Written by LiquidUser, which competes with Buska. Last checked against Buska's own pricing page.
LiquidUser vs Buska
Buska is a listening tool for B2B founders without a sales team. You enter your website, it watches many sources for posts with buying intent, scores them and, on its higher plans, drafts replies.
Buska watches sixteen sources and scores intent. LiquidUser reads two, and shows which claim on your site each conversation matches.
Where each one is better
What Buska does better
Buska covers sixteen sources on its $49 Starter plan, including X, Reddit, LinkedIn, GitHub, Bluesky and Hacker News, where LiquidUser reads X and Hacker News. It highlights the exact sentence that shows intent, stays quiet on days with nothing worth your time, and adds a pipeline board and Slack and Discord alerts.
Pick Buska if you need Reddit, LinkedIn and many other sources at once, and daily updates are enough.
What LiquidUser does that Buska doesn't
- It maps each conversation to the claim on your own site it matches, with the page it came from, so you can check the fit in seconds.
- Memory carries your corrections, competitors and known customers across days, so tomorrow's list starts from what you taught it today.
- Reply drafts are part of the one $49 plan. Buska's $49 Starter has no reply drafts; they start on Growth at $99.
- It shows the first results in full on a free scan, with no account and no card.
Side by side
From Buska's own site and LiquidUser as it works today, checked on 29 September 2026.
| Feature | LiquidUser | Buska |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | ||
| Starts from your website, no keyword list | Yes | Yes |
| Shows what it understood, with the page for each claim | Yes | No |
| Try it before paying | Free scan, no account | 7-day trial, no card |
| Sources | ||
| X | Official API, read only | Yes |
| Hacker News | Yes | Yes |
| Reddit, LinkedIn, GitHub, Bluesky and more | No | Yes |
| Results | ||
| Maps each result to the claim on your site it matches | Yes | No |
| Highlights the sentence that shows intent | No | Yes |
| Memory of your corrections and customers across days | Yes | No |
| Says so when nobody qualifies | Yes | Yes |
| Replies | ||
| Reply drafts on the entry plan | Yes | From $99/mo |
| Only you post replies | Yes | Scale plan can send outreach |
| Access and price | ||
| Slack and Discord alerts | No | Yes |
| Entry price | $49/mo | $49/mo |
Buska pricing on 29 September 2026: Starter $49 a month ($490 a year): 5 signals, 16 sources, daily updates, no AI Reply Studio. Growth $99 a month: 28 sources, updates every 3 hours, AI Reply Studio. Scale $249 a month: 33 sources, hourly updates and an AI agent that drafts and sends outreach. 7-day trial, no card. Source: buska.io/pricing.
Questions
- Does Buska cover more sources than LiquidUser?
- Yes, many more. Buska's Starter plan lists sixteen sources, including Reddit and LinkedIn, which LiquidUser does not read. LiquidUser reads X and Hacker News.
- Do both start from my website?
- Yes. The difference is what you see afterwards: LiquidUser shows what it understood, with the page behind each claim, and maps every conversation it finds to one of those claims.
- What do the two cost?
- Both start at $49 a month. Buska's Growth plan, which adds reply drafts, is $99 and Scale is $249, as listed on buska.io/pricing on 29 September 2026. LiquidUser has one plan at $49, with drafts included.
What we promise
How we read each source- We never post for youNo replies, likes, follows or messages in your name. You post every reply yourself.
- No bots, no account pools, no proxiesNothing signs in as anyone, and nothing scrapes.
- No fake numbersNo invented counters, testimonials or countdown timers. Every number comes from real data or the plan's own limits.
- Official APIs onlyX through its paid API, Hacker News and Bluesky through their public ones. Read only.
- Briefs on Hacker NewsHN bans generated comments, so there you get what to say and write the reply yourself.
Run the scan on your own site
Paste your website. LiquidUser shows what it understood, then the people already describing the problem you solve, before you pay anything.
One plan, $49 a month. See what it includes