Social listening
Top Nephia competitors 10 competitors in Nephia's market
- Competitors listed
- 10
- Ranked on the scorecard
- 9
- Nephia's rank
- #3 of 13
- With a free plan
- 1
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
These are the 10 tools closest to Nephia in its own market: social listening tools that list social listening too, picked by shared categories and how close their entry price is to Nephia's (the rules are below).
9 of them are ranked on the social listening tools scorecard; TrendFynd is the highest at 98/100 (#2 of 13 in the category).
Nephia itself is #3 of 13 with 85/100, so 1 competitor on this list ranks above it.
Nephia's cheapest paid plan is $19 billed monthly (Solo). On the same billing basis, 1 of 7 competitors with a published price start lower and 5 start higher; entry plans are not like-for-like, so check the limits.
1 competitor has a free plan, and so does Nephia.
Nephia vs its competitors: market position
| Rank | Tool | Score | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Platforms | Features verified | Data checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #3 | NephiaThis tool | 85/100 | $19/mo | Not offered | Yes | 6 | 1 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #2 |  TrendFynd | 98/100 | $19/mo | Not offered | Yes | 7 | 3 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #4 |  AIMentionTracker | 85/100 | $9/mo | Not offered | No | – | 1 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #5 |  Promptmonitor | 82/100 | $29/mo | Not offered | No | – | 2 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #6 |  Clairon AI | 73/100 | $49/mo | Not offered | No | 1 | 2 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #7 |  Awario | 64/100 | $49/mo | $29/mo | No | – | 1 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #8 |  Thunzi AI | 51/100 | $99/mo | $74.25/mo | No | – | 1 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #9 |  BuzzSumo | 50/100 | Not offered | $199/mo | No | 5 | 2 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #10 |  Brand24 | 47/100 | $249/mo | $199/mo | No | 8 | 3 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #13 |  YouScan | 33/100 | Not offered | $499/mo | No | 1 | 3 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Podzeus | Not ranked | – | – | – | – | 1 of 4 | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the page it was read from (hover for the check date).
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
How each competitor differs from Nephia
- TrendFynd · #2, 98/100
Brand monitoring and trend discovery platform that tracks mentions across several networks and generates content ideas from trending videos.
- Score: 98/100, #2 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $19 billed monthly (Starter), the same as Nephia source
- Platforms: 7 platforms (Nephia: 6); not on Bluesky and Mastodon; adds Instagram, Pinterest and Threads
- Verified features: Analytics, Team access, AI assistant
5 of 9 tracked details verified
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026 - AIMentionTracker · #4, 85/100
Service that runs tracked prompts against AI assistants and search engines to show which brands they name, with sentiment, citations and alerts.
- Score: 85/100, #4 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $9 billed monthly (Solo), $10 less than Nephia's $19 source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Verified features: Team access, Public API
4 of 9 tracked details verified
- Promptmonitor · #5, 82/100
Tracks how AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini mention a brand, with cited sources, AI crawler analytics and website analytics.
- Score: 82/100, #5 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $29 billed monthly (Starter), $10 more than Nephia's $19 source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Verified features: Analytics, Team access
4 of 9 tracked details verified
- Clairon AI · #6, 73/100
Platform that tracks how a brand appears in answers from AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini, reports on citations and generates articles.
- Score: 73/100, #6 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $49 billed monthly (Starter), $30 more than Nephia's $19 source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Platforms: 1 platform (Nephia: 6); not on TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Bluesky and Mastodon
- Verified features: Analytics, Team access, Public API
5 of 9 tracked details verified
- Awario · #7, 64/100
Brand monitoring tool that tracks mentions of keywords across social networks, news, blogs, forums and the web, with boolean search and reports.
- Score: 64/100, #7 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $49 billed monthly (Starter), $30 more than Nephia's $19 source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Verified features: Team access, Public API
4 of 9 tracked details verified
- Thunzi AI · #8, 51/100
Reputation intelligence platform for African markets that monitors brand mentions, sentiment and AI visibility, including local language conversations.
- Score: 51/100, #8 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $99 billed monthly (Starter), $80 more than Nephia's $19 source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Verified features: Team access, Public API
4 of 9 tracked details verified
- BuzzSumo · #9, 50/100
Content research and media monitoring tool that indexes articles and social posts, sends alerts on mentions, and includes a journalist database for outreach.
- Score: 50/100, #9 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $199 per month billed annually; not compared with Nephia, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Platforms: 5 platforms (Nephia: 6); not on Bluesky and Mastodon; adds Facebook
- Verified features: Analytics, Team access, Public API
4 of 9 tracked details verified
- Brand24 · #10, 47/100
AI-assisted social listening tool that collects online mentions of brands and topics, with sentiment analysis, reach metrics, alerts and reports.
- Score: 47/100, #10 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $249 billed monthly (Individual), $230 more than Nephia's $19 source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Platforms: 8 platforms (Nephia: 6); not on Bluesky and Mastodon; adds Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Telegram
- Matches Nephia: has all 2 features we verified for Nephia
5 of 9 tracked details verified
- YouScan · #13, 33/100
Social listening platform that analyzes text and image mentions from social media, blogs, forums and news, with an AI assistant for questions about the data.
- Score: 33/100, #13 of 13 (Nephia: 85/100, #3)
- Entry price: $499 per month billed annually; not compared with Nephia, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (Nephia: yes) source
- Platforms: 1 platform (Nephia: 6); not on TikTok, X (Twitter), YouTube, Bluesky, Reddit and Mastodon; adds WhatsApp
- Matches Nephia: has all 2 features we verified for Nephia
6 of 9 tracked details verified
- Podzeus
Podcast intelligence service that tracks sponsors and brand mentions across transcribed episodes, with search, alerts, reports and exports.
- Score: not ranked (25% coverage)
- Verified features: Team access, Public API
3 of 9 tracked details verified
Nephia head to head
How we picked
- Pool: tools in the same market as the tool on this page: they list its primary category, and their own primary category is one it lists too. Explicit competitor links count as well.
- Closest first, at most 10: explicit competitors, then the same primary category, then more shared categories, then the smallest gap in entry price (per month, on a log scale), then more shared platforms, then name.
- Order on the page: tools ranked on the category scorecard by their category rank, then tools that are not ranked (no scorecard, or under 60% of the weight with verified data) in closeness order.
- Prices are compared only on the same billing basis (billed monthly with billed monthly, billed annually with billed annually). A feature counts as missing only when the vendor's page states it; a feature the vendor does not mention is not listed either way.
Every value is read from the vendor's own pages (or GitHub for licences and stars) and shown with the date we checked it. A value we could not verify is shown as a dash, never estimated, and never read as a “no”. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Methodology
The scorecard behind the ranks
Every one of these social listening tools is scored by the same 7 criteria (scorecard v1). Each criterion gives 0 to 100 from the vendor's published data; the total is the weighted average. A criterion without verified data is left out and the other weights are re-normalised. A tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed as not ranked, and so is a tool with no verified price and fewer than 2 verified features (“needs a verified price”); each score shows how many criteria it is based on. The core criteria are the same in every category; the category criteria are specific to social listening tools. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.
| Criterion | Weight | Type | What we measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | 25% | Core | Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other social listening tools on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $15/month or less = 100, $249 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $5/month or less = 100, $59 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored. |
| Free plan or trial | 15% | Core | Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.Free plan = 100. No free plan but a free trial = 60. The pricing page lists plans but shows neither = 0. No plans read = not scored. |
| Pricing transparency | 10% | Core | How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.80 x (plans with a public price / plans listed) + 20 x (public plans, up to 3) / 3. No plans read = not scored. |
| Verified features | 15% | Core | How many of the 4 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (analytics, team access, templates, ai assistant). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 2 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored. |
| API, integrations and export | 10% | Core | Whether a public API exists, how many integrations the vendor states, and whether the vendor documents a way to export your data.Average of the parts with data: public API yes = 100, no = 0; integrations on a log scale (100 or more = 100); a documented data export = 100. None verified = not scored. |
| Cost per user (team of 3) | 15% | Category | Monthly price per user for a team of 3, on the cheapest paid plan that is priced per seat or states room for at least 3 users.Log scale: $16.33 per user or less = 100, $116 or more = 0. Plans that do not state a user limit are not used. No such plan = not scored. |
| Platform coverage | 10% | Category | How many of the 15 social platforms we track the vendor says the tool supports.Linear: platforms / 10 x 100, capped at 100. No verified platform list = not scored. |
Sources are vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs, each with the date we checked it. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Full formulas: methodology.
Questions, answered from the data
Who are Nephia's main competitors?
By our scorecard, the highest-ranked of its closest competitors are TrendFynd (98/100), AIMentionTracker (85/100) and Promptmonitor (82/100).
Which Nephia competitor is cheapest?
Billed monthly, AIMentionTracker starts lowest at $9 a month (Solo). Entry plans differ in limits.
How does Nephia rank against its competitors?
Nephia is #3 of 13 ranked social listening tools with 85/100.
Which Nephia competitors have a free plan?
TrendFynd.