Anewstip vs Muck Rack (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Muck Rack grades higher than Anewstip: 2.0 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Anewstip grades higher on the free plan. Muck Rack grades higher on value for money, features and platforms. They get the same grade on ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Anewstip
Journalist database searched by what reporters write and tweet
Free plan · from $160/mo
Which one is for you
Pick Anewstip if
- Fits if you're a founder or small PR team building your own media lists
- Works for people who want to find reporters by the stories they've already covered
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you're staying free, as the free plan hides contact details and can't export lists or send pitches
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at $200 against $160 billed annually, and Professional is $400 a month on yearly billing only
- Tight if you pitch a lot, as extra pitches are one-time packs from $59 for 500 on a paid plan
- Watch out: the 7-day trial bills you automatically when it ends unless you cancel first
- Skip it if you need coverage reports or an API, as reports are a separate product and the API is on the custom plan only
Pick Muck Rack if
- Fits if you run PR at a mid-size or large company and pitch journalists every week
- Works for agencies pitching reporters for several clients and reporting the coverage back
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to see a price first, as every plan is quoted by sales on users and add-ons
- Not for you if you want to try it before talking to sales, as no free plan or trial is on record
- Tight if you're on Starter, which limits list exports and leaves out AI journalist recommendations and podcast monitoring
- Pricey if you want custom dashboards or the Inbound Media Manager, which need Premier, where the API is a further add-on
- Watch out: print and broadcast monitoring, social listening and press release distribution cost extra on every plan
How we grade them
| 1.8GPAAnewstipWeak | 2.0GPAMuck RackFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DStandard is $160 a month billed annually ($200 monthly) for 1 user, which is where this category's dearest tenth starts. Professional is $400 a month, yearly only. Early-stage startups and solo PR pros can apply for $99 a month for up to a year. | CNo price is published. Every plan is quoted by sales on the number of users and the add-ons you pick, so the price is only given on a sales call. Print and broadcast monitoring, social listening and press release distribution cost extra on every plan. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free plan for 1 user with search, 2 lists of 100 contacts and 2 alerts, but it hides email addresses and phone numbers and can't export or pitch, which is the part you'd pay for. The 7-day trial bills you automatically when it ends. | FNothing free on record for PR teams: no free plan and no trial. Journalists use it free, but they're the other side of the deal, not the people paying. |
| Features | CSearch across an index it puts at 200 million articles plus tweets back to 2006, 800,000+ journalist profiles, lists that update themselves, tracked email pitches and alerts. The gaps the listing names: coverage reports are a separate product, ClipCoverage, and the API is only on the custom Partners plan. | BA journalist and outlet database, pitching with open, click and reply tracking, coverage alerts, reports with sentiment, and tracking of how AI chatbots describe a brand. It covers the PR route to links end to end, though Starter limits exports and leaves out AI journalist picks and podcast monitoring. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. Searching is simple, but you build lists, set alerts and keep an eye on a monthly allowance of pitch points before pitching pays off. | CNo rating on record. It's a big platform: you build media lists, set up alerts and learn the reports before it pays off, and getting in at all starts with sales. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, with no desktop or phone app and no integrations on record. The API comes only with the custom-priced Partners plan. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. Alerts go to email and Slack, Premier brings Google Analytics data into reports, and the API is an add-on only Premier customers can buy. |
| Best for | finding reporters by the articles and tweets they've written | PR teams pitching journalists and tracking the coverage |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Anewstip and Muck Rack. How we grade
Where they differ
- Anewstip also covers email campaigns.
- Muck Rack also covers reports, AI search visibility and journalist requests.
In commonWebLink outreach
At a glance
| Anewstip | Muck Rack | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $160 per month, billed annually ($200 billed monthly) | Not published |
| Free plan | 1 user, search, 2 media lists of up to 100 contacts and 2 alerts. No email addresses or phone numbers, no exports and no pitches. | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of Standard and Professional; billed automatically when it ends | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Anewstip | Muck Rack |
| Price read from | anewstip.com | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Anewstip
- The free plan hides journalists' email addresses and phone numbers, cannot export lists and cannot send pitches.
- Professional is billed annually only; Standard is the one plan that can be paid month to month.
- Extra pitches are one-time pitch point packs, from $59 for 500 on a paid plan or $79 on the free plan.
- API access is limited to the custom Partners plan, and coverage reports are a separate product, ClipCoverage, with its own account.
Muck Rack
- No prices are published: each plan is quoted by sales, based on the number of users and the add-ons chosen.
- Starter limits media list exports and leaves out AI journalist recommendations and podcast monitoring.
- Inbound Media Manager, custom dashboards and Generative Pulse come with Premier; the API is an add-on only Premier customers can buy.
- Print and broadcast monitoring, social listening and press release distribution cost extra on every plan.
Key features
Anewstip
- Search by articles
- Find reporters through what they have written, across an index Anewstip puts at 200 million articles, filtered by author, region, language and date.
- Search by tweets
- Find media contacts by what they have tweeted since 2006, filtered by source, place, date, topic and an influence score.
- Journalist and outlet profiles
- Search more than 800,000 journalist profiles and 200,000 outlet profiles by name, title, outlet, topic, country and language.
- Media lists
- Save contacts to lists whose details update on their own. Paid plans can export lists and see email addresses and phone numbers.
- Pitch
- Email personalized pitches to a media list and see opens and clicks. Each email uses one pitch point from the monthly allowance.
- Alerts
- Email alerts when new articles or tweets from media contacts mention your brand, a competitor or any keyword.
Muck Rack
- Media database
- Search journalists, creators, outlets and their staff by beat, location and keywords. Muck Rack says over 100 people keep the listings up to date.
- Pitching
- Send or schedule pitches from Muck Rack and track opens, clicks and replies; coverage that follows is linked back to the pitch as a placement.
- AI journalist recommendations
- A Media List Agent builds lists from a description and suggests contacts to add or drop. Recommendations start on the Standard plan.
- Monitoring and alerts
- Alerts on online coverage by email and Slack on every plan; podcast monitoring from Standard, and print, broadcast and social listening as add-ons.
- Reports and dashboards
- Coverage reports with sentiment analysis on every plan; custom dashboards, a PR hit score and Google Analytics data come with Premier.
- Generative Pulse
- Shows how ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini describe a brand and which sources shape those answers. Included in Premier and also sold as an add-on.
Plans
Anewstip
Free$0
1 user, 2 media lists of 100 contacts and 2 alerts. Contact details, list exports and pitching are locked.
Standard$160
per month, billed annually ($200 billed monthly)
1 user, 1,000 pitches a month, 20 media lists of 1,000 contacts, 20 alerts, contact emails and phone numbers, and list export.
Professional$400
per month, billed annually
Up to 5 users, 5,000 pitches a month, unlimited lists of 5,000 contacts, unlimited alerts and help from a PR consultant.
PartnersCustom
Unlimited users and pitches, with access to Anewstip's APIs.
Muck Rack
Pricing could not be confirmed. See muckrack.com.
Ways to pay less
Anewstip
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
Anewstip's pricing page lists Standard at $160 a month billed annually instead of $200 billed monthly, a 20% saving.
- Startups
$99 a month for solo PR pros and early-stage startups
New customers with up to $1M in funding, or solo PR pros and teams of 5 or fewer, can apply for $99 a month for up to a year: 10 media lists and 500 pitches a month.
- Nonprofit
Discount for eligible nonprofits
The pricing page FAQ says eligible nonprofits can get a discount by contacting Anewstip; no figure is given.
Muck Rack
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Anewstip or Muck Rack?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Anewstip starts at $160 per month, billed annually ($200 billed monthly), and Muck Rack has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Anewstip or Muck Rack?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Anewstip has a free plan. Muck Rack does not.
More comparisons
How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.