Brand24 API vs Weir (2026): Pricing, Key and Docs

The Brand24 API is a paid add-on that sends your Brand24 projects' mention counts, sentiment and reach to your own code.

Weir is a different tool: a raw data API for Reddit and X (Twitter) posts, with monitors and webhooks. We run Weir, so every Brand24 fact here comes from Brand24's own pages, checked on 22 October 2026.

Watching your brand on Reddit and X with Weir is one call:

curl https://api.weirapp.io/v1/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $WEIR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "Brand mentions", "schedule": "daily",
       "target": {"kind": "search", "query": "yourbrand", "sources": ["reddit", "x"]}}'

Brand24 API or Weir: which fits you?

They do different jobs. Brand24 collects mentions for you and scores them; Weir hands you the posts and lets your code decide.

Pick by the job:

• You report to a marketing team: choose Brand24. Its dashboard, sentiment and reports are the product.
• You build a feature on Reddit or X data: choose Weir. Each post's full text and counts arrive as JSON.
• You want an AI agent to read mentions: either works. Brand24 lists an MCP server from its Pro plan, and Weir's is on every account.
• You track news sites and podcasts: choose Brand24, since Weir covers Reddit and X only.

Brand24 API pricing: which plans include it?

Brand24 sells monthly plans, and the API costs extra on top. Here are the plans, billed yearly:

Individual, 2,000 mentions$199

Team, 10,000 mentions$299

Pro, 40,000 mentions$399

Business, 100,000 mentions$599

Enterprise, customfrom $1,499

Paid monthly, the same plans cost more: Business is $699.

Where the API fits, as of October 2026:

• Individual and Team: no API.
• Pro and Business: the pricing table marks the API "Extra fee". Brand24's API page names Business only, at $99 a month.
• Enterprise: the API is included, from $1,499 a month billed yearly.
• One price to confirm: the API tooltip on the pricing page said $149 instead.

So the cheapest documented route is Business plus the add-on: $698 a month, billed yearly. Paid monthly, it comes to $798.

Brand24 also offers a free 14-day trial, with no card needed.

What does the Brand24 API return?

It returns statistics and insights about your Brand24 projects, not a raw feed of posts.

Brand24's OpenAPI spec lists 27 operations. The main groups:

• Volume, reach and sentiment per day, from /mentions/count, /mentions/reach and /mentions/sentiment.
• AI summaries, insights and topics, plus spike events that each come with an explanation.
• Top authors and sites, ranked by followers, activity or an Influence Score out of 10.
• Project setup, so your app can create a monitoring project with its keywords.
• Mention rows from /mentions, per the API page. They carry date, source, sentiment and tags, but X, Facebook and Instagram text comes back empty.

The docs we read didn't list that /mentions endpoint yet, so check it before you build on it.

This is the sample response from Brand24's quickstart for /mentions/count:

{
  "status": "success",
  "message": {
    "mentions_count": { "2024-01-01": 37, "2024-01-02": 12, "2024-01-03": 53 },
    "total": 102
  }
}

You get counts per day, not posts. Each call covers 31 days at most.

The docs set a limit of 600 requests a minute per key.

How do you get a Brand24 API key?

You generate it inside the Brand24 app, once your plan includes the API.

1. Get API accessAdd the API to a Business plan, or move to Enterprise.
2. Open the API pageGo to app.brand24.com/account/integrations-api-data. You need admin rights.
3. Copy your key and Account IDMost calls also need a project ID from projects_list.
4. Call it from your serverSend an X-Api-Key header. Browsers are blocked by CORS.

The Brand24 API documentation lives at api-data.brand24.com. It has an OpenAPI 3.1 spec and examples in curl, Python, Node.js, PHP and Go.

What 100,000 mentions a month cost

Brand24's Business plan holds 100,000 mentions a month, so we priced the same volume on Weir.

• Brand24: Business plus the API add-on is $698 a month, billed yearly. It covers 25 keywords across every source Brand24 tracks.
• Weir, all X: 100,000 posts at about 20 per call is 5,000 calls. That's 105,000 credits, less 5,000 free: $16.67 at the $20 pack's rate.
• Weir, all Reddit: 100,000 posts at 100 per call is 1,000 calls. That's 301,000 credits, less 5,000 free: $43.53 at the $50 pack's rate.

Brand24 Enterprise, from$1,499

Brand24 Business + API, yearly$698

Weir, 100,000 Reddit posts$43.53

Weir, 100,000 X posts$16.67

When to choose Brand24

Choose Brand24 if people, not code, read the results, or if you need more than Reddit and X.

When to choose Weir

Weir fits developers who want the posts themselves, in code or in an AI agent. Our social listening API page shows the full feature set.

We ran a Weir search of Brand24's own X account on 22 October 2026 and got three posts for 4 credits. The newest, trimmed:

{
  "id": "2108283599544082939",
  "text": "Social listening is now a $10.37 billion industry, and 76% of marketers worldwide are already using it 🚀 ...",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-08T19:49:14.000Z",
  "author": { "username": "brand24", "followersCount": 23503 },
  "likeCount": 1,
  "viewCount": 955
}

That full text field is what Brand24's API leaves empty for X. Our guide to a Reddit and X brand mention monitor shows the whole setup.

When not to use Weir

• Your team wants a dashboard, not code. Brand24 is built for that.
• You need news, blogs, podcasts or TikTok. Weir reads Reddit and X only.
• You want sentiment out of the box. Weir returns posts, and you score them yourself.
• You need to post or reply. Weir is read-only, so use the official X API.

FAQ

Does Brand24 have an API?

Yes. The Brand24 API is a REST API that takes an X-Api-Key header. It returns mention counts, sentiment, reach, AI summaries and top authors for your projects. As of October 2026, it's an add-on on Business and included on Enterprise.

How much does the Brand24 API cost?

Brand24's API page lists a $99 monthly add-on on the Business plan. Business costs $599 a month, billed yearly. The pricing page's tooltip said $149 on 22 October 2026, so confirm with Brand24. Enterprise includes the API from $1,499 a month.

Where is the Brand24 API documentation?

It's at api-data.brand24.com/api-data-docs/documentation. It covers authentication, rate limits, filters and every endpoint, with examples in five languages. A machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 spec sits beside it.

What is a good Brand24 alternative for developers?

If you want raw posts rather than scores, Weir returns Reddit and X posts as JSON, with 5,000 free credits a month. If you want many sources and sentiment in one dashboard, Brand24 itself fits better. Weir reads public data only and isn't affiliated with Reddit or X.

Sources

All checked 22 October 2026:

• Brand24 pricing page: https://brand24.com/prices/
• Brand24 pricing file (last verified by Brand24 on 10 June 2026): https://brand24.com/pricing.md
• Brand24 Social Listening API page and FAQ: https://brand24.com/social-listening-api/
• Brand24 API documentation and OpenAPI spec: https://api-data.brand24.com/api-data-docs/documentation and https://api-data.brand24.com/static/js/api-data/apiDocs.json
• Weir pricing: https://weirapp.io/pricing
• Weir billing and tiers: https://docs.weirapp.io/billing
• Weir pagination: https://docs.weirapp.io/pagination
• Weir monitors and webhooks: https://docs.weirapp.io/monitors
• Weir MCP server: https://docs.weirapp.io/mcp
• Our Weir search of @brand24 posts, 22 October 2026