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What are the best Reddit lead generation tools in 2026?

F5Bot is the cheapest Reddit lead alert tool (free for 5 keywords); Prowlo the cheapest paid API at $19/mo; Buska the most automated at $49/mo; OpenScout the scored mentions pick at $49/mo; Linkeddit the intent-scored reply-draft pick at $49/mo; OpenCorp the only free one that surfaces threads without paying for monitoring.

The candidate list came from OpenCorp's own competitor-discovery run (queries below). Every price was verified against the vendor's own pricing page through September 1, 2026. GummySearch is included as a 'shut down' entry because most comparison posts still recommend it — it closed new signups November 30, 2025 after failing to agree a commercial Reddit Data API license.

Verified 2026-09-01

By Krishav Raj Singh, Founder, OpenCorp

How we picked these

Every tool on this list was checked against five criteria we apply uniformly across all OpenCorp comparisons:

Pricing transparency — public prices on the vendor's own page, no opaque sales calls for the entry tier.
Source coverage — the platforms your audience actually uses, not a checkmark on a marketing feature list.
Verified pricing — every number on this page was read off the vendor's pricing page on the date in the intro.
No auto-posting — we don't recommend tools that post or comment on your behalf without explicit per-action approval.
Reasoning, not just a list — every tool entry has a real best-for, not generic copy lifted from another comparison.

How this list was built

OpenCorp ran its competitor-discovery workflow on 2026-08-18 and searched these five angles, then every surviving tool was checked against its own pricing page:

“Reddit and Hacker News thread discovery tool”
“find Reddit discussions about problems your product solves”
“tool for founders to discover competitor mentions on Reddit”
“alternative to Reddit search for competitor mapping”
“open source tool for Reddit thread discovery”

Tool	Price	Best for	Networks
F5Bot	Free; $9.99–$214.99/mo paid tiers	One founder watching a handful of uncommon keywords.	—
Prowlo	$19/mo ($190/yr), 14-day free trial	Agents and scripts that need structured Reddit data, not a dashboard.	—
Syften	$29.95 / $49.95 / $119.95 per month	Filter-heavy monitoring across communities plus the wider web.	—
Buska	$49 / $99 / $249 per month	B2B teams that want scored leads pushed into an existing pipeline.	—
SnitchFeed	$47/mo yearly, $59/mo monthly; Pro $95–$119/mo	Watching Reddit alongside LinkedIn and X in one inbox.	—
OpenScout	$49 / $99 / $399 per month	Scored competitor mentions with drafted replies per platform.	—
OGTool	From $8,000/mo, 3-month pilot	Funded teams outsourcing Reddit presence entirely.	—
GummySearchshut down	Closed to new customers	Nobody — listed because most comparison posts still recommend it.	—
OpenCorp	Free	Finding the specific threads worth replying to before you write anything.	—

F5Bot

F5Bot emails you when a keyword appears on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters. The free tier covers 5 keywords and 20 daily alerts.

Free tier: 5 keywords, 20 alerts/day, 10 alerts per keyword, delivery within 2 hours.
Silver $9.99/mo ($109/yr): 20 keywords, 100 alerts/day, delivery within 5 minutes.
Gold $49.99/mo ($549/yr): 200 keywords, 5,000 alerts/day, RSS and JSON feeds, AI filtering, Slack and Discord.
Platinum $214.99/mo ($2,364/yr): 300 keywords, 200,000 alerts/day, API and webhooks. Diamond starts at $500/mo.
Sources are Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters only — no X, LinkedIn, or YouTube.
A keyword that exceeds its daily cap is disabled until you re-enable it manually.

Pros

Free tier is genuinely usable for solo founders — 5 keywords, 20 alerts/day.
Email alerts delivered within 2 hours on free, 5 minutes on Silver.
Cheapest paid tier at $9.99/mo for 100 daily alerts.

Cons

Reddit, HN, Lobsters only — no X, LinkedIn, or YouTube coverage.
Keyword that exceeds its daily cap is silently disabled until manual re-enable.
No reply drafting or lead scoring — alerts only.

Source: f5bot.com/tiers

Prowlo

Prowlo serves Reddit and X data to AI agents over MCP and REST for $19/month, after a 14-day trial that needs no card.

One paid plan: $19/mo or $190/yr. 25 Watchers (subreddits, Reddit users, Hacker News, Mastodon, RSS, X) crawled hourly.
Keyword Monitor: 20 Reddit-wide keywords on the paid plan, searched roughly daily; 3 on the trial.
200 live Reddit reads per day via MCP passthrough on paid, 50 on trial. MCP, REST, and webhooks on both.
Runs its own crawl infrastructure, so no Reddit developer app or API keys are required.

Pros

Cheapest paid Reddit + X data API at $19/mo.
Native MCP support — agent-native interface for AI workflows.
Own crawl infrastructure means no Reddit API keys required.

Cons

Developer-oriented; no dashboard for non-technical users.
200 live reads/day on paid is a hard cap for high-volume scraping.
Less popular than F5Bot or Syften — fewer community examples.

Source: prowlo.com/docs/plans-limits

Syften

Syften runs keyword filters across Reddit, Hacker News, forums, and Slack communities. Entry costs $29.95/month with three community filters and 100 daily results.

Entry $29.95/mo: 3 community filters, 1 web filter, 100 community results/day, 5 web results/day. No Slack, AI filtering, or API.
Standard $49.95/mo: 20 community filters, 5 web filters, Slack, AI filtering, API access, 1-month archive search.
PRO $119.95/mo: 100 community filters, 500 results/day, unlimited archive, webhooks, and MCP.
X/Twitter and YouTube monitoring are paid add-ons on every plan. LinkedIn is not supported.
Every signup starts on a 14-day PRO trial with no credit card.

Pros

Slack community monitoring on Standard — rare in this category.
AI filtering reduces noise from common-word mentions on Standard and up.
14-day PRO trial with no credit card — full feature access to start.

Cons

No LinkedIn monitoring on any plan.
X and YouTube are paid add-ons, not included.
Entry tier caps at 3 community filters and 100 daily results.

Source: syften.com pricing

Buska

Buska scores Reddit posts 0-100 for buying intent and routes qualified leads to CRM or Slack. Starter is $49/month for five signals.

Starter $49/mo: 5 monitored signals, 2 ICP profiles, 16+ sources, daily lead updates, Slack and Discord alerts.
Growth $99/mo: 15 signals, 28+ sources, updates every 3 hours, AI Reply Studio, webhooks, API (500 requests/mo).
Scale $249/mo: 30 signals, 33+ sources, hourly updates, lead enrichment for 1,000 profiles/mo, full API (2,500 requests/mo).
7-day free trial with no credit card. API-only credit packs are sold separately and the credits do not expire.

Pros

0-100 buying intent scoring pushes only qualified leads to CRM.
AI Reply Studio on Growth tier for drafted replies in your voice.
Lead enrichment (1,000 profiles/mo) on Scale tier is rare at this price.

Cons

Starter caps at 5 monitored signals — limited for multi-product teams.
Higher tiers ($99, $249) jump quickly from $49 Starter.
API credit system is separate from main plan, easy to miss.

Source: buska.io/en/pricing

SnitchFeedfound by opencorp

SnitchFeed ingests Reddit and Bluesky in real time, scores each mention with AI, and starts at $47/month billed yearly.

Starter $47/mo billed yearly ($59 monthly): 10 tracked terms, 3 listeners, 7,000 credits, 3-month retention, 1 user.
Pro $95/mo yearly ($119 monthly): 30 terms, 10 listeners, 21,000 credits, webhooks, 6-month retention, 5 users. Enterprise from $399/mo.
Reddit and Bluesky are ingested in real time; X and LinkedIn are scheduled scans that burn 2 and 4 credits per keyword per scan.
Credits also cover AI work: 0.2 per scored mention, 5 per AI reply draft, 100 per mention chat session.
7-day trial with 800 credits, no credit card.

Pros

Real-time Reddit and Bluesky ingestion on every paid plan.
Bluesky monitoring is rare in this category.
AI reply draft burn (5 credits) is affordable for low-volume use.

Cons

X and LinkedIn are scheduled scans, not real-time — burns 2-4 credits per scan.
Credit system is opaque — easy to over- or under-buy.
7-day trial gives only 800 credits, may exhaust quickly.

Source: snitchfeed.com/pricing

OpenScoutfound by opencorp

OpenScout scores mentions on Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and Hacker News across three AI dimensions. Starter is $49/month for ten keywords.

Starter $49/mo: 10 keywords, 2 daily scans. Pro $99/mo: 20 keywords, adds LinkedIn. Premium $399/mo: 40 keywords, 6 daily scans.
Scores every mention for brand relevance, buying intent, and engagement opportunity; the number of scored posts is not capped.
Discovers subreddits from your brand URL and generates platform-specific reply drafts.
3-day free trial, no credit card, no Reddit credentials required.

Pros

Three AI scoring dimensions (relevance, intent, engagement) per mention.
Subreddit discovery from brand URL is a useful onboarding tool.
Reply drafts generated per platform, not just Reddit.

Cons

Premium tier jumps to $399/mo — steep for small teams.
Only 2 daily scans on Starter — easy to miss fast-moving threads.
3-day trial is short for evaluation.

Source: openscout.so

OGToolfound by opencorp

OGTool is no longer self-serve software. Its pricing page now sells a managed Reddit and AEO service with an $8k/month floor.

Current pricing page: managed service, $8k/mo floor, 3-month pilot, every plan custom, capped at 3 new clients per month.
Its own 2025 comparison posts advertised Starter $99/mo and Growth $250/mo — that self-serve tier is gone from the pricing page.
The service description states it seeds one Reddit thread per week and adds brand comments from 70+ high-karma accounts.
Reddit's own spam policy bans "repeated or unsolicited mass engagement" and undisclosed manipulation, and moderators decide what counts in their subreddit. Any enforcement lands on your brand.

Pros

Done-for-you service for teams that don't want to operate a tool.
Brand-safe approach (in theory) with a managed pilot process.
Capped at 3 new clients per month — implies selective onboarding.

Cons

$8,000/mo minimum is out of reach for most early-stage companies.
Brand comments from 70+ high-karma accounts risks Reddit enforcement.
Original $99/$250 self-serve tiers are gone — current model is service-only.

Source: ogtool.com/pricing

GummySearchshut down

GummySearch is closed. It stopped new signups on November 30, 2025 and deletes all data December 1, 2026, after Reddit API licensing failed.

Shutdown announced November 6, 2025. New signups and payments closed November 30, 2025.
Existing paid customers keep access until their billing period ends, at most until late November 2026. All data is deleted December 1, 2026.
Cause: no agreement with Reddit for a commercial Data API license that complies with Reddit's usage policies.
Reddit's 2023 commercial rate of about $0.24 per 1,000 calls is what made the economics impossible for a solo-run product.

Pros

Strong product-market fit before shutdown — validated pain point.
Existing customers retain access until their billing period ends.
Reason for shutdown is documented — useful cautionary tale for similar tools.

Cons

No new signups accepted — closed November 30, 2025.
All customer data deleted December 1, 2026.
Reddit's commercial API economics killed the business model.

Source: gummysearch.com/final-chapter

OpenCorp

OpenCorp reads a product URL and returns competitors plus the Reddit and Hacker News threads where buyers describe the problem. Free, no gate.

Searches for the problem the product solves, not the product name, so it surfaces threads that never mention any brand.
Returns competitors with the sources that mention them, ranked Reddit threads with a reason attached, and Hacker News discussions.
No auto-posting and no auto-commenting: it decides where to show up, you write the words.
Free to run, no credit card. Source-available under the Elastic License 2.0, so it can be self-hosted.

Pros

Free, no signup or credit card required.
Surfaces the problem-not-brand threads that manual Reddit search misses.
Open source (Elastic License 2.0) — can be self-hosted.

Cons

Research-only — does not draft replies, post, or comment on your behalf.
Covers Reddit and Hacker News only — no X, LinkedIn, or YouTube.
No alert/monitoring cadence — run it once per research session, not continuously.

Source: opencorp.live

Questions

What is the cheapest way to find Reddit leads?

F5Bot's free tier (5 keywords, 20 alerts per day) plus OpenCorp, which is free, covers keyword alerts and thread discovery at zero cost.

Why did GummySearch shut down?

It could not agree a compliant commercial Reddit Data API license. New signups closed November 30, 2025 and all data is deleted December 1, 2026.

Which tools avoid Reddit's official API?

Prowlo states it crawls through its own infrastructure rather than Reddit's API. Other vendors do not publish their access method — ask them directly.

Which of these tools did OpenCorp find automatically?

SnitchFeed, OpenScout, and OGTool came out of OpenCorp's own competitor-discovery run on August 18, 2026, using the five search angles listed above.

Is posting about your product on Reddit allowed?

Rules are per subreddit, and Reddit's spam policy bans repeated or unsolicited mass engagement. Read each subreddit's rules before posting anything promotional.

What is the cheapest paid Reddit lead tool?

Prowlo at $19/mo is the cheapest paid API with structured Reddit and X data over MCP. Below that, the only free credible option is F5Bot (5 keywords, 20 alerts per day) plus OpenCorp (unlimited thread discovery, no signup). Linkeddit, Buska, and OpenScout all start at $49/mo with reply drafting or intent scoring included.

Which Reddit tools do scoring or intent detection?

Buska scores every post 0-100 for buying intent and pushes qualified leads to Slack or CRM. OpenScout scores mentions on three AI dimensions (relevance, buying intent, engagement opportunity) and drafts platform-specific replies. Linkeddit scores buying intent and adds AI reply drafts. SnitchFeed uses AI to score each mention. None of these are pure-monitoring tools.

What replaced GummySearch for Reddit lead generation?

After GummySearch closed new signups November 30, 2025 (all data deleted December 1, 2026), the gap was filled by: Linkeddit ($49/mo, intent scoring + reply drafts), SnitchFeed ($47/mo yearly, AI-scored mentions), and OpenScout ($49/mo, scored competitor mentions). All three verify access methods or use AI scoring without depending on Reddit's commercial API.

Related comparisons

What are the best AI social listening tools in 2026?
Noisely at $49/mo is the cheapest full listening platform; Awario at $29/mo the cheapest with intent scoring; Brand24 at $199/mo is the cheapest established player; Brandwatch and Sprinklr lead enterprise; OpenCorp is free for finding the Reddit and Hacker News threads worth replying to.
What are the best Reddit tools with AI reply suggestions in 2026?
RedShip is the cheapest monthly at $29; Reddix AI the cheapest lifetime at $150; OGTool the only full-service option from $8k/mo; GummySearch the audience-research pick at $48/mo; Barsee the AI-drafted reply pick at $40/mo; OpenCorp the only free one that surfaces threads worth replying to.

OpenCorp finds the exact Reddit and Hacker News threads where your buyers describe the problem you solve. Run it free on your product.