PlaylistMap sells curator contacts by the credit, with a free bot checker and pitch templates. artist.tools gives you unlimited curator contacts for $15/month, plus playlist history, listener data and artist monitoring.
Checked October 2026
| PlaylistMap | artist.tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Playlist research | All-in-one |
| Starting price | From $7.49/month | Free; from $15/month |
| Free plan | Partly | Yes |
| Bot detection | Yes | Yes |
| Curator contacts | Yes | 158K+ |
| History | No | 4+ years |
Including where PlaylistMap wins
What it does well, and where it falls short
Pros
Cons
Botted playlists and playlist scams are a plague for small artists.
PlaylistMap offers a free playlist checker and shows an integrity score on its playlist pages: a quick screen of one playlist before you pitch it.
artist.tools goes further, with bot detection for playlists, artists and tracks, our database of playlist scam networks, and alerts when anything you save shows bot activity.
PlaylistMap sells curator contacts by the credit: 20 a month on Basic ($9.99/month) and 100 on Premium ($19.99/month). Unused credits roll over, and wrong contacts are refunded.
On the artist.tools Artist plan ($15/month, or $99/year), curator contacts are unlimited, so you never ration your pitches.
PlaylistMap’s filters narrow curators by relevance. On artist.tools, you can filter by just about anything: followers, listeners, contact type, botted or not, includes an artist, includes or excludes a phrase, and more.
For example:
artist.tools adds context to every playlist in our database: listener demographics, estimated listeners, growth over time, popularity score and more.
Unlike PlaylistMap, we cover a lot more than playlists: artist.tools tracks artist, track, playlist and curator data, so you get the full picture.
Plainly answered
Basic is $9.99/month for 20 curator contacts, and Premium $19.99/month for 100 (less when billed yearly, from $7.49/month). A free plan includes 3 credits. The artist.tools Artist plan is $15/month for unlimited contacts.
Yes. It has a free playlist checker and shows an integrity score on its playlist pages. artist.tools also checks artists and tracks, and alerts you when anything you save shows bot activity.
One credit unlocks one curator’s contact info. Unused credits roll over to the next month, and PlaylistMap refunds the credit if a contact turns out to be wrong.
Yes. Use PlaylistMap for a few templated pitches, and artist.tools to research playlists and find more curators without per-contact limits.
