JustReachOut vs Qwoted
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 assessmentQwoted compared with JustReachOut
Different theories of earned media. JustReachOut is proactive: you search for journalists and publications covering your topic and pitch them cold, with prospecting and email sequencing built in. Qwoted is reactive: you answer requests that already exist and let reporters find your profile. Proactive outreach gives you control over timing and target; reactive sourcing gives you a far higher reply rate because the journalist asked for the pitch. Most people doing this seriously run both, and if you can only run one, start with Qwoted's free tier because it costs nothing to test.
Choose JustReachOut if
Founders, small-business owners, authors, and solo PR consultants who intend to pitch journalists themselves, want live source requests and verified reporter emails in one place, and value written guidance and coaching as much as the database itself.
Choose Qwoted if
Founders, consultants, and subject matter experts in business, finance, technology, and health who want to earn quotes in real publications, plus small PR agencies that need a source-request channel and a shared reporting view without an enterprise media database contract.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | JustReachOut | Qwoted |
|---|---|---|
| Category | PR | PR |
| Starting price | $147 per month (Starter, billed monthly) or $98 per month billed annually (7 days trial) | Free (Basic, 2 pitches per month); Pro listed at $149 per month (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly subscription tiered by monthly email sends, team members, and number of brands, with a roughly 33 percent discount for annual billing. Every tier includes the full toolset; what changes is volume, seats, brand count, and how much human PR help is attached. No contracts, cancel anytime. | Per-account subscription for sources and PR professionals, metered by monthly pitch credits. Journalists use the platform free. The free Basic plan keeps your profile searchable but caps you at two pitches a month and delays new requests by two hours; Pro removes the delay and adds the research features; Teams is quoted for multi-seat accounts. |
| Free plan | No | Basic: 2 pitch credits per month, 2 hour delay on new opportunities, profile stays in the journalist-searchable database, real-time alerts and daily opportunity email included |
| Free trial | 7 days, credit card required | No standard time-limited trial; the free Basic plan is the trial |
| Best for | Founders, small-business owners, authors, and solo PR consultants who intend to pitch journalists themselves, want live source requests and verified reporter emails in one place, and value written guidance and coaching as much as the database itself. | Founders, consultants, and subject matter experts in business, finance, technology, and health who want to earn quotes in real publications, plus small PR agencies that need a source-request channel and a shared reporting view without an enterprise media database contract. |
| Setup time | Under an hour to a first pitch. Account creation, from-address and signature setup, and a first keyword subscription are all self-serve, and the Pitch Requests feed has usable opportunities on day one without any data import. | Under an hour to a working account. The profile, biography, headshot, and expertise tags are the only setup, and there is nothing to install or integrate. Getting the tags right matters more than getting them fast. |
| Learning curve | The software is simple; the discipline is not. The skill that determines results is writing a pitch a busy reporter will answer and choosing angles that are genuinely newsworthy, which is why the product ships so much written guidance and sells strategy calls at higher tiers. Expect a few weeks of sending before the reply rate becomes informative. | Low mechanically, real in practice. The skill is writing a pitch a journalist can paste: lead with the quotable line, keep it to a few short paragraphs, include credentials and a photo, and hit send within the first hour. Sources who treat the credit as scarce outperform those who spend all thirty five. |
| Platforms | Web application (browser only), Email sending from your own from-address | Web application, Email alerts and daily digest, Mobile web |
| Compliance | GDPR, CAN-SPAM | GDPR, CCPA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | United States (distributed team) | New York, New York, United States |
| Ownership | Majority stake acquired by Adam White, founder of SEOJet, in late 2020 in a reported high six-figure deal; founder Dmitry Dragilev retained a minority stake. Jon Mest has served as CEO since 2024. | Majority owned by Vested (financial communications agency), with a strategic investment from Prosek Ventures, the venture arm of Prosek Partners |
Strengths and limitations
JustReachOut
Strengths
- One of the very few media outreach products with published prices, a self-serve signup, and no annual contract, which is the entire reason a small business can buy it at all.
- Human-verified email addresses instead of pattern-guessed ones, which shows up directly in bounce rates.
- The Pitch Requests feed aggregates six sources of live journalist queries, which is the highest-conversion way for an unknown company to get quoted and became scarcer after HARO's free service was retired.
- The AI pitch engine removes the real bottleneck in DIY PR, which is not finding the journalist but writing something personalized enough to be opened.
Limitations
- The send cap is the binding constraint: 100 emails a month on the $147 tier, and the company deliberately blocks mass sending, so no plan solves a high-volume outreach need.
- No list export and no raw database access; the FAQ answers this directly with a no, which rules out working the data in your own CRM or sequencing tool.
- No public API and effectively no third-party integrations, so pitch activity does not sync to a CRM, a shared inbox, or a reporting stack.
- Contact data freshness is the most repeated complaint in public reviews, particularly for reporters who have changed outlets, despite the manual verification step.
Qwoted
Strengths
- The strongest remaining source-request marketplace after Connectively shut down in December 2024, with real journalists from national business and finance outlets posting requests.
- Discoverability is free: profiles stay searchable by reporters on every plan, so the inbound half of the product costs nothing.
- Unusually strong in business, finance, and fintech beats, a direct consequence of being built by financial communications firms.
- Pitch intelligence gives a measurable open and reply rate, which almost nothing else in earned media does at this price.
Limitations
- Purely reactive: there is no way to pitch a publication that has not posted a request, so campaign timing is not yours to control.
- The free plan's two hour delay is decisive on competitive requests, which regularly close before a Basic user can respond.
- Thirty five Pro credits a month is a real ceiling for anyone managing several clients or spokespeople, and pushes agencies toward a quoted Teams contract.
- Backlinks are unreliable; major outlets nofollow or omit source links, so buying this as an SEO tool sets the wrong expectation.
Pricing compared
JustReachOut
Flat monthly subscription tiered by monthly email sends, team members, and number of brands, with a roughly 33 percent discount for annual billing. Every tier includes the full toolset; what changes is volume, seats, brand count, and how much human PR help is attached. No contracts, cancel anytime.
- Starter Outreach$147
- Advanced Outreach$247
- Ultimate Outreach$497
- Jumpstart Program$417
- White Glove$1,997
Judged against the media database category, JustReachOut is inexpensive: Muck Rack and Cision quote annual contracts in the thousands and rarely publish a number, while $98 to $147 a month is a purchase a solo founder can actually authorize. Judged against what a small business sends, the value is less obvious, because 100 pitches a month for $147 is expensive per email and the tool refuses to let you scale the volume, by design. The right way to price it is per placement: if the Pitch Requests feed and the narrative guidance produce two pieces of coverage a quarter that you would otherwise have paid an agency for, the Starter plan pays for itself many times over. If you already know exactly who to pitch and simply need addresses, this is a costly way to buy them.
Qwoted
Per-account subscription for sources and PR professionals, metered by monthly pitch credits. Journalists use the platform free. The free Basic plan keeps your profile searchable but caps you at two pitches a month and delays new requests by two hours; Pro removes the delay and adds the research features; Teams is quoted for multi-seat accounts.
- Basic$0
- Pro$149
- TeamsCustom
The free plan is the most interesting thing about the pricing, because discoverability is not gated behind it: a well-built free profile can earn coverage without a single pitch credit being spent. Pro at $149 list is expensive against two plausible comparisons, a $99 a month competitor with a similar model and simply spending the time on direct outreach, and the honest test is whether thirty five credits a month convert into more than one placement you would otherwise have missed. For agencies the Teams tier is easier to justify because reporting is the billable artifact. For a solo expert, start free, tag the profile properly, and upgrade only when the two-credit cap is visibly costing you opportunities.
Editorial verdict on each
JustReachOut
JustReachOut is one of the few PR tools built on the assumption that the buyer is the person doing the pitching. It publishes its prices, sells without a contract, verifies its email addresses by hand, and pairs a 700,000-contact journalist database with an aggregated feed of live source requests plus an AI writer that removes the personalization bottleneck. For a founder, author, or solo consultant, that is a coherent product at a price a small business can authorize, and the surrounding education is better than most of the category. The constraints are real and worth stating before you buy: the send cap is low and intentional, there is no list export and no API, coverage ends at the pitch with no monitoring on the other side, and public reviews consistently flag contact freshness. Buy it if the hard part of your PR is knowing who to pitch and what to say; do not buy it expecting an outreach engine, a CRM, or a coverage report.
Read the full JustReachOut profileQwoted
Qwoted is the sensible default in a category that lost its default when Connectively closed. The two-sided mechanics work, the request supply in business and finance beats is real, and pitch intelligence gives you an honest number for a channel that usually runs on anecdote. The best argument for it is the free plan, which keeps your profile searchable by journalists without charging you anything, so inbound placements can happen before you ever swipe a card. The arguments against it are worth taking seriously: $149 list for thirty five credits is steep next to cheaper rivals, the platform is entirely reactive so you cannot run a campaign on your own schedule, backlinks are not something you should count on, and Teams pricing is quote-only. Build a properly tagged free profile first, measure how often relevant requests appear in your actual beat, and upgrade only when the two-credit cap is demonstrably the thing standing between you and coverage.
Read the full Qwoted profileJustReachOut profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Qwoted last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.