New Site Radar vs Crunchbase
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Crunchbase comes from its public pages as we read them on October 5, 2026 (sources at the bottom). Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Crunchbase is a private-company data platform for researching companies, funding rounds and investors, with saved searches, lists and alerts. New Site Radar ranks AI tool websites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic, monthly.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Crunchbase: A private-company data platform: search of 6M+ private companies, funding rounds and investors, growth, funding and IPO predictions, saved searches, lists and alerts
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Crunchbase: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Crunchbase: Pro $49/month billed annually (shown as 38% off the first year) or $99/month billed monthly; Business from $199/month billed annually; Custom Data Access (API or MCP) priced on request
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Crunchbase: A 7-day free trial of Pro
- 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.
- Crunchbase: 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
- Crunchbase: 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.
- Crunchbase: API and an MCP server through Custom Data Access, priced on request
When Crunchbase is the better fit
- You need to search 6M+ private companies, including funding rounds and investors.
- You want saved searches and alerts for private-company research.
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.
For Aug 2026, Pro shows all 228 sites on the monthly rising board; the free plan shows a 20-site sample.
Sources
- Crunchbase home page: https://www.crunchbase.com/ (checked October 5, 2026)
- Crunchbase pricing page: https://about.crunchbase.com/products/pricing/ (checked October 5, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology