Synthesio

Enterprise social intelligence platform owned by Ipsos, with market research methodology behind it

As of 31 August 2026, Synthesio's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Social listening and consumer intelligence for large brands, owned by the market research group Ipsos since 2018. Softwr lists it under Social Media. Synthesio is made by Synthesio SAS, an Ipsos company, available on Web, API.

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Overview

What Synthesio does

Synthesio is an enterprise social intelligence platform. It ingests social posts, reviews, forums, news and ecommerce data, classifies it with machine learning, and presents audience analysis, trend detection, reputation monitoring and competitive benchmarking. Its Signals capability applies generative AI to surface emerging themes rather than requiring an analyst to construct every query. The company reports processing more than 200 billion posts a year across 181 languages and 25 markets. The fact that separates it from Brandwatch or Talkwalker is ownership. Ipsos, one of the largest market research groups in the world, acquired Synthesio in October 2018 for a reported 50 million USD or more, and it is now marketed as an Ipsos company. That matters practically: a brand can buy the software licence and layer Ipsos analyst services on top, from light guidance to a fully managed insights programme, under one supplier relationship. For insights teams that already commission survey work from Ipsos, procurement and methodology alignment get simpler. For teams that only want a self-serve listening tool, the same parentage means an enterprise sales motion, no free trial and no self-serve signup at all. Buyers are large consumer brands and their insights functions, with Nestle, LOreal and Remy Cointreau among named customers. Pricing is not published; contracts are annual and enterprise-scale, and the analyst services tiers are priced separately from the platform licence.

What people use it for

A global consumer goods brand that wants social listening and commissioned survey research from the same supplier with aligned methodology
An insights team tracking product review sentiment across thousands of ecommerce listings in multiple markets
A brand entering a new market that needs audience profiling of who already discusses the category there
A corporate communications function that needs crisis detection across languages it has no in-house analysts for

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 Synthesio.

There is no published pricing, no free trial and no self-serve signup, so evaluating Synthesio requires a sales process before you can see whether the data quality suits your category.
Cost is repeatedly cited by reviewers as high relative to peers, and because Ipsos analyst services are priced separately from the platform licence, the quoted software figure is frequently not the figure you end up spending.
The interface is dated compared with newer listening tools and the learning curve is steep, which in practice means the platform gets used by one or two trained analysts rather than adopted across a marketing team.
Some of the newer AI-driven features have been described by users as glitchy or over-promised relative to the sales demonstration, so insist on testing Signals against your own historical data during evaluation.
Historical data access is limited and governed by contract scope rather than being unlimited, so retrospective analysis across several years frequently requires a separately priced data request.

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What people choose instead of Synthesio

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Pricing

What Synthesio costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Synthesio

On request

Global social listening across 181 languages
Signals generative AI theme detection
Audience and ecommerce analysis
Competitive benchmarking
Optional Ipsos analyst services
Annual enterprise contract

Capabilities

Features

Global social listening
Monitors social, forum, review and news conversation across 181 languages
Signals
Uses generative AI to surface emerging themes without manual query construction
Audience analysis
Profiles the people discussing a topic by attributes and affinities
Ecommerce listening
Tracks product reviews and ratings across thousands of retail sources
Search intelligence
Analyses query behaviour across more than ten search platforms
Reputation and crisis monitoring
Detects abnormal negative volume and escalation patterns
Competitive benchmarking
Compares brand conversation metrics against named competitors
ML classification
Applies trained classifiers to categorise mentions by theme
Insight services tiers
Offers Ipsos analyst support from self-serve guidance to fully managed programmes
Executive dashboards
Builds shareable reporting views for brand and category leadership

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.

Who owns Synthesio?

Ipsos, the market research group, acquired it in October 2018 for a reported 50 million USD or more, and it is marketed as an Ipsos company.

Can I try it before buying?

No. There is no free trial or self-serve signup; evaluation runs through a sales-led demonstration process.

What is the practical advantage over Brandwatch?

The ability to buy platform licence and Ipsos analyst services from one supplier, with methodology consistent with survey research you may already commission from the same group.

How many languages does it cover?

Synthesio reports coverage across 181 languages and 25 markets, which is among the broadest in the category.

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