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MentionsAPI pricing and alternatives: Perplexity scraper API

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20% complete: 2 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 answersWe rank 49 plans by price. PerceptLayer's $399 pack costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.798.
Plan: Free one of MentionsAPI's 15 plans
Call: POST /v1/check MentionsAPI's only call for this API
API: Perplexity scraper API one of MentionsAPI's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. MentionsAPI asks Perplexity when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 10 key fields we check. Citations, Follow-up prompts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 300 credits, enough for about 3 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 "perplexity_live". You can also send region and include. The call returns Perplexity's answer.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

MentionsAPI: Perplexity 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 packOxylabs, $500 monthlyBright Data, top-upScrapeBadger, top-up from $10cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/perplexity
$ per 1,000 answers$255.00$1.50$1.50$3.00$4.80
Completeness20%70%60%70%70%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$3$500any amount$10$30
Enough forabout 11 callsabout 333,333 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for6,250 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itAnnual plan subscribers: top-up packs need an active paid plananyoneanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone 18 or overanyone

Perplexity scraper API pricing: plans compared

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-perplexity-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, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Products, not in the answer
  • Places, not in the answer
  • Videos, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Model, not in the answer
  • Follow-up prompts
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Also pays forfrom the same budget: mode:quick · mode:chatgpt_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 Perplexity's UI rendering for a query. Returns the full answer text, 5–10 inline citations, and 3–5 "related searches" fan-out queries — the data product real users see, not the API summary.
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 3 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, brand, mode "perplexity_live". Optional: region, include
MethodPOST
Path/v1/check
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

brand mentioned, brand rank, mention context, citations, related prompts, answer text

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