Get told when Reddit mentions your brand, a competitor or the problem you solve, or read every new post in the subreddits that matter. Your agent reads each find in Claude or ChatGPT and drafts the reply.
250 free credits a month. Or ask your agent: how monitors work
Reddit monitoring is checking Reddit on a schedule for new posts that mention your brand, competitors or keywords, so you can answer while a thread is still fresh. A Reddit thread gets most of its replies in its first day or two, so an hourly or daily check with an alert beats searching by hand.
Each check repeats the same calls and keeps what it saw, so the next one reports only what is new. Change the cadence or alerts on any monitor.
Monitors in the docsNew Reddit posts that use your keywords, from Reddit search. Add subreddits and it reads every new post in them instead, which search can miss.
Plain questions in any connected client. The agent picks the tools.
Monitor Reddit every hour for posts that mention [brand] or [competitor].
Watch r/[subreddit] and tell me about every new post asking for a tool like ours.
What did my Reddit monitor find this week? Draft a reply to the best three threads.
Which subreddits should I monitor for [category]? Then set up a daily monitor on the top five.
Track Reddit posts asking for an alternative to [competitor].
How much would it cost to monitor five keywords on Reddit every hour?
Free alert services email you a link when a keyword appears. Listening platforms add many more sources, scoring and dashboards, at a monthly price. A Manifold monitor sits between them: the finds go to your agent, which can read the thread and draft the answer. For setting up your own scheduled check, see how to monitor Reddit for brand mentions.
| Free alert services | Listening platforms | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How fast a new post arrives | Within minutes | Near real time | Hourly at most |
| Comments, not only posts | Yes | Yes | Posts only |
| Every post in a subreddit | Keyword matches | Keyword matches | Yes, by community |
| Who reads the find | You, by email | You, in their app | Your agent, then you |
| Other platforms in one monitor | A few forums | Many sources | LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube |
| Price | Free tier | Monthly subscription | Pay per check |
Each check pays for the calls it makes, at the same prices as your agent’s calls, and the form shows the monthly cost before it starts. No seats and no plan per monitor. Every workspace gets 250 free credits a month.
For a one-off look, your agent searches Reddit, reads threads and comments, and finds subreddits on the same server.
Keywords use Reddit search, which reaches all of Reddit but is ranked and can miss posts. Subreddits read every new post in them, so nothing in those communities is missed. Use both: keywords for your brand across Reddit, subreddits for where your buyers ask.
Yes, alerts are on by default for Reddit, because a thread is answered in its first day or two. You get at most one email a day per monitor, and the rest wait in its feed.
No, posts only. To read a thread’s comments, ask your agent: it calls the Reddit tools on the same server, at their usual price.
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
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.
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
ChatGPT and Claude do not watch Reddit by themselves. Set up a recurring check your agent runs: pick terms and subreddits, run the first check, schedule it, dedupe, triage by relevance and sentiment, and a person posts the reply.
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