Sysomos pricing and Sysomos cost now the platform is sold as Meltwater

Sysomos has no published cost today, because it is sold as Meltwater. Meltwater lists Starter, Pro, Enterprise and Agency plans with no dollar figure on any of them and builds each quote from the capabilities you pick.

The nearest real number is purchase data: across 126 recorded Meltwater contracts, Vendr shows a median of about $25,800 a year and a range from roughly $5,375 to $56,993. The older Sysomos figures of $2,500 and $5,000 a month come from a 2015 analysis and no longer describe anything on sale.

Not under its own name. sysomos.com and its pricing path both redirect to Meltwater, and the old application hostnames no longer serve a login page. The capabilities Sysomos sold, social listening and analytics, continue inside Meltwater's platform.

What has gone is the separate product and the separate buying process. New buyers and former customers alike go through a Meltwater demo and quote, on Meltwater contract terms.

Meltwater owns Sysomos. Meltwater acquired the Toronto company on April 24, 2018, buying it from OMERS Private Equity in what was its seventh acquisition in 18 months, and ran it as its social analytics division.

Meltwater itself has been privately held since 2023, when Marlin Equity Partners and Altor took it private. Before Meltwater, Sysomos belonged to Marketwire from 2010 and became independent again in 2015.

It was absorbed into Meltwater. After the 2018 acquisition the Sysomos team ran Meltwater's social analytics division, and the product line was gradually folded into Meltwater's own platform. Today the domain redirects to meltwater.com.

That is why directory pages disagree with each other. Some still carry a Sysomos listing frozen years ago, and one simply notes that Sysomos was rebranded as Meltwater Social and shows no price at all.

No, and it never really did. Directory listings record Sysomos as having no free version or trial, and Meltwater, which now sells the capability, states on its pricing FAQ that it does not offer a self-serve free trial.

What Meltwater offers instead is a guided demo with a product specialist. If you need to test the data on your own brand before signing a 12-month agreement, ask for a time-boxed sandbox during the sales process.

It depends which Sysomos job you are replacing. For deep research across large historical social datasets, the realistic options are enterprise suites such as Meltwater itself, Brandwatch or Talkwalker, all priced by quote.

If what you used was the Heartbeat side, an always-on feed of brand mentions with sentiment and alerts, that job costs far less on its own. Self-serve monitoring tools publish prices from under $100 a month, with seats included, and can be cancelled monthly.

Ask for the quote broken out by capability, so social listening, media intelligence and media relations each carry their own line. A single bundled figure hides which part of the price pays for the job you used Sysomos for.

Then ask whether the 12-month minimum applies to your setup, whether an implementation fee is included, and what happens to the price at renewal. Buyers on record negotiate around 15% off the first Meltwater quote, so the opening number is rarely the final one.