PinClicks Alternative: Both Tools Compared, With Dates

If you pay for PinClicks, or you are about to, and you want to know whether PinPinterest does the job for less, this page puts the two side by side.

We make PinPinterest, so read it as the maker’s comparison: every fact below says where and when we read it, and PinClicks’ wins are in it as plainly as ours.

We tried PinClicks on a PinClicks trial account on 2026-10-27, and read its public home and pricing pages on 2026-10-29.

Where a fact is on those public pages, the table takes it from there; a few rows add what we saw on the trial, and say so.

The short answer

For keyword research, rank tracking and a few competitors watched, PinPinterest costs less: there is a free plan, paid plans start at $9 a month, and $29 buys 100 tracked keywords where PinClicks’ Pin Pro tracks 25.

If you want the largest pin database, Pinterest’s AI and no-index labels on far more of your own site’s pins, or thousands of tracked keywords, PinClicks is ahead: at $49, Pin Plus tracks 5,000 keywords where our Studio tracks 1,000.

PinPinterest and PinClicks, row by row

What you decide on	PinPinterest	PinClicks	Where and when we read it
Price	Starter $9 a month, Pro $29, Studio $49 ($84, $249 and $399 a year); 7-day money back	Pin Pro $29 a month, Pin Plus $49 ($249 and $399 a year); a refund on request	Both pricing pages, 2026-10-29
A free way in	A free plan with no card: 5 keyword checks a day. Or any plan free for 14 days, with a card	A 5-day trial of Pin Plus with no card, and a free tool for the top 20,000 interest keywords	Our pricing page and PinClicks’ home page, 2026-10-29
Tracked keywords for the same money	100 on Pro ($29) and 1,000 on Studio ($49); 10 on Starter	25 on Pin Pro ($29) and 5,000 on Pin Plus ($49)	Both pricing pages, 2026-10-29
Watched accounts	3 on Starter, 25 on Pro, no limit on Studio	Follow any account, with alerts when its pins or boards start to trend (Pin Plus)	Both pricing pages and PinClicks’ home page, 2026-10-29
How fresh a watched account is	Each of the 132 pins one watched account made between 30 and 2 days earlier reached our data within 23 hours	Not given on its public pages	Our database and PinClicks’ public pages, 2026-10-29
How big the database is	4,694,223 live pins	Its home page lists 20+ million keywords. On the trial, its pin index was far larger than ours	Our database and PinClicks’ home page, 2026-10-29; the trial, 2026-10-27
AI and no-index labels	Read from Pinterest on the pins we hold (53,930 labelled AI, 43,766 hidden from search) and listed for a watched account in Account Health	A mail on Pin Plus when Pinterest labels your pins AI modified or removes their Visit Site button. On the trial, each pin carried an AI or NoIndex badge	Our database and PinClicks’ pricing page, 2026-10-29; the trial, 2026-10-27
Keywords and filters	Keywords from the pins we crawl, each with a demand band and, once read, Pinterest’s own search count. Top Pins filters by minimum saves, colour and pin age	Pinterest’s interest keywords for any category or search, by category on Pin Plus. On the trial, more filters, including search operators	Our app and PinClicks’ home and pricing pages, 2026-10-29; the trial, 2026-10-27
API and MCP	An API on every paid plan (5,000 to 200,000 lookups a month, 15 a month free) and an MCP server in the official MCP Registry that works from a free key	Neither is on its public pages. On the trial, Pin Plus offered an MCP connector	Our pricing and developer pages, the MCP Registry and PinClicks’ public pages, 2026-10-29; the trial, 2026-10-27
History	A keyword’s and a tracked pin’s numbers kept day by day: 30 days on Starter, 90 on Pro, 365 on Studio	Keyword rankings and Pinterest search-suggestion changes, tracked over time	Both pricing pages, 2026-10-29

Prices in US dollars as each pricing page showed them on 2026-10-29. A row that names the trial adds what we saw on a PinClicks trial account on 2026-10-27; everything else in PinClicks’ column is from its public pages.

Where PinClicks is ahead

A bigger database. Its home page lists 20+ million keywords. On the trial, its pin index was far larger than ours.
More of your own site. When we looked up our own site on the trial, PinClicks held many more of its pins than we do, each badged when Pinterest labels it AI modified or hides it from search.
Thousands of tracked keywords. Pin Plus tracks 5,000 keyword rankings and 5,000 search-suggestion changes for $49; our Studio tracks 1,000 keywords for the same price.
Search operators and categories. On the trial, its keyword search took operators such as exact match, OR and exclusions, and Pin Plus browses keywords by category.
Suggestion tracking. It watches Pinterest’s search-bar suggestions for changes. We do not.

Where PinPinterest is ahead

A free plan and a $9 plan. You can start with no card (5 keyword checks a day), and the cheapest paid plan is $9 a month. PinClicks’ cheapest plan is $29.
Four times the tracked keywords at $29. Pro tracks 100 keywords and watches 25 accounts; Pin Pro tracks 25 keywords.
New pins from the accounts you watch, within a day. Measured on 2026-10-29: each of the 132 pins one watched account made between 30 and 2 days earlier reached our data within 23 hours.
A line over time for every keyword, with 30 to 365 days of history by plan.
An API and an MCP server. Every paid plan includes API lookups, and our MCP server is listed in the official MCP Registry and works from a free key.

Where we are still weaker

We do not schedule pins

We do not schedule pins, and it is not on the way.

You would run us beside a scheduler, not instead of one.

What to look for in a scheduler is a separate question.

Our coverage is uneven

We crawl every day, but coverage is uneven: a niche we have barely touched gives a thin report, and for a watched account we hold only part of its pins.

Test your own phrases and your own account before you pay, not the demo ones.

There is no board-level data

We hold a board count for an account and nothing about what is in the boards.

If your work starts from boards, that gap will matter.

The number next to each keyword

Pinterest shows search volume only to advertisers, as ranges inside its ads tools, and it is not public.

So when a tool shows you a monthly figure, the useful question is what it is a number of.

Ours is engagement.

What we measure is the saves earned by the pins that rank for a phrase.

We show it as a band (High, Medium or Low), not as a count of searches.

Since 2026-10-28 a keyword can also carry Pinterest’s own search count, read from its topic page, and we never call it monthly, because Pinterest does not say what period it covers.

Our test of Pin Inspector shows how far that count sits from what Pinterest Ads Manager shows advertisers: the Pin Inspector review has the numbers.

How to compare them yourself

Give it an afternoon, on your own phrases.

Write down the ten phrases your account lives on: not the head term everybody in your niche chases, the ten you would defend.
Run all ten through the free keyword checker, with no account. Note which come back thin.
Run the same ten on a PinClicks trial the same afternoon.
Look up your own site and your own account in both, and see how many of your pins each one holds.
Compare what each tool says its number means, not only which number is bigger.

The keyword checker needs no account and no card.

The free plan takes no card either, and the 14-day trial of every feature starts with one.

Check a phrase in your niche before you decide anything

Which one to pick

Pick PinClicks if the size of the database and the labels on your own site’s pins matter most, or you need thousands of tracked keywords.

Pick PinPinterest if you want to start free or at $9, track 100 keywords for $29, see a line over time for every keyword, or reach the data through an API or an AI assistant.

Both pricing pages change, so check them before you buy: ours and PinClicks’.