Brand24 Alternative: Updately vs Brand24 (Features & Brand24 Pricing)
Brand24 is a broad media monitoring tool that tracks brand mentions across social media, news, blogs, podcasts and reviews. Here is how Brand24 compares with Updately, including how Brand24 pricing works, for B2B teams that want mentions turned into leads.
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Brand24 vs Updately
Brand24 Strengths
- Very broad coverage: social media plus news, blogs, forums, podcasts and review sites
- Sentiment analysis, reach estimates and share-of-voice reports
- Realtime updates on the Pro and Business plans
- Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, and a 14-day free trial with no card
Brand24 Weaknesses
- Entry price is high: $249/month for 3 keywords and 2,000 mentions
- The Individual plan only refreshes every 12 hours
- Built for PR and brand reputation, not for finding buyers
- No built-in path from a mention to outreach
Brand24 vs Updately at a glance
| Brand24 | Updately | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $249/month (3 keywords) | $49/month (10 terms) |
| Sources | Social, news, blogs, podcasts, reviews | LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Bluesky, Hacker News |
| Alert relevance | Keyword match, sentiment | Each post scored for buying intent |
| Turn a mention into outreach | No | Yes, via signals and LinkedIn |
| Best for | PR, brand reputation, media reports | B2B teams finding buyers in public posts |
Why people switch from Brand24
Price per Keyword
Brand24 starts at $249/month for 3 keywords. Updately’s social listening starts at $49/month for 10 tracked terms, with a 10-day free trial.
Reputation vs Pipeline
Brand24 measures what is said about a brand: volume, sentiment and reach. Updately scores each post for buying intent against your business, so the alerts you get are people asking for what you sell.
From Alert to Conversation
Brand24 shows the mention and leaves the follow-up to you. Updately can push a mention into a signal, so the person who posted it is researched and contacted on LinkedIn.
Brand24 pricing
Brand24’s Individual plan is $249/month (3 keywords, 2,000 mentions a month, updated every 12 hours), Team is $349/month (7 keywords, 10,000 mentions, hourly), Pro is $499/month (12 keywords, 40,000 mentions, realtime) and Business is $699/month (25 keywords, 100,000 mentions). Yearly billing is about $50–100 a month less. Prices from brand24.com, November 2026.
Updately social listening starts at $49/mo, with a 10-day free trial.
From a keyword to a conversation
Watch your brand, competitors, category terms or profiles.
Relevance and sentiment on every post, so keyword noise is filtered out.
Alerts in Slack, Discord or email, or push the mention into outbound.
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“We were finding prospects who were literally complaining about their PagerDuty bill on Reddit and Twitter. Updately surfaced them, crafted the perfect message, and we just had to show up to the demo. It's like having a sales team that never sleeps.”
“The AI sauce is the magic. It removes all the noise and only gives us relevant, high-intent ICPs. It's the best match fit we've ever seen.”
“I found myself looking at some of the messages that it's created and thinking like, wow, where did it find this? This went really deep to find information that you could never do in just a cursory search.”
“Updately gave us control of what we were doing as opposed to giving the keys and letting them go. But most importantly, the reason why we joined Updately was because it was a third of the price of the agency that we were using to do a similar type of outreach.”
“Enterprise sales is all about relevance and timing. Updately helped us reach the right people with the right message at exactly the right moment. We went from a standing start to $2M+ in pipeline faster than I thought possible for a startup our size.”
“We hit seven figures in pipeline in under 60 days. That's not a typo. Updately's research on each prospect was so good that enterprise CTOs were responding to our outreach within hours. We've never seen anything like it.”
“Updately's intent scoring completely transformed our outbound motion. We stopped chasing keywords and started closing real buyers. The ROI has been phenomenal.”
“I'm able to come into those [pipeline review] meetings and be like, look at what I booked through Updately. You know, if my other kind of channels have slowed down, I'm like, but Updately, Updately's there.”
Every mention on LinkedIn, X and Reddit, for $49 a month.
Track your brand, competitors and category across LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky and Hacker News. AI scores each post for relevance and sentiment, and the ones worth acting on reach Slack, Discord or email.
The cheapest LinkedIn + X + Reddit monitoring with AI scoring and Slack alerts
| Updately | $49/mo |
| KWatch.io | $79/mo |
| Octolens | $199/mo |
| Brandwatch | $800+/mo |
- 10-day free trial
- Paid plans: 10-day free trial · $39/mo billed annually
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“Updately gave us control of what we were doing as opposed to giving the keys and letting them go. But most importantly, the reason why we joined Updately was because it was a third of the price of the agency that we were using to do a similar type of outreach.”
“If you don't have an active, engaged LinkedIn pipeline and you have a clearly defined ICP and persona, you need to add Updately to your tech stack immediately to supplement your sales.”
“I found myself looking at some of the messages that it's created and thinking like, wow, where did it find this? This went really deep to find information that you could never do in just a cursory search.”