| Sort Feed | Cullen | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook | Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts |
| Sort a profile by views, likes, comments | Yes | Yes (up to 500 posts, one scan) |
| Breakout detection against the account's own baseline | No, raw metric sorting only | Yes: breakouts and level-ups, scored per post |
| Explains why a post worked | No | Yes: watches the video, reads the comments, tags every trigger confirmed, falsified, or unverified |
| Ready-to-film scripts | No | Yes, two per breakout, adapted to your brand |
| Video transcription | Yes (500 min/month on Pro) | Not needed: the deep-dive watches the video for you |
| Video downloads | Yes, watermark free | Not needed: you get the verdict, not homework |
| Spreadsheet export | Yes (Sheets, CSV, Excel, JSON) | No |
| Free tier | 25 posts per profile | 7-day full trial + 12 analysis credits, no card |
| Paid price | $14/mo, or $9/mo billed yearly ($108/yr) | Sorting: $12/yr · Analysis: $19/mo or $149/yr |
Sort Feed details from sortfeed.com pricing, checked July 2026. Tell us if something changed and we will correct it.
Sorting by likes is the trap, and it is Sort Feed's whole product.
Sort by likes and you rank an account's biggest-reach posts, not its best ideas. A post tops that list because the account was bigger by the time it went up, or because it is recent. The post that genuinely outperformed, the one that did 38 times the channel's normal numbers when the channel was small, sits invisible in the middle of the list. Sort Feed has no concept of a baseline, so it cannot tell a big account's average Tuesday from a small account's miracle. For content research, that is the one job that matters, and it is the job a raw sort cannot do.
Downloads and transcripts are homework. Cullen turns in the assignment.
Sort Feed's other features hand you raw material: download the video, read the transcript, and then figure out why it worked yourself. That is the actual analysis, done by you, at night, in a spreadsheet. Cullen's deep-dive does that work: it watches the video and reads the top comments, then returns a verdict where every trigger is confirmed, falsified, or flagged unverified with the comment quoted as proof, plus two ready-to-film scripts adapted to your brand. You do not need the video file. You need the answer.
The one genuine gap: if your workflow is exporting engagement spreadsheets for clients, Sort Feed exports and Cullen does not.
The bottom line
If re-ordering a feed is all you want, both tools do it, and Cullen's version costs $12 a year instead of $108 and knows what a breakout is. If you want to know why the winners won, only one of these tools even attempts the question.
See Cullen's pricing