{"id":5567,"date":"2026-09-21T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/?p=5567&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=5567"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:06:51","slug":"best-free-reddit-monitoring-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/best-free-reddit-monitoring-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Free Reddit Monitoring Tools in 2026: What $0 Actually Buys You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span class=\"first-paragraph-letter\">T<\/span><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong> he best free Reddit monitoring tools in 2026 are Reddit Pro Trends (no published keyword limit, dashboard only), Mentions.us (5 keywords with free Slack or email alerts), KWatch (2 Reddit keyword alerts, fastest published refresh), F5Bot (5 keywords, personal use only) and SubWatch (3 keywords across 2 subreddits). All five are ongoing $0 plans rather than trials, and each rations something different: keyword slots, delivery speed, daily alert volume or retention. Reddit Pro Trends has the widest free coverage but sends no alerts, so most teams stack it with one alerting tool.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"best-free-reddit-monitoring-tools-ranked-2026\">Best Free Reddit Monitoring Tools, Ranked (2026)<\/h2>\n<p>At a glance, by use case. The order below is the order of the full reviews further down.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Reddit Pro Trends<\/strong> - best free Reddit coverage overall (if you qualify): Reddit's own free business suite monitors keywords across posts and comments with no published keyword cap, but it is an eligibility-gated dashboard, not an email alerting product.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mentions.us<\/strong> - best free alerts for a small team: five keywords with Slack or email delivery within minutes, free forever, no card.<\/li>\n<li><strong>KWatch<\/strong> - best documented Reddit depth on a free plan: two Reddit keyword alerts plus two Hacker News alerts, with a published refresh specification measured in seconds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>F5Bot<\/strong> - best free personal keyword alerts: five keywords across Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, delivered within two hours, explicitly marked personal use only.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SubWatch<\/strong> - best for watching two specific communities: three keywords scoped to two subreddits, with a two-hour free result delay and a daily digest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CommunityTracker<\/strong> - best one-keyword daily intent review: a single Reddit keyword with daily alerts, built for a once-a-day outreach routine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Alerts<\/strong> - best supplementary layer for everyone: free, effectively unlimited queries, but it reports Google Search results, not a Reddit stream.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reddit's native RSS feeds plus your own automation<\/strong> - best DIY route for technical teams: unlimited queries, posts only, and your destination tool becomes the real bottleneck.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Paid option when free monitoring is no longer enough:<\/strong> BrandMentions - a 7-day trial, then paid, for sentiment, history and cross-source context that no free Reddit tool provides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methodology:<\/strong> Every allowance, price, cap and delivery schedule below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, help center, product documentation or changelog, cross-checked against Reddit's official Data API documentation and business-tool help pages. This is a documentation-led evaluation plus a reproducible test protocol you can run yourself (further down). It is not an independently timed alert-race, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Where third-party pages contradicted a vendor's own table, I used the vendor's table.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tl-dr\">TL;DR<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ongoing free Reddit monitoring is real, but almost every list gets the ranking wrong for two reasons:<\/strong> it pads the field with 7 and 14 day trials, and it ignores Reddit's own free business tool, Reddit Pro Trends, which currently places no limit on how many keywords you monitor. Free is not one thing. It is four different access models with different failure modes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keyword count is the least useful number on the page.<\/strong> Daily alert caps, personal-use-only eligibility, posts-only coverage, inactivity pauses, 3-day retention windows and paywalled Slack routing will break your workflow long before you run out of keyword slots.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Free tools are detection infrastructure, not measurement infrastructure.<\/strong> They tell you a mention happened. They will not tell you sentiment, history, cross-source spread or who owns the reply, and those four gaps are the only honest reasons to start paying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Free tools are excellent at telling you something happened. They are much weaker at telling you what it means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a founder building in the monitoring space, I have an obvious commercial incentive to make free tools sound inadequate. But that would be misleading. For a narrow job, tracking a handful of distinctive terms on Reddit and getting notified, several free options work well enough that paying would be unnecessary. The real problem is not that free tiers are useless. It is that people assume their limitations will be obvious when something goes wrong. Often, they are not. Free tiers tend to fail silently.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_02_ecd93a77.webp\" alt=\"Four free-access models for evaluating free Reddit monitoring tools.\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-counts-as-a-genuinely-free-reddit-monitoring-tool\">What Counts as a Genuinely Free Reddit Monitoring Tool?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>A genuinely free Reddit monitoring tool gives you continuing access at $0 to a complete workflow that finds Reddit content matching your criteria and gets it in front of you.<\/strong> A free trial gives you temporary access to a paid workflow, then stops.<\/p>\n<p>That definition does more work than it looks like it does, because \"free\" comes in four shapes, and they break differently.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free-access model<\/th>\n<th>What it actually means<\/th>\n<th>What to check before you rely on it<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Ongoing free plan<\/td>\n<td>A capped plan with no scheduled expiry<\/td>\n<td>Keyword slots, daily caps, permitted use, retention<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Conditional free access<\/td>\n<td>Access depends on approval or continued activity<\/td>\n<td>Eligibility gates, request-only signup, inactivity pauses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Free software, external costs<\/td>\n<td>The app is free, the pipeline is not<\/td>\n<td>Model API keys, hosting, connector limits, data access<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Free trial<\/td>\n<td>Access ends or degrades on a fixed date<\/td>\n<td>Duration, card requirement, what happens to your data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/reddit-brand-mentions-tracking\/\">tracking Reddit mentions<\/a>, the question is never \"was signup free.\" It is whether the full chain, collection through notification through review, still functions at $0 next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the eligibility line before the feature list.<\/strong> F5Bot's free tier is the clearest example: the current tier page marks it personal use only. That is a different product recommendation than the unrestricted business default older lists describe, and it is a permission question, not a capacity question, so no allowance increase resolves it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-do-reddits-api-limits-shape-what-free-can-deliver\">How Do Reddit's API Limits Shape What \"Free\" Can Deliver?<\/h2>\n<p>Reddit's <a href=\"https:\/\/support.reddithelp.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/16160319875092-Reddit-Data-API-Wiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data API documentation<\/a> sets free access at 100 queries per minute per OAuth client ID, averaged over a 10-minute window, with authenticated access required and unidentified traffic subject to blocking. Reddit's Responsible Builder Policy, updated June 5, 2026, additionally requires approval for API access and explicit written approval for commercial use.<\/p>\n<p>Now the part most articles get wrong. That allowance is a request budget, not a coverage guarantee, and it does not map one-to-one onto your keyword count. A single listing request returns many items, and a well-built monitor can share one subreddit fetch across many users' keywords. So \"100 QPM\" does not mechanically explain every free-plan restriction, and anyone telling you all free tools sip from an identical pipe is guessing.<\/p>\n<p>What the policy layer does explain is the shape of the market. Free tiers ration something, usually keyword slots, delivery speed, daily volume or retention, because approved access and infrastructure cost money. It also means a vendor publishing a pricing page has proven an offer exists, not that it holds approved commercial access at the scope you need. None of the vendors below publishes its access agreement. Ask them before you make one a dependency.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes are higher than \"one forum post,\" because Reddit threads are now heavy inputs to search results and AI answers. I have written separately on the mechanics of <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/why-ai-cites-reddit\/\">why AI cites Reddit<\/a> so often. A thread nobody answered this quarter can be the thread a model quotes about your category for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_03_3aa769ab.webp\" alt=\"Three-clock test for measuring free Reddit alert speed accurately.\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"does-real-time-monitoring-mean-instant-alerts\">Does \"Real-Time Monitoring\" Mean Instant Alerts?<\/h2>\n<p>No, and conflating the two is how buyers overpay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Three-Clock Test: measure when a tool collects a mention, when your plan lets you see it, and when it notifies you.<\/strong> Those are three separate clocks, and free plans usually slow one or two of them while marketing the fastest one.<\/p>\n<p>SubWatch is the cleanest illustration. The service scans frequently, free results arrive after a deliberate two-hour delay, and the free notification is a daily email digest. Three clocks, three answers. F5Bot works the same way: its delivery pipeline can confirm a keyword within minutes in its own test community, while free delivery is batched to within two hours. The delay is a rationing policy, not a technical ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>When a vendor quotes speed, ask for elapsed time from the Reddit publication timestamp to arrival in the inbox you actually read. A polling interval is not a delivery promise.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Buy the delivery schedule your workflow needs, not the fastest number on a homepage. If your realistic response time is tomorrow morning, per-second refresh is worth exactly nothing to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"how-is-reddit-monitoring-different-from-general-social-listening\">How Is Reddit Monitoring Different From General Social Listening?<\/h2>\n<p>Reddit's unit of value is the thread, not the post. A recommendation for your competitor sits in comment 47 of \"what are you all using for X,\" and a monitor that only reads submission titles and bodies will report a clean inbox while that conversation runs without you. Posts-only coverage and posts-plus-comments coverage are not grades of the same feature. They answer different questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Posts tell you what people publish. Comments tell you what people actually recommend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Three capabilities separate Reddit-native tools from general platforms on their cheapest tiers: comment-level scanning, subreddit-level scoping, and matching control tight enough to survive a common-word brand name. General suites treat Reddit as one source among twenty, which is the right architecture when you need cross-source context and the wrong one when you need to catch a reply window. If Reddit is only part of the job, my comparison of <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/best-social-listening-tools-reddit\/\">Reddit listening tools<\/a> covers where generalist platforms hold up.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-did-i-score-these-free-reddit-tools\">How Did I Score These Free Reddit Tools?<\/h2>\n<p>I ranked practical usefulness at $0, not the size of the paid product standing behind the free plan.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Criterion<\/th>\n<th>What earns a higher placement<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Continuing free access<\/td>\n<td>A documented ongoing plan with clear eligibility, no countdown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reddit depth<\/td>\n<td>Explicit posts and comments coverage, subreddit scoping<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Usable allowance<\/td>\n<td>Enough keywords, results and retention to finish a real task<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Delivery<\/td>\n<td>A documented schedule and a channel you will genuinely check<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Matching control<\/td>\n<td>Whole-word, phrase, exclusion and scoping behavior on free<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Operational clarity<\/td>\n<td>Published caps, inactivity rules and honest upgrade triggers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>No invented composite scores. Where a limit is unpublished, I say it is unpublished. Where a vendor's timing claim is a polling spec, I label it a polling spec.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"free-reddit-monitoring-tools-compared\">Free Reddit Monitoring Tools Compared<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Tool<\/th>\n<th>Ongoing free allowance<\/th>\n<th>Trial or ongoing?<\/th>\n<th>Card required?<\/th>\n<th>Reddit scope<\/th>\n<th>Free delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>Free history<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Reddit Pro Trends<\/td>\n<td>No published keyword limit<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing, eligibility-gated beta<\/td>\n<td>No, but Reddit Pro eligibility is required<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments, public SFW communities<\/td>\n<td>Dashboard, near real-time discovery<\/td>\n<td>Date filter limited to 3 prior months<\/td>\n<td>None, free for eligible businesses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mentions.us<\/td>\n<td>5 keywords, unlimited notifications per month<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing, free forever<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments<\/td>\n<td>Slack or email, within minutes<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Paid plans raise keyword capacity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KWatch<\/td>\n<td>2 Reddit alerts plus 2 Hacker News alerts<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments<\/td>\n<td>Email, published refresh 1 second to 1 minute<\/td>\n<td>No saved results on free<\/td>\n<td>Essential, $19\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>F5Bot<\/td>\n<td>5 keywords, 10 alerts per keyword daily, 20 account-wide<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing, personal use only<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments<\/td>\n<td>Email within 2 hours, ad-supported<\/td>\n<td>No archive on free<\/td>\n<td>Silver, $9.99\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SubWatch<\/td>\n<td>3 keywords, 2 subreddits<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments<\/td>\n<td>2-hour result delay, daily email digest<\/td>\n<td>3 days<\/td>\n<td>Pro, $9\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CommunityTracker<\/td>\n<td>1 keyword<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Reddit, free comment scope not specified<\/td>\n<td>Daily alerts, email and in-app<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Starter, $39\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Google Alerts<\/td>\n<td>Query-based, no published account cap<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing, no paid tier<\/td>\n<td>No, Google account<\/td>\n<td>Matching Google Search results only<\/td>\n<td>Email or RSS at chosen frequency<\/td>\n<td>None<\/td>\n<td>No paid tier exists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reddit RSS plus automation<\/td>\n<td>No published feed-count limit<\/td>\n<td>Ongoing, DIY<\/td>\n<td>No, connector plan may<\/td>\n<td>Posts via search feeds, comments per thread or community<\/td>\n<td>Your poller's interval, subject to throttling<\/td>\n<td>Whatever you store<\/td>\n<td>Connector upgrades, from about $3.49\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Nine more free-at-$0 options with narrower scope appear in a shared table after the main reviews. Every reviewed tool below gets the same five sections and the same table format, so you can read them in parallel.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing, limits, eligibility rules and delivery claims were last verified on September\u00a0 2026. Vendor plans can change, so check the linked source before relying on a limit in production.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"1-reddit-pro-trends-https-support-reddithelp-com-hc-en-us-articles-47619216411284-reddit-pro-feature-trends-best-free-reddit-coverage-if-you-qualify\">1. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.reddithelp.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/47619216411284-Reddit-Pro-Feature-Trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit Pro Trends<\/a>: Best Free Reddit Coverage If You Qualify<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shot_support.reddithelp.com_de749fff.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Reddit Pro Trends website homepage\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Keyword monitoring with no published keyword limit<\/td>\n<td>Dashboard, near real-time discovery<\/td>\n<td>None, free for eligible business accounts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best free Reddit coverage in the category, with no published keyword limit across posts and comments, if your business or organization is eligible for Reddit Pro and can live without push alerts.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>Reddit's own first-party monitoring layer. Trends lets you monitor keywords to see where, when and how they are being discussed on Reddit, and surfaces communities and conversations in real time to inform your engagement. It tracks both standard and smart keywords, with smart keywords adding insights like conversation volume and related keywords. Reddit surfaces the communities talking about your keyword, gives an AI-generated summary of top discussions, and places no limit on how many keywords you can track.<\/p>\n<p>Any comparison of free Reddit monitoring tools should consider Reddit Pro Trends. Among the tools reviewed here, Reddit publishes the broadest free keyword allowance.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>Posts and comments mentioning tracked terms, with community discovery and discussion summaries. Trends uses public, safe-for-work communities and currently aggregates English conversations, excluding private, banned, quarantined, NSFW, deleted and some sensitive content, along with chats, personal messages and mod mail.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>It is a dashboard, not an alerting service. There is no documented email or Slack keyword alert, so silence in Trends means nothing unless you log in. Reddit Pro sits on the organic side of the platform and is currently an eligibility-gated beta, free for verified business accounts. Reddit also states that the Pro dashboard does not contain all relevant Reddit content.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>As your coverage and context layer, paired with one alerting tool. Use Trends to find which communities discuss your category and how, and let an email or Slack tool handle the \"respond now\" job.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>There is no paid Trends tier. You add a third-party tool the moment you need push notification, routing to a team channel, or exportable records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> two constraints nobody mentions. The chart date filter is limited to 3 prior months, which is restrictive for trend work. And Reddit states Pro is intended for internal use, its documentation says not to publish screenshots or other information from Pro tools without Reddit's consent, and it restricts downloading other redditors' posts and comments from Pro. If your plan was to paste Trends charts into a client deck, read that policy first.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"2-mentions-us-best-free-alerts-for-a-small-team\">2. <a href=\"https:\/\/mentions.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mentions.us<\/a>: Best Free Alerts for a Small Team<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5571\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mentionsus.png\" alt=\"mentionsus\" width=\"1666\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mentionsus.png 1666w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mentionsus-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mentionsus-1024x498.png 1024w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mentionsus-768x373.png 768w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mentionsus-1536x747.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>5 keywords, unlimited notifications per month<\/td>\n<td>Slack or email, within minutes<\/td>\n<td>Paid plans raise keyword capacity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best if you need free Slack or email alerts within minutes for up to five terms and can work without filtering, retention or sentiment.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>The most useful free delivery offer in the category. You track up to five keywords and receive unlimited notifications per month, free forever, with no credit card required. Notifications arrive within minutes when your keywords are mentioned on Reddit, Bluesky, Hacker News, Stack Overflow and more, by Slack or by email. The vendor also publishes a much larger email-only allowance, which it positions for personal use rather than business monitoring.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>Reddit posts and comments, with notification within minutes rather than on a digest schedule. Treat \"within minutes\" as the published target and verify it against your own test cases.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>No sentiment, no historical search, no API, and no exclusion-style noise control on free. Five keywords is a brand name, a product name and two competitors. It is not category monitoring.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>One dedicated Slack channel, five deliberately narrow terms, and a standing rule about who replies. Free Slack delivery is the rarest free feature here, and it is the one that turns a personal inbox habit into something a second person can see. The mechanics of routing feeds and webhooks into a channel are covered in my walkthrough on <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/slack-webhook-rss-integration\/\">Slack alert delivery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>You pay when five keywords stop covering your watchlist, or when you need filtering, retention or reporting that a notification stream does not provide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> Mentions states it does not need permission to read your Slack messages, keeping Slack conversations private. That narrower OAuth scope is irrelevant to a solo founder and decisive in a company with a security review process. Most Slack integrations request broader permissions, so this is the detail that determines whether the tool can actually be adopted rather than merely liked.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"3-kwatch-best-documented-reddit-depth-on-a-free-plan\">3. <a href=\"https:\/\/kwatch.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KWatch<\/a>: Best Documented Reddit Depth on a Free Plan<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5572\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kwatchio.png\" alt=\"kwatchio\" width=\"1594\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kwatchio.png 1594w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kwatchio-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kwatchio-1024x427.png 1024w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kwatchio-768x320.png 768w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kwatchio-1536x640.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2 Reddit keyword alerts plus 2 Hacker News alerts<\/td>\n<td>Email, published Reddit refresh of 1 second to 1 minute<\/td>\n<td>Essential, $19\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best if you want the most transparent published refresh spec on two carefully chosen Reddit keywords and accept email-only delivery at $0.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>A small, fast watchlist across two platforms, with the slots counted separately so a Reddit alert does not consume a Hacker News slot. Email only, no card.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>Posts and comments. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.kwatch.io\/refresh-rates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">KWatch refresh-rate documentation<\/a> specifies Reddit refresh between 1 second and 1 minute, adjustable for load and congestion. Read that as a monitoring frequency, not a measured inbox guarantee. It is still the most transparent timing disclosure in this group, and transparency is a feature.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>Free excludes filtering and saved results, AI analysis, conversation tracking, team management, Slack and webhooks. There is no published free mention allowance either, so treat the keyword slots as your known ceiling and anything else as unverified.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>One distinctive brand term, one high-value intent phrase such as \"alternative to [competitor].\" Do not spend a slot on a broad category term, because the filters that make broad terms survivable are exactly what free does not include.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>Essential at $19\/month lifts you to 20 Reddit keyword alerts and adds filtering, saved results and conversation tracking. Slack and webhooks start with Business at $79\/month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> the cheapest upgrade does not solve the most common upgrade reason. If your problem is routing alerts to a team channel, $19 buys you more keywords and still leaves you copying links by hand. Priced per outcome, free Slack delivery elsewhere beats a paid plan that paywalls routing four times higher.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"4-f5bot-best-free-personal-keyword-alerts\">4. <a href=\"https:\/\/f5bot.com\/tiers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">F5Bot<\/a>: Best Free Personal Keyword Alerts<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5441\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/F5bot.png\" alt=\"F5bot\" width=\"1235\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/F5bot.png 1235w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/F5bot-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/F5bot-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/F5bot-768x414.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>5 keywords, 10 alerts per keyword daily, 20 account-wide daily<\/td>\n<td>Email within 2 hours, ad-supported<\/td>\n<td>Silver, $9.99\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best free personal keyword alerting on Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, but the free tier is marked personal use only, so business users should treat it as a test rig rather than a dependency.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>The category's default answer, and still the most durable. It has emailed keyword alerts for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters since 2017, needs no card, and by its own count delivers over 430,000 alerts a day. The current free tier is explicitly personal use, which is the single most important line on its pricing page for anyone reading this as a founder.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>F5Bot scans both submissions and comments. Keywords are case-insensitive and matched literally, with no regex or wildcards, and flags let you scope matching: only-url restricts a keyword to a specific subreddit, no-url excludes one, and whole forces whole-word matching so \"react\" does not fire on \"reaction.\" Note the direction of that last flag. Whole-word matching is something you switch on, not the default.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>Two caps operate independently. Each tier limits how many alerts a single keyword can generate in 24 hours and how many alerts your whole account can generate. Five keywords therefore do not give you 50 daily alerts. A keyword that exceeds its limit becomes disabled and may need manual reactivation, and free accounts cannot monitor very common words or phrases. If your brand name is a dictionary word, the free tier will refuse it.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>Five uncommon terms, whole-word flags switched on, plus a recurring reminder to confirm nothing got disabled. F5Bot documents a test subreddit where you can post your keyword and expect an email a couple of minutes later, which is the fastest way to separate a configuration error from a delivery delay.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>Silver at $9.99\/month (or $109\/year) covers 20 keywords, 100 daily alerts, ad-free emails, filtering and 5-minute delivery. Gold, at $49.99\/month, is where RSS and JSON feeds plus a Slack or Discord integration appear, with 200 keywords. Third-party pages disagree about Gold's exact allowances and even its price, with one listing AI filtering starting at $79.99; confirm on the tier table before you buy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> <strong>The Saturation Blind Spot: a capped alert stream can look quiet precisely when the conversation accelerates.<\/strong> Hit the account cap at 11am and the rest of the day produces no email, which is indistinguishable from a calm afternoon. That is a consequence of caps and keyword disabling, not evidence that Reddit went quiet, and it is the reason a capped free plan needs a weekly manual sanity check.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If your monitoring tool can go silent for two reasons and you cannot tell which one happened, you do not have monitoring. You have a notification habit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"5-subwatch-best-for-two-carefully-chosen-communities\">5. <a href=\"https:\/\/subwatch.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SubWatch<\/a>: Best for Two Carefully Chosen Communities<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5573\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/subwatch.png\" alt=\"subwatch\" width=\"1385\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/subwatch.png 1385w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/subwatch-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/subwatch-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/subwatch-768x400.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>3 keywords, 2 subreddits, 3-day match history<\/td>\n<td>2-hour result delay, daily email digest<\/td>\n<td>Pro, $9\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best if the conversation you care about lives in two known subreddits and you will review a daily digest inside a three-day retention window.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>Reddit and Hacker News monitoring with a web dashboard, scoped deliberately narrow: three keywords inside two communities.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>Posts and comments are scanned. Free users receive results on a two-hour delay, with a daily email digest. Hacker News is searched platform-wide rather than by community.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>The subreddit allowance is the real constraint, because a mention in a third community is invisible by design. Free history lasts three days, which quietly rules out a weekly review routine.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>Pick the two subreddits where your buyers actually argue about the category, then review daily. Three days of retention makes \"I'll catch up Monday\" a data loss event.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>Pro adds up to 50 keywords, 20 subreddits, real-time results, longer retention, and exact and regex matching. Upgrade when either your community list or your review cadence outgrows the free window.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> retention and backfill are different products, and free plans confuse them constantly. A 3-day match history is not \"no history,\" it is a 3-day forward-looking store with zero pre-signup discovery. Before you dismiss a free tool for lacking trends, check which of the two you actually need.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"6-communitytracker-best-one-keyword-daily-intent-review\">6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitytracker.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CommunityTracker<\/a>: Best One-Keyword Daily Intent Review<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5574\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/communitytracker.png\" alt=\"communitytracker\" width=\"1494\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/communitytracker.png 1494w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/communitytracker-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/communitytracker-1024x409.png 1024w, https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/communitytracker-768x306.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Reddit keyword with basic analytics<\/td>\n<td>Daily alerts<\/td>\n<td>Starter, $39\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best if one high-intent Reddit phrase reviewed once a day is genuinely the whole job, because the first paid step at $39\/month is the steepest entry price among Reddit-native tools here.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>An ongoing Reddit tier rather than a countdown trial, aimed at buying-intent threads rather than brand mentions. One keyword, daily alerts, basic analytics.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>The pricing page specifies Reddit and daily alerts. It does not separately document free-tier comment coverage or a collection-to-notification guarantee, so do not assume comment depth on free. Some write-ups credit the free tier with AI intent scoring; the published plan table places AI scoring and daily Slack alerts on Pro at $99\/month, so I treat free as matches plus basic analytics.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>One slot leaves no room for spelling variants, competitors or category phrases. The first paid step, at $39\/month for four keywords, is also the steepest entry price among Reddit-native tools here.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>Spend the single slot on your highest-intent phrase, not your brand name. \"Alternative to [competitor]\" will teach you more about pipeline than your own name will.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>Starter at $39\/month adds four keywords and broader platform coverage. Pro at $99\/month is where AI scoring and daily Slack alerts sit. Upgrade for the specific missing step in your workflow, not because a higher plan lists more features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> the daily cadence is a feature for one specific reader. If your honest response time is tomorrow morning, per-second refresh buys you nothing, and a digest removes the guilt of 40 unread instant alerts. Separately, the lead enrichment sold on paid tiers deserves a compliance conversation before you switch it on; Reddit's current builder policy prohibits attempts to re-identify users through off-platform identifiers and forbids inferring sensitive characteristics. A generic enrichment feature does not authorize enriching pseudonymous redditors.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"7-google-alerts-https-support-google-com-websearch-answer-4815696-hl-en-best-supplementary-layer-not-a-reddit-feed\">7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Alerts<\/a>: Best Supplementary Layer, Not a Reddit Feed<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shot_support.google.com_9cd09929.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Google Alerts website homepage\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Query-based, no published account cap<\/td>\n<td>Email or RSS at your chosen frequency<\/td>\n<td>No paid tier exists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best free supplementary layer for the Reddit threads Google already ranks, and never your primary Reddit monitor, because it watches Google's index rather than Reddit.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>Notifications when Google finds new search results matching your query, at a frequency you select. It is free with a Google account and has no upgrade path, which is both its charm and its ceiling.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>This is the distinction that matters: Google Alerts monitors Google's index, not Reddit. A mention reaches you only if Google has crawled, indexed and served the page for your query. A frequency setting is not a promise about when Google will discover a specific comment.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>It cannot establish complete Reddit coverage and cannot be your urgent-response system. I have seen claims that it misses a specific percentage of Reddit discussion; no source I trust publishes that number, so I will not print one. What is documented is the mechanism, and the mechanism is enough to disqualify it as a primary Reddit monitor.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>Start with <code>site:reddit.com \"Your Brand\"<\/code>, add a second alert for the important spelling variant, choose all results rather than best results, and deliver via RSS so it lands wherever your other alerts land. Preview the query in Google Search first. My walkthrough on <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-google-alerts\/\">setting up Google Alerts<\/a> covers the operator setup.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>There is nothing to upgrade to. You add a Reddit-native tool the moment you need comment-level detection or a dependable response window.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> the skew is the value. What Google Alerts catches is biased toward the Reddit threads Google itself ranks, which is exactly the subset shaping your search reputation and your presence in AI answers. Treat it as a search-visibility sampler, not a mention counter, and it earns its place at zero cost.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"8-reddits-native-rss-feeds-https-www-reddit-com-dev-api-best-diy-route-for-technical-teams\">8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/dev\/api\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit's Native RSS Feeds<\/a>: Best DIY Route for Technical Teams<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shot_reddit.com_53c722ad.webp\" alt=\"Screenshot of the Reddit's Native RSS Feeds website homepage\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Unlimited feeds and queries<\/td>\n<td>Your poller's interval, subject to throttling<\/td>\n<td>Connector upgrades, from about $3.49\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> best $0 route if you can build and maintain the pipeline yourself and accept posts-first coverage, polling gaps and tight free connector caps.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>Reddit exposes feeds for most views. Append <code>.rss<\/code> to a subreddit's <code>\/new<\/code> URL, to a search URL sorted by new, or to a thread URL, and you have a monitor with no vendor between you and the data.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>Deep for posts, awkward for comments. Search feeds match post titles and bodies, so the comment buried in a recommendation thread will not appear. Per-thread and per-community comment feeds partly close that gap if you already know where to look. Speed equals your polling interval, and Reddit's documentation is explicit that unidentified clients face throttling or blocking.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>Two places, and the second one surprises people. Listing windows are finite and polling gaps are real, so \"exhaustive coverage\" is a claim I would not make. Then your destination becomes the ceiling: free connector tiers are tight, and on IFTTT specifically the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ifttt.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/34511482227483-How-do-I-create-an-IFTTT-account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">free plan limits you to two applets<\/a>, its Reddit search trigger returns at most 20 items per check, the free email action caps at 30 emails per day, and Webhooks requires a paid plan.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>Three to five <code>new.rss<\/code> feeds for the communities where your buyers live, piped into a reader you already open. Among the methods reviewed here, this is the clearest free option for community-level review rather than keyword-only monitoring.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>You pay when the connector, not Reddit, becomes the bottleneck, or when you need deduplication and storage. Building your own poller means registering an OAuth client, using a descriptive user agent, and honoring Reddit's approval requirements, including written approval for commercial use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> <strong>The $0 Workflow Rule: the ceiling of a free pipeline is its weakest connector, not its data source.<\/strong> People audit the monitoring tool and never audit the destination, then wonder why alerts stopped at email 31. Also budget for deletion handling, because Reddit's API guidance requires removal of deleted content and associated identifying information. Your DIY archive is not a permanent record, and neither is anyone else's.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-other-reddit-tools-are-genuinely-free-with-narrower-scope\">What Other Reddit Tools Are Genuinely Free, With Narrower Scope?<\/h2>\n<p>These publish ongoing $0 access but fit a narrower job, either because they are dashboard-only, request-gated, or sampled rather than continuous. Same columns, same treatment, less depth because the workflow is less complete.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Tool<\/th>\n<th>Ongoing free allowance<\/th>\n<th>Reddit scope<\/th>\n<th>Free delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>Free history<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Sublookout<\/td>\n<td>1 monitor, 3 keywords, 2 subreddits, 100 stored results<\/td>\n<td>Submission titles and bodies, not comments<\/td>\n<td>Dashboard, 60-minute checks<\/td>\n<td>100 results<\/td>\n<td>Pro, $12\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Keydar<\/td>\n<td>3 keywords, 1 project, 2 subreddits<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments in selected subreddits<\/td>\n<td>Dashboard only, 120-minute scans, no free notifications<\/td>\n<td>7 days<\/td>\n<td>Starter, $7\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tracking.ai<\/td>\n<td>20 keywords<\/td>\n<td>Reddit context, comment scope not specified<\/td>\n<td>Basic email notifications, latency not published<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Core, $12\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Narratrak<\/td>\n<td>1 monitor, 3 keywords, 5 subreddits, 3 scans daily<\/td>\n<td>Search-result posts with top-comment previews<\/td>\n<td>Email after a scan, one automatic daily scan when enabled<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Starter, check billing options<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RedditQuik<\/td>\n<td>3 keywords with intent scores<\/td>\n<td>Mention discovery, comment scope not specified<\/td>\n<td>In-app alerts, scan interval not published<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Not specified on the free-plan page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RedditLoop<\/td>\n<td>Keyword and community configuration, cap not published<\/td>\n<td>Opportunity discovery in chosen communities<\/td>\n<td>3 scans and email digests daily<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>No subscription; AI drafting needs your own API key<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reddit Monitor<\/td>\n<td>5 monitors, account access by request<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments with detailed matching rules<\/td>\n<td>Dashboard, Slack, Discord, Telegram, webhooks<\/td>\n<td>Not published<\/td>\n<td>Optional managed service from $299\/month<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Social Searcher<\/td>\n<td>Free manual search across Reddit and other networks<\/td>\n<td>Public posts, limited comment depth<\/td>\n<td>Manual search; persistent alerting minimal on free<\/td>\n<td>Minimal<\/td>\n<td>Paid plans add searches, alerts and history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Syften<\/td>\n<td>No free plan; 14-day trial without a card<\/td>\n<td>Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters and broader web<\/td>\n<td>Email, Slack, RSS, API, webhooks on paid<\/td>\n<td>Archive search on paid<\/td>\n<td>Trial, then paid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Two operational details from this group are worth more than their placement suggests. Reddit Monitor's changelog introduced a five-monitor limit on May 27, 2026, and states that monitors without webhooks deactivate after more than a week of account inactivity while webhook-equipped monitors are exempt, which means an integration affects service continuity and not just convenience. Keydar's free tier sends no notifications at all, so its real question is whether you will open a dashboard on schedule.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"which-reddit-monitoring-tools-are-only-free-trials\">Which Reddit Monitoring Tools Are Only Free Trials?<\/h2>\n<p>Every one of these is a capable product. The mislabeling is the problem, not the tools.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Tool<\/th>\n<th>Ongoing free plan?<\/th>\n<th>Free-access model<\/th>\n<th>Reddit coverage<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Brand24<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>14-day trial<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments, multi-source, sentiment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Awario<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>7-day trial<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments, multi-source, Boolean search<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Octolens<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>7-day trial, up to 5,000 mentions<\/td>\n<td>Reddit plus other communities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mention<\/td>\n<td>No Reddit-capable free tier<\/td>\n<td>Time-limited trial<\/td>\n<td>Multi-source<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Syften<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>14-day trial, no card<\/td>\n<td>Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters, wider web<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BrandMentions<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>7-day trial<\/td>\n<td>Posts and comments, multi-source, sentiment, history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GummySearch<\/td>\n<td>Closed November 30, 2025<\/td>\n<td>Not available<\/td>\n<td>Not available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>GummySearch appears in most 2026 lists. It shut down on November 30, 2025. If a comparison still recommends it, that comparison was not re-checked, which tells you how much to trust its other numbers.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"is-there-a-free-alternative-to-gummysearch-in-2026\">Is There a Free Alternative to GummySearch in 2026?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>There is no single free replacement for GummySearch, which closed on November 30, 2025, but two or three free tools together cover most of what people used it for.<\/strong> Split the job the way GummySearch bundled it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Audience and community research:<\/strong> Reddit Pro Trends, free for eligible verified business accounts, with no published keyword limit, community discovery and AI-generated discussion summaries, plus a chart date filter limited to 3 prior months.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keyword monitoring inside chosen communities:<\/strong> SubWatch on free (3 keywords, 2 subreddits) or Keydar on free (3 keywords, 1 project, 2 subreddits, dashboard only).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Push alerts for named terms:<\/strong> Mentions.us (5 keywords, Slack or email within minutes) or F5Bot (5 keywords, email within 2 hours, personal use only).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What you will not recreate at $0 is saved-search analytics with long history, sentiment and exportable reporting in one interface. That is the boundary described in the two sections below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image_04_d654c243.webp\" alt=\"Capability gaps where free Reddit monitoring tools stop being enough.\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-free-reddit-monitoring-cannot-reliably-do\">What Free Reddit Monitoring Cannot Reliably Do<\/h2>\n<p>Five gaps are structural, not accidental. They mark the boundary between a notification service and a measurement system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentiment at scale.<\/strong> No free tier here classifies tone. Manual judgment is fine at 20 alerts a day and impossible at 200. And when you do buy it, treat the output as a hypothesis with an error rate nobody printed on the dashboard, which is why I argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/sentiment-analysis\/\">sentiment analysis<\/a> should always be auditable against the raw thread.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pre-signup history.<\/strong> Free tools start watching when you create the keyword. Reddit Pro Trends is the partial exception, with charts filterable across the prior three months. None of the ongoing free plans I verified provides a year of pre-signup Reddit history, and nobody at any price can promise a permanent archive given deletion-removal requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross-source context.<\/strong> A Reddit thread gets quoted in a newsletter, screenshotted elsewhere, then cited in an AI answer. Free Reddit tools see the Reddit node only. That is fine until the damage happens downstream, which is the argument for <a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/track-brand-mentions-across-web\/\">multi-source tracking<\/a> rather than more Reddit keywords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team workflow.<\/strong> Shared delivery is not shared ownership. Free Slack posting, which Mentions.us does offer, still gives you no assignment, no response status, no duplicate handling and no record that anyone replied. The cost of that gap is not the subscription. It is the high-intent thread that sat unanswered while someone was on holiday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verified detection quality.<\/strong> This is the one nobody talks about. None of the free plans reviewed here provides a complete, independently verified measure of what it missed: the mention added by a later edit, the deep comment on a two-year-old thread, the self-post body without a title match, the duplicate crosspost, the content removed between collection and delivery. A keyword slot is not a query capability, and accents, punctuation, spacing, inflection and misspellings behave differently in each of these tools.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never add mention counts from two tools and call the total your Reddit volume. Different collection scopes produce overlapping, incomplete sets, and summing them manufactures a number that describes nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"how-do-you-test-a-free-reddit-monitoring-setup-without-inventing-a-benchmark\">How Do You Test a Free Reddit Monitoring Setup Without Inventing a Benchmark?<\/h2>\n<p>Run this before you trust any tool, free or paid. It takes an afternoon and it is the only evidence that matters for your keywords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Survivor-Speed Trap: fast alerts tell you nothing about the qualifying mentions that never arrived.<\/strong> Measuring only what landed makes a lossy tool look quick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fast-Miss Problem: latency looks great when you only measure the mentions that survived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Create separate post and comment cases<\/strong>, in communities where testing is permitted, including one new comment under an older thread if that scenario matters to you. Do not seed promotional posts into unrelated subreddits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Record the publication timestamp and the arrival timestamp<\/strong>, keeping dashboard visibility separate from email or Slack delivery. Three clocks, three columns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Test matching, not just detection<\/strong>: a spelling variant, a hyphenated form, a multiword phrase, and an accented character.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Record misses as misses.<\/strong> Do not drop undelivered cases from the results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Check continued operation after a week<\/strong>: disabled keywords, inactivity pauses, retention expiry, connector caps.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Then compute three things: observed detection rate (detected qualifying items \u00f7 all qualifying items), alert precision (relevant alerts \u00f7 all alerts received), and delivered-alert latency reported alongside the miss count. These measure your test set, not all of Reddit. That is exactly why they are useful.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"upgrade-paths-match-the-purchase-to-the-gap\">Upgrade Paths: Match the Purchase to the Gap<\/h2>\n<p>There are two kinds of upgrade, and confusing them is how lean teams overspend. A quantity upgrade buys more of what you already have. A capability upgrade buys something free cannot produce at any allowance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first upgrade should solve a failure mode, not increase a number on a pricing page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Your actual problem<\/th>\n<th>The right fix<\/th>\n<th>When that fix is wrong<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Out of keyword slots<\/td>\n<td>F5Bot Silver at $9.99\/month, or KWatch Essential at $19\/month<\/td>\n<td>If you also need routing or sentiment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alerts arrive too late<\/td>\n<td>A plan with documented faster delivery, tested end to end<\/td>\n<td>If your team's real response time is daily anyway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>You are missing comments<\/td>\n<td>A tool with explicit comment coverage<\/td>\n<td>If you simply buy more keywords instead<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alerts land nowhere the team can see<\/td>\n<td>Free Slack delivery first, then KWatch Business at $79\/month<\/td>\n<td>If one person still owns every reply<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>You need client reporting and retention<\/td>\n<td>A platform with exports and separate workspaces<\/td>\n<td>If a shared spreadsheet still works<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>You need sentiment, history and cross-source context<\/td>\n<td>A full listening platform trial<\/td>\n<td>If Reddit is your only source and volume is low<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 id=\"brandmentions-https-brandmentions-com-pricing-php-the-paid-step-up-for-the-last-row\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/\">BrandMentions<\/a>: The Paid Step-Up for the Last Row<\/h3>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Free access<\/th>\n<th>Delivery and timing<\/th>\n<th>First paid step<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>7-day trial, not an ongoing free plan<\/td>\n<td>Starter includes daily updates<\/td>\n<td>$99\/month billed quarterly, or $79\/month billed annually<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Verdict:<\/strong> not a free Reddit tool and deliberately excluded from the ranking; it is the paid step-up when you need sentiment, historical depth and cross-source context that no free Reddit plan provides.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-you-actually-get-at-0\">What you actually get at $0<\/h4>\n<p>A 7-day evaluation window. That is a trial, so BrandMentions stays out of the ranking above. I built it, and I am still going to hold it to the same rule I applied to everyone else.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"reddit-coverage-and-timing\">Reddit coverage and timing<\/h4>\n<p>Reddit alongside web, news and social sources, with sentiment and analytics. Starter covers five tracked keywords and 5,000 mentions per month, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.brandmentions.com\/en\/articles\/12637878-what-are-the-project-limits-and-how-often-is-data-updated\">help center's project limits documentation<\/a> specifies daily updates on Starter. Read that carefully, because it means a paid Starter plan is not automatically a speed upgrade over a focused free Reddit alert service.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"where-the-free-plan-stops\">Where the free plan stops<\/h4>\n<p>It ends on day seven. Historical depth is plan-dependent: up to one month of backfill on Starter, Pro and Expert, and up to ten years on Enterprise. A maximum historical window is a capability, not a guarantee that every Reddit mention inside it exists.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-i-would-use-it\">How I would use it<\/h4>\n<p>Bring your own known Reddit examples into the trial and check whether they are found, then check whether the cross-source view answers a question your free tool could not. That is a better test than any feature list, mine included.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"upgrade-trigger\">Upgrade trigger<\/h4>\n<p>Move when the question changes. \"Did someone mention us?\" is a free-tool question. \"Is tone shifting, did this complaint predate our listening, and where did this story travel after Reddit?\" is not, and no allowance increase on a keyword alert service will answer it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-obvious insight:<\/strong> the honest failure mode of paid platforms is the opposite of free ones. Free tools under-detect and over-alert. Broad platforms give you context and can arrive on a slower schedule than the single-purpose tool you replaced. If speed is your gap, buy speed. If meaning is your gap, buy meaning. Do not assume one purchase fixes both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclosure<\/strong>: I founded BrandMentions, a paid monitoring platform. It is excluded from the free ranking below; free-plan limits and claims are evaluated from published vendor documentation.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"f5bot-vs-kwatch-vs-reddit-pro-trends-the-core-differences\">F5Bot vs. KWatch vs. Reddit Pro Trends: The Core Differences<\/h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Comparison<\/th>\n<th>Keyword allowance<\/th>\n<th>Delivery on free<\/th>\n<th>Deciding factor<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>F5Bot vs. KWatch<\/td>\n<td>5 vs. 2 Reddit keyword alerts<\/td>\n<td>Email within 2 hours vs. email on a 1 second to 1 minute refresh spec<\/td>\n<td>Breadth versus speed, with F5Bot's personal-use restriction as the tiebreaker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>KWatch vs. Mentions.us<\/td>\n<td>2 vs. 5 keywords<\/td>\n<td>Email only vs. free Slack or email within minutes<\/td>\n<td>Filtering depth versus free team routing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Reddit Pro Trends vs. third-party tools<\/td>\n<td>No published limit vs. 1 to 5 keywords<\/td>\n<td>Dashboard only vs. push notification<\/td>\n<td>Coverage versus alerting; run one of each<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>F5Bot vs. KWatch:<\/strong> F5Bot gives five keywords with a two-hour batch and a personal-use restriction; KWatch gives two keywords with a refresh spec measured in seconds and no use restriction. Breadth versus speed, with eligibility as the tiebreaker for business users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>KWatch vs. Mentions.us:<\/strong> KWatch publishes deeper Reddit controls but paywalls Slack at $79\/month; Mentions.us gives you five keywords and Slack delivery at $0. If routing matters more than filtering, that decision is already made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reddit Pro Trends vs. every third-party tool:<\/strong> Trends has the best free coverage and no keyword limit, but no push notification and an internal-use policy. Third-party tools have worse coverage and better delivery. Run one of each. They are not competing for the same slot.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"frequently-asked-questions\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"is-f5bot-still-genuinely-free-in-2026\">Is F5Bot still genuinely free in 2026?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, for personal use. The free plan is permanent for personal use with 5 keywords, 20 alerts per day and delivery within roughly two hours, including a small ad in the email. Per-keyword and account-wide daily caps apply separately, and free accounts cannot monitor very common words or phrases.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-many-keywords-can-i-monitor-on-reddit-for-free\">How many keywords can I monitor on Reddit for free?<\/h3>\n<p>It depends on the tool: Reddit Pro Trends publishes no limit on how many keywords you can track, Tracking.ai's free tier lists 20 keywords, Mentions.us and F5Bot give 5, SubWatch and Keydar give 3, KWatch gives 2 Reddit keyword alerts, and CommunityTracker gives 1. Reddit's own native RSS feeds are effectively unlimited, but they match post titles and bodies rather than comments. Keyword count is also the least useful number to shop on, because daily alert caps, delivery schedules and retention windows usually bind first.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"can-i-get-reddit-alerts-in-slack-for-free\">Can I get Reddit alerts in Slack for free?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Mentions.us publishes a free-forever plan with five keywords and Slack delivery, and Reddit Monitor publishes free webhook and Slack support, though new accounts require requested access. KWatch, F5Bot and Sublookout all reserve their documented Slack integrations for paid plans.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"how-fast-are-free-reddit-alerts\">How fast are free Reddit alerts?<\/h3>\n<p>Free delivery ranges from minutes to a day. Mentions.us publishes notification within minutes, KWatch publishes a Reddit refresh spec of 1 second to 1 minute (a polling frequency, not an inbox guarantee), F5Bot batches free email to within two hours, SubWatch applies a two-hour result delay plus a daily digest, and CommunityTracker sends daily alerts. Always measure elapsed time from the Reddit publication timestamp to arrival in the inbox you actually read.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"does-reddit-have-its-own-free-monitoring-tool\">Does Reddit have its own free monitoring tool?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, and most comparison articles skip it. Reddit Pro is Reddit's free suite of organic business tools for finding communities, monitoring how topics are discussed, scheduling posts and measuring performance, currently an eligibility-gated beta free for verified business accounts. Its Trends feature places no limit on how many keywords you can track, but it is a dashboard rather than an alerting service.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"is-there-a-free-alternative-to-gummysearch\">Is there a free alternative to GummySearch?<\/h3>\n<p>Not as a single product. GummySearch shut down on November 30, 2025, so the free substitutes are stacked: Reddit Pro Trends for community research and discussion summaries, SubWatch or Keydar for subreddit-scoped keyword tracking, and Mentions.us or F5Bot for push alerts. No free combination reproduces saved-search analytics with long history, sentiment and exports in one interface.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"is-brand24-or-awario-free-for-reddit\">Is Brand24 or Awario free for Reddit?<\/h3>\n<p>No. Brand24 offers a 14-day trial and Awario a 7-day trial, after which both are paid; neither publishes an ongoing $0 Reddit plan. Both do cover Reddit posts and comments across multiple sources with sentiment, and Awario adds Boolean search, so they are trial-then-paid capability upgrades rather than free monitoring tools.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"does-google-alerts-catch-reddit-comments\">Does Google Alerts catch Reddit comments?<\/h3>\n<p>Not reliably. Google Alerts reports new matching Google Search results, so a Reddit mention reaches you only after Google crawls, indexes and serves the page for your query. Comments added to an already-indexed thread usually will not trigger a new alert. Use it as a supplementary search-visibility channel, never as your primary Reddit monitor.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"conclusion-free-is-a-detection-layer-and-silence-is-ambiguous\">Conclusion: Free Is a Detection Layer, and Silence Is Ambiguous<\/h2>\n<p>The useful conclusion is not a winner. It is a division of labor. Reddit Pro Trends gives you the widest free coverage and no alerting. Mentions.us gives you free team delivery. KWatch gives you the most transparent timing. F5Bot gives you the most durable personal alerting. Google Alerts tells you which Reddit threads are shaping your search reputation. Stack two or three of those deliberately and you have detection infrastructure most small companies never bother to build, at zero cost.<\/p>\n<p>What none of them give you is interpretation, and that is the only honest reason to pay. Sentiment, history before you started watching, cross-source spread, and an accountable reply workflow are the four gaps, and a bigger keyword allowance closes none of them.<\/p>\n<p>So start free, on purpose, and run the five-step test before you trust anything. Then keep one note for a month: every time you wanted an answer your alert could not give you, write it down. That note is your upgrade specification, not a vendor's pricing table. And remember what an empty inbox actually means.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Quiet Inbox Fallacy: no alerts does not mean no conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It might mean nobody is talking about you. It might also mean a capped keyword, a paused monitor, a posts-only monitor, a three-day retention window that expired, or a conversation happening somewhere your coverage never reached. Reddit is only becoming more consequential as answer engines keep quoting it. The brands that get hurt will not be the ones who chose the wrong free tool. They will be the ones who mistook silence for safety.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related-guides\">Related Guides<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/reddit-brand-mentions-tracking\/\">How to track Reddit brand mentions<\/a> - the workflow side: what to track, where, and how to respond once a free tool detects a thread.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/best-social-listening-tools-reddit\/\">Best social listening tools for Reddit<\/a> - the paid and generalist comparison for when Reddit is only part of the job.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/why-ai-cites-reddit\/\">Why AI cites Reddit<\/a> - why an unanswered thread keeps shaping answers long after it is posted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-google-alerts\/\">How to set up Google Alerts<\/a> - the operator setup for the free supplementary layer above.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/track-brand-mentions-across-web\/\">Track brand mentions across the web<\/a> - the cross-source gap free Reddit tools cannot close.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tested, honest ranking of the genuinely free tools for monitoring Reddit mentions, separating free-forever plans from disguised trials, with each tool&#8217;s real limits and upgrade triggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[79,279,278,281,280,255,275,95],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-listening","tag-brand-mentions","tag-f5bot","tag-free-tools","tag-google-alerts","tag-kwatch","tag-reddit-api","tag-reddit-monitoring","tag-social-listening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandmentions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}