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Quid
Consumer and market intelligence combining social listening with unstructured text network analysis
As of 31 August 2026, Quid's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Formed from the 2020 merger of NetBase and Quid and now sold under the single Quid brand, it pairs social listening with network mapping over patents, news, filings and reviews. Softwr lists it under Business Intelligence. Quid is made by Quid, Inc., available on Web.
Overview
What Quid does
Quid is a consumer and market intelligence platform. One half of the lineage is NetBase, a social listening engine covering posts, reviews, forums and news with sentiment and theme extraction. The other half is Quid itself, which takes large bodies of unstructured text such as patents, company filings, earnings calls, research papers and news archives and renders them as clustered network maps, so an analyst can see how a topic is structured rather than reading a ranked list. The two merged in 2020 and the combined company now sells under the Quid name alone, with products marketed as Quid Terminal, Quid Discover and Quid Monitor, plus a library of task-specific AI agents. The distinguishing capability is the network view over non-social sources. Most tools in the category are social listening with a dashboard; Quid can take ten thousand patent abstracts and show you which technology clusters are growing and which companies sit in each. That is a research artefact, not a marketing report, and it is why the buyer is usually a corporate insights, strategy or innovation function rather than a social team. Whether that is worth the difference in price depends entirely on whether anyone in your organisation is paid to do that kind of analysis. Nothing is published on price. Contracts in this tier are annual and sit well above ordinary listening tools, with the number driven by data sources, historical depth and seat count. The trade-off is that a team who only needs brand mention volume will pay research-platform money for a listening feature they could buy far cheaper elsewhere.
What people use it for
- A corporate strategy team mapping which technology clusters in a patent set are accelerating and which companies own them, before an acquisition decision
- A consumer insights function that wants to know what themes drive negative sentiment about a category rather than counting mentions of its own brand
- An innovation group scanning research literature and startup activity for adjacent white space it has no internal expertise in
- A brand tracking how a reputational incident propagates across news, social and forums with sentiment broken down by theme rather than by channel
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Quid.
- The company has changed name twice, from NetBase to NetBase Quid to Quid, which fragments documentation, third-party comparisons and support material across three brand identities and makes older guidance unreliable.
- Nothing is published on price and contracts sit well above ordinary listening tools, so the evaluation cost is high before you know whether the network analysis will actually be used.
- The network maps require an analyst who knows how to interpret them; teams without a dedicated insights person tend to use the platform as an expensive listening tool and never touch the capability they paid for.
- Historical data depth and source coverage are scoped per contract rather than included, so a question that needs five years of back data can require a contract amendment mid-project.
- Social platform access is subject to the same API restrictions that affect every listening vendor, and coverage of closed networks is thinner than the marketing implies, which matters if your category lives in private communities.
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Pricing
What Quid costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Quid
On request
- Quid Terminal analyst workspace
- Social listening and sentiment
- Network analysis over patents, filings, news and research
- Quid Monitor tracking and alerts
- AI agent library
- Historical depth and data sources scoped per contract
Capabilities
Features
Social listening
Mention capture with sentiment and theme extraction across social, news, forums and reviews
Network analysis
Clusters large unstructured text corpora into visual maps showing topic structure and adjacency
Non-social data sets
Patents, company filings, earnings transcripts, research papers and news archives
Quid Terminal
The analyst workspace for running queries across the combined data estate
Quid Monitor
Ongoing tracking and alerting against defined topics and brands
AI agents
Prepackaged agents that run recurring analyses and produce written outputs
Image analytics
Detects logos and objects in social imagery where the brand is shown but not named
API access
Programmatic export of mention and cluster data into internal systems
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is this the same company as NetBase?
Yes. NetBase and Quid merged in 2020, traded as NetBase Quid, and now sell under the single Quid brand.
Is it a social listening tool?
It includes social listening, but the reason to buy it is the network analysis over patents, filings, news and research. If you only need social listening, cheaper tools cover it.
What does it cost?
Not published. Expect an annual enterprise contract priced by seats, data sources and historical depth.
Who uses it day to day?
Corporate insights, strategy and innovation analysts more often than social media managers. It rewards someone trained in analysis.
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