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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs Rankability

Agency SEO software with AI tracking bolted on, or an agentic platform with GEO at the core?

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Case file · rankabilityChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaRankability

Engines

6

3 on Starter

11

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

Daily to monthly

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$97/mo

Starter

Trial

14 days

no card

Not published

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

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

Rankability is a St. Louis agency platform from Nathan Gotch: eleven AI engines plus Google, Bing, YouTube and TikTok, content projects with briefs and drafts, local scans, technical audits, unlimited client workspaces and agency-branded reports from $97 a month, with API and MCP on every plan. It isn't SOC 2 certified and publishes no trial.

Rankability describes itself as “The #1 AI search visibility platform for agencies” and leads with “Build the agency that wins in AI search.”.

Founded
2024
Based in
St. Louis, Missouri
Funding
Not published
Sells to
SEO agencies

Choose Rankability if

  1. 01

    You're an agency that wants unlimited client workspaces from $97.

  2. 02

    Local SEO, Google Business Profile and call tracking are part of the service.

  3. 03

    You want coaching bundled with the software.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want a 14-day trial on your own data before paying.

  2. 02

    Reddit tracking and engagement matter.

  3. 03

    You want nightly opportunity scoring and typed drift, not scheduled 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 2026Rankabilityfrom 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: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek, Meta AI. 11 AI answer engines (rankability.com/products/tracker/; help 'Supported tracking platforms'). Help page gates platforms by plan names "Core"/"Team"/"Agency" ("Core includes ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Claude"; "Agency includes all supported AI platforms") which do not match the pricing page's Starter/Agency/Agency Pro names. Also tracks Google Organic, Local Pack, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, YouTube, TikTok Search.
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, weekly, or monthly" (help supported-tracking-platforms); "Choose a recurring schedule when you set up tracking, or run a one-time report" (platform/ai-search-tracking)
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 Search Performance Score, Search Performance Index, Mentions, Citations, Sentiment, linked and unlinked brand mentions, Audit score, Content score, Page Quality Score, Agentic Search Readiness category.
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: Each content project includes "research, a brief, an outline, an AI-assisted draft, optimization guidance, and export" plus 2 AI revisions (pricing); modules Research / Create ("Turn client expertise into search-ready content") / Optimize ("Improve existing content for AI search") / Audit / Promote / Track (homepage, features); Copywriter batch optimization and WordPress export (changelog Sept 2026; help integrations)
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: Each content project includes "research, a brief, an outline, an AI-assisted draft, optimization guidance, and export" plus 2 AI revisions (pricing); modules Research / Create ("Turn client expertise into search-ready content") / Optimize ("Improve existing content for AI search") / Audit / Promote / Track (homepage, features); Copywriter batch optimization and WordPress export (changelog Sept 2026; help integrations)
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.
Not published: Not 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.
Yes: Unlimited client workspaces and team members on all plans; agency-branded reports; client portal; Lead Generator; local scans; priority support + onboarding (Agency+); "Gotch Inner Circle coaching" (Agency Pro annual). Reporting: "agency-branded reports" on all plans (pricing); client portal read-only; "A share link can open without a Rankability sign-in" (platform/ai-search-tracking); Lead Generator hosted reports (changelog). Looker Studio / Sheets export: 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: Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, Google Business Profile, Bing Webmaster Tools, YouTube, Google Drive, WordPress, Slack, CallRail, CallTrackingMetrics, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Zapier, Make, Agent API, MCP.
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.
No: Not offered.
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.
Not published: Trial: not published. Free plan: not published.
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: Starter: $97/mo ($970 a year). 20 content projects a month; 100 tracked AI queries; 50 Google keywords; 10 local scans; 20 page audits; 2 technical audits; unlimited client workspaces and team members; API and MCP; branded reports.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · Rankability 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. Rankability's numbers come from rankability.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

Rankability

Pricing page
Starter

$97/mo ($970 a year)

20 content projects a month; 100 tracked AI queries; 50 Google keywords; 10 local scans; 20 page audits; 2 technical audits; unlimited client workspaces and team members; API and MCP; branded reports

Agency

$297/mo ($2,970 a year): 80 content projects, 300 tracked queries, 10 technical audits

Agency Pro

$497/mo ($4,970 a year): 160 content projects, 500 tracked queries, 25 technical audits

Enterprise

custom on request

Trial

not published

Billing: monthly or annual (annual is ten months). Model: tiers, monthly or annual.

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)
    Rankability
    Starter $97/mo: 100 tracked AI queries, 20 content projects

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    Rankability
    Agency $297/mo: 300 tracked queries, 80 content projects

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    Rankability
    Agency Pro $497/mo; unlimited client workspaces on every 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 Rankability

  • "Rankability is not yet SOC 2 Type II certified" Source
  • Tracked AI queries capped at 100/300/500 and "Active tracking slots do not reset monthly" Source
  • Plan names in help docs (Core/Team/Agency) contradict pricing page Source
  • No free trial, no prompt volume data, no Reddit or bot analytics published Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

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

    Rankability

    Rankability names 11 engines: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Brave AI, DeepSeek, Meta AI. 11 AI answer engines (rankability.com/products/tracker/; help 'Supported tracking platforms'). Help page gates platforms by plan names "Core"/"Team"/"Agency" ("Core includes ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Claude"; "Agency includes all supported AI platforms") which do not match the pricing page's Starter/Agency/Agency Pro names. Also tracks Google Organic, Local Pack, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, YouTube, TikTok Search. Run cadence: "daily, weekly, or monthly" (help supported-tracking-platforms); "Choose a recurring schedule when you set up tracking, or run a one-time report" (platform/ai-search-tracking).

    EdgeRankability tracks eleven AI engines plus traditional surfaces, daily to monthly; Mentionova six. Rankability on breadth, though its help docs gate platforms by plan.

  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.

    Rankability

    Rankability reports AI Search Performance Score, Search Performance Index, Mentions, Citations, Sentiment, linked and unlinked brand mentions, Audit score, Content score, Page Quality Score, Agentic Search Readiness category. Prompt volume or demand data: not published. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeRankability has a Search Performance Index blending traditional, video, AI and local; Mentionova has seven AI metrics 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.

    Rankability

    Each content project includes "research, a brief, an outline, an AI-assisted draft, optimization guidance, and export" plus 2 AI revisions (pricing); modules Research / Create ("Turn client expertise into search-ready content") / Optimize ("Improve existing content for AI search") / Audit / Promote / Track (homepage, features); Copywriter batch optimization and WordPress export (changelog Sept 2026; help integrations) Automation: "Serena" — "Turn client evidence into AI SEO priorities"; "Automate" — "Save time on recurring content and monitoring work", incl. "Automate: Google Reviews" approval-based replies (changelog); MCP with "122 general-account tools" for Claude and Codex (help mcp-getting-started); Agent API; Lead Generator hosted AI-visibility reports with lead capture (changelog Sept 2026).

    EdgeBoth brief, draft, optimise and export. Rankability counts content projects (20 on Starter); Mentionova counts agentic tasks (100 on Starter). Even.

  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.

    Rankability

    Rankability doesn't publish Reddit tracking on any page we fetched.

    EdgeRankability doesn't publish Reddit tracking. 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.

    Rankability

    Unlimited client workspaces and team members on all plans; agency-branded reports; client portal; Lead Generator; local scans; priority support + onboarding (Agency+); "Gotch Inner Circle coaching" (Agency Pro annual). Reporting: "agency-branded reports" on all plans (pricing); client portal read-only; "A share link can open without a Rankability sign-in" (platform/ai-search-tracking); Lead Generator hosted reports (changelog). Looker Studio / Sheets export: not published..

    EdgeRankability includes unlimited client workspaces, branded reports and a client portal on every plan; Mentionova counts workspaces per plan. Rankability.

  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.

    Rankability

    Rankability lists 17 integrations: Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, Google Business Profile, Bing Webmaster Tools, YouTube, Google Drive, WordPress, Slack, CallRail, CallTrackingMetrics, Asana, ClickUp, monday.com, Zapier, Make, Agent API, MCP. API: included. MCP: included.

    EdgeRankability: Search Console, GA4, Google Business Profile, Bing, CallRail, Asana, ClickUp, Zapier, Make, API, MCP with 122 tools. Mentionova: 38 connectors, API, MCP with 56 tools. 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.

    Rankability

    Site audit: included. Crawler log analytics: not offered. Security: "Rankability is not yet SOC 2 Type II certified" (rankability.com/trust/); "TLS 1.2+ on all connections"; "AES-256-GCM for OAuth tokens; SHA-256 hashing for API keys"; audit logs 7-year retention (trust). Privacy: SCCs and EU-US Data Privacy Framework; "TLS 1.2 or later for data in transit, AES-256 for data at rest" (privacy). SSO: not published..

    EdgeBoth run technical audits. Rankability counts them per plan (two on Starter); Mentionova runs 42 checks. Even.

06 · Credit where due

Where Rankability 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

    Eleven AI engines plus Google, Bing, YouTube and TikTok on one tracker

    Source
  2. 02

    Unlimited client workspaces and team members from $97 a month

    Source
  3. 03

    Tracking and content production in one subscription

    Source
  4. 04

    Zapier, Make, Google Business Profile, CallRail, Asana, ClickUp and monday.com integrations

    Source
  5. 05

    An MCP with 122 tools and a changelog shipping lead-generation reports

    Source

07 · Switching

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

What won't transfer

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

Rankability's entry plan is Starter at $97/mo ($970 a year), which buys 20 content projects a month; 100 tracked AI queries; 50 Google keywords; 10 local scans; 20 page audits; 2 technical audits; unlimited client workspaces and team members; API and MCP; branded reports. 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.

None is published on its pricing or billing pages as of 10 October 2026. Mentionova's trial is 14 days, no card.

Its trust page says it is not yet SOC 2 Type II certified, and describes TLS 1.2+, AES-256 and seven-year audit logs. 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 Rankability history stays in your Rankability exports.

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

Rankability: "daily, weekly, or monthly" (help supported-tracking-platforms); "Choose a recurring schedule when you set up tracking, or run a one-time report" (platform/ai-search-tracking). Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every Rankability fact comes from Rankability'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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