HearBuyers vs Syften: community monitoring or buyer matching?
updated 18 October 2026 · facts about other products checked 17 October 2026 from their own pages
Syften fits better if you want keyword monitoring across a wide set of communities and forums at a low monthly price. HearBuyers fits better if you want a ranked list of people on X and Reddit who are asking for what you sell, with a reply drafted for each. Syften shows you what people said, and HearBuyers also tells you how close they are to buying.
Facts about Syften come from its home page and its buying-intent page, checked on 17 October 2026.
Side by side
| Syften | HearBuyers | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | The public web, Reddit, X, Indie Hackers, Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt, Stack Exchange sites, forums, Dev.to, YouTube, podcasts, Bluesky, Mastodon and more | X and Reddit |
| Setup | Automated onboarding researches your company and builds first filters. Filters are search queries you can edit | Paste your website. Buyers, problems, search phrases, competitors and subreddits are filled in for you to edit |
| How it judges a post | Keyword match, plus optional AI filtering with accept rules you write | A score from 0 to 100, the sentence that shows the need, and a one-line reason |
| Replies | Not listed | A drafted public reply per strong match, plus a DM draft on X. A person approves and posts |
| Alerts | Email, Slack, RSS, webhooks, developer access and an MCP server (by plan) | Slack, a daily email digest and a team inbox with stages |
| Price | Entry $29.95, Standard $49.95, PRO $119.95 a month. X monitoring is +$40 a month. 14-day trial, no card | From $19 a month, free for 14 days. Any price agreed with you first |
Where Syften is stronger
- Breadth. It reads a long list of sources: forums, Slack communities, newsletters, podcasts, Mastodon, Hacker News and more. HearBuyers reads two networks.
- Price at the low end. The Entry plan costs $29.95 a month for three community filters.
- Speed. Syften says it aims to deliver Reddit alerts in under a minute, and X alerts take 15 minutes at most.
- Control. You write the filters and the accept rules yourself, and you can search an archive.
- Agencies. You can tag filters per client.
Where HearBuyers is stronger
- Intent as the point. Syften's own page says it shows what someone said rather than an unexplained score, which is a fair design choice. HearBuyers does the opposite: every post gets a score plus a one-line reason, so a team can set a bar.
- Drafted replies. Each strong match comes with a reply a person can edit, approve and post.
- A team workflow. A shared inbox with stages (new, reviewing, approved, replied, won, not a fit, dismissed) and team invites.
- No filter writing. You can get started without writing queries or rules.
How to choose
Pick Syften if you need many sources, fine control over queries, or the lowest price for keyword monitoring. Pick HearBuyers if you want fewer matches on X and Reddit, each scored and with a drafted reply. If you need both a wide net and a buyer list, you can run the two side by side, since they do different jobs.
How to switch
- Copy the Syften filters that cover problems and recommendation requests, leaving out brand names.
- Sign up for HearBuyers and paste your website.
- Check the search phrases it suggests and add any of your filters that are missing.
- Add competitors and the subreddits your Syften filters pointed at.
- Send alerts to the same Slack channel and set your score threshold.
The longer write-up is on the Syften alternative page. The other tools are on the compare page. Paste your website into HearBuyers and read the first scan.
Sources, checked 17 October 2026: Syften home and pricing, Syften buying intent alerts. Product names are trademarks of their owners. HearBuyers is not affiliated with them. Spot something out of date? Write to us and we will fix it.
See who is asking for what you sell
Paste your website. Your first scored matches from X and Reddit arrive within minutes, each with a drafted reply. Free for 14 days, no card.