Enterprise listening suites, mention-alert tools and data APIs, compared on the networks they cover, how they alert, how they charge and how you connect.
An editorial comparison of what each vendor publishes, checked 25 Sept 2026. Monocrawl is ours and listed first. How we compared
What are you building?
Keyword mentions from several networks, inside your own product or pipelineA data API that searches each network per call, or a listening tool whose API returns the mentions it collects. They differ most in networks and how they charge.
Alerts when a brand, competitor or keyword is mentionedAn option that watches your keywords and sends new mentions by email, Slack or webhook.
Reddit and Hacker News monitoring, comments includedAn option that watches Reddit posts and comments and Hacker News. They differ most in plans and delivery.
An AI agent that tracks what people say about a brandAn option with its own MCP server, so the agent can call it directly.
Consumer research with historical archives and analyst dashboardsAn enterprise listening suite, priced by quote. Historical depth, sources and API access depend on the package.
11options compared
6with an MCP server
7free to start
46sources, checked 25 Sept 2026
Three routes
Enterprise suites sell dashboards and analysts, with an API alongside. Mention-alert tools watch your keywords and send new matches. Data APIs return search results from each network per call, for your own tool.
Brandwatch, Meltwater and Talkwalker
Brand24, Awario, F5Bot and Octolens
Monocrawl and the vendors below
Reddit
X
TikTok
YouTubeWhat they return
Which networks each option lists mentions from, what it adds on top and how you connect. Where an API returns less than the dashboard, the mark is limited.
| Networks and features | Connect | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option | X | TikTok | YouTube | News and forums | Alerts | Sentiment | Historical search | Webhooks | REST API | MCP server | Sources | |
| MonocrawlOur product | Our API | |||||||||||
| BrandwatchListening suite with an API | – | – | 12345 | |||||||||
| MeltwaterMedia intelligence suite | 678910 | |||||||||||
| TalkwalkerListening suite with an API | – | – | 1112131415 | |||||||||
| Brand24Mention-alert tool | – | 16171819 | ||||||||||
| AwarioMention-alert tool | – | – | – | 20212223 | ||||||||
| F5BotKeyword alerts | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24252627 | |||||
| OctolensMention-alert tool | 28293031 | |||||||||||
| Data365Social data API | – | – | – | – | – | 3233343536 | ||||||
| SociaVaultSocial data API | – | – | – | – | – | 3738394041 | ||||||
| XpozAgent data tool | – | – | – | – | – | 4243444546 | ||||||
Pricing
A request, a result, a record and a unit are not the same size, and allowances reset on different schedules. Price your own workload with each vendor.
One key and one response format across 70+ platforms, with monitors for alerts.
Monthly plans
€300 a month for one network
500,000 credits included; a search request costs 7 credits. Three networks are €850 a month.
Worth knowingReturns raw public posts for your own listening system, without dashboards or scores of its own.
14-day trial, on request
$29 for 6,000 credits, one time
Credits never expire.
Worth knowingMost calls cost 1 credit, keyword searches on Reddit and X included.
50 credits
$20 a month for 7,500 credits
A Reddit or X search costs 2 credits and a TikTok search 5, for up to 300 results.
Worth knowingTracks chosen keywords on a schedule for fresher search results, with 3 tracked keywords on Pro.
500 credits, once
Quote after a demo; its plans page lists no prices.
Worth knowingSearches an archive going back to 2008, with sentiment analysis in 44 languages.
Demo on request
Quote tailored to your modules, sources and users
Its Enterprise and Agency plans list API and MCP integrations. Most contracts run at least 12 months.
Worth knowingMost core packages include an API allowance: 30,000 documents a month and 50 analytics or search calls a day.
Demo only, no self-serve trial
Quote for its Core, Analyze or Business plan
API calls spend credits: 1 per result, plus at least 10 per Search API call. Tokens come through your customer success manager.
Worth knowingCovers 30+ social networks and over 150 million websites, with five years of data stored.
Demo on request
$499 a month for Pro, billed monthly: the first plan with MCP and API access
The API adds a $149 fee on Pro and Business. Pro is $399 a month billed annually.
Worth knowingIts API returns no text for Facebook, Instagram or X mentions; other sources come back in full.
14-day free trial
£399 a month for Enterprise, the plan with API access, billed monthly
Or £249 a month billed annually. Enterprise includes 1,000,000 new mentions a month.
Worth knowingIts API returns each alert’s mentions, filtered by source, language, country or reach.
Free trial of Starter, no card
$214.99 a month for Platinum, the first plan with API and webhooks
Or $2,364 a year. Diamond, for enterprise, starts at $500 a month.
Worth knowingBuilt for fairly uncommon keywords: each plan caps how many alerts one keyword can send a day.
Free tier for personal use, no API
$199 a month for Pro, or $159 a month billed annually
API, webhooks and MCP server on every plan. Pro includes 15,000 mentions a month and 10 keywords.
Worth knowingNews, podcasts, newsletters and the wider web come with its Scale plan.
7-day free trial of Pro
Try a call
The same request in cURL, TypeScript or Python, and the recorded Reddit search for Gymshark, sorted by top posts of the month: an r/BuyItForLife thread where a buyer asks whether to try Lululemon, Nike, Fabletics or Gymshark. No Reddit login and no Reddit app.
GET /v1/reddit/searchcurl "https://www.monocrawl.com/v1/reddit/search?query=Gymshark&sort=top&timeframe=month&limit=5" \
-H "x-api-key: mn_your_key_here"Women sweats that don’t SUCK
r/BuyItForLife · mentions “Gymshark”
Selected public fields from the recorded response. Live values will differ.
Reddit post search1 creditReddit comment search1 creditX post search1 creditTikTok video search2 creditsYouTube search1 credit
Hacker News search1 credit
Google News search1 credit
Search across networks10 credits2.1sMedian response in our benchmark. 22 September 2026 catalogue benchmark. Median of recorded endpoint timings across 636 operations with a successful HTTP response. Includes network time; individual requests vary.
Questions
Several let you start free: Monocrawl gives 1,000 credits every month, Xpoz 500 credits once and SociaVault 50 credits, and F5Bot has a free tier for personal use, without its API. Brand24 has a 14-day free trial, Octolens a 7-day trial of its Pro plan, Awario a free trial of its Starter plan and Data365 a 14-day trial on request. Brandwatch, Meltwater and Talkwalker quote after a demo.
Meltwater and Talkwalker sell the same kind of suite, priced by quote, and their APIs also hold back the text of X posts. For keyword mentions in your own product, Monocrawl, Data365 and SociaVault return search results per request, while Brand24, Awario and Octolens return the mentions their monitoring collects, and Octolens adds webhooks on every plan.
Not always. Brandwatch, Meltwater, Talkwalker and Brand24 return X mentions through their APIs without the post text, identified by post ID, and Awario’s API returns no X data. Brandwatch, Meltwater and Talkwalker suggest looking the posts up with X’s own API, and Talkwalker offers an X data add-on with full posts. Monocrawl’s X search returns each post’s text, author and engagement counts.
Monocrawl monitors run on a schedule you set, from every 15 minutes to every 30 days through the API. Each run is quoted first and charged in credits from your balance, refunded down to what it retrieved, and new findings go by email, push, or to Slack, Discord or a signed webhook. F5Bot sends webhooks from its Platinum plan and Octolens on every plan, and Meltwater streams new mentions to your URL when Data Streams are in your API package.
Yes. Monocrawl searches Reddit posts and comments by keyword, and a monitor can watch Reddit for a name or keyword. F5Bot scans Reddit posts and comments, Hacker News and Lobsters, with an API and webhooks from its Platinum plan, and Octolens tracks Reddit posts and comments with an API on every plan. GummySearch is closing: its notice sets a complete shutdown and data deletion for 1 December 2026.
Monocrawl, Brand24, Meltwater, Octolens, SociaVault and Xpoz publish their own MCP servers, so assistants such as Claude or Cursor can call them directly. Brand24’s comes with Pro and above, and Meltwater’s with a Meltwater MCP package in your subscription.
Method
What’s includedEnterprise listening suites, mention-alert tools and data APIs that come up across social listening, brand monitoring and Reddit monitoring API searches and comparison lists, and that document an API customers call themselves. Most publish prices or offer a trial; the three suites quote after a demo, and their cards say so.
What we comparedWhich networks each option lists mentions from, whether it alerts, labels sentiment, searches back in time and pushes new mentions to a webhook, plus its pricing, free allowance and access, read on its own pages and API docs. A network counts as far as the option’s API returns it. “Best” here means worth comparing, not a ranking from tests: we have not run their APIs.
About MonocrawlMonocrawl is our product and is listed first. Its details come from our live plans and catalogue.
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