7 Brandwatch alternatives for sentiment analysis
Brandwatch is powerful but enterprise-priced. Here are seven alternatives — from completely free to mid-market — that handle sentiment analysis on reviews, surveys and social content.
Sentiment Analyst
Best for: Free CSV/Excel sentiment scoring in-browser
Free
MonkeyLearn
Best for: No-code text classifier builder
From $299/mo
Lexalytics
Best for: Enterprise on-prem deployments
Quote-based
Talkwalker
Best for: Social listening + image recognition
From $9,600/yr
Sprout Social
Best for: Social management with sentiment
From $249/mo
Mention
Best for: Lightweight brand monitoring
From $41/mo
Awario
Best for: Affordable social listening
From $29/mo
The free starting point
If you don't need ongoing social monitoring and just want to understand sentiment in a dataset you already have, start with Sentiment Analyst. Drop in a CSV or Excel file and you'll have a labelled breakdown in seconds — no signup, no upload to a server.
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