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Media monitoring and media intelligence solution

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Meltwater - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: December 2025

Meltwater overview

What is Meltwater?

As a global pioneer in online media monitoring and media intelligence, Meltwater stands out as the most comprehensive all-in-one solution for public relations, communications, and marketing professionals.

Sift through news stories, social media postings, and many other media types so that users can monitor everything relevant to their brand, competitors, and industry. Our innovative AI-driven media monitoring technology, in conjunction with our global network of partnerships, provides our clients access to content on a local, national, and global level.

Powered by the largest content database in the industry, our reports clear the clutter to bring actionable insights. We understand that every organisation has different KPI’s when it comes to measuring results. Using our extensive range of metrics, clients can customise the service to their needs to better understand their return on investment and results.

Key benefits of using Meltwater

Listen: Gain insight into more than 275,000 global online news sources, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, comment, review sites, forums, message boards and over 300 million blogs.

Analyse: Evaluate media coverage with ease, using both qualitative and quantitative metrics. Meltwater's ever expanding widget library allows clients to seamlessly create dashboards to help visualise media coverage and report on the ROI of their efforts. Everything is interactive and exportable, to give the context behind the numbers.

Engage: Use analysis insights to inform and start two way conversations with advocates, journalists and social media influencers directly through our platform. Meltwater identifies the most relevant people to reach out to, as well as helping customers to understand the channel that makes the most sense to start that dialogue on.

Distribute: Showcase ROI and keep stakeholders informed. Distribute media coverage through customised newsletters, stream selected content to a website, intranet, or Slack channel. Distribute press releases, either directly through the platform, or via a newswire.

Starting price

Free

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Pros & Cons

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Information Accessibility

Analytics

PR Media Database

Monitoring Team

Client Email Management

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Meltwater’s user interface

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Meltwater pros, cons and reviews insights

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What do users say about Meltwater?

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Who uses Meltwater?

Based on 96 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Marketing and Advertising
Public Relations and Communications
Higher Education
Information Technology and Services
Others

Use cases

Social Media Analytics Tools
Public Relations
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Monitoring
Brand Management

Meltwater's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Meltwater users:

Reporting/Analytics
Competitor monitoring
Engagement tracking
Data import/export
Post scheduling
Social listening

All Meltwater features

Features rating:

Widgets
Keyword tracking
Press Monitoring
AI/Machine learning
Web tracking
Influencer tracking
Content management
Performance metrics
Data visualization
Monitoring
Social media integration
Multi-Account management
Search/Filter
Multi-Channel data collection
Dashboard
Campaign analytics
Sentiment analysis
Review monitoring
Press Release Builder
Automated publishing
Article Author Database
Multi-Channel distribution
Multi-Channel attribution
Multi-Campaign
Multi-Channel management
Multi-Channel marketing
Mobile alerts
Multi-Language
Media monitoring
Natural language processing
Negative feedback management
Predictive analytics
Marketing automation
List management
Lead generation
Workflow management
Website Monitoring
Website analytics
Visual analytics
User management
Trend analysis
Third-Party integrations
Template management
Tagging
Social Performance Management
Social mentions tracking
Social media monitoring
Social marketing
Scheduling
ROI tracking
Response management
Reputation management
Reporting & statistics
Real-Time reporting
Real-Time notifications
Real-Time monitoring
Real-Time data
Real-Time analytics
Real Time Comparisons
Competitive analysis
Communication management
Commenting/Notes
Collaboration tools
Clippings Management
Channel management
Campaign tracking
Campaign planning
Campaign management
Calendar management
Brand tracking
Brand management
Benchmarking
Behavior analytics
Automated scheduling
Audience targeting
Audience engagement
Audience analytics
Approval process control
API
Alerts/Notifications
Ad hoc reporting
Activity dashboard
Access controls/permissions
@mentions
KPI monitoring
Keyword filtering
Influencer relationship management
Influencer discovery
Impact measurement
Hashtag tracking
Filtering
Email marketing
Email Distribution
Email alerts
Dynamic content
Drag & drop
Digital asset management
Dashboard creation
Customization
Customizable templates
Customizable reports
Customizable fields
Customer segmentation
Customer engagement
Conversion tracking
Content publishing options
Content discovery
Contact management
Contact database

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Meltwater pricing

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Pricing plans

Pricing details:

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Free trial
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Essentials

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Features included:

  • 24/7 individualized training course access
  • For smaller teams

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Features included:

  • Multiple solutions for cross-department impact
  • Integrated tools for simple navigation and reporting
  • Ability to scale
  • For small to big teams

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Features included:

  • Custom suite of solutions
  • Managed and Premium Services for all customer use cases
  • Unified comprehensive datasets
  • Integrated solutions for all stakeholders
  • For global organizations with unified pricing and contracting

User opinions about Meltwater price and value

Value for money rating:

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

“In a small team it's really important to be able to utilise time effectively and this is a great tool to achieve that and cost effective too.”
JB

Jo B.

Development Manager

“A complex platform with the abilities to showcase great insight for communications and media professionals.”
AR

Amy R.

Senior Account Executive

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Meltwater support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Phone Support
Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum
24/7 (Live rep)
Chat

Training options

Videos
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation

Meltwater FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Meltwater?

Meltwater has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Meltwater support?

Meltwater supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmal), Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish


Q. Does Meltwater support mobile devices?

Meltwater supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does Meltwater offer an API?

Yes, Meltwater has an API available for use.


Q. What level of support does Meltwater offer?

Meltwater offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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