Social Blade review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Daily follower and view statistics for YouTube and four other networks
Social Blade report card
Good · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for checking any creator's daily numbers
Social Blade records daily subscriber, follower and view counts on YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook and Instagram, and anyone can look a profile up for free. It's a statistics site, though, not an SEO tool: there's no keyword research or upload help. And a profile's history only starts when Social Blade first added it, with YouTube history stopping at three years.
Who Social Blade is for
- Fits if you check your own and rivals' daily subscriber and view counts
- Works for agencies shortlisting creators by country and category across five networks
Who Social Blade is not for
- Skip it if you want keyword research or help with titles and tags, as it only reports numbers
- Watch out: a profile's history starts when Social Blade first added it, and YouTube history stops at three years
- Tight if you're staying free, with ads, 5 favorites per platform and only a short window of daily data
- Watch out: plans are listed billed yearly, and no monthly price was in the page text on record
- Pricey if you need the API, as credits are bought separately and the included ones don't roll over
Why Social Blade gets a 2.8
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for moneyBronze is $59.99 a year, $5 a month, well under the $7.20 that's 60% of this category's cheaper quarter. Daily charts need Silver at $149.99 a year ($12.50 a month), just above that quarter's $12.
- BFree plan and trialFree with ads: profile stats, live counts, projections, top lists of 100 and 5 favorites per platform. You could live on that for checking channels, but daily table data only covers a short window.
- CFeaturesDaily stats for about 171 million creators on five networks, top lists, a favorites dashboard, PDF report cards and an API. It does tracking fully, but that's a smaller job than this category's, and report cards cover YouTube only.
- BEase of useNo rating on record. You type a channel name and the numbers are there, with nothing to connect or set up first.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no app or extension. The Business API is the one way to connect it to anything, and its credits are bought separately beyond the 5 to 50 a month on Silver and up.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from archived copies of Social Blade's own pages on 23 October 2026. Its live pricing page turned our reader away when we checked it. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Social Blade's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 24 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools we grade, and level with 2.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 22 of 28) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $5 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 2 of the 23 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 29 YouTube SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Social Blade’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 22 of 28, level with 6
- 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 Social Blade, or make your own?
Your call
You could make the core of Social Blade for yourself: reports.
What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $59.99 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
What you could not
- It plugs into other products, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch among them, and has an API.
- Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
What this rests on. Social Blade’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 Social Blade?
Social Blade is a statistics site that records daily subscriber, follower and view counts for creators on YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook and Instagram, and ranks them in top lists by country and category. Anyone can look up a profile for free; paid memberships remove ads and unlock longer history, daily charts, larger top lists and PDF report cards for YouTube channels. A paid Business API sells the same data to companies.
Worth knowing
- Paid plans are shown billed yearly; the monthly-billing prices were not in the page text read.
- Data begins only when a profile was first added to Social Blade, and YouTube history stops at three years.
- Report cards cover YouTube channels only.
- Business API credits are bought separately; Silver and above include 5 to 50 a month, which are used first and do not roll over.
Key features
- Daily statistics on five networks
- Tracks daily growth for about 171 million creators across YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook and Instagram, with live counts and future projections.
- Top lists
- Ranks the most followed or subscribed profiles globally, by country or by category, or by Social Blade's own SB Rank. Paid plans show longer lists.
- Favorites dashboard
- Favorited profiles appear in a sidebar and on a personal dashboard that compares their past month: 5 per platform free, up to 500 on Platinum.
- Historical data and charts
- Free users get a short window of daily figures plus weekly and monthly charts; memberships add longer daily tables, up to a year or more, and daily-level charts.
- YouTube report cards
- Downloadable PDF summaries of a YouTube channel's performance, for sharing with brands or clients. From 1 to 100 a month depending on plan.
- Custom reports and Business API
- Filtered lists of creators that export to Excel, open to anyone, and a paid API for pulling Social Blade data into other systems.
Social Blade pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Social Blade has a free plan, and paid plans start at $59.99 per year, billed annually ($5.00 a month).
- Starts at
- $59.99 per year, billed annually ($5.00 a month)
- Free plan
- Free account: profile statistics with ads, live counts, future projections, 5 favorites per platform, top lists of 100 and a short window of daily table data.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free (Logged In) | $0 | Profile statistics with ads, 5 favorites per platform and top lists of 100. |
| Bronze | $59.99per year, billed annually ($5.00 a month) | No ads, 15 favorites per platform, top 250 lists, 1 YouTube report card a month and up to 30 days of table data. |
| Silver | $149.99per year, billed annually ($12.50 a month) | 25 favorites, top 500 lists, 10 report cards a month, 60 days of table data, weekly and daily charts, and 5 Business API credits a month. |
| Gold | $599.99per year, billed annually ($50.00 a month) | 100 favorites, top 1,000 lists, 50 report cards a month, 180 days of table data and 20 Business API credits a month. |
| Platinum | $1,439.99per year, billed annually ($120.00 a month) | 500 favorites, top 5,000 lists, 100 report cards a month, 365 days of table data and 50 Business API credits a month. |
Social Blade’s own pricing page could not be read, so these figures come from web.archive.org, checked Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Social Blade before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave up to 20% with yearly billing
Social Blade's plan page lists a 17% saving on Bronze, Silver and Gold and 20% on Platinum when billed yearly instead of monthly.
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Common questions
Does Social Blade have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Social Blade is listed for Web.
Does Social Blade have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Social Blade is listed for Web.
Is Social Blade open source?
Social Blade is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Social Blade have an API?
Yes. Social Blade offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.