Reddily vs Mention: Reddit Monitoring Compared

If you are looking for a tool to help you understand what people are saying on Reddit, two names that come up frequently are Reddily and Mention. Both can surface Reddit conversations, but they approach the problem from fundamentally different angles. Reddily is a dedicated Reddit analysis platform powered by AI. Mention is a broad social listening and media monitoring tool that includes Reddit among dozens of data sources.

Choosing between them is not just a matter of comparing feature lists. It depends on what you are actually trying to accomplish. Do you need to deeply analyze specific Reddit threads and extract structured insights? Or do you need to monitor brand mentions across the entire web, with Reddit being one of many channels? This comparison will help you understand where each tool excels and where it falls short, so you can pick the right one for your workflow.

Quick Overview: Reddily

Reddily is an AI-powered analysis tool built specifically for Reddit. It uses Google Gemini AI to read entire Reddit threads -- including every comment and reply -- and extract structured insights that would take hours to compile manually. You can analyze individual threads by pasting a URL into the dashboard or clicking the Chrome extension while browsing Reddit, or you can run batch analyses across up to 25 threads at once using keyword search.

The output is detailed and actionable: sentiment breakdowns, pain point detection, feature requests, recurring themes, key quotes, and competitive mentions. Reddily is designed for product teams, founders, marketers, and researchers who need to understand what Reddit users actually think, not just that they mentioned a keyword somewhere.

Pricing is credit-based with no subscriptions. Every new account gets 5 free credits, each analysis costs 1 credit, and you can buy more starting at $2.99 for 10 credits. There are no monthly fees, contracts, or minimum commitments.

Quick Overview: Mention

Mention is a media monitoring and social listening platform that tracks brand mentions, keywords, and competitors across the web. It covers social media platforms, news sites, blogs, forums, review sites, and more -- Reddit is one of many sources in its monitoring network. The platform provides real-time alerts, sentiment tracking, competitive analysis dashboards, and reporting tools designed for marketing and PR teams.

Mention is built around the concept of continuous monitoring. You set up alerts for specific keywords or brand names, and the platform streams matching mentions to your dashboard as they appear across the web. This always-on approach is valuable for brand reputation management and PR monitoring, but it means the tool is optimized for breadth of coverage rather than depth of analysis on any single platform.

Pricing starts at $41 per month (billed annually) for the Solo plan, which includes 2 alerts and 5,000 mentions. The Pro plan at $83 per month adds more alerts and mentions. Enterprise plans with custom pricing are available for larger teams. All plans require a subscription commitment.

Feature Comparison

The table below gives you a side-by-side view of how Reddily and Mention stack up across the features that matter most for Reddit analysis and monitoring.

Reddit Analysis Depth

This is where the two tools diverge most dramatically. Reddily was built from the ground up to understand how Reddit works. It processes entire thread structures -- the original post, top-level comments, nested replies, upvote patterns, and community dynamics -- and uses AI to synthesize all of that into structured, actionable insights. When you analyze a thread with Reddily, you get specific pain points users are experiencing, feature requests they are making, alternatives they are considering, sentiment breakdowns by topic, and the most resonant opinions based on community engagement.

Mention, by contrast, treats Reddit as a source of mentions. When someone uses your brand name or a tracked keyword on Reddit, Mention captures that mention and adds it to your dashboard alongside mentions from Twitter, blogs, news articles, and other sources. You can see that someone mentioned your product in a Reddit thread and read the specific comment, but the tool does not analyze the full thread context around that mention. It does not tell you what pain points are being discussed in the same thread, what alternatives other commenters are recommending, or how the overall community sentiment breaks down across the discussion.

Think of it this way: Mention tells you where your name appeared on Reddit. Reddily tells you what Reddit users actually think. If your goal is to know every time someone says your brand name, Mention handles that well. If your goal is to understand why users are talking about your category, what they want, and what is driving their opinions, Reddily provides a level of analysis that mention-tracking tools simply do not offer.

Pricing Comparison

The pricing structures reflect the fundamental differences in how these tools work. Reddily uses a pay-per-analysis model. You buy credits, and each thread analysis costs 1 credit. At $2.99 for 10 credits, each analysis runs about $0.30. If you analyze 30 threads in a month, you spend roughly $9. If you have a quiet month and analyze nothing, you spend nothing. Your credits do not expire, and there is no subscription ticking in the background.

Mention uses a monthly subscription model. The Solo plan at $41 per month includes 2 alerts and 5,000 mentions. The Pro plan at $83 per month bumps that up to 5 alerts and 10,000 mentions. If you need more alerts or higher mention volumes, you move into Company plans starting at $149 per month or custom Enterprise pricing. These are all monthly costs regardless of how much you actually use the tool in a given period.

For context, if you used Reddily to analyze one Reddit thread per day for an entire month (30 analyses), you would spend about $9. The cheapest Mention plan costs $41 per month and does not include the kind of deep thread analysis Reddily provides. For teams that specifically need Reddit insights, the cost difference is substantial. However, if you need to monitor brand mentions across the entire web -- not just Reddit -- Mention's subscription covers that broader scope, which Reddily does not attempt to address.

There is also the cost of setup and learning. Reddily requires no configuration. You sign up, get 5 free credits, and analyze your first thread within two minutes. Mention requires setting up alerts, configuring filters to reduce noise, and learning to navigate dashboards built for continuous monitoring. The time investment is higher, which matters for smaller teams where everyone has multiple responsibilities.

When to Choose Reddily

Reddily is the right choice when Reddit is your primary research platform and you need depth over breadth. It excels in these scenarios:

• Deep Reddit research on a budget. If you need to understand what Reddit users think about your product category, competitors, or market trends, Reddily delivers AI-powered analysis at a fraction of what subscription-based tools cost. No monthly fees mean you only pay when you have threads to analyze.
• Product validation and feedback mining. Reddily's AI extracts structured pain points, feature requests, and sentiment from real Reddit discussions. This is exactly the kind of data product teams need when validating ideas, prioritizing roadmaps, or understanding why users switch between competing products.
• Competitive intelligence from Reddit. Search for competitor names, batch-analyze the most relevant threads, and get a structured breakdown of how Reddit users perceive competing products -- what they praise, what they criticize, and what alternatives they recommend.
• Quick, one-off analyses. The Chrome extension lets you analyze any Reddit thread with a single click while browsing. There is no setup, no alert configuration, and no dashboard to build. You find an interesting thread, click analyze, and have structured insights in seconds.
• Small teams and solo researchers. No onboarding process, no contracts, and no minimum commitment. The credit-based model scales with your actual usage, making it accessible whether you analyze 5 threads a month or 500.

When to Choose Mention

Mention is the better choice when you need continuous monitoring across the web, not just Reddit. It excels in these scenarios:

• Brand reputation monitoring. If you need to know every time someone mentions your brand -- on Reddit, Twitter, news sites, blogs, forums, and review sites -- Mention's real-time alerts and multi-platform coverage handle that use case well. The always-on monitoring approach catches mentions you might miss with manual research.
• PR and crisis management. Mention's alert system notifies you immediately when your brand appears in conversations across the web. For PR teams that need to respond quickly to negative press or viral social media posts, this real-time awareness across multiple platforms is valuable.
• Multi-platform competitive tracking. If you need to monitor competitor mentions across social media, news, and forums simultaneously, Mention aggregates all of that into a single dashboard. This broad view is useful for marketing teams that need to track competitive share of voice across the entire digital landscape.
• Enterprise compliance and reporting. Larger organizations that need structured reporting on brand mentions, sentiment trends, and competitive positioning across channels benefit from Mention's dashboarding and export capabilities. The API access also allows integration with existing business intelligence tools.

The Verdict

Reddily and Mention solve different problems, and the right choice depends on what you actually need. If you boil it down to one question, it is this: do you need to deeply analyze Reddit conversations, or do you need to monitor brand mentions across the web?

For Reddit-specific analysis, Reddily is the clear winner. It reads entire threads, understands comment hierarchies, and uses AI to extract the kind of structured insights -- pain points, feature requests, sentiment breakdowns, competitive mentions -- that mention-tracking tools cannot provide. It is also dramatically more affordable for this use case, with no subscription required and per-analysis pricing that starts at about $0.30 per thread.

For broad, always-on brand monitoring across the internet, Mention has the advantage. Its real-time alerting, multi-platform coverage, and continuous monitoring model are designed for teams that need to track every mention of their brand or competitors across dozens of channels. Reddit is one piece of that puzzle, not the whole picture.

Many teams find that the best approach is to use both tools for their respective strengths: Mention for broad web monitoring and Reddily for deep Reddit analysis. Since Reddily has no monthly commitment, adding it to your toolkit costs nothing until you actually need to analyze a thread. Start with 5 free credits and compare the Reddit insights you get from Reddily's AI analysis with what your current monitoring tools deliver. The difference in depth is usually immediately apparent.