# Qwoted review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Marketplace where reporters request expert sources and PRs pitch Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Qwoted is a web platform that connects journalists with expert sources. Reporters post requests for experts or products, and experts or the PR people who represent them pitch those requests inside Qwoted, with alerts as new ones go live. Experts also get a profile in a database that reporters search, and paid plans show how competitive each request is before you pitch. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** Qwoted, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.qwoted.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, at 2 pitches a month, requests 2 hours late and no rollover of unused pitches. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Qwoted has a free plan, and paid plans start at $149 per month (billing basis not stated). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic plan: a profile in the database reporters search, real-time alerts and a daily email of requests, and 2 pitches a month, with a 2-hour delay on new requests. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | 2 pitches a month (5 shared by a team on the free plan), with new requests shown after a 2-hour delay. | | Pro | $149 per month (billing basis not stated) | 35 pitches a month with no delay, pitch intelligence before you pitch, opportunity research and the events and awards database. | | Teams | Custom | Unlimited pitches, several people representing the same experts, profile view alerts, white labeling, weekly reports and premium support. | Read from https://www.qwoted.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Qwoted before buying. ## Key features - **Media requests:** Reporters post calls for expert sources or products, and you answer them with a pitch sent inside Qwoted, with read receipts. - **Expert profiles:** Set up profiles for yourself, your clients or your company's spokespeople; they appear in the expert database that reporters search. - **Alerts:** Real-time alerts and a daily email flag new requests that match your experts' topics; free accounts see new requests two hours late. - **Pitch intelligence:** Shows how many pitches a request has had, how many were read or answered and who is pitching. Free accounts see it only after pitching. - **Events and awards database:** Pro and Teams list industry events and awards in one place as further PR openings. - **Team tools:** On Teams, several people can represent and reply for the same expert, with white-label branding, an admin dashboard and weekly activity reports. ## Good for - Experts who want press quotes and mentions without a PR agency - PR agencies placing clients in news stories - Brands earning coverage and links through journalist requests ## Worth knowing - Free accounts get 2 pitches a month and see requests 2 hours late; unused pitches do not roll over. - Pitches must be sent inside Qwoted; pitching its requests by email breaks the community guidelines. - Qwoted's terms ban AI-written pitches, and its help center warns that even light AI editing can get a pitch flagged. - Team features and white labeling need the custom-priced Teams plan; the pricing page does not say how Pro is billed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Qwoted is a marketplace where reporters post requests for experts and products, and you or your PR person pitch them inside it. The free plan is 2 pitches a month with requests shown 2 hours late, Pro is $149 a month for 35 pitches, and team features need a custom-priced plan. - **Value for money: D.** Pro is $149 a month, and the page doesn't say whether that's billed monthly or yearly. That's the start of this category's dearest tenth, for 35 pitches a month, and team features need the custom-priced Teams plan. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The free Basic plan gives you a profile reporters can search, alerts and 2 pitches a month. Requests show up 2 hours late, though, and unused pitches don't roll over, so you'll hit the wall fast. - **Features: C.** Reporter requests, expert profiles in a searchable database, alerts, pitch intelligence that shows how crowded a request is, and an events and awards list. It does the journalist-request job fully, but that's a smaller job. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You build expert profiles before pitching, and the rules are strict: pitches go through Qwoted only, and even lightly AI-edited ones can get flagged. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no apps, no integrations and no API on record. New requests also come by email. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Qwoted's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among link building tools - Qwoted's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 2 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on free plan and trial (C, above 20 of 50) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $149 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 35 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 22 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/link-building ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Qwoted you would be making a network of journalists who post requests for sources. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 38 of the 50 other link building tools grade higher. It costs $1,788 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A network of journalists who post requests for sources. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Journalist requests, Reports ## Alternatives - [Featured](https://toolgpa.com/tools/featured): AI assistant for PR that finds journalist requests and drafts pitches. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-qwoted) - [SourceBottle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sourcebottle): Media call outs and expert profiles for people seeking press. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/qwoted-vs-sourcebottle) - [Source of Sources](https://toolgpa.com/tools/source-of-sources): Free email list of journalist queries looking for expert sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/qwoted-vs-source-of-sources) - [ResponseSource](https://toolgpa.com/tools/responsesource): UK journalist request service with a press release wire. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/qwoted-vs-responsesource) - [Semrush AI PR Toolkit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prowly): Media database, pitching and monitoring, formerly Prowly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/prowly-vs-qwoted) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.qwoted.com/pricing/ - https://www.qwoted.com/ - https://www.qwoted.com/for-pr-marketing-pros/ - https://intercom.help/qwoted/en/articles/13854403-how-many-pitches-do-i-have-left - https://intercom.help/qwoted/en/articles/5669499-qwoted-teams-plan - https://intercom.help/qwoted/en/articles/15198688-understanding-pitch-intelligence - https://intercom.help/qwoted/en/articles/14809747-can-i-use-ai-to-craft-my-pitch - https://intercom.help/qwoted/en/articles/5198985-in-platform-pitching-why-qwoted-requires-it-and-what-you-get-out-of-it Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/qwoted Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).