AthenaHQ was built by former Google Search and DeepMind engineers. They raised $2.2 million from Y Combinator and positioned themselves as the premium GEO platform. Mentionable fits consultants, founders and in-house teams who want answers without enterprise pricing.
These tools serve different markets. Here's what that means for your choice.
Pricing and what you get
Mentionable offers a 4-day free trial on all plans. Growth costs €79/month for 40 prompts across 3 LLMs chosen from 7. Pro costs €149/month for 80 prompts across 4 LLMs chosen from 7 and 4 projects. Agency is €299/month with 5,000 credits, unlimited projects, and up to 7 LLMs.
AthenaHQ's Self-Serve plan is $295/month (with a $95 intro rate for the first month), which includes 3,500 credits and coverage across 8 LLMs. Growth is $545/month for 10,000 credits. Enterprise starts at $2,000/month. Additional credits cost $100 per 1,250.
The $95 intro offer sounds reasonable, but it auto-renews at $295/month. And the credit system means costs can climb with heavy usage.
For basic tracking needs, the price difference is significant: €79/month versus $295/month. That gap reflects the different audiences these tools are built for.
What Mentionable does well
The 4-day free trial means you can test whether AI visibility tracking matters for your business before committing money.
Simple, fixed pricing removes guesswork. You know exactly what you're paying each month. No credit calculations, no surprise overages.
Prompt suggestions get you started quickly. Enter your URL, and Mentionable generates relevant prompts based on your business. AthenaHQ requires manual prompt setup.
For solopreneurs who want to track visibility across major LLMs without complexity, the workflow is straightforward: enter URL, pick prompts, see results.
Mentionable also ships a public MCP server. Connect it to Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, or ChatGPT and query your visibility data, prompts, and competitors directly from your AI assistant. MCP is available on all paid plans.
For consultants and agencies, the Agency plan includes the one-shot GEO audit: a client-ready white-label report with 6 sections (competitor podium, prompt coverage heatmap, top citation sources, quality backlinks, AI-generated diagnostic, recommended content plan). It is a deliverable, not a dashboard. AthenaHQ does not offer a comparable shareable report.
What AthenaHQ does well
8 LLM coverage from day one is comprehensive. AthenaHQ tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, AI Overviews, Grok, and Meta AI. Mentionable covers 7 (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview).
The Action Center is AthenaHQ's standout feature. Instead of just showing visibility gaps, their AI agents help you create content to fill them. If execution is your bottleneck, not identification, this changes the workflow from "here's your problem" to "here's how to fix it."
Ecommerce integration with Shopify and GA4 lets you connect AI visibility to actual revenue. For DTC brands, that attribution data is valuable for understanding which mentions drive sales.
The team behind it has Google Search and DeepMind experience, with Y Combinator backing. That technical depth shows in the product's sophistication.
Different tools for different problems
AthenaHQ is for teams that want AI visibility integrated into their content workflow. The Action Center isn't just monitoring. It's execution. If you have content people who can act on recommendations immediately, that integration is powerful.
Mentionable is for solopreneurs who want to know "am I visible in AI responses?" without building a content operation around the answer. Simpler scope, simpler price.
Which one fits you?
If you want to try before committing, prefer tracking over content automation, and €79/month fits your budget better than $295/month, Mentionable handles the core job of visibility tracking.
If you have a content team ready to execute on recommendations, run an ecommerce brand and need revenue attribution, want 8 LLM coverage, or find the Action Center's automation valuable, AthenaHQ is built for that workflow.
The technology behind AthenaHQ is impressive. The Action Center is genuinely differentiated. But for a solopreneur who wants to track AI visibility across key prompts, $295/month is harder to justify.
Try Mentionable with a 4-day free trial. See if visibility tracking helps your business. If you need content automation and ecommerce attribution, AthenaHQ might be worth the upgrade later.
