PressPilot vs Notified in 2026: 60 EUR per send against a 25,050 USD median contract

The short answer

Notified is an annual platform for listed companies. It owns the GlobeNewswire wire and, per Vendr's description, sells IR, PR and events together with social media management, brand monitoring and PR measurement. If your releases include earnings, guidance or M&A, or if your team runs webcasts and investor events through it, some of that contract is doing real work. PressPilot is a pay-per-send outreach tool: you write the release with AI, pick the journalists, send, and see who opened and replied. It does not disseminate to terminals and does not satisfy a disclosure policy. The comparison is only fair on the releases that need a reporter rather than a filing, and on those PressPilot costs 60 EUR where Notified's median buyer pays 25,050 USD a year for everything.

How Notified actually prices

There is no rate card. Vendr, which collects contract values from companies buying through its platform, lists one Notified product, Notified Investor Relations, and three numbers. The page shows no last-updated date, so we give them as read on 2 September 2026.

Vendr does not say how many wire releases, seats or modules each contract includes, so the spread is best read as "the price depends on the bundle". For the wire alone, buyers report about 350 USD for a 400-word GlobeNewswire release and 930 USD for 600 words with logo and image (Prezly, August 2026); the rest of the contract is platform. Two ownership changes, Equiniti in May 2025 for 534.5 million USD and Bullish acquiring Equiniti in May 2026 (Prezly), are worth a price protection clause on any renewal.

PressPilot pricing side by side

PressPilot charges per journalist contacted, with no contract. Every price below is on presspilot.io/pricing, September 2026.

AI writing in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, the hosted newsroom, open and reply tracking and EU data hosting are included at every price. Credits never expire.

PressPilot vs Notified feature comparison

Where a Notified feature is not documented on a page we could open, the table says so rather than guessing. Notified's own site was unreadable for us; Vendr's description and Prezly's GlobeNewswire page are what we have.

3 scenarios where PressPilot wins

Scenario 1: Series B SaaS, one release a month to 300 journalists

Twelve product, partnership and hiring releases a year, none of them a regulated disclosure. On the 79 EUR per month Team plan that is 3,600 credits and 948 EUR a year, with the drafts written by AI and every release on the company newsroom. Vendr's lowest Notified buyer pays 5,670 USD, its median 25,050 USD, for a platform this company would use for the wire alone. PressPilot wins on price and on the fact that reporters, not websites, receive the release.

Scenario 2: agency with ten private clients, sixty releases a year

Sixty releases to 300 journalists each is 18,000 credits: seven 2,500-credit packs at 750 EUR plus one 500-credit pack at 195 EUR, about 5,445 EUR a year, shared across clients with a newsroom each. One Notified contract covers one account at a median of 25,050 USD. PressPilot wins on volume and on the absence of a per-client contract.

Scenario 3: private company testing PR for the first time

One release to 100 journalists for 60 EUR, with opens and replies visible within 48 hours. There is no Notified equivalent to a 60 EUR test; the entry point in Vendr's data is 5,670 USD a year. PressPilot wins because the first decision costs the price of lunch.

2 scenarios where Notified wins

Scenario 1: listed company, quarterly earnings

The release must reach terminals and be time-stamped by an accepted wire. Notified includes GlobeNewswire; PressPilot has no wire. Notified wins, or rather an accepted wire wins: bought per release, GlobeNewswire is about 350 USD base, Business Wire 760 USD and PR Newswire 805 USD plus a 195 USD membership (Prezly, August 2026). Whether the platform contract beats four per-release quotes is a separate arithmetic.

Scenario 2: IR team running webcasts and investor events

Vendr lists IR and events among what Notified sells. PressPilot has no IR site, no webcasting and no events module, and does not plan to. If the team uses those daily, the platform is doing work PressPilot cannot do, and Notified wins on that part of the contract.

The hybrid approach: an accepted wire plus PressPilot

Most listed companies land here. Four to eight regulated releases a year go on the cheapest accepted wire, bought per release: at GlobeNewswire's reported 350 USD base, or 930 USD with logo and image, eight releases cost 2,800 to 7,440 USD. The other twenty or thirty releases go to reporters on PressPilot for a few hundred euros. The total sits well under Vendr's 25,050 USD median, and the IR and events modules become a separate purchase you can price on their own.

Migration path

1. Sort the last 12 months of releases. Regulated disclosures in one pile, everything else in the other. Only the first pile needs a wire.
2. Quote the first pile per release. GlobeNewswire, Business Wire and PR Newswire, word rate and media fees in writing. Multiply by the count.
3. Run the second pile on PressPilot in parallel for one quarter. Same releases, 60 EUR per 100 journalists, and compare opens and replies with the wire reports.
4. Price the IR and events modules on their own. If nobody uses them weekly, they do not justify the renewal.
5. Send written non-renewal before the notice date. Then decide the wire per release each quarter, and keep PressPilot for the rest.

Related alternatives and resources

• The 7 best Notified alternatives
• GlobeNewswire pricing 2026
• GlobeNewswire alternatives
• Business Wire vs PressPilot
• PressPilot pricing
• What is a news wire? (glossary)

Frequently asked questions

What is Notified?

Notified is the company that owns the GlobeNewswire wire and sells it inside a platform. Vendr describes it as covering IR, PR and events, with social media management, brand monitoring and PR measurement, and lists its buyer contracts under one product, Notified Investor Relations, at a median of 25,050 USD per year. Prezly reports that Equiniti bought Notified for 534.5 million USD in May 2025 and that Equiniti was being acquired by Bullish in May 2026.

How much does Notified cost?

Notified does not publish prices, and its site returned a 403 to our checks on 2 September 2026. The only public figures are Vendr's buyer contracts: a median of 25,050 USD per year, a low of 5,670 USD and a high of 55,624 USD. The Vendr page carries no date. If you are quoted a number, it will sit somewhere in that tenfold range and depend on which modules are bundled.

When should I use Notified over PressPilot?

When the release is a regulated disclosure, or when your team uses the IR site, webcasting, events or monitoring modules daily. PressPilot has none of those: it sends a release to journalists you choose, from 29 EUR a month for 100 journalists, with AI writing and a newsroom. A listed company usually needs an accepted wire for a handful of releases a year and an outreach tool for the rest.

Is Notified cheaper than PressPilot?

No. Vendr's lowest Notified buyer pays 5,670 USD a year and the median 25,050 USD. On PressPilot, twelve releases a year to 300 journalists each costs 948 EUR on the 79 EUR per month Team plan, and a single release to 100 journalists costs 60 EUR as a one-off pack (prices excl. VAT). The two are not the same product, which is why the comparison only makes sense for the non-regulated releases.

Does PressPilot include wire distribution?

No. PressPilot is not a wire and does not provide regulated dissemination. For a listed company's earnings, guidance or M&A releases you need GlobeNewswire (about 350 USD base), Business Wire (760 USD) or PR Newswire (805 USD plus 195 USD membership), per Prezly, August 2026. PressPilot handles the releases that need a reporter, not a filing.

What is the difference between GlobeNewswire and Notified?

GlobeNewswire is the wire; Notified is its owner and sells it inside a platform with IR, events and monitoring. Bought per release, GlobeNewswire costs about 350 USD for 400 words plus 140 to 175 USD per extra 100 words (Prezly, August 2026). Bought as part of Notified, the wire is one line in a contract whose median is 25,050 USD per year (Vendr).

Can I replace Notified with PressPilot?

For the non-regulated half of your releases, yes. For regulated disclosures and for IR, events and monitoring, no. The realistic outcome for a listed company is a per-release accepted wire for the filings, PressPilot for product, funding and partnership news, and a separate decision on the IR and events modules. For a private company, PressPilot plus an optional 149 USD EIN Presswire release replaces the whole contract.

How much does a year of PressPilot cost?

It depends on sends, not seats. Twelve releases a year to 300 journalists each is 3,600 credits: 948 EUR on the 79 EUR per month Team plan for 300 credits. Sixty releases to 300 journalists is 18,000 credits, about 5,445 EUR in packs (seven 2,500-credit packs at 750 EUR plus one 500-credit pack at 195 EUR). Credits never expire and there is no contract (presspilot.io/pricing, October 2026).