Brand24 vs Influencity
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 assessmentInfluencity compared with Brand24
Only overlaps on Influencity's Enterprise tier. Brand24 does social listening as its whole product, at small-business prices, with a free trial and no sales call. If listening is what you actually need, buying Brand24 alongside a cheaper discovery tool will cost less than an Influencity Enterprise contract. Influencity's advantage is that a mention and a creator record live in the same system, which matters only once influencer marketing is the primary program rather than a side channel.
Choose Brand24 if
In-house comms teams, PR and social agencies, and marketing teams at companies large enough to have a reputation worth watching, particularly those that want conventional media monitoring and LLM visibility tracking in a single subscription and a single monthly report.
Choose Influencity if
Agencies and in-house brand teams running influencer programs continuously rather than occasionally, who need the whole workflow (search, vet, list, outreach, campaign, track, report) in one system and can justify roughly $4,000 a year for it.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Brand24 | Influencity |
|---|---|---|
| Category | PR | Influencer |
| Starting price | $199 per month billed annually on Individual ($249 month to month) (14 days trial) | $318 per month billed annually ($3,816 per year), or $398 per month billed monthly (7 days trial) |
| Pricing model | Subscription priced by keyword count and monthly mention volume, with collection frequency and AI features gated by tier. Seats are unlimited from the Team plan upward. Annual billing is roughly 15 to 20 percent cheaper than monthly. There is no free plan; every tier begins with a 14 day trial that does not require a card. | Subscription with metered monthly allowances rather than seats alone. The public self-serve tier is Professional, priced per month with a discount and higher quotas for annual billing; everything above it is a quote-only Enterprise plan. Meters cover search results, profile analyses, outreach emails, stored projects, tracked content, campaign reports, and post analyses. Social listening and social media management sit entirely on Enterprise. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card required | 7 days on all plans, advertised as no credit card required |
| Best for | In-house comms teams, PR and social agencies, and marketing teams at companies large enough to have a reputation worth watching, particularly those that want conventional media monitoring and LLM visibility tracking in a single subscription and a single monthly report. | Agencies and in-house brand teams running influencer programs continuously rather than occasionally, who need the whole workflow (search, vet, list, outreach, campaign, track, report) in one system and can justify roughly $4,000 a year for it. |
| Setup time | A first project is running in under fifteen minutes: enter keywords, choose sources, set alert rules. The work that actually determines whether the tool is useful is the following week of pruning false positives out of the query, which takes a few sessions on any brand name that is also a common word. | An account is live in minutes and the first searches can run the same day. Getting to a running campaign takes longer: connecting the email sending address, building segmentation lists, and setting up a project with deliverables is realistically a first week of work. |
| Learning curve | Low to moderate. The mention feed and filters are self explanatory; the scoring metrics take longer, because Presence Score and Reputation Score are only meaningful as trends and new users often over-interpret a single number. Boolean query design is the genuine skill, and Context Search exists precisely to let people skip it. | Moderate. Reviewers commonly describe about two weeks before a team feels fluent, driven by the breadth of the interface and by learning which actions consume which meters. The habit that takes longest to build is vetting discipline, since profile analyses are a capped resource rather than a free click. |
| Platforms | Web application, iOS app, Android app, Slack app, REST API, MCP server | Web application, Shopify (seeding, Enterprise tier), Social network integrations for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch |
| Compliance | GDPR, ISO 27001 | GDPR |
| Founded | 2011 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Wroclaw, Poland | Madrid, Spain |
| Ownership | Majority owned by Semrush through its Prowly subsidiary (controlling stake acquired April 2024, later increased to roughly 77 percent); shares remain listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange | Independent, venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Brand24
Strengths
- Very broad source coverage for the price, spanning social, news, blogs, forums, podcasts, and review sites in a single project rather than across several tools.
- AI Visibility tracking across nine LLM surfaces bundled into a listening platform, ahead of most conventional monitoring competitors on this specific capability.
- Unlimited user seats from the Team plan upward, which makes it unusually agency friendly compared with per seat listening tools.
- Storm Alerts and anomaly detection are genuinely tuned for crisis response rather than being a fixed volume threshold.
Limitations
- No free plan and a $199 per month entry point, which puts it out of reach for the smallest businesses regardless of fit.
- Keyword limits apply across all projects combined, so competitor tracking and brand tracking compete for the same small allowance.
- Mention quotas are hard monthly caps; exceeding them halts collection for the remainder of the cycle rather than charging an overage.
- Real time collection is gated to Pro, meaning the entry and mid tiers update on a 12 hour or hourly cycle that is too slow for genuine crisis work.
Influencity
Strengths
- One of the larger creator databases available on a self-serve plan, with more than 300 million profiles and audience-level rather than profile-level filtering.
- Audience credibility and follower authenticity data that is good enough to kill a bad shortlist before money is committed, consistently the most-praised part in user reviews.
- The full workflow in one place: discovery, vetting, CRM, outreach, campaign stages, content tracking, and reporting, rather than a database with a dead end after search.
- White-label reporting and a project structure that mirrors how agencies actually run client work, a direct legacy of the company's agency years.
Limitations
- Discovery covers only Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch. There is no LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, or Facebook creator search, and Twitch coverage is thin next to the other three.
- Social listening and the entire Social Hub (publishing, inbox, analytics, bio links, paid ads) are absent from the Professional plan, so the suite the marketing site describes is only purchasable at a negotiated price.
- Instagram Stories performance is not pulled in automatically, which reviewers cite repeatedly; Stories-heavy campaigns need manual collection.
- TikTok audience data is shallower than Instagram's, notably the absence of city-level audience geography that Instagram profiles provide.
Pricing compared
Brand24
Subscription priced by keyword count and monthly mention volume, with collection frequency and AI features gated by tier. Seats are unlimited from the Team plan upward. Annual billing is roughly 15 to 20 percent cheaper than monthly. There is no free plan; every tier begins with a 14 day trial that does not require a card.
- Individual$199
- Team$299
- Pro$399
- Business$599
- EnterpriseFrom $1,499
Judged against the enterprise listening platforms it competes with on capability, Brand24 is inexpensive; judged against what a small business expects to pay for brand monitoring, it is not cheap at all. The honest framing is that the entry plan is priced for a company with a brand worth defending, not for a solo operator, and that most buyers who need the product for crisis response will land on Pro at $399 because that is where real time collection lives. The AI Visibility module is the strongest value argument right now, since buying LLM tracking separately typically costs as much again. Agencies get the best return because unlimited seats from the Team plan upward mean the cost does not scale with headcount, only with keywords.
Influencity
Subscription with metered monthly allowances rather than seats alone. The public self-serve tier is Professional, priced per month with a discount and higher quotas for annual billing; everything above it is a quote-only Enterprise plan. Meters cover search results, profile analyses, outreach emails, stored projects, tracked content, campaign reports, and post analyses. Social listening and social media management sit entirely on Enterprise.
- Professional (monthly)$398
- Professional (annual)$318
- EnterpriseCustom
Per dollar, the influencer stack on the annual Professional plan is competitive: a database of this size with audience-level filtering, a CRM, campaign workflow, automated content tracking, and white-label reporting for around $3,800 a year is roughly what a single freelance influencer coordinator costs in a month. The problem is the shape of the commitment rather than the amount. There is no free plan, the trial is a week, the monthly option is single-user, and the modules that make Influencity look like a suite (listening, publishing, inbox, seeding, payments) are all on the quote-only tier. For an agency or a brand running continuous programs, the maths works comfortably. For a small business running quarterly campaigns, the per-campaign cost is high enough that a cheaper discovery-only tool plus a spreadsheet is a defensible choice.
Editorial verdict on each
Brand24
Brand24 is the most capable listening platform a mid-sized team can buy without entering an enterprise procurement process, and its early bet on LLM visibility tracking is currently its sharpest differentiator: one subscription covers both what the web says about you and what the models repeat. The scoring layer, the unlimited seats above the entry plan, and the export formats explain why agencies keep choosing it. The reservations are concrete rather than stylistic. Keyword allowances are counted across all projects and run out fast, mention quotas are hard caps that stop collection mid-crisis, real time monitoring does not appear until the $399 tier, and there is no free plan to test the fit before committing. It is also monitoring only, with no path from knowing what was said to influencing what gets written next. Buy it if reputation reporting is part of someone's job description and $199 to $399 per month is a defensible line item; look elsewhere if you simply want to know when your name comes up.
Read the full Brand24 profileInfluencity
Influencity is one of the few influencer platforms that is genuinely end-to-end and still publishes a price you can pay without a procurement cycle. The database is large, the audience credibility data is good enough to change decisions, and the campaign, tracking, and white-label reporting layer reflects a decade of the company actually running campaigns before it sold software. The reservation is about who it fits. There is no free plan, the trial is a week, the monthly option is single-user, discovery stops at four networks, and the modules that make the homepage look like a suite (listening, publishing, inbox, seeding, payments) all sit behind a quote-only Enterprise tier. Agencies and brands with continuous influencer programs will find the annual Professional plan good value and should buy it annually rather than monthly. Businesses running a campaign a quarter should be honest that this is a roughly $3,800 commitment for occasional use, and start somewhere cheaper.
Read the full Influencity profileBrand24 profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Influencity last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.