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MentionsAPI pricing and alternatives: ChatGPT scraper API

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33% complete: 4 of the 12 key fields we checkSee the 12 fields
$0.00per 1,000 answersWe rank 100 plans by price. Scrappa's $500 pack costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.238.Decodo, DataForSEO and Bright Data are the best ChatGPT scraper API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of MentionsAPI's 15 plans
Call: POST /v1/check MentionsAPI's only call for this API
API: ChatGPT scraper API one of MentionsAPI's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. MentionsAPI asks ChatGPT when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 12 key fields we check. Citations, Search queries, Brands, Ads.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 300 credits, enough for about 8 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query and brand to POST /v1/check. You set mode to "chatgpt_live". You can also send region and include. The call returns ChatGPT's answer.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

MentionsAPI: ChatGPT scraper API alternatives

The table starts with MentionsAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to MentionsAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

MentionsAPI, $3 packOpenWeb Ninja, pay as you go, POST /chatgpt/chatSearchApi, $80 monthlycloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/chatgpt, Extract ChatGPT, fullUnifAPI, top-up, Starter top-up
$ per 1,000 answers$105.00$7.00$8.00$8.80$30.00
Completeness33%25%42%50%42%
Billingpay firstpay as you gomonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$3monthly$80$30any amount
Enough forabout 28 callsas many as you pay for10,000 calls a monthabout 3,409 calls a monthabout 66 calls, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itAnnual plan subscribers: top-up packs need an active paid plananyone, a minor with a parent's permissionanyoneanyoneanyone, on their workspace's first top-up

Every ChatGPT scraper API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

  1. mentionsapi.com
  2. mentionsapi.com/docs/api/check
  3. mentionsapi.com/docs/api/check/mode-chatgpt-live
  4. mentionsapi.com/docs/billing
  5. mentionsapi.com/docs/rate-limits
  6. mentionsapi.com/docs/wallet
  7. mentionsapi.com/legal/terms
  8. mentionsapi.com/methodology
  9. mentionsapi.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Citations
  • Search results, not in the answer
  • Search queries
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Brands
  • Products, not in the answer
  • Places, not in the answer
  • Ads
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Tables, not in the answer
  • Model, not in the answer
  • Follow-up prompts, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: mode:quick · mode:perplexity_live · mode:gemini_live · mode:ai_overview · mode:ai_mode · mode:bing_copilot · mode:all_live · POST /v1/discover · POST /v1/compare · POST /v1/ask · GET /v1/mentions/search · POST /v1/mentions/crawl
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLive capture of ChatGPT's UI answer. Surfaces three signals the official ChatGPT API doesn't expose: fan-out queries (the web-search expansions ChatGPT issues during reasoning), brand entities (the platform-recognized brand mentions in the answer), and inline citations.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataAcceptable use: You will not (a) attempt to bypass rate limits, balance checks, or other technical controls, (b) resell raw responses without adding substantial value, (c) use the Service to generate or distribute content that is illegal, infringing, or violates the terms of any upstream LLM provider, (d) attempt to reverse-engineer credentials of the underlying scraping infrastructure.
Plan
Pay$0
You get300 credits
Enough forabout 8 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, brand, mode "chatgpt_live". Optional: region, include
MethodPOST
Path/v1/check
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

brand mentioned, brand rank, mention context, citations, search queries, brands, ads, answer text

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