Best Brand Intelligence Software in 2026

30 apps
Research read 28 Sept 2026
How the order is worked out

1

Brand Intel

Free plan APIWeb

Choose Brand Intel if your team needs to monitor multiple kinds of sources and analyze sentiment, relevance, and emerging trends in dashboards.

7.3 Free plan · 30-day trial Visit site
2

Social Searcher
by Social Searcher
Free plan Web

Social Searcher brings social searches and mention monitoring into a web interface, with filtering and several search modes. Note the plan limits alongside the service's uncapped-search description.

6.6 Free plan · 14-day trial Visit site
3

Brand24
by Brand24
Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+3

Brand24 brings web and social monitoring together with analytics, alerts, and reporting.

6.5 From $199/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
4

Truescope
by Truescope
Free plan Web

Truescope combines media monitoring, sentiment analysis, and configurable alert channels.

6.5 Pricing on request Visit site
5

Awario
by Awario
Free trial Web

Choose Awario to monitor mentions across social networks and broader online sources, with sentiment analysis and in-app follow-up.

6.1 From $29/mo (annual) · 7-day trial Visit site
6

BrandMentions
by BrandMentions
Free trial Web

BrandMentions combines multi-source monitoring, sentiment analysis, and configurable alerts, with capacity and update frequency varying by plan.

6.0 From $79/mo (annual) · 7-day trial Visit site
7

Cision
by Cision
Paid AndroidAPIiPhone+1

Choose Cision if you need news, web, and social monitoring with sentiment analysis and alerts through your preferred listed channel.

5.9 Pricing on request Visit site
8

Mentionlytics
by Mentionlytics
Free trial APIWeb

Mentionlytics combines broad web and social monitoring with review tracking, analytics and AI features.

5.9 From $69/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
9

Agility PR Solutions
by Agility PR Solutions
Paid APIWeb

Choose Agility PR Solutions if you need media monitoring across several channels, with social listening or reporting options.

5.8 Pricing on request Visit site
10

Determ
by Determ
Paid WebiPhoneAndroid

Determ combines social and news monitoring with sentiment analysis and multiple alert channels.

5.7 From €99/mo · 5-day trial Visit site
11

Meltwater Social Listening
by Meltwater Social Listening
Paid AndroidAPIiPhone+1

Choose Meltwater Social Listening if your team needs cross-channel monitoring, competitor analysis, alerts and shareable reporting in one workflow.

5.7 Pricing on request Visit site
12

Quid (formerly NetBase Quid)

Free trial APIWeb

Quid combines broad source coverage with historical data, sentiment analysis, competitor tracking, and alerts. Buyers should note that it is paid and pricing requires a request.

5.7 Pricing on request · 14-day trial Visit site
13

Keyhole

Paid APIWeb

Keyhole combines social listening, analytics, alerts, and reporting across five named platforms. It is now offered within the Muck Rack platform, and prospective customers need to request pricing.

5.5 Pricing on request · 14-day trial Visit site
14

Infegy Starscape
by Infegy Starscape
Paid Web

Infegy Starscape offers broad channel coverage and tiered historical access for monitoring work. Pulse AI is the clearly priced entry, while higher plans add seats and controls.

5.4 From $295/mo Visit site
15

Lucidya
by Lucidya
Paid APIWeb

Lucidya combines customer interaction management, social listening, and AI-assisted query handling, with documented APIs and broad channel connections.

5.4 From $125/user/mo Visit site
16

Muck Rack
by Muck Rack
Paid APIWeb

Choose Muck Rack if your PR work needs journalist discovery, pitching, monitoring and reporting in one workflow. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan or published plan prices.

5.4 Free plan · pricing on request Visit site
17

ListenFirst
by ListenFirst
Paid Web

ListenFirst brings social measurement, creative analysis, benchmarking, and consulting into one web service.

5.3 Pricing on request Visit site
18

Zignal Labs
by Zignal Labs
Paid AndroidAPIiPhone+1

Zignal Labs is focused on turning public and licensed web content into mission-aligned intelligence and alerts.

5.3 Pricing on request · 14-day trial Visit site
19

NewsWhip Spike
by NewsWhip Spike
Paid Web

NewsWhip Spike brings broad web and social monitoring together with engagement predictions, dashboards, alerts, and digests.

5.2 Pricing on request Visit site
20

Onclusive Social
by Onclusive Social
Paid Web

Onclusive Social combines network monitoring, sentiment analysis, alerts, and influencer insights for communications work.

5.2 Pricing on request Visit site
21

Signal AI
by Signal AI
Paid APIWeb

Consider Signal AI if your communications or risk team needs broad external monitoring, real-time alerts or analysis tied to an organizational risk register.

5.2 Pricing on request Visit site
22

CARMA

Paid AndroidiPhoneWeb

Choose CARMA if your organization needs media monitoring across several types of coverage, with a choice of automated analytics or added curation.

5.1 Pricing on request Visit site
23

Pulsar
by Pulsar
Paid Web

Pulsar combines broad social network coverage with web and news monitoring, sentiment analysis, and multiple alert channels. Pricing is on request, and its Enterprise plan has no published tier list.

5.1 Pricing on request Visit site
24

Radarr
by Radarr
Paid Web

Radarr brings monitoring, engagement, reporting, and publishing into a shared web dashboard.

5.1 From $126/user/mo (annual) Visit site
25

Sprinklr Social Listening
by Sprinklr Social Listening
Paid APIWeb

Sprinklr Social Listening combines broad channel monitoring with AI analysis, benchmarking, crisis workflows, and reporting tools.

5.1 Pricing on request Visit site

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