Agility PR Solutions vs Anewstip
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentAgility PR Solutions compared with Anewstip
Anewstip solves one narrow problem well and cheaply: searching what journalists have written and tweeted to find the right contact, with published pricing and a usable free tier. It is a targeting tool, not a platform, with no broadcast monitoring, no analyst services, and no reporting layer. Teams often run Anewstip alongside something larger for exactly that reason. Choosing between them is not a real comparison unless your entire requirement is finding contacts, in which case Anewstip wins on price by an order of magnitude.
Choose Agility PR Solutions if
Funded small businesses, in-house comms teams of two to ten, and small PR agencies that need media outreach and full-spectrum monitoring in one annual contract, value broadcast and print coverage that self-serve tools do not track, and want the option of human analysts producing the executive report.
Choose Anewstip if
Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Agility PR Solutions | Anewstip |
|---|---|---|
| Category | PR | PR |
| Starting price | Quote only; buyers publicly report realistic entry points in the low five figures per year | Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Quote-only, modular, annual. Nothing is published: price is set per account based on which modules you buy (media relations, monitoring, social listening, intelligence, newswire, Visibility Intelligence), the number of seats, monitoring volume and source types, and whether you add managed analyst services. The standard billing cycle is annual, with other frequencies available by negotiation. There is no free plan and no self-serve signup. | Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only. |
| Free plan | No | 1 user, unlimited email and phone reveals, 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts, 2 alerts, and zero pitches per month |
| Free trial | No | 7 days on Standard and Professional, converting to a paid subscription automatically unless cancelled |
| Best for | Funded small businesses, in-house comms teams of two to ten, and small PR agencies that need media outreach and full-spectrum monitoring in one annual contract, value broadcast and print coverage that self-serve tools do not track, and want the option of human analysts producing the executive report. | Founders, solo PR consultants, and small in-house teams who want to build a targeted journalist list from what reporters actually wrote, and who value unlimited contact reveals over polished software. The free tier makes it a reasonable permanent research companion even for teams that pitch from a different tool. |
| Setup time | Days to a few weeks. The contract and scoping conversation come first, then an assisted onboarding covering search configuration, dashboard setup, and list building. Monitoring searches usually need a round of tuning after the first week of results before the noise level is acceptable. | Minutes. Registration is self-serve, there is nothing to install or connect, and the first useful search happens on the free plan before any payment. Building a first media list of a few dozen contacts is an afternoon of query iteration rather than a project. |
| Learning curve | Moderate. Pitching and list building are straightforward. Boolean search construction for monitoring is the real skill, and badly built searches are the most common cause of a customer concluding the data is poor when the query is the problem. The support team will build searches for you, which is worth using early rather than late. | Low mechanically, higher editorially. The search syntax and filters are straightforward; the skill that decides results is choosing query phrases specific enough to surface genuinely relevant writers and disciplined enough not to fill a list with anyone who mentioned your category in passing. |
| Platforms | Web application, Email alerts and digests, Mobile web | Web application, ClipCoverage Google Slides add-on (separate product and account) |
| Compliance | GDPR, CCPA | No published SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent attestation, Card payments handled by Stripe, so card data is not stored on Anewstip servers, Privacy policy includes a section addressed to journalists and other indexed individuals |
| Founded | 2003 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Hong Kong (terms of service governed by California law, San Francisco jurisdiction) |
| Ownership | Subsidiary of Innodata Inc. (NASDAQ: INOD), acquired 2014 | Independent, founder-operated |
Strengths and limitations
Agility PR Solutions
Strengths
- One of the few platforms in this category that genuinely covers broadcast, radio, print, and podcast coverage rather than only indexing the web.
- Outreach and measurement live in the same system, so the coverage report is built from the same data as the pitch list.
- Human analyst services are available on top of the software, which no self-serve competitor can match at any price.
- Onboarding and account support are consistently the highest-rated part of the experience in user reviews.
Limitations
- No published pricing, no free plan, and no self-serve trial; evaluation means a sales cycle, and the practical entry point reported by buyers is five figures a year.
- Annual contracts renew on a notice period, and multiple former customers report being invoiced for an additional year after missing a written cancellation deadline. This is the most consistent complaint about the company and it is commercial, not technical.
- Database records go stale in places: users report generic info@ addresses, journalists who have changed outlets, and beats miscategorized enough to sink a campaign.
- Coverage thins in smaller markets and narrow verticals, so niche B2B targeting often needs supplementing with a specialist database or manual research.
Anewstip
Strengths
- Searching by what journalists actually published beats filtering by assigned beat tags for niche or technical topics, and this is the tool built around that idea.
- Unlimited email and phone reveals on every tier, including free, removes the per-credit anxiety that shapes how teams use most media databases.
- The free plan is usable indefinitely for research, which makes it a low-risk permanent addition to a stack even if you pitch from elsewhere.
- One saved query serves three jobs: a list, an alert, and an AutoList rule that keeps building the list without supervision.
Limitations
- The Twitter and X search, historically the product's defining feature, is labeled deprecated inside the app; if that is why you are looking at Anewstip, it is no longer the reason to buy.
- The company appears to be a one-to-few-person operation with no outside funding since its 2014 founding, which is a genuine continuity risk for a system of record you would keep for years.
- The public site is visibly stale: the customer count is footnoted as of August 2018, testimonials date to the Twitter era, a Google Plus link survives in the markup, and the footer's about, blog, and contact links resolve to 404 pages.
- The terms of service carry a December 2014 effective date and the privacy policy is generic template text with no named GDPR lawful basis, no data processing agreement, and no subprocessor list, which will stall enterprise or EU procurement.
Pricing compared
Agility PR Solutions
Quote-only, modular, annual. Nothing is published: price is set per account based on which modules you buy (media relations, monitoring, social listening, intelligence, newswire, Visibility Intelligence), the number of seats, monitoring volume and source types, and whether you add managed analyst services. The standard billing cycle is annual, with other frequencies available by negotiation. There is no free plan and no self-serve signup.
- Media RelationsCustom quote
- Media MonitoringCustom quote
- Media Intelligence and managed servicesCustom quote
- NewswireFlat fee per release
Agility competes on breadth and on people, and both are real. For a team that needs broadcast, print, and podcast coverage captured properly, plus an analyst who will turn it into something a chief executive reads, the annual number is defensible against the alternative of a monitoring subscription, a database subscription, a wire account, and a junior hire to stitch them together. What it is not is a small purchase. With no published price, no free plan, and a five-figure practical floor, it sits at the upper edge of what this directory considers small-business buyable, and the value question is decided almost entirely by whether you will use the services layer. Buy the software alone and you are paying platform prices for capability that Prowly or a monitoring specialist would sell you cheaper and self-serve.
Anewstip
Subscription with four tiers, metered on pitch volume, number of media lists, contacts per list, and number of alerts. Access to journalist email addresses and phone numbers is unlimited on every tier including the free plan, which is unusual for this category. Pitch capacity can be topped up with one-time, non-expiring point packages. Standard bills monthly or annually; Professional is annual only.
- Free$0
- Standard$200
- Professional$400
- PartnersCustom
Judged purely on capability per dollar for research, Anewstip is one of the best offers in the category, because the free tier does not withhold the thing every competitor charges for. A founder can identify and reach the right forty journalists for the price of a single point package. The judgment gets harder at $200 per month, where Standard buys one user, 1,000 sends, and twenty lists against competitors that charge two to five times as much but ship modern software, coverage reporting, CRM-grade relationship history, and support you can rely on. The honest framing is that you are buying a database and a search engine at a fair price, with dated tooling wrapped around it, from a company small enough that continuity is a real consideration.
Editorial verdict on each
Agility PR Solutions
Agility PR Solutions is a real platform doing a real job that most of this category avoids: capturing coverage across broadcast, radio, print, and podcasts, not just the indexable web, and putting human analysts behind the reporting when the audience is a board rather than a marketing team. The outreach side is competent, PR CoPilot is genuinely useful, and Visibility Intelligence is an early and credible answer to measuring brand presence inside AI answer engines. The reservations are commercial rather than technical. Nothing is priced publicly, there is no free plan and no self-serve trial, the practical floor runs into five figures a year, and the annual contract renews on a notice period that has caught out enough customers to be a documented pattern rather than an anecdote. Buy it if broadcast and print coverage matter to your board and you intend to use the services layer; if what you actually need is a database and a pitching inbox, cheaper published-price tools will do that without a procurement cycle.
Read the full Agility PR Solutions profileAnewstip
Anewstip is the cheapest credible way to answer the question that actually matters in media relations: which specific journalists have already written about the thing I am announcing, and how do I reach them. Searching published articles instead of assigned beat tags produces better lists in niche categories, and giving away unlimited email and phone reveals on a free plan is a genuinely different commercial posture from the rest of the category. Against that, the software is dated, the marketing site has visibly not been touched in years, the tweet search that made the product famous is now marked deprecated, compliance documentation is effectively absent, and the company appears to be one person. Buy it as a research utility, on Standard's month-to-month terms or the free plan, keep exports of anything you would miss, and do not expect it to be the system of record a growing PR function will need in three years.
Read the full Anewstip profileAgility PR Solutions profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Anewstip last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.