# Social Blade review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Daily follower and view statistics for YouTube and four other networks

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools
- **Made by:** Social Blade, LLC
- **Website:** https://socialblade.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want keyword research or help with titles and tags, as it only reports numbers.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## 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).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 | $59.99 per 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 | $149.99 per 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 | $599.99 per 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 | $1,439.99 per 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; these figures come from https://web.archive.org/web/20261023171253/https://socialblade.com/products/subscription/personal on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Social Blade before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save up to 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Social Blade's plan page lists a 17% saving on Bronze, Silver and Gold and 20% on Platinum when billed yearly instead of monthly. Source: https://socialblade.com/products/subscription/personal

## 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.

## Good for

- Creators checking their own and rivals' daily subscriber and view numbers
- Brands and agencies shortlisting creators by country and category
- Agencies sending clients a monthly report card for a YouTube channel

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: A.** Bronze 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.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free 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.
- **Features: C.** Daily 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.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. You type a channel name and the numbers are there, with nothing to connect or set up first.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web 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.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among YouTube SEO tools

- 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/youtube-seo

## Keep it, 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.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube, TikTok and Twitch among them, and has an API.
- 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.

## Works with

YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram

**Tags:** Reports, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Playboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/playboard): YouTube channel rankings, Super Chat stats and channel reports. [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/social-blade-vs-viewstats)
- [vidIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidiq): YouTube keyword research, video ideas and AI coaching for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/social-blade-vs-vidiq)
- [TubeBuddy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tubebuddy): YouTube browser extension for keyword research, SEO and A/B tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/social-blade-vs-tubebuddy)
- [1of10](https://toolgpa.com/tools/1of10): YouTube outlier finder with AI thumbnails, titles and video ideas. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/1of10-vs-social-blade)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20261023171253/https://socialblade.com/products/subscription/personal
- https://web.archive.org/web/20261023171057/https://socialblade.com/
- https://socialblade.com/products/subscription/personal

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