000 characters, share of voice and competitor benchmarking suit an agency or comms team that reports to clients. There's also an API for custom work, as a paid add-on.
Who should stay and who should switch
Stay on Mention if you report on reviews, news and social in one place, if clients expect white-label reports, or if an account manager is worth the price to you.
Switch if your useful mentions mostly come from Reddit, if you need published prices to get a budget approved, or if you relied on Respond to answer people. For the full list of Reddit tools with prices, read the best Reddit monitoring tools. If you're weighing the mid-priced suites against each other, the Brand24 alternative and Awario alternative pages cover them.
Where our product fits
Our Reddit monitoring app only watches Reddit. It finds new threads for your keywords and subreddits and scores each one on fit. Brand mentions get a tone label and a weekly share of voice against competitors. The app drafts replies in your voice, and you edit and post them from your own account. It never posts, votes or sends DMs for you, so unlike Mention's old Respond feature, you do the posting.
Mention covers reviews and news, and we don't. On Reddit, our app goes further. To track a brand name on Reddit, see Reddit brand monitoring.