Feeder vs NewsBlur

Feeder

• People who need to see new posts within minutes, such as job or auction listings
• Teams monitoring news, competitors or regulations from shared feeds
• Readers who want their feeds inside a browser extension

NewsBlur

• Readers who want to train their own filters rather than rely on an algorithm
• People who prefer open-source software or want to self-host
• Professionals who need feeds polled every few minutes

Feeder

• The Free plan is limited to 200 feeds, 30-minute updates and 2 AI summaries a day.
• Rules, filters, the dashboard and email notifications require Plus or higher.
• Team features and the Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Zapier integrations start at Professional, which is priced per user.
• API access and SSO/SAML login are listed for Enterprise only, and there is no desktop app outside the browser.

NewsBlur

• The free plan is limited to 64 sites.
• Search, River of News and text view start at Premium; web feeds, Ask AI and the archive need Premium Archive.
• Premium and Premium Archive are priced per year only, while Premium Pro is priced per month.
• Native apps are listed for iOS and Android; desktop use is through the web app or third-party clients.

Feeder

Sources beyond RSS

Every plan follows RSS feeds, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, Google Alerts, Google News and email newsletters. Telegram, Google Calendar and RSS built from HTML pages start on Plus.

Tiered update speed

Feeds are checked as often as every 30 minutes on Free, every 5 minutes on Plus and every minute on Professional and Enterprise.

Filters, rules and notifications

Keyword and time-of-day filters decide which posts appear and which trigger an alert. Rules, filters and email notifications start on Plus; mobile push notifications are on every plan.

AI summaries and AI Feeds

Feeder summarizes an article with its sources cited and builds a feed for a site that publishes none. Free allows 2 summaries a day and 3 AI feeds, and each higher plan raises both limits.

Browser extension

Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Yandex put feeds behind a toolbar icon that shows the unread count and opens new posts directly.

Team sharing and integrations

Professional adds team members with permissions, shared feeds and folders, public dashboards, and posting to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Telegram, along with webhooks and Zapier.

NewsBlur

Intelligence Training

Mark authors, tags and title keywords with a thumbs up or down to highlight matching stories or fade them out. Full-text training needs Premium Archive.

Web Feeds

On Premium Archive, NewsBlur builds a feed for a web page that has no RSS by monitoring the page for changes.

Search and story archive

Premium adds full-text search across subscriptions. Premium Archive keeps every story indefinitely and back-fills the history of newly added feeds.

Ask AI and Daily Briefing

Premium Archive can ask questions about a story using Claude, GPT, Gemini or Grok, and receives an AI-written daily summary of top stories.

Email newsletters

Forward newsletters to a personal NewsBlur email address and they appear as a feed that can be trained, tagged and searched like any other.

Open source and open API

The server and both mobile apps are open source on GitHub, and the API supports third-party clients such as Reeder, ReadKit and Unread.

Feeder

• Free$0

  200 feeds, 30-minute updates, 2 AI summaries a day and 3 AI feeds, with the web reader, browser extension and mobile apps.

• Plus$7.99

  per month, paid yearly; $9.99 paid monthly

  2,500 feeds, 5-minute updates, premium sources, dashboard, rules and filters, email summaries and 10 AI summaries a day.

• Professional$14.99

  per user / month, paid yearly; $19.99 paid monthly

  10,000 feeds, 1-minute updates, team sharing, public dashboards, feed creation, and Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Zapier and webhook integrations.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Customized limits, SSO/SAML login, custom permissions, API access, invoice billing and premium support.

NewsBlur

• Free$0

  Follow up to 64 sites, with real-time updates, training by author, tag and title, saved stories, a public blurblog, and the mobile apps.

• Self-Hosted$0

  The open-source code from GitHub, run on your own server with a single Docker command. Hosting is your own responsibility.

• Premium$36

  per year

  1,024 sites, feeds updated up to 5x more often, River of News, search, text view, tagged saved stories, and blurblog privacy options.

• Premium Archive$99

  per year

  4,096 sites, web feeds for sites without RSS, a permanent searchable archive, Ask AI, daily briefing, story clustering, and the MCP server and CLI.

• Premium Pro$29

  per month

  10,000 sites, every feed fetched every 5 to 15 minutes, training with regular expressions, and priority support.

Feeder

• Annual discount

  20% to 25% off when paying yearly

  The pricing page shows Plus at $7.99 a month paid yearly against $9.99 paid monthly (20% less), and Professional at $14.99 against $19.99 per user (25% less).

NewsBlur

No public discounts listed.