MentionAgent Pricing in 2026: Plans, Credits & Total Cost
Short answer: MentionAgent starts at $99/month, and plans are priced by sending inbox: $99 for one, $179 for two, $329 for four, $629 for eight. Each inbox comes with its own sending domain and carries up to 40 cold emails a day once warmed up, and a site runs at most two of them, so 80 a day is the ceiling for any one site. Billed monthly, no per-seat fees, no contract. New accounts get 50 free credits without a credit card. Contact lookup, email verification, the sending mailbox, and mailbox warmup are included, so there is no second tool to buy alongside it.
MentionAgent pricing at a glance
- Starter: $99/mo, 1 site, 1 sending inbox, up to 40 emails/day
- Growth: $179/mo, 1 site, 2 inboxes, up to 80 emails/day
- Scale: $329/mo, up to 2 sites, 4 inboxes, up to 80/day per site
- Agency: $629/mo, up to 4 sites, 8 inboxes, up to 80/day per site
- Free to start: 50 credits, no credit card
- Per-seat fees: none
- Guarantee: 14-day money-back, no questions asked. No contracts, cancel anytime.
MentionAgent pricing plans
| Plan | Price | Sites | Sending inboxes | Emails/day | Credits/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free start | $0 | 1 | Draft only | – | 50 one-time |
| Starter | $99/mo | 1 | 1 | up to 40 | 5,000 |
| Growth | $179/mo | 1 | 2 | up to 80 | 10,000 |
| Scale | $329/mo | 2 | 4 | up to 80 per site, 160 total | 20,000 |
| Agency | $629/mo | 4 | 8 | up to 80 per site, 320 total | 40,000 |
Billing is monthly. There is no annual prepay tier, no setup fee, and no minimum term. The free start includes enough credits to research prospects and draft your first emails; sending requires a paid plan.
The daily figures are ceilings, not starting points. A new inbox begins at about 5 emails a day and steps up each week for roughly three weeks before it reaches 40, because a mailbox with no sending history gets filtered if it opens at full volume. A second inbox on the same site warms on its own clock, so the site's total climbs to 80 rather than doubling the day you upgrade.
What's included on every plan
- AI prospecting: finds relevant blog posts and articles in your niche
- Domain qualification: filters prospects on PageRank and authority
- Contact lookup and verification: finds and verifies editor addresses
- Personalized drafting: each pitch is written against the specific article
- Sending domain, Gmail inbox and warmup: we register the domain, set up the inbox and warm it up; your own email is never touched
- Auto follow-ups and reply tracking: follows up on unanswered emails
- Approval before sending: review every draft in the dashboard, or from Claude, Cursor or any MCP agent
- Blocklist and deduplication: never emails the same contact twice
Every plan includes the whole outreach chain. The sending domains are ours to buy and run, one per inbox, so there is nothing to register and no DNS to configure.
How credits work
Credits bill only the actions with a real cost behind them. Prospect research is free because it runs on our own infrastructure rather than a paid third-party API.
| Action | Credits | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Prospect search | 0 | Free, unlimited within run budgets |
| Contact extraction | 0 | Free |
| Domain qualification | 0 | Free |
| AI email draft | 2 | Refunded if you discard the draft |
| AI reply draft | 2 | Refunded if you discard the draft |
| Email send | 0 | Free, follow-ups included |
An outreach email therefore costs 2 credits, taken when it is drafted. New outreach tops out at 40 emails per day once the domain is fully warmed, with follow-ups on top of that; volume ramps during warmup from 5 a day in week one to 10, then 20, then 40 from week four. A month at the full 40 a day drafts about 2,400 credits, plus replies. The heaviest month any customer has drafted on one inbox so far used about 3,400, inside Starter's 5,000. Credits reset to the full allowance at each renewal and do not roll over.
Total cost vs a cheaper stack
The sticker price comparison is not the useful one, because the $30 to $49 tools in this category cover one link in the chain. Here is what a working setup actually costs at each starting point, using our own published pricing for each tool:
| Setup | Monthly | Still on you |
|---|---|---|
| BuzzStream Starter alone | $49 | Finding addresses, prospecting, writing every email |
| Postaga Pro | $84 annual, $99 monthly | Building and managing each campaign |
| BuzzStream + Hunter.io Starter | $98 | Prospecting, writing every email, mailbox and warmup |
| MentionAgent | $99 | Approving each email |
| Respona placements | $100 to $500 per placement, no monthly fee (checked October 2026) | Choosing anchors and target URLs. Each link is a separate purchase |
| Pitchbox Pro | $210 annual, $300 monthly, one-year commitment | Campaign management, with 2 users and 2,000 emails a month on Pro |
Hunter.io Starter is $34/month on annual billing and $49 month to month; the $98 figure uses monthly. BuzzStream and Pitchbox prices were checked on their pricing pages in October 2026. The BuzzStream row is the honest floor of this category and it stays the cheapest way to buy outreach software. It is not the cheapest way to get outreach done, because the prospecting and writing hours are still yours.
Cheapest option by category
If you are price shopping, the answer depends on which part of the job you want to buy:
- Cheapest outreach CRM: BuzzStream at $49/mo. One user, 500 contacts, no email database, and bulk send starts on Growth at $174/mo.
- Cheapest email finding: Hunter.io, free tier then $34/mo annual.
- Cheapest AI-assisted campaigns: Postaga at $84/mo annual, where AI helps inside campaigns you still build.
- Cheapest fully automated outreach: MentionAgent at $99/mo flat, where prospecting, contact lookup, writing, sending, follow-ups, mailbox, and warmup are one bill and the agent does the work.
- Cheapest enterprise-grade platform: Pitchbox at $210/mo on annual billing, with a one-year commitment on every plan. Pro stops at 2 users, so a team of three or more needs Advanced at $420/mo.
- Under $20/mo: nothing in this category covers the full chain. The usual substitute is an email finder plus a spreadsheet plus a mail merge, which trades the software cost for several hours a week.
Is MentionAgent worth it?
MentionAgent is worth it if you:
- Would rather approve outreach than produce it, and value the hours over the price gap
- Are a solo founder or small team where nobody owns link building full time
- Want one bill instead of a CRM plus a finder plus a verifier plus a warmup tool
- Run a narrow B2B niche where generic prospect lists stop working quickly
- Have no sending infrastructure and do not want to configure any
MentionAgent is probably not worth it if you:
- Need the lowest possible software line item, in which case an outreach CRM like BuzzStream at $49/mo costs half as much
- Want to control every campaign step yourself; the agent decides prospecting and phrasing, you approve or reject
- Need multiple seats with roles and permissions, which this is not built for
- Need more than two sending inboxes on a single site, which is the cap wherever a site sits on the ladder
- Want annual prepay savings, which are not offered
- Are doing high-volume cold sales rather than editorial and link outreach
Alternatives at every price point
| Tool | Starting Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Snov.io | ~$30/mo | Budget email finding plus drip campaigns |
| Hunter.io | Free / $34/mo | Email finding with basic campaigns |
| Instantly | $47/mo | High-volume cold email sending |
| BuzzStream | $49/mo | Cheapest relationship-based outreach CRM |
| Postaga | $84/mo annual | AI-assisted campaigns you still manage |
| MentionAgent | $99/mo flat | Fully automated link building outreach, no seat fees |
| Respona | $100-$500 per placement | Done-for-you placements by DR tier. Outreach software free to start |
| Pitchbox | $210/mo annual, one-year commitment | Agencies and enterprise scale |
Head to head: vs BuzzStream, vs Postaga, vs Respona, vs Pitchbox. For the wider category, see best AI link building tools.
You draft 45 emails, discard 5 and send the other 40. How many credits does that cost?
Correct. Drafting 45 costs 90 credits, the 5 discards refund 10, and sending costs nothing. That is 80 credits, under 2% of Starter's monthly allowance.
Drafts cost 2 credits and are refunded when discarded, and sends cost nothing. So 90 minus 10 refunded is 80 credits.
You add two teammates who need to review outreach. What does that cost?
Correct. Pricing is flat with no per-seat charge. The flip side is that MentionAgent is built around a single operator approving emails, so if you need real roles and permissions, an outreach CRM fits better.
There is no per-seat pricing at all. The $99 add-on buys another workspace and credit allowance, not a user seat.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does MentionAgent cost?
MentionAgent starts at $99/month and is priced by sending inbox: $99 for one, $179 for two, $329 for four, $629 for eight. Every inbox comes with its own sending domain and carries up to 40 cold emails a day once it is warmed up, and a site runs at most two inboxes, so 80 a day is the ceiling for any one site. Billed monthly, with no per-seat fees, no setup fee and no contract. New accounts start with 50 free credits and no credit card.
Does MentionAgent have a free trial or free plan?
New accounts get 50 free credits with no credit card, enough to research prospects and draft your first emails. Sending requires a paid plan. Paid plans have a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Does MentionAgent charge per user or per seat?
No. MentionAgent is $99/month flat with no per-seat pricing. This is a difference from outreach CRMs like BuzzStream ($58-70 per extra user) and Pitchbox, where Pro stops at 2 users and team size drives the plan.
Do I need a separate email finder, verifier, or warmup tool?
No. Contact lookup, verification, the sending mailbox, and warmup are all included. You do not need Hunter.io, a verifier, a warmup service, or a Gmail or Outlook seat, and you do not need to register a sending domain: one comes with each inbox.
What is the cheapest way to run link building outreach end to end?
An outreach CRM such as BuzzStream starts at $49/month, but it has no email database, so a working setup usually adds an email finder such as Hunter.io ($49/month billed monthly) plus a mailbox and warmup tool, and you still do the prospecting and writing yourself. MentionAgent is $99/month with prospecting, contact lookup, writing, sending, follow-ups, mailbox, and warmup in one bill, which makes it the cheapest option where the work itself is automated rather than assisted.
How many emails can it send per month?
Up to 40 new outreach emails a day once the domain is fully warmed, around 1,200 a month at that pace, with follow-ups on top. Volume ramps during warmup: 5 a day in week one, 10 in week two, 20 in week three, then 40 from week four. Only AI drafts cost credits, 2 each, so a month at full volume uses around 2,400 of Starter's 5,000.
Do unused credits roll over?
No. The balance resets to the plan's full allowance at each renewal, 5,000 on Starter.