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FishOut vs Octolens

Octolens is the established option for B2B developer tools, with wider source coverage and customers like Vercel and PostHog. It is also four times the price of FishOut Pro for a twentieth of the keywords, and it stops short of drafting the reply.

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

 FishOutOctolens
Platforms
10
About 15
Starts at
Free
$199/mo, $159 annually
API & MCP
Every plan, incl. Free
API + MCP on every plan (from $159/mo)
[01] AT A GLANCE/ SIDE BY SIDE

FishOut and Octolens, feature by feature

Ties are marked as ties, and Octolens's wins as wins.
FishOut compared with Octolens, feature by feature
 FishOutOctolens
Coverage
Keywords at entryAdvantage: 50 on PlusBehind: 10
MentionsEven: 500–40,000 relevant / mo by planEven: 15,000 on Pro
SourcesBehind: 10Advantage: About 15 on Pro; podcasts, news, web on Scale
AI
AI relevanceAdvantage: Relevance 0–100 with Why chipsBehind: Yes, high/medium/low
Reply draftingAdvantage: Yes, never postsBehind: Not offered
Automation rulesAdvantage: Agents you write, from $19Behind: Routing and tagging
Alerts
Alert destinationsAdvantage: 13, every planBehind: Webhooks; others not on its pricing page
Developer
MCP server — which planEven: Every plan, including FreeEven: Every plan (from $159/mo)
REST API — which planEven: Every plan, including FreeEven: Every plan (from $159/mo)
Team
Seats at entryEven: Unlimited on every planEven: Unlimited
Price
Entry priceAdvantage: Free, then $19/moBehind: $199/mo, $159 annually
Keywords at $49Advantage: 200Behind: n/a — next tier is Scale
Free tierAdvantage: Free forever, 10 keywords, 500 relevant/moBehind: 7-day trial
Sales call neededEven: No — self-serve, cancel any timeEven: No — Enterprise is contact-sales
[02] WHAT IT COSTS/ SAME NEED

What each need costs on FishOut and on Octolens

The plan you would need on each side for the thing you came for.
To getFishOutOctolens
10 keywordsFreeFree$199/moPro
40 keywords$19/moPlus$599/moScale
The API and MCP serverFreeFree$199/moPro

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

[03] WHERE OCTOLENS IS STRONGER/ HONESTLY
Octolens is Social listening for B2B developer tools, and there are things it does that we do not.

Wider sources, and wider again on Scale

Octolens Pro covers about 15 sources, including Facebook, Instagram, Stack Overflow, DEV and Trustpilot, App Store and Google Play reviews, none of which we reach. Its Scale plan adds podcasts, news, web and newsletters. If you need any of those, we do not have them and this is the straightforward answer.

Analysis on every plan

AI tagging, sentiment, share of voice and a Daily Brief email are on every Octolens plan. We have the tagging, sentiment and a Daily brief too; share of voice is theirs.

Customers you have heard of

Vercel, PostHog, Prisma and Railway use Octolens. That is real evidence that it works for developer-tool companies, and we are too new to offer anything equivalent.

Unlimited seats, like us

Seats are unlimited on every Octolens plan. Plenty of tools in this category charge per seat; neither of us does.
[04] WHERE FISHOUT WINS/ WITH PROOF

A quarter of the price, twenty times the keywords

Octolens Pro is $199/mo, or $159/mo billed annually, for 10 keywords and 15,000 mentions. FishOut Pro is $49/mo for 200 keywords and 15,000 relevant mentions — only posts that pass triage count, so filtered noise never does. To get 40 keywords on Octolens you are on the $499 Scale plan.
To get 10 keywords

FishOut

Free

Them

Pro, $199/mo

It drafts the reply

Octolens finds, tags and routes the mention. FishOut also writes the response in your project’s Voice, then checks it for claims you cannot back up and for saying who you are, so the work left is reading it and posting it yourself. Octolens lists no reply drafting; its own Product Hunt reviewers ask for it by name.
Draft replyYour voice

Six people and one shared inbox is the exact shape where filters stop helping, because the problem is not sorting, it's deciding.

I work on AcmeMail — it sorts the inbox by what needs you, so you read the fifteen that matter.

Copy and open threadFishOut never posts — you send it yourself

Rules that act, not just route

FishOut agents, from $19, are rules you write in a minute: when the relevance, a label, the Reply call, sentiment, platform, keyword or follower count match, label the post, assign it, set its status, draft a reply, or notify Slack, email or a webhook. Noise needs no rule at all — posts below the relevance threshold land in Filtered with a reason and never count toward your plan.
Inbound leads6 runs / 24h

When

relevance is at least 70label is Asking for recommendations

Then

draft a replyassign to Markpost to #inbound

A free tier, and a real one

Ten keywords on Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News, free forever, with the API, MCP server and webhooks included. Octolens offers a 7-day trial capped at 5,000 mentions.
[05] WHO SHOULD PICK WHICH/ SHORTCUTS

If you…

Who we would send to Octolens, and who to us.
You need Stack Overflow, DEV, app-store reviews or podcastsOctolensThose sources are on its plans and not on ours.
You want a tool with well-known developer-tool customersOctolensVercel, PostHog and Railway are real evidence; we are newer.
You want the reply drafted and more than ten keywordsFishOutReply drafts in your Voice, and 50 keywords from $19/mo against 10 at $199.
[06] IN AND OUT/ 10 SOURCES · 13 DESTINATIONS

10 places to listen

Octolens: About 15. FishOut: Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News hourly on every plan, five more on paid plans.
Reddit
X
LinkedIn
Bluesky
Hacker News
YouTube
TikTok
Medium
GitHub
Google News

13 places to be told

Octolens: Webhooks; others not on its pricing page. FishOut: all 13, on every plan.
Slack
Teams
Google Chat
Discord
Telegram
Mattermost
ntfy
Feishu
DingTalk
WeCom
Zapier
Email
Webhook
[07] SEE IT ON YOUR KEYWORDS/ FREE PLAN

What you get instead of Octolens

This is the free plan. Instead of a feed of matches, a list sorted by who is asking — and unlike Octolens, alerts go to whichever of thirteen places your team reads.
Leads· Best first14
92
Hacker Newslindqvist3h

Ask HN: Shared inbox for a five-person support team?

Reply nowAsking for recommendationsQuestion
87
Hacker Newskestrel_ops50m

Show HN: We replaced our helpdesk with a shared Gmail and a script

Reply, carefullyQuestion
94
Blueskyines.codes30m

Is there an inbox app with an API that is not an afterthought?

Reply nowAsking for recommendations
Hacker Newslindqvist3h

Ask HN: Shared inbox for a five-person support team?

We have outgrown a Gmail alias. Five of us, about two hundred tickets a week, no budget for a helpdesk suite. What actually works?

Relevance

92
Asking for a toolTeam size fitsBudget stated

Labels · Reply call

Reply nowAsking for recommendationsQuestion

Give the criteria first; mention yourself last

Draft reply

At five people the thing that breaks is two of you answering the same email. Look for assignment and collision warnings before anything else. Disclosure: I build AcmeMail, which does both.

  • Says who you are
  • Useful without the plug
  • No pricing promises
Copy and open threadFishOut never posts
Start freeSee every plan

Questions

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Sources

  • Octolens pricing page — checked 20 October 2026. Pro $199/mo billed monthly ($159 annually): 15,000 mentions, 10 keywords. Scale $599/mo monthly ($499 annually): 50,000 mentions, 40 keywords — monthly figures read from the monthly toggle. Pro covers about 15 sources: Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV, and Trustpilot, App Store and Google Play reviews; Scale adds podcasts, news, web and newsletters. AI tagging, sentiment, share of voice and a Daily Brief email on all plans. Unlimited seats on all plans. API, webhooks and MCP server on all plans. 7-day trial capped at 5,000 mentions; no free tier. No reply drafting feature listed.
  • FishOut pricing — checked 19 October 2026. lib/pricing-data.ts — the same data the pricing page renders.

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