Feedly Leo vs emit smart feeds
Feedly's Leo is the best-known AI filter for RSS — and it lives inside Feedly's reader, on Feedly's Pro+ plan. emit's smart feeds do the same core job — score every item against what you actually care about — but emit the result as a plain RSS feed: read it in any app (including Feedly's free tier), broadcast it by email, push it to Slack, or consume it from code.
| emit smart feeds | Feedly Leo (Pro+) | |
|---|---|---|
| AI filtering | LLM scores every item against a plain-English prompt | Leo: trains on topics, likes/dislikes; dedupe, summaries |
| Where results live | A standard RSS/Atom feed — any reader, any tool | Inside the Feedly app |
| Transparency | Score + one-line reason per item; suppressed items auditable | Opaque model; train by feedback |
| Pricing | Pay per item judged: ~$0.58/mo for 30 busy feeds | $8.25/mo annual ($99/yr) or $12.99/mo — only tier with Leo |
| Delivery beyond reading | Email digests (your domain), Slack, Discord, webhooks | Reader-centric; team boards/newsletters on enterprise tiers |
| Source discovery from a prompt | Yes — describe a topic, sources are found for you | Search + follow within Feedly's index |
| Reading experience | None — bring your own reader | Polished apps on every platform |
Feedly pricing per public coverage of feedly.com plans, July 2026 — verify current plans on their site. Last reviewed July 2026.
Why people pick emit over Feedly Pro+
- No reader lock-in: the filtered result is real RSS, so it works in the reader you already love — Feedly included.
- Auditable filtering: every kept and suppressed item carries a score and reason; "why didn't I see X" has an answer.
- Usage pricing: a light month costs cents, not a fixed $8.25.
When Feedly is the better choice
If what you want is a great reading app with AI built in — polished mobile apps, boards, saved searches, a trained-by-taps model — Feedly Pro+ is exactly that, and emit deliberately doesn't build readers. (They also compose: point Feedly's free tier at your emit smart feeds and you get Leo-style filtering without Pro+.)
Try it
Start with the tame-your-reader guide (your subscriptions in, one filtered feed out) or a prompt feed on the Feeds page.