comparisons

Exploding Topics is a catalog. Trends API is a lookup.

The Exploding Topics API reads a curated database of more than 1.1 million rows. It does not accept an arbitrary keyword plus geo. Trends API accepts a keyword and a source.

Exploding Topics describes its API as programmatic access to a database of more than 1.1 million curated trends, plus products, startups, and meta trends. Humans filter fads. Machine learning adds a 12-month forecast. The same page states the API cannot do custom keyword and geo lookups. Trends API is the opposite shape: send a keyword and a source. POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api. body is a JSON string and must be parsed a second time. Docs: the API reference. Caps: pricing.

A catalog of 1.1 million curated rows

Exploding Topics collects social, search, forums, news, commerce, and podcasts, then stores a row. The caller filters that table. The caller does not invent a term Google has never seen and expect a series. Docs live at api.explodingtopics.com/docs.

Any keyword versus a row that already exists

POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api
Authorization: Bearer <api_key>
Content-Type: application/json

{"mode":"get_growth","source":"google search","keyword":"air fryer","percent_growth":["12M"]}

That string does not have to exist in a curated catalog. If the source has no series, the inner payload says so. Exploding Topics will simply omit a term that never entered the database.

Add-on pricing on Pro Business

API access is not a standalone key. The public page required Pro Business, then a request pack. Commercial embedding of their data is a custom conversation. Trends API keys are this product's keys. Do not paste an Exploding Topics key into the Bearer header.

Forecasts and products are not a source string

Trending products, trending startups, growth speed, and a 12-month forecast are Exploding Topics objects. They are not source tiktok or source amazon. If the warehouse needs a verdict on "is this exploding," keep ET. If the warehouse needs a 0-100 next to Google on a name the catalog never stored, use this POST.

Trends API vs Exploding Topics API

What you get

ET database of 1.1M+ trends

No custom keyword plus geo on ET API

API add-on on Pro Business

Trends API keyword plus source

Forecasts stay on Exploding Topics

FAQ

Common questions

Can the Exploding Topics API look up any keyword?

Their feature page states the API does not offer custom keyword and geo-based lookups like the in-app Trend Analysis tool. It reads the stored database, products, and startups. Trends API takes any keyword the source accepts.

What does Exploding Topics charge for API access?

The public feature page listed the API as an add-on to Pro Business (from $249 per month) with request packs at $1,000 / 1,000, $2,000 / 5,000, and $4,000 / 25,000, plus 60 requests per minute. Confirm on their site before a quote.

Does Exploding Topics forecast the next 12 months?

Yes. Their API description includes growth percentages, 12-month forecasts, seasonality, volatility, and sentiment. Trends API returns point-to-point windows and a series. It does not ship a 12-month forecast field.

Which one is for product ideation?

Exploding Topics, when the job is a curated emerging row with a verdict. Trends API, when the job is "what did source X do for this exact string."

Keep exploring

Exploding Topics API, and where it stops Exploding Topics sells a curated discovery database. The API will not look up an arbitrary keyword and geo the way Trends Explore does. A curated verdict versus Google search interest Exploding Topics API returns rows from a 1.1 million trend database with forecasts. It refuses arbitrary keyword plus geo. Google Trends, official or website, returns relative search interest for a term the caller typed. Glimpse sells absolute Google volume. This API sells a shared scale. Glimpse documents GET /v1/interest and GET /v1/interest_enriched on enterprise.meetglimpse.com. Both are Google search. API price is not on the page. Trends API is multi-source 0-100.

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