Syften review
Syften is a focused alert tool for community mentions, with Reddit alerts inside a minute by its own account and plans from $29.95 a month. It is not a full media monitoring suite, and the entry plan has no Slack, API or AI filtering.
Best for
Founders, community marketers and link builders who want fast alerts when a brand or topic comes up on Reddit, Hacker News and forums.
Not for
PR teams that need news, broadcast and print coverage, or reporting on reach and sentiment.
Syften at a glance
- Product
- Keyword alerts for online communities and the public web
- Sources
- Reddit, X, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Exchange, forums, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, podcasts and more
- Plans
- Entry $29.95, Standard $49.95, PRO $119.95 a month
- Community filters
- 3, 20 or 100 by plan
- Alert speed
- Reddit within 1 minute, X within 15 minutes (vendor claim)
- Delivery
- Email, RSS, Slack, API, webhooks (by plan)
- Trial
- 14 days, no credit card
- Company
- Kraków, Poland; operating since 2019
What is good
- Covers many community sources that news monitors miss
- Reddit alerts with at most a one-minute delay, by the vendor's account
- Boolean search and AI filtering to cut noise
- Low prices, shown openly, with a 14-day trial and no card
- Operating since 2019
What is not
- Entry plan is limited to 3 community filters and 100 results a day
- Slack, API access and AI filtering start at the Standard plan
- Webhooks need the PRO plan
- No Trustpilot profile
- Affiliate commission is not published
This review is based on Syften’s public pages and third-party ratings, checked on 4 October 2026. The rating out of 10 is the editor’s own judgement.
How it works
Syften is a keyword alert tool for online communities. You write a filter, which is a search query with Boolean operators, and Syften alerts you when a new post or comment matches it. Alerts arrive by email, RSS or Slack, and higher plans add an API and webhooks. An AI filter removes spam and weak matches, and you can search an archive of past results.
The sources are what set it apart from news-led monitoring tools. Syften lists Reddit, X, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, the Stack Exchange family, forums, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, Slack communities, YouTube, Dev.to, Lobste.rs, podcasts, newsletters and public websites.
Speed is the main selling point. Syften states a delay of at most one minute for Reddit and at most 15 minutes for X, with a general target of under a minute for live content.
Why it matters for off-page SEO
Community threads are now a source for AI answers as well as for search results. Our lesson on Reddit for SEO and AI visibility explains why. A fast alert lets you answer a question about your product, or your topic, while the thread is still active.
Alerts on your brand name also surface unlinked mentions on forums and public websites that you can ask to turn into links. Brand mention monitoring sets out a full process and where a tool like this fits. Syften does not track AI answers themselves. For that you need one of the AI visibility tracking tools.
Pricing
| Plan | Price per month | Community filters | Daily results | Web filters | Daily web results | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry | $29.95 | 3 | 100 | 1 | 5 | 7 days |
| Standard | $49.95 | 20 | 200 | 5 | 20 | 1 month |
| Syften PRO | $119.95 | 100 | 500 | 20 | 50 | Unlimited |
Prices are as shown on Syften’s site on 4 October 2026. Standard adds the Slack integration, AI filtering and API access. PRO adds webhooks. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
Three filters on the Entry plan cover a brand name, one competitor and one topic, and little more. Most teams that use alerts for prospecting will need Standard.
What public reviews say
Syften has no Trustpilot profile: the page for its domain returned “not found” when we checked in October 2026. We did not open a rating for it on another review platform. Its own site carries testimonials from founders including the chief executives of Rewardful and RevenueCat and a co-founder of PostHog, which are vendor-selected.
The site gives a business address in Kraków, Poland, and says Syften has been operating since 2019.
For other options, see our AI visibility tools comparison.
Bottom line
Syften is a focused alert tool for community mentions, with Reddit alerts inside a minute by its own account and plans from $29.95 a month. It is not a full media monitoring suite, and the entry plan has no Slack, API or AI filtering.
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How much does Syften cost?
Entry is $29.95 a month, Standard $49.95 and Syften PRO $119.95, as checked on 4 October 2026. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card.
Which sites does Syften monitor?
Syften lists Reddit, X, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, the Stack Exchange family, forums, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, Slack communities, YouTube, Dev.to, Lobste.rs, podcasts, newsletters and public websites.
How fast are Syften alerts?
Syften states a delay of at most one minute for Reddit and at most 15 minutes for X.
How Syften compares
| Vendor | Coverage | Pricing | Public rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syften | English-first communities | Subscription. Entry $29.95/mo, Standard $49.95, PRO $119.95 | unknown |
| BuzzStream | English UI; global | Subscription. Starter $49/mo (1 user, 500 contacts), Growth $174/mo, Professional $424/mo, Custom from $999/mo; free trial | GetApp 4.5/5 (22 reviews); no Trustpilot profile |
| Peekaboo (aipeekaboo.com) | Location tracking; ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode; Claude and Copilot as add-ons | One configurable plan from $30/mo (1 brand, 40 prompts, 3 models); annual 15% off; 14-day trial | unknown |
| SE Ranking | English UI; global | Subscription. Core EUR 109/mo (EUR 87.20 annual), Growth EUR 235/mo, Enterprise custom; 14-day trial | Trustpilot 4.2 (711 reviews) |