This comparison lays out those differences with verified data so you can decide which tool fits the visibility program you are building.
Mentionova tracks brand visibility across six AI engines, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Reddit, and logs seven distinct metrics per run: mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, and AI visibility score. It is trusted by 70+ brands and agencies and delivers a first signal in approximately 2 minutes with no pixel, tag, or code required.
Key takeaways
- Mentionova tracks seven distinct metrics per run (mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, and AI visibility score); no other tool in this comparison documents all seven in combination.
- Mentionova includes Reddit as a first-class tracked engine at the Scale tier and above; Otterly.ai tracks ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot in base plans, with Claude, Google AI Mode, and Gemini available as paid add-ons per Otterly's own documentation.
- Mentionova's Starter plan at $99/month includes 25 prompts across 3 engines; Otterly's Lite at $29/month includes only 15 prompts, fewer than most real monitoring programs require.
- Mentionova's agency plans scale from 3 workspaces (Launch) to 10 workspaces (Growth) to 50+ workspaces (Agency Enterprise), with pooled prompt quotas and three access roles.
- Mentionova's drift alerts emit five typed event types with before-and-after answer diffs; Otterly.ai produces exportable reports and Looker Studio exports per TryAnalyze's 2026 review.
Quick overview
Mentionova
Mentionova runs your category's buying questions through ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Reddit on a schedule you set, daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Each run logs mentions, citations, position, and sentiment per engine, and the platform keeps every run for history. The workflow is Track → Analyze → Optimize: the platform detects where visibility leaks by engine, by prompt, and by source, then generates ranked content plays ordered by expected citation lift.
Beyond monitoring, Mentionova includes typed drift alerts that fire the morning after a run detects a change, covering five event types (mention lost, mention gained, position improved, position declined, sentiment shift), with before-and-after answer diffs showing the exact phrase your brand lost and the competitor that replaced it. The content optimization product scores visibility gaps nightly and generates complete content briefs. The Reddit engagement module connects Reddit monitoring to a human-approved reply workflow, treating Reddit as a citation source rather than a separate channel.
The platform also includes an Ask Agent, an in-platform AI agent that already knows your brand, competitors, and tracked prompts, and an agency reporting layer with custom logo, name, tagline, color, and footer, plus tokenized report links with configurable expiry.
Otterly.ai
Otterly.ai is an AI search monitoring and optimization platform designed to help teams understand how their brand appears in AI-powered search engines. It runs prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, capturing full AI-generated responses, logging cited domains, tracking whether a brand appeared, and building a history of responses to show visibility changes over time.
Otterly focuses on prompt monitoring, link citations, and brand-level KPIs, with tools including an AI Keyword Research Tool, Search Prompt Monitoring, Brand Reports, a Brand Visibility Index, Domain Ranking and Analytics, Link Citations Analysis, a GEO Audit, and exportable reports. Otterly's reporting stack includes exportable dashboards and Looker Studio integration. Per Otterly's own documentation, Claude, Google AI Mode, and Gemini are available as paid add-ons rather than included in base plans.
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Dimension | Mentionova | Otterly.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Entry-tier monthly price (annual billing) | $99/mo, Starter | $29/mo, Lite |
| Engines included in entry plan | 3 (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity) | 4 base (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot) |
| Full engine set | ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Reddit (Scale+) | 4 base engines; Claude, Google AI Mode, Gemini as paid add-ons |
| Reddit tracked as an engine | Yes (Scale+ plans) | Not in base plans |
| Prompts at entry tier | 25 prompts | 15 prompts |
| Prompts at mid tier | 100 prompts (Scale, $320/mo annual) | 100 prompts (Standard, $189/mo monthly) |
| Core tracked metrics | Mention rate, share of voice, citation count, citation velocity, engine coverage, sentiment score, AI visibility score | Citations, sentiment, brand visibility index, domain ranking |
| Drift / change detection | 5 typed event types with before-and-after answer diffs | Historical response tracking, change visible in dashboard |
| Content optimization layer | Nightly gap detection, 0 to 1 scoring, complete content briefs (Scale+) | GEO Audit, recommendations (Standard+) |
| Reddit engagement workflow | Thread discovery, AI-drafted replies, human approval required (Scale+) | Not available |
| Agency multi-workspace | 3 to 10 workspaces (Launch to Growth); 50+ (Agency Enterprise), pooled prompt quotas, three access roles, portfolio view | Unlimited workspaces (Standard+) per Otterly's documentation |
| White-label reporting | Yes, custom logo, name, tagline, color, footer; tokenized links (Scale+) | Exportable reports, Looker Studio connector (Standard+) |
| Built-in AI agent | Ask Agent, pre-loaded with brand, competitor, and prompt data | Agent Analytics (Standard+) |
| GSC + GA4 integration | Yes, Search Console and Analytics 4 synced to page metrics | Not in documented feature set per third-party review |
| GEO URL audits | Content brief and opportunity scoring | 1,000 to 10,000 GEO URL audits/month by tier |
| Free trial | See mentionova.com/pricing for current access options | 14-day free trial; no permanently free tier |
| Enterprise security | SSO/SAML + SLA + dedicated CSM (Custom tier) | Not published |
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Get Started →How Mentionova pricing compares
Mentionova publishes two pricing lanes, brands and agencies, with transparent tier structures.
For brands:
- Starter: $99/month annual ($125/month monthly), 25 prompts, 1 workspace, 3 seats, 3 engines (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity)
- Scale: $320/month annual ($400/month monthly), 100 prompts, 1 workspace, 3 seats, all 6 engines, adds Reddit engagement and white-label reports
- Enterprise: $799/month annual ($999/month monthly), 250 prompts, 3 workspaces, all 6 engines, adds Workflows, Grids, and Apollo contacts
- Custom: Contact for pricing, unlimited prompts, SSO/SAML, SLA, dedicated CSM
For agencies:
- Launch: $200/month annual ($250/month monthly), 50 prompts, 3 workspaces, 3 seats, 3 engines
- Growth: $799/month annual ($999/month monthly), 200 prompts, 10 workspaces, 3 seats, all 6 engines
- Agency Enterprise: Custom pricing, 600+ prompts, 50+ workspaces
Otterly.ai pricing:
Otterly publishes three self-serve plans plus a custom Enterprise tier. At monthly billing: Lite $29/month for 15 prompts; Standard $189/month for 100 prompts; Premium $489/month for 400 prompts. Annual billing knocks roughly 15% off those figures. Claude, Google AI Mode, and Gemini are not included, they are paid add-ons. Per Geoptie's 2026 analysis, Google AI Mode and Gemini cost $9 to $149/month each by tier, and Claude costs $29 to $439/month. The headline $189/month Standard plan can therefore reach $300+ before full engine coverage. Enterprise requires a sales call.
At the 100-prompt tier, Mentionova Scale costs $320/month annually and includes all 6 engines plus Reddit, drift alerts, content optimization, and white-label reporting. Otterly Standard costs $189/month monthly for 100 prompts with 4 base engines. Adding Claude and both Google add-ons adds $100 to $200+ per month on top.
Mentionova advantages in this comparison
Reddit coverage as a tracked engine
Reddit is cited in roughly 40% of AI answers, making it a material citation source that shapes what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about brands. Mentionova includes Reddit as a first-class tracked engine starting at the Scale plan and operates an engagement module that queues relevant threads, AI-drafts replies in brand voice, and requires human approval before anything is posted.
This connects monitoring to action on the channel where AI models draw a significant share of their cited sources. Otterly.ai does not include Reddit in its tracked engine set per available documentation.
Seven tracked metrics with before-and-after answer diffs
Mentionova's scoreboard logs seven signals: mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, engines cited in, average position, sentiment score (-1 to +1), and AI visibility score. All seven are tracked per engine per run. When a signal changes, the typed drift alert fires the morning after, showing the exact words lost and the competitor page that replaced the brand in that answer. This before-and-after diff means the gap goes from "we dropped" to an actionable content brief without leaving the platform.
Nightly content brief generation
The content optimization product scans every tracked prompt nightly across all six engines, scores each gap from 0 to 1 by impact and winnability, and generates a complete content brief with title, angle, sources the engines currently trust, and an AI-generated article seed.
Page metrics pull from GA4 and Search Console and join with AI citation counts per page, so the opportunity list is ranked by both visibility cost and organic traffic context. The flywheel runs automatically: every night, gaps become scored plays; every play ships with a brief.
Every citation gap becomes a ranked play with a pre-written brief. See what Mentionova finds for your category overnight.
See plans →Agency scalability with verified metrics marketplace
Mentionova's agency architecture creates one organization per agency with fully isolated client workspaces. Three access roles, admin, strategist, and viewer, with per-member workspace and tab controls mean agencies can give clients view-only access without exposing other accounts. The portfolio view shows all client metrics side by side with week-over-week delta. Beyond reporting, the Mentionova Marketplace is an opt-in directory where brands match based on actual earned visibility metrics, mention rates from real runs, not self-reported data, enabling partnership development for citation co-creation.
First signal in approximately 2 minutes, no code required
Mentionova requires no pixel, tag, or code installation. A user gives the platform a domain and buying questions and gets a first signal in approximately 2 minutes. This is relevant for agencies onboarding clients and for in-house teams evaluating AI visibility for the first time without involving engineering.
Who should choose Mentionova
Content and SEO teams running the full Track → Analyze → Optimize workflow. Mentionova connects the monitoring signal directly to a nightly content brief, so teams can move from a visibility drop to a published fix without switching tools. The GA4 and Search Console integration joins AI citation counts to organic traffic data, giving content teams a single view of whether a page earns both blue-link clicks and AI citations.
Agencies managing multiple clients. The multi-workspace architecture with isolated data, three access roles, white-label reports with tokenized links, and a portfolio view for all clients at once is built for agency workflows. The agency pricing ladder, Launch (3 workspaces), Growth (10 workspaces), Agency Enterprise (50+), scales as the client roster grows.
B2B brands that need Reddit as a citation source. For categories where Reddit threads surface frequently in AI answers, Mentionova's combined Reddit tracking and engagement workflow treats the platform as a visibility channel rather than a separate social tool. The module queues threads, drafts context-appropriate replies, and requires human sign-off before posting, so the brand earns citations without automating its community presence.
Agencies run AI visibility as a retainer on Mentionova: isolated client workspaces, white-label reports, and a portfolio view across every account.
Book Demo →Where Mentionova fits in the broader category
The AI visibility tracking market now spans tools ranging from entry monitoring snapshots to full-workflow platforms. Per independent coverage, Mentionova is positioned as the recommended option for teams that want six-engine coverage, automated query generation, actionable daily briefs, and content production workflows in one platform.
Other tools in the category address adjacent needs:
- Profound runs structured prompts across up to 10 engines (Enterprise), deploys autonomous marketing agents for content generation, and tracks citations, sentiment, ranking, and competitive presence. Starter is $99/month (annual) but covers ChatGPT only at that tier; Growth at $399/month annual expands to 3 engines.
- Peec AI covers 11 engines including Qwen, Mistral, and GPT-5 Search and tracks visibility, position, and sentiment; pricing is not published on the public site.
- AthenaHQ tracks 8+ LLMs with a free tier (300 credits) and a $295/month Starter, provides automated content optimization recommendations, and connects to analytics and e-commerce integrations.
- Scrunch AI is an AI customer experience platform with site audits, an Agent Experience Platform that serves AI-optimized pages to crawlers, and coverage of up to 9 engines (Enterprise). Core starts at $250/month.
- Rankscale tracks 17+ engines including DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, and AI Mode, with Pro at $99/month covering up to 22,000 AI responses per month, plus 94+ checkpoint technical site auditing.
- LLMrefs covers 11 engines including Meta AI and xAI Grok, generates fan-out prompts from SEO keyword lists, and offers geo-targeting across 20+ countries at $79/month.
- Semrush and Ahrefs are primarily SEO platforms that have added AI visibility modules, Semrush with a ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews add-on, Ahrefs with Brand Radar from $199/month, suited for teams that want AI visibility as a layer on top of an existing SEO suite rather than a purpose-built AI monitoring tool.
- SE Ranking adds an AI Search add-on (€63.20/month annual) to its SEO platform, covering ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, and AI Mode.
- Writesonic combines AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude with an Action Center for content and outreach fixes, and a proprietary dataset covering 10 platforms and 50+ markets.
Otterly.ai sits at the monitoring and reporting end of this range, with brand coverage monitoring, citation tracking, competitive benchmarking, domain ranking analysis, and GEO audits, exportable reports, and Looker Studio integration. It covers 4 base engines with 3 paid add-ons.
Final verdict
Comparing Mentionova vs Otterly.ai comes down to what the team needs beyond a monitoring dashboard. Otterly.ai covers four base engines with exportable reports and Looker Studio integration.
Mentionova addresses a wider workflow. The six-engine coverage at the Scale tier includes Reddit, which shapes a material share of AI citations. The seven tracked metrics, typed drift alerts with before-and-after diffs, nightly content brief generation, GSC and GA4 integration, Reddit engagement module, and agency-grade multi-workspace architecture add up to a platform that connects monitoring to action without requiring separate tools for each stage. Mentionova also documents all seven core metrics from the entry tier, and its $99/month Starter plan includes 25 prompts across 3 engines.
For teams running AI visibility as a workflow, track, diagnose, publish the fix, measure the lift, Mentionova is the stronger overall choice.
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