Medialyst pricing facts
Medialyst offers monthly and annual subscription plans. The home page does not present pay-as-you-go pricing.
Monthly plans
- Starter: $149/mo, 1,000 credits / mo. Features: Access to Medialyst Agent; Unlimited seats; Up to 3 active media lists, unlimited rows; Beat analysis with 0-100 relevance scoring; Waterfall journalist enrichment; Real-time email verification; Custom AI research agents; Send via Gmail and Outlook; Create media lists via API; Connect to any agents via MCP; 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Pro: $299/mo, 3,000 credits / mo. Features: Everything in Starter, plus:; Unlimited active media lists; No Medialyst branding on shared lists; Team workflows; Dedicated Slack channel.
- Scale: $800/mo, 10,000 credits / mo. Features: Everything in Pro, plus:; White-labeled shared lists; Custom onboarding and integrations; Dedicated support; Volume and procurement support.
Annual plans
- Starter: $1,162/yr, 12,000 credits / yr, $97/mo effective, saves $626/yr. Features: Access to Medialyst Agent; Unlimited seats; Up to 3 active media lists, unlimited rows; Beat analysis with 0-100 relevance scoring; Waterfall journalist enrichment; Real-time email verification; Custom AI research agents; Send via Gmail and Outlook; Create media lists via API; Connect to any agents via MCP; 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Pro: $2,332/yr, 36,000 credits / yr, $194/mo effective, saves $1,256/yr. Features: Everything in Starter, plus:; Unlimited active media lists; No Medialyst branding on shared lists; Team workflows; Dedicated Slack channel.
- Scale: $6,240/yr, 120,000 credits / yr, $520/mo effective, saves $3,360/yr. Features: Everything in Pro, plus:; White-labeled shared lists; Custom onboarding and integrations; Dedicated support; Volume and procurement support.
A media list you can put your own name on. In five minutes.
Paste a press release, a website, or a topic. Our AI agents read thousands of articles relevant to your story, find and score reporters by fit, and tell you why each one would write it and how to reach them.
"My new favorite PR intern. With a few detailed prompts, the agent comes up with a pretty targeted list of journalists. The best thing is it gives a summary of their recent articles before I commit to reading every piece."
"It's 100% customizable to you & your clients. It's affordable. It's built by someone who gets back to you quickly & truly wants to give the people what they want — MORE time."
"What came back was a working list with real journalists, current coverage, and contact information I could use the same day. No cross-referencing. No digging through three different tabs. One prompt and I was pitching."
"Medialyst makes it easy to narrow down and create dedicated PR lists to reach journalists that actually want to hear what you have to say. The timeline goes down to 1-2 hours instead of days of research and prospecting."
"Medialyst is the only tool that keeps up with the pace our firm needs to move at across our High Growth B2B Tech clients. The journalist targeting is sharp as well as accurate, and Elvis actually ships when you give him feedback."
"Medialyst takes the guesswork out of journalist outreach. It vets your pitch for suitability, matches it to the right journalists, and hands you their most accurate contact details — so instead of firing off cold emails into the void, you're landing in the right inboxes. The result? Fewer emails sent, more stories published."
"This is a must-have if you work in media, it's easy to use and saves you a lot of time! The customer service has been some of the best I have experienced."
"The big media database platforms are built for agencies with full teams. Beyond contact discovery, Medialyst helps me stay on top of what reporters are actually covering: the beats, the patterns, the recent angles. Spray and pray is over, and Medialyst is built for how modern media relations actually works."
"I needed a tool built for speed: finding the journalists who are on a story right now, in the moment, while it's still news. For how fast our world moves, this service is genuinely a big deal."
Story → Match → Review → Pitch.
From paste to a list you would actually stand behind. No demo calls, no days of manual work, nothing sent without you.
Start from anything
Paste a press release, a competitor's article, a report, a client site, or a breaking headline. Medialyst reads it and pulls the angles worth pitching.
Medialyst builds the evidence-backed shortlist
It reads current coverage to find who is actively on this beat right now — not who was tagged with the topic three years ago. Every name comes back with a fit score, the recent articles behind it, a verified email, and a pitch angle.
You make the call
Review the 10–20 names, cut the ones you know are wrong, personalize what you send. Pitches go out from your own Gmail or Outlook. Medialyst never sends anything on its own.
Everything between your story and the right reporters.
Medialyst handles the research, the reasoning, and the team workflow, and shows its work — so you can send fewer, better pitches to people who are actually on the beat.
Start with whatever you actually have.
A competitor's article. A report you want to react to. A client's website. A headline that broke twenty minutes ago. Medialyst builds the list around the real brief instead of forcing you into a canned workflow.
A pitch angle for every journalist
Every journalist gets a 0–100 relevance score, a personalized pitch angle, and a "why they fit" summary citing their recent articles. Tune the scoring to your brief. Not a black box; a research assistant that shows its work.
Contacts verified when you ask for them, not last quarter.
Legacy databases refresh on a quarterly cycle. Medialyst checks live signals at the moment you request a contact, so you are not pitching someone who changed outlets last week. When we cannot return a verified email, you are not charged for one.
Built for PR you'd put your name on
No mass-blast automation. Medialyst filters out journalists who aren't a fit early and surfaces the right 10–20 reporters. Your reputation is the product.
See what happened after you hit send.
Pitches go out through your own Gmail or Outlook, and Medialyst reports on the campaign from there — send tracking, opens, clicks and replies, per journalist and per campaign. Legacy databases hand you a CSV and wish you luck. One toggle separates likely humans from the scanners and prefetchers that inflate every open rate in this industry.
Real proof from real coverage.
How ClearNym Rode the 'AI Doxxing' Trend and Landed The Independent
ClearNym rode the emerging 'AI doxxing' trend, briefed Medialyst on April 29, sent 38 verified pitches the same day, and landed a multi-paragraph quote in The Independent plus New York Post coverage.
Property Saviour x IFA Magazine
Medialyst found the right journalist in minutes. 7 emails later, Property Saviour landed a feature in IFA Magazine.
How I Landed 2 Mashable Features in 3 Days
A contrarian take on Moltbook turned into two Mashable features and two DR91 backlinks in three days, using Medialyst to find nine relevant journalists before the story got crowded.
Transparent. No contracts. No per-seat games.
One price for your whole team. No per-seat fees, no annual lock-in, no talking to sales to see a number.
- 12,000 credits / year
- Access to Medialyst Agent
- Unlimited seats
- Up to 3 active media lists, unlimited rows
- Beat analysis with 0-100 relevance scoring
- Waterfall journalist enrichment
- Real-time email verification
- Custom AI research agents
- Send via Gmail and Outlook
- Create media lists via API
- Connect to any agents via MCP
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- 36,000 credits / year
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- Unlimited active media lists
- No Medialyst branding on shared lists
- Team workflows
- Dedicated Slack channel
- 120,000 credits / year
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- White-labeled shared lists
- Custom onboarding and integrations
- Dedicated support
- Volume and procurement support
The database plus the research layer, without the five-figure contract.
What practitioners tell us they were quoted elsewhere: $6,515–$15,000/year for a single independent plan. Around $10,000/year for four seats. About $2,000/month after negotiation.
"The big media database platforms are built for agencies with full teams and retainers to match. For a boutique practice like mine, the economics just do not work. Medialyst fits the model. Beyond contact discovery, it helps me stay on top of what reporters are actually covering: the beats, the patterns, the recent angles. That is the real work of pitching well these days. Spray and pray is over, and Medialyst is built for how modern media relations actually works, at a price point that makes sense for the way I operate."
Questions, answered.
That's why we built it differently. Most legacy tools maintain a static database refreshed on a quarterly cycle — by the time you see a profile, the journalist may have changed beats or left the outlet.
Medialyst combines a journalist database with live article search and on-demand verification. When you search, the agent reads coverage from the past few weeks to decide who is actually active on the beat, then verifies contact details before returning them. We don't pretend every journalist has a reachable email — when we can't return a verified contact, you're not charged for one.
How Medialyst compares.
Static databases, demo-gated contracts, and generic AI pitch tools all miss the same thing: reporter fit for this story right now.
vs. the alternatives
One builds it. One pitches for a living.
Elvis spent 8 years building AI systems at Google. Carly runs Notably, a PR agency, and joins Medialyst as founding strategic advisor. He builds the infrastructure. She judges it against real agency work. Medialyst exists because neither half is enough on its own — engineers alone ship plausible lists, and the people who know which names are actually worth pitching don't build the agents.
Build one list and judge it yourself.
Paste a press release, a website, or a topic. The first list is on us.