ResponseSource vs Roxhill (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, ResponseSource grades higher than Roxhill: 2.4 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
ResponseSource grades higher on value for money, the free plan and ease of use. Roxhill grades higher on features. They get the same grade on platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
ResponseSource
UK journalist request service with a press release wire
Free trial · from £625/yr
Roxhill
Media database and monitoring platform for PR teams, sold by quote
Paid
Which one is for you
Pick ResponseSource if
- Fits if you're a UK PR team after national, regional and trade coverage
- Works for consumer brands answering journalists who want products to review
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your market isn't the UK, as its pages describe UK media only
- Pricey if you cover several sectors, as each is a separate yearly subscription from £625 plus VAT at 20%
- Watch out: the price varies by sector and only the £625 floor is published
- Pricey if you also send releases, as Press Release Wire is extra, from £85 a release
- Watch out: the Vuelio media database on the same page is priced only by quote, and the trial is arranged by form or phone
Pick Roxhill if
- Fits if you run PR in the UK and want a media database and monitoring under one login
- Works for lifestyle PRs pitching regular slots in UK magazines
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to see a price first, as the annual fee is only quoted by sales
- Not for you if you want to try it first, as no free plan or trial is on record
- Tight if you're on Core with 1 login: distribution and historical search start at Boutique, and spokespeople analytics at Enterprise
- Watch out: extra logins and reports cost more, on top of the quoted fee
- Too light for working from a phone app, as there's no native app, only the database in a phone's browser
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAResponseSourceFair | 1.8GPARoxhillWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B£625 a year and up per sector, before VAT, and one licence covers a whole office. Split across a team of five that's about £10 a head a month, inside this category's cheaper quarter. On your own it's about £52 a month per sector. | CNo price is published: the annual fee for the database and monitoring is quoted by sales, in bands from Core with 1 login to Enterprise with 5, so the price is only given on a sales call. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but a free one-week trial of the enquiry service, arranged by form or phone. | FNothing free on record: no free plan and no trial, and getting started goes through sales. |
| Features | CModerated requests from national, regional, trade and consumer journalists, 25 sectors, delivery filters and an office-wide licence. It does the job fully, but only for UK media, and the press release wire is priced on top. | BJournalist search with bios and pitching preferences, an AI Journalist Assistant, release distribution, alerts for moves and media requests, 2,000+ UK lifestyle slots, monitoring and spokespeople analytics. It covers the PR route to links end to end. |
| Ease of use | BNo rating on record, but enquiries arrive by email, already checked by a moderation team, and you narrow them with delivery filters. | CNo rating on record. It's a large platform with lists, alerts, Smart Folders and reports to set up before it pays off. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb and email only, with no apps, integrations or API on record. | CWeb only, used in a phone's browser rather than a native app, with no integrations on record. |
| Best for | UK journalist requests for PR teams | UK PR teams wanting database and monitoring |
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: ResponseSource and Roxhill. How we grade
Where they differ
- Roxhill also covers email campaigns.
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At a glance
| ResponseSource | Roxhill | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Paid |
| Starts at | £625 per category / year and up, billed annually (excluding VAT) | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | Free one-week trial of the Journalist Enquiry Service, arranged by form or phone | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | ResponseSource Ltd | Roxhill Media |
| Price read from | responsesource.com | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
ResponseSource
- Prices are in pounds and exclude VAT at 20%; each sector category is a separate annual subscription whose price varies.
- The service covers UK media; the pages do not describe requests from other countries.
- Press Release Wire is priced separately: from £85 per release, or £675 for 10 and £1,050 for 20, with extras such as video from £40.
- The Vuelio media database sold on the same page is priced only by quote.
Roxhill
- No prices are published: an annual fee covering database and monitoring is quoted by sales.
- Bands are Core with 1 login, Boutique with 3, Enterprise with 5, and Premium by arrangement; distribution starts at Boutique.
- Historical search starts at Boutique and the spokespeople platform at Enterprise; extra logins and reports cost more.
- There is no native mobile app; the database runs in a phone's browser.
Key features
ResponseSource
- Journalist Enquiry Service
- Requests for expert comment, case studies, interviews and products to review arrive by email from UK print, broadcast and online journalists.
- Moderated requests
- A quality control team reviews each request before it goes out, and delivery filters narrow the feed by request, media and sender type.
- 25 sector categories
- Subscribe only to the sectors you work in, from Business & Finance to Travel; each category is priced separately.
- Office-wide licence
- One licence covers an entire office, so a whole PR team can see and answer the same enquiries.
- Press Release Wire
- Sends releases to UK journalists and news desks, hosts them in a customizable newsroom indexed by search engines, and reports on release and newsroom views.
Roxhill
- Journalist search
- Find journalists by topic, sector, keyword or company, with profiles that include bios, recent articles, social posts and how each one likes to be pitched.
- Journalist Assistant
- An AI assistant inside the database that reads journalist profiles to suggest pitch angles, draft briefing notes and explain what each writer cares about.
- Press release distribution
- Design, schedule and send releases to saved lists, with contacts who opted out flagged across shared lists and reports on opens, clicks and unsubscribes.
- Alerts and media requests
- Custom alerts for journalist moves, headlines, social posts, forward features and media requests, on a schedule you set or on the dashboard.
- PR opportunities directory
- Search over 2,000 regular lifestyle slots from more than 100 UK outlets, filtered by section, outlet or category.
- Monitoring and spokespeople analytics
- Coverage sorted into Smart Folders, AI metrics, stakeholder newsletters, and share-of-voice comparisons of your spokespeople against rivals.
Plans
ResponseSource
Journalist Enquiry Service£625
per category / year and up, billed annually
Moderated journalist requests by email for one of 25 sectors; the price varies by category, and one licence covers a whole office.
Roxhill
Pricing could not be confirmed. See roxhillmedia.com.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, ResponseSource or Roxhill?
As of Oct 23, 2026, ResponseSource starts at £625 per category / year and up, billed annually (excluding VAT), and Roxhill has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, ResponseSource or Roxhill?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither ResponseSource nor Roxhill has a free plan. ResponseSource has a free trial.
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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.