Read alerts, mentions, authors, statistics and shares in Mention. For marketing and comms teams that monitor brand mentions and competitors in Mention. Hosted by usefulapi — connect from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mention": {
"url": "https://mention.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"mention": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mention.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Other MCP clients (Windsurf, Cline, Zed and more): add the URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser. Do not add an Authorization header: see Before you connect.
List the alerts of the account, then list the mentions one alert found, newest first.
mention_list_alerts mention_list_mentions
Get one mention with its full details, then read a task on it and the teammate it is assigned to.
mention_get_mention mention_get_mention_task
Read an alert, then list the most active authors it found, with their scores.
mention_get_alert mention_list_authors
Read mention statistics for one or more alerts over a date range, per day, week or month.
mention_get_stats
List the people and teams an alert is shared with, and read its notification preferences.
mention_list_shares mention_get_alert_preferences
The login page asks for your Mention access token.
Find it in Mention → app settings (the API add-on must be on your plan). Your token is used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id; it is never shown to anyone.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Mention access token. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
Turn on the Mention connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
| Tool | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
mention_get_my_account | read | Get my account Get the Mention account the access token belongs to (name, email, language). Mention API: GET /accounts/me. |
mention_list_alerts | read | List alerts List the monitoring alerts (saved searches) of the account, with their keywords, sources and languages. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts. |
mention_get_alert | read | Get an alert Get one alert by id: its keywords, excluded keywords, languages, countries and sources. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}. |
mention_list_mentions | read | List mentions List the mentions (posts and articles) found by one alert, newest first. Filter by date, source or unread state. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions. |
mention_get_mention | read | Get a mention Get one mention by id with its full details (title, description, source, author, tasks). Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions/{mention_id}. |
mention_get_mention_task | read | Get a mention task Get one task on a mention, including the teammate it is assigned to. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions/{mention_id}/tasks/{task_id}. |
mention_list_authors | read | List authors List the most active authors (influencers) found by one alert, with their scores. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/authors. |
mention_get_stats | read | Get statistics Get mention statistics for one or more alerts over a date range, per day, week or month. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/stats. |
mention_list_tags | read | List alert tags List the tags of one alert, with the number of mentions tagged. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/tags. |
mention_get_alert_preferences | read | Get alert preferences Get the notification preferences of one alert (email, push and desktop frequency, weight). Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/preferences. |
mention_list_shares | read | List alert shares List the people and teams an alert is shared with, and their permissions. Mention API: GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/shares. |
mention_usage_status | Usage status (free-tier meter) Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter. | |
mention_request_feature | Request a missing feature Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the Mention tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter. | |
mention_upgrade | Upgrade to Pro (unlimited*) Get Pro: unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 a month) on Mention (the free tier caps monthly usage). Plans: "monthly" — $9/month; "yearly" — $90/year (2 months free). Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. *A fair use limit applies. For heavy use (near Pro's limit): "plus" or "plus_yearly" — Pro+, $39/month or $390/year, unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 100,000 a month); an existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place (needs confirm: true; the price difference for the rest of the period is charged at once). Otherwise returns a short link to open in your browser (it opens Stripe Checkout); after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter. | |
mention_cancel_subscription | Cancel the Pro subscription Cancel the caller's Mention Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run mention_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter. |
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this Mention server only. Subscribe with mention_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with mention_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running mention_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
Read new mentions for an alert. Read one mention and its task. Find the most active authors. Chart mention volume over time. Check who sees an alert. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mention. The server calls the Mention API with your own Mention access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Mention access token. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Mention access token. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Mention API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Mention.
All 11 Mention tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this Mention server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run mention_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run mention_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run mention_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with mention_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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