Are you looking for an alternative to Brandwatch to monitor social media like Reddit, Linkedin, X, Facebook,
Quora, Youtube, or Hacker News?
In this article, we will compare KWatch.io and Brandwatch.
KWatch.io VS Brandwatch: Pricing Comparison
Brandwatch is a well-known player in the field of social monitoring. Their platform includes
many features like social media management, social media history browsing, influencer research, social listening and more.
Subscribing to
Brandwatch's plans is not cheap though: monitoring your brand with Brandwatch costs at least $800 per month, and that's
for the cheapest plan. It's common to pay $3,000 per month for the most popular social listening plans.
Their price list is not officially published on their website. You can only get an estimate of
the cost by contacting their sales team:
On KWatch.io social listening is much cheaper because we are a smaller team and we only focus
on social media monitoring.
Our plans start at $19 per month with the "Essential" plan. This plan allows you to monitor 1 keyword on Linkedin, 1 keyword
on Facebook, 2 keywords on X, 2 keywords on Quora, 2 keywords on Youtube, 20 keywords on Reddit and 20 keywords on Hacker News. This is
usually enough if you simply want to monitor your brand in real-time on social media. If you want to monitor
more keywords we have bigger plans like the Business plan ($79/month) or the Enterprise plan ($199/month).
Last of all, Brandwatch does not propose any Free plan while KWatch.io does propose a Free plan
that allows you
to monitor Reddit and Hacker News.
Does Brandwatch Monitor Social Media In real-time?
Yes, Brandwatch does monitor social media in real-time, like KWatch.io does.
Does Brandwatch Monitor All Linkedin Posts?
Brandwatch only monitors Linkedin posts from your owned pages. It does not monitor posts from
all Linkedin users.
Here is what Brandwatch officially state on their website:
Due to technical complexities, monitoring content on Linkedin presents significant challenges,
making it a capability that very few social listening platforms possess. KWatch.io stands out by offering
comprehensive Linkedin monitoring - our system can track keywords in any Linkedin post, not just those from
pages you manage!
Does Brandwatch Monitor All Facebook Posts?
Brandwatch only monitors Facebook posts from your owned business pages. It does not monitor
posts
from all Facebook users.
Here is what Brandwatch officially state on their website:
Tracking content across Facebook is technically challenging, which is why most social listening
tools don't offer this functionality. However, KWatch.io has developed advanced capabilities to monitor Facebook
comprehensively - we can detect keywords in any Facebook post except from posts in approval-required groups!
Does Brandwatch Monitor Quora Posts, Questions and Answers?
No, Brandwatch does not monitor Quora at all, but KWatch.io does.
Does Brandwatch Propose Conversation Tracking?
KWatch.io allows you to track specific conversations on social media and be notified in
real-time when someone makes a comment in a conversation. Conversation tracking is a very useful feature
that can be effectively combined with keyword monitoring.
Brandwatch, on the other hand, does not propose such a conversation tracking feature.
Conclusion
Brandwatch is a well-known player in the field of social monitoring.
Brandwatch undoubtedly offers numerous social media management and analytics tools that are
absent from our
offerings at KWatch.io, and we have no intention of incorporating such features in the future since they fall
outside our primary expertise. Nevertheless, if your focus is on a robust social media monitoring platform
capable of tracking specific keywords across platforms like Reddit, Linkedin, X, Facebook, Quora, Youtube, or Hacker News,
KWatch.io is likely to serve you better.
Feel free to see for yourself: register
on KWatch.io
here.
Julien
Product Manager at KWatch.io
KWatch.io