Free
$0
- 1 project · 3 keywords
- Every 6 hours
- 10 AI drafts/mo
- 7-day history
COMPARISON
Mentionr vs Google Alerts
Google Alerts is index-based. It never traverses a nested comment thread, so most Reddit comments are invisible to it, and what it does find arrives days later. Keep it for press. Add us for Reddit.
The short version
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Pick Mentionr if you need comment-level Reddit coverage within minutes rather than days.
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Pick Google Alerts if you want free, zero-setup coverage of news and press mentions.
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Both are fine, and running both is the correct answer for most teams.
Side by side
At a glance
| Capability | Mentionr | Google Alerts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan, paid from $29/mo | Free |
| Reddit comment coverage | Yes Full thread traversal | No Index only |
| Latency | Minutes, by plan | Days |
| Sentiment and intent | Yes | No |
| Slack, Discord, webhooks | Yes | No Email or RSS |
| Press and news coverage | No | Yes Their strength |
| Try Mentionr free |
Checked 2026-08-09 · sources linked per row · Google Alerts
Their strength
Where Google Alerts is the better choice
It is free, it takes thirty seconds to set up, and it is genuinely good at news and press mentions — which we do not cover at all. The correct recommendation is to run both and let each do the thing it is built for.
Switching
Moving across
Copy the same search terms into onboarding. Our backfill then shows you the Reddit history that never reached Google's index in the first place.
What Mentionr costs
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Start free
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Pro
Start trial$29 /mo
$290/yr · $24.17/mo
- 1 project · 25 keywords
- Every 60 minutes
- 150 AI drafts/mo
- Slack, Discord, API
- 6-month history
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Trial tier Business
Start 14-day trial$99 /mo
$990/yr · $82.50/mo
- 5 projects · 100 keywords
- Every 15 minutes
- 1,000 AI drafts/mo
- 15 competitors
- 24-month history
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Agency
Start trial$249 /mo
$2,490/yr · $207.50/mo
- 25 projects · 300 keywords
- Every 5 minutes
- 4,000 AI drafts/mo
- White-label reports
- Client dashboards
Questions
- Why does Google Alerts miss Reddit comments?
- Because it works from the search index, and most comments in a deep thread are never indexed as separate documents. We read the thread directly.
- How much faster are you?
- Alerts follow your check frequency, from six hours on Free down to five minutes on Agency. Google Alerts is typically measured in days.
- Should I turn Google Alerts off?
- No. Keep it for press and news, where it is genuinely good and free.
- Do you cover anything outside Reddit?
- No. One source, done properly.
Try Mentionr free — no card
Fourteen days of Business, then Free if you do nothing. Nothing is deleted either way.