# ResponseSource review (2026): is it worth £625 a year? > UK journalist request service with a press release wire Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. ResponseSource is a UK media network owned by Pulsar Group. Its Journalist Enquiry Service emails PR teams moderated requests from national, regional, trade and consumer journalists looking for comment, case studies or products to review, sold by sector. The same site sells Press Release Wire, which sends releases to UK newsrooms and hosts them in an online newsroom. - **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building - **Made by:** ResponseSource Ltd (since 1998) - **Website:** https://www.responsesource.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your market isn't the UK, as its pages describe UK media only. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, ResponseSource is a paid product with a free trial, starting at £625 per category / year and up, billed annually (excluding VAT). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free one-week trial of the Journalist Enquiry Service, arranged by form or phone. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 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. | Read from https://www.responsesource.com/pr/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ResponseSource before buying. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - UK PR agencies and in-house teams chasing national and trade coverage - Consumer brands answering journalists' requests for products to review - Teams that also want to send press releases to UK media ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. ResponseSource emails moderated requests from UK journalists who need comment, case studies or products, and one licence covers a whole office. It's sold by sector from £625 a year before VAT, each sector is a separate subscription, and its pages describe UK media only. - **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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a free one-week trial of the enquiry service, arranged by form or phone. - **Features: C.** Moderated 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. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but enquiries arrive by email, already checked by a moderation team, and you narrow them with delivery filters. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web and email only, with no apps, integrations or API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ResponseSource'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 - ResponseSource's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 44 of 50) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $68.86 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 25 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 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 ResponseSource 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. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade. It costs $826.27 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 - [Qwoted](https://toolgpa.com/tools/qwoted): Marketplace where reporters request expert sources and PRs pitch. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/qwoted-vs-responsesource) - [Featured](https://toolgpa.com/tools/featured): AI assistant for PR that finds journalist requests and drafts pitches. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-responsesource) - [SourceBottle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sourcebottle): Media call outs and expert profiles for people seeking press. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/responsesource-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/responsesource-vs-source-of-sources) - [Roxhill](https://toolgpa.com/tools/roxhill): Media database and monitoring platform for PR teams, sold by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/responsesource-vs-roxhill) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.responsesource.com/pr/pricing/ - https://www.responsesource.com/ - https://www.responsesource.com/pr/journalistenquiry/ - https://www.responsesource.com/pr/releasewire/ - https://www.responsesource.com/freetrial/ - https://www.responsesource.com/about/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/responsesource Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).