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Check the search before you film.

Your audience stays for the video, not a commercial. vidIQ is the check I use so a topic has demand before the camera comes out: keywords, an honest title, and a second pass on uploads that went quiet.

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vidIQ catalog

What the public plan pages described in mid-2026. Treat the numbers as a snapshot, not a quote.

Free

Try it

$0 about 150 AI credits / month

  • Basic channel insights
  • Limited keyword checks
  • Enough to test the browser extension
Start free

Boost

Most used

~$16.50–$39 per month · about $199/year or $39 month to month · 2,000 AI credits

  • Keyword and trend research. Web research is the part that does not spend those AI credits
  • Optimize titles, descriptions and tags on new or old videos
  • Thumbnail ideas, competitor view and AI Coach
See Boost

Max

Heavy AI

~$39 per month, billed yearly · about $468/year · 6,000 AI credits

  • Everything in Boost, with a larger AI allowance
  • More AI Coach conversations and a stronger Max mode
  • Short clipping from a long video, reported up to about 11 hours
See Max
  • Keywords
  • Daily ideas
  • Optimize
  • Thumbnails
  • AI Coach
  • Short clips

Coaching and Enterprise exist above these three. Sources in July and August 2026 did not agree on every monthly sticker price. The button opens the live list.

Three ways to show it without making an ad

The useful video comes first. vidIQ is the fix inside the story.

The wasted upload

Hook: the video nobody searched for. Show Keywords used to test the topic before the camera is on.

The quiet old video

Hook: three things you wish you knew. Open Optimize and tighten the title and description on a video that stalled.

One film, several shorts

Hook: a workday, not a pitch. On Max, clipping can turn one long video into shorts instead of cutting each one by hand.

1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours

That is the usual YouTube Partner bar people screenshot. vidIQ does not grant it. It only helps you choose a topic people already look for, then improve the click.

Open the current plans
DJ and studio gear

Separate page. Headphones, controllers and the rest of the setup.
Questions and disclosures

How the recommendations, regional links and creator tools work.