How much does Octolens cost?

Its pricing page listed Pro at $199/mo ($159 yearly) and Scale at $599/mo ($499 yearly) when this page was checked, with a 7-day no-card trial.

Does Octolens write replies?

It has no posting feature; one of its agent skills drafts a reply for human review. Kasspian writes a reply for each thread, fitted to that room's rules, and you post it.

Yes, and some teams should: Octolens to hear every mention of the brand, Kasspian to act on the threads where someone is asking to buy.

Switching

Kasspian vs Octolens

Octolens does one job. Kasspian does a different one.

Social listening for teams: it monitors Reddit, X, LinkedIn and 13 more platforms for your keywords and routes mentions to Slack, email, webhooks, an API or MCP.

Every figure below was read from Octolens’s own site on 15 October 2026. Check it before you buy, prices move.

From their own page

What Octolens is

Pricing: Pro $199/mo, or $159/mo billed yearly (15,000 mentions, 10 keywords, hourly refresh, unlimited seats). Scale $599/mo, or $499/mo yearly (50,000 mentions, 40 keywords, real-time, adds podcasts, news and newsletters). Enterprise custom.
Free trial: 7 days with Pro features, up to 5,000 mentions, no card.
Platforms: Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, DEV, TikTok, Hacker News, YouTube, GitHub, Stack Overflow, plus review sites on Scale.
Posts for you?: No posting feature. An agent skill can produce "a drafted reply ready for human review."

Side by side

The actual difference

Octolens

Octolens is brand and market monitoring at volume, built for teams that already know their keywords and want every mention, scored and routed into their stack. It names devtool teams like Vercel, PostHog and Supabase as customers.

Kasspian

Kasspian does not count mentions. It finds the specific threads where someone is asking for what you sell, reads that room's rules, writes the reply and tracks it to revenue. Different job: one hears everything, the other acts on the few that are asking.

Be honest

Use Octolens, not Kasspian, when

You monitor a brand across many networks and need volume, history and real-time refresh.
You want mentions piped into Slack, Attio, webhooks or your own agents.
You are a devtool team; that is who Octolens is proven with.

The other way

Use Kasspian when

You want replies to people asking for what you sell, not a stream of mentions.
Your budget is closer to $19 than $199 a month.
You want to see which replies turned into customers.

Describe your business and read the answer before you pay anything. Free tier, no card, and the rooms come with whether you are allowed to post in them.

Find who is asking Or see the rooms for your business type→

Questions

How much does Octolens cost?: Its pricing page listed Pro at $199/mo ($159 yearly) and Scale at $599/mo ($499 yearly) when this page was checked, with a 7-day no-card trial.
Does Octolens write replies?: It has no posting feature; one of its agent skills drafts a reply for human review. Kasspian writes a reply for each thread, fitted to that room's rules, and you post it.
Can I use both?: Yes, and some teams should: Octolens to hear every mention of the brand, Kasspian to act on the threads where someone is asking to buy.

Receipts

Where these figures came from

Octolens is their trademark, not ours. Nothing here is endorsed by them.

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