figures verified 2026-09-10

Octolens vs SnitchFeed

Octolens covers more sources, has a stronger agent-discovery surface with 23 MCP tools and OAuth, and carries bigger customer logos. SnitchFeed costs less, includes MCP and API on every plan starting at $47 a month, and covers LinkedIn with intent scoring. Pick Octolens if you need 15 platforms and a free 50-search agent tier. Pick SnitchFeed if you need boolean queries, LinkedIn intent tracking, and a lower entry price.

Feature	Octolensas of 2026-09-10	SnitchFeedas of 2026-09-10	discatchthe plan
Built for agents first(partial: an MCP server exists but the product is dashboard-first)	partial	partial	yes
MCP server	yes	yes	planned
REST API and webhooks	yes	yes	yes
Push that wakes an agent(calls your agent when a catch fires, instead of waiting to be polled)	no	no	yes
Waterfall coverage(several providers per source, cheapest first, merged)	no	no	yes
Pay per unit	no	no	yes
Query-time price quote	no	no	yes
Discourse forums	Scale only	no	yes
Relevance judged by your model(raw candidates plus a prescore by default)	no	no	yes
Never posts for you	yes	yes	yes
Open playbooks(copyable scripts that plug into the API, published under MIT)	no	no	yes
Entry price	$159/mo	~$47/mo	free, then units
Entry price, annual	$159/mo	$47/mo (shown on page)	free, then units
Entry price, monthly(SnitchFeed’s page shows annual by default; its llms.txt lists the monthly price)	$199/mo	$59/mo (llms.txt)	free, then units
API access	included on all plans	included on all plans	included
MCP(SnitchFeed’s tool count is 24 on /features/mcp, 42 in /docs/mcp, 39 in the tool list)	yes (OAuth, 23 tools)	yes (OAuth, 24–42 tools)	planned

Price

Octolens Pro is $199 a month monthly or $159 a month annual and includes 15,000 mentions, 10 keywords, hourly refresh, API, webhooks, and MCP. Scale is $599 monthly or $499 annual and adds 50,000 mentions, 40 keywords, real-time refresh, and four source types that Pro excludes. Extra mentions cost $0.013 on Pro. Extra keywords cost from $5 a month.

SnitchFeed’s pricing page shows Starter at $47 a month and Pro at $95. Its llms.txt, pricing.md, and every compare page say Starter is $59 and Pro is $119. The discrepancy appears to be the annual toggle: the page shows annual prices by default while the machine-readable files list monthly. An agent reading the llms.txt sees a different number than a person reading the page.

SnitchFeed Starter includes 7,000 credits, 3 listeners, 10 keywords, and no webhooks. Pro includes 21,000 credits, 10 listeners, 30 keywords, webhooks, and AI chat. Both plans include API and MCP.

Sources

Octolens has 15 source pages covering Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Mastodon, podcasts, newsletters, news, and web. Podcasts, news, web, and newsletters are Scale-only.

SnitchFeed has 5 source pages covering Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Hacker News. GitHub, DEV, YouTube, and newsletters are marked "Soon" on its homepage. It has no pages for Discourse, Mastodon, Stack Overflow, or Product Hunt. Its llms.txt omits Hacker News from the platform list even though the homepage and /monitor/hackernews list it as live.

Octolens covers more sources today. SnitchFeed covers LinkedIn with a dedicated intent-scoring workflow for B2B sales that includes AI reply drafts and "phrases that signal a real buyer" examples on its Reddit page. Octolens covers LinkedIn through a monitoring page and blog guides but not a specialized intent tool.

Both products cover Reddit, Hacker News, X, Bluesky, and LinkedIn. SnitchFeed adds LinkedIn with hourly scanning (4 credits per keyword per scan) and X with 2 credits per scan. Octolens adds TikTok, YouTube, Mastodon, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and DEV on Pro, plus podcasts, news, web, and newsletters on Scale.

Agent surface

Octolens ships llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a 52-path OpenAPI spec, .well-known/mcp.json with 23 tools, agent-permissions.json, an npm CLI, 11 agent skills, and a listing on the MCP registry. Its MCP uses OAuth. It offers 50 free searches with no credit card and a key that never expires.

SnitchFeed ships llms.txt (5 KB), llms-full.txt (65 KB), docs/llms.txt, and pricing.md. Its MCP uses OAuth and is included on every plan. The tool count is stated as 24 on the features page, 42 in the docs, and 39 in the tool list. It has no OpenAPI spec, no .well-known/mcp.json, and no MCP registry listing.

Both products have OAuth MCP on every plan. Octolens has a more complete agent-discovery kit: .well-known/mcp.json, an OpenAPI spec, agent-permissions.json, a CLI, and a registry listing. SnitchFeed includes MCP at a lower price point but has none of those discovery files. An agent evaluating tools would find Octolens through the MCP registry or OpenAPI; it would find SnitchFeed only through llms.txt or a direct URL.

Freshness and trust

Octolens published 21 posts in six months, refreshes listicles monthly, and has 28 customer logos including Vercel, PostHog, and Sentry. G2 lists it at 4.69 from 36 reviews. Nearly all content is by the CEO. It has no /about page and no changelog.

SnitchFeed published 33 posts total, with a burst of 12 in July 2026. Its compare pages carry a "Verified against [competitor]’s own site, September 2026" line. It has 19 customer logos and 12 testimonials. Its badges are ToolBit.ai and Best Free AI Tools, not G2 or Capterra. All content is by the founder.

SnitchFeed’s comparison pages cite their sources and carry a "Where these figures come from" section with a "Verified September 2026" line. Octolens’s comparison pages carry dates in the metadata but do not state where figures come from in the page text.

Octolens has 6 head-to-head pages in its sitemap, all third-party pairs like Brand24 vs Brandwatch. It has zero "Octolens vs X" pages and no defense of the "octolens alternative" query. SnitchFeed has 12 comparison pages under /compare/, all positioning SnitchFeed against a named competitor. It owns 4 of 7 results for its own "snitchfeed alternative" query.

Who should pick which

Pick Octolens if you need wide source coverage, the free 50-search agent tier, Scale-only sources, and a tool backed by recognizable customer logos.

Pick SnitchFeed if you need boolean queries, LinkedIn intent tracking, MCP on a cheaper plan, and can tolerate a smaller source set. Check the pricing page with the annual toggle visible before committing, because the human and agent surfaces disagree on the number.

The third option

discatch is a social listening API built for agents. It sells by the unit with no keyword limit. Catches fire a webhook, Claude Code command, or Doozy todo when new matching discourse appears. The free tier includes Hacker News alerts at one-hour intervals.

Questions

Which is cheaper, Octolens or SnitchFeed?

SnitchFeed. Its Starter plan shows $47 a month on the pricing page (annual) or $59 monthly per its llms.txt. Octolens Pro starts at $159 a month annual.

Does SnitchFeed cover as many sources as Octolens?

No. SnitchFeed has 5 source pages (Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Hacker News). Octolens has 15. SnitchFeed lists GitHub, DEV, YouTube, and newsletters as coming soon.

Why do SnitchFeed’s prices differ between the page and the llms.txt?

The pricing page appears to default to the annual toggle, showing $47 and $95. The llms.txt, pricing.md, and compare pages list the monthly prices: $59 and $119. Both refer to the same plans.

Does either product push to an agent?

No. Both MCP servers respond when called but do not push new mentions. Octolens delivers alerts by email, Slack, and webhooks. SnitchFeed delivers by email, Slack, Discord, and webhooks.

How many MCP tools does SnitchFeed have?

The features page says 24. The docs page says 42. The tool list in the docs names 39. The count has not been reconciled across the site as of 2026-09-10.

Does Octolens have a free tier?

It offers 50 free searches with no credit card and a key that never expires. There is no free tier for standing alerts or mentions.

Who ranks for "octolens vs snitchfeed" today?

Only SnitchFeed’s own compare page exists as a dedicated head-to-head. The remaining results are SnitchFeed blog posts and listicles from small vendors. Octolens has no page targeting this pair.

What does discatch change?

discatch sells by the unit. A catch costs one alert unit when it fires and one result unit per item delivered. MCP with OAuth is planned on every tier. Catches push to an agent instead of waiting to be polled. Prices are placeholders.

Try it yourself

The third option, priced for your own terms. 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. Octolens and SnitchFeed facts read on 2026-09-10. Research: docs/seo/competitor-map.md.