# Mention, contact us: News API

> Mention’s real-time API gives you social media and web crawling without building anything yourself.

Mention's news API on its Company plan. It returns 5 of the 6 key fields we check: Source, Date, Author, Snippet, Image.
We haven't run Mention through [our news API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt) yet.
Mention gives this plan's price on request. We rank 710 plans for news APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less.
[Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/financial-data-financialdata-net/69-monthly-premium-get-api-v1-latest-news/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: as little as $0.00089. Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan covers up to 77,760,000 searches a month at no extra cost.
[Finage's $49 monthly plan (/news/cryptocurrency/{symbol})](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/finage/49-monthly-simple-plan-get-news-cryptocurrency-symbol/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Finage's $49 monthly plan costs less up front than Financial Data (financialdata.net)'s $69 monthly plan.
[The New York Times](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/the-new-york-times/free/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrappa/25-pack/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt) are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mention/contact-us
- [News API: 60+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-news-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mention.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.mention.net/api/accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mention.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://dev.mention.com/current/src/account/alert/mention/GetMentions.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- Sold by: Mention (https://mention.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 83%
- Source: ✓
- Date: ✓
- Author: ✓
- Snippet: ✓
- Image: ✓

## Price

- Billing: contact

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## In their words

- Their pitch: Mention’s real-time API gives you social media and web crawling without building anything yourself.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Consequently, the Client acknowledges and accepts that the Mention Content may only be used within the scope of the Services supplied by Mention. Any use by the Client outside the scope of the Services of Mention Content supplied as part of the Services is prohibited.", "The Client must only use Services for internal business purposes and must not: (i) grant licenses or sublicenses, sell, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, time-share or otherwise exploit the Services or make them available to a third-party, (ii) send spam or other unsolicited messages in violation of the applicable laws, (iii) knowingly send or store material containing computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any other malicious IT code, files, scripts, agents or malware, or enable a “bot” or other non-approved automated process to interact with the Services, (iv) interfere with or adversely affect the integrity or performance of the Services or the data they contain, (v) attempt to obtain unauthorized access to the Services or to the related systems or networks. The Client must not (i) modify, copy or create derivative works based on the Solution and/or the Services or (ii) disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile the Solution and/or the Services."

## Plan

- You get: 50,000 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 3,600
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: account_id, alert_id. Optional: since_id, before_date, not_before_date, limit, source, unread, favorite, folder, tone, countries, include_children, sort, languages, timezone, q, cursor
- Method: GET
- Path: /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions

## About the plan

- Plan: Company
- Who can get it: professionals: "any natural or artificial persons performing a non-occasional paid activity in all branches of industry and business", the API is a paid add-on of the Company plan

## The 39 fields the plan's answer can hold

document ID, alert ID, title, description, URL, clickable URL, displayable URL, unique ID, published date, created date, updated date, country, language, source type, source name, source URL, image URL, sentiment, favorite, folder, folder set by user, read, tags, tasks, logs, child mentions, total child mentions, matched keyword offsets, permissions, author ID, author kind, author URL, author name, author influence score, author scored ID, tweet ID, tweet author ID, older mentions link, newer mentions link

## Mention's plans (1)

- [Mention, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mention/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Mention's calls (1)

- `GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions`: [Mention, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mention/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Mention's APIs (1)

- [Mention: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mention/contact-us/llms.txt)

## Mention: news API alternatives

- [PrismCrawl, contact us, Custom, POST /v1/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/prismcrawl/contact-us-custom-post-v1-google-news/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [GNews, contact us, Create Your Own Plan, GET /api/v4/search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/gnews/contact-us-create-your-own-plan-get-api-v4-search/llms.txt): 83% complete, stored
- [NewsAPI.org, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/everything](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-org/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-everything/llms.txt): 83% complete, live
- [NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), contact us](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/newsapi-ai-event-registry/contact-us/llms.txt): 83% complete
- [Meltwater, contact us, Advanced Suite](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/meltwater/contact-us-advanced-suite/llms.txt): 83% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://dev.mention.com/current/src/account/alert/mention/GetMention.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://dev.mention.com/current/src/account/alert/mention/GetMentions.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://dev.mention.com/current/src/index.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mention.com/en/media-monitoring-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mention.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://mention.com/en/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://support.mention.com/en/articles/13353531-mention-quota-explained?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://support.mention.com/en/articles/13354178-mention-plans-explained?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing
- https://support.mention.com/en/articles/13407573-api-access-explained?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=news-api-pricing