Is there a free alternative to Awario?

Yes, two worth using. F5Bot is free forever for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters keyword alerts. Talkwalker Alerts is free and covers news, X, blogs and forums, with delivery by email, RSS or Slack. Neither judges relevance or drafts anything, so you do the sorting, but if your needs are narrow they cost nothing. Eko also starts free with 2,500 credits and no card.

Which Awario alternative covers Discord?

Reading inside Discord servers is rarer than the marketing suggests. Of the vendors checked for this page, only Eko and Common Room publish Discord as a monitored source. Syften, Octolens and F5Bot can send alerts to Discord, which is the opposite direction: they deliver there, they do not listen there.

What does Awario cost in 2026?

Awario publishes €29 per month on its Starter plan billed annually, or €49 billed monthly, with higher tiers above that. There is a seven-day trial with no credit card and no permanently free plan. Read on awario.com/pricing on 21 September 2026; check the page before deciding, because vendors change prices without notice.

Is Eko biased for ranking itself first on its own site?

Of course it is, and pretending otherwise would be worse. What we can do is show our work: the rubric is published above the ranking, two of its eight criteria are ones Eko loses outright, Awario is kept in second place rather than buried, and every competitor row names something it does better than us. Every price here was read on the vendor's own page on a stated date. Judge the page on whether those things hold up.

Should I switch from Awario at all?

Not if your issue is query precision or reporting depth, because most of the alternatives here are weaker on both. Switch if the pattern is that mentions arrive in Slack and then nothing happens, because that is a workflow problem no dashboard fixes. The test: count how many alerts from the last month anyone actually replied to.

Do any of these tools reply for you automatically?

Eko drafts and a human always sends: she never posts publicly on her own. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature. Automated public replies from a brand account are how a small complaint becomes a screenshot.

9 best Awario alternatives in 2026

Awario is a legitimate tool and this is not a hit piece. For boolean monitoring with a historical archive you can export, it does the job at €29 a month billed annually, which is cheap for the category.

Where teams leave is not the data, it is the loop. Awario's Slack integration sends notifications one way, so every mention you actually want to act on sends you back to a dashboard. Below are nine alternatives compared on price, on what they cover, and on whether the work can finish where the alert lands.

Eko is on this list. Eko is a social listening tool, so yes, we are ranking ourselves: the scoring rubric is published below, and Awario keeps its place on merit.

Prices and facts last checked 2026-09-21

Quick comparison

Awario alternatives compared on 2026-09-21
Tool	Best for	Slack	Discord	Entry price
Eko	Teams who work in chat and want to act on a mention without leaving it	Reads and acts inside it	Reads and acts inside it	$49/month for 10,000 credits
Awario	Precise boolean monitoring with historical reporting in one place	Alerts in, one way	Not published	€29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly)
Brand24	Reporting-heavy monitoring where someone presents the numbers upward	Alerts in, one way	Not published	$199/month billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
Mentionlytics	Teams monitoring several languages who want sentiment broken down per market	Alerts in, one way	Not published	$49/month billed yearly (listed at $69)
Determ	PR teams who want clean media monitoring without an enterprise contract	Listed, direction unclear	Not published	€99/month (€990/year)
Syften	Founders who want cheap, fast keyword alerts and will filter them themselves	Alerts in, one way	Alerts in, one way	$29.95/month
Octolens	Developer-tool brands that want mentions piped into their own systems	Alerts in, one way	Not published	$159/month, billed annually
Talkwalker	Global brands that need breadth of sources and visual listening	Alerts in, one way	Not published	not published
F5Bot	Watching a few keywords on Reddit and Hacker News at no cost	Alerts in, one way	Alerts in, one way	Free forever; Silver $9.99/month, Gold $49.99/month

Prices change without notice. Every row names the vendor page and the date it was read: check before you decide.

What Awario does well

Boolean search that you control. If you know how to write a query, Awario lets you write it, exclude what you do not want, and keep refining until the noise drops. Tools that judge relevance for you, Eko included, take that control away.

A historical archive you can slice and export, and reporting built for showing someone else. At its price that combination is genuinely hard to match.

Published pricing in three tiers, and a seven-day trial with no credit card. Four of the tools on this page will not tell you what they cost without a call.

Where teams hit a wall

The Slack integration is one way. Awario's own page describes receiving real-time notifications in a channel, and nothing about replying or assigning from there. For a team that lives in Slack, that means the tool notifies and the work still happens elsewhere.

Discord does not appear anywhere in Awario's published sources or destinations. If your community talks in servers rather than on X, that is a blind spot rather than a gap in coverage.

Boolean is a skill. A query that is too broad buries you and one that is too narrow quietly misses things, and nobody tells you which is happening.

How we scored these

Where the work actually happens: Almost every tool here can push an alert into Slack. The question is what you do next. If reading the alert sends you to a web app to act, the tool is a notifier and your team still context-switches.
Is Discord a source or a destination?: Most tools that mention Discord mean they can post to it. Reading what is said inside community servers is a different capability. Of every vendor checked here, exactly two publish it: Eko and Common Room.
Does it judge, or only match?: A keyword matcher returns everything containing your word, homonyms included. A tool that judges relevance returns fewer things and is wrong sometimes. Which you want depends on whether you have time to sort.
Does it draft the reply?: Finding the mention is half the job. Tools differ on whether they leave you staring at a blank box afterwards.
Breadth of sources: Eko loses this one. The enterprise platforms cover print, broadcast and image recognition, and Brand24 publishes the longest source list of the mid-market tools. If breadth is the requirement, buy breadth.
Historical data and reporting: Eko loses this one too. She is built to catch what is happening now, not to let an analyst slice three years of archive. If you need to present trends to a board, a dashboard tool is the right purchase.
Time to first useful result: Boolean query builders are powerful and they are also why plenty of monitoring seats go unused. Measured from signing up to a result somebody reads.
Is the price on the website?: Four of the tools here do not publish one. That is a real cost: it means a sales call before you can compare, and it is why several rows in these tables say 'not published' rather than a number someone guessed.

The 9 best Awario alternatives

1. Eko

An AI social listening employee that lives in the channel instead of sending you to one. She reads the public web and community Discord servers, judges what is about you rather than matching a string, and posts the ones that matter into Slack or Discord with a drafted reply you edit and send. Cheapest paid tier on this page at $49 a month, and 2,500 free credits with no card. She is the wrong purchase if you need boolean control or a reporting archive: see the two rubric rows she loses.

Runs in:: Slack, Discord and Teams
Entry price:: $49/month for 10,000 credits
Free tier:: 2,500 credits, no card, they do not expire
Best for:: Teams who work in chat and want to act on a mention without leaving it

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2. Awario

Kept second on purpose, because for a lot of teams the honest answer is to stay. If your problem is that you want tighter queries and better exports, moving to a chat-native tool solves nothing and costs you the archive. Leave over the workflow, not over the data.

Runs in:: A web dashboard you log into
Entry price:: €29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly)
Free tier:: 7-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:: Precise boolean monitoring with historical reporting in one place
Better than Eko at:: Boolean query control and a historical archive you can slice and export. If you want to write the query yourself, Awario lets you and Eko does not.

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3. Brand24

The closest like-for-like upgrade in dashboard terms: the longest published source list of the mid-market tools, including Twitch, podcasts and app stores, and reports you can put in front of a board. Costs about seven times Awario's annual rate, and its Slack integration is also one way.

Runs in:: A web platform you log into
Entry price:: $199/month billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
Free tier:: 14-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:: Reporting-heavy monitoring where someone presents the numbers upward
Better than Eko at:: Presentation-grade reports and the broadest published source list of the mainstream tools, including Twitch, podcasts and app stores.

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4. Mentionlytics

Worth a look specifically if you monitor several languages. Sentiment broken down per market, plus Looker and Power BI connectors, at $49 a month billed yearly. Same dashboard-first shape as Awario.

Runs in:: A web dashboard
Entry price:: $49/month billed yearly (listed at $69)
Free tier:: 14-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:: Teams monitoring several languages who want sentiment broken down per market
Better than Eko at:: Multilingual sentiment across many markets at once, with BI connectors for Looker and Power BI.

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5. Determ

The pick for PR and comms rather than community: it watches print, TV and radio alongside the web, which nothing else in this price band does. €99 a month, five-day trial. Slack is listed, but Determ does not say which direction it runs.

Runs in:: A web dashboard, with Slack and mobile alerts
Entry price:: €99/month (€990/year)
Free tier:: 5-day trial, no credit card
Best for:: PR teams who want clean media monitoring without an enterprise contract
Better than Eko at:: Press coverage: it watches print, TV and radio alongside the web, which Eko does not touch.

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6. Syften

The opposite trade to Eko and a good one at $29.95 a month. No judgement layer, just fast keyword matching across Reddit, Hacker News, forums and Slack communities, delivered to Slack or Discord. If your complaint about Awario is that it is slow and complicated rather than that it is one way, start here.

Runs in:: Alerts into Slack, Discord, email or RSS
Entry price:: $29.95/month
Free tier:: 14-day trial on the PRO plan, no credit card. No free plan.
Best for:: Founders who want cheap, fast keyword alerts and will filter them themselves
Better than Eko at:: Price, speed and rawness. It also monitors Slack communities and Discourse forums as sources, which Eko does not. If you want every match with no judgement in the way, it is the cleaner tool.

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7. Octolens

For developer-tool brands that would rather pipe mentions into their own systems than read them in an app. MCP, API, webhooks and a CLI on the plans, $159 a month billed annually. Discord is a webhook target, not a source.

Runs in:: A web app, with Slack, webhook and API delivery
Entry price:: $159/month, billed annually
Free tier:: 7-day trial on the Pro plan. No free plan.
Best for:: Developer-tool brands that want mentions piped into their own systems
Better than Eko at:: Programmatic access. MCP, API, webhooks and a CLI mean you can build your own workflow on top instead of using ours.

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8. Talkwalker(now part of Hootsuite)

Listed for two reasons. Its paid product is an enterprise purchase with no published price, so it is not a realistic step across from Awario. But Talkwalker Alerts is free, and as a no-cost replacement for a Google Alerts habit it is a better tool than most people realise.

Runs in:: An enterprise web suite
Entry price:: not published
Free tier:: Talkwalker Alerts is a separate free product
Best for:: Global brands that need breadth of sources and visual listening
Better than Eko at:: Source breadth and image recognition: it finds your logo inside a photo, where Eko reads text. Its free Alerts product is also a real option on its own.

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9. F5Bot

The honest cheap answer. Free forever for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters keyword alerts, with Slack and Discord webhooks on the $49.99 plan. If your Awario use amounts to watching three keywords on Reddit, you are overpaying today and this fixes it for nothing.

Runs in:: Email, with Slack and Discord webhooks on the top plan
Entry price:: Free forever; Silver $9.99/month, Gold $49.99/month
Free tier:: Free tier is permanent, no card
Best for:: Watching a few keywords on Reddit and Hacker News at no cost
Better than Eko at:: It is free, and for plain Reddit and Hacker News keyword alerts that is genuinely hard to beat. Start here before paying anyone, including us.

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Free and under-$50 Awario alternatives

Computed from the same verified prices as the table above, not a hand-kept list. A tool that does not publish a price cannot appear here, because there is no way to know.

Eko — $49/month for 10,000 credits · 2,500 credits, no card, they do not expire
Awario — €29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly) · 7-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Syften — $29.95/month · 14-day trial on the PRO plan, no credit card. No free plan.
F5Bot — Free forever; Silver $9.99/month, Gold $49.99/month · Free tier is permanent, no card
Mentionlytics — $49/month billed yearly (listed at $69) · 14-day trial, no credit card. No free plan.
Google Alerts — Free, no paid tier published · Free

Publish no price at all

All else equal, a hidden price costs you a sales call before you can compare anything. That is not a reason to rule them out, it is a reason to start elsewhere.

Mention — A media monitoring and social media management tool with listening, publishing and alerts.
Brandwatch — An enterprise consumer intelligence and social listening suite with deep historical data and advanced analytics.
Talkwalker — An enterprise social listening and consumer intelligence platform known for source breadth and image recognition.
Meltwater — An enterprise media intelligence and PR platform covering news, social and broadcast.

How to choose

Where the work actually happens Almost every tool here can push an alert into Slack. The question is what you do next. If reading the alert sends you to a web app to act, the tool is a notifier and your team still context-switches.
Is Discord a source or a destination? Most tools that mention Discord mean they can post to it. Reading what is said inside community servers is a different capability. Of every vendor checked here, exactly two publish it: Eko and Common Room.
Does it judge, or only match? A keyword matcher returns everything containing your word, homonyms included. A tool that judges relevance returns fewer things and is wrong sometimes. Which you want depends on whether you have time to sort.
Does it draft the reply? Finding the mention is half the job. Tools differ on whether they leave you staring at a blank box afterwards.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free alternative to Awario?: Yes, two worth using. F5Bot is free forever for Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters keyword alerts. Talkwalker Alerts is free and covers news, X, blogs and forums, with delivery by email, RSS or Slack. Neither judges relevance or drafts anything, so you do the sorting, but if your needs are narrow they cost nothing. Eko also starts free with 2,500 credits and no card.
Which Awario alternative covers Discord?: Reading inside Discord servers is rarer than the marketing suggests. Of the vendors checked for this page, only Eko and Common Room publish Discord as a monitored source. Syften, Octolens and F5Bot can send alerts to Discord, which is the opposite direction: they deliver there, they do not listen there.
What does Awario cost in 2026?: Awario publishes €29 per month on its Starter plan billed annually, or €49 billed monthly, with higher tiers above that. There is a seven-day trial with no credit card and no permanently free plan. Read on awario.com/pricing on 21 September 2026; check the page before deciding, because vendors change prices without notice.
Is Eko biased for ranking itself first on its own site?: Of course it is, and pretending otherwise would be worse. What we can do is show our work: the rubric is published above the ranking, two of its eight criteria are ones Eko loses outright, Awario is kept in second place rather than buried, and every competitor row names something it does better than us. Every price here was read on the vendor's own page on a stated date. Judge the page on whether those things hold up.
Should I switch from Awario at all?: Not if your issue is query precision or reporting depth, because most of the alternatives here are weaker on both. Switch if the pattern is that mentions arrive in Slack and then nothing happens, because that is a workflow problem no dashboard fixes. The test: count how many alerts from the last month anyone actually replied to.
Do any of these tools reply for you automatically?: Eko drafts and a human always sends: she never posts publicly on her own. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature. Automated public replies from a brand account are how a small complaint becomes a screenshot.

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