MentionsAPI vs layahost

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MentionsAPI compared with layahost
Detail	MentionsAPI	layahost
What it does	Brand visibility API for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity	Jev-compatible API for text classification and moderation, hosted in the EU
Stage	Startup	Not given
Founded	2026	Not given
Based in	Not given	FI
Pricing model	Not given	Freemium
Pricing	Free: 300 credits on signup (no card required). Monthly: $5/mo for 1,000 credits. Annual: $54/yr for 12,000 credits. Per-call costs range from 5 credits (cached quick checks) to 165 credits (all_live mode). Top-up packs available at $4.00 per 1k credits (monthly) or $3.00 per 1k (annual).	Free: $1 credit (66.7K decisions) on sign-up. Starter: $9/month for 1M decisions, then $10/million. Pro: $49/month for 10M decisions, then $5/million. Pay as you go: $15/million decisions from prepaid credit ($10 minimum). Clef-flash: $0.10/million tokens. Clef: $0.50/million tokens. Bonus credit: +
Key features	Query ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity in parallel via one endpoint Structured brand mention extraction with rank, sentiment, and surrounding context Citation extraction with canonical URL resolution and deduplication Webhook delivery for scheduled monitor runs MCP-native integration with Claude Desktop and Cursor Reduced pricing for cached queries with cache_bypass option for fresh results Per-key rate limits and partial-success fallbacks on provider degradation Normalized response schema across all providers Credit-based pricing with 300 free credits on signup	Decision flows: chain decisions on a canvas for multi-step classification Test sets: measure accuracy on your own labelled data before deployment Compare models side-by-side: test Laya, Clef-flash and Clef on the same data Custom models: fine-tune Laya on your own labelled examples Jev API compatibility: same endpoints, request and response formats as Jev Perspective API replacement: drop-in replacement for Google's deprecated moderation API Multiple model options: Laya (fast, cheap, EU-hosted), Clef-flash (9B model) and Clef (27B model)
What makes it different	One unified API replaces four separate SDKs for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity Covers both official APIs and real-time UI scraping across 8 AI search surfaces	EU-hosted Laya model: text never leaves the EU and is not used for training No lock-in: API compatible with Jev, uses open-weights models you can run yourself
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	4 −1 (down) since last check	32 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	4	7
Citation Flow (Majestic)	24	27
Referring domains (Majestic)	37	90

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