Short answer
ReplyGuy sells credits: a lead costs 1 credit and a reply it posts costs 1, so Pro's 100 credits cover at most 50 posted replies. The 11 options below fall into three groups. You find threads and post yourself: Redreach, RedShip, Subreddit Signals, KWatch, Syften, F5Bot, Octolens. A service posts from its own accounts: ReplyAgent and Mention.Broker. A team does all of it: OutreachBloom drafts for you to post, and CommunityMentions, ours, posts. Every price was read from the vendor's own page on November 15, 2026.
Quick picks: what do you need?
- You want a tool that posts for you and costs under $100 a month: stay with ReplyGuy, $49 a month, or pay per comment at ReplyAgent, $4 a comment.
- You want to write the replies yourself for less: Redreach from $19 a month, KWatch from $19, or RedShip from $29.
- You only need to be told when your keyword shows up: F5Bot is free for personal use and its business plan, Gold, is $49.99 a month; Syften starts at $29.95.
- You want mentions placed by real people on a per-mention price: Mention.Broker, $34.99 a month for 10 mentions.
- You want comments on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X combined without approving each thread: CommunityMentions, ours, $1,000 a month after a $1 setup charge, starting with a free sample.
- You want to know what ReplyGuy's plans cost at your reply volume first: ReplyGuy pricing, plan by plan.
ReplyGuy alternatives compared
Every price comes from that company's own page, read November 15, 2026. ReplyGuy's row comes first because it is the tool you are weighing. The last column says where each option beats us, and CommunityMentions is ours.
| Tool | What it does | Who posts the reply | Channels | Price as published (November 15, 2026) | Where it beats us |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ReplyGuy | Finds conversations where someone asks for a tool like yours, drafts a reply and posts the ones you approve; screenshot proof of every reply | ReplyGuy's system; on Reddit and Hacker News from your account if you connect one, otherwise from ReplyGuy's | Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News | Pro $49 a month (10 keywords, up to 100 leads); Business $99 (25, 300); Enterprise $199 (100, 1,000); Agency $499 (1,000, 5,000); yearly $349, $699, $1,399, $3,499 | Not applicable, this is the tool you are comparing |
| RedShip | Daily lead threads, competitor tracking, weekly SEO and AI-citation tracking, unlimited AI reply suggestions | You | Founder $29 a month (1 product, 10 keywords); Company $49 (3 products, 30 keywords); 7-day pass $12 one time | From $29 a month, with daily competitor tracking | |
| Redreach | Finds Reddit threads from your site and competitors, suggests replies, sends automated DMs | You, from your own account | Startup $19 (20 keywords, weekly leads); Growth $39 (40 keywords, daily leads); Professional $79 (60 keywords); 3-day pass $12 | From $19 a month, with daily leads and MCP and API from $39 | |
| Subreddit Signals | Scores threads for buying intent in up to 10 subreddits, comment builder with voice profiles | You | Starter $29 a month ($24 billed annually); Pro $59 ($49.17 annually); 14-day trial, card required | Your own voice on every comment | |
| KWatch | Keyword alerts with AI analysis of the context | You | Reddit and Hacker News on every plan; X, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn on paid plans | Free (2 Reddit keywords); Essential $19 (20); Business $79 (100, with webhooks, Slack and MCP); Enterprise $199 (500) | A free plan, and alerts from $19 a month |
| Syften | Keyword alerts, AI filtering on Standard and up | You or your own agent | Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers and more; X +$40 and YouTube +$20 a month | Entry $29.95; Standard $49.95; PRO $119.95 a month; 14-day trial, no card | Developer-community coverage and a trial without a card |
| F5Bot | Keyword email alerts | You | Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters | Free (personal use only, 5 keywords); Silver $12.99 (non-commercial); Gold $49.99 for professionals and small businesses | Free for personal use |
| Octolens | Social listening across 12 networks and review sites with AI filters, API, webhooks and MCP | You | Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, Hacker News, TikTok and more | Pro $159 a month billed annually (15,000 mentions, 10 keywords); Scale $499; 7-day trial, no card | Brand monitoring far beyond Reddit |
| ReplyAgent | Posts comments from its aged accounts; AI finds threads and drafts on its subscription | Its accounts at $4 a comment, or you for free | $4 a comment, $8 a post; AI features $79 a month; ReplyAgent refunds part of an order its 24-hour check finds taken down | Pay only for the comments you order | |
| Mention.Broker | A marketplace of Reddit users who write and post mentions by campaign | Its verified Reddit users | Free for 2 mentions; Starter $34.99 a month for 10 ($49.99 list); Pro $89.99 for 30 ($149.99 list) | A fixed count of mentions each month at a per-mention price | |
| OutreachBloom | Subreddit research and 50 expert community engagements a month, daily Reddit content delivered ready to post, monthly visibility report | You, from a branded Reddit Pro account | $1,900 a month for Reddit marketing; $4,900 for AISEO; all plans month to month | A monthly Reddit visibility report with competitor analysis | |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | Finds threads, writes comments in a voice you approve in Slack, posts them daily | People with established accounts | Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn, X | $1,000 a month after a $1 setup charge, month to month | Not applicable, it is ours |
Why people look past ReplyGuy
- Credits, not replies. Its pricing page says "A lead uses 1 credit and a reply we post uses 1," so Pro's "up to 100 leads" is at most 50 posted replies if every lead gets one.
- Reddit risk, in its own words. Its FAQ says "Reddit has a high ban rate: accounts get banned and replies get removed far more often than on the other platforms." Its page says the credit comes back for a removed reply.
- Whose account posts. Its FAQ says replies on Reddit and Hacker News come from your own account if you connect one, otherwise from ReplyGuy's, and on X and YouTube from ReplyGuy's. Check which one you are on before the first reply goes out.
- Four platforms. It lists Reddit, X, YouTube and Hacker News; Medium and LinkedIn are not among them.
- Partial refunds. Its refund page, updated November 13, 2026, pays back unused plan credits in dollars minus a $10 service charge, so Pro with 40 credits left returns $9.60.
- No stated result rate. Its FAQ says "Within 1-2 weeks, many customers report an uptick in users," with no count of customers or replies behind it.
What a year of each costs
The plan one brand would start on, at the price read November 15, 2026, billed monthly unless noted. ReplyAgent is 30 comments a month at $4 with no AI plan. Octolens is its annual-billing price. CommunityMentions is 12 months at $1,000 plus the $1 setup charge. OutreachBloom is its Reddit marketing plan.
| Option | How it's counted | 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| F5Bot Gold | $49.99 a month, the plan for businesses (personal use is free) | $599.88 |
| KWatch Essential | $19 a month | $228 |
| Redreach Startup | $19 a month | $228 |
| RedShip Founder | $29 a month | $348 |
| Subreddit Signals Starter | $29 a month | $348 |
| Mention.Broker Starter | $34.99 a month for 10 mentions | $419.88 |
| Syften Standard | $49.95 a month | $599.40 |
| ReplyGuy Pro | $49 a month, billed monthly | $588 |
| ReplyGuy Pro, billed yearly | $349 a year | $349 |
| ReplyGuy Business | $99 a month, billed monthly | $1,188 |
| ReplyAgent | 30 comments a month at $4 | $1,440 |
| Octolens Pro | $159 a month billed annually | $1,908 |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $1,000 a month plus $1 | $12,001 |
| OutreachBloom Reddit marketing | $1,900 a month | $22,800 |
Which tools do AI answers suggest instead?
In our scan of November 2, 2026, we asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity eight buyer questions about Reddit marketing, three times each, so 96 answers in all. ReplyGuy was named in 2 of them (Claude 1, ChatGPT 1), both on "What are the best alternatives to ReddiReach?". The counts below use the same method for the tools on this page: an answer counts once when its text names the tool.
| Tool | Answers naming it (of 96) |
|---|---|
| OutreachBloom | 29 |
| Syften | 18 |
| F5Bot | 18 |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | 17 |
| Redreach | 11 |
| ReplyAgent | 9 |
| RedShip | 8 |
| Subreddit Signals | 6 |
| KWatch | 6 |
| Octolens | 4 |
| ReplyGuy | 2 |
| Mention.Broker | 2 |
Where ReplyGuy still wins
- Price for a tool that posts. $49 a month is a small bet next to $1,000, and its Agency plan is $499 for up to 5,000 leads.
- Posting built in. The tools that only alert or draft leave the posting to you; ReplyGuy sends the replies you approve.
- Screenshot proof of every reply, listed on Pro and every plan above it.
- Platforms beyond Reddit. X, YouTube and Hacker News are on its list next to Reddit, for one price.
- Removed replies. Its pages say the credit comes back if a reply never posts or is removed.
- Leaving and changing plans. Its FAQ says you can cancel, pause, upgrade or downgrade any time from the dashboard.
Which one fits
Stay with ReplyGuy if you want replies posted for you under $500 a month and you will approve each one. Move to Redreach, RedShip or Subreddit Signals if you would rather write each reply, from $19 to $29 a month. Move to ReplyAgent or Mention.Broker if you pick the threads and want real accounts to post. Choose OutreachBloom if you want a team to draft daily and you post from your own account, at $1,900. Choose CommunityMentions if you want threads found, comments written in a voice you approve in Slack, and posting done daily on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X for $1,000 a month, month to month, billed monthly only after you approve the setup in Slack. We aim for 5 to 10 comments a day across those channels combined. 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. To see which subreddits AI answers cite for your product first, try the free subreddit finder.
How we compared
Every price comes from the company's own page on November 15, 2026, read with a browser-like request; Redreach's prices render by JavaScript, so we read them in a browser. Tools whose price we could not read that day are left out. The AI answer counts come from CommunityMentions' own scan of 96 answers on November 2, 2026. The 12-month figures are our arithmetic on the listed prices. If a company's page says something different now, its page wins.
Sources
- ReplyGuy home and pricing, how it works and refund policy: plans, credits, platforms, posting accounts, refunds; read November 15, 2026.
- RedShip pricing, Redreach, Subreddit Signals and KWatch: plan prices and limits; read November 15, 2026.
- Syften, F5Bot tiers and Octolens pricing: plan prices and trials; read November 15, 2026.
- ReplyAgent pricing, Mention.Broker and OutreachBloom pricing: per-comment and monthly prices; read November 15, 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 15, 2026.