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Rankscale vs Trendos:which is better for agencies and marketing teams?
Jules de BruinChief of Staff, RankscaleFacts about Trendos checked 12 November 2026 from Trendos's own pages
Rankscale is a Trendos alternative for agencies and marketing teams that need unlimited search terms, flexible (nine) tracking schedules and white-labeled client reports. Rankscale tracks 17+ AI engines on every plan, as interface, API and API with web search, from €17 a month billed yearly or €99 a month billed monthly (Rankscale pricing); Trendos starts at $39 a month for 100 prompts (Trendos pricing page, read 12 November 2026).
How do Rankscale and Trendos differ?
Rankscale and Trendos differ most in pricing unit, engine choice and tracking schedule: Rankscale sells credits with unlimited search terms and flexible (nine) tracking schedules from hourly to bi-monthly (Rankscale pricing), while Trendos sells a fixed number of daily prompts per plan (Trendos pricing page, read 12 November 2026).
Rankscale tracks unlimited search terms on every plan and charges per run, so a team pays for how often and on how many engines it tracks, from manual runs to hourly (Rankscale pricing). Trendos caps custom prompts per plan, at 100 on Basic and 1,050 on Pro, and runs every prompt daily (Trendos pricing page, Trendos features, read 12 November 2026).
Which Rankscale features does Trendos not list?
Rankscale includes page audits, Rankscale Scout recommendations, local results, AI Visits, shopping analysis, CSV and Google Sheets exports, a Data Studio integration, custom dashboards, Slack support and a dedicated onboarding session, and none of these appear on Trendos's features or pricing pages (Rankscale pricing, Trendos features, read 12 November 2026).
| Feature | Rankscale | Trendos(read 12 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Page audits | 10 a month on Essentials, 50 on Pro, 100 on Pro+, 200 on Growth and Enterprise | Not listed |
| Rankscale Scout recommendations | Every plan | Not listed |
| Local results | From Pro: map and place results in AI answers, per engine, with the rivals that take your spot | Not listed |
| AI Visits | From Pro: which AI bots read your site and which pages, from a read-only Cloudflare token | Not listed |
| Shopping analysis | From Pro: products, merchants and prices in AI shopping results | Not listed |
| Data exports | From Pro: CSV and Google Sheets | Not listed |
| Data Studio integration | From Pro | Not listed |
| Custom dashboards | From Pro | Not listed |
| Slack support | From Pro; priority support on Growth and Enterprise | Enterprise: "Priority support and onboarding" |
| Dedicated onboarding session | Growth and Enterprise | Enterprise: "Priority support and onboarding" |
| Group onboarding | On request | Not listed |
| Agency Accelerator webinar sessions | Growth | Not listed; partner certification for approved agencies |
- Rankscale page audits check how well AI engines can read any URL, with 10 to 200 audits a month included depending on the plan (Rankscale pricing).
- Rankscale Local Results shows, per engine, how often a local map pack appears, whether your brand is in it, at which position, and which rivals take your spot (Rankscale pricing).
- Rankscale AI Visits shows which AI bots read your site, split into live fetches, search crawls and training crawls, and whether they read llms.txt, robots.txt and the sitemap (Rankscale pricing).
- Rankscale shopping analysis counts the products, merchants and prices that AI engines show in shopping results (Rankscale pricing).
- Rankscale exports any view to CSV or Google Sheets and feeds Data Studio, so agencies can put AI visibility into the client reports they already send (Rankscale pricing).
- Rankscale Growth and Enterprise include a dedicated onboarding session and priority support, and every plan from Pro includes Slack support (Rankscale pricing).
What does each capture in an AI answer?
Both tools capture mentions, citations, sentiment and query fan-out (Rankscale pricing, Trendos features); Rankscale also captures ChatGPT follow-up forms, local results, AI shopping results and AI bot visits to your site (Rankscale pricing).
| Captured | Rankscale | Trendos(read 12 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Mentions, position, competitors | Every plan | Yes, with competitor benchmark |
| Citations and sources | Every plan | Domains and pages |
| Query fan-out | Every plan | Yes |
| Sentiment | From Pro | Yes |
| ChatGPT follow-up forms | Every plan | Not listed |
| Ads in AI answers | Ad analytics, from Pro | Ad Radar, ChatGPT only |
ChatGPT often shows buyers a form before it recommends anyone: in 7,313 answers to 765 buying prompts across Germany, the UK and the US, 79.4% carried a follow-up form (Rankscale follow-up form study). Budget is asked in 87% of those forms, 9 in 10 budget questions pre-select the middle price band, and 86.5% of forms arrive already filled in by ChatGPT (same study). Rankscale records the form, its pre-selected answers and the refined prompt ChatGPT sends next on every ChatGPT run, on every plan (Rankscale pricing); Trendos does not list follow-up forms (Trendos features).
What do Rankscale and Trendos cost for 100 prompts a day?
Trendos tracks 100 prompts a day for $39 a month on Basic (Trendos pricing page, read 12 November 2026); Rankscale's cost for the same profile depends on how many engines run each prompt, at 0.25 credits per engine run (Rankscale pricing).
- Essentials€17/mobilled yearly only120 credits · 2 brands
- Pro€84/mo€99 billed monthly1,200 credits · 10 brands
- REST APIPro+€195/mo€229 billed monthly3,000 credits · 25 brands
- Growth€327/mo€385 billed monthly5,500 credits · 50 brands
- Enterprise€663/mo€780 billed monthly12,000 credits · 100 brands
Billed yearly unless stated, as of November 2026 (Rankscale pricing). Every plan includes all engines, all regions and unlimited search terms.
How to price any profile on Rankscale:
| Profile, 1 country | Rankscale | Trendos(read 12 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Daily, 1 engine, 100 prompts | 750 credits → Pro, €99 a month | Basic, $39 a month |
| Daily, 3 engines, 100 prompts | 2,250 credits → Pro+, €229 a month | Basic, $39 a month, all 7 engines included |
| Weekly, 3 engines, 100 prompts | About 325 credits → Pro, €99 a month | Not offered: daily only |
A team that tracks 100 prompts on 3 engines weekly instead of daily uses about 325 credits instead of 2,250 and fits Pro at €99 a month billed monthly (Rankscale pricing).
Which AI engines does each track?
Rankscale tracks 17+ AI engines on every plan, as the interface buyers use (GUI), as API and as API with web search (Rankscale pricing); Trendos lists 7 engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok and Google AI Overviews (Trendos features, read 12 November 2026).
| Provider | Rankscale | Trendos(read 12 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | ChatGPT (GUI, 0.25 credits); GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol (API, 1 credit; 3 with web search) | ChatGPT |
| Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews and Gemini (GUI, 0.25 credits); Gemini 3.0 Flash, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.1 Pro (API) | Google AI Overviews, Gemini | |
| Microsoft | Bing AI Mode (GUI, 0.25 credits) | Not listed |
| Anthropic | Claude Sonnet 5.5 (API, 3 credits; 4 with web search) and Claude Haiku 5.5 (API, 1 credit; 3 with web search) | Claude |
| Meta | Meta Muse Spark, 4 credits per run, since 27 September 2026 | Not listed |
| Perplexity | Sonar, Sonar Pro and Sonar Reasoning Pro (API); interface (GUI) tracking is paused for now | Perplexity |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek, 1 credit per run | DeepSeek |
| Mistral | Mistral Large (API) | Not listed |
| xAI | Grok is currently not available | Grok |
Rankscale lets a team choose, per search term, whether an engine answers as the interface buyers see, as the bare API model, or as the API model with web search, and every engine is included on every plan (Rankscale pricing). Both tools cover every country on every plan (Rankscale pricing, Trendos pricing page).
Which one fits an agency with many client brands?
Rankscale fits an agency that reports to clients under its own brand: Growth includes white-labeled dashboard links and 50 brand dashboards for €385 a month billed monthly (Rankscale pricing). Trendos offers approved agencies a free partner program with agency pricing on request (Trendos agency partnerships, read 12 November 2026) and does not list white-label reporting.
- Rankscale shares dashboards as links on every plan and connects Looker Studio from Pro (Rankscale pricing).
- Rankscale includes unlimited seats from Pro, so every account manager can log in (Rankscale pricing).
- Trendos includes unlimited brands on every paid plan (Trendos pricing page); Rankscale includes 2 to 100 brand dashboards by plan (Rankscale pricing).
Which one fits an in-house marketing team?
Rankscale fits an in-house team that reports to leadership across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Bing, Claude, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta and Perplexity (its Sonar APIs, while interface tracking is paused), and wants the data in its own tools: MCP comes with every plan from Essentials and the REST API from Pro+ at €229 a month billed monthly (Rankscale pricing, Rankscale API). Trendos fits a team that wants daily tracking of up to 100 prompts for $39 a month (Trendos pricing page, read 12 November 2026).
Why do teams look for a Trendos alternative?
Trendos has 6 reviews on Trustpilot, from 9 June to 24 August 2026, too few to show a pattern (Trendos on Trustpilot, counted 12 November 2026). Of those 6, one mentions price for value and one mentions too few tools to act on the data.
- On price for value: Rankscale charges per run, so a team can track weekly, monthly or manually instead of daily and pay for less (Rankscale pricing).
- On acting on the data: Rankscale gives recommendations per prompt and on sentiment, Rankscale Scout recommendations on every plan (Rankscale pricing), 10 to 200 page audits a month, and an AI Visibility Audit report on how ChatGPT describes a brand.
When is Trendos the better choice?
Trendos tracks Grok and DeepSeek on every plan (Trendos features, read 12 November 2026); Grok is currently not available in Rankscale.
- Trendos includes unlimited brands on every paid plan, from $39 a month (Trendos pricing page).
- Trendos says brands already in its dataset come with historical data from day one (Trendos homepage).
- Trendos offers a free plan with 20 custom prompts and 600 analyzed answers a month (Trendos pricing page).
How do you switch from Trendos to Rankscale?
Switching takes five steps and can run side by side with Trendos during the 7-day Rankscale trial (Rankscale pricing).
- Export your prompt list from Trendos, or take a screenshot of it and ask your AI assistant to extract the prompts.
- Start a 7-day Rankscale trial.
- Import the prompts as search terms in bulk from a CSV file, or add them via the Rankscale API or MCP server.
- Set the countries, the engines and the schedule for each search term, from manual to hourly (Rankscale pricing): manually after a bulk CSV import, or automatically when you add the search terms via the Rankscale API or MCP server.
- Compare both tools on the same prompts after 10 or more runs each.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers, with the sources they come from.
Rankscale is a Trendos alternative for agencies that need white-labeled client links, unlimited seats and Looker Studio, on Growth at €385 a month billed monthly (Rankscale pricing).
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