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Head-to-head · Social Media Monitoring

Meltwater Social Listening vs Konnect Insights Social Listening

  • Updated Oct 2026
  • Both researched from official sources
  • 1 check side by side
Higher score Meltwater Social Listening #1 in Social Media Monitoring 9.4/10 Pricing on request ✓ 0 of 1 features Visit Meltwater
Konnect Insights Social Listening #6 in Social Media Monitoring 8.7/10 Paid ✓ 0 of 1 features Visit site

Meltwater Social Listening leads on 0 checks, Konnect Insights Social Listening on 0, and 1 is even. Who comes out ahead on the 1 yes/no, price and count check where we have data for both products. The editor score weighs everything else too.

Our verdict

  • Highest scoreMeltwater Social Listening · 9.4/10

Meltwater Social Listening scores higher on our rubric for social media monitoring: 9.4 against 8.7 out of 10; our editors rank them #1 and #6.

Meltwater Social Listening is the better fit for teams needing broad, established media listening. Konnect Insights Social Listening is the better fit for mid-market teams connecting listening to workflows.

  • Meltwater Social Listening fits best

    Teams needing broad, established media listening

  • Konnect Insights Social Listening fits best

    Mid-market teams connecting listening to workflows

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Side by side

Feature Meltwater Social Listening 9.4/10 Visit ↗ Konnect Insights Social Listening 8.7/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score 9.4 8.7
Ranking #1 in Social Media Monitoring #6 in Social Media Monitoring
Best for Teams needing broad, established media listening Mid-market teams connecting listening to workflows
Pricing model Paid Paid
Starting price — $39/user/mo
Free plan — —
Free trial — —
Deployment Cloud Cloud
Platforms Web Web
Integrations 7 integrations 1,000+ integrations
Features Meltwater Social Listening 0/1 · Konnect Insights Social Listening 0/1
Real-time alerts Not checked yet Not checked yet
Specs
Supported networks Not checked yet Not checked yet
Sentiment analysis Not checked yet Not checked yet
History retention Not checked yet Not checked yet
Monitoring queries Not checked yet Not checked yet
Report exports Not checked yet Not checked yet
Our review
Pros
  • Monitors social networks, news, forums, and Reddit across many channels.
  • Combines sentiment, trend, competitor, and share-of-voice analysis.
  • Offers alerts, executive reporting, and APIs for listening data.
  • Monitors social, news, blogs, forums, reviews and podcasts
  • Boolean queries, sentiment, spike alerts and historical analysis
  • Routes alerts into ticketing workflows with broad integrations
Cons
  • There is no free plan.
  • Pricing requires contacting sales.
  • API and MCP integrations are listed under Enterprise.
  • Annual billing is required for published per-user prices
  • Advanced governance and custom integrations require the Advanced plan
  • Historical-data availability varies by use case and platform
Our verdict

Meltwater Social Listening is a web-based social intelligence product for marketing, communications, and PR teams that need to track conversations across social networks, news, forums, and other digital sources. Its coverage spans…

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Konnect Insights Social Listening monitors brand, competitor and industry conversations across social networks, news sites, blogs, forums, review platforms and podcasts. It is designed for marketing, PR, communications, customer-support…

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  1. Meltwater Social ListeningSocial Media Monitoring 9.4Pricing on request
  2. Konnect Insights Social ListeningSocial Media Monitoring 8.7Paid

Strengths and trade-offs

  • Meltwater Social Listening — where it wins

    • Monitors social networks, news, forums, and Reddit across many channels.
    • Combines sentiment, trend, competitor, and share-of-voice analysis.
    • Offers alerts, executive reporting, and APIs for listening data.

    Where it doesn't

    • There is no free plan.
    • Pricing requires contacting sales.
    • API and MCP integrations are listed under Enterprise.

  • Konnect Insights Social Listening — where it wins

    • Monitors social, news, blogs, forums, reviews and podcasts
    • Boolean queries, sentiment, spike alerts and historical analysis
    • Routes alerts into ticketing workflows with broad integrations

    Where it doesn't

    • Annual billing is required for published per-user prices
    • Advanced governance and custom integrations require the Advanced plan
    • Historical-data availability varies by use case and platform
  • Meltwater Social Listening9.4/10 · Pricing on request

    Broad listening, sentiment analysis, alerts, and reporting for marketing, communications, and PR teams.

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  • Konnect Insights Social Listening8.7/10 · Paid

    Broad-source monitoring with workflow routing for mid-market and enterprise teams.

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Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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