Quick picks: what are you doing?
- You like Redreach's lead lists but want more keywords for the money: RedShip, $29 a month for 10 keywords and 3 competitors with unlimited AI reply suggestions, or $49 for 30 keywords.
- You sell one product into a handful of subreddits and want each thread scored for buying intent: Subreddit Signals, $29 a month for up to 10 subreddits.
- You will pick the threads but want someone else's account to post: ReplyAgent, $4 a comment, with 70% back if moderators remove it.
- You only need to know when your name comes up: F5Bot, free for 5 keywords.
- You want alerts beyond Reddit, with an MCP server for your own agent: Syften PRO at $119.95 a month, or Octolens from $159 a month billed annually.
- Nobody on the team has time to write or post replies: CommunityMentions, $1,000 a month, comments posted daily on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X. Compare it with Redreach.
Redreach alternatives compared
Each row gives the same fields from that vendor's own pricing page. Redreach, RedShip, Subreddit Signals and ReplyAgent were read November 12, 2026; F5Bot, Syften and Octolens November 10, 2026. CommunityMentions is ours.
| Tool | Finds the threads | Drafts the reply | Who posts it | Agent access | Price as published | Where it beats us |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redreach | Yes, from your site and competitors; daily on Growth and up, weekly on Startup | 100, 300 or 500 AI-guided reply suggestions a month by plan | You, from your own account; a Chrome extension can send automated DMs | MCP server and API on Growth and Professional | $19, $39 or $79 a month; $15, $31 or $63 billed yearly; $12 for a 3-day pass | Price, and every reply is yours |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | Yes, from your site and the topics you approve | Yes, in a voice you approve in Slack | People with established accounts, paid only when a comment sticks | An MCP server for subreddit data | $1,000/mo after a $1 setup charge | This is us |
| RedShip | Yes, daily lead opportunities and competitor tracking | Unlimited AI reply suggestions | You | Webhooks on Company | $29 or $49 a month; $12 for a 7-day pass | Unlimited reply suggestions on its $29 plan |
| Subreddit Signals | Yes, buyer-intent scoring in up to 10 or 25 subreddits | A comment builder | You | Not listed | $29 or $59 a month, or $288 or $590 a year; 14-day trial, card required | You keep your own voice on every comment |
| ReplyAgent | Yes, with its $79-a-month AI features; or you pick the threads | Yes, with the AI features | Its aged accounts (100 to 10k karma) at $4 a comment, or you for free | Not listed | $4 a comment, $8 a post; AI features $79 a month | ReplyAgent charges only for comments that post and refunds 70% of a removed one |
| F5Bot | Keyword alerts only | No | You | Not listed | Free; $12.99, $49.99 or $214.99 a month | Free |
| Syften | Keyword alerts with AI filtering on Standard and up | No | You or your own agent | API on every plan; webhooks and MCP on PRO | $29.95, $49.95 or $119.95 a month | Hacker News, GitHub and Stack Exchange coverage |
| Octolens | Social listening with AI relevance filtering | No | You | API and MCP on every plan | $159 or $499 a month billed annually | Monitoring across X, LinkedIn, YouTube and reviews |
What each Redreach plan includes
From the pricing section on redreach.ai, read November 12, 2026, with the Monthly and Yearly toggles both checked. Redreach says yearly billing saves 20%. A Startup plan finds new leads weekly; Growth and Professional find them daily.
| Startup | Growth | Professional | 3-day pass | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $19 | $39 | $79 | $12 once |
| Billed yearly, per month | $15 | $31 | $63 | n/a |
| Tracked keywords | 20 | 40 | 60 | All inbound features for 3 days |
| Tracked competitors | 3 | 6 | 8 | Included |
| AI-guided reply suggestions | 100 | 300 | 500 | Included |
| New lead opportunities | Weekly | Daily | Daily | A report up to the day you buy |
| Automated DMs a day | 30 | 100 | 500 | Not included |
| Seats | 1 | 2 | 3 | n/a |
| MCP server and API | No | Yes | Yes | Not stated |
| Alerts | Email and Telegram | Email, Telegram, Slack and webhook | n/a |
Why founders look past Redreach
- You post every reply yourself. Redreach's FAQ says you need your own Reddit account and that it will not auto-post, by design. That protects your account, and it also means the hours stay with you.
- The $19 Startup plan finds new leads weekly, not daily, and has no MCP or API access. Daily leads start at $39.
- The plans bundle outbound DM automation (30 to 500 automated DMs a day through a browser extension). Some teams want inbound replies only.
- It watches Reddit only. Syften and Octolens cover more places, and CommunityMentions posts on YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X as well.
- Its money-back guarantee runs 48 hours after payment, by its FAQ, so the $12 pass is the safer test.
What a year of each costs
The cheapest plan that does the job on each, at the published price. ReplyAgent is shown at its own "typical usage" of 30 comments a month. CommunityMentions is 12 months at $1,000 plus the $1 setup charge.
| Option | How it's counted | 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| F5Bot | Free plan, 5 keywords | $0 |
| Redreach Startup | $15 a month billed yearly | $180 |
| Subreddit Signals Starter | Annual plan | $288 |
| RedShip Founder | $29 a month | $348 |
| Redreach Growth | $39 a month, monthly | $468 |
| Syften Standard | $49.95 a month | $599.40 |
| ReplyAgent | 30 comments a month at $4, no AI features | $1,440 |
| Octolens Pro | $159 a month billed annually | $1,908 |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $1,000 a month plus $1 | $12,001 |
How many found threads are worth a reply?
About 1 in 15 in our own runs. In 84 finished samples from our site form between September 17 and November 4, 2026, the median run found 528 conversations and kept 35 as relevant (the ratio of two medians). Those runs search by topic and use our scoring, so read it as a rough guide. It is why Redreach, RedShip and Subreddit Signals compete on intent scoring: the tool does the first sift, and writing a reply that a subreddit's moderators leave up is still the work that takes the time.
Where Redreach still wins
- Price: $15 a month billed yearly for Startup, about a sixty-seventh of ours.
- Control: every reply goes out from your account in your words, which Redreach's FAQ says keeps your comments live.
- Outbound: of the pricing pages here, only Redreach's lists automated Reddit DMs with a CRM.
- A $12 three-day pass with every inbound feature and no subscription.
- MCP and API access from $39 a month, so Claude or Cursor can pull its ranked threads.
Which one fits
Stay on Redreach, or try RedShip, if you have an hour a day to reply and want a ranked list each morning. Pick Subreddit Signals for one product in a few subreddits, and F5Bot if alerts are all you need. If threads are piling up unanswered, a better finder won't fix that: ReplyAgent posts per comment if you choose the threads, and CommunityMentions finds, writes and posts daily for $1,000 a month. The free sample shows the comments first.
How we compared
Every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page on the date given above. Redreach renders its prices in the browser, so we read them in a browser with both billing toggles. Plan limits are as each page lists them; we did not buy each tool. The sample figures come from CommunityMentions' run logs. If a vendor's page says something different now, its page wins.
Sources
- Redreach pricing section, FAQ and MCP page, read November 12, 2026.
- RedShip, Subreddit Signals and ReplyAgent pricing pages, read November 12, 2026.
- F5Bot account tiers, Syften and Octolens, read November 10, 2026.
- CommunityMentions run logs: 84 finished samples from the site form, September 17 to November 4, 2026.
- Our price and terms: pricing section and company facts, read November 12, 2026.