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Exploding Topics is owned by Semrush, but this draft scores the Exploding Topics product itself. The official site says Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide. Sources: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/exploding-topics-api and https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
Exploding Topics is a trend-spotting and trend-intelligence product. Its official site says its algorithm monitors millions of unstructured data points, while Pro provides a 1.1M+ database of markets, products and investment opportunities, trend analysis, tracking, meta trends, forecasting and trending products. It also provides keyword/SEO utilities and API-powered Zapier and n8n automation.
Good fit for Entrepreneurs, e-commerce and product teams, investors, market researchers, SEO/content teams, agencies, and businesses that want early trend signals, product or topic ideas, and automated trend-to-brief workflows
Free access is advertised for some tools/data; Pro public plans are Entrepreneur $39/month, Investor $99/month, and Business $249/month. The pricing page presents these as monthly prices and links to a 7-day trial.
Free
Free
Ongoing
Free SEO and competitor-intelligence tools are listed on the homepage.
The site labels Keyword Research, Keyword Generator, Keyword Difficulty, SEO Checker, Keyword Rank Checker, SERP Checker, Website Traffic, Competitor Analysis and Backlink Checker as Free tools; the free plan's full limits are not stated on the current pricing page.
Entrepreneur
$39
per month
Trends Database, Trending Products, Meta Trends, Channel Breakdown
100 tracked trends; 10 trend analyses
Investor
$99
per month
Entrepreneur inclusions plus Trending Startups, Trend Forecasting and CSV Export
500 tracked trends; 100 trend analyses
Business
$249
per month
Investor inclusions plus Trend Reports; the integrations page says Business is required for an API key
2,000 tracked trends; 500 trend analyses
API add-on (1,000 requests)
$1,000
API add-on tier; period not stated on the official article
Exploding Topics API access as an add-on to Pro Business
1,000 requests per month
API add-on (5,000 requests)
$2,000
API add-on tier; period not stated on the official article
Exploding Topics API access as an add-on to Pro Business
5,000 requests per month
API add-on (25,000 requests)
$4,000
API add-on tier; period not stated on the official article
Exploding Topics API access as an add-on to Pro Business
25,000 requests per month
Last verified September 2026 against explodingtopics.com. Vendors change packaging often; confirm before buying.
Scorecard
3.2/5 overall, weighted for SEO research tools. How grades work.
Deep trend discovery across multiple data types with analysis, curation and forecasting.
The product says it collects from social, search, forums, news/blogs, e-commerce and podcasts, then analyzes, identifies and curates trends; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
Useful trend/keyword discovery, but not positioned as a complete keyword database suite.
The homepage lists Keyword Research, Keyword Generator and Keyword Difficulty as free tools, while Pro emphasizes trend analysis; https://explodingtopics.com/
Strong external trend, company, product, and market context with APIs and workflow connectors, but little native first-party business-data grounding.
Exploding Topics supplies trend, product, startup, and market data through its platform, API, Zapier, and n8n integrations. https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
Competitor context
Supports content ideation and automated SEO briefs, but does not provide a native writing/publishing system in the reviewed product pages.
The integrations page gives content-gap and SEO-brief generation as n8n examples; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
No product-specific AI-search visibility or citation-tracking capability is documented in the reviewed official product pages.
The homepage feature list documents trending products, automated discovery, meta trends, TikTok insights and API, but no AI-search/GEO reporting; https://explodingtopics.com/
Only weak/indirect support through a separately listed free SEO Checker; no Pro technical SEO workflow is described.
The homepage labels SEO Checker as Free and says it provides instant SEO audits, but Pro inclusions are trend features; https://explodingtopics.com/
Can send trend data into connected apps and project workflows, but native publishing is not documented.
Zapier examples include Google Sheets, Notion, Slack and project-management tasks; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
Strong trend tracking and forecasting, but not owned-site rank/performance measurement.
Pro includes tracked trends and trend forecasting, with 100/500/2,000 tracked-trend limits by plan; https://explodingtopics.com/pricing
API plus n8n and Zapier actions enable agentic retrieval and analysis workflows.
The official integrations page says n8n can build AI agents that cross-reference trend data, LLMs and human review checkpoints; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
Agentic workflow coverage
n8n examples cover content gaps, SEO briefs, lead sourcing, validation and competitive gaps.
Free tools plus transparent paid tiers and a 7-day trial make entry accessible, though API pricing is high.
The homepage labels multiple SEO/competitor tools Free and the pricing page lists $39/$99/$249 monthly plans with trial CTAs; https://explodingtopics.com/pricing
First-party evidence supports a meaningful but not independently verified team footprint.
The integrations page states Exploding Topics Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
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Trend, startup, product and market signals provide competitor/opportunity context, but no dedicated competitor SEO module is documented.
Internal company data
The API can be combined with other business insights in custom workflows, but native internal-data ingestion is not documented.
SEO data grounding
The product exposes search metrics and keyword tools, but its core data is trend intelligence rather than a full SEO index.
Third-party app grounding
Zapier and n8n can connect trend data with Google Sheets, Notion, Slack, LLMs and other workflow apps.
Custom API grounding
A documented API supports filters, parameters, custom tools and dashboards, with add-on request tiers.
No documented controls or reporting for generative-search optimization.
The reviewed official feature list contains no generative-engine optimization, AI citation or answer-visibility feature; https://explodingtopics.com/
Supports team distribution through automation and is marketed to teams, but explicit roles/approval features are not documented.
The integrations page describes routing data to team tools and says Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
Autonomous execution
Scheduled Zapier automations and n8n agents can collect, analyze and route trend data automatically.
Human control and review
n8n workflows explicitly support human review checkpoints and the core methodology includes human curation.
Integration surface
Documented Zapier six-action coverage, n8n HTTP requests and custom API builds provide a broad integration surface.
Memory and persistent context
Trend history and tracked trends provide product context, but persistent agent memory or workspace memory is not documented.
Evaluation and feedback loop
Trend validation/curation and filters provide quality control, but no formal agent evaluation or outcome feedback loop is documented.
Zapier is no-code and scheduled; n8n supports more autonomous multi-step workflows but is more technical.
The site explicitly contrasts no-code Zapier with technical n8n and describes scheduled automations and AI-agent workflows; https://explodingtopics.com/feature/integrations
A broad set of free SEO and competitor tools is clearly listed.
The homepage lists free Keyword Research, Keyword Generator, Keyword Difficulty, SEO Checker, Rank Checker, SERP Checker, Website Traffic, Competitor Analysis and Backlink Checker; https://explodingtopics.com/