figures verified 2026-09-10

discatch vs Brand24

Broad social monitoring across social, news, and web, with open pricing, 25 authors, 486 English blog posts, an MCP server documented only in the help center, and an llms.txt and pricing.md written for agents.

Feature	discatchthe plan	Brand24as of 2026-09-10
Built for agents first(partial: an MCP server exists but the product is dashboard-first)	yes	partial
MCP server	planned	yes
REST API and webhooks	yes	paid add-on
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	$199/mo

What Brand24 is

Mid-market brand monitoring sold to marketing teams. "#1 AI Social Listening Tool" per the homepage. Founded 2011, Brand24 Global Inc., Daytona Beach, FL.

Pricing: Individual $249/mo monthly, $199/mo annual: 3 keywords, 2,000 mentions, 1 user, refresh every 12 hours.; Team $349/mo monthly, $299/mo annual: 7 keywords, 10,000 mentions, unlimited users, hourly refresh.; Pro $499/mo monthly, $399/mo annual: 12 keywords, 40,000 mentions, real-time refresh.; Business $699/mo monthly, $599/mo annual: 25 keywords, 100,000 mentions, real-time refresh.; Enterprise from $1,499/mo annual only.; API access is a paid add-on on the Business tier: $99/mo in the pricing.md file, $149 on the pricing page, read the same day.; Extra keyword $25/mo. Extra 10,000 mentions $25/mo. 14-day trial, no card.
Sources: Reddit, X, Facebook, Instagram, news, and blogs on every plan. LinkedIn, Medium, Quora, YouTube, and TikTok from Team. Reviews, Twitch, and newsletters from Pro. Podcasts from Business. The llms.txt also names Bluesky, Telegram, Stack Exchange, and Product Hunt without pages for them.
Agent surface: An llms.txt (33 KB, 583 lines). A pricing.md addressed to agents with a "How to use this document if you are an AI agent" section, last_verified: 2026-06-10. An OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 22 paths at api-data.brand24.com. An MCP server at mcp.brand24.com with OAuth, documented only in the help center, not on the main domain. No .well-known/mcp.json.
Push: Not to an agent, as far as the research found. No product in the category pushes to an agent today.

Where Brand24 wins today

Broad coverage across social, news, and web, shipped and working. Sources are gated by plan, with Reddit, X, Facebook, Instagram, news, and blogs on all plans.
Open pricing at a mid-market level with a 14-day trial. No card required.
An MCP server with OAuth, llms.txt, pricing.md, and an OpenAPI spec. The agent surface exists even if it is not marketed on the main domain.
25 authors, 486 English posts, 63 case studies, and "100% human-generated content" per the blog header. The strongest E-E-A-T signals in the category.
The pricing.md file has a "How to use this document if you are an AI agent" section with machine-readable plan tables. Last verified 2026-06-10.

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.
Built for a developer or an agent rather than a marketing dashboard: every action shows its API call.
API on every plan. Brand24’s API is a $99 to $149 add-on on the $599 Business tier.

Brand24 pricing, dated

	Individual	Team	Pro	Business
Monthly	$249	$349	$499	$699
Annual	$199	$299	$399	$599
Keywords	3	7	12	25
Mentions/mo	2,000	10,000	40,000	100,000
Users	1	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited
Refresh	every 12 h	hourly	real-time	real-time
API	no	no	no	$99 or $149/mo add-on
MCP	yes	yes	yes	yes

Prices read from brand24.com/prices/ and brand24.com/pricing.md on 2026-09-10. Enterprise from $1,499/mo annual only.

The pricing.md file says API access is $99/mo. The pricing page says $149. Both were read on 2026-09-10. Extra keyword is $25/mo. Extra 10,000 mentions is $25/mo.

Source by source

Brand24 has 12 source pages, all mainstream: X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, reviews, app stores. No pages for LinkedIn, Bluesky, Telegram, Quora, Stack Exchange, Product Hunt, Hacker News, Discourse, Mastodon, GitHub, or Discord, despite the llms.txt claiming coverage of several of these.

discatch covers web, news, Hacker News, Discourse forums, Stack Exchange, and GitHub today. The source lists overlap on Reddit (through the web index) and the web. Brand24’s mainstream social reach is broader today.

For an agent

Brand24 has an agent-addressed pricing.md with a "How to use this document if you are an AI agent" section, last_verified 2026-06-10. It ships an llms.txt (33 KB), an OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 22 paths, and an MCP server at mcp.brand24.com with OAuth.

The MCP server is documented only in a help-center article, not on the main domain. There is no .well-known/mcp.json and no dedicated /mcp marketing page. The API is aggregate-first with a 31-day query window and requires a dashboard-created project.

discatch’s REST API and trial keys work today. The MCP server with OAuth is planned for phase 3. Push wakes an agent; Brand24 does not push to agents.

What Brand24 does not have

No per-call or usage pricing. Everything is tier-gated by keywords and monthly mention quota.
No dedicated /mcp page on the main domain. The MCP server is documented only in the help center.
No pages for Hacker News, Discourse, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, or Product Hunt, despite llms.txt naming several.
No "A vs B" comparison pages. Only alternatives listicles.
No /about page (404 on 2026-09-10). Company address is in the pricing footer.
The homepage has no JSON-LD.
API is a paid add-on that costs $99 or $149/mo depending on which Brand24 page you read.

Questions

Is discatch a Brand24 replacement for a marketing team?

Not today. discatch is built for developers and agents first; the human dashboard is second priority. A marketing team that lives in a dashboard will find Brand24 more complete.

Does Brand24 have an API?

Yes, as a paid add-on on the Business tier ($599/mo annual). The pricing.md file says $99/mo and the pricing page says $149/mo, read on 2026-09-10. Queries are capped at a 31-day window. discatch includes the API on every tier and prices by unit.

Does Brand24 have an MCP server?

Yes, at mcp.brand24.com with OAuth. It is documented only in the help center, not on the main domain. The pricing page says "MCP support: Included on all plans." There is no .well-known/mcp.json and no dedicated /mcp page.

What does Brand24 cost for real-time monitoring?

Real-time refresh starts at the Pro tier: $499/mo monthly or $399/mo annual. Individual is refreshed every 12 hours. discatch’s catches fire at the interval you set, starting at 1 hour on the free tier.

Does Brand24 cover Hacker News or Discourse?

Brand24’s llms.txt names Stack Exchange and Product Hunt without pages for them. It has zero blog posts mentioning Hacker News, Discourse, Mastodon, GitHub, or Stack Overflow on 2026-09-10. discatch covers Hacker News, Discourse, Stack Exchange, and GitHub today.

How many sources does Brand24 claim?

The llms.txt names Reddit, X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Medium, Quora, YouTube, TikTok, Bluesky, Telegram, Stack Exchange, Product Hunt, podcasts, newsletters, news, and blogs. Some of these have no pages and no blog posts on the site.

Does Brand24 push mentions to an agent?

Not as far as the research found. No product in the category pushes to an agent today. Brand24 has Slack, email, and mobile alerts for humans.

Why do the API prices disagree?

Brand24’s pricing.md says API access is $99/mo and the pricing page says $149/mo, both read on 2026-09-10. Treat whichever you encounter as approximate and verify before purchasing.

Try it yourself

The fairest comparison is a quote for your own query against what Brand24 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. Brand24 facts read on 2026-09-10 from brand24.com/prices/, brand24.com/pricing.md, brand24.com/llms.txt, brand24.com/social-listening-api/, help.brand24.com/en/articles/13011375-brand24-mcp. Research: docs/seo/competitor-map.md.