New Site Radar vs Product Hunt
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Product Hunt comes from its public pages as we read them on October 3, 2026 (sources at the bottom). Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Product Hunt is a community where makers launch new products and members upvote them on a daily leaderboard. New Site Radar has a narrower job: monthly rankings of AI tool websites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Product Hunt: New tech products of every kind, ranked daily by the community on a homepage leaderboard, with reviews, alternatives and forums
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Product Hunt: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Product Hunt: Paid options are for advertisers: self-serve display campaigns and newsletter sponsorships, plus managed campaigns; prices are not shown on the advertising page
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Product Hunt: Free to use, including launching (submitting) a product
- 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
- Product Hunt: 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
- Product Hunt: Not described on the pages we checked
- API / MCP
- New Site Radar: Remote MCP server with 7 read-only tools (listing free, calls on Pro)
- Product Hunt: GraphQL API 2.0 with OAuth tokens and public read access by default; business use needs their permission by email
When Product Hunt is the better fit
- You want to launch your own product and get upvotes, comments and feedback from its community on launch day.
- You want to see which new products of any kind, beyond AI tool websites, the community is upvoting today.
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
- Product Hunt about page: https://www.producthunt.com/about (checked October 3, 2026)
- Product Hunt home page: https://www.producthunt.com/ (checked October 3, 2026)
- Product Hunt launch guide: https://www.producthunt.com/launch (checked October 3, 2026)
- Product Hunt advertising page: https://www.producthunt.com/sponsor (checked October 3, 2026)
- Product Hunt API documentation: https://api.producthunt.com/v2/docs (checked October 3, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology