# Spate review (2026): is it worth it? > Consumer trend forecasting from search and social data Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Spate is a trend forecasting platform for consumer brands in beauty and personal care, wellness, and food and beverage. It analyzes Google searches, TikTok and Instagram posts and Reddit comments to show which ingredients, products and brands are rising, and predicts where a trend is heading. It is sold to companies after a demo. - **Category:** Keyword Research Tools - **Made by:** Spate, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.spate.nyc - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want keywords for your website, as it's a consumer trend tool, not an SEO keyword tool. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing Spate's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Trend prediction:** Forecasts where a trend is heading from current consumer data; Spate puts its prediction accuracy at 72%. - **Growth drivers:** Breaks a trend down into the ingredients, benefits and concerns behind it. - **Competitive benchmarking:** Tracks brands' performance, engagement and positioning against one another. - **Top social content:** Shows the most popular posts and videos for a trend across TikTok and Instagram. - **Whitespace opportunities:** Points to gaps in a market where demand is growing but few products exist. - **AI assistant and alerts:** Answers questions in plain language, builds reports and sends custom alerts. Enterprise customers can also pull the data through an API. ## Good for - Beauty, wellness and food and beverage brands planning new products - Marketing, R&D and PR teams tracking which ingredients and topics are rising - Ingredient suppliers spotting demand before it peaks ## Worth knowing - No prices are published; access is sold after a demo, and the site's pricing link leads back to the homepage. - Its coverage is built around beauty and personal care, wellness, and food and beverage. - It is a market research tool for consumer trends, not an SEO keyword tool for a website. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Spate is a trend forecasting platform for beauty, wellness and food and beverage brands: it reads Google searches, TikTok, Instagram and Reddit to show which ingredients, products and brands are rising, and predicts where a trend is heading. But it's market research, not an SEO keyword tool, it covers just those three areas, and no price is published, with even the trial arranged on a demo call. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, and the site's pricing link leads back to the home page, so the price is only given on a sales call after a demo. That leaves nothing to weigh against its trend-tool rivals. - **Free plan and trial: D.** No free plan. The home page mentions a free trial, but it's arranged by booking a demo, and its length isn't stated. - **Features: C.** Trend forecasts it puts at 72% accurate, the ingredients and concerns behind a trend, brand benchmarking, top TikTok and Instagram posts, gaps in a market, an AI assistant and alerts. It does trend research fully, but only for beauty, wellness and food and beverage. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You get in through a demo, and then there are forecasts, benchmarks, alerts and reports to learn your way round. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app and no integrations on record. The API is for Enterprise customers only. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Spate's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among keyword research tools - Spate's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (C, above 6 of 51) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 6). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/keyword-research ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Spate you would be making search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. 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: 48 of the 51 other keyword research tools grade higher. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - 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. **Tags:** Keyword research, AI features, Reports ## Alternatives - [Exploding Topics](https://toolgpa.com/tools/exploding-topics): Database of rising topics, products and startups, by search growth. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/exploding-topics-vs-spate) - [Glimpse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/glimpse): Google Trends add-on with absolute search volume and trend discovery. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/glimpse-vs-spate) - [Treendly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/treendly): Trend discovery tool for spotting rising topics and keywords early. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/spate-vs-treendly) - [Google Trends](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-trends): Free charts of relative Google search interest by time and place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/google-trends-vs-spate) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.spate.nyc/ - https://www.spate.nyc/company - https://www.spate.nyc/trial Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/spate Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).