AI-scored Reddit keyword monitoring that flags buyer-intent threads
Short answer
Redship is a reddit monitoring tool positioned as: ai-scored reddit keyword monitoring that flags buyer-intent threads. Pricing starts at $29/mo (No free plan. A $12 one-time pass buys 7 days, then Founder $29/mo or Company $49/mo, both billed yearly.).
Best for: Founders who already know how to write a Reddit comment and only need a fast, well-filtered alert stream telling them which threads to jump into today.
Worst for: Founders who do not yet know which subreddits will accept their product, have low karma or a young account, or want their own posts written and scheduled. Redship surfaces the thread and then stops.
vs MediaFast: Redship tells you which thread to comment on. MediaFast tells you that, and then also which subreddits will take your product, what to post there, when, and whether your account is healthy enough to survive it. Redship has no free plan; MediaFast has 15+ free tools with no login, a 5-day trial with no card, and paid access at $39/mo or $149 once for lifetime, so the yearly math lands in a very different place.
Redship is a Reddit monitoring tool for founders. You give it your website, it derives a keyword list from your product, and then it watches new Reddit posts and comments for those keywords, your brand name, and the competitors you name. Every match gets an AI relevance score from 0 to 100 so you can sort the queue instead of reading a raw firehose, and alerts land by email, Slack, dashboard inbox, or webhook within minutes.
Around the monitoring core it stacks three extras. It flags Reddit threads that already rank on Google for your keywords, so you can go argue your case on a page that is already pulling search traffic. It tracks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini mention your brand, and reports on it weekly. And it drafts reply suggestions with no monthly cap, which you paste yourself, because Redship is explicit that anything replying on your behalf gets the account banned.
What Redship is not is a posting system. There is no roadmap, no subreddit picker that tells you where your product belongs, no post generator tuned to a community's tone, no karma tracking, no removal analytics, and no scheduling. It listens extremely well and then hands the work back to you. That split matters, because listening is the cheap half of Reddit marketing and posting is the half that gets accounts removed.
Tier
No free plan / $29-$49/mo
Starting At
$29/mo
Model
No free plan. A $12 one-time pass buys 7 days, then Founder $29/mo or Company $49/mo, both billed yearly.
Free Plan
No
Redship is newer than most tools in this category and organic Reddit discussion about it is still thin. The feedback that does exist praises the setup speed, the clean interface, and the relevance scoring for making it obvious where to jump in. The recurring counterpoint across r/SaaS and r/Entrepreneur threads about monitoring tools in general applies here too: an alert is not a strategy. Founders who buy a monitor before they have posting history, karma, or a sense of which communities tolerate their product tend to burn the leads it finds, because the comment gets removed or the account gets flagged before it converts.
Founders who already know how to write a Reddit comment and only need a fast, well-filtered alert stream telling them which threads to jump into today.
Founders who do not yet know which subreddits will accept their product, have low karma or a young account, or want their own posts written and scheduled. Redship surfaces the thread and then stops.
Redship tells you which thread to comment on. MediaFast tells you that, and then also which subreddits will take your product, what to post there, when, and whether your account is healthy enough to survive it. Redship has no free plan; MediaFast has 15+ free tools with no login, a 5-day trial with no card, and paid access at $39/mo or $149 once for lifetime, so the yearly math lands in a very different place.
Redship
Reddit Monitoring tool, paid only, starting at $29/mo
MediaFast
Reddit research, subreddit discovery, and AI post generation in one platform. Free to start.
If Redship doesn't fit your use case, here are the strongest alternatives with specific reasons to consider each one.
Covers monitoring plus everything Redship stops short of: a subreddit picker, a daily posting roadmap, post and comment generators tuned to each community, karma and removal analytics, and a free tier with 15+ tools so you can start without a card.
Completely free keyword alerts covering posts and comments. If all you want is the raw match and you are happy to filter it yourself, there is no reason to pay $29 a month.
Publishes a hard alert-speed commitment of at most 1 minute and covers Hacker News, Discord, and Slack alongside Reddit, which Redship does not.
Also scores mentions for intent and is aimed squarely at B2B teams that need multi-platform coverage, not Reddit alone.
Specific answers about Redship pricing, features, and whether it's right for your use case.
No. Redship has no permanent free tier. The entry point is a $12 one-time pass that gives you 7 days of Founder-level access, after which you move to Founder at $29/mo or Company at $49/mo. Both headline prices assume annual billing. If you want free Reddit keyword alerts, F5Bot covers posts and comments at no cost, and MediaFast's free tier includes 15+ Reddit tools without a card.
Redship says alerts reach email or Slack "within minutes" but does not publish a specific ceiling. Syften is the only tool in this category that commits to a hard number, at most 1 minute. If alert latency is your deciding factor, ask Redship directly rather than reading "within minutes" as a guarantee.
No, and it says so explicitly: anything that replies on your behalf gets the account banned. Redship drafts a reply and you paste it yourself. That is the correct call. Every tool in this space that has promised hands-off auto-replying has produced banned accounts, because Reddit's spam filter reads posting patterns, not the tool that wrote the text.
It does not pick subreddits for you, build a posting roadmap, generate your own posts, schedule anything, track karma, or warn you when a subreddit silently removes low-Contributor-Quality-Score accounts. It is a listening layer. You still need to know which communities accept your product and whether your account can survive posting in them.
It is worth it if you already post on Reddit regularly, have karma and account history, and your only bottleneck is spotting the right thread in time. It is not worth it if you are starting cold, because a queue of scored threads is useless when your comments get removed for account age or karma. In that case the money is better spent on something that covers discovery, posting, and account health together.
Redship handles reddit monitoring. MediaFast handles the full Reddit loop: finding your subreddits, generating posts that fit each community, and building the Reddit presence that makes brand monitoring worthwhile in the first place.