Mentionlytics alternative: when you need buyers, not a dashboard

You create keyword rules and Mentionlytics collects mentions from the sources in your plan. Its comparison table lists the web (news, blogs, forums and any website), X, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky, Threads, Telegram, RSS and podcasts, with reviews as an add-on. We couldn't tell which source comes with which plan.

The feature list is long. It includes AI sentiment, emotion analysis, translation, an assistant it calls the Social Intelligence Advisor, anomaly detection, mention clustering, comment summaries, a chatbot, and analysis of images, video and audio. There are also dashboards, share of voice, ad value equivalent, Boolean search and scheduled email reports. Teams sort mentions with tags, assignment and automation rules. A publishing module lets you draft, schedule and publish posts. Integrations include Slack, Hootsuite, Looker Studio, Power BI, developer access and an MCP connection.

Yearly prices on 17 October 2026, per month:

• Basic, $49: 3 keyword rules, 5,000 mentions a month, 12-hour updates, 2 users.
• Essential, $141: 10 keyword rules, 15,000 mentions, 6-hour updates, 10 users.
• Advanced, $249: 15 keyword rules, 50,000 mentions, continuous updates, unlimited users.
• Pro, $416: 25 keyword rules, 100,000 mentions.
• Business, $624: 40+ keyword rules, 200,000+ mentions, white-label reports.
• Enterprise, from $1,083: 100+ keyword rules and custom mentions.

Monthly billing is also offered, but we only recorded the yearly figures. The 14-day free trial includes all features. You can buy extra mentions when you run out, and Pro and above can add a managed service.

Mentionlytics fits marketing and communications teams that report on brand perception across many channels, and agencies that need client accounts, white-label reports and share-of-voice figures. Pick it if you also want to publish and respond from the same tool, or if your audience is on TikTok, Threads, Telegram or the wider web. HearBuyers reads none of those.

Its pricing page lists no buying-intent score and no reply drafting. To find buyers with it, you write keyword rules and judge the results yourself.

• A clear goal. Reputation, research and lead finding each need different filters.
• Keyword rules versus problem statements. Buyers rarely type your category name, so a tool that learns how they describe the problem finds more of them.
• A per-post score. Sentiment tells you the mood. An intent score tells you whether to reply.
• The sentence that shows the need. You should see it in the list.
• Approval before posting. If the tool drafts replies, a person should decide what goes out.

HearBuyers fits if you use keyword monitoring to find prospects. Paste your company website and it infers your product summary, buyer roles, the problems buyers describe, search phrases, competitors and subreddits. You correct whatever it got wrong. It reads public X posts and replies and Reddit posts and comments, starting with the last seven days.

Each post gets a score, the sentence that shows the need and a one-line reason. Matches at or above your threshold (70 by default) get a drafted public reply, plus a DM draft on X. A person edits, approves, copies and posts it. Matches show up in Slack, a daily email digest and a team inbox with stages.

It won't suit you if you need brand reports, emotion analysis, publishing, client accounts or any source beyond X and Reddit. HearBuyers is free for 14 days with no card, then from $19 a month.

For brand health, share of voice and agency reporting, Mentionlytics covers much more than HearBuyers does. If lead finding is a small part of how you use it, keep it and add HearBuyers for that part.

1. Pick the Mentionlytics rules you use to find buyers, such as competitor names or "looking for" phrases.
2. Sign up for HearBuyers and paste your company website.
3. Compare its suggested searches with your rules and add what's missing.
4. Add competitors and the subreddits your buyers use.
5. Set your threshold and connect Slack.

Read the Mentionlytics review, the guide to social media monitoring tools, or the full alternatives list.