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FishOut vs Common Room

Common Room is a sales-intelligence platform: it unifies community, social, website, CRM and product signals into people and companies, enriches them, and routes them to reps. Zoom completed its acquisition in July 2026. FishOut is a listening inbox — the posts themselves, labelled and drafted. They overlap on one thing, social conversations, and many teams will eventually want both. Most early teams want the second first.

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Common Room facts checked on 20 October 2026, from their own published material. Sources are listed at the foot of this page.

 FishOutCommon Room
Starts at
Free
$2,500/mo, billed annually
Sales call needed
No
Yes — every tier is “Request demo”
API & MCP
Every plan, incl. Free
MCP on all plans; API plan not published
[01] AT A GLANCE/ SIDE BY SIDE

FishOut and Common Room, feature by feature

Ties are marked as ties, and Common Room's wins as wins.
FishOut compared with Common Room, feature by feature
 FishOutCommon Room
Coverage
What it watchesBehind: Posts on ten platformsAdvantage: Community, social, web, CRM and product signals
Person and company enrichmentBehind: Not offeredAdvantage: Yes, with de-anonymisation
AI
Post-level triage and reply draftsEven: Every post; drafts from PlusEven: RoomieAI research and scoring
Alerts
Alert destinationsAdvantage: 13, every planBehind: Slack and email
Price per alert destination at entryEntry price divided by the destinations it includesAdvantage: $0 on Free; $1.46 on PlusBehind: $1250.00 ($2500 ÷ 2)
Developer
MCP server — which planEven: Every plan, including FreeEven: Every plan (from $2,500/mo)
REST API — which planAdvantage: Every plan, including FreeBehind: Offered; plan not published
Team
CRM syncBehind: Not offered; API and webhooksAdvantage: Yes
Seats at entryAdvantage: Unlimited on every planBehind: 5 on Essential
Price
Entry priceAdvantage: Free, then $19/moBehind: $2,500/mo, billed annually
Free plan or trialAdvantage: Free forever, 10 keywords, 500 relevant/moBehind: Not published
Sales call neededAdvantage: No — self-serve, cancel any timeBehind: Yes — every tier is “Request demo”
[02] WHAT IT COSTS/ SAME NEED

What each need costs on FishOut and on Common Room

The plan you would need on each side for the thing you came for.
To getFishOutCommon Room
Social conversations, triagedFreeFree$2,500/moEssential
An MCP serverFreeFree$2,500/moEssential
15 seatsFreeFreeQuote only
Contact enrichment—Not offered$2,500/moEssential

Monthly-billed. A keyword is not always the same unit on both sides.

[03] WHERE COMMON ROOM IS STRONGER/ HONESTLY
Common Room is buyer signals and enrichment for sales teams, now part of Zoom, and there are things it does that we do not.

People and companies, not posts

Common Room resolves activity to a person and an account, enriches it, de-anonymises website visitors and adds Bombora intent topics. FishOut shows you the post and the author’s handle; it does not enrich anyone.

It lives in your sales stack

CRM sync, workflows, segments, a Chrome extension and, now, Zoom Revenue Accelerator. FishOut sends alerts and has an API; it does not write to your CRM.

An MCP server with write tools

Common Room includes its MCP server on all plans, with OAuth and create and update tools. This row is parity, and theirs is well built.
[04] WHERE FISHOUT WINS/ WITH PROOF

$19 against $2,500

Common Room Essential is $2,500 a month billed annually, through a demo. FishOut Plus is $19/mo, self-serve. If what you need is the social-conversation part of “signals”, that is the price of it.
To get social conversations, triaged

FishOut

Free

Them

Essential, $2,500/mo

The content, not just the contact

FishOut gives you the post, why it is relevant, what the author wants, whether to answer, and a draft. That is the part a rep needs to say something useful.
Why this is relevant
96
Matches your briefAsking for helpNot answered yetFresh
Reply nowAsking for recommendationsHas a problem

An agent per motion

Rules that watch for buyer intent, competitor switching or complaints and act — label, assign, draft, notify — from Plus.
Inbound leads6 runs / 24h

When

relevance is at least 70label is Asking for recommendations

Then

draft a replyassign to Markpost to #inbound

MCP on both — and on Free here

Both ship MCP on every plan. On FishOut, every plan starts at $0.
[05] WHO SHOULD PICK WHICH/ SHORTCUTS

If you…

Who we would send to Common Room, and who to us.
Your sales team works accounts and needs enrichmentCommon RoomPerson and company resolution, CRM sync and website de-anonymisation are its job.
You run on Zoom Revenue AcceleratorCommon RoomIt is now sold as part of that, as well as on its own.
You heard “signals” and want the social-conversation part firstFishOutThe posts, triaged and drafted, from $19/mo, with MCP on every plan.
[06] WITHOUT A SALES CALL/ SELF-SERVE

Without the sales call. Common Room: yes — every tier is “request demo”. FishOut: from $19/mo, or free, cancel any time.

No seat count

Common Room: 5 on essential. FishOut: unlimited, on every plan.

MembersNo seat limit
OwnerAdminSupportSalesMarketingContractor+ invite

13 alert destinations

Common Room: slack and email. FishOut: Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, email, Zapier, webhooks and six more.

Alert to13 destinations
and six more
[07] SEE IT ON YOUR KEYWORDS/ FREE PLAN

What you get instead of Common Room

What a team gets on the first evening, without a demo: switchers, complaints and press in one inbox, each with its reason. Common Room measures the conversation; this tells you which part to answer.
Switchers· Best first7
89
r/msppatchtuesday_pete5h

Shared inbox for 12 clients, each with their own address?

Reply nowAsking for recommendations
93
LinkedInPriya Raman1h

Notchmail renewal came in 40% higher

Reply nowComparisonAsking for recommendations
79
MediumOps Notes2d

What I learned running support on a shared inbox for a year

WatchComparisonComplaint
r/msppatchtuesday_pete5h

Shared inbox for 12 clients, each with their own address?

MSP here. We run support for 12 clients, each with its own address. Looking for one inbox with per-client views.

Relevance

89
Agency use caseAsking for a toolNot answered yet

Labels · Reply call

Reply nowAsking for recommendations

Answer the per-client question directly

Draft reply

Per-client views are the thing to test. AcmeMail does one workspace with a view per client address — I work there — and most MSPs we see start with the free plan.

  • Says who you are
  • Follows the subreddit rules
Copy and open threadFishOut never posts
Start freeSee every plan

Questions

Sources

  • FishOut pricing — checked 19 October 2026. lib/pricing-data.ts — the same data the pricing page renders.
  • Common Room pricing — checked 20 October 2026. Essential $2,500/mo billed annually: 5 seats, up to 100k contacts. Advanced (15 seats) and Enterprise (30 seats) are custom. Every tier’s button is "Request demo". Unlimited alerts, workflows and segments; Slack and email alerts. RoomieAI; website de-anonymisation; Bombora intent topics; enrichment credits. "Common Room also includes its MCP server across all plans." No free plan or trial published.
  • Common Room MCP server docs — checked 20 October 2026. Hosted Streamable HTTP server with OAuth 2.1, five tools including create and update. A CLI is also documented. Zoom completed its acquisition of Common Room in July 2026 (zoom.com blog).

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