New Site Radar vs Indie.Deals
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Indie.Deals 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 Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Indie.Deals is a site for discovering tools, new products and offers from indie makers through collections, categories and tags. New Site Radar focuses on traffic growth among newer AI tool websites, with detected payment providers and listed prices alongside modelled revenue ranges.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Indie.Deals: Tools, new products and offers from indie makers, browsable by collection, category and tag; the home page says it has showcased indie products since 2022
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Indie.Deals: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Indie.Deals: Free for visitors; paid options for makers: Standard listing $19 (manual review within 96 hours, paid after approval, requires a backlink to Indie.Deals), Pro Launch $49 (published immediately, featured for 15 days, permanent backlink) and Sponsor placement $99 (premium placement across key pages and a dedicated review article); on the day we checked, the next sponsor slot was October 2nd, 2027
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Indie.Deals: Browsing products and a newsletter on new tools, product launches and offers from indie makers
- 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.
- Indie.Deals: 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
- Indie.Deals: 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.
- Indie.Deals: Not described on the pages we checked
When Indie.Deals is the better fit
- You want free browsing of tools, new products and offers from indie makers.
- You need collections, categories and tags to browse indie products.
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
- Indie.Deals home page: https://indie.deals/ (checked October 4, 2026)
- Indie.Deals pricing page: https://indie.deals/pricing (checked October 4, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology