The 7 best HARO alternatives for 2026

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Featured4.4/5 on G2

The company that now runs HARO itself

Featured.com is the most important name here because it now owns and operates the revived HARO. As a product, Featured is a curated Q&A marketplace: journalists and publishers post questions, you submit answers, and the best get used — with a much cleaner, more vetted feed than HARO ever had, and access to Forbes, Inc., Fortune, and Fast Company. If you want the HARO model done better, this is the most direct upgrade. The honest catches are real: the free tier is genuinely limited (about 3 answers a month), it's effectively a pay-to-play SEO/citation tool that filters out lower-DA outlets, you never get the journalist's direct contact, and paid tiers (roughly $19–$99/mo) are where it becomes usable. It's reactive by design — you answer questions, you don't reach out.

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Source of Sources (SOS)New (launched 2024)

HARO's original founder rebuilding the original HARO

When Cision killed HARO, Peter Shankman — the man who created HARO in 2008 — launched Source of Sources (sourceofsources.com) as a free, email-based revival of exactly what HARO used to be: keyword-filtered journalist queries delivered to your inbox a few times a day, no platform to learn, no paywall. For HARO loyalists this is the most spiritually faithful replacement, and Shankman's name still opens doors with journalists. The honest catch is that it's a newer, smaller operation than the HARO at its peak: query volume is lower, there's no search interface, no DA/metrics on opportunities, and it's still rebuilding its journalist base. It's a genuinely free top-of-funnel, not a scaled outreach engine.

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Qwoted4.5/5 on G2

The highest-quality, most-vetted source-request marketplace

Qwoted is the quality leader among source-request marketplaces. It processes roughly 200 journalist queries a day, holds the highest share of high-authority (DR 80+) publication requests of any platform in independent studies, verifies contributors, and aggressively bans AI-spam and SEO-grab accounts — so the noise that broke HARO is far lower here. For finance, business, and tech experts especially, the inbound demand is genuinely warm. The honest catches: the free tier is nearly unusable (2 pitches a month with a 2-hour delay behind paying users), Pro is $99/mo billed annually or $149/mo monthly, and there's now a sharp jump from Pro to custom pricing. It's also strictly reactive and has had reports of abrupt account suspensions, including over AI-content accusations.

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ConnectivelyDiscontinued (Cision era)

The dead Cision platform — and what came after

Important so you don't waste a step: "Connectively" was the name Cision gave HARO when it rebranded in March 2024, and that platform was shut down completely on December 9, 2024. If you find an old "sign up for Connectively" link from that era, it's dead — don't bother. In a twist, Featured.com revived the Connectively brand on June 2, 2026 as a separate paid platform (a journalist-request feed with an AI co-pilot), distinct from the free HARO newsletter it also runs. Pricing for this relaunch is still unsettled — sources cite figures from $49 to $149/mo and the page has redirected during the rollout — so we can't recommend it on terms that aren't verifiable yet. We list it only to clear up the confusion: the original is gone, the new one is unproven, and HARO (free) and Featured (paid) are the live products from that lineage.

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MentionMatchWell-regarded in B2B

The low-spam, B2B-only source-request service

MentionMatch (formerly Help a B2B Writer, acquired by the Superpath content-marketing community in 2023) is a free, niche source-request service built exclusively for B2B topics — AI, SaaS, marketing, sales, fintech, manufacturing. Because it's narrow and manually moderated, the noise is dramatically lower than open feeds: queries come from real B2B writers at outlets like HubSpot and Semrush, and the platform is aggressive about killing spam and AI-generated pitches. If your expertise is B2B, this is arguably a better signal-to-noise ratio than HARO itself. The trade-off is exactly that narrowness: if you're a consumer brand, a local business, or anything outside B2B, there simply won't be queries for you, and total volume is lower than the big feeds.

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SourceBottleEstablished (since 2009)

The free, internationally-strong query digest

SourceBottle is one of the oldest HARO-style services still running — a free daily email matching experts to journalist "callouts," with up to 10 keyword subscriptions on the free plan and optional paid profile-visibility upgrades (around $65/mo). Its real differentiator is geography: it has the strongest reach of any free option in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, which is exactly where US-centric tools like Featured and JustReachOut are thin. The honest catch is that US volume is smaller and the average outlet authority skews lower than the elite-publication feeds — it's best treated as a free, regionally-strong supplement rather than your only channel.

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JustReachOut4.3/5 on G2

Source requests plus a database and AI pitching, for SMBs

JustReachOut is the SMB all-rounder. Post-HARO, its curated press-opportunity finder aggregates journalist requests from 20+ sources and refreshes through the day, and it pairs that with a 700K-journalist database, AI pitch drafting, and sending from your own Gmail or Outlook — a genuinely useful combination if you want one tool instead of stitching together a free feed and a database. It's also honest that PR results take three to six months. The honest catches are price and scope: plans run $147 / $247 / $497 a month (the trial requires a card), search is recency-biased so older niche coverage gets missed, non-US coverage is thin, and there's no API or agent surface. It's a solid reactive-plus-database tool, not a free option.