Reddit brand monitoring
Your AI agent finds the Reddit posts that mention your brand and your competitors, reads the threads, and tells you what people say about you, good and bad, with links.
Social mediaBest Reddit brand mention monitoring tools (2026): 8 compared
Prompt template
Every week, search Reddit for posts that mention brand and competitors. Read the threads, and tell me what people say about each brand, good and bad, with a quote and a link for each mention.
Overview
The 8 best Reddit brand mention monitoring tools in 2026, ranked and compared: Brand24, Syften, F5Bot, KWatch.io, Awario, Mentionlytics, RedShip and Reduck. Reddit is where people compare tools and complain in public, and AI assistants often cite those threads when someone asks about a product. Each tool below tells you when your brand is mentioned. They differ on what they watch, how fast they alert, whether they sort praise from complaints, and price.
The best Reddit brand monitoring tools at a glance
As each vendor's own site describes it, read in October 2026. "Not documented" means we did not find it on their site.
| Watches on Reddit | Other sources | Sentiment | Starting price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brand24 | Posts and comments | X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, news, blogs | Positive, negative, neutral | $199 a month billed yearly, 14-day trial |
| Syften | Posts and comments, alerts in about a minute | Hacker News, GitHub, forums; X as an add-on | Not offered, per its own page | $29.95 a month, 14-day trial |
| F5Bot | Posts and comments | Hacker News, Lobsters | AI filtering on Gold | Free for 5 keywords |
| KWatch.io | Not documented | X, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, YouTube, Hacker News | Not documented | Free for 2 Reddit keywords; $19 a month |
| Awario | Not documented | Social media and the web | Not documented | €29 a month billed yearly |
| Mentionlytics | Not documented | Web, X and other social platforms | Not documented | $49 a month billed yearly, 14-day trial |
| RedShip | Reddit monitoring with AI reply suggestions | Not documented | Not documented | $29 a month billed yearly |
| Reduck | Posts found by search, and every comment of those threads | X, through other scripts | Your agent reads and sorts each mention | Free for 100 script runs a month |
1. Brand24
The most sources, with a dashboard, sentiment and reports. Brand24 watches Reddit posts and comments next to X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, news and blogs. Alerts go to email, mobile push, Slack and Microsoft Teams. The Individual plan is $199 a month billed yearly, for 3 keywords and 2,000 mentions a month. Best for marketing teams that report on many channels.
2. Syften
Fast alerts on Reddit and other communities. Syften watches Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, forums and more, and sends alerts within about a minute on Reddit, by email, Slack, RSS or API, with webhooks and MCP on its PRO plan. X is a $40 add-on. From $29.95 a month. Its own page says it does not do sentiment analysis.
3. F5Bot
Free email alerts on Reddit posts and comments, Hacker News and Lobsters, for 5 keywords. Silver is $9.99 a month, and Gold ($49.99 a month) adds AI filtering and alerts in Slack and Discord. Best when you need to know fast and have no budget.
4. KWatch.io
The cheapest paid plan that watches both Reddit and X: $19 a month for 20 Reddit keywords and 2 X keywords, and free for 2 Reddit keywords. It also watches LinkedIn, Facebook groups, YouTube and Hacker News. Alerts by email, and Slack and webhooks from its Business plan ($79 a month).
5. Awario
A Brand24-style dashboard with Boolean search, from €29 a month billed yearly for 3 topics and 30,000 mentions. Its channel pages name Reddit and Twitter. Alerts by email.
6. Mentionlytics
Web and social listening with reports, from $49 a month billed yearly for 3 keywords and 5,000 mentions. It watches the web, X, Reddit and seven other social platforms, with email reports and mobile and desktop push.
7. RedShip
Reddit monitoring with AI reply suggestions, alerts by email and Slack, and webhooks on its Company plan. From $29 a month billed yearly, or $12 for a 7-day pass. Best when a mention is a chance to reply.
8. Reduck
Reddit mentions read and sorted by the AI agent you already use, in your own signed-in Chrome, with no Reddit API key. Your agent searches all of Reddit and the subreddits you pick for your brand and your competitors, reads each thread with its comments, and tells you what people say, with a quote and a link for each mention. It runs when your agent runs, for example every morning, and keeps no dashboard. See Reddit brand monitoring for the setup.
How to choose
- You need every channel and a report for your team: Brand24, or Awario and Mentionlytics for less.
- You need to know within minutes: Syften, or F5Bot for free.
- You watch Reddit and X on a small budget: KWatch.io.
- You want to reply to the mentions: RedShip, or Reduck, which drafts the reply and posts it only when you approve.
- You want to know what people think, not only that they posted: Reduck, which reads the threads for you.
Who it's for
- Founders who want to know what Reddit says about their product and their competitors
- Marketers who report on brand mentions every week
- Anyone choosing a Reddit monitoring tool in 2026
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