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Compared on fifteen questions · checked 10 Oct 2026

Mentionova vs Writesonic

A writing tool that grew a GEO platform, or a GEO platform built around agents?

Choose Writesonic if you want white-label on your own domain and agency SOWs.

Choose Mentionova if you want Claude, Perplexity and Reddit without buying Enterprise.

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

Case file · writesonicChecked 10 Oct 2026
MentionovaWritesonic

Engines

6

3 on Starter

8

named on its site

Runs

Weekly to monthly

opportunities nightly

Daily

From

$99/mo

billed annually

$79/mo

Starter

Trial

14 days

no card

7 days

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

02 · The short answer

Who each one is for.

Writesonic, the 2021 Y Combinator writing tool, now sells an AI search growth engine: daily tracking, three engines on self-serve plans and eight on Enterprise, an Action Center with on-page, off-page and technical fixes, AI articles, site audits, bot analytics, full white-label on your own domain, and SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR statements. Starter is $79 a month.

Writesonic describes itself as “AI SEARCH GROWTH ENGINE” and leads with “Win customers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google, Microsoft Copilot, Grok AI search.”.

Founded
2021; Y Combinator S21
Based in
San Francisco
Funding
$2.6M in 2021; profitable since
Sells to
Enterprises, agencies and growth brands

Choose Writesonic if

  1. 01

    You want white-label on your own domain and agency SOWs.

  2. 02

    Procurement needs SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.

  3. 03

    Off-page outreach with contact data attached is your main gap.

Choose Mentionova if

  1. 01

    You want Claude, Perplexity and Reddit without buying Enterprise.

  2. 02

    You want the full action layer on the plan you pay for, not a trial of it.

  3. 03

    You prefer a 14-day trial on six engines over a trial on three.

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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 2026Writesonicfrom 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: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews. Pricing: Starter/Basic/Growth track only "ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews"; Enterprise tracks "all 8 AI platforms". Homepage additionally names DeepSeek and Meta AI, "50+ markets, 50+ languages". Tracker page: "Web UI tracking (not API-based); crawls like a real user"; docs: "Why We Monitor Real AI Platforms, Not Just APIs".
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 tracking across all platforms" (writesonic.com/ai-visibility-tracker); plan limits expressed as "answers tracked daily" (pricing)
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: Visibility score, Citations, Sentiment and themes by platform, Share of voice / competitive benchmarking, Prompt-level performance, Predicted prompt volume, GEO Content Score, AI bot visits / human visits / bot error rate.
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.
Yes: Action Center: "On-page actions that make AI cite your content."; "15+ GEO levers: structure, FAQs, freshness, comparison tables"; "One click pushes to your CMS."; off-page: "Sites citing competitors, not you. Ranked by domain rating."; technical: "Technical barriers that prevent AI from seeing your content." (https://writesonic.com/ai-visibility-action-center). AI articles 15/25/50 per month by plan; Content Optimization (docs changelog); Article Writer "10 phases, 80+ steps" (compare page).
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: Action Center: "On-page actions that make AI cite your content."; "15+ GEO levers: structure, FAQs, freshness, comparison tables"; "One click pushes to your CMS."; off-page: "Sites citing competitors, not you. Ranked by domain rating."; technical: "Technical barriers that prevent AI from seeing your content." (https://writesonic.com/ai-visibility-action-center). AI articles 15/25/50 per month by plan; Content Optimization (docs changelog); Article Writer "10 phases, 80+ steps" (compare page).
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: "Branded reports with your agency's logo, colors, and domain."; "Isolated projects per client."; "Client-facing dashboards"; "Define permissions by role."; "One invoice for all client projects."; "Pre-Built SOWs" (writesonic.com/agencies); Pitch Projects for Agencies, RBAC (docs changelog); "50+ agencies running client programs on Writesonic" (compare page).. Reporting: "PDF, CSV, or shareable reports" (tracker page); white label: "Replace all Writesonic branding with your agency's logo, name, and visual identity"; "Deploy the GEO platform on your own domain"; branded reports/exports (docs.writesonic.com/changelog/white-labelfor-geo-platform); Looker Studio integration for GEO data (docs)..
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: WordPress, Sanity, Contentful, Contentstack, Drupal, Vercel, Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, Google Cloud CDN, Google Search Console, Google Search, Google Keyword Planner, Ahrefs, Google Analytics, Looker Studio, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, LinkedIn, YouTube, Public API, Chrome Extension, Zapier, Slack, 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.
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, no card. 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: Starter: $79/mo as displayed with the annual toggle (its own compare page says from $99/mo). ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; 50 prompts; 15 AI articles a month; 10 site audits; 1 user, 1 project.
What the first invoice buys.

Checked 10 Oct 2026 · Writesonic 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. Writesonic's numbers come from writesonic.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

Writesonic

Pricing page
Starter

$79/mo as displayed with the annual toggle (its own compare page says from $99/mo)

ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; 50 prompts; 15 AI articles a month; 10 site audits; 1 user, 1 project

Growth

$399/mo: 200 prompts, 50 articles, 3 users, 2 projects, an Action Center trial of 5 on-page and 5 off-page actions a month (Basic $199/mo sits between)

Enterprise

custom: all 8 engines, the full Action Center, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, SSO

Trial

7 days, no card

Billing: annual as displayed. 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)
    Writesonic
    Starter $79/mo as displayed (annual): 50 prompts, 3 engines, 15 articles

  2. Buyer 02

    One brand, 100 prompts, every engine

    Mentionova
    Scale, $320/mo billed annually ($400 monthly): 100 prompts on all six engines
    Writesonic
    Growth $399/mo: 200 prompts, still 3 engines; all 8 need Enterprise

  3. Buyer 03

    An agency with ten client workspaces

    Mentionova
    Growth, $799/mo billed annually ($999 monthly): 10 workspaces, 200 prompts, six engines
    Writesonic
    Agency pricing on request; white-label and SOWs included

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 Writesonic

  • Only 3 engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, AIO) on all self-serve plans; 8 engines Enterprise-only Source
  • Action Center is a "trial (5 off-page + 5 on-page actions/month)" on Growth and absent on Starter/Basic; "Full Action Center" Enterprise-only Source
  • Agentic workflows metered as "trial runs" (10/50/100) below Enterprise Source
  • SOC 2 / SSO / HIPAA listed under Enterprise plan only; /security and /trust 404; docs changelog entries carry no dates Source

05 · Criterion by criterion

Seven things that actually differ.

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

    Writesonic

    Writesonic names 8 engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews. Pricing: Starter/Basic/Growth track only "ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews"; Enterprise tracks "all 8 AI platforms". Homepage additionally names DeepSeek and Meta AI, "50+ markets, 50+ languages". Tracker page: "Web UI tracking (not API-based); crawls like a real user"; docs: "Why We Monitor Real AI Platforms, Not Just APIs". Run cadence: "Daily tracking across all platforms" (writesonic.com/ai-visibility-tracker); plan limits expressed as "answers tracked daily" (pricing).

    EdgeWritesonic's self-serve plans track ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews; eight engines are Enterprise-only. Mentionova's Scale has six. Mentionova below Enterprise.

  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.

    Writesonic

    Writesonic reports Visibility score, Citations, Sentiment and themes by platform, Share of voice / competitive benchmarking, Prompt-level performance, Predicted prompt volume, GEO Content Score, AI bot visits / human visits / bot error rate. Prompt volume or demand data: yes, published as a feature. Typed change alerts: not published as a feature.

    EdgeWritesonic adds predicted prompt volume and a GEO content score; 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.

    Writesonic

    Action Center: "On-page actions that make AI cite your content."; "15+ GEO levers: structure, FAQs, freshness, comparison tables"; "One click pushes to your CMS."; off-page: "Sites citing competitors, not you. Ranked by domain rating."; technical: "Technical barriers that prevent AI from seeing your content." (https://writesonic.com/ai-visibility-action-center). AI articles 15/25/50 per month by plan; Content Optimization (docs changelog); Article Writer "10 phases, 80+ steps" (compare page). Automation: Content Agent, Outreach Agent (homepage); "AI agents find what's hurting your visibility, prioritize fixes by impact"; "Found, fixed, auto-applied where possible." (action-center page); agentic workflows metered as "trial runs" below Enterprise (pricing); SEO AI Agent chat (docs)..

    EdgeBoth draft articles and push to a CMS. Writesonic's Action Center is a trial of five on-page and five off-page actions a month on Growth, and full only on Enterprise; Mentionova's opportunities and briefs are on every plan. 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.

    Writesonic

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

    EdgeBoth draft Reddit replies in your voice. Even.

  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.

    Writesonic

    "Branded reports with your agency's logo, colors, and domain."; "Isolated projects per client."; "Client-facing dashboards"; "Define permissions by role."; "One invoice for all client projects."; "Pre-Built SOWs" (writesonic.com/agencies); Pitch Projects for Agencies, RBAC (docs changelog); "50+ agencies running client programs on Writesonic" (compare page).. Reporting: "PDF, CSV, or shareable reports" (tracker page); white label: "Replace all Writesonic branding with your agency's logo, name, and visual identity"; "Deploy the GEO platform on your own domain"; branded reports/exports (docs.writesonic.com/changelog/white-labelfor-geo-platform); Looker Studio integration for GEO data (docs)..

    EdgeWritesonic offers white-label on a custom domain, SOWs, RBAC and one invoice; Mentionova has priced workspaces and white-label share links. Writesonic for white-label depth.

  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.

    Writesonic

    Writesonic lists 28 integrations: WordPress, Sanity, Contentful, Contentstack, Drupal, Vercel, Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, Google Cloud CDN, Google Search Console, Google Search, Google Keyword Planner, Ahrefs, Google Analytics, Looker Studio, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, LinkedIn, YouTube, Public API, Chrome Extension, Zapier, Slack, MCP. API: included. MCP: included.

    EdgeWritesonic lists 20-plus: five CMSs, six CDNs, Looker, Ahrefs, 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.

    Writesonic

    Site audit: included. Crawler log analytics: included. Security: Compare page: "SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, SSO, Microsoft Azure-hosted". Pricing (Enterprise): "SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, SSO/SAML". Tracker page: "AICPA SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA compliant; Single Sign-On". writesonic.com/security and /trust return 404..

    EdgeBoth run site audits; Writesonic adds AI bot analytics. Writesonic, narrowly.

06 · Credit where due

Where Writesonic 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 cheapest plan that bundles tracking, 15 articles and site audits: Starter at $79

    Source
  2. 02

    The fullest security statements on this page: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, SSO

    Source
  3. 03

    White-label on your own domain, agency SOWs, role permissions and one invoice

    Source
  4. 04

    Off-page actions with author, page and contact attached, and Reddit reply drafts in your voice

    Source
  5. 05

    Twenty-plus native integrations across five CMSs and six CDNs, plus AI bot analytics

    Source

07 · Switching

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

What won't transfer

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

Writesonic's entry plan is Starter at $79/mo as displayed with the annual toggle (its own compare page says from $99/mo), which buys ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; 50 prompts; 15 AI articles a month; 10 site audits; 1 user, 1 project. 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.

ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. All eight, including Claude and Perplexity, are Enterprise-only. Mentionova's Scale plan tracks six including Claude, Perplexity and Reddit.

No. The roughly 2,000 G2 and Capterra reviews cover the whole Writesonic product, including the original AI writing tool. We've left review counts off this page for that reason.

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 Writesonic history stays in your Writesonic exports.

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

Writesonic: "Daily tracking across all platforms" (writesonic.com/ai-visibility-tracker); plan limits expressed as "answers tracked daily" (pricing). Mentionova runs each workspace weekly, every two weeks or monthly, recomputes opportunities nightly and logs drift events between runs.

Every Writesonic fact comes from Writesonic'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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