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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs Otterly.AI

The cheapest daily monitor on the market, or monitoring plus the agents that act?

Choose Otterly.AI if you want to start at $29 with daily tracking.

Choose Mentionova if you want briefs, drafts and CMS pushes, not recommendations capped at three a week.

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

Case file · otterlyChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaOtterly.AI

Engines

6

3 on Starter

7

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

Daily

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$29/mo

Lite

Trial

14 days

no card

7 days

Otterly.AI's numbers come from its own pricing page, docs and changelog

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

Otterly.AI is the lowest-priced entry in the category: $29 a month for 15 prompts tracked daily on four engines, with unlimited team members, a public API and MCP from the Standard plan, Looker Studio white-label dashboards and 70-plus countries. It recommends and briefs; it doesn't generate or publish content.

Otterly.AI describes itself as “Content Intelligence Platform for AI Search” and leads with “We otter know where your brand shows up on AI Search”.

Founded
2024
Based in
The EU (OtterlyAI GmbH; hosted in Frankfurt)
Funding
Not published
Sells to
SMB to enterprise marketing teams and agencies

Choose Otterly.AI if

  1. 01

    You want to start at $29 with daily tracking.

  2. 02

    Your client reporting is built in Looker Studio.

  3. 03

    You track many countries.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want briefs, drafts and CMS pushes, not recommendations capped at three a week.

  2. 02

    Claude, Gemini and Reddit belong in the base plan, not the add-on list.

  3. 03

    You want native white-label share links without a Looker template.

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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 2026Otterly.AIfrom its own pagesChoose based on
Engines tracked
Yes: 6 on Scale and above: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google, Reddit. 3 on Starter.
Yes: 7 named: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Claude. Four engines in every plan; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are paid add-ons.
Which engines your buyers use; whether Starter's three are enough.
Scheduled runs
Yes: weekly, every two weeks or monthly; opportunities recomputed nightly.
Yes: daily on all plans
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: brand mentions, brand coverage, average position, share of voice, citations, sentiment, brand visibility index.
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.
Partly: Content briefs, content audit, GEO optimisation and recommendations (3 a week on Lite); no content generation or publishing (otterly.ai/features)
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. Content briefs, content audit, GEO optimisation and recommendations (3 a week on Lite); no content generation or publishing (otterly.ai/features)
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. 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.
Partly: Separate workspaces per client with isolated reporting; unlimited workspaces from Standard; partner directory; no agency tier. Reporting: Looker Studio connector for white-label client dashboards (Standard and up), reports and CSV exports.
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 Studio, Public API, MCP server, Claude skill, CSV.
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: 7 days. Free plan: no.
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: $29/mo ($25 annual). 15 prompts; ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot; 1 workspace; 3 recommendations a week; daily tracking; unlimited team members.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · Otterly.AI 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. Otterly.AI's numbers come from otterly.ai; 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

Otterly.AI

Pricing page
Lite

$29/mo ($25 annual)

15 prompts; ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot; 1 workspace; 3 recommendations a week; daily tracking; unlimited team members

Standard

$189/mo ($160 annual): 100 prompts, unlimited workspaces, API, MCP, Agent Analytics

Premium

$489/mo ($422 annual): 400 prompts

Enterprise

custom from 1,000 prompts, with SSO; Claude, Gemini and AI Mode are paid add-ons on every tier

Trial

7 days

Billing: monthly. Model: tiers.

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)
    Otterly.AI
    Lite $29/mo ($25 annual) covers 15 prompts on 4 engines; 25 prompts needs Standard at $189/mo

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    Otterly.AI
    Standard $189/mo ($160 annual) covers 100 prompts on 4 engines; Claude, Gemini and AI Mode are paid add-ons on top

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    Otterly.AI
    Standard or Premium with unlimited workspaces; no agency tier

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 Otterly.AI

  • No SOC 2. 'On our roadmap but no date has been set.' Source
  • Claude, Gemini and AI Mode cost extra. Paid add-ons by tier. Source
  • No content generation or publishing. Recommendations and briefs only. Source
  • Lite is capped at 15 prompts and 3 recommendations a week Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

Mentionova's column describes the product as shipped. The Otterly.AI 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.

    Otterly.AI

    Otterly.AI names 7 engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Claude. Four engines in every plan; Claude, AI Mode and Gemini are paid add-ons. Run cadence: daily on all plans.

    EdgeOtterly tracks daily but ships four engines in base plans; Claude, Gemini and AI Mode cost extra. Mentionova's Scale plan has six. Otterly on cadence, Mentionova on coverage.

  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.

    Otterly.AI

    Otterly.AI reports brand mentions, brand coverage, average position, share of voice, citations, sentiment, brand visibility index. Prompt volume or demand data: yes, published as a feature. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeA similar set. Otterly adds a brand visibility index; Mentionova adds 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.

    Otterly.AI

    Content briefs, content audit, GEO optimisation and recommendations (3 a week on Lite); no content generation or publishing (otterly.ai/features) Automation: No autonomous agents; MCP write tools for external AI.

    EdgeOtterly gives recommendations (three a week on Lite) and content briefs; it doesn't draft or publish. Mentionova does both. 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.

    Otterly.AI

    Otterly.AI tracks Reddit: yes. Reply drafting isn't published.

    EdgeBoth track Reddit as a source. Mentionova also drafts 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.

    Otterly.AI

    Separate workspaces per client with isolated reporting; unlimited workspaces from Standard; partner directory; no agency tier. Reporting: Looker Studio connector for white-label client dashboards (Standard and up), reports and CSV exports.

    EdgeOtterly has unlimited workspaces from Standard and white-label through Looker; Mentionova has priced workspaces and native white-label. Even.

  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.

    Otterly.AI

    Otterly.AI lists 5 integrations: Looker Studio, Public API, MCP server, Claude skill, CSV. API: included. MCP: included.

    EdgeOtterly: Looker, API, MCP, CSV. Mentionova: 38 connectors, Search Console and GA4, CMS publishing, API, MCP. Mentionova.

  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.

    Otterly.AI

    Site audit: included. Crawler log analytics: included. Security: GDPR; AWS Frankfurt; TLS 1.2; encryption at rest; SAML SSO for Enterprise; SOC 2 'on our roadmap but no date has been set'.

    EdgeOtterly has GEO audits and a crawlability checker; Mentionova runs 42 checks. Mentionova.

06 · Credit where due

Where Otterly.AI is the better choice.

4 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

    Lowest entry price in the category$29 a month with daily tracking and unlimited team members.

    Source
  2. 02

    Public API and MCP with write toolsDocumented OpenAPI.

    Source
  3. 03

    Seventy-plus countriesPer-engine country support.

    Source
  4. 04

    Unlimited client workspaces from StandardLooker Studio white-label dashboards.

    Source

07 · Switching

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

What won't transfer

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

Otterly.AI's entry plan is Lite at $29/mo ($25 annual), which buys 15 prompts; ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot; 1 workspace; 3 recommendations a week; daily tracking; unlimited team members. 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.

At the entry point, yes: Lite is $29 a month for 15 prompts on four engines. At 100 prompts with Claude and Gemini added, Otterly's Standard plan plus add-ons lands near Mentionova's Scale plan at $320 a month billed annually, which also includes the content workflow and Reddit.

Its help centre says a SOC 2 Type II audit is on the roadmap with no date set, while its data is hosted in AWS Frankfurt under GDPR. Mentionova doesn't publish a compliance page; ask us for the current position.

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 Otterly.AI history stays in your Otterly.AI exports.

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

Otterly.AI: daily on all plans. Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every Otterly.AI fact comes from Otterly.AI'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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