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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs AirOps

A content engineering platform for enterprise teams, or an agentic SEO & GEO platform priced for the rest?

Choose AirOps if you run high-volume content operations in Grids and Playbooks.

Choose Mentionova if you want a published price and a trial on your own data.

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Case file · airopsChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaAirOps

Engines

6

3 on Starter

8

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

Daily

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$200/mo

Solo

Trial

14 days

no card

14 days

AirOps's numbers come from its own pricing page, docs and changelog

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

AirOps is a New York content engineering platform with $60 million raised: daily prompt monitoring on seven-plus engines, opportunities that feed Playbooks and Grids, thirteen CMS publishing integrations, agent analytics, SOC 2 Type II and Okta SSO. Dollar prices for Solo and Pro aren't on its site; work is metered in tasks, and the Solo tier only sees ChatGPT.

AirOps describes itself as “The leading content engineering platform for AI search” and leads with “Run the strategy that wins AI discovery”.

Founded
Not published; Series B in November 2025
Based in
New York
Funding
$60M raised; $40M Series B led by Greylock
Sells to
Growth and enterprise content teams

Choose AirOps if

  1. 01

    You run high-volume content operations in Grids and Playbooks.

  2. 02

    You publish into Builder.io, Storyblok, Craft or Strapi.

  3. 03

    Procurement needs SOC 2 Type II and Okta.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want a published price and a trial on your own data.

  2. 02

    You need Claude, Perplexity and Reddit on an entry plan, not ChatGPT only.

  3. 03

    You run clients and need workspaces with white-label reports.

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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 2026AirOpsfrom its own pagesChoose based on
Engines tracked
Yes: 6 on Scale and above: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google, Reddit. 3 on Starter.
Yes: 8 named: OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Google AI Studio. Pricing page lists "OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, Google AI Studio, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok" under "7+ Answer Engines"; Solo tier is "ChatGPT Insights Only". API docs: "ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI modes", "49 supported countries".
Which engines your buyers use; whether Starter's three are enough.
Scheduled runs
Yes: weekly, every two weeks or monthly; opportunities recomputed nightly.
Yes: "AirOps monitors accepted prompts daily" (docs.airops.com/insights/prompts)
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: Mention Rate, Share of Voice, Citation Rate, Sentiment Score, Average Position, Prompt Share of Voice, Citation lifecycles, Content Scores, Category Influence / 'market share'.
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.
No: Not published.
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.
Yes: Opportunities = "Recommended actions based on your AI search intelligence" (Creation / Refresh / Outreach / Community) → "Generate a Grid pre-populated with your selected opportunities for Playbook runs" (docs/insights/opportunities); Playbooks with "long-horizon agents", Workflows, Grids; "Native CMS integrations for onsite publishing"; "Placements inbox for coordinating offsite content placement"; "Pause for review when human judgment matters most" (airops.com/platform); Grid publish to "Webflow, Sanity, and Contentful" with draft/published states (docs).
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.
Yes: Opportunities = "Recommended actions based on your AI search intelligence" (Creation / Refresh / Outreach / Community) → "Generate a Grid pre-populated with your selected opportunities for Playbook runs" (docs/insights/opportunities); Playbooks with "long-horizon agents", Workflows, Grids; "Native CMS integrations for onsite publishing"; "Placements inbox for coordinating offsite content placement"; "Pause for review when human judgment matters most" (airops.com/platform); Grid publish to "Webflow, Sanity, and Contentful" with draft/published states (docs).
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 — "Explore YouTube videos and Reddit discussions cited in AI answers" (changelog Sept 14, 2026); Opportunities "Community: Reddit conversations" (docs); Reddit listed as integration. 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: not published. Reporting: White-label: not published. "AirOps reporting inside Codex tasks" (changelog Aug 31, 2026); MCP "report generation"; Slack review notifications; Google Sheets integration. Looker Studio: 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: CMS: Builder.io, ContentStack, Contentful, Craft CMS, Framer, Ghost, HubSpot CMS, Sanity, Shopify, Strapi, Storyblok, Webflow, WordPress, Crowdin, Gmail, Slack, Gong, YouTube, Reddit, Airtable, Asana, ClickUp, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Monday.com, Notion, Wrike, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, SEO data: DataForSEO, Moz, Semrush, Ahrefs, Cloudflare, CloudFront, Netlify, Vercel, Okta SSO.
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).
No: Not offered.
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: 14 days of Pro features. Free plan: free workspaces exist but can't query Insights.
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: Solo: not on the site (third parties report about $200/mo). 35,000 tasks a month; 1 user; 1 Brand Kit; 3 Knowledge Bases; ChatGPT insights only; overage $0.025 a task.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · AirOps 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. AirOps's numbers come from airops.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

AirOps

Pricing page
Solo

not on the site (third parties report about $200/mo)

35,000 tasks a month; 1 user; 1 Brand Kit; 3 Knowledge Bases; ChatGPT insights only; overage $0.025 a task

Pro

not on the site (third parties report about $2,000/mo): 100,000 tasks, unlimited seats, 7+ answer engines, CMS and SEO integrations

Enterprise

custom: unlimited Brand Kits and Knowledge Bases

Trial

14 days of Pro features

Free plan: free workspaces exist but can't query Insights

Billing: not published. Model: tiers metered in tasks.

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)
    AirOps
    Solo: 35,000 tasks, ChatGPT insights only; price not on site (third parties report about $200/mo)

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    AirOps
    Pro: 100,000 tasks, 7+ engines; price not on site (third parties report about $2,000/mo)

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    AirOps
    Unlimited Brand Kits are Enterprise-only; no agency plan

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 AirOps

  • Solo/Pro dollar prices not published on airops.com/pricing; only "Start for free"/"Work with us" Source
  • Solo tier is "ChatGPT Insights Only" Source
  • Task-metered: "$0.025 per task" overage; "You only pay for the tasks your workflows actually run" Source
  • Only "1" Brand Kit below Enterprise — weak fit for multi-client agencies Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

Mentionova's column describes the product as shipped. The AirOps 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.

    AirOps

    AirOps names 8 engines: OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Google AI Studio. Pricing page lists "OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, Google AI Studio, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok" under "7+ Answer Engines"; Solo tier is "ChatGPT Insights Only". API docs: "ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI modes", "49 supported countries". Run cadence: "AirOps monitors accepted prompts daily" (docs.airops.com/insights/prompts).

    EdgeAirOps tracks seven-plus engines daily on Pro but ChatGPT only on Solo. Mentionova tracks three on Starter and six on Scale. Even above the entry tier.

  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.

    AirOps

    AirOps reports Mention Rate, Share of Voice, Citation Rate, Sentiment Score, Average Position, Prompt Share of Voice, Citation lifecycles, Content Scores, Category Influence / 'market share'. Prompt volume or demand data: not published. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeBoth track mention rate, share of voice, citation rate and sentiment. AirOps adds content scores; Mentionova typed drift. Even.

  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.

    AirOps

    Opportunities = "Recommended actions based on your AI search intelligence" (Creation / Refresh / Outreach / Community) → "Generate a Grid pre-populated with your selected opportunities for Playbook runs" (docs/insights/opportunities); Playbooks with "long-horizon agents", Workflows, Grids; "Native CMS integrations for onsite publishing"; "Placements inbox for coordinating offsite content placement"; "Pause for review when human judgment matters most" (airops.com/platform); Grid publish to "Webflow, Sanity, and Contentful" with draft/published states (docs). Automation: Playbooks: "Describe agent work with natural-language instructions, tools, context, artifacts, triggers, and Human Review"; "Quill (Agent Captain)"; Workflow Copilot (Claude Sonnet 5, changelog Sept 21, 2026); Campaigns; MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Codex; Codex plugin..

    EdgeBoth close the loop from gap to published draft. AirOps reaches thirteen CMSs through Grids; Mentionova five targets plus a webhook. AirOps on CMS reach, Mentionova on simplicity.

  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.

    AirOps

    AirOps tracks Reddit: yes — "Explore YouTube videos and Reddit discussions cited in AI answers" (changelog Sept 14, 2026); Opportunities "Community: Reddit conversations" (docs); Reddit listed as integration. Reply drafting isn't published.

    EdgeAirOps surfaces Reddit citations and community opportunities. Mentionova drafts the replies. Mentionova.

  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.

    AirOps

    not published. Reporting: White-label: not published. "AirOps reporting inside Codex tasks" (changelog Aug 31, 2026); MCP "report generation"; Slack review notifications; Google Sheets integration. Looker Studio: not published..

    EdgeAirOps allows one Brand Kit below Enterprise and publishes no agency features. Mentionova has priced workspaces and white-label. 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.

    AirOps

    AirOps lists 10 integrations: CMS: Builder.io, ContentStack, Contentful, Craft CMS, Framer, Ghost, HubSpot CMS, Sanity, Shopify, Strapi, Storyblok, Webflow, WordPress, Crowdin, Gmail, Slack, Gong, YouTube, Reddit, Airtable, Asana, ClickUp, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Monday.com, Notion, Wrike, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, SEO data: DataForSEO, Moz, Semrush, Ahrefs, Cloudflare, CloudFront, Netlify, Vercel, Okta SSO. API: included. MCP: included.

    EdgeAirOps: 13 CMSs, GA4, Search Console, Slack, DataForSEO, Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz, four CDNs, MCP, API. 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.

    AirOps

    Site audit: not offered. Crawler log analytics: included. Security: "AirOps is SOC 2 Type II compliant."; "A Data Processing Agreement with Standard Contractual Clauses is available."; "All data is encrypted at rest using AES-256 and in transit using TLS 1.2 or above."; "Annual third-party penetration tests"; "Customer data is permanently deleted 30 days after account closure." (docs.airops.com/about/security-and-compliance). "Configure Okta single sign-on for AirOps with OAuth 2.0/OIDC" (docs). Privacy policy references GDPR and SCCs..

    EdgeAirOps has agent analytics but no technical audit; Mentionova 42 checks, no bot logs. Different.

06 · Credit where due

Where AirOps 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

    A closed loop from measurement to Opportunities to Playbooks to a published page

    Source
  2. 02

    Thirteen CMS publishing integrations

    Source
  3. 03

    Agent analytics fed by Cloudflare, CloudFront, Netlify and Vercel logs

    Source
  4. 04

    A weekly changelog through October 2026, including Reddit and YouTube citations

    Source
  5. 05

    SOC 2 Type II with Okta single sign-on

    Source

07 · Switching

From AirOps 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 AirOps 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 AirOps running. Compare the two on the questions above with your own data, then decide. Cancel either in a click.

What won't transfer

AirOps's run history and dashboards stay in AirOps; 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 AirOps, asked.

AirOps's entry plan is Solo at not on the site (third parties report about $200/mo), which buys 35,000 tasks a month; 1 user; 1 Brand Kit; 3 Knowledge Bases; ChatGPT insights only; overage $0.025 a task. 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.

No. Its pricing page lists Solo and Pro inclusions and an overage of $0.025 per task, but no monthly figure; a third-party review from August 2026 cites about $200 and $2,000 a month. Mentionova's prices are on its pricing page.

ChatGPT only; its pricing page labels Solo as ChatGPT Insights Only. Pro covers OpenAI, Google, Perplexity, Google AI Studio, Claude, Copilot and Grok. Mentionova's Starter tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google.

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 AirOps history stays in your AirOps exports.

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

AirOps: "AirOps monitors accepted prompts daily" (docs.airops.com/insights/prompts). Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every AirOps fact comes from AirOps'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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