New Site Radar vs AlternativeTo
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about AlternativeTo comes from its public pages as we read them on October 4, 2026 (sources at the bottom). Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
AlternativeTo is a crowd-sourced site for finding alternatives to software people want to replace, across desktop, mobile and web apps. New Site Radar supports early niche research with detected payment providers and listed prices alongside a modelled revenue range.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- AlternativeTo: Crowd-sourced recommendations of alternatives to software you already use, across desktop, mobile and web apps (155,768 apps ranked by 2,044,738 user opinions on its home page), plus new app releases and tech news
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- AlternativeTo: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- AlternativeTo: Free to use; advertising and partner placements are offered, with terms not described on the pages we checked
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- AlternativeTo: Browsing and searching alternatives; signing up to recommend apps
- Second-source check of traffic numbers
- New Site Radar: Yes: traffic is compared with a second, independent source (search-traffic estimates, or Tranco rank for brand-driven sites); sites only one source covers are labelled; site owners can request a correction, with review outcomes shown on the site page.
- AlternativeTo: Not described for website traffic; app pages and recommendations come from people who use the software, not from the companies that make it
- Revenue view
- New Site Radar: Detected payment provider and real pricing, with a modelled revenue range and its confidence
- AlternativeTo: Not described on the pages we checked
- API / MCP
- New Site Radar: Remote MCP server, 7 read-only tools; free accountless key: 20 calls/day, Pro-only fields hidden; Pro keys: no daily cap.
- AlternativeTo: Not described on the pages we checked
When AlternativeTo is the better fit
- You need alternatives to software you already use.
- You want recommendations from people who use the software.
When New Site Radar is the better fit
- You want AI tool sites that launched recently and are starting to grow, before they are well known.
- You want to know how far to trust each number: every figure is checked against a second source where one exists, and the evidence is on the site page (see the methodology).
- You want to query the data from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex over MCP.
Try it: the growth rankings have a free monthly sample, and Pro shows the full board.
Sources
- AlternativeTo home page: https://alternativeto.net/ (checked October 4, 2026)
- AlternativeTo about page: https://alternativeto.net/about/ (checked October 4, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology