Cision
Quick answer
CisionOne is Cision's all-in-one PR platform for real-time media monitoring, journalist outreach, social listening and AI visibility tracking. Live Mention Streams cover online, TV, radio, print, podcast, magazine and social, and AI Visibility Dashboards track share of voice across nine AI platforms against competitors. A journalist CRM lists 500k+ validated journalists and outlets. Pricing is not published and there is no public free trial: onboarding is sales-led through a request form.
Best for
PR and communications teams that need broadcast, print and journalist-outreach tools alongside AI visibility tracking.
Not for
A team that wants a published price or a free trial before talking to sales.
Facts
Pricing
Not publicly published.
From Cision's website, checked Oct 2026.
Free plan or trial
No public free trial; pricing and onboarding are sales-led via a request form
From Cision's website, checked Oct 2026.
Sources covered
online, TV, radio, print, podcast, magazine, social
How MarketHQ compares
| Feature | MarketHQ | Cision |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free (paid from $29/mo) | Not publicly published |
| Free plan or trial | Free tier, no card required | No public free trial; pricing and onboarding are sales-led via a request form |
| Sources covered | Hacker News, GitHub, RSS, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Perplexity, Product Hunt, Broader web crawl, Bluesky | online, TV, radio, print, podcast, magazine, social |
| AI engines tracked | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek | Not published |
| API / MCP | Yes, on every paid plan | Not published |
Alternatives
- MarketHQ: tracks brand mentions across communities, news, blogs, social and AI answers, with gap analysis and action plans.
- Brandwatch: A large team that needs broad social coverage and has budget for an enterprise suite.
- BuzzSumo: Content and PR teams that want mention monitoring alongside content research and influencer discovery.
- Contify: A market-intelligence team that wants multilingual news and filings coverage with sales battlecards.
- Critical Mention: PR teams that need broadcast monitoring and AI brand visibility in one place.
- Google Alerts: Anyone who wants free, zero-setup email alerts on a search term.
- Isentia: PR and communications teams in the APAC region that need broadcast and print monitoring alongside AI View.
- Meltwater: PR and communications teams that need broad media, social and AI-signal coverage in one suite.
- Mention: Small marketing teams that want one broad mention feed across the web, social and news.
- Onclusive: A PR or comms team that wants media monitoring bundled with multi-engine AI visibility tracking.
- Prowly: A PR team that wants pitching, media monitoring and AI-citation targeting in one toolkit.
- Pulsar: A global brand that needs audience intelligence across many languages and regional social platforms.
- Signal AI: Enterprise risk, reputation and comms teams that need licensed premium media data and entity-level analysis.
- Synthesio: Enterprise research teams that want consumer intelligence across social, search and ecommerce signals.
- Talkwalker Alerts: A team that only wants free alerts for brand, topic or competitor mentions, delivered by email, RSS or Slack.
- TVEyes: A PR or comms team that needs TV, radio, podcast and online video mention monitoring with API access.
Related
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- Glossary: definitions of the terms that come up when comparing tools like this one.
Sources
- Cision: https://www.cision.com (checked Oct 2026)