What SortFeed.io gets right
It is a clean, fast tool with an unusually fair pricing shape: local sorting, media downloads and basic exports never touch a credit, and the metered work is priced per unit so you pay for what you pull. It also ships two things almost nobody else in this category offers, comment collection and follower or following export, both at 1 credit per 20 records. And the free tier is genuinely usable for a quick look at the latest 25 posts. SortFeed.io is a separate product from Sort Feed at sortfeed.com, with its own extension, developer and feature set.
| SortFeed.io | Cullen | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | TikTok and Instagram in the listed extension | Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts |
| Sort options | Views, likes, comments, date | Likes, views, reposts, comments, newest, breakouts, level-ups, plus a content-type filter |
| Baseline-relative outlier scoring | No. Ranking is by absolute metric | Yes: each post vs the median of the posts around it |
| Level-up detection | No | Yes: breakouts that permanently raised the baseline |
| Scope of a scan | Free: latest 25 posts or the last week, analysis preview capped at 10 posts. Pro: auto-scrolls the full post range | Up to 500 posts in one scan |
| Explains why a post worked | No | Yes, with every trigger marked and the comment quoted |
| What the credits buy | Collection: 1 cr per transcript minute, 1 cr per 20 comments, 1 cr per 20 follower records | Conclusions: 3 cr per deep-dive, 1 cr per script pair |
| Reads the audience comments | Exports them; does not read them | Yes, as the evidence for the verdict |
| Ready-to-film scripts | No | Yes, two per breakout, adapted to your brand |
| Comment and follower list export | Yes, credit-metered | No |
| Spreadsheet export | CSV free; CSV, JSON and Excel on Pro | No |
| Free tier | Latest 25 posts and the last week, 10-post analysis preview, 10 welcome credits | 7 days, full product, 12 analysis credits, no card |
| Paid price | $12/mo or $108/yr with 500 credits/mo; packs $7.99/600, $19.99/1,500, $49.99/4,000, valid 1 year | Sorting and breakouts $12/year · analysis $19/mo or $149/yr, 300 credits/mo, top-ups $5/100 that never expire |
SortFeed.io facts from sortfeed.io home and /pricing (page marked "Last updated: August 2026") and its Chrome Web Store listing, checked August 2026. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Four sorts, all absolute. That is the whole problem.
Views, likes, comments, date. Every one of those ranks by how big the number is, and the number is mostly a function of how big the account was on the day. Sort a two-year profile by likes and the top of the list is the recent stuff and the all-time mega-hit, both of which are follower-count artifacts. The post you are actually hunting, the one that pulled 38 times what that account normally did back when it was small, sits somewhere around rank 200 and you will never scroll to it.
Cullen asks a different question of every post: did this beat what this account was doing at the moment it went up? The baseline is the median of the posts immediately around it, so the follower count cancels out instead of dominating. A post is a breakout because the idea won, not because the account was big. Then Cullen separates the breakouts that faded from the rare level-up, the post that permanently raised the account's baseline afterward. There is no version of a views sort that can find that.
Exporting the comments is the setup. Reading them is the job.
SortFeed.io will hand you 500 comments as a CSV for 25 credits. That is genuinely useful, and it is also the point at which the tool hands the work back. Somebody still has to read all of it, form a theory about why the post hit, and then honestly check whether the comments support that theory or quietly contradict it. In practice nobody does the second half, which is how confident-and-wrong content strategy gets made.
Cullen's deep-dive is that second half. It watches the video, reads the real top comments, proposes candidate triggers, and then validates each one in both directions: a trigger the comments back is marked confirmed with the quote; a trigger the comments contradict is marked falsified and dropped, even when it was the most flattering explanation on the table.
Credits for collection, or credits for conclusions.
Both products meter. The difference is what a credit buys. On SortFeed.io a credit is a unit of retrieval: a minute of audio turned into text, twenty comments turned into rows. On Cullen a credit is a unit of reasoning: three of them buy a complete grounded read of one post, evidence attached.
The honest gap: SortFeed.io exports and Cullen does not. If you need comment archives, follower lists, or a spreadsheet to hand a client, that is a real workflow and Cullen has no answer for it. Cullen also does not download video or transcribe.
SortFeed.io hands you the comments. Cullen reads them and tells you which theory they kill.
Any tool can put 500 comments in a spreadsheet. The value is in the sentence that comes after: this trigger fired, that one did not, here is the quote. Cullen watches the video, reads the comments and delivers that sentence with the evidence attached, then turns it into the safe play and the bolder swing for your brand and two scripts you could film tomorrow.
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