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How the mention limit works and updates

How to track the volume of mentions and manage the limits in your account

Written by Ramina
Updated over 3 months ago

You can check which pricing plan you currently use in your account settings in the "Account info" section.

Choose the plan that you are interested in:

Enterprise


​☝️ All YouScan pricing plans include:

  • Full coverage of supported social media, blogs, forums, reviews, and online news sources

  • Unlimited users

  • Unlimited Social Searches

  • Unlimited rules and alerts

  • Unlimited standard reports

  • ChatGPT Insights Copilot

  • Aspect sentiment analysis, trend detection, word clouds, and more

  • Slack, Microsoft Teams or WhatsApp integration

  • Basic Customer Support via e-mail and chat

  • Knowledge Base for self-learning

  • The YouScan Academy with help you start your first social listening project

  • Webinars on system updates and best practices

Let's explore how the mention limit works and updates. 👇🏻


Starter Plan

👉 Starter plan is ideal for small businesses and startups.
  • Includes 3 fixed topics - scaling the number of topics is not possible.

  • Each topic has a maximum limit of 5,000 new mentions per month.

  • Historical data covers the last 30 days.

Listen and Analyze Plans

👉 The Listen and Analyze plans are perfect for companies managing multiple brands or campaigns that require frequent adjustments by replacing old topics with new ones.

Topic and mention limits:

  • Each plan includes a fixed number of topics, with the option to purchase more in increments of 5 (+5, +10, +15, etc.).

  • If all topics are in use, you can delete a topic or expand your plan with additional slots.

  • Mention limits apply when creating or editing topics but do not restrict ongoing collection.

  • Listen: Up to 10,000 new mentions per topic/month

  • Analyze: Up to 100,000 new mentions per topic/month

  • Unlimited historical data

Handling mention spikes:

  • If a topic exceeds its mention limit due to a spike, extra mentions will still be collected.

  • However, you won’t be able to edit the search query once the limit is exceeded.

  • You must upgrade to a higher plan if your topics frequently exceed the limit.

  • Exceeding the limit in one topic does not affect others.

  • You can delete and create new topics as needed.

  • Merging topics is an option.

  • Sampling can help manage large topics efficiently.

Enterprise Plan

👉 This plan is ideal if you need more flexibility and freedom:
- You can create as many topics as you need.
- You get unlimited sampled mentions.

Topic & mention limits:

  • Unlimited topics – Create as many topics as needed, varying in size.

  • Monthly account-wide mention limit – Mentions are counted across all topics within your account.

  • Unlimited import — All imported mentions are excluded from your quota.

  • Unlimited history — No restrictions on accessing older mentions.

How mention limits are updated:

  • Your mention limit resets on the 1st of every month.

  • ⚠️ If you reach your monthly mention limit, new topics cannot be created until the next reset. Deleting topics won’t free up mentions.

How to track your mention limits:

  1. Go to “Account Settings.”

  2. Select “Account Info.”

  3. Scroll down to find:

    • Period – your mention tracking timeframe.

    • Mention limit – the maximum mentions allowed.

    • Collected – your current usage.


This helps you manage your monitoring topics efficiently and stay within your plan’s limits.

Have questions? Reach out to us at support@youscan.io.

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