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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs Rankscale

The cheapest credit-based tracker with white-label, or tracking plus the agents that act?

Choose Rankscale if you want the lowest entry price with API and MCP included.

Choose Mentionova if you want gaps turned into briefs and drafts, not beta recommendations.

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

Case file · rankscaleChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaRankscale

Engines

6

3 on Starter

11

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

8 schedules

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$17/mo

Essentials

Trial

14 days

no card

7 days

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

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

Rankscale is a Vienna-built AI visibility tracker: from $17 a month, eleven-plus engines metered by credits, eight monitoring schedules, a Looker Studio connector, REST API and MCP on every plan, and white-label dashboards from the Growth tier. Recommendations are in beta; there is no content generation, publishing or crawler analytics.

Rankscale describes itself as “The AI Visibility Platform” and leads with “Own Your AI Presence”.

Founded
October 2024
Based in
Vienna
Funding
Not published
Sells to
Agencies, enterprise and multi-brand SEO teams

Choose Rankscale if

  1. 01

    You want the lowest entry price with API and MCP included.

  2. 02

    You run many brands and need white-label dashboards with unlimited seats.

  3. 03

    You want Grok, Mistral, Copilot and DeepSeek tracked.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want gaps turned into briefs and drafts, not beta recommendations.

  2. 02

    You want Reddit engagement and a site audit in the same tool.

  3. 03

    You'd rather not meter engines × prompts in credits.

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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 2026Rankscalefrom 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, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Meta Muse Spark, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, Mistral. Homepage claims "17+ engines total"; changelog shows GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol (2026-10-02) and Meta Muse Spark (2026-09-27) added. Credit mechanics: "Each time Rankscale queries an AI engine, it uses a fraction of a credit (typically 0.25)." Enterprise page: "no per-engine surcharges".
Which engines your buyers use; whether Starter's three are enough.
Scheduled runs
Yes: weekly, every two weeks or monthly; opportunities recomputed nightly.
Yes: "8 Monitoring Schedules" / "8 monitoring schedules per brand"; "Detect shifts instantly" (homepage, enterprise page). Specific daily/weekly definitions not published.
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 visibility score, Share of voice, Sentiment, Citations, Rankings / position, Mentions, Coverage, Query fanouts, Shopping & ads visibility, Local Results.
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: "Actionable recommendations (beta)" (homepage); "Gap Analysis & Recommendations: Pinpoint which areas need improvement - with content recommendations" (rankscale.ai/llms-full.txt); page audits with "94+ technical checkpoints" (homepage). No content generation or publishing on fetched pages.
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. "Actionable recommendations (beta)" (homepage); "Gap Analysis & Recommendations: Pinpoint which areas need improvement - with content recommendations" (rankscale.ai/llms-full.txt); page audits with "94+ technical checkpoints" (homepage). No content generation or publishing on fetched pages.
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.
Yes: "Multi-brand management from single dashboard"; "Role-based access with shared workspaces"; "White-label reporting and exports for agencies"; "Per-client configuration (engines, regions, schedules)" (rankscale.ai/enterprise-ai-visibility-platform); unlimited seats "no per-seat charges" (pricing); vetted Agency Directory; affiliate program.. Reporting: White-label dashboards: "Share Links only" on Pro/Pro+, "Included" on Growth/Enterprise (pricing). API page: "Public dashboard sharing and shareable links". Looker connector: "deliver branded reports to stakeholders on a regular cadence". llms-full.txt: "export their analysis reports as a PDF or send them via email"..
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: GA4, Google Search Console, Google Looker Studio / Data Studio connector, REST Metrics 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.
Yes: Trial: Pro free for 7 days. 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: Essentials: $17/mo billed yearly. limited credits; the feature list isn't published.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · Rankscale 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. Rankscale's numbers come from rankscale.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

Rankscale

Pricing page
Essentials

$17/mo billed yearly

limited credits; the feature list isn't published

Pro

$99/mo: 1,200 credits (up to 4,800 AI answers), 10 brand dashboards, 50 page audits. Pro+ $229/mo adds the REST API; Growth $385/mo adds white-label

Enterprise

$780/mo: 12,000 credits, 100 dashboards

$780/mo, or a custom plan

Trial

Pro free for 7 days

Billing: annual. Model: prompt credits (about a quarter credit per engine query).

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)
    Rankscale
    Essentials $17/mo yearly (limited credits) or Pro $99/mo: 1,200 credits, up to 4,800 AI answers

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    Rankscale
    Pro+ $229/mo (3,000 credits) or Growth $385/mo (5,500 credits, white-label included)

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    Rankscale
    Growth $385/mo (50 dashboards) or Enterprise $780/mo (100 dashboards)

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 Rankscale

  • Recommendations are "(beta)" and GA4/Search Console integration is "(beta)" Source
  • No content generation, briefs or CMS publishing on any fetched page — tracking plus audits only Source
  • No crawler/bot analytics feature on fetched pages Source
  • API page: "Expanding soon"; no endpoint docs, rate limits or docs URL (rankscale.ai/api); /features and /product return 404 Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

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

    Rankscale

    Rankscale names 11 engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Meta Muse Spark, DeepSeek, Grok, Copilot, Mistral. Homepage claims "17+ engines total"; changelog shows GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol (2026-10-02) and Meta Muse Spark (2026-09-27) added. Credit mechanics: "Each time Rankscale queries an AI engine, it uses a fraction of a credit (typically 0.25)." Enterprise page: "no per-engine surcharges". Run cadence: "8 Monitoring Schedules" / "8 monitoring schedules per brand"; "Detect shifts instantly" (homepage, enterprise page). Specific daily/weekly definitions not published..

    EdgeRankscale tracks eleven-plus engines with eight schedules per brand; Mentionova six. Rankscale.

  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.

    Rankscale

    Rankscale reports AI visibility score, Share of voice, Sentiment, Citations, Rankings / position, Mentions, Coverage, Query fanouts, Shopping & ads visibility, Local Results. Prompt volume or demand data: yes, published as a feature. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeRankscale adds local and shopping visibility; Mentionova adds typed drift and nightly opportunity scores. 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.

    Rankscale

    "Actionable recommendations (beta)" (homepage); "Gap Analysis & Recommendations: Pinpoint which areas need improvement - with content recommendations" (rankscale.ai/llms-full.txt); page audits with "94+ technical checkpoints" (homepage). No content generation or publishing on fetched pages. Automation: "Competitor auto-identification" (homepage); MCP can "create paused search terms" and "running tracking that spends credits" under separate permission (rankscale.ai/mcp). No autonomous agents..

    EdgeRankscale's recommendations are in beta and there is no drafting or publishing. Mentionova writes briefs and drafts and pushes them. 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.

    Rankscale

    Rankscale tracks Reddit: yes. Reply drafting isn't published.

    EdgeRankscale surfaces Reddit citations. Mentionova tracks Reddit as an engine and 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.

    Rankscale

    "Multi-brand management from single dashboard"; "Role-based access with shared workspaces"; "White-label reporting and exports for agencies"; "Per-client configuration (engines, regions, schedules)" (rankscale.ai/enterprise-ai-visibility-platform); unlimited seats "no per-seat charges" (pricing); vetted Agency Directory; affiliate program.. Reporting: White-label dashboards: "Share Links only" on Pro/Pro+, "Included" on Growth/Enterprise (pricing). API page: "Public dashboard sharing and shareable links". Looker connector: "deliver branded reports to stakeholders on a regular cadence". llms-full.txt: "export their analysis reports as a PDF or send them via email"..

    EdgeRankscale has white-label dashboards, unlimited seats and per-client configuration; Mentionova has priced workspaces and white-label share links. 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.

    Rankscale

    Rankscale lists 5 integrations: GA4, Google Search Console, Google Looker Studio / Data Studio connector, REST Metrics API, MCP. API: included. MCP: included.

    EdgeRankscale: GA4 and Search Console in beta, Looker, API, MCP. Mentionova: 38 connectors, API, MCP, CMS publishing. 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.

    Rankscale

    Site audit: included. Crawler log analytics: not offered. Security: "Industry-standard encryption in transit and at rest"; "Data used only for your analyses - never sold or shared" (enterprise page). Privacy policy: GDPR Art. 6 bases, hosting on "Google Cloud Platform (Iowa, us-central1)", EU-U.S. DPF + SCCs. SOC 2 / SSO: not published; /security 404..

    EdgeRankscale's page audits list 94 checkpoints; Mentionova runs 42 site-level checks. Rankscale on page depth; neither ingests bot logs.

06 · Credit where due

Where Rankscale 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 lowest entry price here at $17 a month, plus a seven-day Pro trial

    Source
  2. 02

    API, MCP and a Looker Studio connector published with plan mapping; MCP on every plan

    Source
  3. 03

    Ten changelog entries in three weeks, including new engines and API endpoints

    Source
  4. 04

    White-label dashboards, unlimited seats and per-client engine and region settings for agencies

    Source
  5. 05

    Page audits with 94-plus technical checkpoints

    Source

07 · Switching

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

What won't transfer

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

Rankscale's entry plan is Essentials at $17/mo billed yearly, which buys limited credits; the feature list isn't published. 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.

Each query to an AI engine uses a fraction of a credit, typically a quarter. Pro's 1,200 credits cover up to 4,800 answers a month, so the bill scales with prompts × engines × schedule. Mentionova prices by prompt count and engines per plan.

No. Its homepage lists actionable recommendations in beta and gap analysis with content recommendations; there is no drafting or CMS publishing on any page fetched on 10 October 2026.

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 Rankscale history stays in your Rankscale exports.

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

Rankscale: "8 Monitoring Schedules" / "8 monitoring schedules per brand"; "Detect shifts instantly" (homepage, enterprise page). Specific daily/weekly definitions not published.. Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every Rankscale fact comes from Rankscale'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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