Glimpse Pricing
Last verified: August 14, 2026
Glimpse Pricing: The Trends Tool With No Pricing Page
Glimpse does not have a pricing page. I checked every link on meetglimpse.com and there is not one. So I created an account and read the tier table off the upgrade screen inside the app. All four plans are below, with the add-on catch that explains the missing page.
The short answer
Glimpse pricing at a glance
- •Four plans: Hobbyist $0, Pro $99/mo, Expert $299/mo, Enterprise by contact. Annual billing gives 2 months free.
- •Free plan: 10 lookups per month on Hobbyist.
- •Where the tiers live: on the upgrade screen inside the app. The public site publishes one price, $99, in a blog post.
- •API pricing: an Enterprise add-on. Not included at $99 or $299, and no price is published.
- •Rating: 4.8 out of 5 from 753 ratings on the Chrome Web Store.
What Glimpse costs in 2026
Glimpse costs $99 per month on Pro, $299 per month on Expert, and a negotiated amount on Enterprise, with a free Hobbyist plan capped at 10 lookups a month. Annual billing gives 2 months free. Almost none of that is published. The public site states one number, $99, in a post comparing market research tools. The full tier table appears only on the upgrade screen after you create a free account, which is where every figure on this page was read on August 14, 2026.
That is unusual for a tool this widely used. Glimpse says it is trusted by 38% of the Fortune 50, and its Chrome extension has 100,000 users. Tools at that scale normally publish a price list. Glimpse routes you to a free sign-up and then to a demo booking instead.
Glimpse pricing facts at a glance
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Pricing page | None. No pricing link exists on meetglimpse.com |
| Free plan | Yes. Hobbyist, 10 lookups per month |
| Paid plans | Pro $99/mo, Expert $299/mo, Enterprise by contact |
| Where the tiers live | Inside the app, after you create an account |
| Annual discount | 2 months free on annual billing |
| API pricing | An Enterprise add-on. No published price |
| API data depth | 5 years of history, weekly resolution by default |
| Chrome extension rating | 4.8/5 from 753 ratings, 100,000 users |
The Missing Page
Why you cannot find a Glimpse pricing page
There is no Glimpse pricing page because Glimpse never built one. This is not a case of a price hidden behind a login. The page simply does not exist. Here is what I found on August 14, 2026:
- 1.Visiting meetglimpse.com/pricing lands on a page that reads "This page doesn't exist". So does meetglimpse.com/enterprise.
- 2.I pulled every link on the homepage. The navigation runs Use Cases, Top Trends, API, Our Data, and Resources. The footer lists Enterprise, Extension, API, Affiliate, Data, Privacy, and Terms. None of them is Pricing.
- 3.Signing up is free and asks you to pick no plan. The full tier table appears later, on the upgrade screen inside the product. That table is in the next section.
What that tells you about the sales motion
Hiding a price is a choice, and it usually means the price moves. When a company sells the same product at $99 to one buyer and at a negotiated rate to a Fortune 50 buyer, publishing a number costs it money. That is a fair business decision. It is also useful information for you: expect the quote to depend on who you say you are, and expect a demo call before you get one.
Prices in the figure, stated again as text: OutlierKit starts at $29 a month, BuzzSumo at $199 a month, Glimpse at $99 a month. Tubular Labs publishes no price.
Behind The Sign-Up
The four plans you only see after signing up
Since the public site would not answer the question, I created a free account and read the upgrade screen. Here is the full table, captured on August 14, 2026. Plan names, limits, and both paid prices, none of which appear anywhere on meetglimpse.com itself.
Hobbyist
$0/mo10 lookups per month
Full data on any topic you look up, capped at 10 topics a month.
The catch: Ten lookups is a taste, not a workflow. One research session spends them.
Pro
$99/mo100 lookups/mo, 25 tracked keywords, 10 exports/mo
Search volume and People-Also-Search data, Google Sheets integration, up to 24 trend alerts a month. Discover shows 12 trends per category.
The catch: Discover is capped at 12 trends per category. The 1M+ trend database Glimpse advertises needs the next tier up.
Expert
$299/mo500 lookups, 50 exports/mo, unlimited alerts
Full access to the 1M+ trend database with growth, volume, and brand filters, CSV export, bulk tracking, and trend forecasts.
The catch: Still no API. That word appears only in the Enterprise column.
Enterprise
Contact usUnlimited lookups, keywords, and exports
CSV import and bulk tracking, plus the add-ons: API access, priority support, custom dashboards, and pay by invoice.
The catch: The API is an Enterprise add-on. However much Enterprise costs, programmatic access costs more than $299 a month.
The add-on detail that matters most
Look at the last row of that grid. API access, custom dashboards, and pay by invoice are Enterprise add-ons. They are not features of the $99 plan or the $299 plan. So the realistic budget for programmatic Glimpse data is not $99 a month. It is an Enterprise contract at an unpublished price, plus whatever the add-on costs. That single row explains the missing pricing page better than anything else on this page.
The Product
What the $99 a month plan includes
Paid Glimpse access buys you a layer on top of Google Trends. Google Trends gives you a relative index. Glimpse converts it into real search volume and adds tracking, forecasting, and export. The feature list below comes from the Chrome Web Store listing and the Glimpse homepage, both checked on August 14, 2026.
Absolute search volume
Google Trends gives you a 0 to 100 index. Glimpse turns that into a real number of searches per month, going back more than 20 years. This is the feature people actually pay for.
Forecasting and seasonality
Glimpse strips out noise and projects the next year of search behavior. The company claims better than 95% backtested accuracy. That is their figure, not a tested one.
Trend alerts
Track hundreds of keywords and get told when one spikes or falls. This is the piece that makes it a monitoring tool instead of a lookup tool.
Channel breakdown
Shows which platforms a topic is discussed on, including TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, and YouTube. It tells you where the talk is happening. It does not tell you which videos won.
People Also Search For
Long tail terms searched alongside your keyword, with volume attached. Useful for mapping a topic before you commit budget to it.
Export to Sheets
One click sends Google Trends data to Google Sheets. Small feature, but it is the one that keeps analysts renewing.
Notice what is not on that list. Glimpse tells you a topic is being discussed on YouTube. It does not tell you which videos about it performed, how far above their channel's own average they landed, or what the comments said. That gap is the whole reason this page exists.
API
Glimpse API pricing
Glimpse does not publish API pricing. The API documentation is detailed and generous, with a live playground and code samples in six languages, but there is no price on it. To get a rate limit that suits a real workload, you email hello@meetglimpse.com.
The API itself is narrow and clear. Two endpoints are documented. One returns search interest as the 0 to 100 index. The other returns absolute search volume. Both give you 5 years of history at weekly resolution. Daily or monthly resolution and longer histories are an email request, not a parameter you can just set.
| What you want | Glimpse API | OutlierKit API |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | None | Included on Pro, $49/mo |
| How you get access | Email for rate limits | Upgrade in app, no sales call |
| What it measures | Google search demand | YouTube videos, channels, keywords, transcripts, comments |
| MCP connector | No | Yes, on paid plans from $49/mo |
This matters more than it looks. If you are building a dashboard or a screening workflow, you need to model cost before you commit. A published API price lets you do that in an afternoon. A sales call does not. The OutlierKit API and the MCP connector both come with a paid plan, so the cost is the plan price and nothing else.
Ratings
What the Glimpse rating actually says
The Glimpse Chrome extension holds 4.8 out of 5 from 753 ratings, with 100,000 users, on the Chrome Web Store. That is a strong score for a paid research tool, and it is the number you can verify yourself in about ten seconds.
Worth noting for anyone quoting figures in a deck: meetglimpse.com displays 4.91 from 170,000 or more users instead. Both numbers cannot be current. Use the store listing, since it is the checkable one, and link it.
The Category
Glimpse vs BuzzSumo vs Tubular Labs on price
These are the three tools enterprise research teams usually weigh together. They measure different things, so this is not a feature fight. It is a look at what each one will tell you before you talk to sales. Every figure below was checked on August 14, 2026.
| Tool | Pricing page | Lowest price | Where the price lives | API price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glimpse | No pricing page | $99/mo | In-app upgrade screen, behind sign-up | Enterprise add-on, no published price |
| BuzzSumo | Public pricing page | $199/mo | Listed on the pricing page | Not published, contact for pricing |
| Tubular Labs | Pricing page, no prices | Not published | Seat based, custom quote only | Not published |
| OutlierKit | Public pricing page | $29/mo | Listed on the pricing page | Included on Pro, $49/mo |
BuzzSumo publishes four tiers: $199 a month for Content Creation with 1 user, $299 for PR and Comms with 5 users, $499 for the Suite with 10 users, and $999 for Enterprise with 30 users. Paying annually saves 20%. Its Account API and Search API are sold separately, with no published price. The full breakdown, including the tier where its YouTube Analyzer unlocks, is in BuzzSumo pricing. Tubular Labs has a pricing page with no prices on it. Its own wording is seat based pricing, and the only route to a number is a demo request.
The math, done for you: OutlierKit Pro at $49 a month sits $50 a month below Glimpse and $150 a month below the cheapest BuzzSumo tier. Over a year that is $600 and $1,800. These tools do different jobs, so treat that as the cost of adding YouTube depth, not as a like for like swap.
The Decision
Is Glimpse worth $99 a month?
Yes, if your job is to spot demand before it peaks. Real time absolute search volume is genuinely hard to source anywhere else, and $99 a month is cheap next to being three months late on a category. No, if the question you are being paid to answer lives downstream of search.
Search demand research for a brand or agency team
Worth itAbsolute search volume with real time updates is genuinely hard to get elsewhere. At $99 a month for one seat, it beats building the same signal by hand.
Early trend spotting for ecommerce or product teams
Worth itSearch often moves before sales do. If you buy inventory or plan launches, seeing a category rise three months early pays for the year.
You need to know if a trend became watched video
Look widerGlimpse measures search interest. It cannot tell you whether anyone made a video about it, how those videos performed, or which creators own the topic.
You need an API on a predictable budget
Look widerThe Glimpse API is an Enterprise add-on with no published price. It is not part of the $99 or $299 plans, so you cannot model the cost before a sales call.
You are screening YouTube channels as assets
Look widerSearch demand says nothing about whether a channel's revenue is durable. That question needs video level and comment level evidence.
The Real Limit
Where search demand data stops being enough
Search demand is a leading indicator. It is not a confirmation. A keyword can climb for months while every video made about it flops, because the audience wanted a written answer, or a product, or nothing at all. Rising search tells you people are curious. It does not tell you they will watch.
That is the honest limit of any Google Trends layer, Glimpse included, and no price fixes it. To close the loop you need a second source that answers three different questions:
The full side by side, including what changed under Glimpse in 2026, is in OutlierKit vs Glimpse.
- •Did anyone make it? Rising search plus no supply is an opening. Rising search plus 40 saturated channels is a fight.
- •Did it perform? A video that beat its own channel average by 8 times is evidence. A video with a big view count on a big channel is not.
- •What did people say? Comments and transcripts are where the reason lives. Search volume never carries a reason.
Prices in the figure, stated again as text: Glimpse paid access starts at $99 a month. OutlierKit starts at $29 a month, and API plus MCP access is included on the Pro plan at $49 a month.
Most teams that buy both keep Glimpse. That is the honest answer. The two tools sit at different points in the same workflow, and the second one is a lot cheaper than the first.
The Diligence Case
If you are pricing this for channel diligence
There is a buyer for trend tools that nobody writes pricing pages for. Private equity firms, holdcos, and family offices are now buying YouTube channels as cash flowing assets. We track who owns what in YouTube channels owned by private equity. If that is your work, a Glimpse seat will not get you far, and the reason is structural rather than a knock on the product.
Diligence asks whether revenue is durable. Search demand cannot answer that. The questions that decide a deal are all one layer down:
- •Is growth coming from the back catalog or from new uploads? One of those survives a founder leaving. The other does not.
- •How much of the view base depends on a single format? Format concentration is the quiet risk in most channel deals.
- •Who sponsors it, and how often? Sponsor concentration behaves like customer concentration in any other business.
There is a practical point too. Diligence means screening 40 candidates, not admiring one dashboard. That is API work. When API pricing is a sales call, you cannot budget the screen before you run it. When it comes with a $49 a month plan, you can start on a Tuesday.
Glimpse pricing FAQ
The basics
How much does Glimpse cost?+
Glimpse costs $99 a month on the Pro plan and $299 a month on Expert, with a free Hobbyist plan capped at 10 lookups a month and a contact-us Enterprise tier above that. Annual billing gives 2 months free. None of this appears on a public pricing page; the tiers are only visible inside the app after you create a free account.
Does Glimpse have a pricing page?+
No. As of August 14, 2026, meetglimpse.com has no pricing page. The URL meetglimpse.com/pricing resolves to a page that does not exist, and no pricing link appears in the site navigation or the footer. Sign-up is free and asks you to choose no plan.
Is Glimpse free?+
Glimpse has a free plan that allows up to 10 searches per month. That is enough to check a handful of keywords, and it is not enough to run ongoing research. Paid access starts at $99 a month.
What are the Glimpse plan names?+
Hobbyist at $0, Pro at $99 a month, Expert at $299 a month, and Enterprise by contact. Glimpse does not publish these names anywhere on its public site. They appear on the upgrade screen inside the app, which is where the details on this page come from, verified on August 14, 2026.
API and integrations
How much does the Glimpse API cost?+
Glimpse does not publish API pricing, and the in-app plan table shows why: API access is listed as an Enterprise add-on, not a feature of the $99 Pro or $299 Expert plans. To get a price you email hello@meetglimpse.com or book the Enterprise conversation. Whatever the number is, it sits above $299 a month.
What does the Glimpse API actually return?+
Two documented endpoints. One returns search interest as the familiar 0 to 100 index. The other returns absolute search volume. Both cover 5 years of history at weekly resolution by default. Daily or monthly data, and anything older, requires an email request.
Does Glimpse have an MCP server?+
No. Glimpse has no MCP server, so you cannot query it directly from Claude or another MCP client. OutlierKit runs a remote MCP connector at outlierkit.com/mcp on paid plans from $49 a month, which is the closest equivalent for YouTube data.
Ratings, alternatives and fit
How is Glimpse rated?+
The Glimpse Chrome extension holds 4.8 out of 5 from 753 ratings with 100,000 users on the Chrome Web Store, verified on August 14, 2026. The meetglimpse.com site displays a different figure of 4.91 from 170,000 or more users. Cite the store listing, since that is the number you can check yourself.
Is Glimpse worth $99 a month?+
It is worth it if your job is spotting demand early, because absolute search volume in real time is hard to source elsewhere. It is not worth it if you need to know whether a trend turned into watched video, which creators own a topic, or what an audience said. Search data cannot answer those questions at any price.
Which Glimpse am I looking at?+
Three unrelated products share the name. Glimpse at meetglimpse.com is the Google Trends tool covered here. Glimpse at tryglimpse.com is an AI survey research company. There is also restaurant software and a GIMP image editor fork using the name. Roughly a third of Glimpse search traffic belongs to those other products.
Real channel breakdowns
See these strategies in the wild: full data-backed analyses of channels in this niche, including outlier videos, upload cadence, and growth patterns.
OutlierKit Channel Analysis
TBPN
Tech-business live show
- Subscribers
- 126.0K
- Avg views
- 15.2K
- Total views
- 34.3M
OutlierKit Channel Analysis
Cleo Abram
Optimistic tech explainers
- Subscribers
- 8.3M
- Avg views
- 5.0M
- Total views
- 2.9B
OutlierKit Channel Analysis
Codie Sanchez
Boring Businesses & Financial Freedom
- Subscribers
- 2.2M
- Avg views
- 427.8K
- Total views
- 406.8M
Stats are from our most recent snapshot of each channel. For live numbers, outlier videos, and up-to-date revenue estimates, run a fresh analysis on OutlierKit →
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