Entry plan
Talkwalker Core
Social listening and media monitoring, dashboards, reports and alerts, Wisdom AI summaries, AI Agent, LLM Insights and unlimited users.
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Talkwalker pricing and Talkwalker alternatives compared
Talkwalker does not publish prices. Its three plans (Core, Analyze and Business) are sold by custom quote after a demo, and buyer data puts the median contract near $13,300 a year. MentionRadar is a Talkwalker alternative with public monthly prices from $49, covering web mentions, sentiment, alerts and AI answer tracking without a sales call.
- Public prices, online checkout
- News, Reddit, reviews, forums, YouTube and X
- ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and AI Overviews tracked
- Monthly plans, cancel anytime
Scan your brand across the web and in ChatGPT
Growth is $888 a year billed yearly, or $149 month to month. Compare plans
What each Talkwalker plan includes and what it costs
Talkwalker's pricing page lists three plans with a Select button that opens a demo form. No price appears on any of them. This is what each plan adds, checked on talkwalker.com in October 2026.
Marked most popular
Talkwalker Analyze
Everything in Core, twice the non-sampled results volume, 25 more topics, filters and channels, and coverage of more brands and markets.
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Enterprise
Talkwalker Business
Everything in Analyze, six times the Core results volume, three times the topics, more historical data, more AI questions, workspaces and governance.
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Median Talkwalker contract, Vendr buyer data
$13,298 a year
Typical range $12,260 to $15,860 a year
Treat that figure as the floor of the Core plan, not a quote. Talkwalker prices on data volume, topics and history rather than seats, so a team that monitors several brands, markets or languages will land on Analyze or Business and pay more. One Vendr buyer whose usage sat between two tiers negotiated the higher tier at a discount instead of paying for unused volume, which is a useful move at renewal.
Talkwalker vs MentionRadar feature by feature
An honest table. Talkwalker covers more of the social web, and the table says so.
| Talkwalker | MentionRadar | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Custom quote, no public price | $49, $149, $499 or $999 a month, 50 percent off billed yearly |
| How you buy | Demo form, then a contract | Online checkout, monthly or yearly |
| Trial before buying | No self-serve trial listed | One-time brand scan before signup |
| Users | Unlimited on every plan | 1 on Starter, 5 on Growth, 15 on Agency, unlimited on Enterprise |
| News, blogs, forums and review sites | ||
| Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube and X | ||
| Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and 30+ social networks | ||
| Image and video recognition | ||
| Sentiment and share of voice | ||
| AI answer tracking | LLM Insights in every plan | Every plan, five engines from Growth |
| Alerts | Email on every plan, Slack from Growth | |
| Client workspaces and white-label reports | More workspaces on Business | Agency plan, 15 client workspaces |
Talkwalker wins on reach. It reads more than 30 social platforms in 187 languages and recognizes logos in images and video, and no tool at a three digit monthly price does that. MentionRadar wins on cost and speed of setup: the price is public, you can collect mentions within the hour, and every limit sits on the MentionRadar pricing page.
What you get in the first week after switching
Most teams that look for a Talkwalker alternative use a small part of the platform every day: a mentions feed for the brand and two or three competitors, sentiment on the negative threads, a Slack alert when something spikes, and a monthly report for leadership. That core job is the whole product in MentionRadar.
On top of it you get the question Talkwalker answers with LLM Insights: what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews say when a buyer asks for a vendor in your category. Each prompt runs weekly, and you see your rank, the competitors named and the pages each engine cites. The AI visibility tracker page shows that view in detail.
app.mentionradar.com
Mentions
All sources
Negative
Last 7 days
212 this week
Reddit
25 min ago Reach 31.2k
r/coffee: Northwind subscription vs buying beans locally
Thread with 63 replies, most like the roast schedule, three mention late deliveries in October.
Neutral
News
3 h ago Reach 410k
Trade outlet lists Northwind Coffee among fastest growing office coffee brands
Feature on office coffee subscriptions, Northwind quoted in the second paragraph.
Positive
Talkwalker alternatives by budget
Prices are public list prices or buyer data and change often, so confirm them on each vendor's site before you buy.
Meltwater
Enterprise suite with print, broadcast and a journalist database. Quote only, with a median contract near $25,800 a year in Vendr data.
Meltwater pricing and alternativesBrandwatch
Deep consumer research and historical social data for large teams. Quote only, with a median near $50,000 a year in Vendr data.
Brandwatch pricing and alternativesBrand24
Self-serve listening that covers Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. From $199 a month billed yearly for 3 keywords.
Brand24 pricing and alternativesMentionRadar
Web mentions, sentiment, share of voice and AI answer tracking in one plan from $49 a month, with no demo required.
Social listening tools featuresWhich MentionRadar plan replaces your Talkwalker setup
Match the plan to the topics and people you have in Talkwalker today. Every plan includes sentiment, competitors and email alerts.
One brand, one person
Starter
$49 a month
3 keywords, 3 competitors, 5,000 mentions a month and 15 prompts weekly in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
A social or comms team
Growth
$149 a month
10 keywords, 30,000 mentions, 40 prompts in five AI engines, 5 seats, Slack alerts and scheduled PDF reports.
Agencies with several clients
Agency
$499 a month
15 client workspaces, 150,000 mentions, 150 prompts, white-label reports, client read-only access and API read access.
Security and procurement needs
Enterprise
$999 a month
300,000 mentions, 300 prompts, SSO (SAML), audit log, 99.9 percent uptime SLA, invoice billing on yearly plans, full API.
Billed yearly, Growth is $888 and Enterprise is $5,988, both well under the median Talkwalker contract. Agencies that run listening for several clients can see how branded reports and client access work on the page about reputation management software for agencies, and teams that report rivals every month can use the share of voice tool on any plan.
Move off Talkwalker before your renewal date
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Export your topics and queries
Copy the Boolean queries, brand names, product names and competitors from each Talkwalker topic. They become keywords and competitors in MentionRadar.
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Scan your brand here
Use the form at the top with your brand and one competitor. You see recent web mentions and a real AI answer before you create an account.
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Run both for two weeks
Compare the feeds side by side while your contract is live. Note which sources you still need from Talkwalker, if any.
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Set alerts and the monthly report
Rebuild the alert rules that matter, schedule the PDF report for leadership, and check your order form for the notice period.
Who should stay with Talkwalker
Stay if your reporting depends on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok volume, image and video recognition, many languages and markets at once, or long historical data for research. Stay too if your social team already runs publishing in Hootsuite and wants listening in the same contract.
Who should switch
Switch if your daily work is online coverage, reviews and community threads for one brand and a few competitors, plus a clear answer on what AI assistants recommend. That is the job of our media monitoring software and social sentiment tracking, at a price you can see before you start. Weighing a self-serve tool instead? The Mentionlytics pricing and alternatives page lists every plan from $69 to $1,299 a month.
Questions buyers ask about Talkwalker pricing and alternatives
How much does Talkwalker cost?
Talkwalker does not list prices, so buyer data is the best guide. Vendr reports a median Talkwalker contract of $13,298 a year, with typical deals between $12,260 and $15,860. That is the entry level. Analyze and Business add data volume, topics and history, so larger contracts run well above that range.
Does Talkwalker have a free trial?
No self-serve trial is listed. Every plan on the Talkwalker pricing page leads to a demo request form, and the quote follows the demo. If you want to see real mentions before talking to sales, MentionRadar runs a one-time scan of your brand from the top of this page in about a minute.
Is Talkwalker part of Hootsuite?
Yes. Hootsuite acquired Talkwalker in 2024. Talkwalker is still sold on its own site with its own plans, and Hootsuite's Enterprise plan includes advanced listening powered by Lumen with 13 months of history. Hootsuite's self-serve plans start at $99 per user a month and include lighter social listening.
What is a cheaper alternative to Talkwalker?
For online mentions, sentiment and alerts, self-serve tools cost a small share of a Talkwalker contract. MentionRadar runs $49 to $999 a month with AI answer tracking included, Brand24 starts at $199 a month billed yearly, and Awario starts at 29 euros a month billed yearly. None of them match Talkwalker's depth on images, video and 30+ social networks.
Who are Talkwalker's main competitors?
At the enterprise end, Talkwalker competes with Brandwatch, Meltwater, Sprinklr and Synthesio, all sold by quote. On the self-serve side the usual names are Brand24, Awario, Mention, Mentionlytics and MentionRadar, which publish prices and let you buy online without a contract negotiation.
Does Talkwalker track ChatGPT and AI answers?
Yes. Talkwalker lists LLM Insights in every plan, which monitors how AI assistants talk about your brand and industry. MentionRadar tracks the same thing on every plan: your prompts run weekly in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on Starter, plus Gemini and Claude from Growth, with your rank and the pages each engine cites.
See your mentions before you book a demo
Scan your brand and one competitor. You get recent web mentions and a real AI answer in about a minute, then pick a monthly plan if it covers what you need.