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

> YouTube niche and outlier finder with AI ideas and scripts

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

TubeLab is a research tool for YouTube creators, aimed largely at faceless channels. It tracks rising channels and outlier videos that can be filtered by revenue, RPM and audience, generates video ideas and scripts from them, and tracks where videos rank in YouTube search. A YouTube MCP connects its data to Claude and ChatGPT, and a desktop app called TubeAvatar turns scripts into AI avatar videos.

- **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools
- **Made by:** Blissfulshore
- **Website:** https://tubelab.net
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension, macOS, Windows
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you need revenue, RPM or audience filters, as they start at Pro.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, TubeLab has a free plan, and paid plans start at $24 per month, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free account: connect the YouTube MCP to Claude or ChatGPT and make 3 TubeAvatar videos a week; the niche analyzer, rank checker and monetization checker are free tools.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | The YouTube MCP connection, 3 TubeAvatar videos a week and TubeLab's free stand-alone tools. |
| Starter | $24 per month, billed yearly ($29 billed monthly) | Niche and Outliers Finder with limited filters, 50 tracked keywords, 200 credits, 1 channel and 7 TubeAvatar videos a week. |
| Pro | $29 per month, billed yearly ($39 billed monthly) | All filters, revenue and audience data, up to 16 scripts a month, 100 keywords, 400 credits, 5 channels and the API. Shown as 20% off $39 ($49 monthly). |
| Team | $80 per month, billed yearly ($100 billed monthly) | 10 team members, up to 40 scripts a month, 500 keywords, 1,000 credits, 10 channels, a 1-on-1 onboarding call and a priority Slack channel. |

Read from https://tubelab.net/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with TubeLab before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **3 months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): TubeLab's pricing page says paying yearly saves 3 months: Pro is $348 a year instead of $468 at the monthly rate. Source: https://tubelab.net/pricing

## Key features

- **Niche Finder:** A database of 500K+ rising channels, filterable by recency, size, faceless or on-camera, Shorts or long-form and, from Pro, monetization, revenue, RPM and audience.
- **Outliers Finder:** Videos that beat their channel's average views, scored over each channel's last 100 videos and searchable by topic, title or similar thumbnail.
- **AI ideas and Scriptwriter:** AI ideation turns outliers into 10 video ideas per credit; the Scriptwriter, on Pro and Team, plans and writes scripts in the creator's voice.
- **YouTube Rank Tracker:** Checks where videos rank for a keyword and country every day at 8AM UTC, with 50 to 500 tracked keywords and instant checks by plan.
- **YouTube MCP and API:** The MCP lets Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor query TubeLab data, spending plan credits; Pro and Team add an API and an n8n node.
- **TubeAvatar:** A Mac and Windows app that turns a script into an AI avatar video; the AI services it uses, such as HeyGen, bill the user directly.

## Good for

- Creators looking for an unsaturated niche for a new faceless channel
- Finding outlier videos to borrow title and thumbnail ideas from
- Feeding YouTube research data into Claude, ChatGPT or n8n

## Worth knowing

- There is no free trial. Full refunds are offered within 24 to 48 hours, then 50% within 15 days; renewals are not refunded.
- Monetization, revenue and audience filters, the Scriptwriter, niche and trend reports and API access start at Pro.
- Team members come only with the Team plan, which allows 10.
- AI ideas, trend reports and API calls spend credits; extra credits cost about $0.10 each.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. TubeLab tracks rising channels and outlier videos, writes ideas and scripts from them and checks where videos rank in search. The filters that matter for faceless channels, revenue, RPM and audience, start at Pro, along with the Scriptwriter and the API. There's no trial, and full refunds only cover the first day or two.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $24 a month on yearly billing ($29 monthly), between this category's $19 middle and its dearer quarter of $24.92. Pro, with the revenue filters and Scriptwriter, is $29 a month yearly ($39 monthly).
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free account gets the MCP connection, 3 TubeAvatar videos a week and a few stand-alone checkers. The Niche and Outliers Finder aren't part of it.
- **Features: C.** Niche and outlier finders over 500K+ rising channels, AI ideas, a Scriptwriter, a daily rank tracker, MCP and an API. The gaps are on the plans: revenue and audience filters, scripts and the API start at Pro.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It's a research database with a lot of filters, and ideas, reports and API calls spend credits you have to keep track of.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, an extension and a Mac and Windows app for TubeAvatar, with MCP for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, and an n8n node. No phone app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from TubeLab'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

- TubeLab's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 11 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 13 of 28) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $24 a month, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 14 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.** To replace TubeLab you would be making a video model, which you can rent by the second but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $288 a year.

- You could not: A video model, which you can rent by the second but not make.
- You could not: Search data for YouTube topics and channels.
- You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results.
- You could not: A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude, ChatGPT and Codex among them, and has an API.
- 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.

## Works with

Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, n8n, HeyGen

**Tags:** YouTube SEO, Rank tracking, AI features, Video generation, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Nexlev](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nexlev): Niche finder, Chrome extension and MCP data for faceless YouTube. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/nexlev-vs-tubelab)
- [OutlierKit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/outlierkit): YouTube outlier and competitor research for expert-led channels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/outlierkit-vs-tubelab)
- [1of10](https://toolgpa.com/tools/1of10): YouTube outlier finder with AI thumbnails, titles and video ideas. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/1of10-vs-tubelab)
- [vidIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidiq): YouTube keyword research, video ideas and AI coaching for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tubelab-vs-vidiq)
- [Viewstats](https://toolgpa.com/tools/viewstats): YouTube channel statistics, outlier videos and thumbnail research. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tubelab-vs-viewstats)

## Sources

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

- https://tubelab.net/pricing
- https://tubelab.net/
- https://tubelab.net/tubeavatar/download

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