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Sprout Social is a whole social operation — publishing, scheduling, replying, review moderation, reporting — with listening as one module. Half the people looking for an alternative want the listening for less; the other half will be disappointed by everything on this page.
A flat $49 a month for the whole team against $99 per seat, with unlimited members and projects and 15,000 relevant mentions a month. Ten platforms, AI triage with the reasons shown on every post, agents that assign to a person. Be clear about the trade: we do not publish, schedule, reply, or touch your own channels. If you need any of that, we are not a replacement for Sprout — we are a replacement for its listening module only.
See how FishOut is priced →The listening-and-measurement option without the publishing: share of voice, reach, demographics, anomaly detection, at $249/mo flat rather than per seat. For a team of four or more that only listens, the maths often favours it.
FishOut vs Brand24 →Enterprise-shaped monitoring with two years of history and real multilingual depth, at a price you have to ask for. It removed publishing and replying in January 2026, so it is a listening tool now rather than a suite.
FishOut vs Mention →The cheap end of established listening: $49/mo, or $29 billed annually, with its own crawler, 30,000 mentions and unlimited keywords inside each of three topics. No publishing, and a fraction of any Sprout configuration — though Starter is a single seat.
FishOut vs Awario →Worth a look only if you are a B2B developer tool, where Sprout’s consumer-social strengths are largely wasted. $199/mo, wider source coverage, and an audience it was actually built for.
FishOut vs Octolens →| FishOut | Brand24 | Mention | Awario | Octolens | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | Free, then $19/mo | $249/mo | Contact sales | $49/mo, $29 annually | $199/mo, $159 annually |
| Platforms | 10 platforms | 15+ platforms | 8 platforms | 10 platforms | About 15 |
| MCP server | Every plan, including Free | Every plan (from $249/mo) | Not offered | Not offered | Every plan (from $159/mo) |
| Alert destinations | 13, every plan | Not on the pages we cite | Not on the pages we cite; no webhooks documented | Not on the pages we cite | Webhooks; others not on its pricing page |
| Sales call needed | No | No — Enterprise is contact-sales | Yes — one Company plan, demo first | No | No — Enterprise is contact-sales |
Nothing on this page publishes. We deliberately do not post anything anywhere, and the monitoring tools here are not suites. This is the case where the alternative is no alternative.
$49 flat for the whole team, or $29 for a large crawler. Either is a fraction of a multi-seat Sprout bill for the half of the product you were using.
Both are priced flat rather than per seat. Per-seat pricing is the thing that makes this decision for most teams, and it makes it around the fourth or fifth login.
The measurement primitives — share of voice, reach, demographics — are what survive the move down from a suite. A $49 tool does not have them.
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Several tools in this category publish an annual rate as the headline and meter something other than keywords. We read every pricing page ourselves and wrote down what each plan actually limits.
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