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A Mention alternative for the $49–179 plans it retired
If you were on Mention's Solo, Pro or ProPlus plan, you already know: those tiers are gone. Here's what Mention sells now, what it still does better than us, and an honest read on whether ReplyWell fits the gap you're actually trying to fill.
What happened to Mention's indie tiers
In July 2025, Mention retired its self-serve plans — Solo ($49/mo), Pro ($99/mo) and ProPlus ($179/mo). As of our last check (July 11, 2026), Mention's own pricing page offers new customers a single Company Plan with no public price on the page; third-party price trackers put it at $599/mo, billed annually — roughly $7,188/yr. In January 2026 Mention also retired its publishing and engagement features, pointing those users to Agorapulse.
None of that is a scandal — it's a company choosing to sell upmarket. But it means everyone who was paying $49–179 for monitoring plus a reasonable workflow got left without a home, and "get a demo" is now the only door in.
| Tool | Entry price | Billing | Hacker News | Bluesky | X / Twitter | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ReplyWell | €19/mo¹ | Monthly or annual, cancel anytime | Yes | Yes | Coming (not live yet) | A disclosed reply draft, ready to post |
| Mention Company | ~$599/mo² | Annual only, sales-assisted | — | — | Yes | Brand-monitoring suite for teams |
¹ Starter tier; paid checkout isn't open yet — Starter and Pro show a waitlist today, never a charge. The Free tier is live: €0, ≈15 drafts/mo from Hacker News, Bluesky and Lobsters, no card.
² Third-party price trackers, read 2026-07-11 — Mention's own page no longer publishes a number. Source coverage row fetched 2026-07-09.
Where Mention still wins
- X / Twitter and broad social-network coverage — we don't read X today
- Brand-suite analytics: sentiment, share of voice, reports
- Team and agency workflows, with sales-assisted onboarding
- If you have a ~$7k/yr monitoring budget, Mention's Company plan is a real product for it
Where ReplyWell wins
- A price that exists in the middle: €0 / €19 / €49, self-serve, monthly, cancel anytime — no demo call
- Hacker News, Bluesky and Lobsters — read via open, official APIs that no vendor can revoke
- The output is a drafted, disclosed reply, not a mention in a dashboard
- You post everything yourself — no auto-posting, ever
Why a €19 tier can hold here
The three sources ReplyWell reads today — Hacker News, Bluesky and Lobsters — publish open, official, free APIs. Reading them at scale costs us nearly nothing and depends on no commercial data license, so the €19 tier isn't a loss-leader waiting for an upmarket pivot; it's priced on what the reads actually cost. Where a platform would charge for access (Reddit, X), we simply don't sell it yet — the pricing page says exactly what you get, and the Datenschutz says exactly what we read.
What we don't do (read before switching)
ReplyWell is not a Mention replacement for brand monitoring. No X/Twitter reads today, no Reddit self-serve (both are on the roadmap, neither is live — we don't charge for promises), no sentiment dashboards, no team seats, no PDF reports. And our paid tiers aren't even purchasable yet: checkout opens only after our own engine publicly clears its proof gate — today the paid buttons join a waitlist, nothing more. What is live today, free: the three-source engine, intent scoring, and disclosed ready-to-post drafts.
See what the engine finds for your product — free, no card, no demo call.