Octolens: Social Listening for Developers | Reddit, X, LinkedIn & More

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With other social listening tools

  • You miss mentions on key platforms like Reddit, GitHub, and podcasts where your customers are talking about you the most

  • You pay a $500+/mo to access your own data via API

  • You are flooded with irrelevant mentions and are too late for conversations that matter

  • You can't track common word brands because they create too much noise

  • Built for enterprise & priced like it

With Octolens

  • Never miss an important mention again - covers all relevant social platforms, news, podcasts, and more

  • API access on all plans - build workflows with mention data using API, MCP, or Webhooks

  • Only check out conversations that impact your business

    - pre-filtered by AI to only show you the most relevant mentions

  • Track common word brands like "Apple" or "Amazon" thanks to our AI filtering

  • Simple and flexible pricing - add mentions & keywords flexibly as you grow, without needing to upgrade your plan

"We tried five different social listening platforms. Octolens is the first that genuinely delivers."

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Nicklas Gellner

Co-Founder, Medusa

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"Wild AI-native onboarding experience. I literally entered zero input other than `vercel⁠.com` to get my Octolens feed up and giving me mentions"

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Guillermo Rauch

Co-Founder and CEO, Vercel

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Octolens monitors 100s of millions of mentions every day for SaaS & Developer brands across social platforms, news, podcasts and more.

"Octolens is part of my daily routine. I save hours a week checking socials for important conversations about PeopleGPT."

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David Paffenholz

CEO & Co-Founder, Juicebox (YC S22)

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Pro

  • React faster & integrate with your workflows
  • 15,000 mentions
  • 10 keywords
  • Monitor socials & communities
  • Hourly refresh
  • Slack & Email alerts
  • AI filtering & triage
  • Analytics & reports
  • API, Webhooks & MCP

For growing brands

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Scale

  • Full visibility into your brand's reputation
  • 50,000 mentions
  • 15 keywords
  • Monitor socials, communities, podcasts, media & newsletters
  • Real-time refresh
  • Slack & Email alerts
  • AI filtering, triage & weekly summaries
  • Analytics & reports
  • API, Webhooks & MCP

For brands with communities

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Enterprise

  • Custom monitoring for multi-brand portfolios
  • Multiple workspaces
  • Unlimited mentions
  • Unlimited keywords
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For viral brands

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Zeb Hermann

General Manager v0, Vercel

The Octolens team built one of the most impactful products I've used in the last 10 years. It fundamentally changed how we run every product team at Vercel, and made us even more customer obsessed.

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TallyForms

We love Octolens! You've played such a pivotal role in our story!

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Co-founder, Agenta

I've been using Octolens for a couple of months, and it is really helpful. The AI feature to filter the mentions to the ones relevant to you is very useful and spares me lots of times looking into hundreds of irrelevant posts.

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Terry Sutton

Your brand’s getting mentioned somewhere on the internet right now. Octolens make sure you don’t miss it - been using it for Supabase for the past week and it’s been great for replying fast.

Robin Guldener

Robin Guldener

Co-Founder, Nango (YC W23)

Octolens is very helpful for us to find relevant conversations in social media for our open-source product. Would not want to miss this in my toolchain anymore!

podcasts

Scaling DevTools

Scaling DevTools

Episode 160

We use another tool called Octolens. That's just like listening to what people are saying about your brand, and it's about trying to infer some topics that the community is asking about.

reddit

mikecpeck

Octolens is legit. Zero affiliation… just a satisfied user.

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Louis

I built a workflow that automate posting on threads from Octolens to Reddit in 5 mins. It runs every hour and grow your brand automatically

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Paul (codingthirty)

Octolens is an amazing product, and the fact that they allow you to expose data via webhooks is awesome. This allows you to capture the data and add additional functionality via custom workflows.

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proudparrot2

wait that’s actually goated for devrel people

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Sam Lambert

Sam Lambert

CEO, Planetscale

Damn Octolens does exactly what i wanted and does it really well.

Anna Redbond

Anna Redbond

Head of Marketing, Flagsmith

There's few tools I'd put my name to, Octolens is one of them - it's worth trying

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Jacob Paris

Jacob Paris

DX Engineer, Vercel

Octolens is good.

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Victor Coisne

Victor Coisne

VP Marketing, Strapi

Big fan of Octolens!

Hakim Elakhrass

Hakim Elakhrass

Co-founder, NannyML

All of our content writers also use Octolens to find relevant mentions to comment on.

George Novik

George Novik

Founder, Zerocoder

Octolens is a game changer for DevTool companies! It's great to see a tool that prioritizes genuine engagement over traditional marketing tactics.

Any questions left about social listening?

Octolens helps B2B SaaS teams stay on top of critical brand mentions—without the noise. We monitor platforms that matter for modern software companies, like Reddit, X, GitHub, newsletters, and podcasts. Our AI filters out the irrelevant and sends the right posts directly to Slack, Email, or Webhooks—so you can respond faster, stop misinformation, and gather real product feedback.

Currently, Octolens can track mentions on Newsletters, Podcasts, Twitter/X, Reddit, Bluesky, GitHub, YouTube, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, DEV.to, and more. We're adding more sources on a frequent basis. If you're missing something, please reach out to us.

We offer very high coverage, although accuracy can vary depending on the platform and the volume of mentions for your keywords. For detailed, platform-specific coverage information, please refer to our product documentation.

Yes. We offer a 7-day free trial with all our Pro plan features so you can see for yourself if Octolens is right for you. During the trial, you can access up to 1,000 mentions.

Octolens acts like a team member who reviews posts and determines their importance to your business. You likely don't want every mention clogging your inbox—only the ones that matter. Our AI assesses each post's relevance based on the context of your business and the needs of B2B SaaS. It assigns a high, medium, or low relevance score, and it also tags posts with sentiment and categories (e.g., buy-intent, customer testimonial, promotional). You can choose to receive alerts for all posts or just those marked as high or high and medium (default).

Yes! You can receive notifications for new mentions directly in Slack. You can also customize which relevance levels trigger alerts. For example, you might opt to be notified only for posts that our AI identifies as high relevance—such as those with buying intent, promising engagement opportunities, customer complaints, or praise.

Yes! We offer full API access, webhooks, and an MCP server on all plans. This allows you to integrate your mentions with any app, build custom dashboards, or power AI agent workflows. Our webhooks are also directly compatible with Discord. Additionally, you can use popular automation tools like Zapier, n8n, or Make to route your notifications to your app of choice.

Yes, we do! You can learn more here: https://octolens.com/referral-program. Earn 50% of the revenue generated by your referrals for the first 12 months. If you have any questions about our referral program or would like to partner with us, please reach out via our in-app chat.

Not yet! If we receive enough requests, we may develop a mobile app, so let us know your thoughts.

Yes, you can cancel your subscription at any time.

You can reach us at hi@octolens.com. We'll get back to you within 24 hours (usually much faster).

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