Mentionova vs AirOps (2026)

Mentionova is built specifically to track brand citations across six AI engines, including Reddit, and to translate those gaps into ranked content plays through AI visibility tracking. AirOps started as a no-code content workflow system and later added an Insights layer for AI search monitoring. Which one you choose depends on whether your team needs a dedicated AI visibility measurement system or a content production workflow with monitoring on the side.

The Mentionova vs AirOps comparison covers both platforms factually so readers can make that call with confidence.

Key takeaways

• Mentionova runs prompts on configurable schedules across all 6 engines, daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly, with manual runs available anytime for a fresh read.
• Mentionova tracks Reddit as a first-class citation engine, one of the few AI visibility tools that does so alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
• Mentionova tracks seven distinct metrics per engine, mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, and AI visibility score, from $99/month on the Starter plan.
• Mentionova offers a structured agency plan ladder (Launch, Growth, Agency Enterprise) with tiered agency workspaces of 3, 10, and 50+, purpose-built for multi-client reporting.
• Mentionova's drift detection emits 5 typed event types, mention lost, mention gained, position improved, position declined, sentiment shift, with before-and-after diffs so teams see exactly what changed overnight.
• Mentionova delivers a free plan to start, plus a 14-day trial on every self-serve paid tier with transparent, publicly listed prices.

Quick overview

Mentionova

Mentionova is an AI visibility tracking platform trusted by 70+ brands and agencies. It runs buyers' real buying questions through six AI engines on a schedule, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Reddit, logging every mention, citation, position, and sentiment per run.

The platform follows a Track → Analyze → Optimize workflow: every scheduled run feeds a diagnostic that identifies visibility leaks by engine, by prompt, and by source, and every gap surfaces as a ranked content play with a pre-written brief attached.

Setup requires no pixel, tag, or code installation. After entering a domain and category context, the first signal lands in approximately 2 minutes. The Starter plan covers 3 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) and the Scale and Enterprise plans cover all 6. All plans include a 14-day free trial, with paid plans starting at $99/month on annual billing.

Beyond core tracking, Mentionova includes alerts and drift detection, a Reddit engagement workflow, AI content optimization that scores gaps 0 to 1 nightly and generates ready-to-ship briefs. It also includes a content workflow grid (Enterprise), a built-in Ask Agent for plain-language visibility queries, white-label agency reporting, and an AI Visibility Marketplace where brands and agencies match on verified citation metrics. Each workspace recovers buyer prompts currently answered by rivals, not just trend lines.

AirOps

AirOps is a no-code content workflow platform that added AI search monitoring (Answer Engine Optimization). Per its documentation, it "powers your content strategy, creation, and performance, helping your brand get seen, cited, and celebrated across AI and traditional search." It positions itself around a "Winning Loop" where an AI agent called Quill executes content refresh, new content creation, and offsite placement while the team reviews at key decision points. AirOps tracks AI search visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google per its coverage documentation, and it introduced an Insights analytics layer in late 2025 on top of its existing content production system. Its integrations cover CMSs including WordPress, Webflow, Contentful, and Sanity, along with project management tools, data warehouses, and SEO data providers.

Feature-by-feature comparison

The table below uses data from the adjudicated comparison matrix. "Not published" means the vendor has not publicly disclosed a figure.

Pricing comparison

Mentionova pricing

Mentionova publishes all prices on its pricing page. For brands:

• Starter, $99/month (annual) or $125/month (monthly). 25 prompts, 1 workspace, 3 seats, 3 engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews).
• Scale, $320/month (annual) or $400/month (monthly). 100 prompts, 1 workspace, 3 seats, all 6 engines.
• Enterprise, $799/month (annual) or $999/month (monthly). 250 prompts, 3 workspaces, 3 seats, all 6 engines, plus Workflows/Grids, Apollo contacts, and priority support.
• Custom, contact sales. Unlimited prompts, SSO/SAML, SLA, dedicated CSM.

For agencies:

• Launch, $200/month (annual) or $250/month (monthly). 50 prompts, 3 workspaces, 3 seats, 3 engines.
• Growth, $799/month (annual) or $999/month (monthly). 200 prompts, 10 workspaces, 3 seats, all 6 engines.
• Agency Enterprise, custom. 600+ prompts, 50+ workspaces.

All self-serve plans include a 14-day free trial. Prompt quotas pool across workspaces.

AirOps pricing

AirOps' official pricing page lists an Insights tier starting at $0/month with task limits shown in the plan table, but does not publish dollar amounts for Solo or Pro. Third-party analyses report Solo at approximately $200/month with 20,000 tasks and Pro at approximately $2,000/month with 75,000 tasks and unlimited seats, though these figures should be confirmed with AirOps directly. Paid tiers require a sales conversation, and there is no public annual discount information.

A ColdIQ pricing analysis notes that costs jump from approximately $200/month to approximately $2,000/month with no mid-tier option, and that overage fees run at $0.025 per task on Solo above the included limit. This pricing structure means a team needing multi-engine AI insights or collaboration must move directly to Pro.

Mentionova's pricing is fully transparent and self-serve from Starter through Enterprise, with annual billing options available at every brand and agency tier.

Mentionova advantages

Refresh cadence and monitoring depth

Mentionova re-runs every prompt across all six engines on a weekly schedule by default, with daily, biweekly, and monthly options and manual runs available whenever a fresh read is needed. Every run is stored for history and diffed against the previous one, so a citation drop surfaces in the next morning brief rather than going unnoticed. AirOps has not published its prompt refresh frequency.

Reddit as a first-class citation engine

Mentionova is one of the few AI visibility tools that treats Reddit as a monitored engine alongside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Reddit engagement by AI engines is meaningful, and Mentionova's product page notes Reddit is cited in roughly 40% of AI answers. The platform's Reddit module goes further: it discovers relevant threads, queues them for review, AI-drafts a reply in brand voice, and requires human approval before posting. Nothing goes live automatically.

This creates a closed loop where monitoring data feeds an engagement workflow that feeds citation outcomes, all within one platform.

Typed drift detection with before-and-after diffs

Mentionova diffs every prompt run against the previous one and emits 5 typed events: mention lost, mention gained, position improved, position declined, and sentiment shift. Each event links to the exact before-and-after diff. Teams see the specific phrase that was removed and the competitor page that replaced it. This is not a raw numeric alert; it is a structured description of what changed, enabling the team to act on the precise content gap rather than investigate from scratch.

Agency infrastructure at every scale

Mentionova's agency plan ladder is the only documented structured agency program in the comparison matrix. Launch (3 workspaces), Growth (10 workspaces), and Agency Enterprise (50+ workspaces) each provide per-workspace isolation of prompts, citations, and history. Role-based access provides three roles, admin, strategist, viewer, with per-member controls. White-label reports carry five branding elements and use tokenized links with configurable expiry and view tracking. Agencies can share client-facing reports without exposing backend data or Mentionova branding.

Transparent, self-serve pricing

All Mentionova plan prices are published publicly. Every tier from Starter through Agency Growth is available without a sales call. This matters for teams and agencies working with budget approval processes or comparing total cost of ownership across tools. Third-party analyses report AirOps Pro at approximately $2,000/month; AirOps has not published this figure on its official pricing page. The jump from Insights ($0) to full multi-engine visibility with team collaboration carries no mid-tier option.

Metric breadth at entry price

Mentionova documents seven distinct tracked metrics, mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, and AI visibility score, available from the Starter tier. Mention rate and share of voice are the figures that tell a team whether their brand is winning or losing citation share on any given buying question. Citation velocity flags week-over-week shifts before they become structural losses. AirOps documents three comparable metrics at its entry tier per its official documentation.

Who should choose Mentionova

Brand and product marketing teams that need to know, prompt by prompt, whether their brand appears in AI-generated answers for buying questions in their category. The Track → Analyze → Optimize workflow turns monitoring into a repeatable optimization cycle rather than a passive dashboard.

Agencies managing multiple clients who need isolated workspaces, white-label reports, and role-based access without paying for a custom enterprise contract. The Launch, Growth, and Agency Enterprise plans cover agencies from 3-client portfolios to 50+ client operations, all with published prices and self-serve onboarding.

Teams monitoring fast-moving categories where a citation drop has business impact. The daily schedule option and morning drift alerts mean teams see changes in the next brief before the workday starts, with manual runs available anytime a fresh read is needed.

Teams targeting Reddit as a citation source. Reddit's presence as a tracked engine, with an integrated engagement workflow, makes Mentionova the only documented platform in this comparison where Reddit monitoring and community engagement exist in one product.

B2B SaaS, fintech, and content-led brands that track visibility across multiple AI engines and want those signals to inform a content production calendar rather than sit in a separate analytics tool. The content workflow grid at Enterprise tier connects citation gap data directly to brief generation and LLM drafting, with brand voice injected at every column.

Final verdict

The decision between Mentionova and AirOps comes down to what the team needs first.

AirOps is a no-code content production platform focused on content production and SEO workflow automation. Its paid pricing is not published on AirOps' own pricing page.

Mentionova is designed from the ground up to answer one question: where does your brand appear, or not appear, when buyers ask questions in AI engines, and what should the team do about it? It tracks citations across six tracked engines including Reddit, re-runs prompts on a configurable schedule, surfaces typed drift events with before-and-after answer diffs, and connects every visibility gap to a scored, ready-to-ship content brief. Agency teams get isolated workspaces, white-label reports, and published prices from day one. All of that starts from $99/month on annual billing, with a free plan available to start.

For brands and agencies that need a dedicated AI visibility tracking system, not an add-on to a content pipeline, Mentionova is built specifically for that use case.