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Meltwater.

Enterprise media intelligence and social listening suite.

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Price, complaint, verdict

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The price

No published price. Every plan starts with a sales call.

Starter covers mira ai assistant (basic level), media intelligence and social listening, ai visibility tracking, 24/7 multi-channel support.

The top tier is quoted by sales, so there is no published ceiling.

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The complaint

No public pricing, 12-month minimum contracts, and aggressive sales motion are the most common complaints across G2 and Capterra reviews.

6 recurring complaints show up in public reviews, and 0 of them come up often.

Praise is just as consistent: mira ai assistant ships with built-in mcp support for claude desktop and cursor, which is unusual for legacy media-intelligence vendors..

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The verdict

Sales led, so the price depends on the conversation.

The most frequently raised complaint: no public pricing, 12-month minimum contracts, and aggressive sales motion are the most common complaints across g2 and capterra reviews..

It reports where you stand. Turning that into published pages and earned citations is still work somebody has to do.

Buy: In-house team to run itSkip: Nobody to act on it
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Pricing matrix

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List prices as published by Meltwater, checked 7 June 2026.
IncludedStarterCustom quoteAnnual commitment, typically 12 months minimumProCustom quoteAnnual commitment, typically 12 months minimumEnterpriseCustom quoteAnnual commitment, custom contractAgencyCustom quoteAnnual commitment, designed for multi-brand management
1Mira AI assistant (basic level)Everything in StarterInfluencer marketingMulti-brand and multi-client management
2Media intelligence and social listeningDeeper cross-channel insightsUnified intelligence across teamsInfluencer marketing
3AI visibility trackingAPI and MCP integrationsCustom dashboards and reportingWhite-label reporting
424/7 multi-channel supportMedia relations workflowsFull Mira AI capabilitiesPriority agency support
5·Higher Mira AI sophistication··
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What reviewers say

Bars show how often it is raised

Praise

6 themes

Mira AI assistant ships with built-in MCP support for Claude Desktop and Cursor, which is unusual for legacy media-intelligence vendors.

Coverage spans earned media, social listening, and AI visibility in one platform, so PR teams stop reconciling data from three separate tools.

Every Mira output is source-linked back to original coverage, which the comms-and-PR audience trusts for executive briefings.

Direct integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Salesforce, and HubSpot route alerts into the tools PR and comms teams already use.

Complaints

6 themes

No public pricing, 12-month minimum contracts, and aggressive sales motion are the most common complaints across G2 and Capterra reviews.

Renewal price hikes and contracts that auto-renew are a recurring theme in Trustpilot reviews of Meltwater.

Capterra rating sits at 4.0 and G2 at 4.1, both below category leaders like Brand24 and Brandwatch despite Meltwater's enterprise positioning.

Sentiment analysis and keyword filtering are described as noisy on Reddit threads, requiring heavy manual cleanup to produce usable reports.

Ratings: 4.1/5 on g2 (2976 reviews) · 4/5 on capterra (0 reviews). As recorded 7 June 2026; counts move, so check the source before quoting.

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What it does

Mira AI Assistant

Chat-based AI agent for news briefings, brand monitoring, competitive intelligence, with source-linked outputs and communications-trained models.

Media Intelligence

Earned media monitoring across global news, print, broadcast, and online sources with vetted source verification.

Social Listening

Real-time monitoring across major social platforms with sentiment analysis and spike detection.

AI Visibility Tracking

Tracks brand mentions and citations inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and other LLMs.

Influencer Marketing

Influencer discovery, campaign management, and performance measurement powered by the Klear acquisition (Enterprise and Agency only).

Mira API and MCP Server

Embed Mira insights into internal chatbots, BI dashboards, and AI assistants via REST API with built-in MCP support.

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Integrations

SlackMicrosoft TeamsMicrosoft 365SalesforceHubSpotPower BIGoogle AnalyticsZapierMira APIMCP Server (Claude Desktop, Cursor)
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The actual decision

We sell one of these two
Path A

Buy Meltwater

Right when in-house team to run it. You get the measurement, and the work of turning it into published pages and earned citations stays with your team.

Path B

Hire someone to run it

Right when nobody to act on it. Disclosure: this is what we sell, which is a reason to read us critically. It is also why every figure here carries the date we checked it, and every judgement carries the quote it came from.

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Questions people ask

What is Meltwater?

Enterprise media intelligence and social listening suite.

How much does Meltwater cost?

Meltwater does not publish list pricing; plans are quoted on request. Checked 7 June 2026.

Does Meltwater have a free trial?

No free tier or trial is published for Meltwater.

What do users complain about in Meltwater?

The most frequently raised issue is: No public pricing, 12-month minimum contracts, and aggressive sales motion are the most common complaints across G2 and Capterra reviews.

Should I buy Meltwater or hire a managed service?

Sales led, so the price depends on the conversation. Buy the tool if in-house team to run it. A managed service is the better fit when nobody in-house has hours each week to act on what it reports.

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