Chartmetric Pricing in 2026: Plans, MCP, API

Chartmetric pricing on 27 August 2026 shows three dashboard cards in USD: Manager at $40 per month payable yearly, Premium at $117, Ultra at $150. Flip the toggle and monthly billing is $60, $150, and $180. MCP is advertised as included on every plan, then metered at 50, 100, or 500 requests per day. The REST API page copy starts from $350 per month. Chartmetric is the right buy for artist-level streaming, playlists, radio, and A&R. Trends MCP is the cheaper path when the job is a live Spotify podcast board or a multi-source trend feed inside Cursor or Claude, from $0 for 100 requests per month.

What does Chartmetric cost on the live dashboard cards?

The Products tab on chartmetric.com/pricing (fetched 27 August 2026) defaults to yearly billing and paints three paid cards, not four.

Plan	Yearly card (USD)	What the card prints
Manager	$40 per month, payable yearly	Premium data for 10 artists, basic access to other features
Premium	$117 per month, payable yearly	Premium data for 14M+ artists, Flow Lite, 20 Flow AI credits per month
Ultra	$150 per month, payable yearly (labeled Most Popular)	Everything in Premium plus advanced business, marketing, and A&R tools, Flow AI app, 100 Flow AI credits per month

$40 times 12 is $480 per year. $150 times 12 is $1,800 per year. Premium’s $117 is Math.round(116.67) from the CMS yearly figure $116.67, so the annual charge behind that card is $1,400.04 if Chartmetric bills the unrounded CMS value, or $1,404 if it bills the rounded $117. The live card does not print the annual total.

A 7-day trial sits on each dashboard CTA. Flow AI credits during that trial are capped at 10. The full monthly Flow allowance starts after conversion. Team seats, shared shortlists, and consolidated billing are limited to Ultra and custom Enterprise, per the on-page FAQ. Special quotes go to [email protected]. A “sign up free” link still sits above the cards for limited service.

The Sanity payload behind the page (_updatedAt 17 February 2026) still stores an Artist Plan at $9.99 monthly / $5 yearly-equivalent and an Enterprise card. Those SKUs are not on the live Products cards in this fetch. Do not treat $9.99 as a current checkout price.

What changes if the buyer pays monthly?

Monthly billing is the same feature set. The dollars are not.

For a United States visitor who is not in Chartmetric’s A/B test group, the pricing JS (pricing-834e2566e0921618.js, fetched 27 August 2026) resolves to Manager $60 per month, Premium $150 per month (from CMS monthlyPricePerUser), and Ultra $180 per month (er.default.monthly). Ultra’s yearly path is Math.ceil(1800 / 12), which is the $150 on the default card.

Japan and Latin America use different tables (et, ea, er.ja, er.latam). An A/B branch can also rewrite Premium to $100 monthly / $900 yearly. This post quotes the default United States yearly cards that the HTML actually rendered, then the monthly figures from that same JS. Re-check the live toggle before buying; geolocation changes the number.

Standalone Flow AI is $60 per month for 100 AI credits, sold separately from the dashboard cards. One-time top-up packs in the hover table are 10 credits for $10, 20 for $20, 50 for $50, 100 for $98, 200 for $192, and 500 for $450. Those packs require an active Flow subscription and, per the hover copy, do not expire.

Does every Chartmetric plan include MCP?

The dashboard footnote says MCP is included with every plan. The compare-features grid then caps it: Manager 50 requests per day, Premium 100, Ultra 500. “Included” here means bundled, not unlimited.

The Developer Tools tab repeats “Included with any plan” and names Free, Manager, Premium, Ultra, plus any API plan, with no extra subscription. chartmetric.com/mcp (same day) tells Claude.ai and ChatGPT connectors that OAuth 2.1 “Requires a Premium Chartmetric subscription.” Those two sentences do not agree. A Manager buyer who needs the Claude.ai connector should confirm access before paying, rather than trusting the footnote alone.

There are three Chartmetric MCP URLs, and they are not interchangeable:

Data MCP on the marketing page: https://mcp.chartmetric.com/v1/mcp (Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 for Claude.ai and ChatGPT, Bearer token for direct API access). The page lists five purpose-built tools (get_performance_metrics and four siblings) plus a discover / describe / execute path (get_relevant_endpoints, get_endpoint_parameters, call_read_api). Marketing stats on that page: 9M+ artists, 100M+ tracks, 18+ platforms.
Developer Tools tab copy: Streamable HTTP at api.chartmetric.com/mcp, “same auth and rate limits as the REST API.”
Docs MCP, a different product: https://apidocs.chartmetric.com/mcp. It searches the public API reference. It does not run live artist queries. Chartmetric’s MCP guide (accessed 27 August 2026) gives this Cursor config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scalar-docs": {
      "url": "https://apidocs.chartmetric.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code for that docs server, flags inside a fence as required:

claude mcp add --transport http scalar-docs https://apidocs.chartmetric.com/mcp

Terms of Service version 2026-08-001 (effective 25 August 2026) add a fourth metering story. Section 9: some plans include MCP access only if the plan description says so; bundled MCP Credits do not roll over; usage past that pool consumes prepaid API Credits; API Credits are a shared pool with the REST API. Section 9.6 forbids putting MCP credentials in a config file or repo where an unauthorized person could read them. That clause sits in tension with every Cursor mcp.json example Chartmetric publishes. Read the terms before pasting a token into a project file.

How much does the Chartmetric API cost?

The Developer Tools tab (same JS, 27 August 2026) prints API from $350 per month, prepaid usage from $0.01 per API credit, and a $5 free trial credit. Fixed-rate copy on that tab names 1, 2, 5, or 10 requests per second, priced from $350 to $2,000 per month. Data Feed is from $2,000 per month (S3, GCS, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or SFTP).

Do not flatten that with the older CMS ladder still sitting in the page payload (developerPlanCards, updated 17 February 2026): $350 for 1 req/s, $650 for 2, $1,200 for 4, $2,200 for 7, $6,500 for 25. That grid is not what the tab currently paints. Rate Limits & Plans meters every API plan on a sliding one-second window via X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset, and sends pricing questions to [email protected]. The developer tools marketing page still says rate limits up to 25 req/sec.

Prepaid REST credits on the OpenAPI intro: most endpoints cost 1 credit; listed audience and playlist endpoints cost 2. Auth is a one-hour JWT from POST https://api.chartmetric.com/api/token with a refresh token. Fixed-rate monthly API plans are limited by req/s, not billed per request.

If a dollar is missing from the live tab, write to [email protected] rather than quoting a directory.

When is Trends MCP the right buy instead?

Chartmetric wins when the unit of work is an artist, track, playlist, or radio station. Manager is current charts and playlists only, on 10 premium profiles. Historical data, A&R tools, Compare Pro, Slack/webhook, and 14M+ premium profiles start at Premium. Ultra raises shortlists from 100 to 10,000 and influencer/brand tools from Standard to Advanced. None of that is a Trends MCP job.

Trends MCP wins when an agent needs a live ranked board or a keyword growth series across Google, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and adjacent feeds. The Spotify overlap is the Spotify Top Podcasts API: ranks and titles, not official listener counts. Cursor config from the 27 August 2026 docs.md mirror:

"trends-mcp": {
  "url": "https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp",
  "transport": "http",
  "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
}

get_top_trends default limit is 25, min 1, max 200. The Spotify call is one feed per MCP request:

{
  "mode": "get_top_trends",
  "type": "Spotify Top Podcasts",
  "limit": 25
}

Public Trends MCP SKUs on the 27 August 2026 pricing.md mirror: Free $0 / 100 requests per month; Starter $19 / 1,000; Pro $49 / 5,000; Business $199 / 25,000. Annual billing saves 20%. Keyword alerts: Pro 50, Business 250. Failed calls are free. Hitting the cap returns 429, no overage. Paid plans collect a card at checkout and charge on day 8 after a 7-day trial.

HTML /pricing markets 35+ data sources, Free as top 10 trends plus 12 months of history, and paid as all trends with full history. The markdown docs table lists 15 keyword sources (no python row) and 24 named live feeds, including TikTok Trending Hashtags by Category. The live MCP get_top_trends schema lists 23 feeds and omits that type; get_growth still lists python. Cite the split rather than flattening it to 15, 16, 23, 24, or 35+. Setup for Cursor is on MCP server for Cursor. YouTube Trending sits on the same key as the YouTube Trending API.

A label A&R desk that needs playlist adds and audience geography still belongs on Chartmetric Premium or Ultra. A content or agent workflow that only needs “what is on the Spotify podcast board, and is that title rising on Google or YouTube” does not.

FAQ

How much does Chartmetric cost per month?

On 27 August 2026 the default yearly cards are Manager $40, Premium $117, and Ultra $150 per month, payable yearly. Monthly billing for a default United States visitor is $60, $150, and $180. Flow AI as a standalone agent plan is $60 per month for 100 credits. REST API copy starts from $350 per month. Re-check chartmetric.com/pricing because geolocation and an A/B test can rewrite Premium.

Is Chartmetric MCP actually unlimited?

No. The Products footnote and Developer Tools tab say MCP is included. The feature grid caps Manager at 50 requests per day, Premium at 100, Ultra at 500. Terms section 9 meters MCP Credits per billing period with no rollover, then bills extra usage as API Credits. Claude.ai OAuth copy on chartmetric.com/mcp still says Premium is required. Confirm the connector against the paid plan before treating MCP as a Free or Manager given.

Does Chartmetric still sell an Artist plan?

The live Products tab in this fetch does not show an Artist card. CMS still stores Artist at $9.99 monthly / $5 yearly-equivalent, last updated 17 February 2026, and the Developer Tools MCP blurb still names Free as a plan that includes MCP. Treat Artist and Free as unresolved against the live cards. Use the free signup link only as Chartmetric’s own “limited service” CTA, not as a documented dollar SKU.

When should someone buy Trends MCP instead of Chartmetric?

Buy Trends MCP when the job is live multi-source trend boards and keyword growth for an AI agent, including Spotify Top Podcasts ranks. Start at $0 for 100 requests per month, or $19 for 1,000. Keep Chartmetric when the job is artist-level streaming, playlists, radio, sync, or A&R across 14M+ profiles. The two products overlap on “music, in an MCP client.” They do not replace each other.

Can a Chartmetric plan be changed later?

The on-page FAQ says upgrades take effect immediately and downgrades apply at the next billing cycle, from account settings. The 7-day trial converts automatically. Chartmetric says a reminder email goes out 24 hours before the trial ends, and canceling before then avoids a charge. Team or multi-seat quotes are Ultra and Enterprise only, via [email protected].

Primary sources, all accessed 27 August 2026 unless noted: Chartmetric Pricing (HTML, pricing-834e2566e0921618.js, and __NEXT_DATA__); Chartmetric MCP; Connect AI Tools (MCP); Rate Limits & Plans; API Reference; Developer Tools; Chartmetric Terms of Service version 2026-08-001, effective 25 August 2026; Trends MCP pricing.md and docs.md, updated 27 August 2026, with HTML /pricing fetched the same day.