# Can I replace Mention with an AI agent?

A monitoring tool that alerts you when a brand or keyword appears online. Partly. looot covers some of the jobs and not others.

## What Mention does and what looot covers

- Search news mentions: covered. Providers: newsdata-io, brave-search.
- Search the web for a keyword: covered. Providers: exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io.
- Search social posts: partial. Providers: scrapecreators, tikhub, justoneapi. Coverage depends on the network, and there is no stored feed.
- Real-time alerts: not covered. looot has no push alerts or watchers.
- Shared team feed: not covered. looot has no shared inbox.

## Agent prompt to replace Mention

Use looot to search news and the web for my keywords from the last 3 days and list new mentions with the source and a one-line summary. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Mention?

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Mention does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

## Is there a free Mention alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Mention depends on your volume.

## What does Mention cost?

List prices change, so check Mention's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Mention alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Mention's data jobs directly. The providers used here are newsdata-io, brave-search, exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io, scrapecreators, tikhub, justoneapi.

## Which Mention features does looot not cover?

Not covered: real-time alerts, shared team feed. Keep Mention for those, or use another tool beside looot.

## How do I replace Mention with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Mention account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Mention account. Your existing Mention data stays where it is.

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## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.