Is there really no set-up fee?

No fee. The work is real — about a fortnight of it — and we absorb it, because a bill before you have seen the thing working is a bad way to find out whether it suits you. It is also why there is a twelve-month minimum: that is the only thing making the arithmetic work at our end.

Is there a free trial?

Not a self-serve one. What you get instead is a demo on a desk we build for your market beforehand — so you see your own competitors in it, not a sandbox with somebody else’s news.

Twelve-month minimum, because the ranking learns from your decisions and the archive accrues value — three months is not a fair test. If it genuinely is not working, that is a conversation, not a contract argument.

Whose subscriber list is it?

Yours. Exportable in full at any time, in a format any other system can read. A list you cannot take with you is not really yours.

Pricing

Priced for one owner, not for ten seats

There is a reason most businesses that would benefit from a news desk have never been offered one. The products that do this are quoted rather than priced, and the smallest package Meltwater publishes is ten users at £22,800 a year. A Desk is £400 a month, for one person, with the set-up included and the price on this page.

Desk

£400 a month

Set-up included

One business, one market, one publication. One user, no minimum seats.

Your sources found and configured for you
Briefing, folders and the archive
Your paper, at your own address

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Desk Plus

£850 a month

Set-up included

Several markets or publications, and paid subscriptions if you sell them. Five users.

Everything in Desk
More than one desk and more than one paper
Subscriber list, exportable in full whenever you like

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Managed

£2,000 a month, from

Set-up included

Scoped with you first

We run the desk. You approve what goes out. For businesses with nobody to spare.

Everything in Desk Plus
We do the reading, filing and drafting
You sign the paper off, and nothing else

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What this market charges, per month

Atom Agencies Desk to Desk Plus, one to five users £400 – £850 Published, this page
Vuelio Curated editorial newsletter, on top of the platform licence £1,000 Rate card, 2024
Cision CisionOne Monitoring Essentials, one-year subscription £1,545 UK contract, 2025
Meltwater Media intelligence platform, smallest published package, ten users £1,900 Rate card, 2024

Sterling, a month, excluding VAT. Checked 12 September 2026.

Where each figure comes from

Meltwater: £22,800 a year for ten users, 25 searches and two workspaces — Meltwater’s own pricing document, G-Cloud 14, filed 7 May 2024 — read the entry
Vuelio: £1,000 a month for a curated and summarised editorial newsletter, Standard — the Vuelio rate card filed by Pulsar Group plc, G-Cloud 14, 7 May 2024. A first user licence on the same rate card is £1,500 a year — read the entry
Cision: £18,535.77 excluding VAT for “a 1-year subscription to the CisionOne Monitoring Essentials package” — the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s contract award notice, concluded 13 March 2025. Cision publishes no rate card for CisionOne itself — read the entry
Onclusive: publishes a modular rate card — a managed monitoring licence with five named users from £2,400 a year, plus £1,350 a year for UK and Ireland online coverage — G-Cloud 15, filed 27 January 2026 — read the entry

Public-sector prices; a commercial quote may differ, and scope moves them a long way. Read each figure as the specific thing it names, not as that company’s tariff.

The questions everyone asks

Is there really no set-up fee?: No fee. The work is real — about a fortnight of it — and we absorb it, because a bill before you have seen the thing working is a bad way to find out whether it suits you. It is also why there is a twelve-month minimum: that is the only thing making the arithmetic work at our end.
Is there a free trial?: Not a self-serve one. What you get instead is a demo on a desk we build for your market beforehand — so you see your own competitors in it, not a sandbox with somebody else’s news.
Can I cancel?: Twelve-month minimum, because the ranking learns from your decisions and the archive accrues value — three months is not a fair test. If it genuinely is not working, that is a conversation, not a contract argument.
Whose subscriber list is it?: Yours. Exportable in full at any time, in a format any other system can read. A list you cannot take with you is not really yours.

Two things billed separately, at cost. Some sources charge for their own access — a paid trade title, an auction price database. Those come to you from the source at whatever they charge, with nothing added. Heavy AI use beyond a generous allowance is metered, and shown to you before it is incurred.

Our own figures are indicative pending a scoping conversation, and are not contractual. Other companies’ figures are their published list prices on the dates given above, and we do not speak for what any of them would quote you.