Soundcharts covers streaming, social, radio and charts across the whole market. artist.tools goes deeper on Spotify: bot detection, playlist research and curator contacts, with unlimited artists for less.
Checked October 2026
| Soundcharts | artist.tools | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Music analytics | All-in-one |
| Starting price | $10/month | Free; from $15/month |
| Free plan | Unknown | Yes |
| Bot detection | No | Yes |
| Curator contacts | No | 158K+ |
| History | Yes | 4+ years |
Including where Soundcharts wins
What it does well, and where it falls short
Pros
Cons
Soundcharts is a music analytics platform that spans streaming, social, radio, playlists and charts. It covers 13 streaming services plus Instagram, TikTok, X and Facebook, and lists 20M+ artists, 11M playlists, 24,000+ charts, and radio airplay from 2,500+ stations in 87 countries. Its PRO plan adds festival and venue rankings.
If you need radio airplay, cross-platform audience data, live-event context and market rankings in one system, Soundcharts is the stronger fit.
artist.tools focuses on Spotify and the decisions around it. Artist analytics and playlist analytics connect growth to placements. Artificial-streaming detection adds bot-risk history, and Advanced Search finds playlists by genre, size and growth, with 158K+ curator contacts.
That narrower focus suits artist teams whose daily questions are about Spotify growth, playlist quality, curator outreach and checking a campaign, rather than radio or live events.
Soundcharts starts lower for a single artist, at $10/month, with 10 artists for $49/month. PRO is $129/month for unlimited artists, market features, API access and MCP. Yearly billing gives two months free.
artist.tools has a free plan; Artist is $15/month or $99/year, and Industry is $60/month or $399/year with unlimited artists. For one profile, Soundcharts can cost less. For many artists and a Spotify-focused workflow, artist.tools has the lower price.
Soundcharts offers a dashboard, alerts, reports, an API from $50/month, data shares, and an MCP server on PRO. Its API starts well below ours, so for raw data at scale it wins.
artist.tools offers its own Spotify MCP from the Artist plan, an API on the Developer plan, monitoring, search, folders, alerts and press mention tracking.
Start with Soundcharts if the project needs radio, TikTok, social audiences, global charts, festivals, venues or market-wide data. Start with artist.tools if it needs Spotify history, playlist and curator research, direct outreach or bot-risk checks.
For many teams it isn’t either-or: Soundcharts can be the broad market layer while artist.tools handles the Spotify detail.
Plainly answered
For Artists is $10/month for one artist, 10 Artists is $49/month, and PRO is $129/month for unlimited artists, market tools, API access and MCP. Yearly billing gives two months free. artist.tools is free to start, with Artist at $15/month and Industry at $60/month: compare plans.
Bot detection isn’t among the features of its plans. artist.tools checks playlists, artists and tracks for bot activity, and alerts you when anything you save picks some up; the bot checker is free.
Yes, on its PRO plan. artist.tools has a Spotify MCP from the Artist plan, with the full tool catalog on Industry.
Yes. Many teams use Soundcharts as the broad market layer and artist.tools for Spotify playlist checks and curator outreach.
