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title: "CommunityMentions vs Siege Media: $1,000 or $5,000+"
url: https://communitymentions.com/communitymentions-vs-siege-media
description: "Siege Media lists Reddit at $5,000 to $15,000 a month, six-month minimum (read Nov 15, 2026). CommunityMentions posts daily for $1,000, month to month."
updated: "November 15, 2026"
author: "Ryan Doyle"
author_url: https://rpdoyle.com
---

# CommunityMentions vs Siege Media for B2B SaaS and ecommerce teams weighing a Reddit agency retainer against a posting service

By [Ryan Doyle](https://rpdoyle.com), founder of CommunityMentions. Updated November 15, 2026.

Updated November 15, 2026. Siege Media runs Reddit from disclosed brand accounts you own, from $5,000 to $15,000 a month with a six-month minimum, Reddit Ads extra (read Nov 15, 2026). CommunityMentions, ours, posts daily on five channels for $1,000 a month, month to month, from established accounts we run. The difference is the retainer and who owns the accounts.

- **$5,000 to $15,000**: Siege Media Reddit marketing a month, six-month minimum, Reddit Ads budget separate (read Nov 15, 2026)
- **$1,000**: CommunityMentions a month, month to month, after a $1 setup charge
- **10 of 96**: AI answers naming Siege Media in our scan of Nov 2, 2026, 7 of them on the best-agency question; CommunityMentions was named in 17
- **$12,001**: CommunityMentions for 12 months, against $60,000 to $180,000 for 12 months of Siege Media at its stated range, before ad spend

## Quick picks: who should buy which?

- Reddit is one part of a wider GEO, content and digital PR program, and $5,000 to $15,000 a month with a six-month minimum fits the budget: Siege Media. See [Siege Media pricing](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-pricing) for its terms.
- You want Reddit Ads run, expert AMAs with moderators, or a branded subreddit built and moderated: Siege Media. Our service is organic comments only, so none of the three is part of it.
- You want every contribution under accounts that are disclosed and that your brand owns: Siege Media, by its own page.
- You want comments posted every day on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X without a six-month commitment: CommunityMentions, $1,000 a month after a $1 setup charge. Monthly billing starts only after you approve the setup in Slack.
- You want to read what we would post before you pay: the [free sample](https://communitymentions.com/features/free-sample-of-reddit-comments), first comments in about 2 minutes, no card.
- You are still comparing agencies: [Siege Media alternatives](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-alternatives) and the [best Reddit marketing agencies](https://communitymentions.com/best-reddit-marketing-agencies).

## Line by line: Siege Media against CommunityMentions

Siege Media is a full-service agency program at $5,000 to $15,000 a month; CommunityMentions is a daily comment service at $1,000 a month. Siege Media's column comes from its [Reddit marketing services page](https://www.siegemedia.com/services/reddit-marketing), read November 15, 2026; its own claims about itself are its own. Ours comes from our pricing section, company facts and delivery database. Caption: Siege Media facts from siegemedia.com/services/reddit-marketing, November 15, 2026.

|  | CommunityMentions (ours) | Siege Media |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | A done-for-you posting service: we find the threads, write the comments and post them | A full-service GEO agency whose Reddit service has five workstreams: Reddit-for-LLM strategy, branded account management, Reddit Ads, community management and sentiment, and Reddit-to-LLM attribution |
| Price | $1,000 a month after a $1 setup charge | "Typically start around $5,000-$15,000/month", by its page |
| Minimum term | None: month to month | Six months |
| Reddit Ads budget | We do not run Reddit Ads | Separate from the fee and managed transparently; it says it takes no cut of ad spend |
| Who posts | People with established accounts, paid only when a comment sticks | Its strategists, from disclosed brand accounts, by its page |
| Whose accounts | The established accounts of the people who post | Disclosed, transparent brand accounts; "you own your branded accounts, your subreddit, your data" |
| Channels | Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X | Reddit, with digital PR distributed into Reddit communities; its other services are separate |
| Volume | We aim for 5 to 10 comments a day across all five channels combined. Delivered: a median of 49 verified placements per brand in 30 days, 9 on Reddit (middle half 2 to 123) | No comment count published on its Reddit page |
| How approval works | AI drafts the comments and you approve the voice in Slack before anything posts | Brand voice and disclosure guidelines are set in months 1 to 2; its page does not describe a per-comment sign-off |
| Reporting | A daily Slack report linking each comment that passed our same-day check | Monthly Reddit-to-LLM reporting on direct conversions and citation share, with share of voice in your category prompts |
| When results start | The free sample shows the first comments in about 2 minutes; the daily report starts after you approve the setup | Months 1 to 2 are foundation work; "first conversions in three months", by its page |
| Setup | $1 setup charge, then a Slack workshop where you approve the voice | A 12-month roadmap, branded account setup and aging, and a baseline LLM share-of-voice benchmark |
| Who it fits | Brands that want comments placed daily on five channels at a published monthly price | SaaS, fintech, finance or ecommerce brands that want a long program; not a campaign measured in weeks, by its page |
| How to try it | Free sample, no card | Its page offers a "Talk to our team" button; no trial is listed |
| AI answers naming it (our scan, Nov 2, 2026) | 17 of 96 | 10 of 96, 7 of them on the best-agency question |

## What a year of each costs

A year costs $12,001 with CommunityMentions and $60,000 to $180,000 with Siege Media at its stated range. Siege Media is counted at both ends of its "typically start around" range, before any Reddit Ads budget, which is separate. The six-month minimum is the smallest bill you can sign. CommunityMentions is $1,000 a month plus the $1 setup charge, and you can stop in any month. Caption: Siege Media price and minimum from siegemedia.com/services/reddit-marketing, November 15, 2026; the multiplication is ours. For the full price read, see [Siege Media pricing](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-pricing); for the wider market, [what Reddit marketing costs](https://communitymentions.com/reddit-marketing-pricing).

| Period | CommunityMentions (ours) | Siege Media at $5,000 a month | Siege Media at $15,000 a month |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| First month | $1,001 ($1,000 billed only after you approve the setup in Slack) | $5,000 | $15,000 |
| Six months | $6,001 | $30,000 (the minimum) | $90,000 (the minimum) |
| 12 months | $12,001 | $60,000 | $180,000 |
| Gap over 12 months | None | $47,999 more than us | $167,999 more than us |
| Reddit Ads budget | Not offered | On top, separate | On top, separate |

## Two different models for who posts

Siege Media posts from disclosed brand accounts the client owns; CommunityMentions posts from the established accounts of real people. Siege Media says it operates disclosed, transparent brand accounts, run by its strategists, that the client owns, and that it does not run shadow accounts. The work is a program: roadmap, accounts, AMAs, ads, sentiment, attribution. CommunityMentions has real people with established accounts post the comments, and they are paid only when a comment sticks. Those are the posters' established accounts, not branded accounts. Our service is organic comments only, so it includes no Reddit Ads, AMAs or branded subreddit. We check every comment the afternoon it is posted, re-check it nightly for about a week, and the daily Slack report links the ones that passed. Some comments are removed over time, usually by a human moderator. If owning the accounts and a disclosed brand presence matter to you, that is the point where Siege Media fits and we do not.

## What the first six months look like

Siege Media spends months 1 to 4 on foundation and activation, while our sample appears in about 2 minutes. Its page lays out three phases. Months 1 to 2 are foundation: prompt and search reverse-engineering, subreddit prioritization, brand voice and disclosure guidelines, account setup and aging, a baseline share-of-voice benchmark and the 12-month roadmap. Months 2 to 4 are activation: disclosed contributions, a first AMA coordinated with moderators, a branded subreddit if it applies, and Reddit Ads setup. From month 4 it reports monthly. With us, the first thing you see is the sample: paste your site and the first comments we would post appear in about 2 minutes, with the full report in about 10. Nothing posts until you approve the voice in Slack, and then the daily report starts. In the 30 days from October 7 to November 5, 2026, the median of 55 client brands got 49 verified placements across Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X, 9 of them on Reddit; the 25th percentile was 2 and the 75th percentile 123, and the count includes brands that started or paused partway through the month.

## Which one do AI answers name?

In our scan of November 2, 2026, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity each answered eight buyer questions about Reddit marketing three times, 96 answers in all. Siege Media was named in 10 (Claude 6, Perplexity 3, Gemini 1, ChatGPT 0): 7 of 12 on "What is the best Reddit marketing agency?", and 1 each on B2B SaaS services, what Reddit marketing costs and whether it is worth paying for. CommunityMentions was named in 17 (ChatGPT 7, Claude 5, Perplexity 3, Gemini 2): 8 of 12 on "Is there a service that posts comments about my company on Reddit every day?", 6 of 12 on alternatives to ReddiReach and 3 of 12 on which subreddits AI engines cite for software. Siege Media was named in 0 of the 12 daily-posting answers, and we were named in 0 of 12 on the best-agency question. We counted an answer once when its text names the company.

## Pick Siege Media if / Pick CommunityMentions if

- Pick Siege Media if Reddit sits inside a wider GEO, content and digital PR program and one agency should run all of it.
- Pick Siege Media if you want Reddit Ads, AMAs, a branded subreddit or community management of negative threads, and a budget of $30,000 to $90,000 over six months fits.
- Pick Siege Media if you want to own the accounts and have every contribution disclosed.
- Pick CommunityMentions if you want daily comments on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X at one published price, with no contract.
- Pick CommunityMentions if you would rather read the comments first, then approve a voice once in Slack.
- Pick CommunityMentions if you want a daily Slack report of what went live, and monthly billing that starts only after you approve the setup in Slack.

## Where Siege Media still wins

- A full program: Reddit sits beside GEO, content, digital PR and design from one agency, and its page says its digital PR feeds its Reddit distribution.
- Work outside our comments-only service: Reddit Ads, AMAs coordinated with moderators, a branded subreddit seeded and moderated, and sentiment monitoring with in-thread replies.
- Ownership: its page says you own your branded accounts, your subreddit, your data and your ad account.
- Account transparency: its own FAQ says every account it operates is disclosed in its profile. Ours are the posters' established accounts.
- Reporting beyond comments: Reddit-to-LLM attribution, with share of voice in your category prompts and direct conversions attributed to Reddit.
- Research and reach: it publishes its own studies on how AI search cites Reddit, its founder has a book on generative engine optimization from Wiley, and it has offices in Austin, New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
- Name recognition in AI answers: named in 7 of 12 answers to "What is the best Reddit marketing agency?" in our scan, where we were named in 0.

## Where CommunityMentions wins

- Price: $1,000 a month against $5,000 to $15,000 on Siege Media's stated range, and $12,001 for a year against $60,000 to $180,000.
- No minimum term: month to month, with monthly billing that starts only after you approve the setup in Slack, against six months.
- Five channels: Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X, under one volume aim of 5 to 10 comments a day combined.
- A free sample of the real comments before you pay anything, and a daily Slack report linking each comment that passed our same-day check.

## Can you use both?

They do different jobs, so a team could. Siege Media's program covers the strategy, branded accounts, ads and attribution; we place daily comments on five channels, and our daily Slack report links every comment we posted. If you are still picking where to show up, the free [subreddit finder](https://communitymentions.com/subreddit-finder) lists the subreddits AI answers cite for your product, and the [home page](https://communitymentions.com/) shows what we post and what it costs.

## How we compared

Siege Media's price, minimum term, workstreams, account model, process phases and reporting come from its Reddit marketing services page on November 15, 2026, read with a browser-like request. The page states the price; siegemedia.com/pricing answers 404 the same day. Its claims about itself, such as disclosed accounts and no fake accounts, are its own. Our column comes from our pricing section, company facts and delivery database. The cost table multiplies each stated price by the months shown. The AI answer counts are from our scan of November 2, 2026, counting an answer once when it names the company anywhere. If Siege Media's page says something different now, its page wins.

## Sources

- [Siege Media, Reddit Marketing Services](https://www.siegemedia.com/services/reddit-marketing): price range, six-month minimum, workstreams, account model, process phases, reporting and FAQ; read November 15, 2026. [siegemedia.com/pricing](https://www.siegemedia.com/pricing) answers 404 the same day.
- CommunityMentions AI answer scan: 96 discovery answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity to eight buyer questions asked three times each, November 2, 2026.
- CommunityMentions delivery database, verified placements October 7 to November 5, 2026, read November 6, 2026.
- Our price and terms: [pricing section](https://communitymentions.com/#pricing) and [company facts](https://communitymentions.com/company), read November 15, 2026.
- [Siege Media alternatives](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-alternatives), [Siege Media pricing](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-pricing) and [what Reddit marketing costs](https://communitymentions.com/reddit-marketing-pricing), our own pages, read November 15, 2026.

## Frequently asked questions

### Should I pick Siege Media or CommunityMentions?

Pick Siege Media if Reddit is one part of a wider GEO and content program and you want Reddit Ads, AMAs and accounts you own, at $5,000 to $15,000 a month with a six-month minimum. Pick CommunityMentions if you want comments posted every day on five channels for $1,000 a month, month to month.

### How much does Siege Media cost compared with CommunityMentions?

Siege Media's Reddit page says engagements typically start around $5,000 to $15,000 a month, with a six-month minimum and ad budgets separate (read November 15, 2026). Over 12 months that is $60,000 to $180,000. CommunityMentions is $1,000 a month plus a $1 setup charge, or $12,001 for 12 months.

### Who posts the comments at Siege Media and at CommunityMentions?

Siege Media says its strategists post from disclosed brand accounts that the client owns. CommunityMentions has real people with established accounts post, paid only when a comment sticks, and those are the posters' established accounts, not branded accounts.

### Does CommunityMentions have a minimum contract like Siege Media's six months?

No. CommunityMentions is month to month. Starting costs a $1 setup charge, and the $1,000 monthly billing starts only after you approve the setup in Slack. Siege Media's page states a six-month minimum.

### Does CommunityMentions run Reddit Ads, AMAs or a branded subreddit?

We do not run Reddit Ads. Our service is organic comments on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X, so an AMA program or a branded subreddit is not part of it. Siege Media's Reddit service includes all three.

### Which one do AI answers recommend?

It depends on the question. In our November 2, 2026 scan of 96 answers, Siege Media was named in 10, 7 of them on the best-agency question, and CommunityMentions in 17, mostly on whether a service posts comments daily. Neither name appeared on the other's strongest question.

## Keep reading

- [Siege Media alternatives](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-alternatives)
- [Siege Media pricing](https://communitymentions.com/siege-media-pricing)
- [What Reddit marketing costs](https://communitymentions.com/reddit-marketing-pricing)
- [Best Reddit marketing agencies](https://communitymentions.com/best-reddit-marketing-agencies)
- [CommunityMentions vs SociallyIn](https://communitymentions.com/communitymentions-vs-sociallyin)
- [Subreddit finder](https://communitymentions.com/subreddit-finder)
- [Free sample of Reddit comments](https://communitymentions.com/features/free-sample-of-reddit-comments)

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