ReachSpot and Google Alerts
Compare what each service covers, how it works and who it suits. Use the differences to choose the right fit for your business.
What Google Alerts is
A free Google service that emails you when new pages matching a search term are indexed. It is a keyword watch over the open web, most often used for brand and topic monitoring.
Free.
What it is good at
Free keyword alerts
You can create an alert using a Google login. It provides a simple way to follow a company name or search term.
Pages beyond official registers
Google Alerts can find mentions in trade press and other web publications, including information outside official registers.
Following exact terms
You can set alerts for a named company or a distinctive product name. The usefulness of the results depends on how specific the search term is.
What ReachSpot does differently
One service that checks eight streams against your business profile: Contracts, Projects, Property, Prospects, Rivals, Customers about to go under, Rules and Funding. Priced by industry, from £49 a month for charities to £299 for commercial finance, with every stream included at every price.
Public procurement is one stream of eight
ReachSpot includes public contract notices alongside other sources of business information. Planning changes and funding programmes are included, as are company records and warnings about the businesses you watch.
The price is on the page
Twenty industry packs, each with a stated monthly and yearly figure, no demo required to find out what it costs and no sales call before you see a number.
Matching uses your business profile
Your company or charity record starts the profile. You confirm the details about your services and working area, and ReachSpot checks notices against those facts.
Free before you pay
You can see what the last thirty days would have produced for your company before there is any card involved.
Choose Google Alerts if
You want to know when a specific name is mentioned online, you are monitoring your own reputation, or you are following a handful of named organisations. Set these up regardless of what else you use, because they cost nothing.
Choose ReachSpot if
You need the official record rather than whoever wrote about it. Tender notices, planning applications, company filings, insolvency notices and funding calls are structured data published on a schedule, and a keyword watch over web pages sees them late, partially, or not at all.
What we cannot claim
You can read user feedback on our homepage. This comparison describes published features and does not measure comparative customer outcomes.
Every statement about Google Alerts above comes from its own website on 9 September 2026. Prices and features change and this page does not change with them, so check before you decide.