--- title: "Google Alerts Alternative for Social Media | Mentio" description: "Google Alerts emails new pages Google finds. Mentio searches X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok and 12 more, scores each mention, posts it to Slack. $5.80 free." canonical: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/google-alerts/ markdown: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/google-alerts/index.md last-updated: 2026-10-23T06:35:37.198Z --- # Google Alerts Alternative for Social Media | Mentio > Google Alerts emails new pages Google finds. Mentio searches X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok and 12 more, scores each mention, posts it to Slack. $5.80 free. Source: https://mentio.dev/alternatives/google-alerts/ GAvs [Alternatives](/alternatives/) / Google Alerts # The Google Alerts alternative for social media mentions Google Alerts is free and emails you what Google Search finds. Mentio is $5 a keyword a month plus $0.008 a mention, and reads posts on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, TikTok and more. [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 ## Google Alerts and Mentio, side by side Google Alerts emails you when new pages matching your words show up in Google Search. When the conversations about your product happen on X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok or Hacker News, and you want them scored and in Slack, Mentio is built for that. Google Alerts Mentio Price Google Alerts: Free with a Google account. Mentio: $5 per keyword a month plus $0.008 per mention found, from a prepaid balance. No plans, no seats, no annual contract. Sources Google Alerts: Results that show up in Google Search, filtered by type: news, blogs, web, video, books, discussions or finance. 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 Google Alerts: Email. Mentio: Slack, Telegram, email (instant or a daily digest) and signed webhooks. API and agents Google Alerts: No API documented. Mentio: REST API with an OpenAPI spec, MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents, TypeScript and Python SDKs, a CLI. How often Google Alerts: As it happens, at most once a day, or at most once a week. Mentio: Reddit every 30 minutes, X and Hacker News every hour, Bluesky in seconds, news every 15 minutes; each platform page lists its cadence. Relevance Google Alerts: A choice between "only the best results" and "all results"; no sentiment or intent. 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 30 September 2026 against [Google Alerts's own site](https://www.google.com/alerts). 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 GAPick Google Alerts if - You want it free. - You need blogs and pages across the open web. - You want an alert limited to one language or region. Pick Mentio if - You need posts from Reddit, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and Hacker News. - You want alerts in Slack, Telegram or a webhook, not only email. - You want each post scored against what you sell. - You want mentions in your code or agent through an API. ## What it costs An example month: 5 keywords and 1,000 matched posts a month. Google Alerts Free (pages from Google Search, by email) Mentio $33.00 a month Many teams keep Google Alerts for the open web and add Mentio for social platforms and developer communities. Mentio charges per keyword and per post it finds, and every new account starts with free credit. ## Moving from Google Alerts 1. 1 Sign up and describe your company in a sentence, so relevance is scored against it. 2. 2 Add the words you track in Google Alerts as keywords, with excluded words as keyword rules. 3. 3 Connect Slack, Telegram or email, instant or as a daily digest like Google Alerts. 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/)[![](/logos/alternatives/brand24.svg)Brand24 vs Mentio](/alternatives/brand24/)[SMSocial Mention vs Mentio](/alternatives/social-mention/)[![](/logos/alternatives/awario.png)Awario vs Mentio](/alternatives/awario/) ## Google Alerts alternative questions What is the best Google Alerts alternative? It depends on where your mentions happen. For press and pages across the open web, Google Alerts is free and hard to beat. For posts on X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News or GitHub, scored for relevance and sent to Slack or an agent, Mentio covers 16 sources with one keyword. Is Google Alerts free? Yes, Google Alerts is free with a Google account. Mentio is paid per keyword and per mention, and every account starts with free credit and no card. Does Google Alerts monitor social media? Google Alerts works from Google Search results, so it only sees posts that Google has indexed. Mentio searches the platforms themselves: X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Hacker News, GitHub, YouTube and more. 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