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7 Best Radarr Alternatives for Social Listening and Brand Monitoring in 2026

Compare 7 Radarr alternatives on pricing transparency, self-serve access, and listening depth, plus one AI-answer visibility tool for brands that also need to track how they show up in ChatGPT and Gemini.

Updated July 3, 2026  ·  7 tools reviewed
Key takeaways
  • Sprinklr unifies listening with direct customer engagement across 30+ channels and AI Agents, the same combination Radarr offers but at enterprise scale, with no published pricing on either.
  • Onclusive Social matches Radarr's enterprise, demo-gated positioning but adds a dedicated Sentinel crisis detection module Radarr does not have.
  • Pulsar Platform adds community-level audience segmentation across 195 countries on top of the brand monitoring Radarr offers, also with no public pricing.
  • Hootsuite is the only alternative here with published, self-serve pricing from $99/month, trading some listening depth for price transparency Radarr does not offer.
  • Buska and Trigify both go narrower than Radarr, focused on sales buying-signal detection rather than brand sentiment and CX, at $49/month and $40/month respectively.
  • AI Peekaboo tracks brand mentions inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity answers, a category Radarr does not cover at all, with a read/write API and white-label reporting from $50/month.

Radarr combines brand sentiment tracking, competitor monitoring, influencer identification, and direct customer engagement in one platform, a genuinely useful combination for CX and marketing teams. But there is no public pricing, no free tier, no self-serve trial, and Radarr has entered an acquisition agreement with Genesys that adds real roadmap uncertainty for anyone planning a multi-year commitment. We looked at seven alternatives: Sprinklr for teams that want the listening-plus-engagement combination at enterprise scale, Onclusive Social and Pulsar Platform for the closest feature-for-feature listening depth, Hootsuite for a self-serve entry point with published pricing, Buska and Trigify for teams whose real need is sales-signal detection rather than brand CX, and AI Peekaboo for teams that also need to know how their brand shows up in ChatGPT and Gemini answers, a question none of the other six touch. That last one is not a like-for-like Radarr replacement, it is a complementary category, and we say so plainly below.

Tools at a glance

ToolStarting priceBest forTop strength
SprinklrContact for pricingCX teams that want Radarr's listening-plus-engagement combination at enterprise scale, with automated AI Agents handling inbound support rather than routing everything to a human.Extends Radarr's listening-plus-engagement idea across 30+ channels instead of core social platforms
Onclusive SocialCustomCommunications and PR teams that used Radarr mainly for sentiment and competitor monitoring and want dedicated crisis detection added on top.Sentinel crisis module fires alerts on abnormal sentiment spikes, a feature Radarr does not have
Pulsar PlatformContact for pricingBrand and insights teams that want Radarr-style sentiment and competitor tracking plus genuine audience segmentation across a much wider set of global sources.Audience segmentation shows how different communities discuss a brand, beyond Radarr's aggregate sentiment view
Hootsuite$99/monthTeams that want a Radarr-like listening and engagement workflow with published, self-serve pricing and a trial to test it before buying.Published pricing from $99/month and a 14-day trial, unlike Radarr's demo-only access
Buska$49/monthTeams whose actual Radarr use case was closer to sales prospecting than brand sentiment or CX, and want published pricing with CRM push built in.Published, self-serve pricing from $49/month, unlike Radarr's demo-only access
Trigify$40/moTeams whose real Radarr use case was outbound sales-signal detection, confirmed by Radarr's own product positioning as a better fit for tools like Trigify.API, MCP server, and CLI access on every plan, none of which Radarr offers
AI Peekaboo$50/moBrands and agencies replacing Radarr for social listening who also need to track how their brand appears in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, a surface Radarr does not cover.Tracks brand mentions in AI answers, a category Radarr does not address at all
About Radarr

Social listening and CX platform for brand sentiment, competitors, and customer engagement

Radarr screenshot
Brand Sentiment Tracking

Radarr monitors brand mentions across social platforms and tracks how sentiment shifts over time. Teams can segment by channel, geography, or time period to identify where positive or negative sentiment is concentrated, which informs both crisis response and channel investment decisions.

Competitor Monitoring

Track competitors alongside your own brand, comparing share of voice, sentiment trends, and topic clusters. Competitor tracking is most useful during product launches, price changes, or industry events when understanding the competitive conversation in real time affects how you respond.

Influencer Identification

Radarr surfaces influencers discussing your brand or category, filterable by geography and engagement rate. For brands running influencer programs, finding people who are already talking about your space organically is more effective than cold-approaching influencers with no existing interest.

Customer Engagement

Beyond passive monitoring, Radarr lets teams engage with customers directly from the platform. This social CRM capability is what distinguishes it from pure listening tools, particularly for customer service teams that need to triage and respond to social mentions at scale.

Deep Social Analytics

Analytics dashboards surface volume trends, sentiment breakdowns, topic clustering, and geographic distribution. The reporting layer is built for marketing teams that need to present results to stakeholders, with export and sharing options for client-facing or executive reporting.

Now let's dive into the tools

Sprinklr

Enterprise CX platform unifying social listening, support, and marketing under one AI layer

Full review →#1
Sprinklr screenshot

Sprinklr is the closest thing to a Radarr replacement at enterprise scale. Both platforms pair listening with direct customer engagement, but Sprinklr extends that combination across 30+ social and messaging channels through its Insights, Marketing, Social, and Service suites, versus Radarr's narrower social-and-CX scope. Microsoft uses Sprinklr to analyze 8.6 billion mentions for its own product marketing team, a scale well past what Radarr's feature set is built for.

The AI Agents are the meaningful upgrade. Where Radarr's customer engagement tools let a human respond to social mentions from within the platform, Sprinklr's AI Agents can handle inbound support automatically across channels, with human agents getting AI Copilot assistance for the interactions that still need a person.

Neither platform publishes pricing, so the procurement experience is similar: a demo, a sales process, and for Sprinklr specifically, an implementation that typically runs several months with professional services support. If you are leaving Radarr because the Genesys acquisition made its roadmap uncertain, Sprinklr is the more established, better-resourced version of the same listening-plus-engagement idea, at a proportionally larger commitment.

Pricing
Feature
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
Social listening
Customer support (30+ channels)
AI Agents (automated support)
API access
Pros
  • Extends Radarr's listening-plus-engagement idea across 30+ channels instead of core social platforms
  • AI Agents automate inbound support, beyond what Radarr's engagement tools attempt
  • Established, independently operated product without acquisition-related roadmap risk
Cons
  • No published pricing, matching Radarr's own opacity rather than improving on it
  • Implementation takes several months with professional services support
  • Significantly more platform than a mid-market team replacing Radarr likely needs
Best for: CX teams that want Radarr's listening-plus-engagement combination at enterprise scale, with automated AI Agents handling inbound support rather than routing everything to a human.

Onclusive Social

Enterprise social listening across 25+ platforms with dedicated crisis detection

Full review →#2
Onclusive Social screenshot

Onclusive Social, formerly Digimind, sits in the same enterprise, demo-gated bracket as Radarr, and the feature overlap is close: brand sentiment tracking, competitor monitoring, and influencer identification with geographic and engagement filters appear in both. The difference is coverage breadth, Onclusive Social lists 25+ platforms including TikTok and Threads.

Sentinel is the feature Radarr does not have. It watches for abnormal spikes in negative sentiment or conversation volume and fires automated alerts before a story reaches mainstream coverage, purpose-built for communications teams who need early warning rather than a general sentiment dashboard. Multi-language sentiment analysis across French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese also goes further than what Radarr's tool page documents.

What Onclusive Social does not offer is Radarr's built-in customer engagement layer, letting teams respond to mentions from the same interface. It is closer to a pure listening and crisis-detection tool than a listening-plus-CX platform. For teams whose Radarr use case was mostly monitoring and alerting rather than direct engagement, that trade is a fair one.

Pricing
Feature
Contact for pricing
Custom
Platform coverage25+ platforms
Sentinel crisis detection
Multi-language sentiment
Pros
  • Sentinel crisis module fires alerts on abnormal sentiment spikes, a feature Radarr does not have
  • 25+ platform coverage broader than Radarr's documented scope
  • Multi-language sentiment analysis for global brand and PR teams
Cons
  • No built-in customer engagement layer the way Radarr offers
  • No public pricing or self-serve trial, matching Radarr's own procurement friction
  • Digimind-to-Onclusive rebrand has created some confusion about product continuity
Best for: Communications and PR teams that used Radarr mainly for sentiment and competitor monitoring and want dedicated crisis detection added on top.

Pulsar Platform

Audience intelligence combining social listening with community segmentation

Full review →#3
Pulsar Platform screenshot

Pulsar Platform shares Radarr's enterprise positioning and its competitor and sentiment tracking use case, but adds a layer Radarr does not have: audience segmentation. Instead of one sentiment score, Pulsar shows how different communities discuss a brand differently, which feeds directly into targeting and creative decisions rather than just a reputation report.

Coverage is also considerably wider. Pulsar pulls from 195 countries with sentiment detection across all languages, plus territory-specific sources like Weibo, Naver, and VK, and combines social with news, radio, podcasts, print, and TV. Radarr's tool page documents major social platforms only, without that broader media intelligence layer.

Pricing follows the same opaque pattern as Radarr, no public numbers, a required demo, and no free trial mentioned anywhere. Pulsar also lacks Radarr's built-in customer engagement tools; it is positioned for brand and insights research rather than day-to-day social CRM. Teams that valued Radarr specifically for community response tools should look at Sprinklr instead.

Pricing
Feature
Self-Serve SaaS
Contact for pricing
Research and Consultancy
Contact for pricing
Audience segmentationYesYes
Global coverage (195 countries)YesYes
Multi-language sentimentYesYes
Pros
  • Audience segmentation shows how different communities discuss a brand, beyond Radarr's aggregate sentiment view
  • 195-country coverage with territory-specific sources Radarr does not document
  • Combines social, news, radio, podcasts, and TV in one workflow
Cons
  • No built-in customer engagement or social CRM layer like Radarr offers
  • No public pricing or free trial, matching Radarr's own procurement friction
  • Steeper learning curve suited to dedicated research teams rather than lean CX teams
Best for: Brand and insights teams that want Radarr-style sentiment and competitor tracking plus genuine audience segmentation across a much wider set of global sources.

Hootsuite

Social media management platform consolidating publishing, monitoring, and customer care

Full review →#4
Hootsuite screenshot

Hootsuite is the price-transparency answer to Radarr. Where Radarr requires a demo for any pricing information, Hootsuite publishes four tiers starting at $99/month Standard, with a 14-day trial to test the workflow before committing, something none of Radarr's direct enterprise peers offer either.

The feature match is partial. Hootsuite's Lumen module covers brand and competitor monitoring similar to Radarr, and its Nest inbox brings social messages and mentions into one place for response, echoing Radarr's combined listening-and-engagement approach. Trend forecasting up to 90 days ahead is included from the Professional tier at $199/month.

What Hootsuite does not match is Radarr's dedicated influencer identification tooling or its depth of pure brand-sentiment analytics; Hootsuite's strength is the added publishing and content-planning layer Radarr does not attempt. For a team that wants to evaluate a Radarr-like workflow without a sales call, Hootsuite is the only self-serve option in this list.

Pricing
Feature
Standard
$99/month
Professional
$199/month
Advanced
$399/month
Competitor monitoring
Trend forecasting (90 days)
API access
Pros
  • Published pricing from $99/month and a 14-day trial, unlike Radarr's demo-only access
  • Nest inbox mirrors Radarr's combined listening-and-engagement approach
  • Adds content publishing and planning, which Radarr does not offer at all
Cons
  • No dedicated influencer identification tooling to match Radarr's
  • Advanced social listening with AI-powered consumer intelligence requires the Enterprise tier
  • No permanent free plan, only a 14-day trial with posting limits
Best for: Teams that want a Radarr-like listening and engagement workflow with published, self-serve pricing and a trial to test it before buying.

Buska

Social listening across 30+ platforms with AI lead scoring for sales-led signal detection

Full review →#5
Buska screenshot

Buska is a narrower tool than Radarr in one sense and broader in another. It skips brand sentiment reporting and influencer identification entirely, focusing instead on scoring buying signals 0 to 100 across 30+ platforms including Reddit, LinkedIn, Hacker News, G2, and Trustpilot. If your Radarr use case was closer to sales prospecting than brand health tracking, Buska is a sharper tool for that job.

The CRM integrations are a genuine gap Radarr does not fill. Buska pushes qualified leads directly into HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive from the $99/month Growth tier, with published pricing starting at $49/month, a stark contrast to Radarr's demo-only access.

What Buska does not do is Radarr's brand sentiment tracking, competitor share-of-voice comparison, or influencer identification. It is a genuinely different tool wearing similar listening infrastructure. Radarr's own product positioning explicitly points sales-signal-focused teams elsewhere, and Buska is one of the tools that fits that redirection.

Pricing
Feature
Starter
$49/month
Growth
$99/month
Scale
$249/month
Signals monitored51530
AI lead scoring
CRM integrations
Pros
  • Published, self-serve pricing from $49/month, unlike Radarr's demo-only access
  • AI lead scoring and native CRM integrations Radarr does not offer
  • Covers 30+ sales-relevant sources including review sites and developer forums
Cons
  • No brand sentiment tracking or share-of-voice comparison like Radarr provides
  • No influencer identification tooling
  • No free tier, only a 7-day trial to evaluate signal quality
Best for: Teams whose actual Radarr use case was closer to sales prospecting than brand sentiment or CX, and want published pricing with CRM push built in.

Trigify

Person-level buying signals across 11+ platforms, built for API and MCP-first workflows

Full review →#6
Trigify screenshot

Trigify, like Buska, addresses a different need than Radarr covers, and Radarr's own FAQ says as much directly: teams focused on sales-signal detection are better served by tools like Trigify. Where Radarr aggregates brand sentiment, Trigify attaches every signal to a named person across 11+ platforms, from LinkedIn-equivalent networks to X, Reddit, YouTube, and podcasts.

The API, MCP server, and CLI access on every paid plan from $40/month is the sharpest contrast with Radarr, which offers no documented API and no self-serve access at all. For teams that want signal data piped into an AI agent or a CRM automatically, Trigify is built for that from the ground up.

It has no brand-sentiment or competitor-tracking dashboard the way Radarr does, and no influencer identification. If your team is replacing Radarr because you actually needed outbound sales signals rather than brand health monitoring, Trigify is the better-built tool; if you needed the brand and CX side of Radarr, look at Sprinklr, Onclusive Social, or Pulsar Platform instead.

Pricing
Feature
Starter
$40/mo
Max
$199/mo
Enterprise
Custom
API accessYesYesYes
MCP serverYesYesYes
Listening searches25UnlimitedUnlimited
Pros
  • API, MCP server, and CLI access on every plan, none of which Radarr offers
  • Person-level signal attribution across 11+ platforms for outbound sales use cases
  • Published pricing from $40/month versus Radarr's demo-only access
Cons
  • No brand sentiment, competitor share-of-voice, or influencer identification tooling
  • No permanent free tier, only a 14-day trial
  • Not designed for the CX or community engagement use case Radarr addresses
Best for: Teams whose real Radarr use case was outbound sales-signal detection, confirmed by Radarr's own product positioning as a better fit for tools like Trigify.

AI Peekaboo

AI visibility monitoring with a read/write API and white-label delivery

Full review →#7
AI Peekaboo screenshot

AI Peekaboo is not a Radarr replacement, it is worth including because it answers a question Radarr cannot: how does the brand show up when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation, rather than when someone posts about it on social media. Radarr's tool page has no mention of AI-answer or LLM citation tracking anywhere in its feature set, and that gap is exactly the category AI Peekaboo covers.

The mechanics are straightforward: prompts run on a schedule across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode, and the platform records whether and how a brand is mentioned in the resulting answer, plus competitive share-of-voice against the same prompt set. Both a read and write API ship on every plan from $50/month Starter, and white-label guest links let agencies deliver branded reports the same way Radarr's own reporting layer is built for stakeholder-facing output.

The honest framing is that this is a complementary purchase, not a substitute. Teams that need Radarr's brand sentiment, competitor tracking, and customer engagement should not expect AI Peekaboo to replace any of that; it tracks a different surface entirely. It earns a place on this list for brands that are evaluating a Radarr alternative and also realize they have no visibility into how AI answers describe them, a blind spot that is becoming as material as social sentiment for many categories.

Pricing
Feature
Starter
$50/mo
Peek
$100/mo
Grow
$200/mo
Prompts included4040100
AI models tracked555
API access (read + write)
White label
Pros
  • Tracks brand mentions in AI answers, a category Radarr does not address at all
  • Self-serve signup with published pricing from $50/month, unlike Radarr's demo-only access
  • Read and write API plus white-label reporting on every plan
Cons
  • Does not track traditional social platforms, so it cannot replace Radarr's core listening function
  • No customer engagement or social CRM tools like Radarr offers
  • Tracks 5 AI surfaces, with no crawler log data on visits from AI bots
Best for: Brands and agencies replacing Radarr for social listening who also need to track how their brand appears in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, a surface Radarr does not cover.

Which Radarr alternative should you pick?

Default alternative for listening plus engagement at enterprise scaleSprinklr
Closest feature match with added crisis detectionOnclusive Social
Teams that want audience segmentation added to brand trackingPulsar Platform
Teams that want published, self-serve pricing instead of a demoHootsuite
Teams whose real need was sales-signal detection, not brand CXBuska
Teams needing API-first outbound signals, per Radarr's own positioningTrigify
Teams that also need to track brand mentions in AI answersAI Peekaboo

Radarr's combination of brand sentiment tracking, competitor monitoring, and direct customer engagement is a genuinely useful bundle, but the complete absence of public pricing and the pending Genesys acquisition are real reasons to look elsewhere. If the deciding pain is procurement friction and you want published pricing with a trial, Hootsuite at $99/month Standard is the only self-serve option in this rotation, though it trades away some of Radarr's dedicated influencer identification depth. If the deciding pain is that Radarr's feature set feels thin relative to its opacity, Onclusive Social and Pulsar Platform both match its enterprise, demo-gated positioning while adding genuine depth: Sentinel crisis detection on one side, audience segmentation across 195 countries on the other. Sprinklr is the right move if you want Radarr's listening-plus-engagement idea taken to full enterprise CX scale. If your actual Radarr use case turned out to be sales prospecting rather than brand health tracking, both Buska and Trigify are sharper, cheaper, API-accessible tools, and Radarr's own FAQ agrees, pointing sales-signal-focused teams toward exactly this pair. Finally, if part of what pushed you to re-evaluate Radarr is realizing social listening alone no longer covers where your brand gets discovered, AI Peekaboo fills the adjacent AI-answer visibility gap that none of the other six tools touch, though it should be treated as an addition to a Radarr alternative, not a replacement for one.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a Radarr alternative with published, self-serve pricing?

Hootsuite is the only alternative in this rotation with published, self-serve pricing, starting at $99/month Standard with a 14-day trial. Sprinklr, Onclusive Social, and Pulsar Platform all require a sales demo with no public pricing, the same procurement pattern as Radarr itself. Buska and Trigify also publish transparent pricing, from $49/month and $40/month respectively, but they cover sales-signal detection rather than Radarr's brand sentiment and CX use case.

What is the best Radarr alternative for brand sentiment and competitor tracking specifically?

Onclusive Social and Pulsar Platform are the closest feature matches to Radarr's core brand sentiment and competitor monitoring capability. Onclusive Social adds dedicated Sentinel crisis detection across 25+ platforms. Pulsar Platform adds community-level audience segmentation across 195 countries. Both require a demo and publish no pricing, the same friction Radarr itself has.

Does Radarr have a genuine connection to AI visibility or LLM citation tracking?

No. Radarr's own product documentation covers social sentiment, competitor monitoring, influencer identification, and customer engagement across traditional social platforms, with no mention of AI-answer or LLM citation tracking. AI Peekaboo is included in this rotation as a complementary tool for brands that separately need to know how they appear in ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity answers, not as a like-for-like Radarr substitute.

Which Radarr alternative is best for teams that actually need sales signal detection?

Buska and Trigify are the better fit if your real need was sales prospecting rather than brand health monitoring, and Radarr's own FAQ points sales-signal-focused teams toward exactly this pair. Buska scores buying signals 0 to 100 across 30+ platforms with native CRM push starting at $49/month. Trigify adds API, MCP, and CLI access on every plan from $40/month for teams building automated outbound workflows.

Is the Genesys acquisition a reason to avoid Radarr in 2026?

The pending Genesys acquisition is a legitimate reason for caution if you are planning a multi-year commitment, since product roadmap and pricing decisions during an acquisition period are typically outside a customer's control. It is not automatically disqualifying for a short-term or single-year evaluation, but teams weighing Radarr against alternatives with more stable ownership, such as Hootsuite, Sprinklr, or Onclusive Social, should factor that uncertainty into the decision.

Can AI Peekaboo replace Radarr for social listening?

No, AI Peekaboo cannot replace Radarr for social listening because it does not monitor traditional social platforms at all; it tracks brand mentions inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews instead. Brands leaving Radarr for social listening and CX should evaluate Sprinklr, Onclusive Social, Pulsar Platform, or Hootsuite for that core function, and consider AI Peekaboo only as an additional, separate tool for AI-answer visibility.

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