Playboard review (2026): is the free plan enough?
YouTube channel rankings, Super Chat stats and channel reports
Playboard report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for YouTube channel rankings by country
Playboard ranks YouTube channels, videos, Shorts and live streams by country and topic, and tracks Super Chat earnings and live viewers. It's a rankings site rather than an SEO tool, and it only ranks channels with 1,000 subscribers and a million views. Paid plans start at $29 a month for one user, and history only reaches back to August 2019.
Who Playboard is for
- Fits if you're a marketer or agency looking for YouTube channels to work with
- Works for following which channels and live streams are growing in one country
Who Playboard is not for
- Skip it if your channel is small: ranking needs 1,000 subscribers and 1 million views, video data 23,000 or 10 million
- Tight if you're staying free, with ads and only a few reports a day
- Watch out: even unlimited history only goes back to August 5, 2019
- Watch out: refunds may be partial or refused once you've used the service after paying
- Not for you if you want an API on a plan, as it's a separate service arranged by email
Why Playboard gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyBasic is $29 a month for one user, billed monthly, above this category's dearer quarter of $24.92 but short of its dearest tenth at $49.99. Standard is $99 for 2 users and Business+ $199 for 5.
- BFree plan and trialFree with ads: charts up to 200 entries, 40 search results, and 5 basic channel, 3 advanced channel and 3 video reports a day. You could live on that for browsing charts.
- CFeaturesCharts by country and topic, a search of 25.8 million channels, channel and video reports and Super Chat totals. It does rankings fully, but that's a smaller job, with no keyword research or upload help on record.
- BEase of useNo rating on record. Open a chart or search for a channel and the numbers are there, with nothing to connect.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb only. Automated access needs a separate API service arranged by email, and no integrations are on record.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Playboard's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Playboard's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 15 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools we grade, and level with 7.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 23 of 28) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 19 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.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 29 YouTube SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Playboard’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 3 of 28, level with 13
- BFree plan and trialAbove 23 of 28, level with 3
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 28, level with 25
- BEase of useAbove 21 of 28, level with 6
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 1 of 28, level with 11
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 26 YouTube SEO tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Playboard, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Playboard you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It costs $348 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Search data for YouTube topics and channels.
- Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
What this rests on. Playboard’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Playboard?
Playboard is a YouTube ranking and analytics site from DIFF., a company based in Seoul. It publishes daily to all-time charts of channels, videos, Shorts and live streams by country and topic, tracks Super Chat earnings and live viewers, and lets you search 25.8 million channels with filters. Paid plans raise the number of channel and video analysis reports and the history they cover.
Worth knowing
- Only channels with 1,000 subscribers and 1 million total views are ranked; video data needs 23,000 subscribers or 10 million views.
- The free plan shows ads and allows only a few reports a day; even unlimited history reaches back only to August 5, 2019.
- Plans renew monthly by card, and a refund may be partial or refused once the service has been used after payment.
- Automated access to the data needs Playboard's separate API service, arranged by email; custom plans are also by request.
Key features
- YouTube charts
- Rankings of channels, videos, Shorts, live streams and artists by country and topic, for most popular, subscribed, viewed, Super Chatted, growth and decline.
- Channel search
- Search 25.8 million channels worldwide with filters; the free plan shows 40 results and paid plans 100 to 5,000.
- Channel analysis reports
- Subscriber and view trends for any ranked channel, plus advanced reports with live viewer and Super Chat trends; history grows with the plan.
- Video analysis reports
- Reports on single videos: 3 a day on the free plan, and 100 to 5,500 a month on paid plans.
- Super Chat and Trending Live
- Super Chat and Super Sticker totals by channel, and a list of trending live streams worldwide updated in real time.
- Export and teams
- Paid plans export chart lists and historical data to Excel, and Standard and above share the plan with a team of 2 to 15 users.
Playboard pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Playboard has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $29 per month, billed monthly
- Free plan
- 1 user, charts up to 200 entries, 40 search results, 5 basic channel reports, 3 advanced channel reports and 3 video reports a day, with ads.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Charts, 40 search results and a few reports a day, with 1 year of subscriber trends and 30 days of live and Super Chat trends. |
| Basic | $29per month for 1 user, billed monthly | 150 channel and 100 video analysis reports a month, 100 search results, data export and no ads. |
| Standard | $99per month for up to 2 users, billed monthly | 1,000 channel and 500 video reports a month, charts up to 500 entries, 500 search results and 90 days of live trends. |
| Business+ | $199per month for up to 5 users, billed monthly | 2,500 channel and 1,500 video reports a month, 2 years of subscriber and view history, charts up to 2,500 entries. |
| Enterprise | $599per month for up to 15 users, billed monthly | 10,000 channel and 5,500 video reports a month, unlimited history and charts up to 5,000 entries. For agencies and MCNs. |
Read from playboard.co on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Playboard before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Playboard have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Playboard is listed for Web.
Does Playboard have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Playboard is listed for Web.
Is Playboard open source?
Playboard is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.