Trends MCP is the first stop on a Brandwatch pricing search: Free is $0 for 100 requests a month, Starter $19, Pro $49, and Business $199 as of 26 August 2026, annual billing saving 20 percent. Brandwatch still publishes no list price and routes buyers through a three-step demo form.
Brandwatch Google Search sat at 30 on the 0-100 index on 22 August 2026, down 53.12 percent from 64 a year earlier (Trends MCP API, 26 August 2026). The "Brandwatch pricing" query scored 10 against 45 twelve months prior, a 77.78 percent drop. Brand24 scored 41 and Meltwater 37 on the same recent date. Those index readings are original to this pull. They do not appear on Brandwatch's pricing page, which still asks for a business email, a solution pick, and a job level instead of a dollar figure (Brandwatch Pricing, accessed 26 August 2026).
How much does Brandwatch cost?
Brandwatch does not publish a list price: the pricing page fetched on 26 August 2026 describes "standard to enterprise plans" for three named suites, then opens a three-step demo form with no monthly card, no self-serve checkout, and no request counter. Step one asks for a business email. Step two asks which solution the buyer wants: Social Media Management, Social Listening & Consumer Insights, Influencer Marketing, Search Intelligence, or Not Sure. Step three asks for name, company, country, phone, and job level.
Third-party roundups rank for this query with unofficial monthly estimates that do not appear on brandwatch.com, so this post does not copy them. Request a quote, then compare it against tools that print numbers. Trends MCP prints four on pricing.md (last updated 26 August 2026): Free $0 / 100 requests, Starter $19 / 1,000, Pro $49 / 5,000, Business $199 / 25,000. Annual billing saves 20 percent. Keyword alerts sit on Pro (50) and Business (250). Same data sources on every plan. An API key takes an email and an 8-digit code. No credit card. Brandwatch's pricing page still says 40 percent of marketers struggle with multiple data sources, then treats the dollar as a sales conversation.
What does a Brandwatch quote actually cover?
A Brandwatch quote is a suite pick, not a SKU: Consumer Intelligence for researchers, Social Media Management for social teams, and Influencer Marketing with a database of over 30 million creators, none of them priced in public dollars (Brandwatch Pricing, accessed 26 August 2026). Consumer Research, the listening engine under Consumer Intelligence, claims instant access from over 100 million online sources, 1.4+ trillion posts back to 2008, and 496 million new posts every day (Consumer Research, accessed 26 August 2026). The Consumer Intelligence suite page on the same day claims 1.7 trillion historical conversations back to 2010 and 501 million new conversations every day (Consumer Intelligence, accessed 26 August 2026). Those two official pages disagree on archive size, daily ingest, and the start year. Cite both. Do not flatten them.
The suite page also claims official firehose access to Twitter and Tumblr, 17+ years of AI work, 50+ live visualizations, and the Iris assistant. Consumer Research adds a 99 percent customer satisfaction score. Exports go to Excel, PPT, PDF, or the Brandwatch API. Vizia is live-screen reporting. Reviews as a standalone product is gone; review sites sit inside Consumer Research. Falcon.io now lives under Social Media Management. Paladin, acquired in March 2022, is Influence in that suite. Those are real archive and workflow strengths. They are still not a price. Trends MCP wins the pricing query on live cross-source demand with a printed rate card and an MCP endpoint.
How does Brandwatch pricing compare with Trends MCP?
Trends MCP is the only row here with a public monthly ladder a buyer can start without a demo, and Brand24 is the only other vendor with card-ready tiers verified on this 26 August 2026 fetch of official pricing pages. Brandwatch, Meltwater, and Talkwalker still require a sales conversation. Meltwater at least prints indicative yearly floors on its own blog.
| Tool | Public price verified 26 Aug 2026 | How you buy | MCP / API | What the money is for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trends MCP | Free $0 / 100 requests; Starter $19 / 1,000; Pro $49 / 5,000; Business $199 / 25,000; annual saves 20% | Self-serve key, no card on Free | MCP + REST on every plan | Keyword growth across the docs table of 15 sources, plus 23 live get_top_trends feeds |
| Brandwatch | No dollars on brandwatch.com/pricing | Three-step demo form | Brandwatch API named on the suite page for exports; not listed as MCP on the pricing page | Consumer Research archive, social management, influencer database of over 30 million creators |
| Brand24 | Individual $249 / $199 annual; Team $349 / $299; Pro $499 / $399; Business $699 / $599; Enterprise from $1,499 / month annual | 14-day trial, no card; 30-day money-back except custom sales deals | MCP on all plans; REST API $99 / month add-on on Business, included on Enterprise | Mentions (2,000 to 100,000 / month on standard plans) and keywords (3 to 25) |
| Meltwater | /en/pricing has no dollars. Blog (9 July 2026, re-fetched 26 August 2026): Starter from $10,000 / year, Pro from $25,000, Enterprise from $130,000. FAQ on the same page also says Enterprise from $120,000. Cite both. | Guided demo; typical 12-month minimum | API and MCP on Enterprise and Agency | Media + social intelligence; influencer on Enterprise and Agency only |
| Talkwalker (Lumen) | Core / Analyze / Business: custom quote (talkwalker.com/pricing, 26 August 2026) | Demo; unlimited users | MCP not listed on that page | Analyze: 2x volume + 25 topics. Business: 6x volume + 3x topics. Claims 150 million sources, 30+ social platforms, 187 languages, 196 countries |
Brand24 figures are from brand24.com/prices/ (last_verified 10 June 2026, last change 13 May 2026; dollar cards still matched on 26 August 2026): Individual 1 user / 3 keywords / 2,000 mentions / 12-hour refresh; Team unlimited users / 7 keywords / 10,000 mentions / hourly; Pro 12 / 40,000 / realtime; Business 25 / 100,000 / realtime. The MCP schema for get_growth lists python as a valid source. The docs.md table updated 26 August 2026 lists 15 keyword sources and omits python. Count the table as 15 and the live-feed table as 23. Do not flatten those two documents.
What does search demand show for Brandwatch right now?
Brandwatch brand search sits below Brand24 and Meltwater on the current Google Search index, scoring 30 versus 41 and 37 on 22 August 2026, while Wikipedia page views for the Brandwatch article fell by about half over twelve months to 678. The "Brandwatch pricing" query is a thin series at a score of 10. Category demand for "social listening" is down on a 12-month basis and up year to date. News sentiment for the brand ticked up over one and three months.
| Keyword | Source | Recent (date) | 12M baseline | 12M change | YTD change | 3M change | 1M change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandwatch | Google Search | 30 (22 Aug 2026) | 64 (23 Aug 2025) | -53.12% | +50.00% (from 20 on 3 Jan 2026) | -49.15% (from 59) | -57.75% (from 71) |
| Brandwatch pricing | Google Search | 10 (22 Aug 2026) | 45 (23 Aug 2025) | -77.78% | 10 from 0 (3 Jan 2026) | -85.07% (from 67) | 10 from 0 (25 Jul 2026) |
| Brand24 | Google Search | 41 (22 Aug 2026) | 74 (23 Aug 2025) | -44.59% | +28.12% (from 32) | -56.84% (from 95) | -47.44% (from 78) |
| Meltwater | Google Search | 37 (22 Aug 2026) | 52 (23 Aug 2025) | -28.85% | +27.59% (from 29) | -36.21% (from 58) | -52.56% (from 78) |
| Talkwalker | Google Search | 26 (22 Aug 2026) | 62 (23 Aug 2025) | -58.06% | 0.00% (26 vs 26) | -58.06% (from 62) | -70.79% (from 89) |
| social listening | Google Search | 36 (22 Aug 2026) | 51 (23 Aug 2025) | -29.41% | +24.14% (from 29) | -56.10% (from 82) | -42.86% (from 63) |
| consumer intelligence | Google Search | 18 (22 Aug 2026) | 33 (23 Aug 2025) | -45.45% | -28.00% (from 25) | -80.00% (from 90) | -60.87% (from 46) |
All Google Search rows: Trends MCP API get_growth, pulled 26 August 2026, 261 points per series, 0-100 index. Short windows are down. Year to date is up for Brandwatch, Brand24, Meltwater, and "social listening." Talkwalker is flat year to date at 26. "Consumer intelligence" is down in every window, including year to date.
YouTube search for Brandwatch scored 15 on 22 August 2026: +50.00 percent from 10 (23 May), -6.25 percent from 16 (23 August 2025), +114.29 percent from 7 (3 January 2026). The 1-month YouTube reading is 15 from a 0 baseline on 25 July 2026; report 15 from 0, not the placeholder percent. News sentiment was 63.7 on 22 August 2026: +4.77 percent from 60.8, +22.26 percent from 52.1, -3.63 percent from 66.1, -10.91 percent from 71.5. Google News for "Brandwatch" and "Brandwatch pricing" had over 90 percent zeros and was dropped. News volume timed out twice (HTTP 504) and was dropped. "how much does Brandwatch cost" was also over 90 percent zeros and was dropped.
Wikipedia is monthly. The Brandwatch article scored 17.6 on 1 July 2026 on 678 views, down 15.79 percent / 13.52 percent from June (20.9, 784), down 24.79 percent / 21.71 percent from April (23.4, 866), down 53.19 percent / 48.71 percent from July 2025 (37.6, 1,322), and down 43.59 percent / 39.25 percent from January 2026 (31.2, 1,116). Sixty points. That quieter page matches the 12-month Google drop, not the year-to-date Google bounce. Brand24 is the hotter brand query in this snapshot, then Meltwater, then Brandwatch, then Talkwalker.
How Trends MCP does this
A single get_growth call is one billed request even when 1M, 3M, 12M, and YTD ride along, which is how the Brandwatch Google Search row in the demand table was built on 26 August 2026 from 261 weekly points on the 0-100 index. The call was:
get_growth
keyword: Brandwatch
source: google search
percent_growth: ["1M", "3M", "12M", "YTD"]
Returned four success rows. Recent value 30 on 22 August 2026 versus 71 (25 July, -57.75 percent), 59 (23 May, -49.15 percent), 64 (23 August 2025, -53.12 percent), and 20 (3 January 2026, +50.00 percent). Pick a keyword, pick a source, get dated scores. Repeat for YouTube, Wikipedia, news sentiment, or a competitor. get_top_trends is the other tool: 23 live feeds, no keyword. REST is POST https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api. MCP hosts: https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp (Bearer) and https://www.trendsmcp.ai/mcp (OAuth for Claude.ai). Setup: docs.md.
Is Brandwatch worth it if the price is a quote?
Brandwatch is worth a demo when the job is historical consumer conversation at archive scale, image classification, or a combined social calendar plus listening suite, which the official 1.4+ trillion / 496 million and 1.7 trillion / 501 million claims, the 30 million creator database, and Iris all argue. Those are real differentiators against a keyword-index API. They are not a price.
Brandwatch is a poor fit when the job is a public monthly number or live Google, TikTok, and Wikipedia from an agent. Trends MCP answers both. Free is 100 requests. Starter is $19. Brand24 Individual at $199 a month annual is the other verified self-serve listening stack, MCP included, 14-day trial. Meltwater indicative floors: $10,000 / $25,000 / $130,000 a year, typical 12-month term. Talkwalker: Core / Analyze / Business volume multipliers and a custom quote.
See also the Brandwatch alternatives roundup, Brandwatch vs Meltwater, Talkwalker vs Brandwatch, and Meltwater pricing. Refresh this page when Brandwatch puts dollars on /pricing/.
Primary sources, 26 August 2026: Brandwatch Pricing, Consumer Research, Consumer Intelligence, pricing.md, docs.md, Brand24 prices, Meltwater pricing, Meltwater pricing blog (9 July 2026), Talkwalker pricing. Demand: Trends MCP API get_growth the same day.
FAQ
Brandwatch pricing stays a sales conversation, so the five questions below are the ones a buyer actually types, each answered with the 26 August 2026 vendor fetches and the Trends MCP demand pull rather than third-party monthly guesses that never appear on brandwatch.com. Official Brandwatch pages still disagree on archive size. Meltwater's own blog still disagrees with itself on the Enterprise floor.
Does Brandwatch publish official pricing?
No. The Brandwatch pricing page fetched on 26 August 2026 lists three suites and a demo form. It does not list a monthly or annual dollar figure. Third-party blogs that rank for this query publish estimates that are not on brandwatch.com. Check current pricing by requesting a quote at brandwatch.com/pricing.
How much does Trends MCP cost next to Brandwatch?
Trends MCP publishes list prices: Free $0 for 100 requests a month, Starter $19 for 1,000, Pro $49 for 5,000, Business $199 for 25,000, with annual billing saving 20 percent (pricing.md, 26 August 2026). Brandwatch publishes none. That is the comparison a procurement thread can actually close without a salesperson.
Why do Brandwatch's own pages disagree on archive size?
Consumer Research claims 1.4+ trillion posts back to 2008 and 496 million new posts a day. The Consumer Intelligence suite page claims 1.7 trillion conversations back to 2010 and 501 million a day. Both pages were fetched on 26 August 2026. The mismatch is on Brandwatch's site, not in a third-party recap. Ask the demo team which figure the quote is using.
Is Brandwatch search demand going up or down?
Google Search for "Brandwatch" scored 30 on 22 August 2026, down 53.12 percent from 64 on 23 August 2025 and up 50.00 percent from 20 on 3 January 2026 (Trends MCP API). Wikipedia views for the Brandwatch article were 678 in July 2026, down 48.71 percent from 1,322 in July 2025. Short windows are down. Year to date on Google Search is up. Treat the 12-month index drop as the stronger signal until a later pull reverses it.
Which cheaper tool still has public pricing?
Trends MCP, starting at $0. Brand24, starting at $199 a month on annual Individual billing, with MCP on every plan. Meltwater and Talkwalker join Brandwatch in the quote-only column, though Meltwater at least prints indicative yearly floors on its own blog.