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MentionBird vs Sitebulb

MentionBird and Sitebulb are both SEO tools tools. MentionBird is aimed at small businesses and agencies, while Sitebulb is aimed at agencies. Sitebulb costs less, from $18/mo versus $79/mo for MentionBird.

MentionBird

Tracks how AI assistants mention your brand and what to fix

Sitebulb

Visual website auditing

PricingPaid · $79Paid · $18
Starting price$79/mo$18/mo
Free planNoNo
Free trial—14 days
Built forSmall businesses, Agencies, E-commerceAgencies
Platformswebmacos, windows, web
CountrySGGB · 2017
Rating——

Choose MentionBird if

SaaS, e-commerce and agency marketers who want an affordable, self-serve way to track and improve AI assistant mentions.

  • Shows the hidden searches and sources behind AI answers
  • Concrete ranked actions, not only scores
  • No code, plugin or tracking tag on your site

Look elsewhere if: Enterprises that need broad engine coverage and security documentation from day one (Profound).

Choose Sitebulb if

SEOs who want actionable, explained audits.

  • Excellent explanations and prioritization
  • Great visuals for clients
  • Strong JS rendering

Look elsewhere if: Users needing custom extraction (Screaming Frog).

MentionBird vs Sitebulb pricing

MentionBird

  • Starter$79/mo100 prompt runs/day, ChatGPT and Gemini; $790/yr
  • Growth$299/mo400 runs/day, adds Perplexity and Claude; $2,990/yr
  • CustomCustomUnlimited runs, all 8 AI platforms, unlimited brands

Sitebulb

  • Lite$18/moDesktop, 1 user, 10,000 URLs per audit; save 15% yearly
  • Pro$42/moDesktop, 500k URLs per audit; extra users +$11/mo
  • Cloudfrom $125/moCloud crawling, 2+ users, teams

MentionBird · Key features

  • Daily tracking of buyer prompts across AI assistants
  • Suggested prompts across five question types with volume and difficulty
  • Mention, citation and competitor tracking by country
  • Tracking of the web searches AI runs behind each answer
  • Answer Agent with ranked moves by effort and impact
  • Prompt labels to group by brand, product or project

Cons

  • Starter tracks only ChatGPT and Gemini
  • Grok, AI Overviews, Copilot and DeepSeek need the Custom plan
  • No free plan or free trial

Sitebulb · Key features

  • Prioritized hints with explanations
  • Visual crawl maps and graphs
  • JavaScript rendering
  • Accessibility and structured data audits
  • Large site crawling
  • Cloud collaboration

Cons

  • Less flexible extraction than Screaming Frog
  • Cloud is expensive
  • Desktop resource usage

MentionBird vs Sitebulb: FAQ

Which is cheaper, MentionBird or Sitebulb?

Sitebulb starts at $18/mo and MentionBird at $79/mo. Both prices are checked on the vendors' own pricing pages.

Do MentionBird and Sitebulb have a free plan?

MentionBird has no free plan. Sitebulb has no free plan, a 14-day free trial.

Which is better for small businesses, MentionBird or Sitebulb?

MentionBird lists small businesses as a core audience, while Sitebulb is aimed more at agencies.

Not sure yet?