MentionAgent Pricing in 2026: Plans, Credits & Total Cost
Short answer: MentionAgent costs $99/month. One plan, billed monthly, 15,000 credits and 1 email domain, with no per-seat fees and no contract. New accounts get 150 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 operator, 15,000 credits, 1 email domain
- Extra workspace add-on: $79/mo, includes another 15,000 credits
- Free to start: 150 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 | Operators | Credits/mo | Email domains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free start | $0 | 1 | 150 one-time | Draft only |
| Starter | $99/mo | 1 | 15,000 | 1 |
| + Extra workspace | +$79/mo | 1 | +15,000 | +1 |
Billing is monthly. There is no annual prepay tier, no setup fee, and no minimum term. The free start includes enough credits to run discovery and draft your first emails; sending requires a paid plan.
What's included at $99/mo
- 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 mailbox and warmup: built-in email server, no Gmail or Outlook seat needed
- Auto follow-ups and reply tracking: follows up on unanswered emails
- One-tap approval: approve or reject every email from Telegram before it sends
- Blocklist and deduplication: never emails the same contact twice
You supply a domain to send from and verify it. Everything else in the outreach chain is in the $99.
How credits work
Credits bill only the actions with a real cost behind them. Discovery 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 | 2 | Includes follow-ups |
A drafted and sent outreach email therefore costs 4 credits. 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 roughly 2 a day in week one to 5, then 10, then 40 from week four. A heavy day of drafting, sending, and handling replies runs around 260 credits, so a hard-worked month lands near 8,000 credits against the 15,000 allowance. 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 $24 and $30 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 | $24 | Finding addresses, prospecting, writing every email |
| BuzzStream + Hunter.io Starter | $73 | Prospecting, writing every email, mailbox and warmup |
| Postaga Pro | $84 annual, $99 monthly | Building and managing each campaign |
| MentionAgent | $99 | Approving each email |
| Respona Starter | $99-198 | Building and managing each campaign |
| Pitchbox Pro | $165 | Campaign management, plus per-seat costs as the team grows |
Hunter.io Starter is $34/month on annual billing and $49 month to month; the $73 figure uses monthly. 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 $24/mo. One user, 1,000 contacts, no email database.
- 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 $165/mo, though per-seat costs climb with team size.
- 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 $99?
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 BuzzStream at $24/mo wins outright
- 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
- Send from more than one domain on a single plan, since Starter covers one
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BuzzStream | $24/mo | Cheapest relationship-based outreach CRM |
| 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 |
| Postaga | $84/mo annual | AI-assisted campaigns you still manage |
| MentionAgent | $99/mo flat | Fully automated link building outreach, no seat fees |
| Respona | ~$99-198/mo | All-in-one with AI personalization |
| Pitchbox | $165/mo | 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 40 emails, send all 40, and discard 5 drafts before sending. How many credits does that cost?
Correct. Drafting 40 costs 80 credits, the 5 discards refund 10, and sending 40 costs 80. That is 150 credits, or 1% of the monthly allowance.
Drafts cost 2 credits and are refunded when discarded, and sends cost 2. So 80 minus 10 refunded, plus 80 for sending, is 150 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 $79 add-on buys another workspace and credit allowance, not a user seat.
Start with 150 free credits
No credit card. Run discovery, see the prospects the agent finds in your niche, and read the emails it writes before you decide.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does MentionAgent cost?
$99/month, billed monthly, with 15,000 credits and 1 email domain. No per-seat fees, no setup fee, no contract. An optional extra workspace is $79/month and adds another 15,000 credits.
Does MentionAgent have a free trial or free plan?
New accounts get 150 free credits with no credit card, enough to run discovery 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. It is $99/month flat regardless of team size, unlike BuzzStream at $24-50 per extra user or Pitchbox, where seats drive the bill.
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. You only need to own a domain and verify it.
What is the cheapest way to run link building outreach end to end?
The cheapest single tool is BuzzStream at $24/month, but it has no email database, so a working setup usually adds an email finder plus a mailbox and warmup tool, and the prospecting and writing stay manual. MentionAgent is $99/month with the whole chain in one bill, which makes it the cheapest option where the work 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, with follow-ups on top. Volume ramps during warmup: about 2 a day in week one, 5 in week two, 10 in week three, then 40 from week four. At 2 credits per send and 2 per AI draft, heavy use lands near 8,000 credits a month against the 15,000 allowance.
Do unused credits roll over?
No. The balance resets to the full 15,000 allowance at each renewal.