X (Twitter) brand monitoring
Your AI agent finds the X posts, replies and quote posts that mention your brand and your competitors, reads them, and tells you what customers say, good and bad, with links. No X API, no credits.
Social mediaCheap tools to monitor X (Twitter) brand mentions (2026): 8 compared by price
Prompt template
Every morning, search X for posts about brand and competitors since yesterday. Read the replies and quote posts under the ones that drew a reaction, and tell me what customers say, good and bad, with a link to each post.
Overview
Cheap tools to monitor X (Twitter) brand mentions in 2026, ranked by starting price: Reduck, KWatch.io, Prowlo, Awario, Mentionlytics, Syften, Octolens and Brand24. The X API bills every post read and TweetDeck now needs a paid X subscription, so watching X used to be expensive. These tools cost from nothing to $199 a month.
Cheap X monitoring tools at a glance, by price
As each vendor's own site describes it, read in October 2026. "Not documented" means we did not find it on their site.
| Starting price | Watches | How often | Alerts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduck | Free for 100 script runs a month, then $20 a month | X posts, replies, quote posts and your mentions; Reddit through other scripts | When your agent runs | The chat with your agent |
| KWatch.io | $19 a month (2 X keywords, 20 Reddit keywords) | X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, YouTube, Hacker News | Not documented | Email; Slack and webhooks from $79 |
| Prowlo | $19 a month | X and Reddit | Hourly | Slack, webhook, MCP |
| Awario | €29 a month billed yearly | Social media and the web | Not documented | |
| Mentionlytics | $49 a month billed yearly | Web, X, Reddit and other social platforms | Not documented | Email reports, push |
| Syften | X from $89.95 a month | Reddit, Hacker News, forums; X as a $40 add-on | Not documented for X | Email, Slack, RSS, API |
| Octolens | $159 a month billed annually | X posts and replies | Hourly on Pro, real time on Scale | Dashboard, Slack, MCP |
| Brand24 | $199 a month billed yearly | X and most social networks, news, blogs | Not documented | Email, push, Slack, Microsoft Teams |
1. Reduck
The cheapest, and the one that reads for you. Your AI agent searches X's Latest tab for your brand, your handle and your competitors with X's own search operators, reads the mentions that tag you, opens the replies and quote posts under the posts that drew a reaction, and tells you what customers say, with a link to each post. It runs in your own signed-in Chrome, so there are no X API credits. It is not real-time: it runs when your agent runs. See X brand monitoring for the setup.
2. KWatch.io
$19 a month for 2 X keywords and 20 Reddit keywords, with LinkedIn, Facebook groups, YouTube and Hacker News too. Alerts by email; Slack and webhooks from its Business plan ($79 a month).
3. Prowlo
$19 a month for X and Reddit, checked hourly, with alerts in Slack, by webhook or through MCP.
4. Awario
A full listening dashboard with Boolean search, from €29 a month billed yearly for 3 topics.
5. Mentionlytics
Web and social listening with reports, from $49 a month billed yearly for 3 keywords.
6. Syften
Community alerts first. X is a $40 add-on, so X starts at $89.95 a month.
7. Octolens
X monitoring with relevance and sentiment scores and an MCP server, $199 a month on Pro, or $159 billed annually, refreshed hourly.
8. Brand24
The most channels, with sentiment and reports, from $199 a month billed yearly. Not cheap, but often the tool the others are compared with.
How to choose
- You want it free or under $20, and your agent already runs every morning: Reduck.
- You want an alert by itself, on X and Reddit, for $19: KWatch.io or Prowlo.
- You need hourly or real-time alerts on X: Octolens.
- You need every channel and reports: Brand24, or Awario and Mentionlytics for less.
Who it's for
- Founders and small teams who watch their brand on X on a small budget
- Marketers who track a brand and its competitors without X API costs
- Anyone choosing a cheap X monitoring tool in 2026
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