9 GummySearch Alternatives (2026)

GummySearch stopped accepting new signups and payments on November 30, 2025, and shuts down entirely on December 1, 2026, at which point all user data is deleted (gummysearch.com/final-chapter/). If you only need keyword alerts, F5Bot is free and takes a minute to set up. If you want Reddit monitoring plus tracking of whether your brand gets cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini answers, ReddGrow is the pick, and it is the only tool on this list that does both.

Quick Comparison

Prices verified from each vendor’s own pricing page on September 2, 2026. “Reddit-native” means Reddit is the primary data source rather than one channel among many.

Tool	Best for	Reddit-native?	AI visibility tracking?	Starting price
ReddGrow	Reddit monitoring plus AI citation tracking	Yes	Yes	$99/mo, or $79/mo billed annually
Octolens	Multi-platform mention monitoring for dev tools	No	No	$159/mo billed annually
Syften	Cheap, fast forum and Reddit keyword alerts	Partly	No	$29.95/mo
F5Bot	Free keyword alerts, personal use	Partly	No	Free (personal use); paid from $9.99/mo
RedNudge	Budget AI-scored Reddit lead digests	Yes	No	$7/mo
Brand24	Enterprise PR and full social listening	No	No	$249/mo, or $199/mo billed annually
Awario	Broad social listening on a smaller budget	No	No	$49/mo, or $29/mo billed annually
Mention	Agencies needing multi-channel media monitoring	No	No	Pricing on request
Prowlo	Feeding Reddit data to AI agents over MCP	Yes	No	$19/mo

ReddGrow

ReddGrow monitors Reddit for your brand, competitor, and category keywords in real time, then tracks whether those conversations translate into citations in AI answers. The AI Visibility side queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity daily across 220 countries and shows source-level citations plus competitor share of voice. The Reddit side gives you sentiment classification, competitor mention alerts, Slack and email digests, AI-drafted replies that require human review before publishing, and a Chrome extension for commenting from inside Reddit.

Pricing is $99/month for Starter, $199/month for Growth, and $399/month for Pro, billed monthly. Billed annually those drop to $79, $159, and $319 per month. Starter covers 1 Reddit account, 1 campaign, 10 subreddits, and 50 AI Visibility prompts. Growth covers 3 Reddit accounts, 30 subreddits, 200 prompts, and adds Slack integration. All plans include unlimited seats and a 14-day free trial.

Pros: the only tool here that connects Reddit activity to AI citation data. Human review is required on every draft, so nothing posts without approval. Unlimited seats on every tier.

Cons: more expensive than the pure alert tools, and overkill if all you want is an email when someone types your product name. Subreddit counts are capped per plan, so very broad keyword sweeps need a higher tier.

Octolens

Octolens is social listening built for developer-tool companies, covering Reddit alongside Hacker News, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other community platforms, with AI filtering on every mention. Its Pro plan is $159/month billed annually for 15,000 mentions and 10 keywords, and Scale is $499/month billed annually for 50,000 mentions and 40 keywords (octolens.com/pricing). Mentions beyond quota keep flowing and bill from $0.01 each. There is a 7-day free trial.

Pros: genuinely broad platform coverage, API, webhooks, and an MCP server on every plan. Strong customer list in dev tools.

Cons: not Reddit-native, so subreddit-level context is thinner. No AI visibility tracking. The entry price is high if Reddit is the only channel you care about.

Syften

Syften watches Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and the open web for keyword filters, and it has been shipping updates steadily. Entry is $29.95/month for 3 community filters and 100 results per day, Standard is $49.95/month with AI filtering, Slack, and API access, and Syften PRO is $119.95/month with unlimited archive search and webhooks (syften.com/pricing). There is a 14-day free trial with no card required.

Pros: the best value in this list for straight keyword monitoring across forums. Archive search lets you see who mentioned you before you signed up.

Cons: it is an alerting tool, not a research tool. No subreddit discovery, no audience clustering, no engagement workflow, no AI visibility.

F5Bot

F5Bot emails you within minutes when your keywords appear on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters. The free tier remains free for personal use. Paid tiers now exist for commercial and team use: Silver at $9.99/month, Gold at $49.99/month, Platinum at $214.99/month, and Diamond starting at $500/month (f5bot.com/tiers).

Pros: fastest possible setup, and free is genuinely free if you are an individual. If your only GummySearch use case was “tell me when my name comes up,” this replaces it at zero cost.

Cons: email alerts and nothing else. No dashboard worth the name, no sentiment, no filtering intelligence, no research features, no AI visibility. The free tier is personal use only, so teams need a paid plan.

RedNudge

RedNudge is a small, focused tool that scans Reddit for threads matching your product and sends AI-scored digests of the ones worth replying to. Starter is $7/month for 300 AI-scored matches, and the next tier is $15/month for 1,000 matches (rednudge.com). Seven-day free trial, no card required.

Pros: the cheapest paid option here by a wide margin, and the AI scoring means you are not reading raw keyword noise. Good fit for a solo founder doing Reddit lead-gen.

Cons: narrow. It finds threads worth replying to and stops there. No audience research, no brand monitoring dashboard, no AI visibility, and match limits are low enough that a common keyword will burn through them.

Brand24

Brand24 is a full social listening suite covering Reddit as one of many sources, with sentiment analysis, AI insights, topic analysis, and reporting built for PR teams. Individual is $249/month, or $199/month billed annually, for 3 keywords and 2,000 mentions per month. Team is $349/$299, Pro is $499/$399, Business is $699/$599, and Enterprise starts at $1,499 (brand24.com/pricing/).

Pros: the strongest reporting and sentiment tooling in this comparison, and the right answer if Reddit is one channel in a broader PR mandate.

Cons: expensive, Reddit coverage is generic keyword matching rather than subreddit-aware, and there is no AI citation tracking. Entry plan gives you 3 keywords and 12-hour refresh, which is slow for Reddit.

Awario

Awario is social listening at a lower price point than Brand24, monitoring Reddit alongside social networks, news, blogs, and the web. Starter is $49/month billed monthly or $29/month billed annually for 3 topics. Pro is $149/$89 and Enterprise is $399/$249 (awario.com/pricing/).

Pros: the cheapest way into a real social listening dashboard with Boolean search and sentiment. Good if you need coverage beyond Reddit but cannot justify Brand24 pricing.

Cons: Reddit is treated as one source among many, mention quotas bite quickly on common terms, and there is no AI visibility layer.

Mention

Mention, now part of Agorapulse, does real-time monitoring across social platforms and review sites including Reddit, with sentiment analysis and competitive intelligence aimed at larger organizations. Its public pricing page no longer lists a self-serve number and routes to a demo request, so pricing on request (mention.com/en/pricing/).

Pros: mature product, deep integrations, and the right shape for an agency managing monitoring across many clients and channels.

Cons: you cannot see what it costs without a sales conversation, Reddit is not a first-class surface, and none of the AI citation work is covered.

Prowlo

Prowlo is the odd one out and the most interesting for technical teams: it collects Reddit, Hacker News, Mastodon, RSS, and X data and serves it to your AI agents over MCP. One plan is $19/month billed monthly for 25 Watchers plus a Keyword Monitor covering 20 keywords across all of Reddit, and a larger tier is $79/month (prowlo.com). Fourteen-day free trial, no card.

Pros: cheap, Reddit-native, and the MCP angle means you can wire Reddit data straight into Claude or your own agent instead of reading a dashboard.

Cons: it is infrastructure, not a marketing product. No sentiment reporting for stakeholders, no engagement workflow, no AI visibility tracking, and it assumes you are comfortable working through an agent or API.

Migrating from GummySearch

You have until December 1, 2026. After that date the service is gone and all accounts are deleted (gummysearch.com/closing-time/). Do the export well before the deadline, because there is no recovery path afterward.

1. Export your account data. Log in and download the export GummySearch offers from your account area. This is the only copy you will get.
2. Save your saved searches and keyword lists. Copy every search term, Boolean string, and negative keyword into a spreadsheet. These are what you will paste into whatever you pick next, and they represent most of the setup time you have already paid for.
3. Save your subreddit collections. Export the audience lists and subreddit groupings you built. Names only is enough; any tool can re-resolve them.
4. Screenshot or export your pain point clusters. Themes and clusters do not transfer between tools in any structured way, so capture the conclusions rather than the raw data.
5. Note your alert configuration. Which terms alerted, at what frequency, to which inbox or Slack channel.

What maps to what in ReddGrow: your saved searches become Brand Monitor keywords, tracked with sentiment classification and competitor alerts. Your subreddit collections become the subreddit list on a campaign, capped at 10 on Starter, 30 on Growth, and 100 on Pro. Your keyword lists split in two directions: brand and competitor terms go to Brand Monitor, while category and buying-intent questions become AI Visibility prompts, which is the part GummySearch never had an equivalent for. Your alert routing becomes Slack and email digests, with Slack available on Growth and above.

Budget an hour. Nothing imports automatically, from GummySearch to any tool on this list, so the work is copy and paste from your export.

Frequently Asked Questions

When exactly does GummySearch shut down?

Three dates matter. GummySearch announced the closure on November 6, 2025. On November 30, 2025 it stopped accepting new signups, payments, and renewals. On December 1, 2026 it shuts down entirely and all user data is deleted. Lifetime deal holders and annual subscribers keep access through the end of that transition year and no further (gummysearch.com/final-chapter/).

Why did GummySearch close?

Its founder could not reach a commercial licensing agreement with Reddit for the Data API. Reddit’s Data API usage policies restrict commercial applications, and rather than operate without a license, he chose to wind the business down. His stated reasoning is on the final chapter post: building a sustainable business while wondering daily whether API access would be revoked was not viable.

What is the best free GummySearch alternative?

F5Bot, if you are an individual. It emails you within minutes when your keywords appear on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters, and the free tier covers personal use. It replaces GummySearch’s alerting, not its research. For team or commercial use, F5Bot’s paid tiers start at $9.99/month.

Which alternative is closest to what GummySearch actually did?

Nothing is a one-to-one replacement, because GummySearch’s audience clustering and subreddit discovery were genuinely distinctive. For discovery and monitoring together, ReddGrow is the closest fit and adds AI citation tracking. For pure keyword monitoring at low cost, Syften is closest to the alerting half at $29.95/month. If your GummySearch use was finding threads to reply to, RedNudge at $7/month covers that specific job.

Can I import my GummySearch data into ReddGrow?

Not automatically. There is no connector, and GummySearch’s export is not in a format any competitor ingests directly. The practical path is to paste your keyword list into Brand Monitor and your subreddit list into a campaign, which takes about an hour for a typical workspace. See the ReddGrow vs GummySearch comparison for a feature-by-feature breakdown.

Does ReddGrow post to Reddit automatically?

No. Drafts are generated with your brand voice and knowledge base as context, and a person reviews and approves every one before it publishes. The Chrome extension exists so that approval and posting happen inside Reddit rather than in a separate queue.