Birdeye alternatives

On 13 August 2026 we opened Birdeye's own pricing page. There are no dollar figures on it. There is a form that asks how many locations you have and for your mobile number, and a button that says GET PRICING. Podium's pricing page does the same thing in different words: talk to our sales team for details.

So every "Birdeye costs $299" you have read today, including the ones that say "verified", is somebody repeating a number Birdeye did not print. Some of those sources did real work and their numbers are probably close. They are still secondhand, and the fastest way to see that is to put them next to each other.

The quoted figures, per source

Per location, per month, billed annually, according to the sources that name a figure. Two of them agree exactly. The third puts the middle tier as much as $250 higher. All three are describing the same product in the same month.

The parts that are not in the headline price

These are reported consistently across the same third party sources. Birdeye does not publish them either, so treat them as what other buyers say happened to them rather than as a rate card.

• Setup or onboarding: $500 to $1,500 for a single location.One source puts CRM or POS integration separately at $500 to $2,000.
• A renewal increase of about 8%, described as an "Innovation Fee".On a $349 plan that is roughly $408 by year three.
• A twelve month contract that renews itself, with notice required well ahead of the renewal date.One source says 90 days.
• Paying monthly instead of annually costs 30% to 40% more.
• Text message campaigns bill per message, at around three cents.
• API access is its own line, reported at about $500 a month.
• One aggregator publishes actual contract values rather than list prices: a median of $4,788 a year, from four verified purchases.

Add the plan to the setup fee and a year lands somewhere between about $4,000 and $6,000 for one location. That is the number worth arguing with, not the $299.

Sorted by one thing only: whether you can find out what it costs without giving anyone your phone number.

If you searched for Birdeye alternatives, you are almost certainly looking for review and reputation management. homanai does not do that, and it does not do a lighter version of it either.

Specifically, homanai has none of this:

• A review inbox, review monitoring, or review request campaigns
• Owner replies to Google or Facebook reviews
• A multi location dashboard or rollup reporting
• Text message campaigns, webchat, or payments
• CRM or point of sale integrations

If reviews are the job, close this page. Start with Google's own free tools, which cost nothing and do the core of it, and look at a published price like NiceJob's before you book a demo with anybody. Booking the demo is the step that is hard to walk back, because from then on you are negotiating instead of comparing.

A different job in the same week of a business owner's life. Your team drops files into one shared folder, from any phone. Photos, video, documents, announcements, the win from Tuesday. AI reads every drop, organizes it, and drafts what it should become: website updates, social posts, records and filing, in your company's voice. Nothing reaches your public until it clears one more step, and how that step works is the part we do not publish.

The overlap with Birdeye is narrow. Both are ways a small business stops doing its own content by hand. Birdeye's version is aimed at what customers say about you. Ours is aimed at what you have to say and never get around to posting. A business with a review problem should buy a review tool. A business whose website has said the same thing since 2023 has a different problem, and that one is ours.