New Site Radar vs Smol Launch
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Smol 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 Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Smol Launch is a weekly product launch platform for indie makers and bootstrapped founders, where submissions are reviewed before the community votes and comments. New Site Radar instead discovers AI tool websites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic, ranking them monthly.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Smol Launch: Weekly product launches by indie makers and bootstrapped founders: Monday-to-Sunday launch periods ranked by one public vote total, with Gold, Silver and Bronze badges for the top 3
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Smol Launch: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Smol Launch: Free for visitors; paid options for makers: Premium $19 per launch (permanent backlink with no badge to install, any open launch week), Premium+ $39 per launch (adds a one-week Featured Spot and a newsletter feature), Launch Everywhere from $99 (done-for-you submissions to 30+ to 100+ directories) and Maker Pass $99 per year (Premium for every launch for a year)
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Smol Launch: Browsing and voting; makers' Free Verified launch covers a product's first launch and needs the Smol Launch badge on their site, with 50 verified slots a week shared across all 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.
- Smol 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
- Smol 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.
- Smol Launch: Public API with no key: 4 GET operations (product catalog, product detail, recent launch weeks, one week's rankings), plus an MCP server for reading public data or preparing a launch draft that a person then submits
When Smol Launch is the better fit
- You want a Monday-to-Sunday launch period with community votes and comments.
- You need a $19 Premium launch with a permanent backlink and no badge to install.
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
- Smol Launch home page: https://smollaunch.com/ (checked October 4, 2026)
- Smol Launch about page: https://smollaunch.com/about (checked October 4, 2026)
- Smol Launch pricing page: https://smollaunch.com/pricing (checked October 4, 2026)
- Smol Launch developers page: https://smollaunch.com/developers (checked October 4, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology