Does a RedShip plan pay for itself?
For a solo founder who will write and post the replies, RedShip Founder at $29 a month pays for itself if it brings one customer a year worth more than $348. Try the $12 pass first. If nobody will post, a tool can't, and our service posts for you at $1,000 a month.
Quick picks: which RedShip plan fits?
- You want to test whether Reddit leads are worth your time: the $12 pass, 7 days, everything in Founder.
- You are one founder with one product: Founder, $29 a month, or $199 billed yearly.
- You track up to 3 products, need 30 keywords, 10 competitors, 3 seats or webhook alerts: Company, $49 a month, or $349 billed yearly.
- You need more than 3 products, keywords or seats: RedShip says to contact it; it publishes no price for that.
- You want a plain Reddit keyword alert instead: F5Bot is free for personal use only, and its business tier, Gold, is $49.99 a month.
- You don't have time to find threads or write comments: CommunityMentions, which is ours, posts for you at $1,000 a month after a $1 setup charge, and starts with a free sample.
Every RedShip plan, line by line
Every cell comes from RedShip pricing on November 14, 2026, with the Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly views all read. Caption: Plan limits from redship.io/pricing, November 14, 2026. RedShip's page lists the Founder and Company plans and the pass. Our own row is last, for scale, and buys different work.
| Founder | Company | 7-day pass | CommunityMentions (ours) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billed monthly | $29 a month | $49 a month | $12 one-time | $1,000 a month after a $1 setup charge |
| Billed quarterly | $69 every 3 months | $117 every 3 months | n/a | No quarterly plan |
| Billed yearly | $199 a year | $349 a year | n/a | No yearly plan |
| Tracked products | 1 | 3 | Same as Founder | Set up from your site |
| Custom keywords | 10 | 30 | Same as Founder | We pick topics from your site; you approve |
| Tracked competitors | 3 | 10 | Same as Founder | Not sold |
| New leads and competitor tracking | Daily | Daily | Daily | We find the threads |
| SEO opportunities and AI citations tracking | Weekly | Weekly | Weekly | Not a tracking tool |
| AI reply suggestions | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | AI drafts; people post |
| Who posts the reply | You | You | You | People with established accounts, after you approve the voice in Slack |
| Team seats | 1 | 3 | 1 | Slack approval, no seats |
| Alerts | Email and Slack | Email, Slack and webhook | Email and Slack | Daily Slack report |
What do the allowances convert to in work you do?
RedShip sells allowances: products, keywords, competitors and seats. The buyer's unit of work is a reply posted, so here is what each allowance costs per unit RedShip states, and where it states no rate. Caption: Plan limits from redship.io/pricing, November 14, 2026. The per-unit prices are our division of the listed monthly price. RedShip publishes no figure for leads per day, replies per month or threads per keyword, so a cost per reply cannot be worked out from its own numbers.
| Allowance | Founder | Company | What RedShip states | Cost per reply |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per tracked product | $29 | $16.33 | 1 and 3 products | No rate published |
| Price per custom keyword | $2.90 | $1.63 | 10 and 30 keywords; keyword is any term or phrase watched on Reddit, scored by AI for relevance | No rate published |
| Price per tracked competitor | $9.67 | $4.90 | 3 and 10 competitors | Not a reply |
| Price per team seat | $29 | $16.33 | 1 and 3 seats | Not a reply |
| New leads | Daily | Daily | No count of leads per day | No rate published |
| AI reply suggestions | Unlimited | Unlimited | Suggestions only; you write and post | Your time, not a charge |
What does RedShip cost over 12 months?
Yearly billing is RedShip's discount: its FAQ says quarterly saves 20% and yearly saves 40% compared to monthly. The figures below are the listed prices multiplied out. Our row is here for scale: it covers posting the comments.
| Plan | 12 months billed monthly | 12 months billed quarterly | 12 months billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founder | $348 | $276 | $199 |
| Company | $588 | $468 | $349 |
| 7-day pass | $12 once | n/a | n/a |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $12,001 with the $1 setup charge | No quarterly plan | No yearly plan |
How many customers cover each plan?
Use your own customer value. These are examples, not RedShip's numbers. At $500 of revenue per customer in the first year, Founder billed monthly ($348 a year) needs 1 customer, Company ($588) needs 2, and our service ($12,001) needs 25. At $2,000 per customer, Founder needs 1, Company 1 and our service 7. The tool price is lower, but it covers only the finding and drafting. Your time posting is the cost RedShip's price leaves out, and the number of customers per reply is something neither RedShip nor we can promise.
What RedShip leaves out
- Posting. The homepage says replies are in your own words, and the Chrome extension, included on every plan, sends semi-automated DMs and replies from Reddit. Its homepage says the replies are in your own words.
- A free plan. The cheapest way in is the $12 pass for 7 days, after which you subscribe or stop.
- Other channels. RedShip's pricing page lists Reddit leads, SEO opportunities and AI citations tracking; it lists no YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn or X posting.
- Webhook alerts on Founder. They start at Company.
- A published price above Company. More websites, keywords or seats mean contacting RedShip.
Who should pay $29 for a tool and who should pay $1,000 for a service
Pay RedShip if you have time most days to read threads and write replies in your own voice, and you only care about Reddit. Founder at $29 is a small bet. Pay for a service if nobody will post, if you want comments on five channels combined, or if account age and removals are the part you don't want to run. CommunityMentions aims for 5 to 10 comments a day across Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X combined, month to month, billed monthly only after you approve the setup in Slack. In the 30 days from October 7 to November 5, 2026, the median of 55 client brands got 49 verified placements across those channels, 9 of them on Reddit. The middle half ran from 2 to 123. That count includes brands that started or paused partway through the window. See what we would post first with the free sample.
How often does AI name RedShip?
In our November 2, 2026 scan of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, RedShip was named in 8 of 96 answers to the 8 buyer discovery prompts, run 3 times each on 4 engines, and CommunityMentions in 17 of 96. All 8 RedShip answers came from one prompt, the one asking for alternatives to ReddiReach. We counted an answer once when its text names the tool.
Where RedShip still wins
- Price. $29 a month, or $199 billed yearly, is a fraction of $1,000 for anyone who will do the posting.
- A cheap test. $12 buys 7 days of everything in Founder with no subscription.
- Control. You pick the keywords, read the leads and write the words yourself.
- Easy exit. Its FAQ says there are no contracts, you cancel in one click and keep access to the end of the billing period.
- Plan changes. Its FAQ says you can upgrade or downgrade any time, prorated by Stripe.
- Competitor and AI-citation tracking, daily and weekly, which we do not sell.
How we read RedShip's prices
Every RedShip figure comes from its pricing page, read November 14, 2026, with each billing toggle clicked. The per-unit, 12-month and customer-count figures are our arithmetic on its listed prices. A third-party review (mediafa.st/redship-alternatives, September 2026) says the $29 and $49 are annual-billing prices; the page we read today shows $29 and $49 on the Monthly view and $199 and $349 billed yearly. If RedShip's page says something different now, its page wins.
Sources
- RedShip pricing, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly views, plan table and FAQ, read November 14, 2026.
- RedShip homepage, read November 14, 2026.
- F5Bot tiers, read November 14, 2026.
- CommunityMentions AI-answer scan, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, captured November 2, 2026.
- Our price and terms: pricing section and company facts, read November 14, 2026.