IT & Infrastructure
Best Social Media Monitoring in 2026
Use social media monitoring tools to follow conversations and signals on the networks they cover. This list lets you compare the plan, alert, analysis and reporting details makers publish.
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Brand24 Brand24 suits businesses, marketers, agencies, and startups that need to monitor brand, competitor, or topic mentions.
From $249/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · iOS9.3 Visit Specs - 02
Awario Awario suits teams tracking online mentions across social, news and web sources.
From $29/mo Free trial Web8.9 Visit Specs - 03
BrandMentions It suits businesses and agencies that want to monitor brand mentions across web and social sources.
From $99/mo Free trial Web8.8 Visit Specs - 04
Mentionlytics Mentionlytics suits brands, agencies and organizations that need to monitor online conversations and review sources.
From $49/mo Free trial Web · API8.6 Visit Specs - 05
Konnect Insights Social Listening It suits enterprise brand, PR, communications, marketing, and customer-experience teams tracking conversations and acting on alerts.
From $3.25/mo Web · API8.0 Visit Specs - 06
Meltwater Social Listening The listed plans target communications and marketing teams, regional or global brands, and agencies managing multiple clients.
Web · iOS · Android · API8.0 Visit Specs - 07 Octolens From $159/mo Free trial Web · API8.0 Visit Specs
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Brandwatch Listen It suits social media managers and content marketers who need to monitor brands, products, competitors, and online conversation.
Web · API7.9 Visit Specs - 09 Harken
Harken suits indie founders, open-source maintainers, and privacy-conscious teams seeking to monitor mentions in a self-hosted dashboard.
Free plan Web · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs - 10 Social Searcher
Social Searcher suits people who want to search public social posts and profiles or monitor brand mentions across multiple networks.
Free plan Web7.9 Visit Specs - 11 Syften
Syften suits B2B SaaS founders, founder-led sales teams, product marketers, developer tools teams, and community teams looking for public conversations that may signal buying interest.
From $29.95/mo Free trial Web · API7.9 Visit Specs - 12 Synthesio From $0.01/mo Web · API7.8 Visit Specs
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Determ From €99/mo Web · iOS · Android7.6 Visit Specs - 14
Lucidya From $125/mo Web · API7.6 Visit Specs - 15
NewsWhip Spike Web7.6 Visit Specs - 16
Sprinklr Social Listening Sprinklr Social Listening suits organizations that need broad, real-time monitoring of social and digital conversations.
Web · API7.5 Visit Specs - 17 Simplify360 Location Reviews Free trial Web7.4 Visit Specs
- 18 OpenMagpie
OpenMagpie suits teams that want self-hosted monitoring of specified conversations and can provide their own hardware and language model.
Free plan Self-hosted7.3 Visit Specs - 19
Quid (formerly NetBase Quid) Free trial Web · API7.3 Visit Specs - 20 Keyhole Web · API7.2 Visit Specs
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Pulsar Web7.2 Visit Specs - 22
SentiOne Listen From $199/mo Web6.9 Visit Specs - 23 YouScan From $499/mo Web6.7 Visit Specs
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Talkwalker Web6.1 Visit Specs - 25 BuzzSumo Web5.9 Visit Specs
When evaluating a tool, review its network and platform coverage, free-plan or trial availability, history length, and query or export limits.
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