Is GummySearch really shut down?

Yes. GummySearch's own homepage and pricing page both state it is closed as of 30 November 2025, checked on 21 September 2026. The pricing table still renders its old tiers, which is why several comparison sites still quote them as current. There is no way to sign up.

What is the closest thing to GummySearch for Reddit research?

Nothing matches the exploratory half well. Syften at $29.95 a month is the closest in spirit for watching Reddit continuously, and F5Bot does the keyword-alert part for free. For finding an audience from scratch, most people have gone back to Reddit's own search plus reading subreddits by hand, which is slower and not a product anyone sells cheaply.

What is the best free GummySearch alternative?

F5Bot, without much competition. Free forever, covers Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, and delivers by email, with Slack and Discord webhooks on the paid Gold tier. It matches keywords and does nothing else, which for a lot of former GummySearch users is the entire requirement.

Do I need a Reddit-specific tool, or will a general listening tool do?

Depends on comments. Most of what matters about a brand on Reddit is said in a comment several levels into a thread about something else, and general tools vary a great deal in whether they index comments or only post titles. If Reddit is your main channel, check that specifically before paying for breadth you will not use.

How fast do I need to see a Reddit mention?

Within an hour or two, while the thread is near the top of the subreddit and before the sort settles. After that a reply is for the archive and for search, which is worth doing but changes nothing that day. This is the main argument against any tool that batches Reddit into a next-morning digest.

GummySearch alternatives, now that it has closed

GummySearch is closed. Its own site says so: closed as of 30 November 2025. Worth knowing before you trust any comparison article about it, because the old price ladder still renders on the pricing page, so anything scraping that page reports live-looking prices for a product you cannot buy.

It did two separable things: exploring subreddits to find an audience, and watching Reddit for mentions once you had one. Nothing below replaces both, so the first question is which half you actually used. Seven alternatives, sorted by which job they do.

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

Prices and facts last checked 2026-09-21

Quick comparison

GummySearch alternatives compared on 2026-09-21
Tool	Best for	Slack	Discord	Entry price
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
Syften	Founders who want cheap, fast keyword alerts and will filter them themselves	Alerts in, one way	Alerts in, one way	$29.95/month
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
Octolens	Developer-tool brands that want mentions piped into their own systems	Alerts in, one way	Not published	$159/month, billed annually
Brand24	Reporting-heavy monitoring where someone presents the numbers upward	Alerts in, one way	Not published	$199/month billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
Awario	Precise boolean monitoring with historical reporting in one place	Alerts in, one way	Not published	€29/month billed annually (€49 billed monthly)
Common Room	Funded GTM teams that need community signal wired into CRM and outbound	Reads and acts inside it	Reads and acts inside it	$2,500/month, billed annually

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

What GummySearch does well

For one-off audience research, GummySearch went deeper than anything on this list. Browsing a subreddit's recurring complaints to find a product idea was its real trick, and it is the half that is hardest to replace.

It was Reddit-only and honest about it, which made it simpler than the general listening tools that treat Reddit as one source among twenty.

Where teams hit a wall

It no longer operates, which settles the comparison.

For anyone rebuilding the workflow: the monitoring half is well covered and cheap, while the exploratory research half is not really sold as a product any more. Budget more time for the second than you expect.

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 7 best GummySearch alternatives

1. F5Bot

First, because for the monitoring half it is free and it is enough. Keyword alerts across Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, forever, with Slack and Discord webhooks on the $49.99 tier. If GummySearch was your Reddit tripwire, start here and only pay if it falls short.

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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2. Syften

$29.95 a month, and the closest thing to GummySearch's spirit: fast, raw, founder-shaped, no dashboard ceremony. Covers Reddit and Hacker News plus forums, Slack communities, Bluesky, Mastodon and Indie Hackers, delivered to Slack or Discord.

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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3. Eko

For the half where you want judgement rather than matches. She reads Reddit posts and comments, tells your brand from its homonyms, and brings the few threads worth answering into Slack or Discord with a drafted reply, which matters on Reddit where the useful window is an hour. $49 a month, 2,500 free credits, no card. She does not do subreddit audience exploration, so she replaces the monitoring half only.

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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4. Octolens

$159 a month billed annually. The pick if you want Reddit mentions flowing into your own systems rather than into an inbox: MCP, API, webhooks and a CLI.

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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5. Brand24

A general listening platform that includes Reddit among eighteen published sources, at $199 a month billed annually. Oversized if Reddit is all you care about, sensible if GummySearch was one tool among several you are consolidating.

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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6. Awario

€29 a month billed annually with boolean control across Reddit and the wider web. The cheapest way to get query precision back if that was what you liked about digging through subreddits by hand.

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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7. Common Room(Zoom announced an agreement to acquire it on 2 July 2026)

The heavy option, included because it is the only tool checked here that reads Reddit, Slack and Discord as sources and pushes the result into a CRM. $2,500 a month billed annually, and Zoom announced an agreement to acquire it on 2 July 2026. Relevant only if the Reddit research fed a sales pipeline.

Runs in:: A web dashboard, with deep Slack and CRM integration
Entry price:: $2,500/month, billed annually
Free tier:: none
Best for:: Funded GTM teams that need community signal wired into CRM and outbound
Better than Eko at:: Everything after the signal: contact enrichment, CRM sync and outbound workflows. It is the only other tool here that genuinely reads Slack and Discord rather than just posting into them.

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Free and under-$50 GummySearch 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 GummySearch really shut down?: Yes. GummySearch's own homepage and pricing page both state it is closed as of 30 November 2025, checked on 21 September 2026. The pricing table still renders its old tiers, which is why several comparison sites still quote them as current. There is no way to sign up.
What is the closest thing to GummySearch for Reddit research?: Nothing matches the exploratory half well. Syften at $29.95 a month is the closest in spirit for watching Reddit continuously, and F5Bot does the keyword-alert part for free. For finding an audience from scratch, most people have gone back to Reddit's own search plus reading subreddits by hand, which is slower and not a product anyone sells cheaply.
What is the best free GummySearch alternative?: F5Bot, without much competition. Free forever, covers Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, and delivers by email, with Slack and Discord webhooks on the paid Gold tier. It matches keywords and does nothing else, which for a lot of former GummySearch users is the entire requirement.
Do I need a Reddit-specific tool, or will a general listening tool do?: Depends on comments. Most of what matters about a brand on Reddit is said in a comment several levels into a thread about something else, and general tools vary a great deal in whether they index comments or only post titles. If Reddit is your main channel, check that specifically before paying for breadth you will not use.
How fast do I need to see a Reddit mention?: Within an hour or two, while the thread is near the top of the subreddit and before the sort settles. After that a reply is for the archive and for search, which is worth doing but changes nothing that day. This is the main argument against any tool that batches Reddit into a next-morning digest.

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