# YTCockpit review (2026): is it worth $19 a month? > YouTube keyword research with competition data and rank tracking Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. YTCockpit is a web-based YouTube keyword research tool from SwissMadeMarketing, the Swiss company that also makes SECockpit. It gathers keyword ideas from YouTube Suggest and Google's ad keyword data, then pulls the top 20 ranking videos for each idea to score how hard it would be to rank. The Pro and Agency plans add YTCockpitTracker, which checks your own videos' YouTube rankings daily. - **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools - **Made by:** SwissMadeMarketing GmbH - **Website:** https://ytcockpit.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try it first, as there's no free plan or trial, only a 30-day refund. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, YTCockpit is a paid product, starting at $19 per month for 10 keyword searches a day, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Personal | $19 per month for 10 keyword searches a day, billed monthly | 100 results per search, ideas from YouTube Suggest and Google AdWords. No rank tracker. $199 billed yearly. | | Pro | $39 per month for 50 keyword searches a day, billed monthly | 1,000 results per search, adds Google Suggest and related searches, and YTCockpitTracker for 50 keywords daily. $299 billed yearly. | | Agency | $99 per month for unlimited keyword searches, billed monthly | 10,000 results per search, branded PDF reports and 100 tracked keywords daily. $799 billed yearly. | Read from https://ytcockpit.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with YTCockpit before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save up to 40% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): YTCockpit's pricing table lists Personal at $199 a year instead of $228, Pro at $299 instead of $468 and Agency at $799 instead of $1,188. Source: https://ytcockpit.com ## Key features - **Keyword ideas from several sources:** Expands a seed keyword through YouTube Suggest by adding letters and numbers, and on higher plans through Google AdWords, Google Suggest and related searches. - **Top 20 competition data:** For every idea it collects the top 20 ranking videos with their views, duration, likes and comments, and how many are in HD. - **Keyword score:** Sorts ideas by a score that weighs monthly searches against how strong the ranking videos are, with every column open to sorting and filtering. - **Compare your own video:** Enter a video URL to set it beside the top results for each keyword found. - **YTCockpitTracker:** Pro and Agency include a tracker that checks your videos' YouTube positions for chosen keywords daily, by country and language: 50 keywords on Pro, 100 on Agency. ## Good for - Marketers planning video topics around keywords people already search - Checking how strong the top-ranking videos are before making one - Small teams wanting keyword research and basic rank tracking in one tool ## Worth knowing - There is no free plan or trial; new accounts get a 30-day money-back guarantee instead. - Monthly search figures come from Google's AdWords Keyword Planner, as its help center says YouTube does not publish search counts. - The Personal plan has no rank tracker and no Google Suggest ideas; branded PDF reports are on Agency only. - VAT is added for billing addresses in Switzerland and the EU, unless an EU company gives a valid VAT ID. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. YTCockpit takes a seed keyword, pulls ideas from YouTube Suggest and Google's ad keyword data, and scores each one against the top 20 videos already ranking. The search counts come from Google's Keyword Planner, not YouTube, the cheapest plan has no rank tracker, and there's no free plan or trial, only a 30-day refund. - **Value for money: C.** Personal is $19 a month, or $199 a year (about $16.58 a month), right on this category's $19 middle, for 10 searches a day. Rank tracking needs Pro at $39 a month or $299 a year, and branded reports need Agency at $99. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial. New accounts get a 30-day money-back guarantee instead, which isn't a trial. - **Features: C.** Keyword ideas from YouTube Suggest and Google's ad data, top-20 competition numbers, a keyword score and a daily rank tracker on Pro. It does keyword research fully, but that's a smaller job, with no title writing, upload help or channel analytics on record. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, but each search comes back as sortable tables of views, likes, durations and scores to read through. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations, app, extension or API on record. The tracker checks rankings by country and language. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from YTCockpit'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 - YTCockpit's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 3 of 28) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 12 of the 23 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 11 tools score higher and cost 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 YTCockpit 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: 26 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools grade higher. It costs $228 a year. - 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: Search data for YouTube topics and channels. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** YouTube SEO, Keyword research, Rank tracking, Reports ## Alternatives - [vidIQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vidiq): YouTube keyword research, video ideas and AI coaching for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/vidiq-vs-ytcockpit) - [TubeBuddy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tubebuddy): YouTube browser extension for keyword research, SEO and A/B tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tubebuddy-vs-ytcockpit) - [Rapidtags](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rapidtags): YouTube tag generator with keyword research and video rank checks. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tubegrow-vs-ytcockpit) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://ytcockpit.com - https://support.ytcockpit.com/en/support/home - https://support.ytcockpit.com/en/support/solutions/articles/3000042807-quickstart-ytcockpit - https://support.ytcockpit.com/en/support/solutions/articles/3000043042-interpret-your-results - https://support.ytcockpit.com/en/support/solutions/articles/3000043043-compare-your-url - https://support.ytcockpit.com/en/support/solutions/articles/3000042811-track-rankings-of-your-youtube-videos-with-ytcockpittracker Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ytcockpit Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).