Exolyt pricing on 1 Sep 2026 is three public SKUs: Basic at $0 per month, Essentials at $400 per month ($330 per month billed annually), and Advanced at $950 per month ($790 per month billed annually). All listed prices are VAT 0%. Essentials is the first paid seat for daily organic TikTok work: 50 tracked accounts, hashtags, and sounds, plus 10 influencer campaigns and 3 social listening projects. Advanced raises those caps to 300 tracked items of each type, 100 campaigns, and 15 listening projects, and adds age and gender analytics, sentiment, video transcriptions, and the influencer database. Trends MCP is not a TikTok analytics suite. It is the cheaper path when the job is live TikTok hashtag and search boards inside Cursor, billed at $19, $49, or $199 per month on paid request tiers.
What does each Exolyt plan cost?
The public grid on exolyt.com/pricing (accessed 1 Sep 2026) prints three named plans. The page does not print billed-annual totals, only a per-month rate when billed annually.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (as printed) | Tracked accounts / hashtags / sounds | Influencer campaigns | Social listening projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | not printed | 1 / 1 / 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Essentials | $400 | $330 per month billed annually | 50 / 50 / 50 | 10 | 3 |
| Advanced | $950 | $790 per month billed annually | 300 / 300 / 300 | 100 | 15 |
A header above the cards says all paid plans include 10 team members, chat support without chatbots, and an onboarding and training call. The comparison grid matches the seat count on every column, including Basic: 10 / 10 / 10. Folders are Unlimited on all three. The training-call row is a dash on Basic and filled on Essentials and Advanced, which matches the "paid plans" header if Basic is treated as the free SKU.
Enterprise, bigger plans, customized solutions, and project-based pricing sit behind a sales path. No public dollar figure is printed for that column.
What does the $0 Basic plan actually include?
Basic is a real SKU at $0 per month, not a hidden trial. The card lists TikTok account analytics, hashtag analytics, and sound analytics, with 1 tracked account, 1 tracked hashtag, 1 influencer campaign, and 0 social listening projects. Chart history is 7 days. Data updates 1x per day. Viewing and monitoring is Limited, versus Unlimited on Essentials and Advanced.
CSV is the tightest export on this tier. The grid prints 100 CSV credits per month, a dash for Basic CSV, and a dash for CSV with history. Influencer Database and Google Spreadsheet are "For additional price" on Basic and Essentials. The Advanced product card lists Influencer Database as included; the Advanced Google Spreadsheet cell on the 1 Sep 2026 grid is blank, so that cell is not quoted as a yes or a no.
Sentiments are a dash on Basic and Essentials and filled on Advanced, which matches the Advanced card line for sentiment analysis. Video comments land on Essentials. Age and gender analytics and video transcriptions land on Advanced.
The register page at app.exolyt.com/auth/register (1 Sep 2026) is a different offer: a 7-day trial of full features, no credit card. That is not the same thing as the $0 Basic SKU. A team that signs up for the trial and then stays on Basic keeps 1 tracked account, not the Advanced caps shown during the trial week.
How do tracked accounts, hashtags, and sounds scale?
The paid jump is the tracking cap, not extra seats. Essentials moves each of accounts, hashtags, and sounds from 1 to 50 and listening projects from 0 to 3. Advanced moves the same three trackers to 300 and listening projects to 15. Chart history stretches from 7 days to 90 days on Essentials, then to "At least 1 year" on Advanced. Update frequency goes 1x / 2x / 6x per day.
CSV credits jump from 100 on Basic to 500K on Essentials and 1M on Advanced. That is the export meter for teams that dump account, video, or hashtag stats into a spreadsheet. The Hashtags feature page (1 Sep 2026) describes related-hashtag overlap, historical growth, demographics, video search, and a "today's hot hashtags" board. The Social Listening feature page describes NLP-based sentiment on brand videos, related hashtags, audience demographics, share of voice, UGC browsing, creator analysis, and comment monitoring. Listening projects themselves are 0 / 3 / 15 on the pricing grid, so those pages describe capability that still sits behind the Essentials or Advanced project cap.
Exolyt's About page (1 Sep 2026) prints 1M+ users, 30 countries, 10 team members, and 7 nationalities, and also says the product is used by thousands of creators, agencies, and brands. Cite both lines. Do not flatten them. The same page names Helsinki as the founding city (2020) and a 2025 MarTech Breakthrough award for Best Social Media Monitoring Software.
Terms last updated 22 Apr 2026 (accessed 1 Sep 2026) add limits the pricing grid does not print. The operator is The Extravagant Company Oy Ltd, Lapinlahdenkatu 16, 00180 Helsinki, Finland, company ID 3136121-2, EU VAT ID FI31361212, [email protected]. Each Seat is personal and non-transferable. Seat reassignment to a different named person is allowed at most once per calendar month. The Service is intended for the latest Chrome desktop browser. Fair-use language covers query volumes, data export volumes, tracked profiles, and API call frequency, with thresholds "published in the Service documentation or communicated at the time of Subscription." The public pricing page does not sell a self-serve API SKU or a paste-ready Cursor mcp.json. Do not invent an Exolyt API price.
How does Exolyt bill, trial, and refund?
Paddle is the merchant of record. The pricing page (1 Sep 2026) says payments run through Paddle, Paddle handles customer-service inquiries and returns related to orders, and invoice billing is available through the sales path. Major credit cards are accepted. All prices are VAT 0%. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time. The comparison grid prints no minimum subscription term and no separate contract needed.
The trial copy disagrees with itself across three first-party pages, so all three belong in a buying memo:
- Register: 7 days of full features, no credit card.
- Pricing cards: "No credit card required" on Basic, Essentials, and Advanced, with a "Start your trial" button on each.
- Terms (22 Apr 2026): a Free Trial may require billing information. If billing information is entered, Exolyt does not charge until the trial expires. Within 24 hours after the trial ends, unless the subscription is cancelled, the selected plan is charged automatically. Free Trials are limited to one per Entity. Creating multiple accounts to obtain extra trial periods is prohibited.
Refunds are mostly closed. Terms say subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law, including EU Data Act switching rights (Regulation 2023/2854, Chapter III, Articles 23-31). A lawful switch gets a pro-rata refund for unused prepaid time, minus a reasonable administrative fee, if the request is filed within 30 days of the switching event. A customer who qualifies as a consumer under Directive 2011/83/EU may request a refund within 14 days of the initial purchase or renewal by writing [email protected]. Refund requests are handled by Paddle.
Fee changes take effect at the end of the current billing cycle after at least 30 days' notice. Material cuts to an active plan's features get the same 30-day window; annual and multi-year subscriptions are honored through the committed term unless the customer agrees earlier. Plan deprecation needs at least 60 days' notice, then migration to the most comparable live plan at current pricing. Unauthorized use across affiliates can trigger retroactive billing at list price.
When is a TikTok MCP cheaper than Exolyt Essentials?
Exolyt wins when the job is tracked creator analytics: named TikTok accounts, hashtags, and sounds, influencer campaigns, listening projects, age and gender, sentiment, transcriptions, and CSV or Sheets dumps of those objects. That is a dashboard product. Essentials at $400 per month ($330 billed annually) is the first paid SKU that makes that job real. Trends MCP does not replace it.
Trends MCP wins when the job is live TikTok boards inside an agent, plus other platforms, on a request meter. Cursor config from docs.md (1 Sep 2026) is remote HTTP with an explicit transport field:
"trends-mcp": {
"url": "https://api.trendsmcp.ai/mcp",
"transport": "http",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" }
}
Mac and Linux store that block in ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Windows uses %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json. The OAuth host for Claude.ai Connectors is separate from the Bearer host on api.trendsmcp.ai. Setup detail for Cursor lives on the MCP server for Cursor page.
The 1 Sep 2026 HTML /pricing page (yearly toggle) prints Starter at $16 per month, $192 billed annually; Pro at $39 per month, $468 billed annually; Business at $159 per month, $1,910 billed annually; and a "2 months free" yearly label. The same HTML stores monthly amounts on the cards: Starter $19, Pro $49, Business $199. pricing.md the same day lists Free $0 / 100 requests, Starter $19 / 1,000, Pro $49 / 5,000, Business $199 / 25,000, with annual billing saving 20%. Keyword alerts are Pro 50 and Business 250. HTML Free is top 10 trends, 12 months of history, and 24-hour delayed data. Paid cards print all trends, full history, and real-time data. pricing.md does not state those Free caps. Cite both.
Source counts still split across first-party files on 1 Sep 2026. HTML /pricing markets 35+ data sources. docs.md lists 15 keyword sources (no python row) and 24 named live feeds, including TikTok Trending Hashtags by Category. The MCP get_top_trends schema the same day also lists 24 feeds and includes that TikTok-by-category board. get_growth still lists python. data-sources.md lists 15 keyword sources and only 20 live feeds, omitting all four by Category boards. llms.txt intro still says plus 21 live feeds while its own live-feed table includes the by-category boards. docs.md still says official category names are on /data-sources, but data-sources.md omits TikTok Trending Hashtags by Category. Do not flatten those counts to 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, or 35+.
Default get_top_trends limit is 25, max 200. TikTok live feeds on the docs.md table are TikTok Trending Hashtags, TikTok Trending Hashtags by Category, and TikTok Trending Searches. Keyword source tiktok is hashtag or topic volume, not the live board. A buyer who wants the live hashtag board in Cursor should start at the TikTok trending hashtags API page, not at Exolyt Essentials. A buyer who wants Virlo's credit-metered TikTok research API should read the Virlo pricing breakdown instead. Exolyt remains the fit for tracked-account analytics with 10 seats on every public SKU.
Paid Trends MCP trials on HTML /pricing (1 Sep 2026) are 7 days. Fine print on the yearly cards says billed annual totals apply after day 7. The FAQ on the same page says the card is collected at checkout but not charged until day 8. Cite both. HTML /pricing printed 9,778,062 API calls served on the first fetch in this run, then 9,778,207 on a later fetch. The homepage printed 9,663,099 on the same morning. Those counters are not the same number.
FAQ
How much does Exolyt cost per month?
On 1 Sep 2026 the public page lists Basic at $0, Essentials at $400, and Advanced at $950 per month, all VAT 0%. Annual billing prints as $330 per month for Essentials and $790 per month for Advanced. Billed-annual totals are not on the page. Enterprise and project work are sales-quoted.
Is there a free Exolyt plan or only a trial?
Both exist, and they are not the same. Basic is $0 per month with 1 tracked account, 1 hashtag, 1 sound, 7 days of chart history, and 0 listening projects. The register page offers 7 days of full features with no credit card. Terms allow the vendor to collect billing details for a trial and to charge within 24 hours after the trial ends unless the subscription is cancelled. One trial per Entity.
Does Exolyt include an API or an MCP server?
The public pricing grid does not list an API SKU, a request pack, or a Cursor JSON block. Terms mention API call frequency under fair use, with thresholds in Service documentation or at subscription time. Until a public rate card appears, treat agent access as unverified. Trends MCP publishes MCP plus REST on every plan, including Free at 100 requests per month.
Can seats be shared across a 10-person team?
The pricing grid includes 10 team members on Basic, Essentials, and Advanced. Terms say each Seat is one named person, is not transferable, and can be reassigned at most once per calendar month. Affiliates and other legal entities need their own subscription. Retroactive list-price billing is the stated remedy for unauthorized sharing.
When should a team pay $400 for Exolyt instead of $19 for Trends MCP Starter?
Pay Exolyt Essentials when the work is tracked TikTok accounts, influencer campaigns, and listening projects, with CSV history and 90-day charts. Pay Trends MCP Starter when the work is live TikTok hashtag and search boards, plus Google, Reddit, YouTube, and the other feeds, inside Cursor or Claude. The $400 SKU is not a more expensive version of the $19 SKU. The products do different jobs.
Sources (accessed 1 Sep 2026 unless noted): Exolyt pricing; Exolyt terms (last updated 22 Apr 2026); Exolyt register; Exolyt Social Listening; Exolyt Hashtags; Trends MCP docs.md; HTML /pricing and homepage counters fetched the same morning.