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MenttionvsAirOps

AirOps is a real, actively operating AI-search/AEO platform (founded 2021) that pairs AI-visibility tracking across five major answer engines with its own AI content-production agent, Quill, aimed at enterprise SEO and content teams who want to both diagnose and immediately act on AI-citation gaps. It is strongest where Menttion is thinnest today, mature workflow-driven content automation at scale, while Menttion tracks more engines (9 vs 5, including Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek), publishes a full stored answer/citation record per scan, and adds AI-crawler log monitoring, technical/AEO page auditing with robots.txt/llms.txt generation, and revenue attribution through connected e-commerce and payment platforms that AirOps does not publicly document. Pricing philosophy also differs: Menttion leads with a $1 one-time snapshot before a pay-for-what-you-track custom plan, while AirOps leads with a capped free tier and gates real multi-engine tracking behind a Pro plan whose price isn't published outright.

[01] At a glance

Menttion

The AI search visibility platform: nine answer engines tracked, every answer stored with citations and sentiment, an Opportunity Engine that turns gaps into ranked plays, and a Content Studio and Page Audit to act on them.

Starting price

$1 one-time snapshot, then a metered plan you build yourself

AirOpsAI-search/AEO growth platform (visibility tracking + AI content generation & publishing for enterprise SEO/content teams)

An AI-search/AEO growth platform that tracks brand mentions and citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, then uses an AI content agent (Quill) to close the loop by producing and refreshing content to win those citations.

Starting price

$0/month (Insights free tier); paid Pro/Solo tiers exist but list task/prompt limits rather than a public dollar price on the pricing page

airops.com/pricing lists five tiers: Insights (Free, $0/mo, 1 user, 100 tracked prompts capped lower on Solo), Solo (20,000 tasks, 100 tracked prompts/pages, ChatGPT-only insights, overage at $0.025/task), Pro (\"Recommended\", 75,000 tasks, 250 tracked prompts/pages, multi-engine insights across Google/Perplexity/ChatGPT/Google AI Studio, weekly opportunity reports), Pages (custom/contact sales), and Enterprise (custom, multi-region/persona/language, dedicated onboarding). Exact Solo/Pro dollar prices were not shown as plain text in the fetched page (likely rendered via interactive pricing widget). A 14-day trial of "Scale plan" features and 50,000 free workflow credits are also offered.

[02] Feature by feature

CapabilityMenttionAirOps
Engines/models tracked9 engines in one product: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek5 engines/surfaces: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews (Google AI Studio referenced on lower tiers; Solo plan is ChatGPT-only)
Full answer/citation storageStores every full answer from every scan (not sampled) plus every citation/source URL and mention position, on a customer-set scheduleTracks citation rate, mention rate, and source URLs per its site; does not publicly document storing every full raw answer transcript per scan
Sentiment analysisNet sentiment per engine, attribute-level perception, head-to-head sentiment vs named competitorsSite copy references 'sentiment' as one of several tracked metrics but gives no detail on attribute-level or head-to-head sentiment analysis
AI crawler monitoringTracks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended crawler activity and ties it to on-site behaviorNo public mention of bot/crawler-log monitoring found on airops.com
Analytics + revenue attributionJoins GA4/GSC + AI crawler data to Shopify/WooCommerce/Stripe revenue for an ROI number"Page360" unifies GA4 + Search Console + AI-visibility data in one dashboard, but no public mention of e-commerce/Stripe revenue attribution or an ROI metric
Technical + AEO page auditingFull-site crawl grading technical SEO, content depth, and AI/answer-engine readiness; generates/verifies robots.txt and llms.txt; optional AI-judged deep-audit tierNo dedicated technical-SEO/robots.txt/llms.txt crawl-audit product documented on its pricing or product pages
Content creation & publishingContent Studio: evidence-grounded briefs and AI drafts from citation/prompt data, block editor, scheduled auto-feed publishing to a blog or feed.menttion.com"Quill" AI agent plus Workflows/Playbooks generate and refresh content at scale from brand-kit context; strong, mature content-automation focus
Ranked opportunity/action recommendationsOpportunity Engine turns every detected gap into a ranked, evidence-linked action on a task board, categorized (content, site optimization, citations, PR, technical/AI access, tracking)"Action" prioritization and weekly/monthly opportunity reports flag citation-decline pages and traffic-impact opportunities, but not shown to be organized into a persistent categorized task board
Starting price$1 one-time snapshot report, then build-your-own custom plan (pay only for engines/prompt volume tracked)Free plan at $0/mo (100 prompts, ChatGPT-only Solo tier); paid Pro tier for multi-engine tracking, price not listed publicly (contact/checkout-gated); Pages/Enterprise are custom, contact sales

[03] The fair take

Where AirOps is genuinely strong

Mature, well-documented content-automation layer (Quill agent, Workflows/Playbooks, Brand Kit) that closes the loop from visibility insight straight to published content at scale
Page360 feature is a genuinely useful unification of traditional Google Search Console/GA4 SEO data with AI-visibility data in a single view
Tracks the major AI answer surfaces marketers care about most today (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews) with mention rate, citation rate, sentiment, and position metrics
Clear tiered pricing ladder with a genuine free entry tier (Insights, $0/mo) that lowers the barrier to try the product

Where Menttion pulls ahead

No public documentation of AI-crawler (bot-hit) log monitoring, unlike Menttion's GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot/Google-Extended tracking
No dedicated technical-SEO + robots.txt/llms.txt page-audit product tier documented on its site
Tracks 5 answer engines/surfaces versus Menttion's 9 (no Copilot, Grok, or DeepSeek tracking found)
No public mention of e-commerce/Stripe revenue attribution tying AI traffic to actual revenue

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