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The Octolens alternative you pay for by the keyword

Octolens’ plans begin at $199 a month with 10 keywords included. With Rumoro you pay $5 per keyword and $0.008 per matched post, and your Octolens code keeps working.

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Listening for “sundial”158 posts today

  • Sundial paged us 40 minutes late last night. Time to look at alternatives?

    A customer considering leaving

    86

  • How does a sundial tell time? The physics in four minutes

    A science video

    dropped

  • Show HN: moving 3,000 cron jobs from a homegrown checker to Sundial

    Worth a reply from the team

    89

  • Our new brass sundial finally gets some sun ☀️ #gardendesign

    A garden ornament

    dropped

  • We're replacing our cron alerting this quarter. Has anyone run Sundial across 200+ scheduled jobs?

    Evaluating a tool like yours

    92

sundial

  • Buying intent

    Evaluating a tool like yours
    92

  • Comparison

    Worth a reply from the team
    89

  • Churn risk

    A customer considering leaving
    86

  • Bug report

    A bug in your CLI
    90

4 worth answering · 154 set aside

# salesSlack
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Priya 10:14

Who's asking about cron monitoring this week?

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Rumoro app 10:17

Buying intent on LinkedIn

We're replacing our cron alerting this quarter. Has anyone run Sundial across 200+ scheduled jobs?

Priya Raman · VP Engineering · relevance 92

Open threadMark done

The difference

Octolens and Rumoro compared

Both watch the places developers and B2B buyers talk, score what they find and hand it to Slack, an API or an agent. Rumoro starts at one keyword and runs code written for Octolens.

QuestionOctolens logoOctolensRumoro
PriceOctolensPro is $199 a month for 10 keywords and 15,000 mentions, or $159 billed annually. Scale is $599, or $499.Rumoro$5 per keyword each month and $0.008 per matched post, from a prepaid balance. No plan, no annual contract.
Where you listenOctolensReddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, Hacker News, YouTube, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV and app reviews, with more on Scale.RumoroAll 16 sources on every account, including Instagram, news and Google reviews.
API and agentsOctolensAPI, webhooks and an MCP server on every plan.RumoroOctolens' own /api/v2, plus a REST API, an MCP server with 55 tools, SDKs and a CLI.
AlertsOctolensSlack and email alerts, and webhooks.RumoroSlack, Telegram, email and signed webhooks, instantly or as digests.
RelevanceOctolensHigh, medium or low relevance, with tags and sentiment.RumoroA 0–100 score against your company, with sentiment and intent.
Free trialOctolens7 days, up to 5,000 mentions.Rumoro$5.80 of credit, no card.

Octolens checked on 8 October 2026 against its pricing page. Spot something out of date? Write to us and we’ll correct it.

Why switch

What changes when you move

Your keywords and your code come with you. The bill starts at one keyword.

Start with one keyword

Track your product alone for $5 a month and add competitors when you need them. There's no 10-keyword plan to fill.

Keep your Octolens code

Rumoro answers Octolens' /api/v2 with the same JSON. Change the base URL and the key, and your scripts and the octolens CLI keep running.

Every source on every account

All 16 sources, including Instagram, news and Google reviews, with no bigger plan to unlock them.

Telegram, and an agent with tools

Alerts reach Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook, and Claude, Cursor or Codex search your mentions with 55 MCP tools.

Price

What a month costs on each

Three months from the pricing page, with Octolens at its cheapest plan for each, overage included.

Example monthOctolens logoOctolens, monthlyOctolens logoOctolens, annualRumoro
Product + 2 competitors3 keywords, 1,000 postsOctolens, monthly$199 on ProOctolens, annual$159 on ProRumoro$23
Startup and its market8 keywords, 2,000 postsOctolens, monthly$199 on ProOctolens, annual$159 on ProRumoro$56
Agency, 25 clients25 keywords, 12,000 postsOctolens, monthly$349 on ProOctolens, annual$309 on ProRumoro$221

Octolens’ plans and overage rates as listed on 8 October 2026. Rumoro bills each post that matches a keyword and its filters. Work out your own month →

Switching

Moving from Octolens without rewriting code

Rumoro speaks Octolens' API, so switching takes two settings and one script.

  1. 01

    Create a Rumoro API key

    On the API keys page. Every workspace starts with $5.80 of credit.

  2. 02

    Point your code at Rumoro

    Swap the base URL and the key. The octolens CLI, your scripts and Zapier or n8n HTTP steps follow.

  3. 03

    Copy keywords, feeds and filters

    One script from the migration guide copies them and lists anything it can't. New keywords fetch recent matches on most sources.

  4. 04

    Move your alerts

    Octolens notifications become Rumoro alerts for Slack, Telegram, email or a webhook.

Octolens logoYour Octolens setup

OCTOLENS_BASE_URL=https://app.octolens.comOCTOLENS_API_KEY=<octolens key>

The same code on Rumoro

Base URL
https://api.rumoro.dev/compat/octolens
Key
ref_… a Rumoro API key
Paths and JSON
/api/v2/… unchanged
CLI
octolens tested with 0.1.8
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Questions about Octolens and Rumoro

What is a good Octolens alternative?

Rumoro follows the same developer and B2B sources, from Reddit, X and Hacker News to GitHub, LinkedIn and app reviews, scores every post against your company and sends the ones worth answering to Slack, Telegram, a webhook or your AI agent. It also answers Octolens' API, so code written for Octolens keeps working, and you pay per keyword instead of buying a plan.

How much does Octolens cost?

According to its pricing page, Pro costs $199 a month, or $159 a month billed annually, with 10 keywords and 15,000 mentions. Scale costs $599 a month, or $499 billed annually, with 40 keywords and 50,000 mentions. Extra keywords cost $10 or $5 a month and extra mentions $0.013 or $0.01. A 7-day free trial includes Pro's features and up to 5,000 mentions.

Can I keep my Octolens API code?

Yes. Rumoro answers the keywords, mentions, feeds, filters, tags and analytics endpoints of Octolens' /api/v2 with the same JSON at api.rumoro.dev/compat/octolens. Change the base URL, use a Rumoro API key, and the octolens CLI, your scripts and Zapier or n8n steps keep working. The migration guide includes a script that copies your keywords, feeds and filters.

How much does Rumoro cost?

Each keyword costs $5 a month and each matched post $0.008, paid from a prepaid balance. Seats are free and there is no plan. 8 keywords with 2,000 matched posts a month come to $56. Every workspace starts with $5.80 of credit.

Bring your Octolens keywords and code over

Your first keyword is on us. $5.80 of credit, no card.

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