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Syften pricing in 2026, and a cheaper way to get Reddit alerts
Entry, Standard and PRO compared, what the X and YouTube add-ons cost, and when AyeWatch is the better buy.
Syften pricing starts at $29.95 a month for the Entry plan, rises to $49.95 for Standard and tops out at $119.95 for Syften PRO, with a 14-day free trial and no card needed. If you mostly want Reddit and social media alerts, AyeWatch covers that from $9 a month and has a free preview, which makes it the cheaper place to start.
Below is what each Syften plan adds, what costs extra, and how to decide.
Syften plans at a glance
These prices come from Syften's own pricing section, checked in October 2026.
| Plan | Monthly price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $29.95 | Community and web keyword filters, a short archive search, API access |
| Standard | $49.95 | More filters, AI filtering of noisy matches, Slack, longer archive |
| Syften PRO | $119.95 | Full archive history, webhooks, MCP for AI tools |
| Tailor made | On request | Custom setups for teams and products |
Two add-ons sit on top of Standard and PRO: X monitoring at $40 a month and YouTube monitoring at $20 a month. So a Standard plan that also watches X costs $89.95 a month before YouTube.
What the trial includes
Every trial runs on the PRO plan for 14 days, with no credit card. When you sign up, Syften shows who has mentioned you over the past 60 days, which is a quick way to judge whether your brand gets talked about in the communities it covers.
Is Syften worth the price?
It depends on how you work. Syften is built for teams that know their keywords and want matches from Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Stack Exchange, GitHub, Slack communities and the wider web, delivered by email, Slack, RSS, API or webhook. Its Reddit target is a delay of under a minute.
It is a harder sell if you:
- watch a handful of subreddits rather than dozens of communities,
- care more about LinkedIn or X than about developer forums (Syften does not monitor LinkedIn, and X is a paid add-on),
- would rather describe a topic in a sentence than build keyword filters.
The cheaper route: AyeWatch
AyeWatch is an AI monitor for topics, web pages and social media. You pick a subreddit, a Reddit user, an X search, a LinkedIn company or a YouTube channel and write a filter in plain English, such as "posts where someone asks which tool to use for invoicing". It alerts you only on matching posts, with a short brief and links.
Push alerts and the in-app feed come with every plan. Email, Slack, Discord, webhooks and the API need a paid plan. Paid plans start at $9 a month and are billed in monitoring credits, so the total depends on how many monitors you run and how often they check. You can try the free preview without a card.
Which one to pick
Pick Syften if you need archive search, Hacker News and Slack community coverage, or the fastest Reddit alerts, and the budget is there. Pick AyeWatch if you want Reddit and social alerts filtered by meaning at a lower starting price, which fits most founders and small teams.