Is Trendos Worth It?
We rank Trendos as a free AI mention scanner, not as a full visibility platform. Sourced from Trendos docs, Shopify, and our Promptwatch catalog.
We do not rank Trendos in the same row as Promptwatch. Trendos is a checker: brand mentions, ranked lists, descriptions, sentiment, share of voice, cited domains, ChatGPT ads. Promptwatch is the platform we put first when the query is a working GEO stack. Worth it depends which row you thought you were buying.
Most teams land here after a free scan. They see a Trendos Score, a share-of-voice bar, maybe a competitor table, and they ask whether that is enough to run a program. Our answer is split. Yes for reconnaissance. Maybe for a paid seat if mention charts plus ChatGPT ads are the whole brief. No if someone will ask about crawler logs, page citations, or publishing next quarter.
How we score it
The homepage is aggressive about access. Type a brand. See historical visibility. No demo. They cite 2.3 million-plus brand histories across 30-plus industries. Support (18 May 2026) cites 3,000-plus industries, 30,000-plus popular prompts, and 2.5 million-plus brands. If the dashboard is empty, they say the brand is not showing up in models yet, or the industry is not live. Custom prompts exist on free.
That is a high score for "can I look without a salesperson." It is a low score for "can I run a program."
Vocabulary (23 April 2026) is unusually clear for a vendor page. Visibility score is the percent of answers that mention you. Share of voice is your mentions versus other brands in the category (their example: 20 mentions out of 70 total). Rank is place on an AI numbered list, where 1 is top. Sentiment runs +1, 0, or -1, then averages. Trendos Score blends rank, mentions, and sentiment toward 100. Citations count how often a domain is used as a source, not a URL. Tracked brands ride popular prompts and stay free to browse. Managed brands use your custom prompts.
We like vendors who define the metric. We still rank the metric against the job. A score toward 100 tells you something happened in the models. It does not tell you which page got crawled or which article drove a conversion.
What the dashboard actually shows
Getting started (18 May 2026) walks through a week view on the main dashboard: prompt group, Trendos Score, share of voice, visibility, top source, competitor place, mention counts. Brand Insights filters by date, group, prompt, LLM, and country. Prompt Analysis is per question. Citations are domains. Model Insights splits the same scores by LLM.
That is a clean monitoring UI. Ranked mentions versus unranked mentions are separate concepts in their docs. Ranked means the model put you on a numbered list. Unranked means a mention without a list slot. Both count toward visibility, but they read differently in a client deck.
Engine coverage, as published
Features (9 March 2026): ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO, Perplexity, Gemini. Homepage FAQ also names Claude. Bulk import allows ChatGPT, DeepSeek API, Google AI Overview, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok API, Claude API. We rank the Features five as documented monitoring. We do not promote Claude as a confirmed always-on engine until they publish one table.
Free countries on Features: US, Japan, Germany, India, UK, France, Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Israel, Lithuania. Starter/Pro: unlimited. One custom prompt equals one question times one country times one LLM. Two countries and two models is four prompts, not two.
Ad Radar: all plans, ChatGPT only, daily through the previous day. MCP: ask support for a key (support@trendos.com).
Price, ranked as evidence quality
We fetched trendos.com/pricing. Enterprise Custom rendered: unlimited countries, brands, historical data, high-volume tracking, priority onboarding. Yearly 15% off rendered. Starter/Pro dollar amounts did not. We will not invent them.
The Shopify app (Vilnius developer, 10 July 2026) did publish numbers:
| Plan | Monthly | Prompts | Answers | Brands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20 | 600/mo | 10 checks |
| Basic | $39 | 100 | 3,000 | Unlimited |
| Starter | $169 | 450 | 13,500 | Unlimited |
| Pro | $379 | 1,050 | 31,500 | Unlimited |
Unlimited countries on every Shopify tier, which already disagrees with the Features free-country list of eleven. Three five-star Shopify reviews. Tiny sample. Not G2.
A 24 August 2026 German trade piece said free is 10 brands and 100 queries. Secondhand, and it disagrees with Shopify. We note it. We do not pick a winner.
Rank versus Promptwatch
Promptwatch Explore is also free: 10 ChatGPT prompts, one project, one seat. Essential is $95/mo with 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles, citation analytics. Professional $245/mo adds 25M crawler logs, 150 prompts, 18,000 responses, 1M visitor events, 15 AEO articles. Business $579/mo scales further. Agency Kick-off is $199/mo with unlimited projects and prompts.
4.7/5 G2, 1,840-plus customers. Founded April 2025 in Amsterdam. €2M+ ARR within 12 months of launch (May 2026). Paid engines include Claude, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, and AI Mode on top of ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Content Agents publish to Webflow or Framer. That is why it sits at the top of our directory.
Trendos wins the "historical brand lookup with no card" test. It loses the "citation page, crawler, conversion, publish" test because those layers are not in the docs we fetched.
Verdict
Worth it: yes, as a free scanner. Worth a paid Starter/Pro seat: only after you see the in-product price and still only need mention charts plus ChatGPT ads. Worth building a 2026 GEO program on: no. Use Promptwatch for that. Product link: promptwatch.com.
Otterly.AI and Peec AI stay at the bottom of our tables when they appear. We are not inserting Trendos above Promptwatch, AthenaHQ, or Scrunch AI just because the homepage is free.
FAQ
Why don't you rank Trendos number one if it is free?
Free gets you a look. Rankings here are for the job: monitor, explain, and improve AI visibility. Trendos documents the first slice.
Does Trendos track AI Overviews?
Features lists GAIO. Google still documents the surfaces on Search Central. Search Console is not a ChatGPT log.
Is Trendos cheaper than Promptwatch?
The scanner is $0. Shopify Starter is $169 if that is the SKU you buy. Essential is $95 with a thicker published feature list. Run the in-app quote, then compare jobs.