The F5Bot alternative
F5Bot watches Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, with Slack and Discord from its $49.99 Gold plan. Monocrawl tracks your keywords on Reddit, X, Hacker News, Bluesky, YouTube, TikTok and more, with alerts to email, Slack, Discord or webhook on every plan.
1,000 free credits every month · No card required
70+platforms on one plan
No codesearch and monitors in the dashboard
Alertsemail, Slack, Discord or webhook
CSV and JSONexport any time
Monocrawl vs F5Bot
F5Bot is a keyword alert service for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. Monocrawl tracks keywords across more sources and sends alerts wherever your team works.
Built in
Everything below works in the dashboard, with no code. Developers get the same data through the API and MCP.
Each keyword becomes a monitor. Monocrawl checks Reddit, X, TikTok, YouTube and more, and sends new posts to email, Slack, Discord or your webhook.
See what you can monitorRedditLead
Someone wants a Notion alternative
r/Notion · “I'm switching to Google Docs until i find a good Notion alternative”
Real posts, recorded 23 Sept 2026
Describe what you want, like “people asking for an alternative”, and the AI filter keeps only the posts that match. On paid plans.
How search worksDownload results as CSV or JSON, with the platform, author, date, text and a link to every post.
Open ConversationsConnect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code over MCP and ask it to research Reddit for you.
$npx --yes monocrawl-mcp@latestSet up MCPSwitching
Note the keywords you track in F5Bot and any words you exclude to keep the noise down.
Add the keyword, pick Reddit, Hacker News and any other sources, and add exclusions for noisy words.
Email, Slack, Discord or your webhook, as each post arrives or as a daily summary.
Pricing
Monitor checks use credits at published rates, whatever the keyword. Every account gets free credits each month.
Reddit search1 creditComment search1 creditHacker News search1 creditSubreddit posts2 credits$0/ month
1,000 credits a month
No card required
Start free$29/ month
10,000 credits a month
$0.0029 per credit
Get Starter$99/ month
40,000 credits a month
$0.0025 per credit
Get Pro$299/ month
135,000 credits a month
$0.0022 per credit
Get Growth$799/ month
400,000 credits a month
$0.0020 per credit
Get BusinessAnnual billing saves 20%. Prices exclude tax. Compare plans
Questions
If you want keyword alerts beyond Reddit and Hacker News, yes. Monocrawl tracks keywords on Reddit, X, Hacker News, Bluesky, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Google News, with alerts to email, Slack, Discord or webhook on every plan.
F5Bot has a free plan for personal use with 5 keywords, and paid plans from $9.99 a month (Silver) to $214.99 a month (Platinum), with Diamond from $500 a month. Monocrawl starts free with 1,000 credits a month, and paid plans start at $29 a month.
Yes, on its Gold plan ($49.99 a month) and up. Monocrawl sends alerts to email, Slack, Discord or your webhook on every plan.
Its API and webhooks come with the Platinum plan ($214.99 a month) and up, and its docs say API access is still in testing. Monocrawl’s API and MCP server come with every plan.
F5Bot is designed for fairly uncommon keywords, and free accounts can’t monitor very common words. Monocrawl monitors check your keyword on a schedule, and on paid plans the AI filter keeps only the posts you describe.
1,000 free credits every month. No card required.
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