Social Blade vs ViewStats Comparison 2026
Social Blade shows public stats on any channel across five platforms, free to browse with ads or from $5 a month for Bronze without them. ViewStats is YouTube only and built around outlier detection, surfacing videos doing better than the channel's own baseline would predict, free for the site and browser extension or $49.99 a month for Pro's competitor tracking. ViewStats costs roughly ten times more, for a narrower platform and a sharper question.
Public stats for channels you do not own
YouTube analytics from MrBeast's own team
At a glance
- Social Blade starts cheaper, at $5.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Social Blade | ViewStats | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $5 | From $49.99 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
Social Blade
Public stats for channels you do not own
Social Blade has been the place people check somebody else's numbers since long before creator analytics was a product category. Everything public is free to look at, which is why brands, journalists and rival channels all end up here. What a subscription buys is the absence of adverts, longer history and the ranked lists. The estimated earnings figure is a wide range built from public data, and it should be read as one.
Our note
The estimated earnings range is the most quoted and least reliable thing on the site, because it is inferred from public view counts and knows nothing about sponsorships, which are usually the larger half. Bronze is enough for occasional checks, and the reason to go past it is the ranked lists rather than the extra history.
Only on this side
- Works with Instagram
- Works with TikTok
- Works with Facebook
- Works with Twitch
ViewStats
YouTube analytics from MrBeast's own team
Why people weigh these two
- ViewStats instead of Social Blade
- ViewStats gives YouTube analytics from MrBeast's own team, from $50 with a free tier, with more depth on channels than a public tracker.
- Social Blade instead of ViewStats
- Social Blade shows public stats for channels you do not own, from $5 with a free tier, the cheap way to watch the same numbers.
Which one should you pick
Pick Social Blade for a wide net across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and YouTube, checking any public channel's history. Free covers most of what people come for; Bronze is $5 a month for the ranked lists and extra history.
Pick ViewStats if the question is specifically which of your own YouTube videos are outliers, and how your packaging compares to what is working in the niche. The free site and extension already answer a lot of that; Pro at $49.99 a month adds competitor tracking, worthwhile mainly if you publish often enough to have a baseline.
Common questions
- Which one is cheaper?
- Social Blade. Bronze is $5 a month against ViewStats Pro at $49.99 a month, roughly ten times more.
- Does Social Blade work for platforms besides YouTube?
- Yes: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch and YouTube. ViewStats covers YouTube only.
- What is outlier detection, and does Social Blade have it?
- Outlier detection is ViewStats' feature: surfacing videos performing above what a channel's baseline predicts. Social Blade's ranked lists and report cards do not make that kind of comparison.
- Is ViewStats' free tier worth trying before paying?
- Yes. The free site and Chrome extension are described as a real product on their own, not a teaser, worth trying before the $49.99 a month Pro plan.
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