Awario vs Harken
Awario
awario.comHarken
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| Figure | Awario | Harken |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $29/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Social Media Listening Software | 8.8 (#4) | 7.7 (#39) |
| Spec score · Social Media Monitoring | 8.9 (#2) | 7.9 (#9) |
| Spec score · Social Media Monitoring & Listening Software | 8.9 (#2) | 7.9 (#11) |
| Spec score · Social Monitoring | 8.9 (#2) | 7.9 (#10) |
| Spec score · AI Social Listening Tools | 8.9 (#3) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Sentiment analysis | Awario analyzes mention sentiment and share of mentions. | Yes |
Plans
In their own words
Awario
Awario monitors mentions across social networks, websites, news and other online sources. Coverage includes X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, YouTube, Vimeo, blogs, forums and the wider web, with sentiment and news monitoring. Users can respond to customer questions in the app and follow up on comments. Alerts can be sent by email or Slack; Slack integration and API access are also available. Awario says it crawls over 13 billion web pages daily in addition to using APIs. Paid plans are billed monthly or annually. The listed annual-billing prices are $29 a month for Starter, $89 a month for Pro and $249 a month for Enterprise. Starter covers three topics and one team member; Pro allows 15 topics and 10 team members; Enterprise allows 100 topics and unlimited team members. Pro and Enterprise include CSV mention export, while Enterprise includes API access and an account manager. A seven-day trial offers Starter access, requires no credit card and allows up to three alerts and 30,000 mentions. Awario was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Harken
Harken tracks mentions of keywords, brands, or products across online sources and brings sentiment and themes into a local dashboard. It can monitor Hacker News, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, Stack Overflow, RSS, X, and YouTube. Sentiment comes from a built-in local lexicon analyzer; optional LLM analysis can label themes using Anthropic, OpenAI, or locally run Ollama. Harken provides a web dashboard and terminal CLI, stores its database in local SQLite, and says it sends no Harken telemetry. Alerts for new negative mentions or configured volume and sentiment thresholds can go to Slack, generic webhooks, or SMTP email. The open-source MIT software is self-hosted and free: free, with no per-seat pricing and API access. Tracking sends search terms to selected source APIs, and Anthropic or OpenAI theme labeling sends a small sample of mention text to that provider. Hacker News and Bluesky work without credentials; other sources may need credentials, configured feeds, or tokens. The quickstart requires Python 3.10 or later, and Docker Compose instructions are included.