Listening & monitoring · F5Bot pricing
F5Bot pricing, every tier, and the F5Bot alternative for brand monitoring
The short answer
F5Bot has five tiers. Free covers 5 keywords with alerts up to 2 hours late and is for personal use only. Silver costs $9.99 a month ($109 a year) for 20 keywords and a 5 minute delay. Gold costs $49.99 ($549 a year) for 200 keywords, instant alerts, Slack and 90 days of history. Platinum costs $214.99 ($2,364 a year) and is the first tier with an API and webhooks. Diamond starts at $500 a month. Every tier watches Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters only.
Most pages that rank for F5Bot pricing are other Reddit tools' blogs, and several still describe F5Bot as a free tool with one paid upgrade. F5Bot's own tier table says otherwise: five tiers, a free plan limited to personal use, and an API that only appears at $214.99 a month. This page lays out that table plainly, then covers the question most buyers are really asking, which is whether a keyword alert tool is enough or whether they need brand monitoring with sentiment and news in the same feed.
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Why it works
Three things to know before you pick an F5Bot tier
Free is for personal use
F5Bot labels its free plan personal use only, caps it at 5 keywords and 20 alerts a day, and delivers alerts up to two hours after a match with an ad in the email. A company watching its own brand should budget for Silver at least.
Speed and Slack arrive at Gold
Silver is fast enough for most people at up to five minutes. Instant delivery, RSS and JSON feeds, 90 days of history and the first Slack or Discord integration all start on Gold at $49.99 a month.
The API is a Platinum feature
API access and webhooks are only on Platinum at $214.99 a month or $2,364 a year. If you plan to push matches into a CRM or your own tooling, price the plan from that line, not from the $9.99 headline.
What it handles
Watched, read and flagged twice an hour
EyeOut watches Google News, Reddit, Mastodon, Hacker News, Lemmy and podcasts for your brand, scores each mention for sentiment, rolls it up into a daily digest and share of voice, and alerts you when a real spike begins.
- Google News, Reddit and Mastodon on every plan, with Hacker News, Lemmy and Apple Podcasts show notes from Growth
- AI sentiment toward your brand on every mention, which keyword alert tools do not score
- A daily digest that groups mentions into themes instead of one email per match
- A crisis radar from Growth that compares each keyword's last 24 hours with its own 7-day baseline
- Every source scanned twice an hour, on a published price: $59, $149 and $399 a month billed yearly
- Monthly billing on every plan ($79, $189 and $499) with no quote and no sales call
Why EyeOut
One tool for cross-channel brand monitoring
Not a social-only listener and not a sales-gated enterprise platform. Watch news, Reddit, forums and podcasts, read the sentiment, track share of voice and catch the spike, in one place, self-serve.
Watches news, Reddit and forums
Google News, Reddit, Mastodon, Hacker News, Lemmy and Apple Podcasts in one feed, including the blind spots most affordable tools skip.
Catches the spike
AI baselines your normal volume and sentiment, then alerts on a real anomaly with a severity and a suggested first move, twice an hour.
Reads it for you
Sentiment, emotion, theme clustering and a plain-English daily digest, so you act on the story instead of scrolling a firehose.
The full picture
What each F5Bot tier includes, and what it does not
Every figure below was read from F5Bot's own tier table at f5bot.com/tiers in September 2026, including the check marks for each feature. Syften's plans were read from syften.com the same day.
F5Bot does one job well. It watches every Reddit post and comment, plus Hacker News and Lobsters, for the words you give it, and emails you when they appear so you can join the thread while it is still active. The price ladder is built on three levers: how many keywords you track, how many alerts a day you can receive, and how quickly they arrive. Features stack on top of that, and the two that most often force an upgrade are Slack (Gold) and the API (Platinum).
What F5Bot does not do is tell you how people feel about you. There is no sentiment score, no news coverage, and no view of whether this week's mentions are unusual for your brand. For a founder replying to threads that is fine. For a marketing or PR team reporting on reputation, it is the gap to price in.
F5Bot pricing by tier, from f5bot.com/tiers
| Tier | Monthly | Yearly | Keywords | Alerts a day | Alert delay | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, personal use only | Not applicable | 5 | 20 | Up to 2 hours | 7 days |
| Silver | $9.99 | $109, one month free | 20 | 100 | Up to 5 minutes | 7 days |
| Gold | $49.99 | $549, one month free | 200 | 5,000 | Instant or scheduled | 90 days |
| Platinum | $214.99 | $2,364, one month free | 300 | 200,000 | Instant or scheduled | 90 days |
| Diamond | From $500 | Custom | Custom | Custom | Instant or scheduled | 90 days |
Which F5Bot tier each feature starts on
| Feature | First tier that includes it | Price of that tier |
|---|---|---|
| Ad-free emails, keyword filtering, full post text, alert grouping | Silver | $9.99 a month |
| Mass keyword upload, RSS and JSON feeds | Gold | $49.99 a month |
| Slack or Discord (1 integration on Gold, 3 on Platinum) | Gold | $49.99 a month |
| AI filtering (first $10 of token usage a month included, usage above that billed extra) | Gold | $49.99 a month |
| API and webhooks | Platinum | $214.99 a month |
| Custom limits and integrations | Diamond | From $500 a month |
F5Bot against the tools buyers compare it with
| Tool | Entry paid price | Sources | Speed | Sentiment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F5Bot | $9.99 a month | Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters | Up to 5 minutes on Silver, instant from Gold | Not advertised |
| Syften | $29.95 a month | Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, GitHub, Indie Hackers, Mastodon, Bluesky, podcasts, public websites; X and YouTube as paid add-ons | Target under 1 minute for Reddit | Not advertised |
| Brand24 | $199 a month billed annually | Social networks, news, blogs, Reddit and more, widening by tier | Every 12 hours on Individual, real time from Pro at $399 | Yes |
| EyeOut | $59 a month billed yearly | Google News, Reddit, Mastodon; Hacker News, Lemmy and podcasts from Growth | Every 30 minutes on every plan | Yes, on every mention |
How much does F5Bot cost?
F5Bot costs $0 on Free, $9.99 a month on Silver, $49.99 on Gold and $214.99 on Platinum, with Diamond starting at $500 a month. Paying yearly gives one month free: $109, $549 and $2,364.
The tier you need usually comes down to one feature. Slack and instant alerts start at Gold, and the API and webhooks start at Platinum.
Is F5Bot free?
F5Bot has a free plan, but it is marked for personal use only. It allows 5 keywords, 10 matches per keyword a day and 20 alerts a day, with alerts arriving up to two hours after a match and a small ad in each email.
For a business tracking its brand or its competitors, the honest starting point is Silver at $9.99 a month.
Does F5Bot have an API?
Yes, from the Platinum tier at $214.99 a month or $2,364 a year. Free, Silver and Gold do not include the API or webhooks. Gold does include RSS and JSON feeds, which some teams use to pull matches into other tools without paying for Platinum.
What does F5Bot monitor?
Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters. On Reddit it checks every post and comment across all subreddits for your keywords.
It does not watch news sites, X, LinkedIn, Mastodon, forums outside those three, or podcasts, so a story that breaks in the press first will not reach you through F5Bot until someone posts it to Reddit or Hacker News.
What is the best F5Bot alternative?
It depends on why you are leaving. If you want more communities and a sub-minute Reddit feed, Syften covers Stack Exchange, GitHub, Indie Hackers, Mastodon, Bluesky and podcasts from $29.95 a month.
If you want to know how the conversation about your brand is going, not just that a word appeared, EyeOut adds AI sentiment, Google News and a daily theme digest on Reddit and Mastodon from $59 a month billed yearly, with a crisis radar from Growth at $149.
Is F5Bot good for brand monitoring?
It is good for catching Reddit and Hacker News threads that name your brand quickly and cheaply. It is thin for brand monitoring as a marketing or PR team means it: no sentiment, no news coverage, no trend over time and no alert when volume is abnormal.
Many teams run both: a keyword tool to reply to threads, and a monitoring tool to report on reputation.
F5Bot Gold or Silver, which should I buy?
Buy Silver if you track up to 20 phrases and a five minute delay is fine. Buy Gold if you need more than 20 keywords, Slack or Discord delivery, RSS feeds or 90 days of history.
The gap is $40 a month, and for a team that lives in Slack the integration alone usually settles it.
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