Isentia
Quick answer
Isentia, part of Pulsar Group, is an APAC media intelligence platform covering broadcast, print, online and social. It scans 1.4M+ online news items per day, spans 6,000,000+ sources, and offers broadcast monitoring with voice-to-text. The Lumina AI suite maps live conversations and flags risks and opportunities, and AI View benchmarks citation strength and source quality against competitors across Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. Connect adds a journalist database with media release distribution. Pricing is not published, and no free plan or API is listed.
Best for
PR and communications teams in the APAC region that need broadcast and print monitoring alongside AI View.
Not for
A team that wants a published price or a self-serve start, since none is listed.
Facts
Pricing
Not publicly published.
From Isentia's website, checked Oct 2026.
Sources covered
broadcast, online, print, social
AI engines tracked
Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude
How MarketHQ compares
| Feature | MarketHQ | Isentia |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free (paid from $29/mo) | Not publicly published |
| Free plan or trial | Free tier, no card required | Not published |
| Sources covered | Hacker News, GitHub, RSS, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Perplexity, Product Hunt, Broader web crawl, Bluesky | broadcast, online, print, social |
| AI engines tracked | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek | Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude |
| 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.
- Cision: PR and communications teams that need broadcast, print and journalist-outreach tools alongside AI visibility tracking.
- 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.
- 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.
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Sources
- Isentia: https://www.isentia.com (checked Oct 2026)