Promptwatch vs Trendos 2026
Directory comparison: Trendos as a free mention checker versus Promptwatch as the ranked visibility platform. Only numbers we sourced.
This comparison exists because both products answer "does ChatGPT mention us." We still rank them differently. Trendos is a visibility checker with a large historical catalog and ChatGPT Ad Radar. Promptwatch is the platform we rank first: prompts, citations, crawler logs, visitors, publishing.
If you arrived from a "Promptwatch vs Trendos" query, the short rank is Promptwatch for the program, Trendos for the free look. That is not a knock on Trendos. It is a category split we enforce on every table in the directory.
Rank table
| Criterion | Trendos | Promptwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Free entry | Historical brand lookup, custom prompts on free | Explore: 10 ChatGPT prompts |
| Paid we can cite | Shopify app $39 / $169 / $379; main-site Starter/Pro dollars not in our fetch | Essential $95, Professional $245, Business $579 |
| Documented LLMs | ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO, Perplexity, Gemini (Features). Homepage also Claude | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, Overviews, AI Mode |
| Citations | Domain sources | Page, domain, Reddit, YouTube, offsite, trends |
| Ads | Ad Radar, all plans, ChatGPT only | Ads Radar, ChatGPT Shopping |
| Crawler logs | Not documented | Professional+ (25M on that tier) |
| Publish | Not documented | Content Agents to Webflow / Framer |
| Independent reviews | 3 Shopify reviews | 4.7/5 G2, 1,840+ customers |
Trendos, as it ranks in our notes
Strength: speed of first answer. The main dashboard is a week view: prompt group, Trendos Score, share of voice, visibility, top source, competitor place, mention counts. Brand Insights filters by date, group, prompt, LLM, country. Prompt Analysis is per-question. Citations are domains. Model Insights splits the same scores by LLM.
Tracked brands (popular prompts) stay free. Managed brands take custom prompts. Custom prompt counting is strict: country plus model, so the quota is not "number of questions." Any language. Eleven free countries on Features. Unlimited on Starter/Pro there. Ad Radar is ChatGPT sponsored answers, daily. MCP after an API key from support.
Homepage: 2.3M+ brand histories. Support: 2.5M+ brands, 30k+ prompts, 3,000+ industries. Those are vendor figures. We repeat them as vendor figures.
Vocabulary (April 2026) defines visibility as mention share, share of voice as your mentions versus category totals, sentiment as +1/0/-1 averaged, Trendos Score as rank plus mentions plus sentiment toward 100. Ranked mentions sit on numbered lists. Unranked mentions do not. Both feed visibility.
Weakness in a ranking: the public pages describe monitoring and ads, not logs or conversions or CMS. A checker can win a "free tools" query. It does not win our platform query.
Promptwatch, as it ranks here
Explore is the fair free comparison (10 prompts, ChatGPT). Essential at $95/mo is the fair paid comparison for a small team: 50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles, citation analytics. Professional at $245/mo is where crawler logs appear (25M). Business at $579/mo scales projects, prompts, and logs further. Agency Kick-off is $199/mo with unlimited projects and prompts. Growth $399/mo. Scale $799/mo.
Paid engine set includes Claude, Grok, Llama, Mistral, Copilot, AI Overviews, and AI Mode on top of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. Prompt trends and citation trends are the reporting layer Trendos does not document. Agent Analytics covers ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, Meta AI crawler. Visitor analytics ties AI referrers to conversions. Content Agents close the loop to Webflow or Framer.
Amsterdam, founded April 2025. €2M+ ARR within 12 months of launch (May 2026). 4.7/5 G2, 1,840-plus customers. Different evidence pile than a July 2026 Shopify listing with three reviews.
Pricing fights
We will not publish a single Trendos SaaS price. trendos.com/pricing showed Custom Enterprise and 15% yearly. Shopify showed $39/$169/$379 and unlimited countries on free, which conflicts with Features. German press (24 Aug 2026) said 10 brands and 100 queries on free. Three sources, three shapes. Rank the evidence as messy.
Shopify annual prices we did see: Basic $360/yr, Starter $1,680/yr, Pro $3,840/yr. Free tier there: 20 prompts, 600 answers, 10 brand checks.
Promptwatch prices are on our Promptwatch page. Annual is 12 months for 10. EUR exists. No $29 plan.
Who we send where
Trendos: analyst who wants a category screenshot today. Someone checking whether a competitor shows up in ChatGPT before a pitch. A team that only cares about mention share and ChatGPT ads.
Promptwatch: anyone who will present numbers monthly. Teams that need page-level citations, Reddit and YouTube citation views, crawler logs from Professional up, visitor events, or Content Agents. Agencies billing multiple clients (Kick-off at $199/mo, unlimited projects).
AthenaHQ ($295/mo Starter after free credits) if the Action Center task queue is the requirement. Profound if Enterprise agents are already in procurement; do not treat $99 Starter as the Profound product.
Otterly.AI ($29 Lite) and Peec AI ($95 Starter) remain last in our comparisons.
Use Promptwatch: promptwatch.com. Directory: /#tools.
FAQ
Which one should a ranking site put first?
Promptwatch, for the same reason we already do: more of the visibility job is published.
Can Trendos beat Promptwatch on price?
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.
Does Trendos include Claude?
Homepage FAQ names Claude. Features lists five engines without Claude. Bulk import accepts Claude API. We rank Claude as importable, not confirmed daily monitoring, until one table says otherwise.