Making the work
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Both cover analytics. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
One dashboard for numbers kept in nine places
Social profile analytics billed per account
Databox | Minter.io | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $64 | From $9 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
One dashboard for numbers kept in nine places
Databox pulls figures out of the tools a creator business already runs and puts them on one screen, which is a different job from measuring a website. Analytics, a payment processor, an email platform and a social scheduler can all land on the same board. Data sources are the billing unit and they are what runs the bill up. The free tier is small enough to be a demonstration rather than a workflow.
Our note
List the tools you want connected before looking at the price, because five sources sounds generous until analytics, Stripe, a mailing platform and two social accounts have used them all. The free tier is a fair way to find out whether you will actually open the dashboard, which is the real question with any reporting product.
Social profile analytics billed per account
Minter.io reports on one social profile at a time and charges that way, which suits somebody running three accounts and nothing like a marketing department. Instagram is where it goes deepest, down to stories, reels, collabs and hashtag performance. Reports are scheduled and emailed rather than waiting in a dashboard nobody opens. Adding a competitor's public profile costs the same as adding your own.
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| Web |
| Covers | Analytics | Analytics, Social Media Management |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
Count your profiles first and multiply, because this is cheap at two accounts and expensive at ten in a way the headline price hides. Iconosquare and Metricool are the flat-rate comparisons; Minter.io wins when you track few accounts deeply and loses when you track many.
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