SnitchFeed vs Alertly
Verified against Alertly's own site, September 2026
Alertly is the closest thing to a like-for-like competitor we have. They are cheaper, they cover a source we do not, and they ship AI intent filtering on their entry tier, which is the capability most tools in this space reserve for an upgrade. This page is going to concede a lot before it argues anything, because a comparison that pretended otherwise would not survive thirty seconds on their pricing page.
Who each tool is actually for
Alertly is for marketing teams who want a clean filtered feed
LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube, Bluesky and Google News, with spam filtering, AI intent filtering and sentiment detection on every tier from $39 a month. They filter out what does not match your goals and send the rest to email and Slack.
SnitchFeed is for teams who work mentions, not just read them
Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky and Hacker News, with real-time Reddit and Bluesky ingestion, AI relevance and intent scoring, shared feeds, analytics, webhooks and MCP. Built as a workspace rather than a delivery pipe.
SnitchFeed or Alertly?
Choose Alertly if
Marketing teams who want a filtered mention feed in email and Slack, cheaply, including press and video coverage.
- You want the lowest entry price with AI filtering included
- You need YouTube or Google News coverage
- Ten keywords is enough for the foreseeable future
- A daily or hourly digest suits how you work
- Reading and reacting individually is fine; you do not need a shared workspace
Choose SnitchFeed if
Teams who will outgrow ten keywords, work Reddit actively, or need several people in the same feed.
- You want to control what matches, not only how it is filtered
- You want real-time Reddit and Bluesky, not an hourly digest
- Hacker News matters to you
- More than one person needs to triage the same mentions
- You want webhooks, an API and MCP to build on
What it costs
Alertly publishes no annual billing, so their prices are month to month and ours are shown both ways. Their mention allowances and our credits meter different things and are explained separately below.
| Comparison | Alertly | SnitchFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Entry tier | $39/month (Starter), 10 keywords | $59/month, or $47 annually, 10 keywords |
| Next tier up | $99/month (Pro), 15 keywords | $119/month, or $95 annually (Pro), 30 keywords |
| Top self-serve tier | $149/month (Growth), 20 keywords | $119/month (Pro), 30 keywords |
| Sources | LinkedIn, Reddit, X, YouTube, Bluesky, Google News | Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Hacker News |
| Alert cadence | Daily and hourly alerts | Real-time on Reddit and Bluesky, hourly elsewhere |
| AI filtering | Spam filter, intent filter and sentiment on every tier | Relevance and intent scoring on every tier |
Their mention allowances and our credits are not the same unit
One credit is two mentions, so Starter's 7,000 credits is 14,000 a month and Pro's 21,000 is 42,000, against their 10,000 on Starter and 20,000 on Pro. That is a ceiling: it holds in full on Reddit and Bluesky, which cost nothing to poll, and every LinkedIn or X keyword is polled from the same balance and lowers it.
Where Alertly is genuinely better
All of this is true. If any of it is a requirement rather than a preference, buy Alertly.
Cheaper at the door
$39 against our $59, for the same 10 keywords. If you are choosing on entry price with a comparable keyword count, they win and there is no clever way to argue around it.
AI intent filtering on the entry tier
Spam filtering, intent filtering and sentiment detection are on every Alertly plan including the $39 one. That is the capability most competitors gate behind an upgrade, and it is one we would normally point to as a differentiator. Here it is table stakes for both of us.
YouTube and Google News
Two sources we do not cover at any price. For a brand that gets written about in the press or discussed in video comments, that is a real gap on our side.
Where SnitchFeed beats Alertly
The cases where we would tell you to pick us.
Real-time on Reddit and Bluesky, with no credit cost
Alertly's published cadence is daily or hourly alerts. Reddit and Bluesky are continuous ingestion for us on every tier, so mentions surface in seconds, and neither platform consumes credits. If you work Reddit as a channel and want to reply while a thread is still live, that gap decides it.
A query language underneath the scoring
AND, OR, NOT, grouping and exact phrases, plus Hacker News qualifiers, with relevance and intent scoring applied to what the query returns. Alertly filters a stream for you; here you also get to say what enters the stream in the first place.
Hacker News
Not covered by Alertly. If you sell developer tools or launch on HN, that is a source you would otherwise have to watch by hand.
A workspace rather than a delivery pipe
Tunable listeners, shared feeds, analytics reports, reply drafting, an MCP server, and webhooks on Pro. Alertly is built around filtering a stream and sending you the good parts, which is a real product and enough for many teams. The difference shows once several people need to work the same mentions rather than each reading an email.
Keyword headroom when you outgrow ten
Alertly's tiers buy keywords slowly: 10 at $39, 15 at $99, 20 at $149. Ours go 10 at $59 and 30 at $119. It is not why we would tell you to pick us, but if you are heading past twenty terms the arithmetic stops favouring them.
Where these figures come from
Alertly figures were checked against their own site in September 2026. Pricing changes; if you spot something out of date here, tell us and we will fix it.
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I legit booked 5 meetings with SnitchFeed this week. And it's only Monday...
Does what it says on the tin. Quite well.
Every day I open my laptop, SnitchFeed is the first thing I log into.
Immediately found 5 perfect posts that I replied to on X & LinkedIn. Wasn't expecting that!
The ability to use AI sentiment scoring and get insights on data is incredibly useful. Very hard to find at this price point!
Actually delivers on what it promises to do.
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