--- title: "F5Bot Alternative With AI Filtering and an API | Mentio" description: "F5Bot watches Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. Mentio adds X, LinkedIn, GitHub and more, scores every mention against your company, and has an API." canonical: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/f5bot/ markdown: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/f5bot/index.md last-updated: 2026-10-23T06:35:37.198Z --- # F5Bot Alternative With AI Filtering and an API | Mentio > F5Bot watches Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. Mentio adds X, LinkedIn, GitHub and more, scores every mention against your company, and has an API. Source: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/f5bot/ ![F5Bot logo](/logos/alternatives/f5bot.svg)vs [Alternatives](/alternatives/) / F5Bot # The F5Bot alternative for more than Reddit and Hacker News F5Bot is free for unlimited Reddit and Hacker News alerts, with paid plans from $9.99 a month. Mentio is $5 a keyword a month plus $0.008 a mention, across 16 platforms, with every post scored for relevance. [Start tracking free ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup)[Compare in detail](#compare) $5.80 of free credit to start. No card. Reddit· New mention of mentio Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing. u/kubeops\_sam · r/devops mentioRelevance 91Praise \# brand-alerts Mentio APP now New Reddit post names Mentio Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing. u/kubeops\_sam · r/devops · praise 3 of 52 results kept Results for mentio 52 read - Mentio vs rolling our own on the Reddit API: I ran both for a month, here are the numbersu/devon\_builds · 231 upvotes85 - Playa Mentio at low tide, no filteru/wander\_ines · 2.3K upvotesdropped - Anyone using Mentio in production? Need Reddit monitoring with webhooks before our launch next weeku/priya\_ships · 86 upvotes88 - $MENTIO just listed, next 100x?? DYOR but I’m all in 🚀u/moonboi\_gems · 7 upvotesdropped - Homework help: is it mentio, mentionis or mentionis, mentio? My textbook disagrees with itselfu/quintus\_learns · 38 upvotesdropped - Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing.u/kubeops\_sam · 412 upvotes91 mentio 1. New post: Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing. 2. Relevance 91 against your context 3. Praise · positive 4. Post to #brand-alerts 3 of 52 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 Reddit post names Mentio Reddit Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing. u/kubeops\_sam · r/devops · 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 Reddit? mentio · search\_mentions “Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing.” by u/kubeops\_sam, r/devops. Relevance 91, praise. A happy user recommending you in a busy thread. Upvote it and say thanks. Reply to Claude… Mentio bot Today /start 9:30 ✓✓ You're connected. New Reddit mentions land here. 9:30 New Reddit post names Mentio Switched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing. u/kubeops\_sam · r/devops · praise9:41 OpenMute author Message Webhook your-app.dev/hooks/mentio POSTSwitched our Reddit alerts from a keyword bot to Mentio. The relevance score cut the Slack noise to almost nothing.200 {"event": "reddit.mention", "relevance": 91, "intents": \["praise"\]} Alert your teamAsk your agentPing your phoneTrigger your code ## F5Bot and Mentio, side by side F5Bot is the classic way to get an email when your keyword shows up on Reddit or Hacker News. When you need the same alert from X, LinkedIn, TikTok or GitHub too, scored for relevance, Mentio is built for that. F5Bot Mentio Price F5Bot: Free with unlimited keyword alerts; Silver $9.99 a month (20 keywords); Gold $49.99 a month (200 keywords). Mentio: $5 per keyword a month plus $0.008 per mention found, from a prepaid balance. No plans, no seats, no annual contract. Sources F5Bot: Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. 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 F5Bot: Email, Slack and Discord webhooks, RSS and JSON feeds; instant, batched or a daily digest. Mentio: Slack, Telegram, email (instant or a daily digest) and signed webhooks. API and agents F5Bot: RSS, JSON feeds and an API. Mentio: REST API with an OpenAPI spec, MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI. How often F5Bot: Every few minutes. Mentio: Reddit every 30 minutes, Hacker News every hour, Bluesky in seconds, X every hour; each platform page lists its cadence. Relevance F5Bot: Keyword matching with filter flags; AI filtering described in plain language. Mentio: Every mention scored 0 to 100 against a description of your company, with sentiment and intent (question, complaint, buying intent, bug report). Show all 6 rows ↓ Checked on 28 September 2026 against [F5Bot's own site](https://f5bot.com/). 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/f5bot.svg)Pick F5Bot if - You only need Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. - You want it free, or alerts within minutes. Pick Mentio if - You need X, LinkedIn, TikTok, GitHub or YouTube next to Reddit and Hacker News. - You want each post scored against what you sell, so noise stays out of Slack. - You want mentions in Telegram or in your AI agent over MCP. - You want to start with one keyword and pay as you go. ## Moving from F5Bot 1. 1 Sign up and describe your company in a sentence. 2. 2 Add the keywords you have in F5Bot. Keep the platforms at "all" or narrow each keyword to the ones you care about. 3. 3 Connect Slack, Telegram or email. Use a daily digest if you prefer F5Bot’s one-email-a-day rhythm. 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/syften.svg)Syften vs Mentio](/alternatives/syften/)[![](/logos/alternatives/octolens.svg)Octolens vs Mentio](/alternatives/octolens/)[![](/logos/alternatives/brand24.svg)Brand24 vs Mentio](/alternatives/brand24/)[GAGoogle Alerts vs Mentio](/alternatives/google-alerts/)[SMSocial Mention vs Mentio](/alternatives/social-mention/)[![](/logos/alternatives/awario.png)Awario vs Mentio](/alternatives/awario/) ## F5Bot alternative questions What is a good F5Bot alternative? If F5Bot works for you on Reddit and Hacker News, keep it. If you need the same alerts from X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram or GitHub, or want each mention scored for relevance and intent, Mentio covers 16 sources with one keyword and sends the ones that matter to Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook. Is F5Bot free? F5Bot has a free plan with unlimited keyword alerts and paid plans at $9.99 and $49.99 a month, according to its site. Mentio has no free plan: you pay per keyword and per mention, and start with free credit. Does Mentio track Lobsters? No. Mentio covers Reddit and Hacker News but not Lobsters. How much does Mentio cost? $5 per keyword a month and $0.008 per mention found, from a prepaid balance, with $5.80 of free credit to start. ## Start monitoring brand mentions One request tracks your first keyword. The first scored mention lands within minutes, in Slack, a webhook, or your agent. [Get your API key ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup)[Read the docs ›](https://docs.mentio.dev) $5.80 free credit · no card · no subscription