RivalFeed vs vidIQ
vidIQ is built to grow your own channel: keywords, an AI coach, optimizing your uploads. Its Competitors tool shows rivals’ stats and top videos. RivalFeed only watches your competitors, and tells you why their videos worked.
Pick vidIQ if
- You want keyword research and SEO for your own videos.
- You want an AI coach and title and description ideas.
- You want a free plan, or a paid one under $20 a month.
Pick RivalFeed if
- You want to know why a rival’s video beat their usual numbers.
- You want to see rivals’ title and thumbnail changes and A/B test winners.
- You want the sponsors your rivals run.
- You run an agency and want seats scoped per client.
Side by side
- Competitor stats
RivalFeed: Yes. Typical views, uploads a week, length and outlier rate for each rival.
vidIQ: Yes. Views, subscribers and video count over 30 days, 60 days or 12 months.
- Outliers
RivalFeed: Yes. Every upload is measured against its channel's usual views; the ones pulling ahead go to the top.
vidIQ: Yes. Outlier search across your niche, and rivals’ top videos sorted by views or views per hour.
- Title and thumbnail changes
RivalFeed: Yes. Before and after, and what the change did to views against the channel’s typical uploads.
vidIQ: No. Not listed.
- A/B test winners
RivalFeed: Yes. Each variant of a rival’s Test & Compare test, and which one won, for their recent uploads.
vidIQ: No. Not listed for rivals’ videos.
- Why a video worked
RivalFeed: Yes. Every new upload is broken down into its hook, key points and call to action, linked to the moment.
vidIQ: No. Not listed.
- Sponsors
RivalFeed: Yes. The brand, the offer and the moment the read starts.
vidIQ: No. Not listed.
RivalFeed: Yes. Every morning: outliers, changes and new uploads. A weekly trend digest on Pro and up.
vidIQ: Partly. Trend Alerts emails a competitor watch list’s top videos, daily to monthly, past a views-per-hour threshold.
- Keyword research and AI tools
RivalFeed: No. Not part of RivalFeed, which sticks to your rivals’ videos.
vidIQ: Yes. Keyword research, AI ideas and thumbnails, an AI coach, and rivals’ top keywords.
- Teams
RivalFeed: Yes. Team has 3 seats, Agency 5, more at $50/mo. Clients can see only their channels, view-only and free.
vidIQ: Partly. Enterprise plan, for teams or more than 3 channels. Price on request.
RivalFeed pricing
- Free trial
- 14 days, 3 channels, no card
- Starter
- $30/mo or $300/yr, 5 channels
- Pro
- $80/mo or $800/yr, 15 channels
- Team
- $180/mo or $1,800/yr, 30 channels, 3 seats
- Agency
- $400/mo or $4,000/yr, 75 channels, 5 seats
vidIQ pricing
- Free
- $0
- Boost
- $19/mo or $199/yr
- MAX
- $49/mo or $468/yr
- Enterprise
- On request
Questions
- Does vidIQ track competitors?
- Yes. Its Competitors tool compares your channel with rivals’ views, subscribers and video counts, and lists their top videos by views or views per hour. Trend Alerts can email you a competitor watch list’s top videos.
- Can I use RivalFeed and vidIQ together?
- Yes. They do different jobs: vidIQ for your own channel’s keywords and uploads, RivalFeed for what your competitors are doing.
- Is RivalFeed cheaper than vidIQ?
- No. vidIQ Boost is $19 a month and RivalFeed starts at $30. RivalFeed watches and analyzes every upload from the channels you add.
- Is there a free trial?
- RivalFeed has a 14-day trial with 3 channels and no card. vidIQ has a free plan.
Try it on your rivals
14 days, 3 channels, no card.
Checked October 31, 2026: vidIQ plans, vidIQ Competitors tool, vidIQ Trend Alerts. vidIQ is a trademark of its owner; RivalFeed isn’t affiliated with it.