YouScan alternatives, YouScan pricing and what the $499 Starter plan actually includes

YouScan is a strong social listening platform and its best-known capability is visual: it recognizes logos and objects inside images, which is genuinely useful for consumer brands whose product appears in photos without ever being named in text. Its published Starter plan sits at $499 a month billed annually, covering 3 topics and up to 15,000 monthly mentions with unlimited users, and larger volumes move to custom pricing. Teams looking at YouScan alternatives are usually doing one of two things: checking whether they actually need visual recognition, or looking for the same text monitoring at a mid-market price.

EyeOut is deliberately text-first and says so. It reads Google News articles, Reddit and Mastodon posts and comments, Hacker News and Lemmy threads and Apple Podcasts episode titles and descriptions on every plan, scores each mention for sentiment, and clusters what it finds into named themes. Its wedge is the crisis radar, included from the $94 Growth plan. EyeOut baselines normal daily volume for each keyword against its own 7-day average, then raises an alert with a suggested first move when a keyword genuinely departs from that baseline, and Pro adds severity grading and emotion analysis. Pricing is published, self-serve and starts at $39 per month billed yearly with seats included, so a team can be monitoring the same afternoon rather than after a procurement cycle.