Cision (CisionOne)
Enterprise PR operations: monitoring, media database, distribution
Entry price
Custom quote — no published pricing
Typical annual
Not disclosed by vendor
Free trial
Demo only
Contract
Annual
About Cision (CisionOne)
Cision is the incumbent of corporate PR software, and CisionOne is its unified platform: media monitoring across print, online, broadcast and social, a large journalist and influencer database, press release distribution through PR Newswire, and campaign measurement in one place. The group has grown by acquisition — PR Newswire, Gorkana, PRIME Research, Vuelio and, in 2023, Brandwatch — which means Cision owns one of the listening platforms it is most often compared against. For buyers the practical question is whether the monitoring plus database plus distribution bundle is worth an opaque, sales-led contract when point solutions publish their prices.
Full specification
Pricing & Model
- Entry price
- Custom quote — no published pricing
- Median annual cost
- Not disclosed by vendor
- Pricing model
- Quote-only, modular by product
- Free trial
- Demo only
- Contract required
- Annual
- Overage pricing
- Negotiated per contract
Searches / Topics / Queries
- What they call it
- Searches / queries
- Entry tier limit
- Contracted
- Mid tier limit
- Contracted
- Enterprise limit
- Contracted
- Boolean support
- Full Boolean
Mentions / Results
- Counting method
- Contracted volume plus per-module licensing
- Entry tier
- Contracted
- Mid tier
- Contracted
- Enterprise tier
- Contracted
- Historical lookback
- Contracted archive window
Users & Seats
- Entry tier users
- Contracted per seat
- Mid tier users
- Contracted per seat
- Enterprise users
- Contracted per seat
- Extra seat cost
- Per-seat licensing, negotiated
Key Features
- Sentiment analysis
- Yes, with human-assisted review options
- Emotion detection
- Not a headline capability
- Intent classification
- No
- Entity extraction
- Journalists, outlets, spokespeople, topics
- Image recognition
- Via Brandwatch capabilities in the group
- Webhooks
- Enterprise integrations, negotiated
- API access
- Yes, contracted
- Publishing tools
- Press release distribution via PR Newswire
- News / media coverage
- Very extensive — print, online, broadcast and licensed content
- Language support
- Global, broad language coverage
- Interface languages
- Multiple
Best For
- Primary audience
- Corporate communications and PR teams that need earned-media measurement, a journalist database and wire distribution from one supplier, and can work with an annual, sales-led contract.
Similar platforms
Other pr & media relations tools, cheapest published price first.