China Social Intelligence
Transparent pricing.
No sales call, ever.
Brandwatch closes at a median of $50,000 a year and Meltwater at $25,800. Both list Chinese sources, and both hand you a dashboard nobody on your team can read. The Chinese tools built for those platforms will not sell to you at all: one wants a mainland ID-verified phone number, another wants a Chinese corporate bank account. This starts at $39 a month, with a named analyst attached.
The three differ by scope, not by feature count. Pick by who you want to understand: a category, your own brand once, or your own brand every week.
Switch to annual and both subscriptions come with two months free.
China Read & Rank
Or $390 a year, two months free.
What is China saying about my category?
Meltwater lists eight Chinese platforms and gives you a number: volume, plus a sentiment score trained on English. The post warning shoppers off the category leader comes back neutral. This is the other half. Readis one category a month gone through by someone who works in both markets, built on Xiaohongshu’s own industry data. Rank is the Buzz Index table underneath it. The category, not your brand.
China Brand Snapshot
Start hereOne payment, nothing renews. The billing switch above does not apply.
And where does my own brand stand?
One brand, read once and written up. Who is already reselling you into China without asking, what the conversation about you is actually made of, and whether it reads as buying intent or as a warning. You get a named analyst’s view of what to do next, and no subscription starts.
China Intelligence
Or $2,990 a year, two months free.
Keep watching it for me, every week.
The snapshot, except it does not stop. Your brand and three competitors every Monday, each week with a named analyst’s written read of what moved and what it means for the quarter. Name your industry and it moves up the Buzz Index queue, subscribers first. The $99 China Market Entry Playbook is yours on day one.
Just want the book? The China Market Entry Playbook is $99.
Subscriptions cancel any time, and annual billing on either one is two months free. The China Buzz Index itself stays public; naming your industry as a subscriber is what moves it up the queue. China Intelligence includes the $99 playbook on day one.
Frequently asked questions
Which of the three should I buy?
They differ by scope, not by feature count. China Read & Rank at $39 a month covers one category a month and never mentions your brand by name. China Brand Snapshot at $149 covers your brand, once, as a written read you can put in front of a board. China Intelligence at $299 a month is that same read every week, plus three competitors. Most people start with the snapshot, see whether the China conversation about them is worth watching, and decide from there.