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Brandwatch Listen vs Konnect Insights Social Listening
Both stand on social media listening software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.
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Choose Brandwatch Listen if your team needs broad conversation monitoring, sentiment analysis, and alerts across social platforms and the web. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan or guaranteed saved-search access outside your organization’s Social Media Management contract.
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Konnect Insights combines broad conversation coverage with dashboards, alerts and in-platform response workflows. Its paid plans and lack of self-serve trial make a live demo the route to evaluation.
Visit Konnect Insights Social ListeningThe facts
| Brandwatch Listen | Konnect Insights Social Listening | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | No |
| Open source | Not published | Not published |
| Runs on | API, Web | API, Web |
| Lowest paid plan | Free or on request | Starter: $39 a year |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Maker | Not published | Konnect Insights Social Listening |
| Website | brandwatch.com | konnectinsights.com |
| On social media listening software | #28 of 87 | #34 of 87 |
Brandwatch Listen: what it does well
- Covers major social networks and the wider web.
- Searches use unlimited queries and 48 Boolean operators.
- Saved searches can provide up to a year of data.
- Analyzes sentiment in multiple languages.
- Email alerts can flag mention changes and negative comments.
What to know first
- There is no free plan.
- Pricing is available on request.
- Quick searches cover only the last month and cannot be revisited, shared, or used for alerts.
- Saved-search access depends on the organization’s contract.
Konnect Insights Social Listening: what it does well
- Monitors 50+ sources and 190+ languages
- Includes sentiment and news monitoring
- Real-time alerts route to teams or tickets
- Responds to mentions and creates support tickets
- Onboarding and training included with every plan
What to know first
- No free plan or self-serve free trial
- Historical data depends on use case and platform
- Enterprise pricing is custom and unlisted
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