Mentionable vs AlsoAsked (2026): GEO tracker or PAA research tool?

Key takeaways

• Mentionable and AlsoAsked are not really rivals. Mentionable is a GEO/AI-citation tracker; AlsoAsked is a Google People Also Ask research tool. Picking between them depends on whether you need to monitor AI visibility or plan content topics.
• Mentionable tracks seven AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview) on every plan, with no per-engine surcharges, starting at €79/mo.
• AlsoAsked only sources Google's PAA box, nothing from LLMs, and is priced from $15/mo (Basic) up to $59/mo (Pro), with CSV export and API access gated behind higher tiers.
• Mentionable's credit system quietly penalizes Claude scans, which cost 15 credits versus 1 credit for the other six engines. Budget accordingly if Claude matters to you.
• AlsoAsked's bulk search (up to 1,000 seed keywords at once) and unlimited seats on every tier are genuinely useful for agencies doing large-scale content planning.
• If your actual goal is "does ChatGPT recommend my brand," AlsoAsked can't answer that question at all. If your goal is "what should my next blog post be about," Mentionable isn't built for that either.

Overview

Mentionable

Credit-free daily GEO tracking across eight LLMs

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Mentionable is a GEO (generative engine optimization) tracker. It scans daily for whether your brand gets mentioned or cited across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Google AI Overview, then flags the prompts where competitors get cited instead of you. It also has a content-writing feature that drafts pages aimed at closing those citation gaps. It's built by a solo French developer (Alexandre Rastello), launched in January 2026, and is aimed squarely at small teams and agencies who don't want per-LLM pricing add-ons.

AlsoAsked

People Also Ask keyword and intent research

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AlsoAsked is a keyword and intent research tool that scrapes Google's "People Also Ask" boxes and renders them as an interactive visual tree. Type in a seed keyword, pick a country and language, and it shows you the related questions people search alongside it, several levels deep if you use Deep Search. It's aimed at SEO and content teams building topic clusters and content briefs, not at anyone trying to figure out what ChatGPT says about their brand.

Side-by-side comparison

Head-to-head deep dive

What problem each tool actually solves

Mentionable answers "does ChatGPT recommend me over my competitor." AlsoAsked answers "what are people actually asking around this topic." These are sequential problems, not competing solutions to the same problem. If you only have budget for one, figure out which question you're actually trying to answer this quarter.

Verdict: different jobs, not a real contest.

Engine and data coverage

Mentionable's own pricing page currently lists seven tracked engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview), despite some marketing copy still saying "eight." All seven are included on every plan with no add-on fees, which is a real point in its favor against competitors that charge per engine.

AlsoAsked has zero LLM coverage. It only pulls from Google's PAA feature, which means it tells you nothing about how AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, or Perplexity are actually citing sources today. Worth knowing: Promptwatch Data's research on AI Overviews citation types shows product pages overtaking listicles as the most cited format in Google AI Overviews as of July 2026, a shift that neither of these two tools would show you directly, but Mentionable at least tracks the engine where it's happening.

Verdict: Mentionable wins on AI coverage by default, because AlsoAsked isn't even trying to compete there.

Scan frequency and credit mechanics

Mentionable's marketing leans on "daily tracking," but the pricing calculator defaults to roughly three scans a week (about 13/month) unless you spend more credits to push frequency up. Claude scans also cost 15 credits versus 1 credit for every other engine, a detail that isn't obvious until you're budgeting. On the Growth plan's 1,500 credits, that Claude tax adds up fast if you're tracking more than a handful of prompts.

AlsoAsked's credits work differently: they're consumed per search, not per scan cadence, and unused credits don't carry the same kind of hidden multiplier. Basic gives you 100 credits/month for $15, which is fine for smaller research sprints but tight for agencies running dozens of client audits.

Verdict: both tools use credit systems that reward reading the fine print. Mentionable's Claude surcharge is the sneakier one.

Content and research output

Mentionable's standout feature is that it doesn't stop at reporting. When it finds a prompt where you're absent, it can draft an AI-generated page aimed at getting cited on that prompt, then re-check whether the fix worked. That closes the loop from "you're invisible here" to "here's a page to fix it," which most citation trackers don't attempt.

AlsoAsked doesn't generate content. It gives you the raw question tree and expects you or your writer to turn that into briefs and articles. Its visual mind-map format is good for spotting patterns at a glance and decent for client presentations, but reviewers consistently note the zoom/pan UX is clumsy, and the parent-child branches are algorithmic rather than semantically verified, so some connections look more meaningful than they are.

Verdict: Mentionable does more with the data it collects; AlsoAsked collects a different kind of data in the first place.

Agency features

Both tools court agencies, but differently. Mentionable's Agency plan (€299/mo) gives unlimited client projects, white-label reports, and shareable client audits, which matters if you're presenting AI visibility to clients under your own brand. AlsoAsked's advantage for agencies is unlimited seats on every paid tier plus bulk search across up to 1,000 seed keywords at once, useful if you're running large-scale PAA research across many clients or verticals in one sitting.

Verdict: Mentionable's agency tier is built for AI-visibility reporting; AlsoAsked's is built for research throughput.

Pricing structure

Mentionable charges flat monthly fees with all seven engines included, plus metered overage at €0.02/scan if you exceed your credit allotment (capped by a spend limit you set). AlsoAsked's pricing is lower at the entry tier but gates useful features, CSV export, deep search, bulk search, and API access, behind higher tiers depending on which review you check (its own pricing page currently lists these as included across all paid tiers, but older reviews describe them as tier-gated, so verify at signup).

Verdict: Mentionable is pricier upfront but transparent about what's included; AlsoAsked is cheaper to start but historically less transparent about what's locked away.

Pricing comparison

Pros and cons

Mentionable

Pros:

• All seven AI engines included on every plan, no per-engine surcharge
• Generates content to close citation gaps, not just reports
• White-label reporting on Agency tier
• MCP integration on Pro and Agency

Cons:

• No permanent free tier
• Claude scans cost 15x more credits than other engines
• "Daily" tracking often defaults to about three scans a week unless you spend more credits
• Solo-developer product, still early stage, no G2 or Capterra track record yet

AlsoAsked

Pros:

• Cheap entry point at $15/mo, with limited free daily searches requiring no signup
• Bulk search of up to 1,000 seed keywords is rare at this price
• Unlimited seats even on the cheapest tier
• Locale targeting across any Google country and language

Cons:

• Zero visibility into any LLM, only Google's PAA box
• CSV export and API access historically locked to higher tiers
• Visual tree UX criticized for awkward zoom and pan
• Parent-child question relationships are algorithmic, not always logically related

Who should pick which tool

Pick Mentionable if you're a small SaaS company or agency that needs to know whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Copilot are citing you or your competitors, and you want a tool that also drafts the fix. It's a reasonable entry point into GEO if you don't need enterprise-grade crawler logs or Reddit/YouTube citation tracking.

Pick AlsoAsked if your job this month is building content briefs and topic clusters based on what people are actually typing into Google, not what LLMs are saying about your brand. It's a pre-production research tool, and a solid one for that specific job, especially for agencies running bulk keyword research across many clients.

If you actually need both angles, AI visibility tracking and traditional intent research, running them together isn't unreasonable: use AlsoAsked to figure out what to write about, then Mentionable to see if AI engines start citing what you published.

Worth a mention here: if your real goal is comprehensive AI search visibility rather than a lightweight citation tracker, Promptwatch covers a lot more ground than either of these two tools, crawler logs, Reddit and YouTube citation tracking, content gap analysis with automated CMS publishing, and Agent Chat for querying your own visibility data. It's a heavier platform (starting at $95/mo for Essential) built for teams that want to go from monitoring to fixing without switching tools.

Promptwatch

AI search visibility and optimization platform

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Final verdict

These two tools solve different problems, so there's no single winner. Mentionable is the better choice if your question is "am I showing up when people ask AI engines about my category." AlsoAsked is the better choice if your question is "what should I actually write about." Buy the tool that matches the question you're asking this month, not the one with the flashier dashboard.