Rivarise vs Mentions.so
Mentions.so undercuts Rivarise at every tier. The differences are in what each tier includes, and they genuinely win some of them.
All Mentions.so figures below were taken from their public pricing page on 2026-08-08 and are linked so you can check them.
Rivarise vs Mentions.so, in short. Mentions.so undercuts Rivarise at every tier. The differences are in what each tier includes, and they genuinely win some of them. Rivarise is built for teams who want the widest engine coverage for the money, a free plan to evaluate with, and the full answer text behind every number. Mentions.so is the closest match on price, and there are real cases below where it is the better choice. This page states both.
Side by side
The figures that actually decide this comparison, at the tiers most teams buy.
| Rivarise | Mentions.so | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $69 per month | $49/mo |
| Engines at entry | 4 | 3 LLMs |
| Prompts at entry | 50 per day | 25 prompts |
| Engines at the top self-serve tier | All 9, at $349 | All LLMs |
| Free plan | Yes, permanent, no card | No permanent free plan listed |
| Full answer text stored | Yes, for the plan history window | Check with the vendor |
| Google surfaces | Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews tracked separately | Check with the vendor |
Rows marked "check with the vendor" are ones we could not verify from a public page. We would rather leave a gap than guess at a competitor's product.
Mentions.so pricing, as published
Taken from their pricing page on 2026-08-08.
| Plan | Price | Engines | Prompts | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49/mo | 3 LLMs | 25 prompts | 1 site, unlimited seats |
| Pro | $99/mo | All LLMs | 50 prompts | 5 sites, unlimited seats |
| Business | $199/mo | All LLMs | 100 prompts | 10 sites, unlimited seats |
| Agency | $399/mo | All LLMs | 300 prompts | Unlimited sites, white-label, custom domain |
Rivarise pricing, for the same comparison
| Plan | Price | Engines | Prompts | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 | 3 per week | 1 brand, 7 days of history |
| Starter | $69/mo | 4 | 50 per day | 1 brand, 30 days, sentiment, email alerts |
| Growth | $149/mo | 6 | 75 per day | 1 brand, 3 seats, competitors, fix suggestions |
| Business | $349/mo | 9 | 80 per day | 1 brand, unlimited history, reports, portals, white-label, API |
| Agency | $1,299/mo | 9 | 60 per brand | 5 client brands, unlimited seats, SSO, benchmarks |
Annual billing is 15 percent cheaper on every paid Rivarise plan. Full detail on the pricing page and in the documentation.
Where Mentions.so is the better choice
A comparison page that claims one product wins everything is a sales page pretending to be a comparison. These are genuine advantages.
- Many more sites, for much less. Mentions.so Business includes 10 sites at $199, where Rivarise Business covers a single brand at $349. If you manage eight client sites and need reports for all of them, that is not a close comparison.
- More prompts at the top tier. Their Agency tier lists 300 prompts against Rivarise 60 per brand across 5 brands at $1,299, with 9 engines rather than 3.
- Unlimited seats on every tier. Rivarise limits seats until Agency. Mentions.so does not, so a large team on a lower tier costs less there.
- Traffic attribution and crawler analytics. They report on traffic arriving from AI sources and on crawler activity. Rivarise does neither: it measures citations, not sessions.
Where Rivarise is the better choice
- A permanent free plan. Rivarise Free tracks ChatGPT on one domain forever with no card. Mentions.so lists no equivalent, so evaluation starts at $49.
- More engines at the entry tier. Rivarise Starter includes 4 engines at $69. Mentions.so Starter includes 3 LLMs at $49, so the extra engine costs $20 a month.
- Full stored answer text. Every Rivarise check keeps the complete answer for your plan history window, so any score can be traced back to the wording that produced it.
- Unlimited history from Business. Rivarise retains results indefinitely from the $349 tier, which is what makes year-over-year reporting possible.
- The three Google surfaces kept separate. Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews behave differently and are never averaged together in Rivarise.
What neither product does
Worth knowing before you buy either one.
- Neither can guarantee an AI engine will cite you. Citation decisions belong to the engines, whose models and retrieval sources change without notice. Any vendor promising placement is overselling.
- Neither reports a complete census. Both sample engine behaviour on a schedule. Results describe what the engines returned to those checks, not what every user of that engine sees.
- Neither replaces your rank tracker. These tools measure the generated answer, which is a different surface from the ranked list of links.
Which should you choose
Choose Mentions.so if
You need more than five sites at the $199 tier, you want traffic attribution and crawler analytics alongside citation tracking, or you have a large team on a lower tier.
Choose Rivarise if
You want to evaluate for free first, you want more engines at the entry price, or you need auditable answer text and unlimited history behind your reporting.
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