Feed & Attention
What LinkedIn monitoring should cost in 2026
Entry prices in this category run from free to $2,500/mo. What each band actually buys, and how to work out the real cost per person.
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In this category the entry prices run from free to $2,500 a month, and almost none of the difference is quality. It is what the output is worth: an alert costs dollars, a lead list costs hundreds, and an archive of the people you chose sits in between. Here is what each band actually buys, and how to compare them without being fooled by the sticker.
The short answer
Price tracks output, not effort. If the tool hands you a person to contact, it prices like a lead-gen product ($99–$2,500/mo). If it hands you a notification, it prices like an alert ($30–$200/mo). Products in between — surveillance without outreach — occupy a narrower band, and that is where most buyers actually want to be.
The price bands
| What you get | Typical entry price | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword alerts only | $30–$200/mo | Syften ($29.95), Brand24 ($199) |
| Audience research, not a list | $150/mo | SparkToro |
| Watching chosen people, no outreach | $8–$99/mo | MyFeedIn ($8 yearly), MultiFollow ($19), Breakcold ($99), Surfolks ($29) |
| Enriched leads from engagement | $99–$2,500/mo | Jungler ($99), Common Room ($2,500) |
| Automated comments / outreach | $19–$297/mo | PowerIn ($19–59), Gojiberry ($99), Allen ($97–297) |
Those figures come from each vendor's own live pricing page, checked directly rather than from another comparison table — Allen's public table, for instance, lists Supergrow at $19–49 when its live site says $39 and $199. Never source a price from a comparison page, including ours: check the vendor. The alert band is visible directly at the two ends of it, on Syften and Brand24.
Why the sticker price is the wrong number
Tiers in this category are sold in incompatible units: profiles per platform, people across both, keywords, comment volume, credits. So a $19 plan and a $29 plan can be a 5x difference per person, in either direction. The only way to compare is to divide by the number of people you would actually watch.
| Plan | Monthly | Capacity | Per person |
|---|---|---|---|
| MultiFollow | $19 | 15 profiles (one platform) | ≈ $1.27 |
| Extrovert | $49 | 250 prospects | ≈ $0.20 |
| MyFeedIn | $8 (yearly) | Unlimited (extension) | ≈ $0.03 at 250 |
| Surfolks | $29 | 50 people (both platforms) | ≈ $0.58 |
| Surfolks + 1 add-on | $48 | 100 people | ≈ $0.48 |
The honesty point
On pure cost per person, a browser-extension feed that reads LinkedIn's own page wins and we do not. It has no provider bill. Our cost exists because the archive is collected server-side, which is why it survives a closed laptop and covers both platforms. Compare on the collection model, not on the capacity price.
What you are actually paying for
- Provider cost per watched person, every day. Collecting public posts server-side is a recurring bill, and a $0 plan almost always means the collection happens on your machine.
- The archive. A history you can filter is the expensive part; a notification is cheap.
- Coverage. A second platform roughly doubles collection cost and is the half most cheap tools skip entirely.
- Relevance scoring. Anything that ranks posts against your goals is doing work on every post, not on every alert.
What a fair price looks like for your job
- If you need minute-level keyword reaction: an alert tool at $30–$200/mo. Do not buy a feed.
- If you need to keep up with a chosen list, read-only, across both platforms: $8–$99/mo, and the choice is about collection model rather than price.
- If you need people to contact: $99+/mo, and it is a different product with different risk.
- If you need nothing at the moment: X Lists, LinkedIn notifications and a spreadsheet are free and honest for a list under about ten people on one platform — see free workarounds compared.
Where Surfolks sits
One plan: $29/mo founding price (regularly $49) for 50 people across LinkedIn and X, with a stackable +50-people add-on for $19/mo (regularly $39), plus a $99 one-off lifetime option while its window lasts. No free plan and no free trial; the first payment is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. If the categories above say you need an alert tool or an outreach tool, we are not the cheaper answer — we are a different job. The full comparison set lives at compare.
Common questions
How much does LinkedIn monitoring cost?
It ranges from free to about $2,500/mo, because the category mixes keyword alerts ($30–$200), surveillance of chosen people ($8–$99), and lead generation ($99–$2,500). Match the band to your job first.
Why is one monitoring tool so much cheaper than another?
Usually the collection model. Tools that read the page in your browser have no provider bill and can price near zero; tools that collect server-side pay per watched person every day.
Is a per-person price comparison fair?
It is the only fair comparison across tiers sold in different units, but it ignores collection model. A cheaper per-person price that only works in an open browser tab is not cheaper for the job most buyers have.
Do I need a paid tool at all?
Not if your list is under about ten people on one platform and you only need today's view. X Lists and LinkedIn notifications are free and enough. They break at cross-platform, history and mobile.
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