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Cision - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Cision overview

What is Cision?

Cision is a comprehensive communications platform enabling more than 100,000 public relations and marketing professionals around the world to understand, influence and amplify their stories. As the market leader, Cision enables the next generation of communication professionals to strategically operate in the modern media landscape where company success is directly impacted by public opinion. Cision has offices in 24 countries through the Americas, EMEA and APAC, and offers a suite of best-in-class solutions, including PR Newswire, MultiVu, Brandwatch, Cision Communications Cloud® and Cision Insights.

Starting price

1 /
per month

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Pros & Cons

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Customer Support

Press Release Publishing

User Interface

Monitoring and Alerts

Pricing

Media Contacts

Cision’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Cision pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(12)
3-4(49)
5(28)

What do users say about Cision?

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Who uses Cision?

Based on 89 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Public Relations and Communications
Marketing and Advertising
Automotive
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Others

Use cases

Public Relations
Content Marketing
Marketing Analytics
Social Media Monitoring
Social Listening Tools

Cision's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Cision users:

Reporting & statistics
Press Monitoring
Campaign analytics
Monitoring
Press Release Builder
Clippings Management
Email Distribution

All Cision features

Features rating:

A/B testing
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Ad hoc reporting
Alerts/Notifications
API
Article Author Database
Audience analytics
Audience engagement
Auto update
Brand tracking
Campaign analytics
Campaign planning
Campaign tracking
Clippings Management
Communication management
Competitive analysis
Competitor monitoring
Contact database
Contact management
Content discovery
Conversion tracking
CRM
Customer segmentation
Customizable branding
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Dashboard
Data visualization
Digital asset management
Direct Mail Management
Email alerts
Email Distribution
Email marketing
Email templates
Engagement tracking
Event marketing
Filtering
Hashtag tracking
Influencer tracking
Keyword tracking
KPI monitoring
Media monitoring
Monitoring
Multi-Account management
Multi-Channel attribution
Multi-Channel data collection
Multi-Channel distribution
Performance metrics
Post scheduling
Press Monitoring
Press Release Builder
Real-Time analytics
Real-Time data
Real-Time monitoring
Real-Time notifications
Real-Time reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Reputation management
ROI tracking
Search/Filter
Sentiment analysis
Social media integration
Social media monitoring
Social Performance Management
Template management
Third-Party integrations
Trend analysis
User management
Visual analytics
Website analytics

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Pricing range

User opinions about Cision price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Cision's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I am using Cision on a daily basis to monitor all mentions of my brand not only across all French media but also on Social Media”
TD

Thibault D.

Chief Marketing Officer

“The customizable dashboards are easy to use, and I love the visualizations.”
KA

Karly A.

Marketing Analytics and Research Manager

Cision integrations (2)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 89 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Cision integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 4.0 (1)

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Cision support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Chat
Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
Phone Support

Training options

Live Online
Videos
Documentation
In Person
Webinars

Cision FAQs

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