New Site Radar vs Open Launch
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Open Launch 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 Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Open Launch lets makers submit tech products for a scheduled launch, with community upvotes deciding the daily winners. New Site Radar focuses on monthly discovery through traffic-based rankings of AI tool websites registered in 2025 or later.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Open Launch: Tech product launches upvoted by the community; each day the 3 most upvoted launched projects are ranked as the daily winners. The site is an open source project with its code on GitHub
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Open Launch: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Open Launch: Free for visitors; paid options for makers: Premium Launch $12 per launch (launches the next day, guaranteed dofollow backlink, 10 premium slots per day) and an SEO Growth Package at $59, shown reduced from $199 (a dedicated SEO review article plus a premium launch); all launches go live at 8:00 AM UTC
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Open Launch: Browsing launches; makers' Free Launch costs $0 (featured on the homepage, with a dofollow backlink when the project finishes in the daily top 3 or shows the Open Launch badge); on the day we checked, the page said free slots were fully booked into 2027
- 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.
- Open Launch: 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
- Open Launch: 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.
- Open Launch: Not described on the pages we checked
When Open Launch is the better fit
- You want a scheduled community launch, with all launches going live at 8:00 AM UTC.
- You need a $12 Premium Launch that launches the next day and includes a guaranteed dofollow backlink.
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
- Open Launch daily winners page: https://open-launch.com/winners (checked October 4, 2026)
- Open Launch home page: https://open-launch.com/ (checked October 4, 2026)
- Open Launch categories page: https://open-launch.com/categories (checked October 4, 2026)
- Open Launch pricing page: https://open-launch.com/pricing (checked October 4, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology