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What is Dataminr
Dataminr is a real-time information and risk intelligence platform that detects emerging events and threats from publicly available data sources and delivers alerts to organizations. It is used by security operations, corporate risk, public safety, and communications teams to monitor incidents, assess potential impact, and coordinate response. The product emphasizes rapid event detection, alerting workflows, and integrations that route signals into operational tools. It is commonly deployed for crisis monitoring, executive protection, cyber-physical risk awareness, and reputational risk monitoring.
Real-time event detection alerts
Dataminr is designed to surface breaking events quickly and push alerts as situations evolve. This supports use cases where minutes matter, such as physical security incidents, disruptions, and fast-moving reputational issues. Compared with tools focused mainly on brand analytics and reporting, it is oriented toward operational alerting and response. Alerting can be tuned by topic, geography, and risk type to reduce irrelevant notifications.
Cross-functional risk use cases
The platform supports multiple teams, including corporate security, public safety, risk management, and communications, using a shared stream of event intelligence. This helps organizations align situational awareness across functions rather than running separate monitoring stacks. It can be used for both proactive monitoring (watchlists, locations, executives) and reactive incident tracking. The same signals can feed crisis communications and operational decision-making.
Integrations into security workflows
Dataminr commonly integrates with enterprise tools so alerts can be routed into incident management, collaboration, and security operations processes. This reduces manual copying of information from monitoring dashboards into tickets and response channels. Workflow features support triage and escalation so teams can act on high-priority alerts. This operational focus differentiates it from platforms centered on media measurement and social listening dashboards.
Limited transparency of sources
Because the platform aggregates and analyzes large volumes of public data, customers may have limited visibility into full source coverage and collection methods for specific alert types. This can make it harder to validate completeness for regulated or audit-heavy environments. Some organizations require clear source provenance and retention controls for investigations. Buyers often need to confirm what is included for specific regions, languages, and channels.
Alert noise requires tuning
High-velocity monitoring can generate false positives or low-relevance alerts without careful configuration. Teams typically need time to tune topics, locations, and thresholds to match their risk profile. Without governance, alert fatigue can reduce adoption and response effectiveness. Ongoing administration is often required as organizational priorities and threat landscapes change.
Not a full PR suite
While it can support communications teams with early warning and situational awareness, it does not replace end-to-end PR tooling such as campaign management, influencer workflows, or comprehensive media measurement. Organizations focused primarily on marketing analytics may need additional platforms for sentiment analysis depth, audience segmentation, and reporting. It is better aligned to risk and incident monitoring than to broad social publishing or marketing operations. Buyers should evaluate whether they need operational intelligence, PR analytics, or both.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing not publicly listed on Dataminr's official website. Dataminr positions its products as enterprise, contract-based solutions and requires prospective customers to request a demo or contact sales; pricing is handled via Order Forms / quotes and is treated as confidential.
Key official-site findings:
- Public pricing tiers or per-seat list prices: Not published on the website. Customers are instructed to Request a Demo / Contact Sales.
- Procurement routes: Dataminr solutions are available through partner/distributor channels for public sector (e.g., AWS Marketplace via Carahsoft) where procurement/pricing is handled through private offers or reseller quotes.
- Nonprofit program: Dataminr for Nonprofits provides eligible nonprofits with three free licenses (permanent nonprofit offering for eligible organizations) and discounted pricing for additional seats.
- Trial availability: Official materials and contractual documents reference trial orders and a published case study notes a trial run; Dataminr’s legal/API documents reference a “Trial Service Order,” indicating trials are supported under order agreements.
- Contractual confidentiality: Dataminr’s Master Services Agreement and EULA explicitly state that pricing and terms are Confidential Information of Dataminr.
Because no public tiered or usage-based prices are published on the vendor site, no price table with numeric costs can be provided.
Seller details
Dataminr, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2009
Private
https://www.dataminr.com/
https://x.com/dataminr
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataminr/
