| Price from | $9.08/mo | $0.01/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 6 |
| Spec score · Social Listening Tools | 8.7 (#5) | 7.9 (#9) |
| Spec score · Social Media Listening Software | 8.1 (#20) | 8.5 (#9) |
| Coverage | It scans submissions and comments and checks for new content every few minutes. | The site states that its platform includes more than 800 million social sources, including Chinese data. |
| Founded | 2017 | 2006 |
| Integrations | Eligible plans can send alerts to Slack or Discord through webhooks and provide RSS and JSON feeds. | Its privacy policy names Google, YouTube, X/Twitter, Meta and Reddit APIs; integrations can require API keys and Synthesio says it does not store third-party passwords. |
| Support | Users can contact Lewis Van Winkle by emailing [email protected] or replying to any F5Bot alert email. | The company offers expert consultation, supported sourcing and setup, customized reports, and advisory services as service options. |
| What it does | F5Bot monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters for keywords and emails alerts when they appear. | Synthesio is Ipsos's AI-enabled consumer-intelligence and social/search listening platform for monitoring conversations, sentiment, trends and audiences. |