Songstats tracks your music across streaming, social, radio and DJ charts. artist.tools goes deeper on Spotify: bot detection, playlist quality and curator contacts, on a free plan or from $15/month.
Checked October 2026
| Songstats | artist.tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Music analytics | All-in-one |
| Starting price | €9.99/month, billed yearly | Free; from $15/month |
| Free plan | Partly | Yes |
| Bot detection | No | Yes |
| Curator contacts | No | 158K+ |
| History | Yes | 4+ years |
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What it does well, and where it falls short
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Songstats gathers performance data from many places: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Shazam, SoundCloud, Beatport, 1001Tracklists, Traxsource, Bandsintown, Songkick and more, plus radio airplay through its Radiostats add-on.
The Artist plan is €11.99/month, or €9.99/month billed yearly, after a 7-day trial; label plans start at €19.99/month. MCP access for AI assistants comes with every paid plan. We don’t cover most of those platforms, and we don’t pretend to.
A playlist-add alert isn’t a quality check. Songstats is great at telling you something moved; it doesn’t tell you whether the playlist behind it has real listeners.
On artist.tools you get the free Bot Checker, bot labels on playlists, artists and tracks, and alerts on the Artist plan when anything you save picks up bot activity. You also get 4+ years of Spotify history, and every placement with its followers, last update and estimated listeners.
Songstats’ push alerts and shareable milestone artwork are built for managers watching a release. They aren’t a list of curators to pitch.
artist.tools’ Artist plan ($15/month) is the contacts plan: 158K+ curator emails and socials. Industry ($60/month) adds the activity feed, CSV exports and Spotify SEO. It’s useful, but it isn’t a multi-platform stats app, so don’t buy Industry to replace Songstats. Buy Artist if you need curator contacts and bot alerts.
Keep Songstats if you need Apple Music, TikTok, radio and DJ charts in one phone app. That’s what it’s built for.
Use artist.tools when the question is “are these Spotify streams real, and who do I pitch next?” Start with a free scan, then upgrade to Artist for $15/month, or $99 a year. Compare plans.
Plainly answered
Songstats Artist is €11.99/month, or €9.99/month billed yearly, after a 7-day trial; label plans start at €19.99/month. artist.tools has a free plan, and Artist is $15/month or $99/year: compare plans.
It doesn’t offer bot detection: it tells you a song was added to a playlist, not whether that playlist’s listeners are real. artist.tools checks playlists, artists and tracks for bot activity, and the bot checker is free.
No. artist.tools has 158K+ curator emails and socials on the Artist plan, so you can go from a playlist to its curator in one search.
Yes. Keep Songstats for cross-platform stats and alerts, and use artist.tools to check Spotify playlists for bots and find curators to pitch.
