Head to head
Mentionry vs Featured.com
Featured.com is an AI PR co-pilot for media opportunities. Mentionry finds specific backlink openings and tracks what AI answer engines say about a business. They are different tools for different tasks.
Featured.com finds media opportunities like journalist queries and podcast bookings, and as of 2024 it also sells paid link placements. Mentionry is an AI marketing platform. It tracks how AI answer engines like Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT respond to your buyers' questions, finds specific pages that could cite your business because they already cite your competitors, and drafts the outreach to ask for that citation. It never buys or places links.
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| Mentionry | Featured.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Not published yet | Free $0, Lite $39/mo, Pro $99/mo, Pro+ $299/mo |
| Channels covered | see below | 7 |
| Referring domains | not measured | not measured |
| US keywords ranked | not measured | not measured |
The difference in one table
This table shows what each tool is built to do. Featured.com covers the 'earn' channel of public relations. Mentionry covers backlink prospecting and answer engine tracking.
Use this to see which one matches the work you need done.
- What it finds: Featured surfaces journalist requests, podcasts, speaking slots, awards, and contributed article openings. Mentionry finds the same opportunities plus pages that cite competitors but not you, resource pages, listicles, directories, and citations from AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews.
- Link building approach: Featured now includes a marketplace for paid link placements and sponsored articles. Mentionry drafts emails to ask for an earned link, sent from your own mailbox, and excludes paid placements by design.
- AI answer tracking: Featured's GEO Audit reports how AI assistants describe your brand. Mentionry's 'Track answer engines' runs your specific prompts daily against the engines on your plan, recording the full answer text, citations, and named brands.
- Price: Featured's published plans are Free, Lite at $29 a month billed annually, and Pro at $79 a month billed annually. Mentionry: Free includes one saved snapshot of up to 3 questions and 3 pages. No card. No expiry. Lite $29/month · Growth $99/month · Agency $249/month (USD).
- Interface: Featured operates primarily as a chat interface. Mentionry presents a list of judged opportunities with drafted emails.
- Connections: Featured uses an MCP server with OAuth. Mentionry requires one keyless connection, your own mailbox, to send outreach.
When Featured.com is the right tool
Featured.com is built for public relations professionals and marketers who want a single, inexpensive tool for media pitching. Its strength is aggregating queries from journalists, podcast hosts, and conference organizers.
If your goal is to be cited as a source in news articles, booked as a podcast guest, or entered for industry awards, Featured will surface those leads. Its chat interface is designed for quickly evaluating and acting on these opportunities.
The tool also provides a view into how AI answer engines perceive your brand, which is useful for reputation monitoring. Its free tier and lower-cost plans make it accessible for testing or for teams with a tight budget focused solely on earned media.
When Mentionry is the right tool
Mentionry is built for SEOs, content marketers, and business owners who need to build backlinks through outreach, not payment. It finds the exact pages where a link is possible because a competitor is already linked there.
The process is specific. You give it a domain. It analyzes who that site competes with, then runs two processes. One finds pages that link to competitors but not you, plus resource pages and directories. The other finds journalist requests, podcasts, speaking opportunities, awards, contributed articles, and citations within AI answers. Every opening is judged individually, and a draft email is written for the ones that pass.
Mentionry tracks AI answer engines differently. You write the questions your buyers actually ask. Each one is run on a schedule, and the full answer text, the sites it cited, the brands it named, and the queries the model searched are all recorded. Visibility and share of voice are computed from those records. This is a measurement of your tracked prompts, not an estimate of global conversation volume.
Crucially, Mentionry does not sell or facilitate paid link placements. Buying links that pass ranking signals violates search engine policies, and the penalty lands on the customer's site. The tool is designed to find earned opportunities only.
The paid placements distinction
This is the most important difference for anyone concerned with SEO compliance. As of 2024, Featured.com has a named feature for finding and purchasing paid link placements, sponsored articles, and link insertions.
Mentionry is designed to avoid this entirely. Its judgment model will reject an opportunity if it involves payment for a link. The drafting model will also refuse to reply if a response asks for payment. This is a core policy, not a missing feature.
If you intend to buy links, Featured provides a marketplace. If you will not buy links, Mentionry filters them out. This decision dictates which tool is suitable for your link building.
What each one does not do
Understanding the limits prevents wasted time. Neither tool is a complete suite for all marketing channels.
- Featured.com does not perform backlink gap analysis or find resource pages for link building. Its homepage mentions these, but they are not named features on its pricing or features pages.
- Mentionry does not place, publish, or guarantee links. It sends the pitch from your connected mailbox. Whether a link then appears is the publisher's decision. It also does not have registries, broken link building tools, or relationship inventories.
- Both tools can handle journalist queries. However, neither automatically pulls in queries from HARO, Source of Sources, or Connectively. You can paste a query from these platforms into either tool for drafting, but they do not log into those services on your behalf. HARO is still running as a separate, free service.
Recommendation
Choose Featured.com if your primary work is media relations. You want a low cost, chat based tool to find and pitch journalist requests, podcast bookings, and speaking opportunities. You are also comfortable with a platform that offers paid link placements as an option.
Choose Mentionry if you need to build backlinks through outreach. You want to find the specific pages that already link to your competitors and send a personalized ask from your own email account. You need to track how AI answer engines respond to your specific business questions over time, and you will not buy links.
They are different tools for different channels. The right choice depends on whether you are pitching stories for coverage or asking for links for SEO.
The published facts, with sources
Featured.com
featured.comA PR discovery and drafting platform with GEO audits, media monitoring and scheduled workflows.
Published price
- Free $0 (individual plan; usage limits apply)
- Lite $39/mo (or $29/month billed annually at $348)
- Pro $99/mo (or $79/month billed annually at $948)
- Pro+ $299/mo (or $239/month billed annually at $2,868)
Pick them when
You want its PR discovery, drafting and scheduled workflows. Compare individual and team usage requirements separately.
Checked facts
- The official pricing page lists individual Lite at $39 monthly or $29/month billed annually, Pro at $99 or $79 annually, and Pro+ at $299 or $239 annually. All plans include the features; usage scales. (source, checked 2026-10-20)
- The official catalogue includes PR discovery, GEO audits, media monitoring, scheduled workflows and paid placements. A missing catalogue entry is not proof that a workflow is unavailable. (source, checked 2026-10-20)
Questions people actually ask
Featured.com's primary focus is earned media opportunities like journalist queries and podcast bookings. As of 2024, it also includes a feature to find and purchase paid link placements and sponsored articles. It does not have a dedicated engine for finding earned backlink opportunities through competitor gap analysis or resource pages.