Head to head
Birdeye vs Feedly
Last updated 4 June 2026
Birdeye is a reputation and customer-experience platform, reviews, listings, messaging, surveys, with social media management bolted on. It's priced per location, from around $299 a month, and aimed at multi-location brands rather than creators or small teams.
- From
- $299 per location / mo
- Free plan
Feedly isn't a social media scheduler at all. It's a content-discovery and monitoring tool, an RSS reader with AI on top, that social media managers use to find and track content. To actually schedule, you pair it with a real scheduler.
- From
- $6 /mo
- Free plan
Bottom line
Feedly is the pick for social media managers who need a steady stream of content ideas, and it's the only one of the two with a free plan. Birdeye fits multi-location brands and franchises focused on reviews and reputation better, and it reaches Instagram and Google Business among others, which Feedly doesn't.
Feedly starts cheaper, $6 a month against $299 per location / mo for Birdeye. Birdeye adds AI captions that Feedly leaves out.
Key differences
Where the two actually diverge, before the full tables.
- Feedly has a free plan; Birdeye doesn't.
- Feedly starts at $6 a month, Birdeye at $299 per location / mo.
- Birdeye posts to 8 networks, Feedly to 3.
- Only Birdeye reaches Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, and Google Business.
- Birdeye has AI captions; Feedly doesn't.
- Birdeye has content calendar; Feedly doesn't.
- Birdeye has auto-publish; Feedly doesn't.
Features compared
| Feature | Birdeye | Feedly |
|---|---|---|
| AI captions | Yes | No |
| Basic analytics | Yes | Not assessed |
| Advanced reports | Yes | Not assessed |
| Bulk upload | Not assessed | Not assessed |
| Evergreen recycling | No | Not assessed |
| Team roles | Yes | Not assessed |
| Approvals | Yes | Not assessed |
| Link in bio | Not assessed | Not assessed |
Platforms compared
| Network | Birdeye | Feedly |
|---|---|---|
| Auto | No | |
| Auto | Analytics | |
| X (Twitter) | Auto | Analytics |
| Auto | Analytics | |
| TikTok | Auto | No |
| Auto | No | |
| YouTube | Auto | No |
| Google Business | Auto | No |
Pricing
Headline prices are for a single unit. Here is the real monthly cost as each tool scales, costed on its own unit so the two stay honest.
Birdeye
Starter
- About $299 per location/mo
- Core review management and reputation tools
- Basic social publishing
Growth
Popular- About $349 per location/mo
- Adds Social AI for publishing and replies
- Reviews, listings, messaging, and analytics
Dominate
- About $449 per location/mo
- Adds a dedicated chatbot AI
- Full reputation, social, and customer-experience suite
- Birdeye is priced per location, starting around $299 (Starter), $349 (Growth), and $449 (Dominate) a month per location. These are starting rates; multi-location and enterprise deals are custom-quoted, and many buyers negotiate.
- It's a reputation and customer-experience platform first, reviews, listings, webchat, surveys, and referrals, with social media management as one module. Social AI arrives on Growth.
- There's no free plan and no public self-serve checkout; you go through sales.
- Prices are USD from current listings; Birdeye doesn't publish a fixed price ladder, so treat these as approximate starting points.
Feedly
Free
- Seats
- 1
- Up to 100 sources, organised into feeds
- No Feedly AI
- Read and organise content
Pro
$6/mo billed annually
- Seats
- 1
- $6.99/mo, $6 on annual ($72/yr)
- Up to 1,000 sources, search, notes, and highlights
- Share to X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Buffer, and Hootsuite
Pro+
Popular$8.25/mo billed annually
- Seats
- 1
- $12.99/mo, $8.25 on annual ($99/yr)
- Adds Feedly AI (Leo): AI feeds, deduplication, prioritisation
- Up to 2,500 sources, 75 newsletter slots, RSS Builder
Enterprise
- Seats
- Unlimited
- From about $1,600/mo, for team market and threat intelligence
- Shared boards, team AI feeds, integrations
- Feedly is a content reader and discovery tool, not a social scheduler. It does not schedule or auto-publish social posts; it surfaces content you can then share manually or push into a scheduler like Buffer or Hootsuite (often via Zapier), which means paying for two tools.
- Plans: a free tier (100 sources), Pro at $6 a month on annual billing, Pro+ at $8.25 (adds Feedly AI / Leo), and an Enterprise market-intelligence plan from around $1,600 a month.
- Prices are USD from current listings.
- It's included here because social media managers use it to find and monitor content, not because it publishes.
Pros and cons
Birdeye
- Best-in-class review and reputation management
- Social publishing, inbox, and AI in the same platform
- Revenue-tied outcome dashboards and listening
- Built for multi-location scale
- Social is a secondary module, not a dedicated scheduler
- Expensive: per-location pricing from ~$299/mo, sales-led only
- No free plan or self-serve checkout
- Overkill if reputation isn't your priority
Feedly
- Best-in-class content discovery and RSS aggregation
- Feedly AI filters, deduplicates, and prioritises sources
- Strong monitoring and market intelligence on higher tiers
- Cheap Pro and Pro+ plans, plus a free tier
- Not a scheduler: no publishing, calendar, or auto-posting
- Needs a separate tool (and often Zapier) to actually post
- Enterprise market intelligence is expensive
- Social 'sharing' is manual, one article at a time
Birdeye vs Feedly: FAQ
- Is Birdeye or Feedly cheaper?
- Feedly is cheaper to start, from $6 against $299 for Birdeye. The unit each one charges by differs, so the real bill depends on how many channels or seats you run.
- Does Birdeye or Feedly have a free plan?
- Feedly has a free plan; Birdeye does not.
- Which is better, Birdeye or Feedly?
- Birdeye is the stronger pick for multi-location brands and franchises focused on reviews and reputation, while Feedly is the better fit for social media managers who need a steady stream of content ideas. We don't score them; the right call comes down to how you post.