eRank alternative: what free actually costs you

Often you should not, and that is the honest answer. Pay only when one of three things becomes true. You are listing on more than Etsy, and you need the same idea judged on Redbubble, TeePublic and Amazon Merch too. You want to see what is selling rather than what is being typed. Or you want a trademark answer on a phrase before you spend an evening drawing it. None of those three sit inside eRank's free plan, or inside its paid ones. Until one of them is your actual problem, the free plan is the better deal and we would rather tell you that than take $19.99.

A seller with one Etsy shop, under roughly 50 listings, who makes or prints their own products and whose main job is getting found. Five lookups a day covers the tags for a listing or two. Five health checks a day covers a tidy-up pass. Rank Checker tells you where you sit. If that description is you, stay put. It stops being enough when you add a second marketplace, when you start guessing at what to design rather than how to describe it, or when the volume of research outgrows five lookups.

Probably not, and quite a few people run both. Trendlytic does not track where your listings rank in Etsy search, does not audit a live listing, and does not plug into your shop stats, because none of that is what it was built to do. Deciding what to make next is. Keeping a free eRank account alongside costs you nothing, so there is no reason to close it.

No. There is a 3-day trial with a $1 card check to confirm the card is real, and 51 tools at /tools that need no account at all, the trademark checker among them. A permanent free tier is not something we can offer, since every search sends scrapers across four marketplaces and that cost lands whether or not anyone ever subscribes. eRank can be free because its data works differently. We would rather explain that than dress up a trial as a free plan.

Not as far as its published feature list goes. eRank covers keyword research, competitor and shop research, listing optimisation, shop insights and trend tools, with no trademark checker among them, so that risk stays with you on both its free and paid plans. Trendlytic includes a USPTO lookup you run on a phrase, one click, on every plan, and there is a free version at /tools/pod-trademark-checker you can use without signing up for anything.

No, and it is a deliberate choice. You never hand over shop access or an API token, which also means no traffic stats, no sales map and no rank tracking for your own listings. eRank does those and does them well. Trendlytic reads the public shelves of four marketplaces instead, which is what lets it answer questions about niches you are not in yet.

Basic runs $5.99 a month, Pro $9.99, Expert $29.99 (erank.com/pricing, October 2026), with a discount if you pay by the year, and the main thing those tiers buy is more daily lookups: 100, 200 and 500 against the free plan's 5, plus more connected shops and tracked competitors. Note that Trendlytic's $19.99 plan sits between eRank's Pro and Expert tiers. At that point it stops being free against paid and becomes a straight question of which job you need doing, deeper Etsy lookups or four marketplaces plus a trademark answer.