MentionX vs Ahrefs: MentionXvsAhrefs

Ahrefs is a great SEO suite, and Brand Radar adds AI tracking to it. But Ahrefs Lite tracks 5 AI prompts for one user. MentionX starts at $19.99 with 20 buyer questions, puts your Google rank beside every AI answer to the same question in one row, then builds the fix in your brand and publishes it to your site as a draft.

MentionX starts at$19.99a month

Ahrefs starts at€119a month, 5 AI prompts

In one line: MentionX is built to win the AI answer, from $19.99. Ahrefs adds 5 AI prompts to a €119 SEO plan.

Free. Your Google rank and AI answers side by side in about two minutes. Already on Ahrefs? Run MentionX next to it for 7 days and compare.

Checked 22 Oct 2026 against ahrefs.com/pricing. MentionX prices from our live plan data.

One buyer question“Best CRM for a 20-person sales team”

Google organicRank 3, vela.ioRank 3

ChatGPTRecommends three rivalsNot named

GeminiNamed second of fiveMentioned

Google AI ModeFirst choice, two citationsRecommended

PerplexityCites a rival’s comparison pageNot named

Microsoft CopilotNamed thirdMentioned

Ranks 3 on Google, skipped by ChatGPT and PerplexityFix drafted: comparison page and a LinkedIn carousel, ready for approval

In Ahrefs: keyword rank in Rank Tracker, AI answers in Brand Radar, two separate tools. Lite tracks 5 AI prompts. No fix published to your site.

Example brand and answers. Toggle to see what each pricing page lists.

8 rounds. MentionX takes all 8.

What decides whether AI recommends you, and what each tool does about it. Everything on the Ahrefs side is from its own pricing page, checked 22 Oct 2026.

Starting priceFrom $19.99 a monthFrom €119 a month (Lite)MentionX

Buyer questions included20 on Starter, 100 on Spark, 150 on Nova5 on Lite, 10 on Standard, 20 on AdvancedMentionX

Google rank and AI answerSame question, same rowSeparate tools: Rank Tracker and Brand RadarMentionX

Team seatsUnlimited from Spark1 user included; more from €37.4 a month eachMentionX

Free trial7 days on Spark and NovaNo trial; Ahrefs Free has limited accessMentionX

Build the fixCreative Studio and GEO Content AgentContent Kit, an add-on from €89 a monthMentionX

Publish the fix to your siteDrafts to WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, NetlifyNoMentionX

Proof for leadershipBoardroom slide deck from every scan, includedReport Builder, 5 reports includedMentionX

Being mentioned is not being chosen.

Most trackers count a mention. A buyer acts on the recommendation. MentionX measures both, and its headline number is Recommendation Rate: how often AI tells the buyer to pick you.

ChatGPTMentioned

“Best CRM for a 20-person sales team?”

Northwind CRM
Kestrel
Pipewise
Orbit Sales
Vela

Named fifth in a list. Most visibility trackers count this as a win.

Google AI ModeRecommended

“Best CRM for a 20-person sales team?”

“For a team of 20, go with Vela: it is built for small sales teams and the pipeline view is the easiest to set up.”

This is the answer that wins the deal. Only this counts toward Recommendation Rate.

Example brands and answers.

Ahrefs ranks keywords. MentionX wins the answer.

Seeing the gap is step one. MentionX decides what to fix, builds it in your brand, sends it to your site as a draft and measures whether AI changed its answer.

MentionXAll six steps, one workspace

SeeGoogle rank + every AI answer, one row
DecideAction Board, personas, intent coverage
CreateCreative Studio, 19 formats, and articles
PublishDrafts to your own CMS
MeasureSame prompts, before and after
ReportBoardroom deck from every scan

AhrefsFrom its pricing page

SeeRank Tracker and Brand Radar, separate tools
DecideKeyword research and mention gaps
CreateAI Content Helper, an add-on
PublishSocial scheduling in beta, no site drafts
MeasureDaily AI checks, weekly rank
ReportReport Builder

Daily tracking is a mood ring. Weekly is a trend.

Ask an AI engine the same question twice and you can get two different answers minutes apart. That is how these models work. A daily line mostly charts that randomness, so it jumps without anything about your brand changing.

Teams who watch it chase false alarms: a drop on Tuesday, a recovery on Thursday, a meeting about neither. Nobody can ship a fix in a day anyway.

MentionX runs the same prompts four times a month and keeps every answer. The weekly trend shows what really moved after you published, and every point opens to the answers behind it.

Daily runsWeekly trend, same promptsIllustration

We knock on the front door. Scrapers climb through the window.

How a tool collects AI answers decides whether you can trust them. MentionX asks every engine the way a new buyer would, through its official API.

MentionX: official APIs

Fresh session every time. No login, no memory, no location, so the answer is what a new buyer sees, not what your own account has been trained on.
Within the rules. Each engine through its official API where one exists, and a licensed search API for Google AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Repeatable. The same prompts, the same way, every scan, so a change is a real change.
Stored as evidence. Every raw answer and citation is saved before any number is calculated.

Scraping a chat window

Biased answers. A logged-in chat knows the account, its history and its location. Your buyer is not that account.
Against the terms. Automated scraping of chat interfaces breaks most AI engines’ terms of use.
Fragile. When the chat interface changes, the data breaks or quietly goes missing.
Hard to audit. If an answer cannot be reproduced, neither can the number built on it.

Ahrefs says Brand Radar runs prompts through each AI platform and stores the responses. It does not say whether that goes through each engine’s official API. Checked 22 Oct 2026.

The receipts.

Every capability, from measuring the answer to proving it moved. Count the red crosses.

MentionX vs Ahrefs, capability by capability
Capability	MentionX	Ahrefs
Measure
Your Google top-10 rank beside each AI answer, same question	Every plan, one row per buyer question	Rank Tracker (weekly) and Brand Radar are separate tools
Buyer questions you track	20 to 200 per plan, custom volumes for any plan	5, 10 or 20 AI prompts a day; more as check packages
AI engines	All 10: 7 in the plans, plus Claude, Grok and Meta AI as add-ons	7: AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude
DeepSeek, Grok and Meta AI	DeepSeek in Nova and Galaxy; Grok and Meta AI as add-ons	No
Recommendation Rate: recommended, not just mentioned	Every scan, every engine	Mentions, citations, share of voice
Collected through official APIs	Official APIs in fresh sessions; licensed search API for Google	Method not stated
Understand
Sources and citations AI relies on	Yes, including Reddit, YouTube and review sites	Citations, plus YouTube, TikTok and Reddit sources
ICP and buyer personas	ICP plus up to four personas, every KPI per persona	No
Intent coverage across the buyer journey	Coverage by intent and buyer stage, with the gaps to fill	Funnel-stage tags and search intents
Sentiment and positioning	Yes	Brand sentiment as a Letaido skill
AI analyst over your own evidence	Mentionie, answers only from your stored scans	Letaido, a separate product
Fix
Prioritised actions	Action Board with owners and due dates	Mention gap analysis
Articles drafted from your scan	GEO Content Agent	AI Content Helper, an add-on from €89
Posts, carousels, video, landing pages	Creative Studio: 19 formats, 7 channels, your brand kit	No
Drafts sent to your own site	WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, Netlify	No
Prove
A slide deck leadership can open	Boardroom deck from every scan, included	Report Builder, 5 reports; more as an €89 add-on
Every number traceable	Each figure opens to the stored AI answers behind it	Stores every response
Plan
Starting price	From $19.99 a month	From €119 a month
Price per month	$19.99, $149, $249, $599	€119, €229, €419; Enterprise €1,394
Team seats	Unlimited from Spark, 3 on Starter	1 user; extra users €37.4 to €74.8 a month each
Tracking	Weekly on the same prompts, 4 full scans a month	Daily AI checks; Rank Tracker weekly
Free trial	7 days on Spark and Nova	No

No = not offered on Ahrefs’s public pricing page (ahrefs.com/pricing), checked 22 Oct 2026. Spotted a change? Tell us and we update this page.

Your buyer questions, not five.

MentionX Spark is $149 a month for 100 buyer questions on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode, with your Google rank in the same row, Creative Studio and unlimited seats. Ahrefs Standard is €229 a month and includes 10 AI prompts a day for one user; every extra user and every extra check package costs more.

MentionX Spark$149a month, 100 buyer questions

Google rank and AI answers, one row
Unlimited seats, 7-day free trial
Creative Studio, GEO Content Agent, Boardroom deck

Ahrefs Standard€229a month, 10 AI prompts a day

Rank Tracker and Brand Radar in separate tools
1 user; more from €56.1 a month each
No visual content or publishing to your site

Ahrefs prices as shown on ahrefs.com/pricing to European visitors, checked 22 Oct 2026, monthly billing. MentionX prices from our plan data.

Plan for plan, name for name.

Matched from the entry plan up. Ahrefs counts AI prompts per day on its SEO plans; MentionX counts the buyer questions in each scan. MentionX prices in USD, Ahrefs in EUR as shown in Europe.

MentionX

Starter

$19.99 a month

20 buyer questions, ChatGPT and Gemini, Google rank row, 3 seats

Starts at$19.99 vs €119
Buyer questions20 vs 5
Seats3 vs 1

Ahrefs

Lite

€119 a month

5 AI prompts a day, 1 user, SEO suite

MentionX

Spark

$149 a month

100 buyer questions, 3 engines, unlimited seats, 7-day trial

Price$149 vs €229
Buyer questions100 vs 10
SeatsUnlimited vs 1

Ahrefs

Standard

€229 a month

10 AI prompts a day, 1 user

MentionX

Nova

$249 a month

150 buyer questions, 6 engines, unlimited seats, 7-day trial

Price$249 vs €419
Buyer questions150 vs 20
Creative StudioIncluded

Ahrefs

Advanced

€419 a month

20 AI prompts a day, 1 user

MentionX

Galaxy

$599 a month

200 buyer questions, 7 engines, 300 AI credits, custom volumes available

Price$599 vs €1,394
BillingMonthly
Google and AIOne row

Ahrefs

Enterprise

€1,394 a month

From 83 AI prompts a day, from 3 users, annual commitment

Ten AI engines, named on every plan.

MentionX includes DeepSeek from Nova and supports Grok and Meta AI as add-ons. Ahrefs Brand Radar covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, with Claude on custom prompts.

AI engines by plan, MentionX and Ahrefs
Engine	Spark	Nova	Galaxy	Ahrefs Brand Radar
ChatGPT	Included	Included	Included	Included
Gemini	Included	Included	Included	Included
Google AI Mode	Included	Included	Included	Included
Perplexity	—	Included	Included	Included
Microsoft Copilot	—	Included	Included	Included
DeepSeek	—	Included	Included	—
Google AI Overviews	—	—	Included	Included
Claude	Add-on	Add-on	Add-on	Included
Grok	Add-on	Add-on	Add-on	—
Meta AI	Add-on	Add-on	Add-on	—

MentionX vs Ahrefs, answered.

Checked 22 Oct 2026 against ahrefs.com/pricing. If Ahrefs changes its page, tell us and we update this one.

What is the difference between MentionX and Ahrefs Brand Radar?

Ahrefs is an SEO suite; Brand Radar adds AI visibility tracking to it, with keyword rank in a separate Rank Tracker. MentionX is built for AI search: it puts your Google top-10 rank and every AI engine’s answer to the same buyer question in one row, and builds and publishes the fix with Creative Studio and the GEO Content Agent. MentionX starts at $19.99 a month; Ahrefs Lite is €119.

How many AI prompts does Ahrefs include?

Ahrefs Lite includes 5 tracked AI prompts a day, Standard 10 and Advanced 20, with more sold as check packages. MentionX tracks 20 buyer questions on Starter, 100 on Spark, 150 on Nova and 200 on Galaxy, with custom volumes available.

Is MentionX cheaper than Ahrefs?

Yes. MentionX starts at $19.99 a month and Spark is $149, against Ahrefs Lite at €119 and Standard at €229. MentionX seats are unlimited from Spark; Ahrefs includes one user and charges €37.4 to €74.8 a month for each extra user.

Does Ahrefs show Google rankings next to AI answers?

Not in one row. Ahrefs tracks keyword rank weekly in Rank Tracker and AI answers in Brand Radar, two separate tools. MentionX fetches Google’s organic top ten for each buyer question and shows it beside every AI answer to that same question.

Does Ahrefs offer a free trial?

No. Ahrefs says it never runs discounts and offers Ahrefs Free with limited access to Site Explorer and Site Audit. MentionX Spark and Nova include a 7-day free trial on your own brand.

Can I keep Ahrefs and add MentionX?

Yes. Many teams keep Ahrefs for backlinks, keywords and site audits and use MentionX for the AI answer: Google rank and AI in one row, the fix built in their brand and sent to their site as a draft, and a Boardroom deck for leadership.

Your buyers are asking. Hear the answer.

See your Google rank and every AI answer for your buyer questions, side by side, with the fix ready to draft. From $19.99 a month, or seven days free on Spark and Nova.

Or start the 7-day free trial on Spark or Nova. See every MentionX price.

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