Alertmouse vs Monitor Mentions: pricing and features
Alertmouse is a mention-alert tool co-founded by Rand Fishkin, built in Seattle as a better Google Alerts: exact-phrase and boolean rules, noise filtering, prioritised email alerts and graphs of mentions over time. Monitor Mentions shows who is posting about a consumer brand on Instagram, TikTok and Reddit, and how that compares with its competitors.
Still choosing? The brand mention tools buyer's guide sets the main tools side by side.
Alertmouse
- Category
- Web-wide mention alerts
- Coverage
- The open web, including news, blogs, forums, Reddit and social sites, with include and exclude rules
- Pricing
- Free for one alert and $10 to $100 a month billed annually (November 2026)
- Best for
- You want to know whenever your name, your company or your book is mentioned across the web, press and forums included, and you want the noise filtered out before it reaches your inbox.
Monitor Mentions
- Category
- Brand mention monitoring with competitor benchmarking
- Coverage
- Instagram for every brand we monitor, by hashtag, tagged tab and name. On paid plans, TikTok and news from Starter and Reddit from Growth, daily, for your brands and their competitors.
- Pricing
- Published on our pricing page, no sales call
- Best for
- You sell a consumer product and the people talking about it are on Instagram and TikTok, where a mention is a photo with a caption rather than a web page.
Alertmouse pricing
Read off Alertmouse's own pricing page in November 2026. Prices change, so check theirs before you buy.
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Nibble | Free | 1 alert, up to 10 mentions a day, 60 days of history |
| Slice | $120 a year ($10 a month) | 5 alerts, 3 users, unlimited mentions, MCP access |
| Wedge | $600 a year ($50 a month) | 50 alerts, 10 users, 2 years of history |
| Wheel | $1,200 a year ($100 a month) | 200 alerts, 100 users, API |
Paid plans are billed annually.
Where Alertmouse is the better choice
Cheap, accurate and quick to set up. The first alert is free for good, paid plans start at $10 a month with unlimited mentions, and the filtering is the point of the product. If you want to know when your name appears anywhere on the web, it is hard to beat for the money.
If that describes your situation, buy Alertmouse. We are not trying to be a broader tool than we are.
Where Monitor Mentions fits better
- Instagram posts that never tag the account, found through the brand's hashtags, tagged tab and name
- TikTok and Reddit mentions beside Instagram for priority brands and their competitor sets
- Your competitors measured on the same schedule, so a week of mentions has something to be compared with
- 1035 consumer brands already tracked, each with a free public page
Alertmouse vs Monitor Mentions: questions
Is Monitor Mentions a Alertmouse alternative?
For some jobs. Alertmouse covers The open web, including news, blogs, forums, Reddit and social sites, with include and exclude rules. Monitor Mentions covers brand mentions on Instagram, with TikTok and news from Starter and Reddit from Growth, and measures you against your competitors. If your customers post about you on Instagram and TikTok, we go deeper there; if you need the channels Alertmouse covers and we do not, Alertmouse is the better tool.
How much does Alertmouse cost?
Alertmouse is free for one alert and $10 to $100 a month billed annually, read off its own pricing page in November 2026. Paid plans are billed annually. Prices change, so check https://alertmouse.com/pricing before you buy.
How much does Monitor Mentions cost compared to Alertmouse?
Our prices are published on the pricing page, priced by the brands you monitor rather than by keywords or a monthly mention allowance, with no sales call.
When should I choose Alertmouse instead?
You want to know whenever your name, your company or your book is mentioned across the web, press and forums included, and you want the noise filtered out before it reaches your inbox.
What does Monitor Mentions track?
Who is posting about a brand: public Instagram posts by other accounts that name it, including the ones that never tag it, the creators behind them, and the same numbers for its competitors. 1035 consumer brands already have a public page, with follower counts and engagement read from their profiles.
Other comparisons
View all →Alertmouse's plans and features were read from its own site in November 2026. Product features and pricing change, so check Alertmouse's own site for their current details.