Is Trendos Worth It?
Trendos is a free-first AI visibility checker with historical brand data. Here is what the vendor actually ships, where the pricing pages disagree, and when Promptwatch is the better buy.
You can open Trendos without a sales call, type a brand name, and get back scores. That alone makes it worth a bookmark. Whether it is worth a line item on your budget is a separate question, and the answer depends on what you need after the first screenshot.
The product that loads for free is a mention tracker. It shows visibility scores, sentiment, share of voice, domain citations, competitor benchmarks, and an Ad Radar for ChatGPT sponsored placements. Nothing in the public docs describes AI crawler logs, visitor conversion tracking, or CMS publishing. If your GEO program stops at "did the model mention us," Trendos covers that job. If someone will ask why visibility moved or which URL got cited, you will hit a wall.
What Trendos actually is
The homepage calls it an AI search visibility tool: enter a brand, get historical data, no demo wall. Trendos says it holds 2.3 million-plus brand histories across 30-plus industries. The getting-started article (updated 18 May 2026) goes further: more than 3,000 industries, 30,000-plus top-searched prompts, and over 2.5 million brands. When a name does not load, the usual explanation is that the brand is invisible in the models or the industry is not live yet. Custom prompts exist on every plan, including free.
The vocabulary page (23 April 2026) defines the numbers on the dashboard. Visibility score is the share of responses that mention you (34 out of 100 responses means 34%). Share of voice compares your mentions against other brands in the same category. Ranking is the slot in an AI ranked list, where 1 is first. Sentiment runs +1, 0, or -1, then averages. Trendos Score mixes ranking, mentions, and sentiment and runs toward 100. Citations count how often a domain is named as a source. Tracked brands sit on popular market-wide prompts and stay free to explore. Managed brands use your own prompts.
That is a lot of dashboard for $0. It is still a dashboard.
Engines and countries
The Features article (9 March 2026) lists five monitored models: ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO (their label for Google AI Overviews), Perplexity, and Gemini. The homepage FAQ also names Claude. Bulk import accepts ChatGPT, DeepSeek API, Google AI Overview, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok API, and Claude API as model names. Treat the Features five as the documented daily set. Treat Claude and Grok as importable labels until Trendos publishes one engine table.
Free-plan countries on that same Features page: United States, Japan, Germany, India, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Israel, Lithuania. Starter or Pro unlocks unlimited countries. Custom prompts can be written in any language. One custom prompt is one question plus one country plus one LLM. Two countries and two models means four prompts.
Ad Radar is on every plan. It only tracks ads inside ChatGPT. Data refreshes daily, through the previous day. You get impression share, a ranked advertiser table, and the creatives themselves.
MCP exists. You request an API key from support and paste it into an MCP client. Support email on that page is support@trendos.com.
The free-versus-paid mess
Trendos.com/pricing rendered an Enterprise Custom tile when we fetched it: unlimited countries and brands, historical data, high-volume prompt tracking, priority onboarding. Yearly billing is advertised at 15% off. Starter and Pro are named on the Features page. Dollar amounts for those two SKUs did not render on the marketing pricing URL.
Trendos also ships a Shopify app (developer address in Vilnius, launched 10 July 2026). That listing is first-party and priced:
| Plan | Monthly (Shopify app) | What the listing includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 20 custom prompts, 600 answers/month, up to 10 brand checks, unlimited countries |
| Basic | $39 | 100 prompts, 3,000 answers, unlimited brands |
| Starter | $169 | 450 prompts, 13,500 answers |
| Pro | $379 | 1,050 prompts, 31,500 answers |
Annual Shopify prices: $360, $1,680, $3,840. Three five-star reviews sat on that listing when we read it. That is a merchant-app price card, not proof that trendos.com checkout uses the same numbers. A German trade piece dated 24 August 2026 reported a free tier of ten brands and 100 custom queries. That conflicts with the Shopify free cap of 20 prompts. We are not going to pick a winner. Check the in-app plan screen before you budget.
When it is worth it
Trendos is worth it as a free scanner. Historical data on day one is the actual hook. If you only need to know whether ChatGPT mentions you in a category, and who else shows up, you can leave with an answer in minutes.
It is a weak long-term GEO stack. The public product does not document AI crawler logs, AI-referred traffic to conversions, or agents that write and publish to a CMS. Prompt tracking with volume and difficulty, page-level Reddit and YouTube citation trends, and a review inbox for generated articles are Promptwatch features, not Trendos features we could verify on the pages we fetched.
When to skip it
Skip a paid Trendos seat if the number has to survive a client meeting. Promptwatch Explore is also free (10 ChatGPT prompts, one project, one seat). Essential is $95/mo with citation analytics, visitor analytics, and five AEO articles. Crawler logs start on Professional at $245/mo (25M). G2 sits at 4.7/5 across 1,840-plus brands and agencies. That is the platform we rank for the full job.
Pick Trendos if you want a no-login brand lookup and you will treat every score as directional. Pick Promptwatch if the next step is "why did we drop" and "publish something about it." Start at promptwatch.com.
FAQ
Does Trendos have a free plan?
Yes. Core visibility data is marketed as instant, with no demo wall. Custom prompts are included on free. Country and prompt caps depend on which surface you are on (SaaS Features doc versus Shopify listing).
Which models does Trendos track?
Documented on Features: ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO, Perplexity, Gemini. Marketing copy also mentions Claude. Bulk import lists Claude API and Grok API.
Is Trendos cheaper than Promptwatch?
The scanner is free. Shopify Starter is $169/mo if that listing is the product you buy. Promptwatch Essential is $95/mo with a wider published stack. Compare jobs, not stickers.