The four pricing tiers
Published pricing as of July 2026. All of these are on the vendors' own sites.
| Tier | Examples | Price | Who does the work |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIY | Your own account, F5Bot alerts (free) | $0 plus 30 to 60 minutes a day | You |
| Tools | ReplyAgent ($79/mo plus ~$3 per comment), monitoring tools like Brand24 | $25 to $400/mo | Software drafts, you review and post |
| Productized services | CommunityMentions ($1,290/mo), OutreachBloom ($1,900/mo for 60 engagements) | $1,290 to $1,900/mo | The service, end to end |
| Agencies | Soar, ReddiReach full packages, GEO agencies with Reddit included | $5,000 to $15,000/mo | Agency team plus a strategist |
Per-placement math is the honest comparison
Monthly prices hide the real unit. Divide by placements you can verify:
OutreachBloom publishes $1,900 per month for 60 community engagements, which is about $32 per engagement.
CommunityMentions is $1,290 per month for 5 to 15 comments a day. At the low end that is roughly 150 comments a month, or about $8.60 each. At higher volume it drops under $3.
ReplyAgent charges $79 per month plus about $3 per successful comment, but your team still spends the review and posting time, so add your hourly cost.
Agency retainers at $5,000 to $15,000 per month typically include strategy, thread planning, and a smaller number of high-touch placements. If you get 50 placements a month at $7,500, you paid $150 each. Some businesses need the strategy layer. Many are just paying for meetings.
Whatever you evaluate, ask for the number of verifiable placements per month and do this division before signing.
What removals do to your real price
Some percentage of promotional Reddit comments get removed by moderators. That is normal, and it changes your effective price: if 30% of placements are removed and the vendor does not replace or report them, your per-placement cost is 43% higher than the sticker math.
This is why verification matters more than the headline price. A vendor that links every comment and reports removals lets you compute your true cost per surviving placement. A vendor that sends monthly summary counts does not.
At CommunityMentions we verify every comment against Reddit after posting and mark the ones that got removed in the daily report. Prospects sometimes read that as a weakness. It is the only way either of us knows what you actually bought.
Why prices rose in 2025 and 2026
Two cost drivers moved the whole market up. Reddit stepped up enforcement against low-quality accounts, which made durable, aged accounts scarcer and made careless volume services die faster. And demand rose because AI assistants cite Reddit more than any other domain in 2026 studies, which pulled AI-visibility budgets into Reddit work.
The practical effect: services that survived got more selective about which threads are worth commenting in, and per-placement prices at the quality end firmed up. Anyone quoting hundreds of placements a month at pennies each is running throwaway accounts, and those placements disappear.
How to buy, whatever your budget
Under $500 a month: do it yourself with free monitoring alerts, or use a drafting tool and spend the daily review time. Budget the hours honestly.
$1,000 to $2,000 a month: productized services. You are buying labor and account infrastructure, not strategy. Judge them entirely on verifiable placements and removal reporting.
$5,000 and up: agencies. Worth it if you genuinely need campaign strategy, executive reporting, or coordination with a larger AI-search program. Not worth it if what you need is placements.
At every tier, start small and check the work. Most services on this market will show you a sample or a first month cheap. Ours is $1.