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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs Ahrefs Brand Radar

The biggest prompt index metered per check, or six engines on a flat plan with the agents included?

Choose Ahrefs Brand Radar if you already pay for Ahrefs and want AI data next door to Site Explorer.

Choose Mentionova if you want flat pricing instead of checks and overage.

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14 days · no card · first growth signal in ~2 minutes

Case file · ahrefsChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaAhrefs Brand Radar

Engines

6

3 on Starter

11

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

Daily to monthly

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$129/mo

Lite plan, Brand Radar allowance

Trial

14 days

no card

Not published

Ahrefs Brand Radar's numbers come from its own pricing page, docs and changelog

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

Ahrefs Brand Radar sits on top of an Ahrefs subscription: a 470-million-prompt index with per-platform volumes, seven AI platforms plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit, bot analytics, a 22-endpoint API, MCP and a Looker connector. Base plans include 5 to 20 tracked prompts; the full index is a $199-a-month add-on and every prompt × platform × location is a metered check.

Ahrefs Brand Radar describes itself as “The only AI marketing platform built on Ahrefs' proprietary web index.” and leads with “Make AI recommend your brand”.

Founded
Brand Radar launched in 2025
Based in
Singapore
Funding
Bootstrapped
Sells to
Ahrefs subscribers; 3,000+ companies use Brand Radar

Choose Ahrefs Brand Radar if

  1. 01

    You already pay for Ahrefs and want AI data next door to Site Explorer.

  2. 02

    Prompt volumes by platform are the thing you need.

  3. 03

    You want YouTube and TikTok alongside the AI engines.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want flat pricing instead of checks and overage.

  2. 02

    You want the gap diagnosed and the draft written.

  3. 03

    You need client workspaces and white-label reports, which Brand Radar doesn't publish.

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03 · Side by side

Fifteen questions, both answers.

The same questions on every compare page, so the table can't be tuned to flatter us. Each mark is a shape first and a colour second: a tick, a tilde for in part, a cross, a dash for not published.

The questionMentionovaas shipped 10 Oct 2026Ahrefs Brand Radarfrom its own pagesChoose based on
Engines tracked
Yes: 6 on Scale and above: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google, Reddit. 3 on Starter.
Yes: 11 named: Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit-in-SERP. "470M+ Total monthly prompts" with per-platform counts (brand-radar). Custom-prompt platform list on help page: "Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Grok" (Claude listed separately on help 11064852 and brand-radar page).
Which engines your buyers use; whether Starter's three are enough.
Scheduled runs
Yes: weekly, every two weeks or monthly; opportunities recomputed nightly.
Yes: Help 11064852: Search Demand "every few days"; Web Visibility "every few minutes"; AI Overviews "every few days"; AI Chatbots "once monthly"; custom prompts "Monthly, weekly, or daily". Brand-radar page: "Each prompt is checked daily on every selected platform."
Daily snapshots, or scheduled runs with nightly opportunity scoring.
Metrics per run
Yes: mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, position-1 rate, sentiment, engine coverage, AI visibility score.
Yes: AI Share of Voice, Brand mentions, Citations, Impressions, AI traffic, Bot visits, Search demand, Web visibility, Video visibility, SERP visibility, Fanout queries, Entities, Topics report.
Which numbers your reports have to show.
Drift alerts with diffs
Yes: eight typed drift events (a mention gained or lost, a position up or down, a changed description, a sentiment shift, a competitor entering or leaving) on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini, in the Monitor feed, with a daily opportunities digest by email.
Not published: Typed change events are not published as a feature; see the long-form sections below.
Being told what changed, not handed a new number.
Prompt volume data
No: Not sold as a dataset. Opportunities are scored on gap, reach, effort and heat.
Yes: Published as a feature.
Whether you need demand estimates per prompt before you choose what to target.
Gaps turned into briefs
Yes: Opportunities recomputed nightly and scored 0–100 on gap, reach, effort and heat; each one carries a gap diagnosis, a specific action and a content brief.
No: Brand Radar itself publishes no brief/content generation. Adjacent: AI Content Helper "Color-code sentences based on the subtopics covered to boost your AI visibility" (€89/mo, 50 docs; Content Kit €279/mo) (ahrefs.com/ai-content-helper); Letaido agents "Identifies sources citing competitors instead of you" and "Catches AI hallucinations about your brand on a schedule" ($99/mo) (ahrefs.com/letaido); fanout query discovery and cited-pages reporting (brand-radar).
The gap diagnosed and a brief written, or a list to act on yourself.
Drafts pushed to your CMS
Yes: brief → research → keywords → article in your brand voice → fact-check → editor → approval → schema; drafts land in WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or any webhook, and nothing goes live without you.
No: not offered. Brand Radar itself publishes no brief/content generation. Adjacent: AI Content Helper "Color-code sentences based on the subtopics covered to boost your AI visibility" (€89/mo, 50 docs; Content Kit €279/mo) (ahrefs.com/ai-content-helper); Letaido agents "Identifies sources citing competitors instead of you" and "Catches AI hallucinations about your brand on a schedule" ($99/mo) (ahrefs.com/letaido); fanout query discovery and cited-pages reporting (brand-radar).
Whether the tool should draft and deliver, or only recommend.
Reddit tracked and engaged
Yes: Tracked as an engine on Scale and above; finds the threads, drafts the reply in your voice; a person adds the disclosure and posts.
Partly: Tracked. yes — "Brand Radar has a new Reddit-in-SERP index" (Oct 2025, new-features); "YouTube, TikTok & Reddit (free while in beta)" (brand-radar). No reply drafting published.
Whether Reddit shapes answers in your category, and whether you want replies drafted.
Client workspaces and white-label
Yes: isolated client workspaces (3 on Launch, 10 on Growth, custom on Enterprise) and a portfolio view; report links with a view count and revoke; white-label logo, colour, tagline and footer.
Not published: Additional users: Lite "Up to 2", Standard "Up to 5", Advanced "Up to 10", Enterprise "Unlimited" (help 6117209); "No cap on domains analyzed" (help 11064852). White-label/client portals: not published.. Reporting: Report Builder (Lite "5 Reports"/"30 Widgets" → Enterprise "25 Reports"/"250 Widgets", scheduling); Data Studio connector (Advanced+); Google Sheets/CSV export. White-label: not published..
How many clients you run and whether reports must carry your brand.
Integrations
Yes: 38 API connectors (Ahrefs, DataForSEO, Semrush, Moz, HubSpot, Contentful, Ghost and more) plus Search Console and GA4, and draft publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or a webhook.
Yes: Looker/Data Studio connectors incl. Brand Radar — "available for Advanced plans and higher", Google Sheets export + CSV, Report Builder, Letaido, MCP, Web Analytics.
Which of your systems need to connect without engineering.
API and MCP
Yes: v1 API on Scale and above; an MCP server with 56 tools for any MCP client.
Yes: API: included. MCP: included.
Whether your own agents or scripts need to read and write the data.
Crawler log analytics
No: Not offered. AI traffic is attributed on pages; crawler logs are not ingested.
Yes: Published as a feature.
Whether you need to see which bots fetched which pages, from your CDN logs.
Site audit
Yes: 42 checks: crawlability, on-page and duplicates, structured data, Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights, mobile and security, internal links, hreflang, and four AEO checks (llms.txt, question H2s, entity and FAQ schema).
Yes: Included.
Whether technical and AEO checks belong in the same tool.
Try it on your own data first
Yes: 14-day free trial, no card: 5 prompts, 1 workspace, all six engines.
Yes: Trial: not published. Free plan: Ahrefs Free exists; the AI indexes need the Brand Radar add-on.
Whether you can see your own numbers before paying.
Entry price
Yes: $99/mo billed annually ($125 monthly) — Starter: 3 engines, 25 prompts, 100 agentic tasks.
Yes: Lite plan, Brand Radar allowance: $129/mo (Lite) for 5 tracked prompts; the AI Visibility Index add-on is from $199/mo. Lite: 5 tracked AI prompts, 150 checks a month, API and MCP. Add-on: 83 prompts a day, 2,500 extra checks, every platform, search demand.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · Ahrefs Brand Radar column from its pricing page, docs and changelog · Mentionova column from the product as shipped the same day · Spot an error? team@mentionova.com

04 · Pricing

What the first invoice buys.

Both ladders as published on 10 Oct 2026, then the same three buyers priced on each side. Ahrefs Brand Radar's numbers come from ahrefs.com; a figure marked third-party wasn't on its site.

Mentionova

/pricing
Starter

$99/mo annual · $125 monthly

3 engines, 25 prompts, 100 agentic tasks

Scale

$320/mo annual · $400 monthly

6 engines incl. Reddit, 100 prompts, 500 tasks

Enterprise

$799/mo annual · $999 monthly

250 prompts, 2,500 tasks

Agencies

Launch $200 · Growth $799

3 or 10 client workspaces; Enterprise custom

Trial

14 days, no card

5 prompts, 1 workspace, all six engines

Ahrefs Brand Radar

Pricing page
Lite plan, Brand Radar allowance

$129/mo (Lite) for 5 tracked prompts; the AI Visibility Index add-on is from $199/mo

Lite: 5 tracked AI prompts, 150 checks a month, API and MCP. Add-on: 83 prompts a day, 2,500 extra checks, every platform, search demand

Standard

$249/mo: 10 tracked prompts, 300 checks; custom-prompt packs at $50, $100 or $250/mo

Advanced

$449/mo: 20 tracked prompts, 600 checks, Looker connector, 10 users

Enterprise

$1,499/mo on an annual commitment: uncapped API, SAML SSO

Trial

not published

Free plan: Ahrefs Free exists; the AI indexes need the Brand Radar add-on

Billing: monthly; up to 17% off annually. Model: an add-on plus metered checks on an Ahrefs plan.

Three buyers, two bills.

The same brief priced on each side with the published plan that fits it. Where a plan doesn't fit the brief, the nearest one and the gap are named.

  1. Buyer 01

    One brand, 25 prompts, three engines

    Mentionova
    Starter, $99/mo billed annually ($125 monthly)
    Ahrefs Brand Radar
    Lite $129/mo includes 5 tracked prompts (150 checks); 25 prompts on 3 platforms needs a custom-prompt pack from $50/mo

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    Ahrefs Brand Radar
    Standard $249/mo plus the $199/mo AI Visibility Index add-on; 100 prompts × 7 platforms daily is 21,000 checks a month, beyond the largest pack

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    Ahrefs Brand Radar
    Advanced $449/mo for up to 10 users; no agency plan or white-label published

Watch for, on Mentionova

  • Starter tracks three engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google) and 25 prompts; the other three need Scale
  • The API is on Scale and above; the MCP server and connectors are on every plan
  • Runs are weekly, fortnightly or monthly; opportunities are rescored nightly, not the prompts

Watch for, on Ahrefs Brand Radar

  • Metered per-check billing: "5 prompts on 1 platform = 150 checks/mo"; overage "€0.0187/check" Source
  • Base plans include only 5/10/20 tracked prompts; full indexes need $199/mo add-on Source
  • "AI Chatbots: once monthly" refresh for dataset indexes Source
  • "SOC 2 certification is in progress but not yet complete"; SSO Enterprise-only Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

Mentionova's column describes the product as shipped. The Ahrefs Brand Radar column is built from its own pages. The edge line is our call, and it doesn't always go our way.

  1. 01

    Engines and cadence

    Choose based on: Which engines your buyers actually ask, and whether daily snapshots or scheduled runs with nightly scoring suit how you work.

    Mentionova

    Six engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google and Reddit. Starter covers ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google; Scale and Enterprise cover all six. Each workspace runs weekly, every two weeks or monthly, and opportunities are recomputed from the latest run every night. Google runs record the organic top ten; AI Overviews are pulled on demand through Nova rather than tracked on a schedule.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Ahrefs Brand Radar names 11 engines: Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit-in-SERP. "470M+ Total monthly prompts" with per-platform counts (brand-radar). Custom-prompt platform list on help page: "Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Grok" (Claude listed separately on help 11064852 and brand-radar page). Run cadence: Help 11064852: Search Demand "every few days"; Web Visibility "every few minutes"; AI Overviews "every few days"; AI Chatbots "once monthly"; custom prompts "Monthly, weekly, or daily". Brand-radar page: "Each prompt is checked daily on every selected platform.".

    EdgeBrand Radar covers seven AI platforms plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit; Mentionova six. Ahrefs on breadth. Its chatbot indexes refresh monthly and custom prompts daily to monthly.

  2. 02

    What gets measured

    Choose based on: Which numbers your reports have to show, and whether you want to be told what changed rather than handed a new number.

    Mentionova

    Every run stores mention rate, citation rate, share of voice, position-1 rate, sentiment, engine coverage and an AI visibility score. Between runs the Monitor feed logs eight kinds of drift on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini: a mention gained or lost, a position up or down, a changed description, a sentiment shift, a competitor entering or leaving. A daily email digests the opportunities.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Ahrefs Brand Radar reports AI Share of Voice, Brand mentions, Citations, Impressions, AI traffic, Bot visits, Search demand, Web visibility, Video visibility, SERP visibility, Fanout queries, Entities, Topics report. Prompt volume or demand data: yes, published as a feature. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeAhrefs has share of voice, mentions, citations and 470M prompt volumes, with no sentiment published. Mentionova has sentiment and typed drift. Different.

  3. 03

    From gap to draft

    Choose based on: Whether the tool should diagnose the gap, write the brief and leave a draft in your CMS, or hand you a list to act on.

    Mentionova

    Opportunities are scored 0–100 on gap, reach, effort and heat, each with a diagnosis, a specific action and a content brief. The content workflow runs brief, research, keywords, article in your brand voice, fact-check, editor, approval and schema, then pushes a draft to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or any webhook. Nothing goes live without you.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Brand Radar itself publishes no brief/content generation. Adjacent: AI Content Helper "Color-code sentences based on the subtopics covered to boost your AI visibility" (€89/mo, 50 docs; Content Kit €279/mo) (ahrefs.com/ai-content-helper); Letaido agents "Identifies sources citing competitors instead of you" and "Catches AI hallucinations about your brand on a schedule" ($99/mo) (ahrefs.com/letaido); fanout query discovery and cited-pages reporting (brand-radar). Automation: Letaido: "AI marketing platform that runs agents to build reports, ship tools, and automate marketing 24/7." $99/month, "native Ahrefs integration" incl. Brand Radar (ahrefs.com/letaido). Ahrefs MCP for Claude Desktop/Web, ChatGPT, Claude Code (docs.ahrefs.com). Report Builder scheduling (help 6117209)..

    EdgeBrand Radar doesn't brief or draft; Ahrefs sells AI Content Helper and Letaido agents separately. Mentionova includes the pipeline. Mentionova.

  4. 04

    Reddit

    Choose based on: Whether Reddit threads shape the answers in your category, and whether you want replies drafted or only citations counted.

    Mentionova

    Reddit is a tracked engine on Scale and above: the threads where your category is discussed, the citations that reach AI answers, and reply drafts in your voice. A person adds the disclosure and posts; the agent never posts for you.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Ahrefs Brand Radar tracks Reddit: yes — "Brand Radar has a new Reddit-in-SERP index" (Oct 2025, new-features); "YouTube, TikTok & Reddit (free while in beta)" (brand-radar). Reply drafting isn't published.

    EdgeAhrefs has a Reddit-in-SERP index. Mentionova tracks Reddit as an engine and drafts replies. Mentionova on engagement.

  5. 05

    Agencies and reporting

    Choose based on: How many clients you run, and whether the report has to carry your brand without a BI tool in between.

    Mentionova

    Isolated client workspaces (3 on Launch, 10 on Growth, custom on Enterprise) with a portfolio view across them. Reports share by link with a view count and a revoke switch; white-label covers logo, colour, tagline and footer. Agency plans start at $200 a month.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Additional users: Lite "Up to 2", Standard "Up to 5", Advanced "Up to 10", Enterprise "Unlimited" (help 6117209); "No cap on domains analyzed" (help 11064852). White-label/client portals: not published.. Reporting: Report Builder (Lite "5 Reports"/"30 Widgets" → Enterprise "25 Reports"/"250 Widgets", scheduling); Data Studio connector (Advanced+); Google Sheets/CSV export. White-label: not published..

    EdgeAhrefs publishes no white-label or client portals and caps seats per plan. Mentionova.

  6. 06

    Integrations, API and MCP

    Choose based on: Which of your systems need to connect without engineering, and whether your own agents will read and write the data.

    Mentionova

    38 API connectors, among them Ahrefs, DataForSEO, Semrush, Moz, HubSpot, Contentful and Ghost, plus Search Console and GA4. The v1 API is on Scale and above. The MCP server exposes 56 tools to any MCP client, so your own agents can create prompts, read runs and pull reports.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Ahrefs Brand Radar lists 6 integrations: Looker/Data Studio connectors incl. Brand Radar — "available for Advanced plans and higher", Google Sheets export + CSV, Report Builder, Letaido, MCP, Web Analytics. API: included. MCP: included.

    EdgeAhrefs: a 22-endpoint Brand Radar API, MCP, Looker on Advanced. Mentionova: 38 connectors, API, MCP. Even.

  7. 07

    Site audit and technical

    Choose based on: Whether technical and AEO checks belong in the same tool as the briefs, and whether you need crawler logs rather than page checks.

    Mentionova

    A 42-check audit: crawlability, on-page and duplicates, structured data, Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights, mobile and security, internal links, hreflang, and four AEO checks for llms.txt, question H2s, entity schema and FAQ schema. AI traffic shows up as page attribution; Mentionova doesn't ingest crawler logs.

    Ahrefs Brand Radar

    Site audit: included. Crawler log analytics: included. Security: "SOC 2 certification is in progress but not yet complete"; "Data Processing Addendum" with "pre-signed EU Standard Contractual Clauses"; "Encryption at rest (AWS RDS) and in transit (TLS)"; "Annual third-party penetration tests"; "SAML 2.0 single sign-on" on Enterprise only (ahrefs.com/faq). ISO 27001 appeared only in a search snippet, not on a fetched page..

    EdgeAhrefs Site Audit plus Bot Analytics against Mentionova's 42 checks. Ahrefs on crawler data.

06 · Credit where due

Where Ahrefs Brand Radar is the better choice.

5 things it does that Mentionova doesn't, or does less of, each linked to the page that says so. Read these before the sales deck.

  1. 01

    The largest published prompt index: 470M-plus monthly prompts with per-platform volumes

    Source
  2. 02

    Seven AI platforms plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit

    Source
  3. 03

    A 22-endpoint Brand Radar API, MCP and a Looker Studio connector

    Source
  4. 04

    Bot Analytics that verifies whether a crawler is legitimate

    Source
  5. 05

    Entities, topics, Grok and Claude all added between September 2025 and August 2026

    Source

07 · Switching

From Ahrefs Brand Radar to a baseline, in an afternoon.

About twenty minutes of your time, then thirty days of both tools running side by side. Nothing here touches your site.

  1. Step 12 min

    Start the trial

    No pixel, tag or code. Sign up, name the workspace, pick the engines. The first growth signal lands in about two minutes.

  2. Step 210 min

    Bring your prompts

    Export the prompt list from Ahrefs Brand Radar and add it to the workspace; the API and the MCP server create prompts in bulk from a list. The first run sets your baseline on every engine the plan covers.

  3. Step 310 min

    Connect the systems

    Search Console, GA4 and your CMS, whether WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Sanity or a webhook, so briefs turn into drafts where your team already works.

  4. Step 40 min

    Run both for thirty days

    Keep Ahrefs Brand Radar running. Compare the two on the questions above with your own data, then decide. Cancel either in a click.

What won't transfer

Ahrefs Brand Radar's run history and dashboards stay in Ahrefs Brand Radar; export them before you cancel anything. Prompts, competitor lists and brand-voice notes move in minutes. Mentionova starts its own history from the first run, so the sooner the trial starts, the longer the overlap you get to judge on.

Start the overlap

08 · FAQ

Mentionova vs Ahrefs Brand Radar, asked.

Ahrefs Brand Radar's entry plan is Lite plan, Brand Radar allowance at $129/mo (Lite) for 5 tracked prompts; the AI Visibility Index add-on is from $199/mo, which buys Lite: 5 tracked AI prompts, 150 checks a month, API and MCP. Add-on: 83 prompts a day, 2,500 extra checks, every platform, search demand. Mentionova's Starter is $99 a month billed annually ($125 monthly) for 25 prompts on three engines with 100 agentic tasks, and Scale is $320 for 100 prompts on all six. Compare what each plan includes, not the headline number.

One prompt run on one platform in one location. Five prompts on one platform daily is 150 checks a month; overage is about two cents a check. Mentionova prices by prompts and engines per plan with no per-run metering.

Yes. Brand Radar is a module of Ahrefs: base plans from $129 include 5 to 20 tracked prompts, and the full AI Visibility Index is a $199-a-month add-on. Mentionova is a standalone platform.

Yes. Export your prompt list, add the prompts to a Mentionova workspace (the API and the MCP server can create them in bulk from a list), and the first run gives you a baseline on every engine your plan covers. Your Ahrefs Brand Radar history stays in your Ahrefs Brand Radar exports.

Yes. Mentionova needs no pixel, tag or code, so the 14-day trial runs next to Ahrefs Brand Radar without touching your site. Most teams compare a month of both before deciding.

Ahrefs Brand Radar: Help 11064852: Search Demand "every few days"; Web Visibility "every few minutes"; AI Overviews "every few days"; AI Chatbots "once monthly"; custom prompts "Monthly, weekly, or daily". Brand-radar page: "Each prompt is checked daily on every selected platform.". Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every Ahrefs Brand Radar fact comes from Ahrefs Brand Radar's own pricing page, docs or changelog, fetched on 10 Oct 2026, and the claims that matter most link to the page they came from. Mentionova facts describe the product as shipped on the same date. If something has changed, email team@mentionova.com and we'll correct it.

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