Before you move
- Check whether your team uses identity resolution and CRM sync. discatch does not do those.
- Note the job difference: Common Room tracks people, discatch tracks mentions.
- Try the free tier for keyword monitoring. Catches that fire nothing cost nothing.
People vs mentions
Common Room resolves identities across Slack, GitHub, Discord, X, and LinkedIn into one profile per person. It scores accounts for sales. discatch monitors keywords across sources and pushes matching mentions to an agent. The overlap is the sources; the job is different. A devtools company that wants both will use Common Room for the pipeline and discatch for the alerts.
Common Room pricing, dated
| Essential | Advanced | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual (per mo) | $2,500 | custom | custom |
| Seats | 5 | 15 | 30 |
| Contacts | 100,000 | 250,000 | 750,000 |
| MCP | yes | yes | yes |
| API | yes | yes | yes |
| Warehouse sync | add-on | add-on | included |
What Common Room does well
Common Room resolves one person across 50+ signal channels into a single profile. Person360 enrichment, account scoring, and CRM integration (Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, BigQuery) serve go-to-market teams at developer tool companies. The official MCP server at mcp.commonroom.io has OAuth 2.1 with four tools. llms.txt exists. The REST API v2 at api.commonroom.io covers member management and activity recording. Job change tracking, Spark notifications, and unlimited alerts are on all plans. Figma, Notion, Asana, and Airtable are customer logos.
What a switch costs
- Identity resolution. discatch does not resolve identities across platforms. If your team uses Person360 profiles, the switch is partial.
- CRM integration. discatch does not sync with Salesforce or HubSpot. If pipeline data matters, keep Common Room for that.
- Data export. In-product CSV export on all plans. Warehouse sync on Enterprise.
- Contract. Common Room is billed annually. Check the notice period.
How to move in an afternoon
- Get a trial key: `curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/keys/trial`
- Price a search for the keywords you tracked as Common Room alerts: `curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/search -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISCATCH_KEY" -d '{"query": ""your product"", "sources": ["web", "news", "hackernews", "discourse", "github", "stackexchange"], "dry_run": true}'`
- Review the quote and run the search if the price works.
- Create a catch for each keyword: `curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/catches -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISCATCH_KEY" -d '{"name": "product mentions", "query": ""your product"", "sources": ["web", "news", "hackernews", "discourse", "github", "stackexchange"], "interval": "1h", "destination": {"type": "webhook", "url": "https://your-server.com/hook", "secret": "whsec_..."}}'`
- Test the destination: `curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/catches/{id}/test -H "Authorization: Bearer $DISCATCH_KEY"`
- Verify delivery. Keep Common Room for identity resolution and CRM pipeline. Use discatch for keyword alerts pushed to an agent.
Who should stay
A go-to-market team that uses Common Room for identity resolution, account scoring, and CRM pipeline should stay. The product is built for that buyer and serves it well. A developer or an agent that wants keyword monitoring across sources with per-unit pricing and push is a different buyer. Many devtools companies use both: Common Room for the pipeline, discatch for the alerts.