MMentionAgent

MentionAgent is an AI outreach agent for earning backlinks and brand mentions from niche blogs, and it suits founders and small teams that want a low, flat monthly cost with the sending inbox and warmup handled for them. It finds posts worth pitching, writes an email for each one, sends from a managed domain and follows up, while you approve drafts and handle anything involving money.

Plans start at $99 a month with no per-link fee, and new accounts get 50 free credits without a card. MentionAgent publishes unusually detailed outreach numbers, including a 9.0 percent reply rate across 14,972 domains in 2026. The company is young and does not buy placements or write guest posts. We score it 8.5/10 on our scale.

MentionAgent by the Numbers

MentionAgent publishes its own aggregate results and company figures. They are vendor numbers, reported with dates and definitions.

These numbers are more specific than most outreach vendors publish. A 9.0 percent reply rate per domain, with a spread of 7.0 to 14.4 percent across busier sites, gives a realistic planning range. The low share of follow-ups, 324 out of 17,821 emails, shows most sends were first touches during the period measured.

Reply speed is the other useful figure. A median first reply in 2.3 hours, with 96 percent of timed replies inside a week, means a campaign’s response picture forms quickly. If a batch of pitches has drawn no replies after a week, the angle or the targets probably need changing.

MentionAgent’s tracking covers deals closed inside the agent, so its reporting centers on replies. Buyers should plan around reply rates, which it measures closely, and keep their own simple record of links won each month.

How MentionAgent Goes From Niche to Earned Link

MentionAgent describes seven steps, and it marks which ones the agent handles alone and which need a person.

Finding Blogs Worth Pitching

The agent starts from your site and topic, searches for posts in your niche and checks whether each site is worth pitching. Finding blogs, contact lookup and domain checks cost no credits, so the research stage is free to run.

The agent keeps the research step broad. MentionAgent’s about page reports 44,276 blogs researched and 22,313 editors pitched by late September 2026, roughly one pitch for every two blogs reviewed, which suggests the qualification step drops about half of what it finds.

Finding and Verifying the Editor

For each qualified site it finds a contact address for the editor and verifies it. The 2.6 percent bounce rate in MentionAgent’s published data reflects that verification step.

Writing a Pitch for the Specific Post

Each email refers to the specific post the agent found, and every draft passes a quality check before sending. A draft costs 2 credits, so Starter’s 5,000 credits cover about 2,500 drafts.

Sending From a Managed Inbox

MentionAgent provides a managed sending domain and Gmail inbox with warmup included. New inboxes send 5 emails a day in week one and reach 40 a day by week four. Each warmed inbox sends up to 40 a day, and the default ceiling is 80 a day per site. Keeping cold outreach on a separate domain protects the deliverability of your company’s main email.

Approving Drafts

Approval is on by default. You approve drafts in the web dashboard or through a Telegram bot, and auto-send stays off until you enable it after warmup starts. You can switch it off at any time.

Handling Replies and Follow-Ups

When someone replies, the agent drafts a response. If there is no answer, it follows up. MentionAgent says negotiating and closing are only partly automatable: questions involving money, reciprocal links and ambiguous cases escalate to you, and the agent cannot place a link by itself.

Recording Live Links and AI Mentions

Once a link is live, the agent records it. Separately, about twice a month it asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini about your niche and shows which answers mention you, which gives small brands a rough view of whether outreach is feeding into AI answers.

Working Through MCP

An MCP connection lets Claude, Cursor or any MCP agent work with MentionAgent, and prospects and email threads export to spreadsheets.

A Founder’s First Four Weeks

Take a founder of a recipe app. She signs up with 50 free credits and sees real drafts for her site before paying. After choosing Starter, the managed inbox warms up at 5 emails a day while the agent finds food blogs with posts on meal planning and verifies editor emails. She approves drafts from the Telegram bot during her commute.

By week four the inbox sends up to 40 a day. Replies arrive within hours in most cases, matching MentionAgent’s median of 2.3 hours, and the agent drafts answers for her to approve. One blogger asks for a fee; the agent escalates it, and she decides. When a mention goes live, it appears in the dashboard.

Approvals through Telegram are a practical touch for founders, since drafts can be reviewed and approved from the bot without opening the dashboard, which keeps the queue moving on busy days away from a desk.

What Stays With You

MentionAgent is specific about the limits of automation. Of its seven steps, finding sites, qualifying them, finding and verifying contacts, writing and sending are described as mostly or fully automatable. Reading replies and bringing you decisions is only partly automatable. You keep the final say on strategy and on any reply that involves money, and the agent cannot publish a link on a third-party site by itself.

MentionAgent Pricing by Sending Inbox

MentionAgent prices plans by the number of sending inboxes, with credits doubling at each step above Starter.

Each outreach or reply draft costs 2 credits. Research steps are free. New accounts start with 50 credits, about 25 prospects, with no card.

What MentionAgent Costs in Practice

• A founder on Starter: $99 a month is $1,188 a year for up to 1,200 emails a month, about 8.3 cents per email at full volume.
• A growing startup on Growth: $179 a month is $2,148 a year with two inboxes, doubling sending capacity for one site.
• An agency with five clients: Agency at $629 covers four sites; a fifth client site adds $99, for $728 a month, or about $146 per client.

Credits rarely limit Starter users in practice. At 2 credits per draft, 5,000 credits cover about 2,500 drafts, while one warmed inbox sends at most 1,200 emails a month, so sending capacity is the real cap. Teams that want more volume for one site should add inboxes or move to Growth before worrying about credits.

MentionAgent compares this with freelancers at $500 to $2,000 a month and agencies at $2,500 and up. Any fees bloggers ask for are paid by you, and guest post writing is not included.

MentionAgent Compared With BacklinkGPT, AutoBacklinks and BuzzStream

These tools serve similar small teams with different levels of automation.

MentionAgent’s managed sending inbox sets it apart: the others connect your own mailbox. BacklinkGPT adds LinkedIn and negotiates fees, AutoBacklinks costs less to start, and BuzzStream suits teams that write their own pitches. More are compared on our link building agents and startup agents pages.

Founders and Small Teams Who Want Earned Mentions

MentionAgent fits founders who want links and mentions from real blogs and do not want cold outreach on their company domain. The managed inbox, free research steps and a flat $99 price make it straightforward to start, and the Telegram approvals suit people who review drafts on the go.

It also suits teams that care about AI search. The twice-monthly checks of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini give a simple before-and-after view as mentions build, without a separate monitoring tool.

Agencies with up to four clients can run them on the Agency plan, adding sites at $99 each. The AI visibility checks give clients an extra report on whether ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention them.

Buyers Who Want Paid Placements or Content Written

MentionAgent does not buy placements or write guest posts. Teams that want guaranteed links for a fee, or articles written and placed, should look at a placement service or at tools that negotiate and pay, such as BacklinkGPT with your approval.

Teams in a hurry should also note the warmup: a new inbox sends 5 emails a day in its first week, so a launch-week campaign needs planning a month ahead.

Larger teams that need CRM integrations, client reporting suites or a long review history may prefer Pitchbox.

Warmup, Escalations and a Young Track Record

• Warmup pace: full volume arrives by week four, so expect a slow first month.
• Escalations: money, reciprocal links and ambiguous replies come to you, so set aside time to answer them.
• Links won: MentionAgent reports replies in detail; keep your own record of links won.
• Company age: it started in February 2026 and is founder-led.
• Scope: no placement buying and no guest post writing.
• Separate domain: replies come to the managed inbox, so check the dashboard or Telegram bot daily to keep response times short.

MentionAgent Suits Founders Who Want a Hands-Off Start

We rate MentionAgent 8.5/10 on our scale. It gives small teams a working outreach agent for $99 a month with the inbox and warmup handled, keeps approval on by default and sends money questions to a person. Its published results, with reply rates, bounce rates and reply speed over six months, are some of the most detailed in this category.

The pricing model is easy to reason about. Plans scale by sending inbox, research is free, and drafts cost a fixed 2 credits, so a founder can work out the monthly cost of a campaign before starting. The managed inbox removes one of the more technical parts of cold outreach for non-specialists.

Areas to improve include publishing placement rates once tracking allows and adding integrations beyond Telegram, MCP and exports. For founders who want to earn mentions from real blogs without hiring an agency, MentionAgent is a sensible, low-cost way to start.

Founders’ Questions About MentionAgent

How Much Does MentionAgent Cost?

Starter is $99 a month, Growth $179, Scale $329 and Agency $629. Extra sites cost $99 a month and extra inboxes $80. There is no per-link fee.

Is There a Free Trial?

New accounts get 50 free credits, about 25 prospects, with no card, so you can see real drafts first. Paid plans have a 14-day full refund.

Does MentionAgent Send From My Email?

No. It sends from a managed sending domain and Gmail inbox with warmup included, which keeps cold outreach away from your main domain.

What Reply Rate Does MentionAgent Get?

Across 29 customer sites from March to September 2026, 9.0 percent of domains replied, with busier sites ranging from 7.0 to 14.4 percent. The median first reply came in 2.3 hours.

Can MentionAgent Handle Several Client Sites?

Yes. Scale covers two sites and Agency four, and extra client sites cost $99 a month each on top of any plan. Each site gets its own outreach campaigns, and inboxes are priced per plan or as $80 add-ons.

Will MentionAgent Pay for Links?

No. It does not buy placements or write guest posts. Questions about money are escalated to you to decide.