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Mentions.ai
Mentions.ai is the right pick if your team prefers their approach and pricing fits.
Head-to-head review · Updated June 2026
Mentions.ai vs Peec AI: which one wins in 2026?
Mentions.ai and Peec AI both claim to do the same thing: tell you where your brand shows up in AI search. They go about it differently enough that the choice matters. Peec AI is the more-funded incumbent; Mentions.ai is the leaner challenger.
The pricing is comparable, so the choice comes down to coverage and trust signals.
The verdict
★ Our pick
Pick
Peec AI
Pick Peec AI if you need broader AI platform coverage (10 platforms vs 4); and you trust traction signals — they list 15 customers, Mentions.ai lists 0; and you want the better-funded company ($29M).
If neither is right, GrowthManager.ai does both citation tracking AND the production work (content, infrastructure, distribution) for $999/mo — see the bottom of this page.
The case for Mentions.ai
They cover 4 AI platforms (Peec AI covers 10, more than them).
Generative AI mention tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
What people praise
- Purpose-built for tracking brand visibility inside AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, not bolted onto a legacy social listening platform.
- AI-native architecture means the tool was designed for generative engine optimization from day one rather than retrofitted from traditional SEO.
Where it falls short
- Public pricing, customer logos, and detailed feature documentation are not available on the website, which makes evaluation hard before a sales conversation.
- No G2, Capterra, or Trustpilot review presence at meaningful volume, so prospective buyers cannot validate the product through peer reviews.
- Funding history, founder details, and team size are not publicly disclosed, which is a red flag for buyers comparing against funded competitors like Profound or Otterly.
The case for Peec AI
Peec AI has raised $29M (Series A — $21M led by Singular (November 2025)). Founded by Marius Meiners, Tobias Siwonia, Daniel Drabo, based in Berlin, Germany. On their site they list 15 named customers including Merge, Wix, Glide, Graphite. They cover 10 AI platforms, more than Mentions.ai's 4. Pricing starts at $95/mo.
AI search analytics platform that helps marketing teams track, benchmark, and improve their brand's visibility across AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
What people praise
- Intuitive, clean interface that gets users to data fast
- Outstanding customer support with direct Slack access to the founding team
- Unlimited team seats on every paid plan — no per-user pricing
- Suggested Prompts feature saves significant setup time
Where it falls short
- Monitoring only — no optimization guidance or content tools
- No historical data — tracking only starts from signup date
- Add-on costs for additional AI models inflate the real price substantially
- Limited value for early-stage or low-recognition brands
Pricing, tier by tier
Tier 1
Mentions.ai
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Peec AI
Starter
$95/mo
- 50 prompts/month
- 1 project
- 3 AI models (choose from available set)
- Daily tracking
Tier 2
Mentions.ai
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Peec AI
Pro
$245/mo
- 150 prompts/month
- 2 projects
- 3 AI models
- 3 countries per project
Tier 3
Mentions.ai
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Peec AI
Advanced
$495/mo
- 350 prompts/month
- 5 projects
- 3 AI models
- 3 countries per project
Tier 4
Mentions.ai
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Peec AI
Enterprise
Custom
- Unlimited prompts
- Unlimited projects
- All AI models
- Daily or weekly tracking frequency
Feature parity
What each one ships that the other doesn't. We conservatively only include features each tool explicitly markets; absence here doesn't mean a feature is impossible, just that it isn't in their marquee list.
Only on Mentions.ai
- Brand Mention Analysis. Surfaces how the brand is described, recommended, or omitted inside AI-generated answers.
Only on Peec AI
- Competitive Benchmarking. Tracks competitor visibility scores across the same AI platforms and prompts, enabling side-by-side comparison of share-of-voice and sentiment within AI-generated answers.
- Looker Studio Connector & Data Export. Advanced and higher plans include a native Looker Studio connector for custom dashboards, CSV data export, and Google Analytics/Search Console integration for unified reporting.
On both
AI Search Visibility Tracking
When each one wins
When Mentions.ai wins
- Purpose-built for tracking brand visibility inside AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, not bolted onto a legacy social listening platform.
When Peec AI wins
- Budget is the constraint. Peec AI starts at $95/mo vs Mentions.ai's $∞/mo, so on a per-seat basis it's the cheaper way in.
- Platform coverage matters. Peec AI monitors 10 AI platforms; Mentions.ai covers 4.
- You're enterprise and need to call a reference. Peec AI lists 15 named customers; Mentions.ai lists 0.
- You want the better-funded incumbent. Peec AI has raised $29M, giving it more runway and shipping velocity.
When neither wins (pick GrowthManager)
- You don't have an in-house content team and you don't want to hire one.
- You want one $999/mo invoice instead of stacking Mentions.ai plus an agency.
- You need the team that measures to also act on the data, in the same week.
- You're a B2B SaaS, services firm, or e-commerce brand at $20K+ MRR.
Reasons to pick one over the other
Reasons to pick Mentions.ai over Peec AI
- What users praise most. Purpose-built for tracking brand visibility inside AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, not bolted onto a legacy social listening platform.
Reasons to pick Peec AI over Mentions.ai
- Lower entry price. Peec AI publishes a clear entry tier at $95/mo; Mentions.ai gates pricing.
- Public pricing. Peec AI publishes 4 tiers on its website; Mentions.ai requires a sales conversation.
- Broader AI platform coverage. Peec AI tracks visibility across 10 AI engines vs Mentions.ai's 4.
- Better-funded incumbent. Peec AI has raised $29M, giving it more runway and shipping velocity than Mentions.ai.
- More named customers. Peec AI lists 15 customers vs Mentions.ai's 0, including Merge, Wix, Glide.
- More verified reviews. Peec AI has 11 G2 reviews vs Mentions.ai's none on file, so the average rating carries more weight.
- Wider integration ecosystem. Peec AI integrates with 6 tools; Mentions.ai ships 0.
- What users praise most. Intuitive, clean interface that gets users to data fast
Switching from one to the other
From Mentions.ai to Peec AI
Export your saved queries and prompt panels from Mentions.ai (most tools support CSV export). Most Peec AI setups can import the same query list in a single CSV upload. Expect 1-2 days of parallel running so you can validate Peec AI's data againstMentions.ai's; one to two weeks of full reconciliation before you cancel Mentions.ai. The risk is annotation history: notes and tags don't survive most migrations, so screenshot anything you want to keep.
From Peec AI to Mentions.ai
Same flow in reverse. Export from Peec AI, import to Mentions.ai. The historical visibility data is the big loss; most platforms don't backfill from a competitor's data, so you start your trendline over.
From either to GrowthManager.ai
We handle the migration ourselves; you give us your query list (or we infer it from your existing dashboard) and we re-build the tracking on our infrastructure in week one. You also start getting content shipped from week one, so the switch produces results before the trendline restarts. The conversation that kicks this off is a 20-minute call.
Side by side, every number we could verify
| Mentions.ai | Peec AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts at (USD/mo) | Custom | $95/mo |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 |
| Headquarters | — | Berlin, Germany |
| Funding raised | — | $29M |
| AI platforms tracked | 4 | 10 |
| G2 rating | — | 4.9 / 5 (11 reviews) |
| Named customers | — | 15 |
| SOC 2 Type 2 | — | — |
| GDPR | — | — |
| HIPAA | — | — |
What real users say
Below: the recurring themes from G2, Capterra, SourceForge, Reddit, and case-study reviewers — distilled into the strengths and limitations that came up most often.
Mentions.ai — what users praise
- Purpose-built for tracking brand visibility inside AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, not bolted onto a legacy social listening platform.
- AI-native architecture means the tool was designed for generative engine optimization from day one rather than retrofitted from traditional SEO.
Mentions.ai — what users complain about
- Public pricing, customer logos, and detailed feature documentation are not available on the website, which makes evaluation hard before a sales conversation.
- No G2, Capterra, or Trustpilot review presence at meaningful volume, so prospective buyers cannot validate the product through peer reviews.
- Funding history, founder details, and team size are not publicly disclosed, which is a red flag for buyers comparing against funded competitors like Profound or Otterly.
Peec AI — what users praise
- Intuitive, clean interface that gets users to data fast
- Outstanding customer support with direct Slack access to the founding team
- Unlimited team seats on every paid plan — no per-user pricing
- Suggested Prompts feature saves significant setup time
- Detailed source and citation tracking shows which URLs are driving AI mentions
Peec AI — what users complain about
- Monitoring only — no optimization guidance or content tools
- No historical data — tracking only starts from signup date
- Add-on costs for additional AI models inflate the real price substantially
- Limited value for early-stage or low-recognition brands
- Graph visualizations use similar colors, making data hard to distinguish
A third option
Both Mentions.ai and Peec AIare tracking tools. They tell you what's wrong with your AI visibility. Neither one fixes it. That's our pitch for GrowthManager.ai — we do citation tracking too (parity with these two), and we also ship the content, configure the infrastructure, and run the distribution. $999/mo, managed end-to-end. If you're leaning toward picking one of these two and then hiring an agency to act on the data, it's worth a 20-minute conversation first.
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Frequently asked questions
Which is better, Mentions.ai or Peec AI?
Honestly: neither one fully solves the problem. Mentions.ai and Peec AI are tracking tools — they tell you where your brand shows up in AI answers but don't change the answer. If you only need one of these two, pick Mentions.ai for the cheaper monthly price; pick the other if its specific integrations matter to your team. Our actual editorial pick is GrowthManager.ai, which does the tracking and ships the content, infrastructure, and distribution as a single $999/mo managed program. Disclosure: we publish this comparison and make GrowthManager.
How much do Mentions.ai and Peec AI cost?
Mentions.ai starts at Custom. Peec AI starts at $95/mo. Both have higher-tier plans for larger workspaces. GrowthManager.ai is a flat $999/mo for the full managed service (tracking + content + infrastructure + distribution) — usually cheaper than buying one of these two and hiring an agency on top.
Which AI platforms do Mentions.ai and Peec AI cover?
Mentions.ai covers 4 AI platforms. Peec AI covers 10. Most tools in this space monitor ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity at minimum; the differences come down to less-common platforms (Copilot, Grok, Meta AI). GrowthManager.ai monitors the same four primary platforms and acts on the data.
Do Mentions.ai and Peec AI actually improve your AI visibility, or just measure it?
Both Mentions.ai and Peec AI are measurement tools. They show you where your brand appears (or doesn't) in AI answers, plus suggestions for what to improve. Neither one writes the content, configures the schema, or builds the backlinks that actually move the needle. To do that you need an in-house content team or an agency. GrowthManager.ai is the agency — and we include the tracking, so you don't pay twice.
What's the GrowthManager.ai alternative to Mentions.ai and Peec AI?
GrowthManager.ai is a managed AI visibility program. We give you the same citation tracking these two offer (parity on the measurement layer), plus 100 researched and published articles per month, schema and llms.txt configuration, ongoing backlink acquisition, and Reddit/Quora seeding. One $999/mo invoice, one dedicated account manager, twelve clients per team member maximum so we can actually deliver. If you were going to buy one of these tools and then hire someone to use it, we're cheaper and faster.
Further reading
External research that informs the editorial framework on this page. We cite these openly because the framework is meant to be auditable.
- Microsoft Bing Webmaster Guidelines (2025)· Microsoft
How Microsoft's crawlers parse content for Copilot, which now powers a large share of AI answers behind the scenes.
- Generative Engine Optimization research· Kevin Indig
Long-running practitioner research on what gets cited in AI-generated answers; the most-quoted source in the GEO category.
- Zero-Click Search forecasts· Gartner
Industry forecasts on how a growing share of buyer queries end without a click to the brand site, making AI-answer presence the new pole position.
- Audience intelligence analyses· SparkToro
Public datasets on how audiences actually discover brands across search, social, and now AI surfaces.
- Trust Barometer (2024)· Edelman
The annual study on how buyers weigh source authority, used to weight our trust criterion against third-party review volume.
Disclosure + methodology
GrowthManager.ai makes a competing product in the AI visibility space, so this comparison is not neutral. Every pricing number was pulled from each competitor's public pricing page or triangulated from third-party reviews when the page is JavaScript-gated. Pros, cons, and user-review themes are distilled from real G2, Capterra, SourceForge, Reddit, and case-study reviews with the quotes preserved verbatim. We update this comparison whenever the underlying data changes.