Social Blade vs Monitor Mentions
Social Blade publishes public statistics and historical follower charts for social accounts across several platforms, and is widely used for creator research. 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.
Social Blade
- Category
- Public social statistics
- Coverage
- YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and more
- Pricing
- Low monthly subscription
- Best for
- You need many years of historical data for a large creator account and are happy reading it from a public chart.
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 want brand-focused context: category rankings, engagement against peers, head-to-head comparisons, plus alerts when your brand gets mentioned.
Where Social Blade is the better choice
An enormous historical archive going back years for the accounts it tracks, and free public pages: the closest thing the space has to a public record.
If that describes your situation, buy Social Blade. We are not trying to be a broader tool than we are.
Where Monitor Mentions fits better
- Built around brands and their competitive sets, not creator rankings
- Engagement benchmarked against category medians, not just raw counts
- Mention monitoring with email alerts, which statistics sites do not offer
- 1035 consumer brands already tracked, each with a free public page
Social Blade vs Monitor Mentions: questions
Is Monitor Mentions a Social Blade alternative?
For some jobs. Social Blade covers YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and more. 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 Social Blade covers and we do not, Social Blade is the better tool.
How much does Social Blade cost?
Social Blade sits in the "low monthly subscription" range. Check their pricing page for current figures, as they change.
How much does Monitor Mentions cost compared to Social Blade?
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 Social Blade instead?
You need many years of historical data for a large creator account and are happy reading it from a public chart.
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 →Comparison written 2026-08-15 and revised 2026-11-01. Product features and pricing change, so check Social Blade's own site for their current details.