Is Anewstip or EIN Presswire cheaper?

Anewstip starts at Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants (free plan available). EIN Presswire starts at $149 for a single press release (Basic).

Anewstip vs EIN Presswire

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 assessment

Anewstip compared with EIN Presswire

Different jobs that get confused because both are cheap. EIN Presswire distributes a press release to a wire network and syndicated sites for around $100 or less per release, producing published pickup with no relationship attached. Anewstip finds specific journalists and emails them individually. Announcement-shaped news with an SEO goal suits the wire; a story that needs a reporter to actually write it needs the pitch. Many small teams sensibly do both, wiring the release and pitching the twenty people who might cover it properly.

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.

Choose EIN Presswire if

Small businesses, agencies, and in-house marketers who need a credible, low-friction way to publish a handful of announcements a year: funding news, launches, hires, awards, and event notices, with a distribution report to show for it and no subscription to maintain between releases.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Anewstip	EIN Presswire
Category	PR	PR
Starting price	Free; paid plans from $200 per month (Standard), with a $99 per month early-stage plan for eligible applicants (free plan available)	$149 for a single press release (Basic)
Pricing model	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.	Pay per release, sold as prepaid credit packages rather than a subscription. There is no platform fee, no per-seat charge, and no contract; credits expire 365 days after purchase. Higher packages lower the effective per-release cost and also raise the limits on word count, images, country targets, and industry targets.
Free plan	1 user, unlimited email and phone reveals, 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts, 2 alerts, and zero pitches per month	No
Free trial	7 days on Standard and Professional, converting to a paid subscription automatically unless cancelled	No
Best for	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.	Small businesses, agencies, and in-house marketers who need a credible, low-friction way to publish a handful of announcements a year: funding news, launches, hires, awards, and event notices, with a distribution report to show for it and no subscription to maintain between releases.
Setup time	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.	Account creation is immediate but the one-time verification can take up to two business days, so allow a week between signing up and a first deadline. Once verified, a release goes from submission to distribution in roughly two hours during business hours.
Learning curve	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.	Very low as software. The real skill is writing a release that survives editorial review and gives a reporter something to work with: a factual headline, a lead that carries the news, a quote that says something, and no promotional adjectives. Most first submissions get returned for the last of those.
Platforms	Web application, ClipCoverage Google Slides add-on (separate product and account)	Web application, Hosted newsroom pages, Email delivery to journalist contacts, Mobile news apps operated by the parent company
Compliance	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	GDPR (EU customers and contacts), CCPA, Editorial guidelines enforced by human review
Founded	2014	1995
Headquarters	Hong Kong (terms of service governed by California law, San Francisco jurisdiction)	Washington, DC, United States
Ownership	Independent, founder-operated	Operating division of Newsmatics Inc., an independent privately held US company (formerly IPD Group)

Strengths and limitations

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.

EIN Presswire

Strengths

Genuinely low barrier to entry: no subscription, no contract, no seats, and a single release costs $149.
Recognizable placements, particularly AP News and network affiliate sites, which carry disproportionate weight in a client report or an investor update.
Human editorial review keeps obvious spam out of the network, which is part of why the partner list has held together.
Fifty-plus industry newswires plus country and state channels give a small company reasonable control over who the release is aimed at.

Limitations

Every link in the network is nofollow, so buying releases as an SEO backlink strategy does not work and has not for years.
Google's 2023 and 2024 updates specifically devalued thin syndicated content, which reduced the organic search benefit of wire copy across the whole category.
Distribution is guaranteed, editorial pickup is not, and much of the visible 'coverage' is automated syndication rather than a journalist choosing your story.
A meaningful share of the network consists of low-traffic aggregator and affiliate pages, so the count of publishing outlets in a report overstates the reach a human being actually saw.

Pricing compared

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.

EIN Presswire

Pay per release, sold as prepaid credit packages rather than a subscription. There is no platform fee, no per-seat charge, and no contract; credits expire 365 days after purchase. Higher packages lower the effective per-release cost and also raise the limits on word count, images, country targets, and industry targets.

Basic$149
Pro+$499
Corporate$999

Against the traditional wires this remains the cheap end of the market: a single Basic release costs a fraction of a comparable PR Newswire or Business Wire distribution, and the Corporate package brings the per-release figure to roughly what a freelancer charges to write one. Against the media-relations software in this category the comparison is not like for like, because you are buying distribution events rather than a database and a workflow. The value judgment turns on what you actually want. If you need a credible, indexed, third-party record of your news and a report to show for it, the economics are good. If you want a journalist to write an original story, the money is better spent on Muck Rack, Qwoted, or a person who can pitch.

Editorial verdict on each

Anewstip

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.

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EIN Presswire

EIN Presswire is one of the few things in the PR category a small business can buy outright: $149, no subscription, a release published across a network that includes names a client or an investor recognizes, and a report proving where it went. That is a real and honestly priced product, and the human editorial review is a large part of why the network still carries weight. Be clear-eyed about what it is not. The links are nofollow and always have been, the search value of syndicated release copy has fallen sharply since 2023, much of the outlet count in a distribution report is automated republication rather than a person reading your story, and nothing here obliges a journalist to write anything. Buy it when you have genuine news and need it published, indexed, and citable. If what you actually want is coverage, spend the money on Muck Rack, Qwoted, or a person who can pitch, and treat the wire as the record rather than the campaign.

Read the full EIN Presswire profile

Anewstip profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; EIN Presswire last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.