Phyllo Vs Meltwater; Which Social Listening Solution Fits You the Best?

Choosing between Phyllo and Meltwater depends on whether you need developer-ready APIs or an out-of-the-box social listening dashboard. This detailed comparison breaks down how both stack up across features, integrations, and data intelligence capabilities.

Both Phyllo and Meltwater help businesses analyze social media conversations and monitor brand performance online. However, Phyllo’s API-first approach enables teams to build custom social intelligence workflows, while Meltwater offers a dashboard-based solution designed for media and PR professionals.

Phyllo Social Listening API

Phyllo Influencer Vetting API

Revenue (ARR; USD): 200M

Company size: 5k

Location: California US

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Overview of Meltwater

About

Meltwater works on traditional media, social media, and customer (via integrations to company records, slack, portals) to give intelligence on all three, or combined.

They offer social listening & media intelligence, along with deep research across online sources, publishing houses, NGOs, etc.

Social Listening

Meltwater provides ‘insights on audience target groups’ from social media, for improved customer knowledge.

Their sources include social media (X, FB, IG, Snapchat, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, YT, Line), TV, Radio, Podcasts, and marketplace & review websites data.

It tracks all brand mentions in real time for a brand. They also provide alerts in real time for mentions. To make large volumes of data readable, they offer sentiment analyses.

They offer upto 15 months of historical data. There’s no cap on the number of keywords to monitor or the number of contents fetched. All relevant items are fetched. Past queries are also recorded in the search library.

They offer advanced image recognition that allows contextual image reading.