COMPARISON / CHECKED 8 NOVEMBER 2026
TrendsFast vs Trends MCP: a trends engine or keyword trend data for your agent
A dated, factual comparison. Trends MCP charts keywords across 27 platforms through one MCP server; TrendsFast reads one brand's niche and says what the evidence supports. Which fits which job, with published prices.
ANSWER FIRST
The short answer
They answer different questions. Trends MCP gives an agent keyword interest histories, growth and live top-trend boards across 27 platforms through one MCP server, so it can chart a word it already knows across many platforms. TrendsFast is a trends engine: it reads one brand’s niche across social, search and AI answers, ranks what it finds for that brand and says what the evidence supports. Use Trends MCP to measure a keyword; use TrendsFast to find what your customers are discussing and what is worth doing about it.
The facts, checked on 8 November 2026
Trends MCP: 54 data sources across 27 platforms: keyword histories for Google Search, Images, News, Shopping and YouTube, TikTok hashtags, Amazon, Pinterest, Wikipedia, npm, PyPI, Steam and Google Play; live boards from Google Trends, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, Amazon Best Sellers, the app stores, GitHub and others; recent posts for context; app and product reviews. API: Yes, REST: one endpoint with a bearer key, where a mode field picks the tool; an OpenAPI 3.1 file is published. MCP: Yes: sign-in for Claude and ChatGPT, an API key for other clients; tools get_time_series, get_growth, get_top_trends, get_context and get_reviews. Pricing: $19 a month for 1,000 requests, $49 for 5,000, $199 for 25,000; credit packs from $15 for 600. A call costs one request per source it reads. Free: 100 requests a month, and a 7-day trial on every paid plan.
TrendsFast: X, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Google Search, Hacker News, in one retained index. Five products read it for a brand, each one call priced per call: Customers (10 credits), Trending (25 credits), Competitors (30 credits), Formats (20 credits), Search (35 credits). Rereading a saved result is free. $10 once for 500 credits; plans from $29 a month for 2,000 credits. Free: 100 credits once per verified account, then 50 every month, no card. REST and an authenticated MCP server share one balance.
Trends MCP counts requests, one per source a call reads, and TrendsFast counts credits per product call, so the two prices do not compare directly: one TrendsFast call collects, ranks and summarises what would otherwise be several requests and your agent’s own work. Check https://www.trendsmcp.ai/pricing before deciding.
The same question, asked of both
Ask “what should I post this week for indie SaaS founders?”. With Trends MCP your agent chooses the keywords, asks for their history and growth on Google, TikTok or Amazon, and reads today’s boards on Reddit, X or GitHub. It gets broad, comparable curves for the words it thought of, and deciding which rows matter to your customers is its own work.
With TrendsFast one Customers or Trending call returns items already ranked against your brand as core, adjacent or global, each with its source link, observation time and measured signal, plus a brief of what the evidence supports and the channels the read could not see. For a subreddit, a free brief adds its rules on promotion and AI-written posts and the post format that wins there.
Where Trends MCP is stronger, and where we are
Trends MCP is better at breadth and at keyword history. By its own pages:
- Breadth: keyword histories and boards from Amazon, the app stores, Steam, npm, PyPI, Wikipedia and Polymarket, none of which TrendsFast reads.
- About five years of weekly keyword history on every plan, Free included, and daily data for the last 90 days.
- One normalized scale across sources, so the same keyword can be compared between Google, TikTok and Amazon in one answer.
TrendsFast is better when the question starts from a brand rather than a keyword. It derives the niche from your site once, collects the brand’s own sources when a product is called, reads 8 channels into one index and reports a channel it could not observe as unavailable rather than as an empty list. It reads the threads and posts themselves and a video’s opening line from its transcript, asks AI assistants your category’s buyer question, and calls something rising only from comparable readings. A product call collects the brand’s own sources when it is made, such as its subreddits, searches and competitor profiles, within a provider budget its price covers, and reuses a source read in the last few hours. The shared index also keeps what earlier calls and scheduled collection gathered, so every item carries the time it was observed.
Trends MCP says on its own pages that its data is not a census and has had no independent audit; neither has ours. We have not benchmarked the two on speed or data quality, and this page does not claim either is faster or more accurate.
When to choose the other one
Choose Trends MCP if your agent needs a keyword’s curve across many platforms, including stores, app stores and developer registries, or years of weekly history at a low price per request. Choose TrendsFast if the job is knowing what your customers say, watch and search, and what AI assistants answer about your category, with sources your agent can show. Nothing stops you from running both: one for the curves, the engine for what to do next.
Want to see what the engine says about your market?
Run the free trend analysis on your website: it reads your homepage, shows what it understood about your niche and matches it against evidence already collected. No account needed. Then start for $0 to call the products yourself.