Trendos Pricing Guide 2026
What we tell clients about Trendos cost: free scan, conflicting caps, Shopify $39/$169/$379, and why we still budget Promptwatch Essential at $95.
We do not put an unsourced "Trendos is $X" line in a proposal. We looked at three surfaces and they do not agree. This is the pricing talk we give, then we budget Promptwatch for the work.
Surfaces
Marketing pricing page: yearly 15% off. Enterprise Custom (unlimited countries/brands, historical, high volume, priority onboarding). Starter/Pro named in Features, dollars not in our fetch.
Features (March 2026): free = eleven countries. Starter or Pro = unlimited countries.
Shopify app (10 July 2026, Vilnius): Free 20 prompts / 600 answers / 10 brand checks / unlimited countries. Basic $39 (100 prompts, 3,000 answers). Starter $169 (450 prompts, 13,500 answers). Pro $379 (1,050 prompts, 31,500 answers). Annual $360 / $1,680 / $3,840. Listing had three five-star reviews.
German article 24 August 2026: free = 10 brands, 100 queries. Secondhand. Conflicts with Shopify.
We tell the client to screenshot their plan page. We will not argue with a vendor PDF we cannot see.
What the money buys
Collection: mentions, Trendos Score, SoV, sentiment, domain citations, competitors, custom prompts (country + LLM), bulk import, ChatGPT Ad Radar (all plans, ChatGPT only, daily), MCP. Features LLM list: ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GAIO, Perplexity, Gemini. Homepage also Claude.
Not in those pages: crawler-log GB, visitor events, article quotas. If a salesperson adds them, we want it in writing.
Prompt Management generates prompts. Tracked vs managed brands affects how much of the 2.3M to 2.5M historical index you get for free versus what you must actively manage.
What we budget instead
Promptwatch Explore $0 for a workshop. Essential $95 for a single-brand measurement-plus-content slice (50 prompts, 6,000 responses, 200K visitor events, five AEO articles). Professional $245 when logs matter (25M crawler logs, 15 articles). Kick-off $199 when we are the agency of record on several brands. Business $579 for five projects. Annual 10-for-12. EUR exists if the client wants it. We do not quote euros from memory.
AthenaHQ $295 plus credits. Profound $99 Starter is a ChatGPT toy relative to their Enterprise (~$40k/year). We do not use those as Trendos substitutes in a standard GEO SOW.
The uncomfortable comparison
Shopify Trendos Starter at $169 is more than Promptwatch Essential at $95. Essential includes visitor analytics and five AEO articles. Unless the client is married to the Trendos historical browser (vendor: millions of brands), we will not recommend paying $169 for a thicker checker.
Free Trendos in discovery is fine. We already do that with other free graders. Discovery is not delivery.
A note we put in SOWs: "AI visibility measurement" means Promptwatch Essential or Kick-off, not a Trendos screenshot. If the client insists on Trendos as the system of record, we will scope the retainer as mention monitoring only. No crawler-log SLA. No AI-referral conversion reporting. No published article quota. That usually ends the insistence.
G2 is 4.7/5 on Promptwatch across 1,840-plus brands. Trendos had three Shopify reviews when we looked. We will not pretend those samples are comparable. We will also not invent a Trendos G2 score.
SOW language we reuse
"Measurement and publish: Promptwatch Essential or Kick-off." "Discovery scan: Trendos or equivalent free checker, non-binding." "Crawler-log SLA: Professional, CDN connector required." "Article quota: five on Essential, fifteen on Professional, review inbox required."
If the client pushes Trendos Enterprise Custom, we ask for prompts, engines, countries, seats, and any action features on the order form. Custom without a grid is how scope creeps.
Shopify vs marketing site, again
Features caps free at eleven countries including Netherlands and France. Shopify free says unlimited countries, 20 prompts, 600 answers, 10 brand checks. German press August 2026: 10 brands, 100 queries. We screenshot the client's checkout. We do not merge caps in the proposal.
Basic $39, Starter $169, Pro $379 on Shopify. Annual $360 / $1,680 / $3,840. Marketing yearly toggle 15%. Starter/Pro on trendos.com/pricing did not show dollars in our fetch. That is why this guide exists.
Client questions we get every quarter
"Can we stay on Trendos free and pay you for content?" Yes, but the SOW says Promptwatch Explore or Essential for measurement. Trendos is appendix only.
"Is Shopify Starter cheaper than your stack?" $169 vs Essential $95. Starter buys prompts and answers. Essential buys five articles and visitor analytics. We send both pricing pages.
"Does Enterprise Trendos replace Professional?" Not until the order form lists crawler logs and CMS publish. Custom tile we fetched lists volume and onboarding only.
FAQ
Can we expense Trendos Enterprise?
If the order form lists prompts, engines, countries, seats, and any action features. Custom without a grid is how retainers get vague.
Should the client take yearly on Shopify for 17% off?
Only if they are sure the Shopify app is the product they will live in. A 17% discount on the wrong door is still the wrong door.
What about the eleven-country free cap vs Shopify unlimited?
We list both. We do not merge them. If the client is EU-heavy, Features naming Netherlands and France matters. If they live in Shopify, unlimited countries on free is what the listing says. Screenshot beats our fetch.