Quick picks: which Syften plan fits?
- You want to know when your product name comes up, and 3 searches cover it: Entry, $29.95 a month.
- You track a product, a few competitors and some problem phrases, and want the alerts in Slack: Standard, $49.95 a month, which is also the first plan with AI filtering.
- You run an agency or track many brands and want webhooks, MCP or the full archive: PRO, $119.95 a month.
- You need X or YouTube too: add $40 and $20 a month on Standard or PRO. Entry doesn't list either add-on.
- You only need Reddit and Hacker News for a handful of words: F5Bot has a free plan.
- You'd rather have comments posted than get alerts: CommunityMentions vs Syften. CommunityMentions is ours, $1,000 a month.
Every Syften plan, line by line
Every cell comes from Syften's pricing section on November 10, 2026. syften.com/pricing redirects to the home page, where the plans sit. Syften calls each saved search a filter.
| Entry | Standard | PRO | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $29.95 | $49.95 | $119.95 |
| Community filters | 3 | 20 | 100 |
| Community results a day | 100 | 200 | 500 |
| Web filters | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| Web results a day | 5 | 20 | 50 |
| Archive search | 7 days | 30 days | Full available history |
| Slack integration | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| AI filtering | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| X monitoring | Not listed | +$40 a month | +$40 a month |
| YouTube monitoring | Not listed | +$20 a month | +$20 a month |
| API | Matches and filters; archive search through the API needs PRO | Yes | Yes |
| Webhooks and MCP | Not listed | Not listed | Yes |
What does each plan leave out?
- Entry leaves out Slack, AI filtering and the X and YouTube add-ons, and its archive goes back 7 days. Three filters is enough for one brand name and one or two variants.
- Standard's listing leaves out webhooks, MCP and archive search through the API. Its archive covers 30 days.
- PRO leaves out nothing on the list, but X and YouTube still cost extra, so PRO with both is $179.95 a month.
- No plan covers LinkedIn. Syften's own FAQ answers "Does Syften monitor LinkedIn?" with "No, unfortunately not."
- No plan posts replies. Syften finds the conversations; you or your AI agent write and post the answer.
What is the cost per filter on each plan?
PRO has the lowest cost per filter, $1.20 a month, against $2.50 on Standard and $9.98 on Entry. Entry is cheap to start but expensive per search, so anyone who needs more than 3 filters is already better off on Standard. The daily result caps tell the same story: each 1,000 results of monthly capacity costs about $9.98 on Entry, $8.33 on Standard and $8.00 on PRO (daily cap times 30).
| Plan | Price a month | Community filters | Cost per filter | Results a day | Cost per 1,000 results a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | $29.95 | 3 | $9.98 | 100 | $9.98 |
| Standard | $49.95 | 20 | $2.50 | 200 | $8.33 |
| PRO | $119.95 | 100 | $1.20 | 500 | $8.00 |
What does Syften cost over 12 months?
Syften's pricing section lists monthly prices only; we saw no yearly plan or discount on November 10, 2026. Twelve months of Standard is $599.40, or $1,319.40 with both add-ons. Our row is here for scale: CommunityMentions is a service that writes and posts comments for you, so the two prices pay for different work.
| Plan | 1 month | 12 months | 12 months with X and YouTube |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | $29.95 | $359.40 | Not offered |
| Standard | $49.95 | $599.40 | $1,319.40 |
| PRO | $119.95 | $1,439.40 | $2,159.40 |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $1,001 with the $1 setup charge | $12,001 | Included: Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn, X |
How much of what Syften finds will be worth answering?
A filter returns every match, and most matches won't be worth a reply. 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, roughly 1 in 15 (the ratio of two medians). Those runs search by topic with our own scoring, so read it as a rough guide. It is why Syften's AI filtering on Standard and PRO matters more than the result caps: a 200-a-day cap is plenty if only a few of them deserve an answer.
Syften pricing against other Reddit monitoring tools
Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page on November 10, 2026. Syften's edge is coverage: its FAQ lists the public web plus 17 community sources, from Reddit and Hacker News to GitHub, Stack Exchange, podcasts and Slack communities.
| Tool | Lowest paid plan a month | Plan a business would pick | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syften | $29.95 (3 filters) | $49.95 Standard (20 filters, Slack, AI filtering) | The web, Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Exchange, podcasts, forums and more; X and YouTube extra |
| F5Bot | $12.99 (personal use) | $49.99 Gold (200 keywords) | Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters |
| Octolens | $199 Pro, or $159 billed annually | $199 Pro (10 keywords, 15,000 mentions) | Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, GitHub, Hacker News, reviews |
| RedShip | $29 (10 keywords) | $49 (30 keywords) | |
| Redreach | $19 (20 keywords) | $39 (40 keywords) | |
| CommunityMentions (ours) | $1,000 after a $1 setup charge | Same; one plan | We post on Reddit, YouTube, Medium, LinkedIn and X; no alerts |
Where Syften is worth the money
- Breadth: one Standard plan watches Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Stack Exchange, forums, podcasts and the web for $49.95 a month.
- Speed: its FAQ says it aims for at most a 1-minute delay on Reddit and at most 15 minutes on X.
- A real trial: 14 days of PRO with no card, and it shows mentions from the 2 months before you sign up.
- Developer hooks: API on every plan, and webhooks and MCP on PRO, so an AI agent can read and triage matches.
- It has run since 2019, by its own page.
How we priced Syften
Every Syften figure comes from its pricing section and FAQ on syften.com, read November 10, 2026. The per-filter, per-result and 12-month figures are our arithmetic on its listed prices. Our sample numbers come from our own run logs. If Syften's page says something different now, its page wins.
Sources
- Syften's pricing section and FAQ, read November 10, 2026.
- F5Bot account tiers, Octolens pricing, RedShip pricing and Redreach pricing, 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 10, 2026.