Choose F5Bot if…
You want a raw community firehose for five keywords, free, and you prefer to decide what matters yourself. It is hard to beat F5Bot for that narrow and useful job.
Maraudr / Alternatives / F5Bot
An F5Bot alternative that reads before it forwards.
F5Bot earned its reputation by doing a simple job well: watch community keywords and send the matches. Its free tier is still genuinely useful. Maraudr is for the point where filtering every hit becomes your job and “tell me when this matters” is more valuable than “tell me whenever these words appear.”
A keyword firehose and a competitive radar optimize for different things.
| Capability | F5Bot | Maraudr |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 5 keywords, 10 hits per keyword per day, 20 alerts/day, delivery within 2 hours, personal use only.Verified September 18, 2026 | Up to 3 competitors, community sources, and a weekly digest. No card required.Pricing set July 2026 |
| Paid entry | Silver: $9.99/mo, 20 keywords, 100 alerts/day, delivery within 5 minutes.Verified September 18, 2026 | Radar: $29/mo, 5 competitors, all ten sources, weekly digest and daily alert batch.Pricing set July 2026 |
| Popular tier | Gold: $49.99/mo, 200 keywords, 5,000 alerts/day, instant or scheduled delivery, RSS/JSON, one Slack or Discord integration, and two AI filter operations. AI filtering includes $10/mo of token usage; extra usage is billed separately.Verified September 18, 2026 | Radar Pro: $79/mo, 15 competitors, alerts on important moves, hot-lead detection, reply briefs, and Discord.Pricing set July 2026 |
| Coverage | Community keyword monitoring across Hacker News, Reddit, and Lobsters. | Hacker News and Reddit, plus websites, GitHub, Bluesky, Product Hunt, RSS, Chrome Web Store, review sites, and web search. Maraudr does not monitor Lobsters. Coverage depends on your plan. |
| Noise control | Keyword filters and plan-dependent AI filter operations. | Every signal receives market-aware 1–5 importance scoring; related coverage is rolled into one event. |
Official sources checked September 18, 2026: F5Bot account tiers. Prices and limits may change.
Choose based on the job.
Choose Maraudr if…
You want competitor-specific context, website and product changes beside community posts, duplicate-event control, and an alert threshold that lets quiet stay quiet.
Migration notes
Your F5Bot keywords are good raw material. Maraudr adds the competitor context and source coverage around them.
- Copy the keywords that produced decisions, not merely volume.
- Note collision-prone names and the exclusions you rely on.
- Provide the related competitor domains and the move types you care about.
- Keep F5Bot running during beta if you want to compare recall; the tools can coexist.