Methodology
How prices were checked. Every figure was requested from the vendor's own pricing page on 4 August 2026. Brand24, F5Bot, ReplyGuy, Subreddit Signals and ReplyAgent serve server-rendered pricing and were read directly from source HTML. Devi and PhantomBuster render prices with JavaScript, so those pages were opened in a real browser and read from the rendered DOM — two traps worth naming, because they catch most published comparisons: PhantomBuster's pricing page loads with the annual toggle pre-selected, so a careless read harvests €56/€128/€352 and publishes them as monthly prices; and Devi has no named tiers at all, only a platform picker whose price changes with every checkbox. Still secondary: none — every live vendor was verified at source. Where a figure could not be verified, the page says so rather than smoothing it over.
Corrections made on 4 August 2026. Re-checking every vendor at source changed five of our own published figures, and every one of them had made a competitor look cheaper or simpler than it is. Subreddit Signals was recorded at $19.99/$49.99 — those are the annual effective rates; the monthly prices are $29 and $59. ReplyGuy was published as "from $39" while a $10 Small tier exists that includes the auto-replies the $39 tier does not. ReplyAgent was published as "no subscription, ~$3–4 a comment" when the AI features require $79/mo before any per-comment fee. Devi's "$19" was printed beside a platform list including Facebook groups, which $19 does not buy — Facebook is $49 and all ten platforms are $99. F5Bot's free allowance was called unpublished when it is stated plainly on their tiers page, and we had omitted two tiers above Gold. A comparison table that only errs in one direction is not a comparison table.
Which tier gets priced. By default, the comparable one — the cheapest plan that actually does the job being compared. Silver for F5Bot (20 keywords with advanced filtering and full post text; the free plan is 5). Facebook groups for Devi, because Facebook coverage is the whole reason Devi is an alternative to us, and its cheaper $19 plan does not include it — we do not price Devi at its $99 all-ten-platforms plan, because that buys six platforms ClientRadar cannot scan and charging a competitor for capability we lack is not a comparison. Growth for Redreach, whose Startup plan refreshes leads weekly rather than daily, and a week-old thread is a dead thread. Grow for PhantomBuster, because Start's 20 execution hours does not run production volume. Team for Brand24, on 7 keywords rather than 3 — note this is a judgement about which plan a buyer sits on, not a claim that keyword caps limit leads; they do not, and the ceiling rule above is unaffected. Max, priced monthly, for ClientRadar.
Two vendors deliberately have no fixed tier. ReplyGuy and Subreddit Signals are the only ones whose meter genuinely counts leads, so their tier is chosen by your volume — the machinery that already exists for lead ceilings does it better than any fixed pick, and pinning them would have put ReplyGuy on fifteen times the headroom the reader asked for. Drag the slider and watch those two rows move while the others hold.
Every vendor gets its best verified rate. An earlier version of this page divided by whichever annual rate happened to have been recorded, and annual rates had been recorded for exactly two competitors — so we banked our discount and most of them did not get theirs. Annual rates have since been collected at source for six of the eight: F5Bot ($109/yr Silver), Devi ($490/yr for Facebook groups — its yearly billing is a flat ten months' price), Subreddit Signals ($288/yr Starter), PhantomBuster (€128/mo Grow on annual), ReplyAgent ($699/yr) and Brand24 ($299/mo Team on annual). ReplyGuy's /pricing page and its homepage publish contradicting annual figures (Pro $249 against $349), and Redreach publishes no annual price at all, so those two are priced monthly and are disadvantaged by it — said out loud rather than left for a reader to discover.
Our own number is a first-year rate, and that matters. €29.50/mo is Max on annual billing with 50% off the first payment. It is a real published price on our pricing page and any new customer can have it. It is also promotional: year two is €59, at which we rank 6th at both 20 and 100 leads a month rather than 4th and 2nd. Competitors' annual discounts are ongoing, ours is not, so the like-for-like ongoing comparison is the €59 one. We are showing the promotional rate because it is what you would actually pay to start — not because it flatters the chart, which it does.
How the normaliser works. The chosen tier is divided by the volume you set. The one rule that governs everything: a ceiling only applies where the vendor's meter actually counts surfaced leads. Lead tokens and per-posted-comment fees do count leads. Keywords, groups, mentions and execution hours do not — twenty keywords can surface hundreds of posts — so those tools are marked no lead cap and priced flat. An earlier version of this page ignored that distinction and multiplied every allowance against an invented tier ladder, which sent Brand24 to its $1,499 Enterprise tier at thirty leads a month and inflated four of nine competitors. It made our own row look better by making theirs wrong, which is the exact failure this page exists to call out in other people's comparisons. USD figures are converted at a flat 0.92 only to put everything on one axis; displayed prices always keep their native currency, because restating a vendor's price in another currency is its own small dishonesty.
How risk was ranked. Automation surface only — what a tool does on your account, from its own documentation and user reviews, following the 2026 Ban-Risk Index. It ranks risk surface; it does not claim any specific tool will get you banned.
Conflict of interest. ClientRadar is our product and appears in this table. Its row uses the same columns and the same rules as everyone else's, and the tools that beat it at specific jobs — F5Bot on free Reddit alerts, Brand24 on brand analytics — are named as such in the full written comparison.