figures verified 2026-09-10

discatch vs Mention

Media and social monitoring sold as one sales-led Company plan at about $599/mo, with 58 head-to-head blog pages, 14 alternatives pages, and a blog that has published nothing since April 2025.

Feature	discatchthe plan	Mentionas of 2026-09-10
Built for agents first(partial: an MCP server exists but the product is dashboard-first)	yes	no
MCP server	planned	no
REST API and webhooks	yes	paid add-on
Push that wakes an agent(calls your agent when a catch fires, instead of waiting to be polled)	yes	no
Waterfall coverage(several providers per source, cheapest first, merged)	yes	no
Pay per unit	yes	no
Query-time price quote	yes	no
Discourse forums	yes	no
Relevance judged by your model(raw candidates plus a prescore by default)	yes	no
Never posts for you	yes	yes
Open playbooks(copyable scripts that plug into the API, published under MIT)	yes	no
Entry price	free, then units	~$599/mo

What Mention is

Mid-market monitoring for marketing and PR teams, sold through a demo. Homepage says "analyzes mentions from over 1 billion sources in real-time." Title and H1 say "Mention.com" to disambiguate from the word. Founded in France, 252 author pages in the blog.

Pricing: One Company plan, "starting at" a price the page renders client-side; third-party trackers put it at about $599/mo on an annual contract.; Self-serve Solo, Pro, and ProPlus tiers were discontinued in July 2025.; API access and historical data are paid add-ons with no listed price.; Free trial exists; no trial length stated on the pricing page.
Sources: Facebook, Instagram, X, Reddit, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, news and blogs, forums, and 75+ review sites, per the pricing page. No pages for LinkedIn, Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Product Hunt, Discord, or Telegram. Source pages exist only for Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and the web.
Agent surface: A REST API behind a request-access form at dev.mention.com, marketed on a page last modified in 2020. No llms.txt, no MCP server, no OpenAPI spec, no pricing.md, no .well-known/mcp.json on 2026-09-10.
Push: None to an agent. Slack and Zapier integrations for humans only. No webhook, no command destination.

Where Mention wins today

An established product with 46 customer stories (Ogilvy, Edelman, McCann, Kajabi, Ecosia) and a large comparison library of 58 head-to-head pages.
Broad mainstream social coverage including 75+ review sites.
252 author pages and 618 blog posts, though the blog is dormant since April 2025.
A template for "A vs B" comparisons with an author, a collapsible TOC, per-dimension sections, and a verdict that is worth studying.

Where discatch differs

These are the plan. The roadmap says which phase each lands in.

Push that wakes an agent. A catch calls your webhook, a Claude Code or Codex command, a Doozy todo, or a GitHub dispatch. Nothing to poll.
A quote before every call. The quote is a ceiling with locked unit prices; the charge never exceeds it.
Units instead of seats. Search, capture, result, alert, classify. An agent can buy one search with no subscription.
Sources reached through a waterfall of providers, cheapest and most accurate first. You see sources, never providers.
Relevance is your model’s job by default. Every result carries a free prescore; the classify flag is opt-in and priced.
Self-serve pricing. Mention moved to one sales-led plan at about $599/mo; discatch has a free tier and per-unit pricing with no demo call required.
Active content. Mention published zero blog posts in 2026. discatch’s pages are dated 2026-09-10 with sources cited.

Mention pricing, dated

	Company
Price	~$599/mo annual (client-side rendered)
Self-serve tiers	discontinued July 2025
API	paid add-on, no listed price
Historical data	paid add-on, no listed price
Trial	free trial, no length stated

Price from third-party trackers on 2026-09-10. Mention does not show the number in server HTML.

Source by source

Mention claims over 1 billion sources. Its 5 source pages cover Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and the web. Each is about 800 words with no FAQ and no schema, last modified between 2021 and 2023. No pages for Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, or Stack Overflow.

discatch covers web, news, Hacker News, Discourse forums, Stack Exchange, and GitHub today. Mention’s mainstream social reach is broader in name, but its source pages are stale and thin.

For an agent

Mention has no agent surfaces. No llms.txt, no MCP server, no OpenAPI spec, no pricing.md, no .well-known/mcp.json. The API page at /media-monitoring-api/ was last modified in 2020 and says "Request Access."

discatch’s REST API and trial keys work today. The MCP server with OAuth is planned for phase 3. Push wakes an agent; Mention does not push to agents and has removed its own publishing features.

What Mention does not have

No llms.txt, no MCP server, no OpenAPI spec, no machine-readable pricing.
No self-serve pricing. One Company plan, sold through a demo.
No blog posts in 2026. The last post was 2025-04-24.
No pages for Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, or Pinterest despite listing them as sources.
Source pages are 800 words with no FAQ and no schema, last modified between 2021 and 2023.
The "Publish" and "Respond" features were removed and redirected to Agorapulse.
Trust claims ("1 billion sources", "750,000 companies") are unverifiable.

Mention’s comparison library is large: 58 "A vs B" pages and 14 "alternatives to X" pages, all published between March 22 and April 5, 2025. They use a template with an author, a collapsible TOC, a side-by-side table, per-dimension sections (pricing, features, support, testimonials), and a verdict. The structure is worth matching; the numbers on those pages are not.

Questions

How much does Mention cost?

Mention shows one Company plan and renders the price in the browser; third-party trackers put it at about $599/mo on an annual contract as of 2026-09-10. API access and history are add-ons with no listed price.

Does Mention have an MCP server or llms.txt?

No. On 2026-09-10 mention.com served neither. Its API page had not changed since 2020. The API requires a request-access form.

Is Mention still actively maintained?

The last blog post was published on 2025-04-24. Zero posts in 2026. The "Publish" and "Respond" features were removed and redirected to Agorapulse per the pricing FAQ.

Can I use Mention with an agent?

Only through the REST API at dev.mention.com, which requires request-access approval and has no published rate limits. There is no MCP server, no llms.txt, and no OpenAPI spec.

Does Mention cover Hacker News or Discourse?

No. Mention has zero blog posts mentioning Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, or Telegram. Its source pages cover Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and the web.

Why did Mention drop its self-serve tiers?

Mention discontinued Solo, Pro, and ProPlus self-serve tiers in July 2025 and moved to one sales-led Company plan. The pricing FAQ confirms the removal of "Publish" and "Respond" features.

Does Mention post for me?

Not anymore. The "Publish" and "Respond" features were removed. discatch never posts on your behalf; a reply-draft playbook runs in your agent and you post.

How do Mention’s 58 comparison pages hold up?

All 58 "A vs B" pages were published between March 22 and March 31, 2025, and stamped "2025 review." Prices are stale. discatch’s pages cite 2026-09-10 numbers.

Does Mention have free tools?

Mention has 26 free tool pages: Instagram caption generators, TikTok hashtag generators, LinkedIn post generators, a Reddit username generator, a share-of-voice calculator, and more. These are link magnets, not monitoring tools.

How does Mention’s API work?

Mention’s API at dev.mention.com supports Alerts (create, fetch, update, pause), Mentions (fetch, stream, curate), Accounts, Statistics, and per-network metadata. OAuth2 auth. No OpenAPI file found on 2026-09-10. The marketing page says "Request Access." Rate limits are documented but the page body did not load.

Try it yourself

The fairest comparison is a quote for your own query against what Mention costs you. A quote is free and needs no key.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/quote -d '{ "query": "\"your product\"", "sources": ["hackernews", "discourse", "web"], "since": "7d" }'

MCP · coming in phase 3

{
  "tool": "quote",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "\"your product\"",
    "sources": [
      "hackernews",
      "discourse",
      "web"
    ],
    "since": "7d"
  }
}

Last reviewed 2026-09-10 by Parsa Khazaeepoul, founder, dcouple. Mention facts read on 2026-09-10 from mention.com/en/pricing/, dev.mention.com. Research: docs/seo/competitor-map.md.