# Brand monitoring your AI agent can read > Watch Reddit, social media, competitors, Google rankings and AI answers on a schedule. Each check keeps what it saw, so the next one says what changed: an email when it matters, and a feed your agent reads in Claude or ChatGPT. ## By job - [Reddit monitoring](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/reddit.md): New posts that mention you, or every post in a subreddit. From 92 credits a month. - [Social media monitoring](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/social-media.md): Mentions and accounts on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. From 153 credits a month. - [Competitor monitoring](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/competitors.md): Their pages, prices, ads, posts and rankings. From free. - [AI visibility tracker](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/ai-visibility.md): How often ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews name you. From 261 credits a month. ## Every monitor type - [Keyword tracking](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/reddit.md): New posts that mention your keywords on Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. Hourly by default; email alerts on. - [Social account tracking](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/social-media.md): New posts from any account, and the ones that take off. Hourly by default; email alerts on. - [Website tracking](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/competitors.md): New jobs, posts, prices and other changes on any page. Daily by default; email alerts off until you turn them on. - [Ad tracking](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/competitors.md): Ads that start and stop on Meta, Google, LinkedIn and TikTok. Daily by default; email alerts off until you turn them on. - [AI visibility tracking](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/ai-visibility.md): How often ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI answers name you. Weekly by default; email alerts off until you turn them on. - [Google rank tracking](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/monitors/competitors.md): Where your site ranks in Google for your keywords. Weekly by default; email alerts off until you turn them on. ## How every monitor works 1. **Pick what to watch.** Keywords, subreddits, accounts, pages, brands or questions, in the dashboard or by asking your agent. The monthly cost shows before it starts. 2. **The first check is a starting point.** It records what is there and reports nothing, so old posts never arrive as news. 3. **Every check after says what changed.** Hourly, daily or weekly, each check compares with the last and keeps only what is new. 4. **An alert, and a feed your agent reads.** New threads and posts email you, at most once a day per monitor. Ask “what did my monitors find?” and your agent reads every change. - **25** monitors per workspace - **0** credits to create one; each check pays for its calls - **250** free credits every month ## Look it up now, then watch it Every monitor repeats calls your agent can make once. Ask a question today, and when the answer is worth keeping an eye on, ask the agent to monitor it. - [Reddit MCP](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/reddit.md) - [AI visibility MCP](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/ai-visibility.md) - [SEO MCP](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/mcp/seo.md) - [AI visibility checker](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/free-tools/ai-visibility-checker.md) - [Competitor ad finder](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/free-tools/competitor-ad-finder.md) - [Subreddit finder](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/free-tools/subreddit-finder.md) Create one in the [dashboard](https://app.manifoldmcp.com/monitors?new=true), or ask your agent. Details: [monitors in the docs](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/monitors.md). ## Questions about monitors ### What is brand monitoring? Brand monitoring is watching where your brand, products and competitors come up, such as Reddit threads, social posts, Google results and AI answers, so you can reply, fix or learn from them while they are fresh. A monitor repeats the search on a schedule and reports only what is new. ### Can my agent set it up for me? Yes. Ask in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any connected client, such as “monitor this every day”. The agent shows the monthly cost first and creates the monitor once you agree. Later, ask what changed and it reads the monitor’s finds. You can also make one in the dashboard. [How monitors work](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/monitors.md). ### Can a monitor run up a bill? Each check charges for the calls it makes, shown as a monthly estimate before you start. Your workspace’s spend cap applies to monitors as to everything else: at the cap checks are skipped until it resets, and with no credits left a monitor pauses until you act. There is no overage. [How credits work](https://www.manifoldmcp.com/docs/credits.md). ### Why did the first check find nothing? The first check records a starting point and reports nothing, so a week of old posts or a page's existing links never arrive as news. Changes are reported from the second check on. ### How long are finds kept? A change keeps its summary for as long as the monitor exists. Quoted text, such as a post title, and details such as the author and likes are cleared after 30 days. Whole posts and AI answer text are not stored.