Syften
Watches the developer communities enterprise tools ignore
Entry price
$29.95/month (Entry)
Typical annual
$599.40/year at Standard ($49.95/mo), the first tier with Slack, AI filtering and API
Free trial
14 days, no credit card. Shows the last 60 days of mentions immediately
Contract
No, monthly
About Syften
Syften monitors the places enterprise listening tools do not go: Hacker News, Lobste.rs, Dev.to, Indie Hackers, the Stack Exchange family, Product Hunt, GitHub, Slack communities, Bluesky and Mastodon, alongside Reddit and the open web. If you sell a developer tool, that is where the conversation is, and Brandwatch will not find it for you at any price. Pricing is fully published and starts at $29.95 for three community filters at 100 results a day. Two things to read carefully. First, community filters and web filters are separate meters, and the web allowance is far tighter, one filter at five results a day on Entry, so if you want open-web coverage rather than forum coverage, Entry will not do it. Second, X/Twitter and YouTube are paid add-ons at every tier, including the $119.95 PRO plan. Standard at $49.95 is where the tool gets properly useful: Slack alerts, AI filtering to cut the noise, and API access all appear there. The 14-day trial needs no card and immediately shows you the last 60 days of mentions rather than starting from an empty screen.
Full specification
Pricing & Model
- Entry price
- $29.95/month (Entry)
- Median annual cost
- $599.40/year at Standard ($49.95/mo), the first tier with Slack, AI filtering and API
- Pricing model
- Tiered by community filters, web filters and results per day
- Free trial
- 14 days, no credit card. Shows the last 60 days of mentions immediately
- Contract required
- No, monthly
- Overage pricing
- Not published. Daily result caps apply per tier
Searches / Topics / Queries
- What they call it
- Community filters / web filters / results per day
- Entry tier limit
- Entry: 3 community filters (100/day) + 1 web filter (5/day), 7-day archive
- Mid tier limit
- Standard: 20 community filters (200/day) + 5 web filters (20/day), 1-month archive
- Enterprise limit
- PRO: 100 community filters (500/day) + 20 web filters (50/day), unlimited archive
- Boolean support
- Yes, filter syntax with exclusions
Mentions / Results
- Counting method
- Results per day, capped separately for community and web filters
- Entry tier
- 100/day community + 5/day web
- Mid tier
- 200/day community + 20/day web
- Enterprise tier
- 500/day community + 50/day web
- Historical lookback
- 7 days / 1 month / unlimited by tier
Users & Seats
- Entry tier users
- Not published
- Mid tier users
- Not published
- Enterprise users
- Not published
- Extra seat cost
- Not published
Key Features
- Sentiment analysis
- AI filtering for relevance rather than scored sentiment
- Emotion detection
- No
- Intent classification
- No
- Entity extraction
- No
- Image recognition
- No
- Webhooks
- Yes, PRO tier only
- API access
- Yes, Standard and PRO. Not on Entry.
- Publishing tools
- No, monitoring and alerting only
- News / media coverage
- Blogs, newsletters and podcasts; not a news wire
- Language support
- English-language communities in practice; no list published
- Interface languages
- EN
Best For
- Primary audience
- Developer-tool companies, indie founders and technical marketers who need to know when their product comes up on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub or a niche forum. Coverage no enterprise listening suite provides at any price.
- Regional focus
- Global, English-language developer communities
Similar platforms
Other social listening & media monitoring tools, cheapest published price first.