# Growati review (2026): is it worth $19 a month? > AI titles, thumbnails, descriptions and chapters for YouTube videos Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Growati is a web app that connects to a YouTube channel through Google sign-in, reads its videos and YouTube Analytics, and points out where viewers drop away: at the title and thumbnail, or inside the video. It then writes new titles, descriptions and chapters and makes thumbnails for old or new uploads, which you approve before they go live and can revert later. Work is paid for with monthly credits, and it can also be run from Claude or ChatGPT over MCP. - **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools - **Made by:** Timemap Software Pvt. Ltd. - **Website:** https://growati.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try it first, as there's no free plan or trial, only a 30-day refund. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Growati is a paid product, starting at $19 per month for 200 credits, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $19 per month for 200 credits, billed monthly | 1 channel and 1 team member, AI titles, descriptions and chapters, basic thumbnails. About 10 full automations. $190 billed yearly. | | Creator | $49 per month for 600 credits, billed monthly | Up to 3 channels and 5 team members, advanced thumbnails, best frame extraction, automation workflows and priority processing. $490 billed yearly. | | Pro | $99 per month for 1,500 credits, billed monthly | Up to 5 channels and 10 team members, bulk generation, A/B testing support, advanced team roles and an account manager. $990 billed yearly. | | Enterprise | Custom | Custom credits and channels for studios and agencies, with API access, custom AI workflows and founder-led onboarding. | Read from https://growati.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Growati before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Two months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Growati's pricing page lists Starter at $190 a year, Creator at $490 and Pro at $990, which it describes as two months free on annual billing. Source: https://growati.com/pricing ## Key features - **Channel diagnosis:** Compares your recent videos that worked with those that did not, using YouTube Analytics, and shows the evidence behind each finding. - **Repackage any video:** Writes a new title, description and timestamped chapters from the transcript, for new uploads or videos published years ago. - **AI thumbnails:** Makes thumbnails built on frames picked from the video; best frame extraction and advanced thumbnails start on the Creator plan. - **Review and revert:** Nothing is published until you approve it, unless you let an automation publish, and every earlier version can be put back in one click. - **Full automation runs:** From Creator up, one run transcribes, titles, describes, makes a thumbnail and publishes, waiting for review if you choose. 20 credits a run. - **MCP for AI assistants:** Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor to look up channels, generate options and publish changes from a chat. Connecting is free. ## Good for - Creators with a back catalog of videos whose titles and thumbnails need a refresh - Small teams that want AI drafts but a human sign-off before publishing - Creators who already work in Claude or ChatGPT ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan or trial; new subscriptions have a 30-day money-back guarantee, handled through Paddle. - Credit prices differ between pages: the pricing page charges 10 credits a thumbnail and 3 a title plus description, the MCP page 3 and 1. - Starter has no automation workflows or best frame extraction, and API access is on Enterprise only. - It needs Google sign-in access to your channel to read videos and change titles, descriptions and thumbnails. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Growati reads your channel's YouTube Analytics to show where viewers drop away, then writes new titles, descriptions and chapters and makes thumbnails for you to approve. There's no free plan or trial, Starter at $19 a month leaves out the automation runs, and two of its pages charge different credit prices for the same work. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is $19 a month, or $190 a year (about $15.83 a month), on this category's $19 middle, for 200 credits and 1 channel. Automation workflows and frame extraction start on Creator at $49 a month. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial. New subscriptions get a 30-day money-back guarantee through Paddle, which isn't a trial. - **Features: C.** Channel diagnosis from YouTube Analytics, new titles, descriptions and chapters from the transcript, AI thumbnails, approve-and-revert and MCP. It's packaging work; the listing shows no keyword research or rank checks, and the API is Enterprise only. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You sign in with Google and give it access to your channel, then every action spends credits, up to 20 for a full automation run. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor, which is free to connect. No phone or desktop app, and the API sits on Enterprise. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Growati's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among YouTube SEO tools - Growati's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 3 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 13 of 28) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 12 of the 23 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/youtube-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Growati you would be making an image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 23 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools grade higher. It costs $228 a year. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: Search data for YouTube topics and channels. - You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube, Claude and ChatGPT among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with YouTube, Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor **Tags:** YouTube SEO, AI features, Image generation ## Alternatives - [vidIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidiq): YouTube keyword research, video ideas and AI coaching for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/growati-vs-vidiq) - [TubeBuddy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tubebuddy): YouTube browser extension for keyword research, SEO and A/B tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/growati-vs-tubebuddy) - [Subscribr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/subscribr): AI YouTube production: ideas, scripts, thumbnails and finished videos. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/growati-vs-subscribr) - [TubeMagic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tubemagic): AI YouTube script writer with research, titles, tags and thumbnails. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/growati-vs-tubemagic) - [YTubViral](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ytubviral): YouTube SEO score, AI titles and scripts, and title A/B tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/growati-vs-ytubviral) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://growati.com/pricing - https://growati.com/ - https://growati.com/mcp - https://growati.com/company - https://growati.com/company/refund Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/growati Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).