# TubeGrade

> TubeGrade is a YouTube research platform for creators. It finds "outlier" videos — videos that got far more views than their channel normally gets — so creators can see which topics, titles and thumbnails are actually working in their niche right now. It includes a free web app, a Chrome extension that adds these stats directly on YouTube, an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT, and free YouTube tools that need no signup.

Key facts:

- Website: https://www.tubegrade.com (sign in with Google; the Free plan never expires and needs no credit card).
- Core idea: an outlier score compares a video's views with its channel's typical views (for example, 8x means the video did eight times better than usual for that channel). This shows what over-performs, not just what is big.
- TubeGrade tracks over 42,000 YouTube channels and about 38,000 breakout videos (videos with at least 2x their channel's usual views), and refreshes viral title and thumbnail formats every week.
- Pricing: Free plan ($0, 100 one-time AI credits, 10 live outlier searches and 2 niche reports per month). Pro is $15/month or $144/year (about $12/month), with unlimited outlier search, 30 niche reports per month and 500 AI credits every month. New subscribers can try Pro's first month for $1. 7-day money-back guarantee; cancel anytime.
- Who it is for: YouTube creators, faceless/automation channels, editors, strategists and agencies researching niches, competitors and video ideas.

## Product

- [Homepage](https://www.tubegrade.com/): Find viral YouTube outlier videos and winning niches.
- [Features](https://www.tubegrade.com/features/): Every web-app feature with what it does and its Free vs Pro limits.
- [Pricing](https://www.tubegrade.com/pricing/): Free vs Pro comparison, credits, refund policy and FAQ.
- [Browser extension](https://www.tubegrade.com/browser-extension/): What the Chrome extension shows on YouTube pages.
- [MCP server](https://www.tubegrade.com/mcp/): Use TubeGrade's YouTube research inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients, with setup steps and the full tool list.

## Features (web app)

- Live outlier search: search YouTube by keyword and rank results by how much each video over-performed its channel.
- [Global outliers](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-viral-video-finder/): search breakout videos across TubeGrade's whole database by topic (Pro).
- [Niche research](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-niche-finder/): research a whole niche in up to 30 sub-topic searches (2 a month free, 30 on Pro); the optional AI niche report (20 credits) is an AI-written report on any niche, built from real video stats — a niche snapshot, the hottest sub-niches, winning title patterns, content gaps and video ideas, channels to watch, and an action plan.
- [Viral title formats](https://www.tubegrade.com/viral-youtube-title-formats/) and [thumbnail formats](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-thumbnail-ideas/): reusable title templates and thumbnail styles that are repeatedly over-performing, detected weekly from real data.
- [Competitor tracking](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-competitor-analysis/): follow up to 5 rival channels, compare their growth with yours, and see their recent uploads (Pro).
- [ThumbBoard](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-thumbnail-inspiration/) and similar thumbnails: a board of thumbnails for your topics with outlier scores, and visual search for similar thumbnails, including from an uploaded image (Pro).
- [AI video idea generator](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-video-ideas-generator/): ideas built from your channel, real YouTube search suggestions and proven outlier videos (2 credits per idea).
- Keyword Map, AI video ideas, transcripts and thumbnail tools (batch for a whole channel on Pro), and saved folders.

## Comparisons

- [YouTube research tools compared](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/): prices (checked October 2026) and best uses of TubeGrade, vidIQ, 1of10, TubeBuddy, Social Blade, ViewStats, OutlierKit and TubeLab.
- [vidIQ alternatives](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/vidiq-alternatives/), [1of10 alternatives](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/1of10-alternatives/), [Social Blade alternatives](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/social-blade-alternatives/): side-by-side tables, strengths and limits of each tool.
- Head-to-head: [TubeGrade vs vidIQ](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-vidiq/), [TubeGrade vs TubeBuddy](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-tubebuddy/), [TubeGrade vs Social Blade](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-social-blade/), [TubeGrade vs ViewStats](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-viewstats/), [TubeGrade vs 1of10](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-1of10/), [TubeGrade vs OutlierKit](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-outlierkit/), [TubeGrade vs NexLev](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-nexlev/), [TubeGrade vs TubeLab](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-tubelab/), [TubeGrade vs Palo AI](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-palo-ai/), [TubeGrade vs Keywords Everywhere](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-keywords-everywhere/), [TubeGrade vs Keyword Tool](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-keyword-tool/), [TubeGrade vs Rapidtags](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-rapidtags/), [TubeGrade vs TubeRanker](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-tuberanker/), [TubeGrade vs NoxInfluencer](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-noxinfluencer/), [TubeGrade vs Ahrefs](https://www.tubegrade.com/compare/tubegrade-vs-ahrefs/).
- TubeGrade pricing: free plan; Pro $15/month or $144/year ($12/month); new subscribers pay $1 for the first month of monthly Pro.

## Chrome extension

- [TubeGrade on the Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblfeehahjblafjmfonnibgnipfejla): Free to install.
- On a video page: outlier score, views-per-hour, engagement and growth scores, a monetization check, thumbnail download, similar thumbnails, and the full transcript/script.
- On the YouTube home feed: outlier badges on thumbnails, channel stats inline, home-feed filters, a quick stats popup, and a one-click toggle to hide Shorts.
- Channel pages: export a channel's videos with their stats.
- In YouTube Studio: suggests real YouTube searches (YouTube's own autocomplete) while you write a video title, the A/B-test title variants and tags — free, no credits.

## MCP server (for AI assistants)

- Server URL: https://api.tubegrade.com/mcp (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth sign-in with a TubeGrade account).
- Works with Claude (Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector), ChatGPT (Plugins → Add custom MCP server) and other MCP clients such as Cursor.
- Tools include channel stats with growth history, video stats, YouTube search ranked by performance, transcripts (single video or a whole channel), comments, a channel's breakout videos, outliers by keyword, viral title/thumbnail formats, keyword ideas, similar thumbnails, the videos YouTube recommends next to any video, similar channels (same topic, similar size), and the weekly fastest-growing, breakout and most-subscribed channel rankings by country. Pro users can also track and untrack competitors.
- Usage is credit-based (Free: 100 one-time credits; Pro: 500 per month; extra credits can be bought). Examples: rankings 1 credit, keyword ideas 1, channel stats 5, video stats 5, search 5, viral formats 5, similar channels 5, transcript 10, breakout videos 10, similar thumbnails 20; bulk transcripts cost 10 and bulk thumbnails 1 per video. Checking your balance, managing bookmarks and tracking competitors is free. Full list on the MCP page.

## Blog (monthly YouTube data reports)

- [TubeGrade blog](https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/): monthly reports built from TubeGrade's data, written by founder [Shanu Chand](https://www.tubegrade.com/authors/shanu-chand/).
- [Viral YouTube title formats: June 2026 report](https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-june-2026/): the 26 title patterns many channels' over-performing videos used in June 2026, with real example videos, and the 3 still producing new hits in October 2026. Plain-text version: https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-june-2026/index.md · Data (CSV): https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-june-2026/viral-youtube-title-formats-june-2026.csv
- [Viral YouTube title formats: July 2026 report](https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-july-2026/): 774 videos uploaded in July 2026 that got at least 5x their channel's usual views (music left out), the June formats that kept winning, the rise of "learning how to learn" titles, and what happens when a title is copied word for word. Plain-text version: https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-july-2026/index.md · Data (CSV): https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-july-2026/viral-youtube-title-formats-july-2026.csv
- [Viral YouTube title formats: August 2026 report](https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-august-2026/): 1,219 videos uploaded in August 2026 that got at least 5x their channel's usual views; when a deadly flood hit Nepal, explainer videos had about 3.6x the typical views of news footage; documentaries rose; two July trends faded. Plain-text version: https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-august-2026/index.md · Data (CSV): https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-august-2026/viral-youtube-title-formats-august-2026.csv
- [Viral YouTube title formats: September 2026 report](https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-september-2026/): 951 videos uploaded in September 2026 that got at least 5x their channel's usual views; on iPhone launch week a reaction video nearly doubled Apple's own; one channel had 91 breakouts; podcast clips and the expert authority hook led for a third month. Plain-text version: https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-september-2026/index.md · Data (CSV): https://www.tubegrade.com/blog/viral-youtube-title-formats-september-2026/viral-youtube-title-formats-september-2026.csv

## YouTube channel stats pages

- Stats for any YouTube channel: https://www.tubegrade.com/@{handle} (for example https://www.tubegrade.com/@mrbeast). Channels without a handle: https://www.tubegrade.com/channel/{channel_id}. The same paths as on youtube.com, with tubegrade.com as the domain.
- Each page shows the subscriber count, total views, videos, average views per video, subscriber and view growth over roughly the last month, a dated history of readings, rank among the channels TubeGrade tracks, milestones with a pace projection, estimated monthly and per-video ad revenue, and similar channels — as plain text, so it can be read without JavaScript.
- [How TubeGrade calculates these stats](https://www.tubegrade.com/how-tubegrade-calculates-stats): data sources, growth, earnings estimates, rankings and data-quality checks.

## YouTube channel rankings (updated weekly)

- [YouTube channel rankings](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-rankings): weekly lists of the most subscribed YouTube channels (biggest by subscriber count; published only for regions where TubeGrade has verified it holds at least 95 of the real top 100), the fastest-growing YouTube channels (most subscribers gained in the last 30 days) and breakout channels (biggest percentage growth among channels with 50K–2M subscribers), worldwide and by country.
- One page per list: https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-rankings/{most-subscribed|fastest-growing|breakout}/{region}, for example https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-rankings/most-subscribed/india, https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-rankings/fastest-growing/india or https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-rankings/breakout/worldwide. Each shows the top 100 with subscribers, 30-day gain and growth rate as plain text.
- Rankings are measured from TubeGrade's own subscriber snapshots of the channels it tracks (not every channel on YouTube); each page says how many channels the list was chosen from.

## Free YouTube tools (no signup)

- [All free tools](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/)
- [YouTube Channel Stats & Subscriber Count Checker](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/youtube-channel-stats/): Subscriber count, total views, videos, average views per video, ~30-day subscriber and view growth, and an estimated monthly ad-revenue range for any public channel. Works with a channel link, @handle or channel ID.
- [YouTube Keyword Tool](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/youtube-keyword-tool/): Explore what people type into YouTube search, as a mind map — start from a topic and branch into YouTube's own search suggestions. No invented search volumes.
- [YouTube Tag Generator](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/youtube-tag-generator/): Tags for a video title built from real YouTube search suggestions (the title is searched in growing pieces and only on-topic suggestions are kept), pre-selected to fit the 500-character tag limit, ready to copy.
- [YouTube Tag Extractor](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/youtube-tag-extractor/): See the tags any public YouTube video was published with, ready to copy.
- [YouTube Video Outlier Score Checker](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/video-outlier-score-checker/): Paste a video link to see its outlier score — current views divided by its channel's average views (what a typical recent upload gets). 3× or more is an outlier; scores above 100× are shown as 100×+, and no score is shown when the channel average isn't reliable.
- [YouTube Transcript Downloader](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/transcript-downloader/): Get the full transcript of any public video.
- [YouTube Thumbnail Downloader](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/thumbnail-downloader/): Download any video's thumbnail in HD and every available size.
- [YouTube Thumbnail Resizer](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/thumbnail-resizer/): Resize an image to YouTube's 1280×720 thumbnail size.
- [YouTube Thumbnail Preview](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/thumbnail-preview/): See a thumbnail and title as they will look in the YouTube home feed, search, suggested videos and on mobile, in light and dark mode, next to real competing videos. Runs in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
- [YouTube Subscribe Link Generator](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/youtube-subscribe-link-generator/): Turn a channel link, @handle or channel ID into a youtube.com/channel/UC…?sub_confirmation=1 link that asks viewers to confirm a subscription when they open it (the prompt opens on the channel-ID form of the address, not the @handle form).
- [YouTube Money Calculator](https://www.tubegrade.com/free-youtube-tools/youtube-money-calculator/): Estimate how much a YouTube video or channel earns from its views and an RPM.
- [YouTube Outlier Finder](https://www.tubegrade.com/youtube-outlier-finder/): Type a topic to see videos that got far more views than their channel usually gets (outlier score = views ÷ the channel's average views; shows videos at 3× or more). The free preview searches TubeGrade's stored data; a free account adds live YouTube outlier searches.

## Optional

- [Terms of service](https://www.tubegrade.com/terms/)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.tubegrade.com/privacy/)
- Support: support@tubegrade.com