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TV Eyes cost and TVEyes pricing, plans and alternatives
The short answer
TVEyes does not publish a price. Its free trial page says pricing is based on your media monitoring needs, such as the number of users, the regions covered and the data volume, and asks you to contact the team for a tailored quote. What you pay for is broadcast: TV and radio across 60+ countries and 43 languages, 70,000+ podcasts and Nielsen audience data. If you only need online news and social mentions, a self-serve monitoring tool costs far less.
The first page of results for TVEyes pricing is directories: TrustRadius, G2, Capterra, GetApp, SaaSworthy, Software Advice. They agree there is no public price and stop there. None of them names the three factors TVEyes itself says drive the quote, none mentions that Meltwater replaced TVEyes as its broadcast partner in November 2024, and none separates the broadcast work you cannot buy cheaply from the online monitoring you can.
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Why it works
Three things to know before you budget for TVEyes
The quote is built on three inputs
TVEyes names them on its own free trial page: the number of users, the regions covered and the data volume. There are no tier names and no seat price. A single U.S. market for one comms lead and a multi-country license for a PR agency are different products at different prices.
There is a free trial
Unlike most broadcast vendors, TVEyes offers a free trial. Its trial page lists custom Watch Terms, global coverage, audience demographics for broadcast and podcasts, podcast host contact info, on-demand reporting, ad filtering and U.S. streaming channels. It does not print the trial length.
Broadcast is what you are paying for
TVEyes was founded in 1999 as a broadcast search engine and still sells TV and radio first: over 2 million hours of broadcast a month, near real-time alerts, unlimited clip downloads and Nielsen-powered viewership. Online news and social mentions are sold by many vendors on a published monthly price.
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.
- A published price at every tier: $39, $94 and $249 a month billed yearly, with no quote to request and no sales call
- Monthly billing on every plan ($79, $189 and $499), so there is no annual contract to sign before you know it works
- Collection every 30 minutes on every plan, with a crisis radar from Growth that flags a keyword jumping above its own 7-day average
- Google News, Reddit, Mastodon, Hacker News, Lemmy and Apple Podcasts in one feed on every plan
- AI sentiment and theme on every mention, share of voice against named competitors from Growth
- Seats included in the plan price: 1 on Starter, 3 on Growth, 10 on Pro
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
How TVEyes is sold, what it covers, and why the directories get it wrong
TVEyes' home, free trial, broadcast monitoring, podcast, API and company pages were read directly in September 2026, along with a Meltwater employee's answer on Meltwater's own community forum and Vendr's TVEyes page. Where no price is published, this page says so.
TVEyes is one of the older names in broadcast monitoring, and it is sold the way broadcast usually is: by quote. The useful thing its site does tell you is how the quote is built, so you can shape the request before the call. Everything below comes from TVEyes' own pages unless it says otherwise. The short version: if TV, radio or podcast coverage is how your organization gets judged, TVEyes is priced for a real capability and it lets you trial it first. If your coverage lives online, you would be paying a broadcast quote for work a self-serve tool does by the month.
TVEyes pricing: what listings say against what TVEyes says
| What listings say | What TVEyes says today | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | Custom pricing, contact vendor | None. Pricing is based on your media monitoring needs, with a tailored quote |
| What drives the price | Not covered | Number of users, regions covered and data volume |
| Free trial | Available | Available, with the full toolset listed; length not stated |
| Coverage | Often an older figure of 3,000 stations in 27 countries | 60+ countries, 43+ languages, over 2 million broadcast hours a month, 3,300+ broadcast sources on the API page |
| Podcasts | Not covered | 70,000+ on the company page, 72,000+ on the API page, 90,000+ on the homepage |
| Purchase benchmark | Not covered | Vendr shows a single purchase, too thin to use as a benchmark |
What a TVEyes license can include, from TVEyes' own product pages
| Product | What TVEyes says it covers | Can you buy it elsewhere on a published price? |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcast monitoring | TV across 60+ countries, thousands of AM/FM and syndicated radio programs, near real-time email alerts, unlimited downloads, clip editing and custom archiving | Rarely. Broadcast is a specialist market |
| Archive+ | Nearly two decades of broadcast and podcast history | Rarely |
| Audience data | Viewership powered by Nielsen, plus audience demographics for broadcast and podcasts | Rarely |
| Podcast monitoring | Transcript search, real-time alerts, contact details for thousands of podcast hosts | Partly. Some listening tools include podcasts on higher tiers |
| Online video | Over 16,000 online video channels | Partly. YouTube monitoring is common |
| Ad filtering | Separates paid airings from earned coverage | Rarely |
| API | Broadcast, radio, podcast and live stream data, ad detection across U.S., Canada and UK television, transcripts at over 95% accuracy | Rarely for broadcast |
What a monitoring requirement costs across media monitoring vendors
| Platform | Published entry price | Free trial | Broadcast TV and radio |
|---|---|---|---|
| TVEyes | None, tailored quote | Yes | Yes, the core product |
| Critical Mention (Onclusive) | None, custom packages | No, demo only | Yes, the core product |
| Meltwater | None, Contact Sales on every plan | No self-serve trial | Available, through its broadcast partner Kinetiq since November 2024 |
| Cision | None, nine-question pricing form | No | Available, quote only |
| Brand24 | $199/mo billed annually | 14 days | No |
| EyeOut | $39/mo billed yearly | No, month-to-month billing from $79 instead | No, Google News, Reddit, Mastodon, Hacker News, Lemmy and Apple Podcasts on every plan |
How much does TVEyes cost?
TVEyes does not publish a cost. It builds a tailored quote from three inputs it names itself: the number of users, the regions covered and the data volume. One user watching U.S. markets and an agency licensing several countries will get very different numbers.
There is no reliable public benchmark either. Vendr's TVEyes page rests on a single purchase, which describes one buyer rather than the market, so treat any figure you read online as a guess.
Does TVEyes have a free trial?
Yes. TVEyes offers a free trial with what it calls complete access: broadcast, podcast and online video monitoring, analytics and reporting, and custom Watch Term alerts. The page does not state the trial length.
Use the trial on coverage you already know aired. Pick two or three segments from last month, including one from a smaller market, and time how fast the search finds them.
Is TVEyes part of Meltwater?
No. TVEyes is its own company, founded in 1999 by David Ives and based in Fairfield, Connecticut. It used to supply broadcast and podcast monitoring to Meltwater as a partner.
That partnership ended: a Meltwater employee confirmed on Meltwater's community forum that Meltwater moved to Kinetiq as its broadcast partner on November 15, 2024, and that older TVEyes clips stay visible in reports but can no longer be opened.
What is a good TVEyes alternative?
It depends which job you are replacing. For broadcast TV and radio, the realistic alternatives are Critical Mention (an Onclusive company), Meltwater and Cision, all sold on quotes.
If the job is brand monitoring across the web, news and social, with sentiment and alerts, a self-serve tool with a published monthly price fits better. EyeOut starts at $39 a month billed yearly and bills monthly if you prefer.
Is TVEyes worth it if I do not need TV and radio?
Usually not. TV and radio search, Nielsen audience data, ad filtering and a two-decade broadcast archive are the parts few vendors match, and they are what the quote pays for.
If your coverage is online articles, blogs, Reddit threads and social posts, those are sold by many monitoring tools on a published monthly price, with no quote and no broadcast license.
Does TVEyes offer an API?
Yes. The TVEyes API covers broadcast TV, radio, podcasts and live streams, near real-time and historical, plus ad detection across U.S., Canada and UK television and high-volume transcript feeds. Access is requested through a form or an integration specialist, and no API price is published.
What should I ask before signing a TVEyes contract?
Ask for the quote itemized by users, regions and data volume, since those are the three inputs TVEyes says it prices on. Then ask which markets are included by name, how long clips and transcripts are retained, whether Archive+ and the API are extra, and what the renewal notice period and renewal price cap are.
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