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Vista Social is a social media management suite: it schedules and publishes posts, Reddit included, runs a shared inbox and analytics, and sells listening as an add-on. Upthread works on the Reddit threads Google and AI answers cite, with drafts you post yourself.

Last checked Nov 8, 2026. Every fact about Vista Social is numbered to its source at the bottom of the page.

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  1. Why look beyond Vista Social
  2. Who should choose which
  3. Vista Social in brief
  4. Pricing, plan by plan
  5. Point by point
  6. What it watches
  7. Replying
  8. After you post
  9. Price and plans
  10. Switching from Vista Social
  11. Reddit access is changing
  12. Questions
  13. Sources
  14. Related comparisons

Why people look beyond Vista Social.

Vista Social sells itself as an AI-powered command center for social media. It brings publishing, a shared inbox, analytics, listening, review management, DM automations and employee advocacy into one product, and its AI agents take on recurring social work so a team can handle more clients and brands. 1

Reddit is one of its publishing channels. You connect one or more Reddit profiles, write and schedule posts to your subreddits with flair, move them around a calendar before they auto-publish, and then read each post's karma, comments and shares in reports. 2

Plans cost $99, $199 and $449 a month, or $80, $160 and $360 a month billed yearly, for 15, 30 and 70 social profiles. Listening on your own profiles is free; listening across social, web and news is an add-on that starts at $75 a month. 3

Upthread goes deeper on one part of that job. It never schedules or publishes for you. It finds the Reddit threads that Google and AI answers show your buyers, drafts a reply that fits each subreddit's rules, and tracks what the reply did after you posted it.

Who should choose which.

Who should choose Vista Social

  • You run social on many networks and want listening on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, news and reviews beside your publishing. Upthread covers Reddit only. 4
  • You post to subreddits on a schedule: Vista Social plans, flairs and auto-publishes posts from the Reddit profiles you connect. 2
  • You report to clients under your own brand: white label reports and dashboards come with Scale. 3

Who should choose Upthread

  • Your Reddit work is answering people in threads that already exist, not filling a calendar, and you want those threads ranked by what Google and AI answers show.
  • You want replies drafted from the thread itself, its top comments and the subreddit's rules, then checked by a lint and an AI judge before you read them.
  • You want to know what each Reddit reply did after it went up: its score over time, any moderator removal, and whether AI answers still cite that thread.

Vista Social in brief

A social media management suite: publishing, inbox, analytics and listening across networks, with Reddit posting.

  • Describes itself as an AI-powered command center for social media, with publishing, engagement, analytics, listening and reviews in one product. 1
  • Professional costs $99 a month, Advanced $199 and Scale $449, or $80, $160 and $360 a month billed yearly. Enterprise is custom. 3
  • Listening across social, web and news is an add-on from $75 a month; listening on your own profiles is free. 3
  • Listeners pull from 10+ sources, among them X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Reddit, plus Google Search and Trends, news, review sites and the open web. 4
  • Schedules posts to subreddits from the Reddit profiles you connect, with flair, and auto-publishes them on the day you set. 2
  • Its inbox gathers comments, messages and mentions from connected profiles, Reddit included, so you can reply in one place. 5
  • Offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card. 3
  • White label reports and dashboards come with the Scale plan. 3

Pricing, plan by plan.

Vista Social

Professional$99 a month, or $80 a month billed yearly ($950 a year)
15 social profiles, 2 users, planning and publishing, engagement tools, reports, listening and review tools, DM automations, Ask Vista and MCP. 3
Advanced$199 a month, or $160 a month billed yearly ($1,910 a year)
30 social profiles, 3 users, advanced workflows and reporting, Zapier and Make integrations, advanced DM automations, AI training and knowledge. 3
Scale$449 a month, or $360 a month billed yearly ($4,310 a year)
70 social profiles, 4 users, white label reports and dashboard, client profile connect, scalable AI credits, up to 100,000 DM contacts. 3
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited profiles, 8+ users, sentiment detection, premium analytics, brand safety tools, a dedicated account manager. 3
  • The 14-day free trial needs no credit card, and yearly billing saves 20%. 3
  • Listening on your own profiles is free; listening across social, web and news starts at $75 a month. 3
  • Listeners are priced one by one: $75, $150 or $250 a month for 15K, 45K or 120K results a month, all from the same 10+ sources. 4
  • Employee advocacy is free to try, then $199 a month for 25 employees, and X publishing and analytics cost $29 a month. 3

Upthread

Starter$49 a month
1 brand, 25 keywords, 25 buyer questions, 3 engines, 150 drafts a month, 1 seat. Discovery: Daily.
Growth$149 a month
3 brands, 100 keywords, 75 buyer questions, All engines, 600 drafts a month, 3 seats. Discovery: Every 6 hours.
Agency$499 a month
15 brands, 500 keywords, 300 buyer questions, All engines, 2,500 drafts a month, 10 seats. Discovery: Every 6 hours.

Yearly billing gives 2 months free. Every workspace starts with a 7-day trial on Starter limits, with no card. See full pricing.

Vista Social and Upthread, point by point.

Each row sets a sourced fact about Vista Social next to what Upthread does, grouped by what you would check first.

What it watches

SourcesThey do more
Vista SocialX, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Reddit, plus Google Search and Trends, news, review sites and the open web. 4
UpthreadReddit only.
Finding threadsDifferent approach
Vista SocialSaved listeners, with each story scored 0 to 100 by how many sources confirm it, how recent it is and its volume. 4
UpthreadThreads from Google results and AI citations, ranked by Google rank, AI citations per engine, buying intent, freshness and how the subreddit treats brands.
AI answersUpthread does more
Vista SocialNo AI answer tracking listed. 3
UpthreadGoogle AI Overviews and AI Mode twice a week, from live Google results. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude weekly through their APIs, labelled API.
How it reads RedditDifferent approach
Vista SocialPublishes through the Reddit profiles you connect. No data source is stated for listening on Reddit. 2
UpthreadBuilt on your own logged-in browser, so Reddit's move to logged-in-only viewing doesn't break it. Discovery comes from Google results and AI citations, with no Reddit API.

Replying

DraftingDifferent approach
Vista SocialIts AI assistant helps write on-brand Reddit posts. Drafts grounded in a thread's comments and the subreddit's rules aren't described. 2
UpthreadTwo drafts per thread, grounded in the thread, its top comments, the subreddit's rules and your facts. A lint and an AI judge check each one first.
PostingDifferent approach
Vista SocialScheduled Reddit posts auto-publish from the profiles you connect; it says each profile can publish up to 5 posts in any 24 hours. 2
UpthreadYou post from your own account. The extension can insert the draft; you click Comment.

After you post

After postingDifferent approach
Vista SocialKarma, comments, followers and shares for the posts you published, in scheduled reports. Reply tracking in other threads isn't described. 2
UpthreadScore over time, moderator removals, and the thread's citation history before and after your reply. Links carry UTM tags for your own analytics.

Price and plans

PriceDifferent approach
Vista Social$99 / $199 / $449 a month, or $80 / $160 / $360 a month billed yearly. Listening across social, web and news is extra, from $75 a month. 3
Upthread$49 / $149 / $499 a month, or 2 months free yearly. A 7-day trial with Starter limits. No card required.
AgenciesThey do more
Vista SocialWhite label reports and dashboards on Scale, which also lets clients connect their own profiles. 3
UpthreadAgency plan: 15 brands, 10 seats and shareable client reports. No white-label yet.

Switching from Vista Social.

There's no calendar to migrate. Upthread asks for your website, drafts a brand profile from it, and suggests keywords, competitors, buyer questions and focus subreddits that you edit. Then you set your role, tone and disclosure line, pick engines and a country, and the first discovery and visibility runs fill a ranked inbox, aiming for under three minutes. The extension, which inserts drafts for you, is an optional last step.

What you bring across

  • Your listener topics. Brand and product terms become Upthread keywords, and terms that bring noise become negative keywords.
  • Your competitors, each with its aliases, for share of voice in AI answers and for spotting them inside threads.
  • The Slack channel your alerts go to. On Growth and Agency, Upthread sends new high-priority threads there, plus Reddit complaints and support questions that name your brand.

What works differently

  • Vista Social's listeners confirm a story across sources and score it from 0 to 100. Upthread scores Reddit threads instead, by Google rank, AI citations per engine, buying intent, freshness and how the subreddit treats brands. 4
  • Vista Social schedules your own Reddit posts and auto-publishes them from the profiles you connect. Upthread never publishes: you click Comment after the extension inserts a draft, or copy it and open the thread. 2
  • Vista Social reports karma, comments and shares for the posts you published. Upthread tracks each reply's score over time, any moderator removal, and whether AI answers still cite the thread. 2
  • Vista Social sells listening across the web as an add-on on top of a plan. In Upthread, discovery, AI answer checks and Reddit mentions come with every plan, from $49 a month. 3

How Reddit access is changing

Reddit is closing its public API and moving toward logged-in viewing. This matters for any tool that reads Reddit, so each comparison states only what the tool itself says about its data source.

  1. On Oct 29, 2026, Reddit said it will shift to a primarily logged-in experience, starting with tests in select markets outside the US. 6
  2. 9to5Mac reported that Reddit will start requiring a logged-in account for most of its content. 7
  3. Reddit's CEO said most unauthorized access to its content happens through the logged-out experience. 8

Vista Social and Upthread: questions.

Can Vista Social post to Reddit?

Yes. It schedules text, image, video, GIF and link posts to subreddits from the Reddit profiles you connect, with flair, and auto-publishes them; it says each profile can publish up to 5 posts in any 24 hours. Upthread drafts, and never publishes. 2

Is listening included in Vista Social?

Listening on your own profiles is free. Listening across social, web and news is an add-on that starts at $75 a month. Upthread's Reddit discovery, mentions and AI answer checks are part of every plan. 3

Which one costs less?

Vista Social Professional is $99 a month, or $80 billed yearly, before any listening add-on. Upthread Starter is $49 a month for one brand on Reddit, with 150 drafts a month. 3

Which is better for an agency?

For white-labelled client reporting, Vista Social: Scale includes white label reports and dashboards and lets clients connect their own profiles. Upthread's Agency plan covers 15 brands and 10 seats with shareable read-only reports, and no white-label yet. 3

Can I use Vista Social and Upthread together?

Yes. Keep Vista Social for scheduling and the inbox across your networks, and use Upthread to decide which Reddit threads deserve a reply from you, and to draft it.

Sources

We read each page on the date shown. Vista Social's own pages are named, not linked. Spotted something out of date? Email [email protected] and we will fix it.

  1. [1]Vista Social homepage, checked Nov 8, 2026.
  2. [2]Vista Social Reddit page, checked Nov 8, 2026.
  3. [3]Vista Social pricing page, checked Nov 8, 2026.
  4. [4]Vista Social listening page, checked Nov 8, 2026.
  5. [5]Vista Social integrations page, checked Nov 8, 2026.
  6. [6]Engadget, checked Oct 29, 2026.
  7. [7]9to5Mac, checked Oct 29, 2026.
  8. [8]CyberInsider, checked Oct 30, 2026.

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