Quick picks: what are you buying?
- You're watching your own name or a side project: Free, 5 keywords.
- You're an individual who wants faster alerts and no ads, for non-commercial use: Silver, $12.99 a month.
- You're monitoring for a business, a client or something you sell: Gold, $49.99 a month, which is what F5Bot's own page recommends.
- You're an agency watching many clients and need the alert volume: Platinum, $214.99 a month.
- You'd rather have comments posted than get alerts: CommunityMentions, which is ours, $1,000 a month.
- You want to see what else does this job: F5Bot alternatives.
Every F5Bot plan, line by line
All figures come from F5Bot's account tiers page on November 10, 2026.
| Free | Silver | Gold | Platinum | Diamond | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $0 | $12.99 | $49.99 | $214.99 | From $500 |
| Yearly plan | None | $143 | $549 | $2,364 | Contact |
| Who it's for | Trying it out | Individuals, non-commercial | Professionals and small businesses | Agencies and businesses at scale | Enterprises |
| Keywords | 5 | 20 | 200 | 300 | Custom |
| Alerts per keyword a day | 10 | 30 | 100 | 500 | Custom |
| Alerts a day in total | 20 | 100 | 5,000 | 200,000 | Custom |
| Alert delay | Up to 2 hours | Up to 5 minutes | Instant or scheduled | Instant or scheduled | Instant or scheduled |
| Match history | 7 days | 7 days | 90 days | 90 days | 90 days |
| Slack or Discord integrations | None | None | 1 | 3 | Custom |
| AI filters | None | None | 2 | 5 | Custom |
What does each plan leave out?
- Free leaves out the features on F5Bot's paid list, such as full post text and ad-free emails, and alerts can lag up to 2 hours.
- Silver can't be used for business, according to the plan description, and still has no feeds, Slack or AI filtering.
- Gold stops at 200 keywords and 2 AI filters. AI filtering includes the first $10 a month of token use, and anything past that is billed on top of the plan.
- Platinum adds 100 keywords over Gold, plus API and webhooks (Gold has neither), 3 Slack or Discord integrations and 5 AI filters. Most of the price is alert volume: 40 times the daily alerts and five times the alerts per keyword.
- No plan writes or posts a reply. F5Bot stops at the alert.
What does F5Bot cost over 12 months?
Paying yearly saves about one month on each paid plan. Gold comes to $549 a year instead of $599.88. Our row is here for scale: CommunityMentions is a service that posts for you, so the two prices buy different things.
| Plan | 12 months paid monthly | Yearly plan | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | $155.88 | $143 | $12.88 |
| Gold | $599.88 | $549 | $50.88 |
| Platinum | $2,579.88 | $2,364 | $215.88 |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $12,001 with the $1 setup charge | No yearly plan | None |
What is the cost per keyword on each plan?
Gold has the lowest cost per keyword on F5Bot's list, $0.25 a month. Silver works out to $0.65 and Platinum to $0.72, because Platinum's price is mostly for alert volume. If you need 200 keywords or fewer, moving past Gold only makes sense when you are hitting the 5,000 alerts a day or 100 per keyword, or you need the API.
| Plan | Monthly price | Keywords | Per keyword a month | Alerts a day per dollar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | $12.99 | 20 | $0.65 | 8 |
| Gold | $49.99 | 200 | $0.25 | 100 |
| Platinum | $214.99 | 300 | $0.72 | 930 |
F5Bot pricing against other Reddit tools
F5Bot Gold lists 200 keywords for $49.99, more than the keyword or filter limits on the other plans here (up to 60 on Redreach, 100 on Syften PRO), and the others compete on platforms covered or on help with the reply. Vendors count keywords differently, so check each page. Prices are from each vendor's page on November 10, 2026.
| Tool | Lowest paid plan | Business plan | What the extra money buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| F5Bot | $12.99 (personal use) | $49.99 | Alerts on 3 platforms |
| Syften | $29.95 | $49.95 or $119.95 | More communities, web results, archive search |
| RedShip | $29 | $49 | Daily lead lists and an AI reply generator |
| Redreach | $19 | $39 or $79 | AI-guided replies and automated DMs |
| Octolens | $159, billed annually | $499, billed annually | Many social platforms, API and MCP on every plan |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $1,000 | $1,000 | Comments written and posted for you |
Where F5Bot is worth the money
- Gold's 200 keywords at $49.99 a month is more keywords than any plan in the comparison table lists.
- It watches Hacker News and Lobsters along with Reddit.
- RSS and JSON feeds (Gold and up) and API and webhooks (Platinum and up) let you send alerts into your own tools.
- The free plan needs only an email address, so you can test it before paying.
Sources
- F5Bot account tiers and F5Bot home, read November 10, 2026. f5bot.com/pricing answered 404 that day; the site's Pricing link goes to /tiers.
- Syften, RedShip, Redreach and Octolens, read November 10, 2026.
- Our price and terms: pricing section and company facts, read November 10, 2026.