New Site Radar vs Trends.vc
Disclosure: we build New Site Radar. Everything below about Trends.vc 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 Products change; if something here is out of date, email hello@newsiteradar.com and we will fix it.
Trends.vc researches emerging markets and business models for founders through free email reports and a paid deep-dive library. New Site Radar works at the website level, showing detected payment providers and listed prices alongside a modelled revenue range.
Side by side
- What it tracks
- New Site Radar: AI tool sites registered in 2025 or later that are gaining traffic
- Trends.vc: Research reports on emerging markets and business models for founders, such as AI agents, micro-SaaS and programmatic SEO; a new Trends Pro report each week
- Interface language
- New Site Radar: English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- Trends.vc: English (other languages not checked)
- Paid plan
- New Site Radar: Pro $19/month or $149/year
- Trends.vc: Trends Pro $25/month, billed $299 yearly; with weekly masterminds $83/month ($149 to join, then $250 quarterly); full refund within 30 days
- Free plan
- New Site Radar: 20-site monthly sample of the rankings, every site page, watchlist of 10 sites
- Trends.vc: Free 5-minute reports by email
- 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.
- Trends.vc: 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
- Trends.vc: 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.
- Trends.vc: Not described on the pages we checked
When Trends.vc is the better fit
- You want free 5-minute research reports by email.
- You need a library of 160+ deep-dive reports on emerging markets and business models.
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
- Trends Pro page: https://access.trends.vc/ (checked October 3, 2026)
- Trends.vc home page: https://join.trends.vc/ (checked October 3, 2026)
- New Site Radar: pricing, methodology