# Playboard review (2026): is the free plan enough? > YouTube channel rankings, Super Chat stats and channel reports Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools - **Made by:** DIFF., Inc. - **Website:** https://playboard.co - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your channel is small: ranking needs 1,000 subscribers and 1 million views, video data 23,000 or 10 million. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Playboard has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 | $29 per month for 1 user, billed monthly | 150 channel and 100 video analysis reports a month, 100 search results, data export and no ads. | | Standard | $99 per 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+ | $199 per 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 | $599 per 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 https://playboard.co/en/plan on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Playboard before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Marketers and agencies looking for YouTube channels to work with - Following which channels and live streams are growing in a country - Comparing Super Chat earnings and live audiences across channels ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Basic 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. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free 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. - **Features: C.** Charts 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. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. Open a chart or search for a channel and the numbers are there, with nothing to connect. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. Automated access needs a separate API service arranged by email, and no integrations are on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among YouTube SEO tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/youtube-seo ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Search data for YouTube topics and channels. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** YouTube SEO, Reports ## Alternatives - [Social Blade](https://toolgpa.com/tools/social-blade): Daily follower and view statistics for YouTube and four other networks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/playboard-vs-social-blade) - [Viewstats](https://toolgpa.com/tools/viewstats): YouTube channel statistics, outlier videos and thumbnail research. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/playboard-vs-viewstats) - [vidIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidiq): YouTube keyword research, video ideas and AI coaching for creators. 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