New Site Radar vs Answer Socrates
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Answer Socrates 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 Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Answer Socrates is a question and keyword research tool that returns real search phrases and questions from seed keywords, by country and language. New Site Radar ranks AI tool websites monthly and compares traffic numbers with a second, independent source when that source covers the site.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Answer Socrates: Question and keyword research: real search phrases and questions from search engines and AI assistants for a seed keyword, keyword clustering by topic, intent and funnel stage, trending topics, and a tracker for how AI assistants mention a brand
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Answer Socrates: English (other languages not checked); searches can be set by country and language
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Answer Socrates: Socrates Lite $19/month, Seneca $39/month, Aurelius $69/month, Senate (teams) $299/month; billed yearly: $190, $390, $690 or $2,990 a year; 7-day money-back guarantee
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Answer Socrates: Free plan: 3 keyword searches a day, 1 recursive search a day, 500 cluster credits a month, 1 CSV download a month and a browser extension; no search metrics, brand tracker or API
- 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.
- Answer Socrates: Not described on the pages we checked
- Revenue view
- New Site Radar: Detected payment provider and real pricing, with a modelled revenue range and its confidence
- Answer Socrates: 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.
- Answer Socrates: A hosted MCP server and a REST API on Seneca and higher plans, with API credits per plan (Seneca 6,000 a year, Aurelius 30,000, Senate 300,000)
When Answer Socrates is the better fit
- You need search questions from seed keywords by country and language.
- You want keyword clusters scored by topic, search intent and funnel stage.
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
- Answer Socrates home page: https://answersocrates.com/ (checked October 4, 2026)
- Answer Socrates pricing page: https://answersocrates.com/pricing (checked October 4, 2026)
- Answer Socrates MCP and API page: https://answersocrates.com/mcp (checked October 4, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology