figures verified 2026-09-10

discatch vs Awario

Social listening from $29 to $249/mo annual, with a 480-entry social media wiki, a comparison page with a "mentions per dollar" metric, and an API available only on the Enterprise tier.

Feature	discatchthe plan	Awarioas of 2026-09-10
Built for agents first(partial: an MCP server exists but the product is dashboard-first)	yes	no
MCP server	planned	no
REST API and webhooks	yes	Enterprise
Push that wakes an agent(calls your agent when a catch fires, instead of waiting to be polled)	yes	no
Waterfall coverage(several providers per source, cheapest first, merged)	yes	no
Pay per unit	yes	no
Query-time price quote	yes	no
Discourse forums	yes	no
Relevance judged by your model(raw candidates plus a prescore by default)	yes	no
Never posts for you	yes	yes
Open playbooks(copyable scripts that plug into the API, published under MIT)	yes	no
Entry price	free, then units	$29/mo

What Awario is

Budget social listening for small teams. "Brand management made simple." A spin-off of SEO PowerSuite (Link-Assistant), founded 2015.

Pricing: Starter $49/mo monthly, $29/mo annual: 3 topics, 30,000 new mentions, 5,000 stored per topic, 1 user.; Pro $149/mo monthly, $89/mo annual: 15 topics, 300,000 mentions, 15,000 stored, 10 users, CSV, white-label.; Enterprise $399/mo monthly, $249/mo annual: 100 topics, 1,000,000 mentions, 50,000 stored, unlimited users, API.; Free trial at Starter limits, no card.
Sources: X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, news, blogs, forums, and the web. No LinkedIn or TikTok landing page despite listing social icons. No Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Product Hunt, Discord, Telegram, or Quora.
Agent surface: A REST API on the Enterprise tier only ($249/mo annual), v1.0, documented in 7 help pages, rate-limited at 100 requests per second per IP and 300 requests per minute per token. No OpenAPI spec, no MCP server, no llms.txt, no webhooks. Zapier integration works only through email notifications.
Push: Not to an agent. Slack integration and email alerts for humans.

Where Awario wins today

One of the lowest annual prices in the category at $29/mo Starter.
A 480-entry social media wiki under /help/social-media-wiki/ for SEO coverage and internal linking.
A "mentions per dollar" metric on its comparison page that makes the value argument explicit.
Boolean queries, sentiment analysis, and social selling (Awario Leads) on all plans.
5 case studies (GivingTuesdayNL, RingBoost, Seraph, UpStack, Volterra) and claims of 6,000 customers and 37 million mentions delivered daily.
Its own web crawler: "13 billion web pages crawled daily" per the /about page.

Where discatch differs

These are the plan. The roadmap says which phase each lands in.

Push that wakes an agent. A catch calls your webhook, a Claude Code or Codex command, a Doozy todo, or a GitHub dispatch. Nothing to poll.
A quote before every call. The quote is a ceiling with locked unit prices; the charge never exceeds it.
Units instead of seats. Search, capture, result, alert, classify. An agent can buy one search with no subscription.
Sources reached through a waterfall of providers, cheapest and most accurate first. You see sources, never providers.
Relevance is your model’s job by default. Every result carries a free prescore; the classify flag is opt-in and priced.
API on every plan, including the free tier. Awario gates its API to Enterprise at $249/mo annual with no webhooks.
Developer sources: Discourse, GitHub, Hacker News, and Stack Exchange are not on Awario’s list and have no pages.
Dated pricing. Awario’s comparison pages quote prices that are years stale. discatch’s pages cite the date every number was read.

Awario pricing, dated

	Starter	Pro	Enterprise
Monthly	$49	$149	$399
Annual	$29	$89	$249
Topics	3	15	100
New mentions/mo	30,000	300,000	1,000,000
Stored per topic	5,000	15,000	50,000
Users	1	10	unlimited
CSV export	no	yes	yes
API	no	no	yes

Prices read from awario.com/pricing/ on 2026-09-10.

Source by source

Awario has 7 source pages: X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, and news. Reddit was added later and is not in the sitemap. No LinkedIn, TikTok, Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, or Product Hunt.

discatch covers web, news, Hacker News, Discourse forums, Stack Exchange, and GitHub today. Awario’s mainstream social reach is broader; discatch’s developer-source coverage is deeper.

For an agent

Awario has no agent surfaces on 2026-09-10. No llms.txt, no MCP server, no OpenAPI spec, no machine-readable pricing file. The API is Enterprise-only ($249/mo annual), v1.0, documented in 7 help pages, with no webhooks.

discatch’s REST API and trial keys work today. The MCP server with OAuth is planned for phase 3. Push wakes an agent; Awario sends Slack and email alerts to humans.

What Awario does not have

No llms.txt, no MCP server, no OpenAPI spec, no machine-readable pricing.
No webhooks. Zapier integration works only through email notifications.
API is Enterprise-only ($249/mo annual), v1.0, documented in 7 help pages.
No LinkedIn or TikTok landing page despite the homepage listing social sources.
No Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, or Product Hunt.
The marketing sitemap was frozen at December 2022. Seven out of seven source pages have no publish or update date.
The 480 social media wiki entries include off-topic how-tos like "How to change Reddit username."
Stored mentions are capped per topic (5,000 on Starter). The oldest are overwritten.

Awario’s comparison page uses a feature matrix across Awario, BrandMentions, Brand24, and Google Alerts with a "mentions per dollar" metric that makes the value argument explicit. The matrix is worth matching; the prices in it are not.

Questions

Is discatch cheaper than Awario?

Free to start, then units. A few searches a day on free sources costs nothing; a standing catch costs fractions of a cent per firing. Whether that beats $29/mo depends on volume; a quote tells you before you commit.

Does Awario have an API?

Yes, on the Enterprise tier at $399/mo monthly or $249/mo annual. The API is v1.0, documented in 7 help pages, with no OpenAPI spec and no webhooks. discatch includes the API on every tier.

Does Awario have an MCP server?

No. On 2026-09-10 awario.com had no llms.txt, no MCP server, no OpenAPI spec, and no machine-readable pricing file.

Does Awario cover Hacker News or Discourse?

No. Awario covers X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, news, blogs, forums, and the web. It has no pages for Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, or Product Hunt.

Are Awario’s comparison pages accurate?

The comparison page quotes "Awario Starter: $39/month" and "Brand24 Starter: $59/month" on 2026-09-10. Starter is now $49/mo monthly and Brand24 Individual is $249/mo. The numbers are years stale.

What happens to stored mentions on Awario?

Awario caps stored mentions per topic (5,000 on Starter, 50,000 on Enterprise). The oldest are overwritten. This limits historical pulls for any agent workflow.

Does Awario cover LinkedIn?

The homepage icons do not list LinkedIn. No LinkedIn landing page exists. Brand24 and SnitchFeed cover LinkedIn directly.

Is Awario’s blog still active?

Two posts in the last six months on 2026-09-10, none since April 2026. The marketing sitemap was frozen at December 2022.

What is Awario Leads?

Awario Leads is a social selling feature that surfaces buying-intent mentions. It is available on all plans. discatch’s classify flag and the reply-draft playbook cover the same intent, priced per unit.

Does Awario have a free tier?

A free trial at Starter limits with no card. No permanent free tier. discatch has a free tier with a daily unit allowance on free sources and free Hacker News alerts at one hour or slower.

Try it yourself

The fairest comparison is a quote for your own query against what Awario costs you. A quote is free and needs no key.

curl

curl -X POST https://api.discatch.com/v1/quote -d '{ "query": "\"your product\"", "sources": ["hackernews", "discourse", "web"], "since": "7d" }'

MCP · coming in phase 3

{
  "tool": "quote",
  "arguments": {
    "query": "\"your product\"",
    "sources": [
      "hackernews",
      "discourse",
      "web"
    ],
    "since": "7d"
  }
}

Last reviewed 2026-09-10 by Parsa Khazaeepoul, founder, dcouple. Awario facts read on 2026-09-10 from awario.com/pricing/, awario.com/social-listening-api/. Research: docs/seo/competitor-map.md.