Birdeye is a serious reputation and locations platform — reviews, listings, messaging, social — built for brands running hundreds of sites. It also won’t tell you what it costs until you hand over your mobile number. ScoutRival solves a different problem for a much smaller business: it watches your competitors, tells you what to do today, writes it, and publishes it — for $29, listed publicly, cancel any time.
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…and the work still arrives as a recommendation.
Birdeye is very good at the thing it does: collecting reviews, fixing your listings, answering the webchat, and doing it across a hundred locations at once. If that is your problem, buy Birdeye — genuinely. ScoutRival does none of it.
But managing your reputation is downstream of having something to say. Nobody leaves a review for a business they never found.
ScoutRival works the other end of the funnel. It reads what your competitors published overnight — their website, their blog, and their Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn and YouTube — and at 7am it tells you what they now answer that you don’t, and hands you the article that closes the gap.
A recommendation is a to-do. A draft is done work.
ScoutRival drafts the article from the gap it found in your rival’s content — 1,000 to 5,000 words, in your brand voice, with the answer block AI engines quote and the FAQ schema Google reads. Then it publishes to your WordPress in one click.
Birdeye’s platform runs to reviews, listings, messaging, chatbots, surveys, ticketing and social. Long-form SEO articles and WordPress publishing are not on it.
And it’s worth being straight about the other direction: Birdeye schedules and publishes to social, and ScoutRival does not. We write the posts; you post them, or pair us with a $5 scheduler.
Birdeye does track AI search — its Search AI covers ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and its free checker covers ChatGPT for one location. What isn’t on the list is Claude.
ScoutRival checks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini on every plan from $29 — and grades your own site across 27 SEO checks, A–F. Engine lists checked July 2026.
This is not a rhetorical device. We went to birdeye.com/pricing in July 2026 and this is genuinely everything it will tell you before you give it your mobile number. The terms below are quoted from birdeye.com/terms.
ScoutRival: the price is on the page, you can start without talking to anyone, and there is a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Every price read from Birdeye's own pricing pages in July 2026, and linked so you can check us.
| ScoutRival | Birdeye | |
|---|---|---|
| Buying it | ||
| Price published on their pricing page | $29 / $89 / $149 | Configurator asks for your mobile number |
| Start without talking to a salesperson | ||
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days, all paid plans | Fees are “non-refundable” (§5.1) |
| Notice period to leave | None | 90 days In writing, before renewal (§2.3) |
| It watches | ||
| Your rivals’ website & blog | Daily | Competitors AI covers reviews + social |
| Your rivals’ social channels | 6 channels + founder LinkedIn | Competitors AI |
| A daily brief telling you what to do | ||
| It creates & ships | ||
| Long-form SEO articles | 1k–5k words | Not on their platform page |
| Publishes to WordPress | One click | |
| Schedules & posts to social | Pair with Buffer ($5) | FB, IG, X, LinkedIn, GBP, YouTube |
| It measures | ||
| AI-search visibility | 4 engines, from $29 | Search AI — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity |
| Checks Claude | On the $29 plan | Not in their Search AI engine list (Jul 2026) |
| 27-check SEO audit of your site | A–F, fix cards | |
| Where Birdeye wins — and it isn’t close | ||
| Review generation & management | We don’t do reviews at all | 200+ sites |
| Listings & Google Business Profile | ||
| Webchat, SMS & lead capture | ||
| Running 100+ locations | Up to 5 brands | This is what it’s built for |
Prices read from Birdeye's own public pricing pages in July 2026 (source). They change — check theirs. Birdeye is a trademark of its owner. ScoutRival is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by them. Spot something stale or unfair? Tell us and we'll correct it — including if you work there.
You have someone whose job this is.
Their data is the best there is. If that's your situation, it's the better buy — and we'd rather you knew now than after the refund.
Nobody there does marketing full-time.
We genuinely don’t know — and that’s the point. Birdeye does not publish a price. Their pricing page asks how many locations you have and for your mobile number, then a Submit button. You’ll see figures quoted around the internet; we won’t repeat them, because we can’t source them to Birdeye. What we can source, from their own Terms: contracts auto-renew, stopping one takes 90 days’ written notice (§2.3), fees are “non-cancellable” and “non-refundable” (§5.1), and an 8% “Innovation Fee” applies automatically on renewal (§6).
It does, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise — Birdeye’s Search AI tracks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and there’s a free single-location checker. The honest differences are two: Claude isn’t in their engine list (it’s on our $29 plan), and their tool is built for brands with a hundred locations, not for one plumber who wants to know why ChatGPT recommends the shop across town.
No. Not a limitation we’re downplaying — we have no review integration at all, and we don’t touch Google Business Profile or local citations either. If that’s the job you need doing, Birdeye does it well and you should buy it. ScoutRival is the other half of the problem: knowing what to publish, and publishing it.
Yes, and it’s a sensible pairing — they barely overlap. Birdeye handles reputation and inbound. ScoutRival handles competitive intelligence and the content that gets you found in the first place. Ours is $29–$149 on a card, so you can try it without a procurement conversation.
Birdeye’s own Terms of Service, quoted with section numbers so you can check every one: auto-renewal and the 90-day written-notice requirement (§2.3), the “non-cancellable… non-refundable” language (§5.1), and the 8% Innovation Fee applied automatically on renewal (§6). Checked July 2026. If they change them, tell us and we’ll update this page.
Most people shortlist two or three. Here's what else lands on the list next to Birdeye — what each one costs, and where each one stops.
Reviews, citations, the map pack — all things we genuinely do not do. At one location it’s cheaper than us, and it already tracks AI Overviews. Buy both.
Runs the whole business — CRM, booking, invoicing, payments. From ~$255/mo, with a six-month minimum term and a $250 onboarding fee.
The best on-page optimizer there is — and its entry plan tracks zero AI prompts, in their own words. The advertised $49 is the annual rate; month to month it’s $59.
Priced per person, from $99 a seat, with no free plan. Three people on its Professional tier is $597 a month — and it still won’t write your article.
The real alternative most owners weigh. SMB retainers run $1,500–$4,000/mo — and some agencies keep your website when you leave.
Our most common competitor, and a superb writer. Its scheduled tasks even monitor competitors — capped at ten, with no memory of yesterday. The inputs are the product.
We've researched all 35 — prices, limits and where each one stops. See every comparison →
Add your website, name a competitor, and go to bed. Your first brief lands tomorrow morning — with the article already written.