SentryDock vs Truth API: a $80 Truth Social alert alternative
By Blake Folgado, founder of SentryDock ·
The short answer
Truth API is Trump Media’s licensed, machine-readable feed of posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts. TMTG has not published a public price list. CEO Kevin McGurn told investors in August 2026 that contracts generally range from $60,000 to $100,000 a month, mostly for high-frequency trading firms that want posts in milliseconds. SentryDock is a different product: it watches Trump’s Truth Social posts without an account, filters for the topics you describe, and sends alerts to email, SMS, Slack, Teams or Discord within minutes, from $80/month ($56 billed annually). If you run an automated desk that needs a millisecond firehose, Truth API is the product TMTG sells. If you need to know when a tariff, Fed or China post lands and act on it as a person, SentryDock is the cheaper alternative.
Trump Media & Technology Group announced Truth API on 16 July 2026 as its first data-licensing product: a business-to-business feed of posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts, aimed at high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms. TMTG said the feed would go live for institutional customers on 1 August 2026, deliver posts in milliseconds, run 24/7, and include an archive back to 2022. The official release did not list a price. It directed buyers to licensing@tmediatech.com.
Price entered the record on the August 2026 earnings call. CBS News and the BBC reported McGurn saying contracts generally range from $60,000 to $100,000 a month, with more than ten customers, mostly high-frequency firms. That is $720,000 to $1.2 million a year. TMTG still has not published a public rate card, so those figures are what the CEO stated, not a shoppable list price.
SentryDock is not a millisecond firehose and does not claim to be. It is an AI monitoring service: describe the topics that matter (tariffs, China, the Fed, energy, Iran), and it watches Truth Social plus news, X, Telegram and Reddit, then alerts you within minutes on a real-time monitor. Starter is $80/month, or $56/month billed annually. That is the comparison this page makes, two products for two jobs, with the money on the table.
How we ranked these tools
We compared the two on the job each is built for: latency (milliseconds versus minutes), what you actually receive (raw licensed posts versus filtered alerts with market context), who can buy it (licensed institutional feed versus a self-serve plan), and price. Truth API facts come from TMTG’s 16 July 2026 press release filed with the SEC, plus McGurn’s August 2026 comments as reported by CBS News and the BBC. SentryDock prices are the live Starter, Pro and Ultra plans on sentrydock.com as of 20 August 2026.
We do not treat “$100,000 a month” as an official list price. TMTG has not published one. We quote the CEO’s stated contract range and say so. We also do not claim SentryDock is faster than Truth API. Milliseconds and minutes are different products.
SentryDock vs Truth API at a glance
| Truth API (TMTG) | SentryDock | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $60,000–$100,000 per month (CEO-stated contract range, August 2026). No public list price. | From $80/month ($56/month billed annually) |
| Who it is for | High-frequency and algorithmic trading firms, per TMTG | Traders and analysts who need filtered alerts, not a raw firehose |
| What you get | Licensed, machine-readable posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts | AI-filtered alerts on the topics you describe, with market-impact context |
| Speed | Milliseconds, per TMTG’s 16 July 2026 release | Minutes on a real-time monitor |
| Coverage | Highest-ranking Truth Social accounts, archive to 2022 | Truth Social plus news, X, Telegram, Reddit, government sources, 95+ languages |
| Account required | Institutional license from TMTG | No Truth Social account needed |
| How you buy | Contact licensing@tmediatech.com | Self-serve on sentrydock.com |
| Delivery | Industry-standard data-feed methods (TMTG) | Email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord |
What Truth API actually is
TMTG’s 16 July 2026 release called Truth API “a new business-to-business data feed that provides licensed, real-time access to posts from the highest-ranking Truth Social accounts.” McGurn said markets already move on those posts, and that the product is for firms “most impacted by the cost of a delay in information,” including high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms that want a low-latency, machine-readable feed rather than manual tracking.
TMTG said the feed delivers posts in milliseconds, is expected to run continuously, and includes a historical archive back to 2022. On the August earnings call, McGurn said early customers were mostly high-frequency firms, that more than ten had signed, and that contracts generally range from $60,000 to $100,000 a month. He also said the product had generated only a modest amount of revenue so far and that TMTG hopes to sell it more widely later, including to ordinary investors.
Where Truth API is the better choice
If your desk is built around automated trading and a few milliseconds of lead time, Truth API is the official licensed firehose TMTG is selling. SentryDock will not beat that latency. It also will not give you a machine-readable tick-by-tick feed of every top-account post to plug into an execution stack. Buy Truth API if that is the job. TMTG’s stated contact is licensing@tmediatech.com.
Where SentryDock is the better choice
- Price: $80/month versus a CEO-stated $60,000–$100,000 a month. Annualised, that is $960 versus $720,000–$1.2 million.
- You want alerts, not a raw feed: SentryDock filters Trump posts against the topic you describe, so a tariff post pages you and a rally endorsement does not.
- You do not want a Truth Social account, a sales call, or a six-figure contract.
- You also need the rest of the story: SentryDock watches news, X, Telegram and Reddit around the same event, with translation from 95+ languages.
- Delivery to email, SMS, Slack, Teams or Discord, plus a daily briefing.
Price, stated plainly
SentryDock Starter is $80/month, or $56/month billed annually, with one real-time monitor. Pro is $180/month with three real-time monitors. Ultra is $350/month with ten. Every plan includes unlimited hourly and daily monitoring. Those are the live published prices on sentrydock.com as of 20 August 2026.
Truth API has no published list price. The $60,000–$100,000 a month range is what TMTG’s CEO said contracts generally are. Treat that as a reported contract band, not a checkout page. If TMTG later publishes a public rate card, this page will be updated.
Sources
- TMTG press release, 16 July 2026, filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99.1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000143774926023709/ex_988917.htm
- CBS News, 12 August 2026, reporting McGurn on $60,000–$100,000 monthly contracts and more than ten customers: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-media-truth-social-api-contracts/
- BBC News, 11 August 2026, same earnings-call range, mostly high-frequency firms: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3q5nxpgk1o
- SentryDock pricing, 20 August 2026: https://www.sentrydock.com/pricing
Frequently asked questions
How much does Truth API cost?
TMTG has not published a public price list. CEO Kevin McGurn told investors in August 2026 that contracts generally range from $60,000 to $100,000 a month, according to CBS News and the BBC. That is $720,000 to $1.2 million a year. Contact TMTG at licensing@tmediatech.com for a quote.
What is a cheaper Truth API alternative?
If you need a millisecond licensed firehose, there is not a cheap copy of Truth API. If you need Truth Social alerts for trading and research, SentryDock starts at $80/month ($56 billed annually), watches Trump posts without an account, and filters for the topics you name.
Does SentryDock get Trump posts as fast as Truth API?
No. TMTG says Truth API delivers in milliseconds. SentryDock’s real-time monitors alert within minutes of publication. Minutes versus milliseconds is the honest split: SentryDock is cheaper and filtered; Truth API is the official low-latency feed.
Is $100,000 a month the official Truth API price?
No public list price has been published. $100,000 a month is the top of the contract range McGurn described. CBS also reported $60,000 a month at the low end of that range. We quote the band and the source.
Who is Truth API for?
TMTG’s July 2026 release said high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms that need a low-latency, machine-readable feed. McGurn later said early customers were mostly in that group, with more than ten signed, and that TMTG hopes to sell more widely later.