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FishOut vs Subreddit Signals

Subreddit Signals is built around subreddits: tell it what you sell, it suggests where to look, classifies intent, helps you write a reply in your voice, and on Pro measures the traffic that comes back. FishOut is built around keywords across ten platforms, with a free plan you can run for a month without a card. The reply drafting is close to parity; the rest is a question of scope.

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

 FishOutSubreddit Signals
Try it
Free plan, no card
14-day trial, card required
Platforms
10
Reddit only
Slack alerts
Free
Pro, $59/mo
[01] AT A GLANCE/ SIDE BY SIDE

FishOut and Subreddit Signals, feature by feature

Ties are marked as ties, and Subreddit Signals's wins as wins.
FishOut compared with Subreddit Signals, feature by feature
 FishOutSubreddit Signals
Coverage
PlatformsAdvantage: 10Behind: Reddit only
How you aim itEven: Keywords with a Means lineEven: Subreddits, suggested for you
RedditEven: Every plan, hourlyEven: Up to 10 subreddits on Starter, 25 on Pro
AI
Intent on every postEven: Relevance, labels and a Reply callEven: Buyer-intent classification
Reply drafts in your voiceEven: Plus and upEven: Comment Builder, voice profiles
Traffic attributionBehind: Not offeredAdvantage: Pro
Alerts
Alert destinationsAdvantage: 13, every planBehind: Email digest; Slack on Pro
Price per alert destination at entryEntry price divided by the destinations it includesAdvantage: $0 on Free; $1.46 on PlusBehind: $29.00 ($29 ÷ 1)
Developer
MCP server — which planAdvantage: Every plan, including FreeBehind: Not offered
REST API — which planAdvantage: Every plan, including FreeBehind: Not offered
Team
Brands or projectsAdvantage: Unlimited on paid plansBehind: 1 on Starter, 5 on Pro
Seats at entryAdvantage: Unlimited on every planBehind: Not stated
Price
Free plan or trialAdvantage: Free forever, 10 keywords, 500 relevant/moBehind: 14-day trial, card required
Entry priceAdvantage: Free, then $19/moBehind: $29/mo ($24 annually)
Sales call neededEven: No — self-serve, cancel any timeEven: No
[02] WHAT IT COSTS/ SAME NEED

What each need costs on FishOut and on Subreddit Signals

The plan you would need on each side for the thing you came for.
To getFishOutSubreddit Signals
Slack alertsFreeFree$59/moPro
Two or more brands$19/moPlus$59/moPro
A month without a cardFreeFreeNot offered
An API or MCP serverFreeFreeNot offered

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

[03] WHERE SUBREDDIT SIGNALS IS STRONGER/ HONESTLY
Subreddit Signals is Reddit conversations, context and replies, with attribution, and there are things it does that we do not.

Attribution after the reply

Pro includes Reddit and AI-referral traffic attribution: it measures what happened after you replied. FishOut’s job ends at finding the post and drafting the answer; pair it with your analytics if you want the second half.

Subreddit discovery

Describe your product and Subreddit Signals suggests subreddits to watch, and it has a free Subreddit Finder. FishOut has no subreddit browser — it watches your keywords wherever they appear.

Official Reddit API

Its pricing page says it uses the official Reddit API. That is worth knowing in a year when Reddit’s access rules decide which tools survive.
[04] WHERE FISHOUT WINS/ WITH PROOF

Try it without a card

Subreddit Signals’ trial is 14 days and asks for a card at checkout. FishOut Free is 10 keywords on five platforms, permanently, with no card — run it for a month, then decide.

Slack, Discord and a webhook from day one

Subreddit Signals sends an in-app feed and an email digest, with Slack on Pro. FishOut sends to 13 destinations on every plan, so a high-intent post can reach a channel the moment it is triaged.

Replies in your voice — on both

This is parity and worth saying: Subreddit Signals has a Comment Builder with voice profiles, and FishOut drafts in your project’s Voice and checks the draft says who you are. Neither posts for you. The difference is that FishOut does it for posts from Hacker News, Bluesky and GitHub too.
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

An API and MCP

Subreddit Signals lists no API, MCP server or webhooks. FishOut has all three on Free, so your assistant or your own code can read the inbox.
[05] WHO SHOULD PICK WHICH/ SHORTCUTS

If you…

Who we would send to Subreddit Signals, and who to us.
You want to measure the traffic your replies bring backSubreddit SignalsAttribution is on Pro. We stop at the draft.
You do not know which subreddits to watch yetSubreddit SignalsIts subreddit suggestions are the starting point; ours is a keyword list.
You want to try before you hand over a card, on more than RedditFishOutFree forever on five platforms, with Slack and MCP included; $19/mo adds four more.
[06] IN AND OUT/ 10 SOURCES · 13 DESTINATIONS

10 places to listen

Subreddit Signals: 1 (Reddit). 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

Subreddit Signals: Email digest; Slack on Pro. 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 Subreddit Signals

The posts Subreddit Signals would have shown you, plus the ones on Hacker News, Bluesky and GitHub, already read: relevance with its reason, a label, a Reply call and a draft you post yourself.
Leads· Best first14
80
GitHubacme-mail/sdk#2123h

Webhook retries fire twice when the endpoint is slow

Reply nowHas a problemBug report
84
GitHubopen-desk/issues1d

Looking for an alternative now that Bramblemail dropped its API

Reply, carefullyAsking for recommendationsHas a problem
90
r/smallbusinesstwofoldbakery7h

Customers email three different addresses and we keep missing orders

Reply nowHas a problemAsking for recommendations
GitHubacme-mail/sdk#2123h

Webhook retries fire twice when the endpoint is slow

Seeing duplicate events when our handler takes over five seconds. Expected behaviour or a bug?

Relevance

80
Names youHas a problemDeveloper

Labels · Reply call

Reply nowHas a problemBug report

Acknowledge, give the workaround, link the fix

Draft reply

Thanks for the clear repro. Retries start at five seconds, so a slow handler sees a duplicate; dedupe on the event id for now. A longer timeout ships this week.

  • Takes responsibility
  • Gives a workaround
  • No dates you cannot keep
Copy and open threadFishOut never posts
Start freeSee every plan

Questions

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Sources

  • FishOut pricing — checked 19 October 2026. lib/pricing-data.ts — the same data the pricing page renders.
  • Subreddit Signals pricing — checked 20 October 2026. Starter $29/mo ($24 billed annually): 1 brand, up to 10 subreddits, 15 weekly lead tokens. Pro $59/mo ($49.17 annually): up to 5 brands, up to 25 subreddits, 25 weekly lead tokens, thread and comment analysis. 14-day trial on both; a card is required at checkout. No free tier, no contact-sales tier. In-app feed and email digest; Slack notifications are Pro only. Intent classification, Comment Builder with voice profiles; does not auto-post. Uses the official Reddit API. Reddit and AI-traffic attribution. No API, MCP or webhooks mentioned.

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