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

> YouTube channel statistics, outlier videos and thumbnail research

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

Viewstats is a YouTube analytics site co-founded by MrBeast, with a Chrome extension and an iPhone app. Anyone can look up a channel's subscribers, views, estimated revenue and rankings, or browse top lists, for free. The Pro plan adds outlier videos, thumbnail search across top channels, competitor tracking, alerts and saved collections, and a Business plan sells volume licenses and an API.

- **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools
- **Made by:** Viewstats
- **Website:** https://www.viewstats.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension, iOS
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want the research tools, as Outliers, Thumbnail Search, Competitors and Alerts all need Pro.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Viewstats has a free plan, and paid plans start at $49.99 per month.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free site and account: channel statistics, video analysis, projections, similar channels, creator comparisons and top lists by category or country.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Look up any channel or video, see growth over time and browse top lists. |
| Pro | $49.99 per month | Adds Outliers, Thumbnail Search, Competitors, Alerts and Collections, plus Pro channels on the Viewstats Discord. One person per account. |
| Business | $249 per month and up | For teams and agencies: unlimited credits, volume licenses, creator discovery, advanced analytics and the Business API. Sold after a call. |

Read from https://viewstats.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/25382143970459-What-is-the-Pro-subscription-price on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Viewstats before buying.

## Key features

- **Channel and video statistics:** Channelytics shows a channel's subscribers, views, estimated revenue and rank over time; video pages track view velocity and past title or thumbnail changes.
- **Outliers:** A Pro tool that finds videos doing far better than their channel usually does, to show which ideas are breaking out in a niche.
- **Thumbnail Search:** A Pro tool for searching thumbnails from top channels to see which styles get clicks in a niche.
- **Competitors and Alerts:** Follow chosen channels and get alerts on view milestones, sudden engagement jumps and new trends, filtered by keyword.
- **Collections:** Save videos and thumbnails into boards for research, and preview how your own packaging looks before it goes live.
- **Extension and iPhone app:** The Chrome extension adds Viewstats figures to YouTube pages; the iPhone app covers top lists, favorites, channel and video analytics, and a widget.

## Good for

- Creators studying which videos break out in their niche
- Checking any channel's growth and estimated revenue for free
- Agencies and brands that need volume licenses or an API

## Worth knowing

- Pro accounts are for one person; the help center says team members cannot be added to an account.
- Outliers, Thumbnail Search, Competitors, Alerts and Collections all need Pro.
- The help center gives Pro as $49.99 a month, while the pricing page fills its price in by script and showed ₹2,111.84 a month when read from India.
- The mobile app is on the App Store only; no Android app is mentioned.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Viewstats lets anyone look up a YouTube channel's subscribers, views and estimated revenue for free. The research tools, Outliers, Thumbnail Search, Competitors and Alerts, all sit on Pro at $49.99 a month, for one person only. There's no keyword research on record, and no Android app.

- **Value for money: D.** Pro is $49.99 a month with no yearly price on record, in this category's dearest tenth, which starts at $49.99, and more than twice its $19 middle. Business starts at $249 a month and is sold after a call.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free site and account: channel and video stats, projections, similar channels, comparisons and top lists, with no caps stated. You could live on that for looking channels up; the research tools are Pro.
- **Features: C.** Channel and video stats, outliers, thumbnail search, competitor alerts and saved collections. It covers research on other channels, but the listing shows no keyword research or help with titles and tags.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. Type a channel name and its numbers are there, with nothing to connect first.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, a Chrome extension and an iPhone app, with a Discord and a Business API. No Android or desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Viewstats' own pages on 23 October 2026. Its help center turned our reader away when we checked it, and its pricing page showed only the Business price. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among YouTube SEO tools

- Viewstats'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 value for money (D, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $49.99 a month, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 21 of the 23 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 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.** Nothing Viewstats does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 4 things listed below take a company. It costs $599.88 a year.

- You could not: Search data for YouTube topics and channels.
- You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube and Discord among them, and has an API.
- You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets.

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, Discord

**Tags:** YouTube SEO, Public API

## 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/social-blade-vs-viewstats)
- [1of10](https://toolgpa.com/tools/1of10): YouTube outlier finder with AI thumbnails, titles and video ideas. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/1of10-vs-viewstats)
- [vidIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidiq): YouTube keyword research, video ideas and AI coaching for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/vidiq-vs-viewstats)
- [Playboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/playboard): YouTube channel rankings, Super Chat stats and channel reports. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/playboard-vs-viewstats)
- [OutlierKit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/outlierkit): YouTube outlier and competitor research for expert-led channels. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/outlierkit-vs-viewstats)

## Sources

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

- https://viewstats.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/25382143970459-What-is-the-Pro-subscription-price
- https://www.viewstats.com/pricing
- https://www.viewstats.com/info
- https://viewstats.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/22966325342107-What-is-Viewstats
- https://viewstats.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/22966000514971-Why-should-I-go-Pro
- https://viewstats.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/26135846095003-Do-we-offer-shared-accounts-or-team-accounts
- https://viewstats.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/36225002806555-Viewstats-Mobile-App

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