--- title: "Brand24 Alternative: Pay Per Keyword, API Included | Mentio" description: "Brand24 starts at $249 a month for 3 keywords. Mentio charges $5 a keyword plus $0.008 a mention, with the API and MCP on every account. $5.80 of free credit." canonical: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/brand24/ markdown: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/brand24/index.md last-updated: 2026-10-23T06:35:37.198Z --- # Brand24 Alternative: Pay Per Keyword, API Included | Mentio > Brand24 starts at $249 a month for 3 keywords. Mentio charges $5 a keyword plus $0.008 a mention, with the API and MCP on every account. $5.80 of free credit. Source: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/brand24/ ![Brand24 logo](/logos/alternatives/brand24.svg)vs [Alternatives](/alternatives/) / Brand24 # The Brand24 alternative with an API on every account Brand24 starts at $249 a month for 3 keywords, or $199 billed annually, and its API is an add-on. Mentio is $5 a keyword a month plus $0.008 a mention, with the API included. [Start tracking free ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup)[Compare in detail](#compare) $5.80 of free credit to start. No card. XRedditTikTokHacker NewsGitHubInstagram· New mention of mentio Replaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works. @lenabuilds · 12.4K followers mentioRelevance 92Praise \# brand-alerts Mentio APP now New mention of Mentio Replaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works. @lenabuilds · 12.4K followers · praise 5 of 412 results kept Results for mentio 412 read - We tried three brand monitors last year. Mentio is the one that stuck, and the relevance score is why.kvasir\_dev · on a 318-point thread91 - Dinner at Mentio, the new gelato bar in Trastevere 🍨 #roma@lena.cooks · 3,410 likesdropped - Mentio webhook retries deliver the same mention twice after a 502rachel-k · 14 comments91 - Mentio, mentionis: how a Latin noun became an English verb (2019)etym\_nerd · 12 pointsdropped - The tool I use to answer every comment on my reels: Mentio, set up in 10 min #creatortools@mayabuilds · 128K views91 - POV: el que mentió en la entrevista 😭 #mentio@risas.diarias · 1.4M viewsdropped mentio 1. New mention: Replaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works. 2. Relevance 92 against your context 3. Praise · positive 4. Post to #brand-alerts 5 of 412 results kept Search Mentio HQ![](/hero/avatars/sam.svg) \# brand-alerts ![](/hero/avatars/maya.svg)![](/hero/avatars/jordan.svg)![](/hero/avatars/sam.svg)4 Today ![](/hero/avatars/maya.svg) Maya 9:32 AM Anyone reviewing us this week? 👀 2 ![](/hero/avatars/jordan.svg) Jordan 9:35 AM Mentio posts them here as they come in 👇 Mentio APP 9:41 AM New mention of Mentio XRedditTikTokHacker NewsGitHubInstagram Replaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works. @lenabuilds · 12.4K followers · praise 🔥 3👀 1![](/hero/avatars/maya.svg)![](/hero/avatars/jordan.svg)2 replies Message #brand-alerts +B _I_ U Claude · Mentio connected over MCP Who is talking us up on X? mentio · search\_mentions “Replaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works.” by @lenabuilds, 12.4K followers. Relevance 92, praise. A builder recommending you to 12K followers. Quote it and say thanks. Reply to Claude… Mentio bot Today /start 9:30 ✓✓ You're connected. New mentions land here. 9:30 New mention of Mentio Replaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works. @lenabuilds · 12.4K followers · praise9:41 OpenMute author Message Webhook your-app.dev/hooks/mentio POSTReplaced three social listening tools with Mentio this week. One webhook, every platform, and the relevance score actually works.200 {"event": "x.mention", "relevance": 92, "intents": \["praise"\]} Alert your teamAsk your agentPing your phoneTrigger your code ## Brand24 and Mentio, side by side Brand24 is a full media monitoring suite with dashboards, reports and influencer scores, sold as monthly plans. If you are a developer or a startup that wants the mentions through an API, paid for as you go, Mentio is built for that. Brand24 Mentio Price Brand24: Individual $249 a month, or $199 billed annually (3 keywords, 2,000 mentions, 1 user); Team $349 ($299) with 7 keywords; Pro $499 ($399) with 12; Business $699 ($599) with 25; Enterprise from $1,499 a month billed annually. 14-day free trial, no card. Mentio: $5 per keyword a month plus $0.008 per mention found, from a prepaid balance. No plans, no seats, no annual contract. Sources Brand24: Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit, news, blogs and other socials on every plan; LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Medium and Quora from Team; reviews, Twitch and newsletters from Pro; podcasts from Business. Mentio: 16 sources: X, Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Bluesky, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Stack Overflow, DEV, YouTube, news, and App Store, Google Play, Trustpilot and Google reviews. Alerts Brand24: Custom email notifications, mobile push, Storm Alerts on sudden spikes, Slack and Microsoft Teams, on every plan. Mentio: Slack, Telegram, email (instant or a daily digest) and signed webhooks. API and agents Brand24: MCP from Pro; the API is a paid add-on on Pro and Business and included on Enterprise. Mentio: REST API with an OpenAPI spec, MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI. AI Brand24: Sentiment on every plan; topic analysis, AI insights, event detection and an AI brand assistant from Pro. Mentio: Every mention scored 0 to 100 against a description of your company, with sentiment and intent (question, complaint, buying intent, bug report). How often Brand24: Every 12 hours on Individual, every hour on Team, real time from Pro. Mentio: Reddit every 30 minutes, X and Hacker News every hour, Bluesky in seconds; each platform page lists its cadence. Show all 6 rows ↓ Checked on 30 September 2026 against [Brand24's own site](https://brand24.com/prices/). Something changed? [Tell us](/contact/) and we will fix it. [Start tracking free ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup) $5.80 of free credit to start. No card. ### Which one fits ![](/logos/alternatives/brand24.svg)Pick Brand24 if - You need Facebook, Medium, Quora, Twitch, newsletters or podcasts. - You need mentions in real time, from its Pro plan. - You need PR reporting: influencer scores, reach, white-labelled PDF and PowerPoint reports. - You want a mobile app or Microsoft Teams alerts. Pick Mentio if - You want mentions in your code, your agent or Slack, not in a report. - You want the API and MCP from your first keyword: Brand24 sells its API as an add-on and has MCP from Pro. - You track where developers talk: Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV, Bluesky. - You want each mention scored against what you sell, so alerts carry only what needs an answer. - You want to start with one keyword and pay as you go. ## Your month, both ways Move the sliders to your volume. Brand24 is priced at the cheapest plan that covers it; Mentio at $5 a keyword and $0.008 a mention. Keywords 3 Mentions a month 500 MonthlyAnnual Small 3 keywords, 500 mentionsGrowing 10 keywords, 3,000 mentionsBusy 30 keywords, 15,000 mentions ![](/logos/alternatives/brand24.svg)Brand24 Individual $249a month Billed monthly. Mentio no plan $19a month 3 × $5 + 500 × $0.008 Mentio costs $230 a month less at this volume. Brand24's plans as listed on [its pricing page](https://brand24.com/prices/) on 30 September 2026. Brand24 does not bill past a quota: more keywords or mentions means the next plan. Mentio bills every matched mention, relevant or not, from a prepaid balance. ## Moving from Brand24 1. 1 Sign up and describe your company in a sentence, so relevance is scored against it. 2. 2 Add your Brand24 keywords, with required and excluded words as keyword rules. 3. 3 Connect Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook, or create an API key and read mentions from your own code. 4. 4 Each keyword starts with up to 10 posts per platform from the last 30 days, where the platform allows it. [Start tracking free ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup) Moving a bigger account? [Talk to us](/contact/). ## Other comparisons [![](/logos/alternatives/gummysearch.png)GummySearch vs Mentio](/alternatives/gummysearch/)[![](/logos/alternatives/f5bot.svg)F5Bot vs Mentio](/alternatives/f5bot/)[![](/logos/alternatives/syften.svg)Syften vs Mentio](/alternatives/syften/)[![](/logos/alternatives/octolens.svg)Octolens vs Mentio](/alternatives/octolens/)[GAGoogle Alerts vs Mentio](/alternatives/google-alerts/)[SMSocial Mention vs Mentio](/alternatives/social-mention/)[![](/logos/alternatives/awario.png)Awario vs Mentio](/alternatives/awario/) ## Brand24 alternative questions What is the best Brand24 alternative for developers? If you want mentions in your own code or agent rather than in a reporting dashboard, Mentio puts a REST API, an MCP server and SDKs on every account and charges per keyword and per mention. If you need PR reports, influencer scores, podcasts or Facebook, Brand24 covers them and Mentio does not. How much does Brand24 cost? According to its pricing page, Brand24 Individual is $249 a month ($199 billed annually) for 3 keywords, Team $349 ($299), Pro $499 ($399) and Business $699 ($599), with Enterprise from $1,499 a month billed annually. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no card. Does Brand24 have an API? Yes. Its pricing page lists MCP access from the Pro plan and the API as a paid add-on on Pro and Business, included on Enterprise. On Mentio the API and MCP server come with every account. Is Mentio cheaper than Brand24? For a few keywords, yes: three keywords that find 500 posts a month cost $19.00 on Mentio against $249 on Brand24 Individual. Brand24 also includes dashboards, reports and sources that Mentio does not. ## Start monitoring brand mentions One request tracks your first keyword. The first scored mention lands within minutes, in Slack, a webhook, or your agent. 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