How much do social media trend tracking tools cost in general?

Enterprise social listening suites usually sell annual contracts priced on request, built for large brands. Focused trend trackers sell monthly plans a freelancer or a small agency can pay with a card. The price moves with three things: Topics — how many brands, products and rivals can be watched at once; Refresh — how often the list of rising posts updates; Reports — whether there is a PDF to send, and whether it carries the agency's brand. How the tool types compare beyond price: the best tools to track competitors on social media.

Tracking competitors: plans and setup

Q: Is RISIO.ME worth the monthly price?

It is worth it when the team acts on what it sees: Worth it — the team answers comparison videos, prepares client calls, or plans posts around what rivals' buyers praise and complain about. One rival launch answered in time pays for months of Echo; Not worth it — the goal is a complete archive of everything said about a brand for a yearly brand report. That is an enterprise social listening job, not a trend tracker's.

Q: How do I start a RISIO.ME free trial?

Sign up; Pick a plan to try; Create the first project — the setup below.

Q: How do I set up competitor tracking in RISIO.ME?

The first ten minutes: Create a project. One per brand you watch for, or one per client for an agency; Add your brand as a topic. Its name, or the name people actually use in posts; Add the rivals. One topic per competitor, plus their best-known products if people name them in their posts; Set the bar. A range of likes, comments and reposts and a maximum post age decide which posts count as rising. Set it for the whole project or for a single topic — a small local rival needs a lower bar than a global brand; Wait for the next refresh. The first posts about each topic show up with it. From then on, check the project once a week — or every day during a rival's launch.

RISIO.ME costs $40 a month on Echo, $179 on Radar and $320 on Locator; Custom is priced on request. Every plan shows the posts about a brand and its competitors that are taking off on TikTok, Instagram and Threads. Echo fits one brand and a few rivals with a daily refresh; Radar adds more topics, a twice-a-day refresh and PDF reports; Locator adds the fastest refresh and reports under an agency’s own brand. Every plan starts with a free trial.

Prices as of October 2026; the current ones are always on Pricing.

What does RISIO.ME cost per month?

Plan	Price	Topics	Refresh	Reports	Fits
Echo	$40/mo	8	Every 24 hours	—	One brand and a few rivals
Radar	$179/mo	35	Every 12 hours	PDF	A team watching its brand, rivals and their products
Locator	$320/mo	70	Every 6 hours	PDF under your brand	An agency watching several clients and their rivals
Custom	On request	500	Every 3 hours	PDF under your brand	Large rosters, help with setup

Every plan covers TikTok, Instagram and Threads, includes trends and connects to AI assistants through MCP. Radar adds one personal trend report a month, Locator three.

Enterprise social listening suites usually sell annual contracts priced on request, built for large brands. Focused trend trackers sell monthly plans a freelancer or a small agency can pay with a card. The price moves with three things:

Topics — how many brands, products and rivals can be watched at once.
Refresh — how often the list of rising posts updates.
Reports — whether there is a PDF to send, and whether it carries the agency’s brand.

How the tool types compare beyond price: the best tools to track competitors on social media.

Is RISIO.ME worth the monthly price?

It is worth it when the team acts on what it sees:

Worth it — the team answers comparison videos, prepares client calls, or plans posts around what rivals’ buyers praise and complain about. One rival launch answered in time pays for months of Echo.
Not worth it — the goal is a complete archive of everything said about a brand for a yearly brand report. That is an enterprise social listening job, not a trend tracker’s.

Which plan do I need to track competitors?

Count topics: your brand, each rival, and each product people name in their posts.

Your brand and two or three rivals (up to 8 topics) — Echo.
A marketing team that also needs a PDF for management — Radar.
An agency with several clients, each in its own project, sending reports under its own logo — Locator.
A long roster of clients or brands — Custom, contact us.

Does RISIO.ME have a free trial?

Yes. Any plan can be tried free for 2 days on TikTok, Instagram and Threads. After the trial, pick a plan to keep going; if you don’t, the account pauses until you subscribe. No social account needs to be connected, so a trial can start on a real rival the same minute.

How do I start a RISIO.ME free trial?

Sign up.
Pick a plan to try.
Create the first project — the setup below.

How do I set up competitor tracking in RISIO.ME?

The first ten minutes:

Create a project. One per brand you watch for, or one per client for an agency.
Add your brand as a topic. Its name, or the name people actually use in posts.
Add the rivals. One topic per competitor, plus their best-known products if people name them in their posts.
Set the bar. A range of likes, comments and reposts and a maximum post age decide which posts count as rising. Set it for the whole project or for a single topic — a small local rival needs a lower bar than a global brand.
Wait for the next refresh. The first posts about each topic show up with it.

From then on, check the project once a week — or every day during a rival’s launch.

What will I see about my competitors?

A feed of posts about each topic, the fastest-growing first. For every post:

The network — TikTok, Instagram or Threads.
Likes, comments and reposts.
How fast it grows, so a young post climbing quickly ranks above an old big one.
A link to the original post.

Your brand’s topics and your rivals’ sit in the same project, so the posts about each side can be compared directly.

From Radar up, export the chosen posts as a PDF report with their numbers and links. On Locator the report carries your logo and name instead of ours, so it reads as the agency’s own research — see white-label reports.

Before you decide

Not sure yet what to watch or why? Read how agencies track clients and their competitors. Comparing tools first? See the best tools to track competitors on social media.

The setup by situation: watch a competitor · watch clients and competitors · watch your brand and competitors.

Ready to watch a rival: start the free trial.