Pitcher vs. Cision

The price is on the page.

Cision is the incumbent for a reason: monitoring, distribution, and a media database at enterprise scale. This page is for independent agencies who've been told to request a quote and would rather see a number.

Who this page is for

Solo practitioners, fractional PR leads, and small agencies who pay for their own tools and don't have a procurement team to run a sales cycle. If you're an enterprise comms department buying monitoring across dozens of markets, Cision's scope is real and this page isn't trying to talk you out of it.

How to read this table

Every row cites a source and a date. 'Not verified' means we couldn't confirm it from the competitor's published material and won't guess. Pitcher's own prices and limits are pulled from the same file that runs our billing, so what you see here is what you'd pay.

Pricing & renewal

Cision
Pitcher
Is pricing published?
Cision
No. Request-pricing form only
Pitcher
Yes. Every self-serve tier priced on the pricing page
Cision request-pricing page · as of Aug 31, 2026
Is your price locked while you stay subscribed?
Cision
No. Fees increase 5% automatically each renewal unless the order form says otherwise
Pitcher
Yes. Your rate is locked while the subscription stays continuously active (ToS §3.6)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 10.3 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Can you cancel without giving notice?
Cision
No. 30 days before term end, or it auto-renews
Pitcher
Yes. Cancel any time from your account; takes effect at the end of the current term (ToS §3.2)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 10.3 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Are fees refundable?
Cision
No. Payment obligations non-cancelable, fees non-refundable
Pitcher
No. Fees non-refundable and not prorated for partial periods (ToS §3.5)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 5.1 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Both are non-refundable. Cision additionally makes the payment obligation itself non-cancelable.
Are the terms locked to the period you subscribed under?
Cision
Not verified. Not published in their terms
Pitcher
Yes. The version in effect when your period began governs it; updates apply at renewal with 30 days notice (ToS §18)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025) · as of Aug 31, 2026

Your data

Cision
Pitcher
Can you get your data out after you leave?
Cision
No. No obligation to provide Client Data; deleted in the ordinary course
Pitcher
Partial. Export of your own data on request for 30 days after termination (ToS §14.4)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 4.2 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Is the content license limited to running the product?
Cision
Not verified. Not published in their terms
Pitcher
Yes. Limited, revocable, solely to provide the Service; no AI training, no pooled database; ends when you delete or close the account (ToS §6.2)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025) · as of Aug 31, 2026

Support & reliability

Cision
Pitcher
Is a support commitment published?
Cision
Yes. Staffed support 8 AM–8 PM ET, Mon–Fri, phone and email
Pitcher
Yes. Instant AI assistant 24/7, with a human reply within one business day (Mon–Fri, U.S. Eastern) — the same commitment on every plan
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 4.3 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Cision commits to staffed hours across a longer window than ours. Ours is a response time rather than a coverage window; neither strictly contains the other.
Is there a contractual uptime commitment?
Cision
Yes. 99.5% monthly average
Pitcher
Yes. 99.9% monthly, prorated credit as the sole remedy (ToS §15)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 4.1 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Which law governs?
Cision
Maryland, USA
Pitcher
Virginia, USA (ToS §19.1)
Cision General Terms and Conditions (eff. Sep 1, 2025), GTC 11.1 · as of Aug 31, 2026
Both are US companies under US state law. Neutral row, included for completeness.

Comparisons reflect published terms on the dates cited. If we got something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

Where Cision is the better fit

Breadth. Print and broadcast monitoring, newswire distribution, a database that covers markets we don't. If your work needs those at scale, that's what you're paying for. Pitcher is a media-relations workspace for the outreach itself — contacts, pitching, coverage, reporting — priced for the agency doing it.

What you're actually choosing

Two ways to be billed. One publishes no price, raises it five percent at every renewal by default, requires thirty days' notice or it renews again, and has no obligation to hand back your data when you leave. The other prints three prices, locks yours for as long as you subscribe, cancels at the end of the period you paid for, and lets you export on Pro and above. We wrote ours down so you can hold us to it.

No credit card. List price is the price.