Mention gates API access behind the Company Plan at $599 per month on an annual contract, then treats the REST integration as a paid upgrade with no public rate card. Legacy Solo and Pro tiers are closed to new customers. This page isolates what programmatic Mention access costs before a demo call.
Mention sells social listening and media monitoring to PR and marketing teams. The REST API at dev.mention.com lets those teams export mention data into custom dashboards, data warehouses, and client portals. API access is not a developer product with a public rate card. It is a contract upgrade on top of the Company Plan.
For the multi-vendor landscape, see the social listening API pricing comparison. For credit-metered enterprise APIs, see Talkwalker API pricing.
Mention's public pricing page lists one purchasable tier for new customers:
| Plan | Price | Billing | Users | Mentions/month | Alerts | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company Plan | $599 | Annual contract only | Unlimited | 50,000 | 5 | Paid upgrade |
Mention advertises annual billing with a two-month discount equivalent. There is no monthly self-serve checkout on the Company Plan. Demos and quotes route through sales.
API access, historical data, and expanded mention quota appear as upgrades rather than default inclusions. Exact API pricing requires a sales conversation.
Before July 2025, Mention sold self-serve Solo, Pro, and Pro Plus plans with lower entry prices. Those tiers are documented in Mention's help center for existing subscribers but are not sold to new customers.
| Legacy plan | Former price | API status | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo | $49/month | Not available | Discontinued for new signups |
| Pro | $99/month | Not on base plan | Discontinued for new signups |
| Pro Plus | $179/month | Not on base plan | Discontinued for new signups |
| Company Lite | Contract-based | Varies by contract | Not available for new customers |
Existing legacy subscribers retain access under their contract terms. New integrations should assume the Company Plan floor.
Mention documents a REST API with OAuth authentication. Typical workflows pull mention objects that match configured alerts: source URL, author, reach estimate, sentiment label, language, and engagement counts where available. The API mirrors UI query results. It does not unlock sources or keywords beyond the subscription scope.
Common integration patterns:
Endpoint reference and authentication flows live at dev.mention.com. Full documentation access may require an enabled API upgrade on the account.
The $599/month Company Plan is a floor, not a ceiling. Mention sells several extensions that affect API budgets:
| Add-on | Availability | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| API access | Company Plan upgrade | Contact sales (unpublished) |
| Historical data | Company Plan upgrade | Contact sales (unpublished) |
| Additional mention quota | Company Plan | Contact sales |
| Additional alerts | Company Plan | Contact sales |
Mention also retired native Publish and Respond features in January 2026. Teams that need social publishing or inbox management must budget for a separate Agorapulse subscription, a sister product Mention recommends in its help documentation.
Because API pricing is unpublished, procurement teams should model a conservative range:
| Cost component | Low estimate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Company Plan (annual) | $7,188/year ($599/mo) | Published list price |
| API upgrade | Unknown | Sales-quoted; no public flat fee |
| Historical data | Unknown | Optional backfill add-on |
| Agorapulse (if publishing needed) | $948+/year | Separate product; 1-user Standard cited at $79/mo annual |
A realistic API integration budget starts above $7,188 per year before the API line item is quoted. Compare against Brand24, which publishes a $99/month API add-on on top of a $499/month annual Business plan ($7,176/year all-in).
Mention sits between mid-market self-serve tools and enterprise social listening contracts.
| Vendor | API entry path | Published API minimum |
|---|---|---|
| Mention | Company Plan + sales-quoted API | ~$599/mo base (API extra) |
| Brand24 | Business + $99/mo add-on | ~$598/mo all-in (annual) |
| Talkwalker | Enterprise platform + credits | ~$9,600/year reported entry |
| Meltwater | Sales-led, bundled | ~$6,000+/year reported |
| Trends MCP | Self-serve REST/MCP | $0 (100 requests/month free) |
Mention wins on brand monitoring breadth at a mid-market price point relative to Brandwatch or Talkwalker. It loses on pricing transparency: Brand24 publishes API add-on costs; Mention does not.
Three shifts matter for teams evaluating Mention API access in 2026:
Verify current product status with Mention sales before signing an annual contract intended primarily for API access.
Mention fits mention monitoring: tracking brand variants, competitor names, and executive mentions with sentiment labels and alert routing. It does not answer every trend research question.
Teams that need any of the following may pay less elsewhere:
Trends MCP returns normalized time series and live feeds across 15+ sources from one POST endpoint. The free tier allows 100 requests per month. That path does not replace Mention's mention archive, review-site coverage, or white-label PDF reports. It covers the demand-signal layer that precedes mention volume.
For teams that need both, a common split is Mention for owned-brand mention alerts and Trends MCP for category-level demand signals that show up in search and social growth data before they become tracked mentions.
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