QuotedExpert vs Featured
Featured is an AI PR assistant that goes well beyond journalist requests: podcasts, speaking slots, awards, bylines and visibility tracking in one chat. QuotedExpert does one job: it watches HARO, Featured, Qwoted and Source of Sources, matches requests to your expertise and drafts your reply. Here is the honest comparison.
The verdict in 20 seconds
- Pick Featured if you want every visibility format in one place: podcast guesting, speaking, awards and bylines alongside journalist requests, driven through an AI chat.
- Pick QuotedExpert if the goal is press quotes and editorial backlinks. Every platform is monitored for you, only real fits reach your inbox, and each match arrives with a draft in your voice for $47/mo flat.
- Price: Featured runs free, then $39 to $299/mo depending on your daily AI usage. QuotedExpert is $47/mo with matching and drafting included, not metered.
Side by side
| QuotedExpert | Featured | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free to browse; $47/mo to respond. $399/yr on the annual plan | Free; Lite $39/mo, Pro $99/mo, Pro+ $299/mo (lower billed annually). Team plans from $199/mo |
| What it covers | Journalist requests for expert quotes. That is the whole product | Journalist requests plus podcasts, bylined articles, speaking, awards, media monitoring and AI-search visibility |
| Sources covered | HARO, Featured, Qwoted and Source of Sources, in one feed | Aggregates requests from HARO, LinkedIn and other channels into its own platform |
| Limits | No usage pool on matching or drafting. Respond to every match | Plans differ only by a daily AI usage pool shared across chat and workflows. Hit the cap and work queues until tomorrow |
| How you work | Matches are emailed to you with a draft. Review, send from your own email, done | Chat with the assistant, or set up workflows that monitor and draft on a schedule |
| Standout extra | Matching learns from your thumbs up and down on each request | Podcast, speaking and awards discovery, plus GEO visibility tracking for AI search citations |
Featured pricing and plan details checked against featured.com on 9 November 2026.
How Featured works
You describe your expertise to Featured's AI chat, and it surfaces opportunities across every format it covers. Workflows can keep watching on a schedule and draft pitches for you to review.
Every feature is on every plan. What you pay for is headroom: a bigger daily allowance of chat and workflow runs before the meter stops you until tomorrow.
How QuotedExpert works
You describe your expertise once: your LinkedIn experience plus the core offering you want to be quoted on. Requests from HARO, Featured, Qwoted and Source of Sources are scored against that profile, and only matches are emailed to you.
Each match arrives with a draft written from your spoken or typed answer. You review it, send it from your own address, and get on with your day.
Where Featured wins
- Breadth. Podcasts, panels, awards and bylines sit alongside journalist requests. If your visibility plan includes stages and microphones, we do not compete.
- Visibility tracking. Featured tracks where you and your competitors appear, including citations in AI search results. QuotedExpert tells you nothing after you send.
- Teams. Team plans add shared workspaces, admin controls and reporting for agencies running PR for several clients.
- A free way in. The free plan includes every feature with a small daily allowance, so you can judge the feed before paying.
Where QuotedExpert wins
- Focus. One workflow, done end to end: monitoring, scoring, matching and a draft in your voice. No chat sessions to drive and no workflows to configure.
- Coverage of quotes. Featured is one of our four sources. A journalist who posts the same request on Qwoted or Source of Sources still reaches you.
- No meter running. Matching and drafting are the product, not a usage pool. A busy week of requests costs the same as a quiet one.
- Your inbox, your relationship. Replies are sent from your own email, so the journalist has your address for the next story.
Which should you choose?
- Choose Featured if you are building a broad visibility operation across podcasts, stages and press, or running PR for clients.
- Choose QuotedExpert if you want a steady flow of press quotes without operating another platform.
- Choose both only if podcasts and speaking genuinely matter to you; for quotes alone you would pay twice to see overlapping requests.
Common questions
- How much does Featured cost?
- Featured is free with a small daily usage allowance, then Lite at $39/mo ($29/mo billed annually), Pro at $99/mo ($79/mo billed annually) and Pro+ at $299/mo ($239/mo billed annually). Every plan includes every feature; the plans differ only in how much AI usage you get per day. Team plans run from $199/mo. Prices checked on featured.com on 9 November 2026.
- What is the difference between Featured's plans?
- Only usage. Chat conversations and automated workflows draw from one shared daily AI pool, and paid plans raise the size of that pool. Features, sources and delivery channels are the same on every plan, including the free one.
- Does QuotedExpert cover Featured's journalist requests?
- Yes. Featured is one of the four sources QuotedExpert monitors, alongside HARO, Qwoted and Source of Sources. A request posted on Featured reaches you through QuotedExpert scored against your expertise, without you opening Featured at all.
- Which is better for podcast and speaking opportunities?
- Featured, and it is not close. It actively finds podcast guest slots, conference panels, speaking calls and awards, then helps you apply. QuotedExpert only handles journalist requests for expert quotes, so use Featured if the other formats are part of your plan.
- Can I use QuotedExpert and Featured together?
- You can, and some people do: Featured for podcasts, speaking and awards, QuotedExpert for the journalist-quote workflow. For quotes alone, paying for both means paying twice to see many of the same requests.
Last updated 9 November 2026. We sell QuotedExpert, so check our claims against Featured's pricing page and tell us at hello@quotedexpert.com if anything is out of date.
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