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# About Mentio | Mentio

> What Mentio is, how it works and who builds it: social listening for developer platforms, API and MCP first.

Source: https://mentio.dev/about/

Company

# About Mentio

Mentio is a social listening service for the places developers talk. It watches ten platforms, Bluesky, Hacker News, Reddit, X, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV, YouTube, LinkedIn and news, for the keywords a company cares about: its own product, its competitors, the problems it solves. Every public post that contains one is scored for relevance, sentiment and intent, and the ones that matter reach you in Slack, by email, over a webhook or through Telegram while the conversation is still live.

## What makes it different

-   **The API is the product.** Everything the dashboard does, it does through the same REST API every account gets, described by an OpenAPI document and wrapped in a TypeScript SDK, a Python SDK, a CLI and a hosted MCP server. An AI agent can search, triage and act on mentions under the same rules as a person.
-   **Developer platforms, in depth.** Fewer sources than the big suites and better coverage of the ones where developers actually talk, with the real polling cadence published in the [FAQ](/#faq) rather than a marketing number.
-   **Prepaid, no plans.** A price per keyword per month and a price per matched mention, deducted daily from a balance you top up when you like. No seats, no tiers, no subscription. The rate card is on the [pricing page](/pricing/).
-   **Public data only.** Mentio reads public posts and public profiles, keeps nothing that was not public, and anyone can ask to be removed from the index, as the[privacy policy](/privacy) explains.

## Who builds it

Mentio is built and run by Pau Guirao, a developer based in Barcelona, Spain. Support, billing questions and product feedback all reach the person who writes the code; the[contact page](/contact/) has every way in.

## Where to look next

-   [Documentation](https://docs.mentio.dev), with a quickstart and the full API reference.
-   [MCP server](https://docs.mentio.dev/mcp), for Claude, Cursor and any MCP client.
-   [SDKs and CLI](https://docs.mentio.dev/sdks): `@mentio-dev/sdk` on npm,`mentio` on PyPI, `@mentio-dev/cli` in the terminal.
-   [Enterprise](/enterprise), for teams tracking hundreds of keywords.