stats.fm is about your listening — this is about everyone's. Last reviewed: September 15, 2026.
stats.fm (formerly Spotistats) is an app-first product with 10M+ users: it analyzes your personal Spotify listening history — top artists, listening clocks, Wrapped-style insights — across iOS, Android and web. A free tier covers top-50 lists and one year of history; stats.fm Plus is a one-time purchase per their official support FAQ, unlocking deeper lists, full history import and per-track play counts.
Its public web pages — programmatic artist, album and track pages — are essentially SEO landing pages for the app funnel: thin by design, with personal-history stats login-gated and almost no indexable prose. StreamClout is the alternative for the opposite job: public stats about any artist, album or track, free to read without an account — daily-updated figures plus narrative overviews, visible FAQs and a public methodology page. stats.fm answers “what did I listen to”; StreamClout answers “how is this artist doing.”
| StreamClout | stats.fm | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free — no credits to buy; a free account adds the full daily history | Yes — top 50 artists/songs, 1 year of history, ad-supported |
| Pricing | Website free; API has a free tier (100 requests a day) and paid plans from $9.99 a month | Free + stats.fm Plus, a one-time purchase per their official FAQ (third-party listings cite various price points, unverified) |
| Daily updates | Yes — daily snapshots; album and track pages state the date of the latest observation | The product is the app; public web entity pages carry minimal prose |
| Per-artist narrative | Yes — data-driven narrative overviews on artist, album and track pages | No — no narrative bios or per-entity prose on public pages |
| FAQs on entity pages | Yes — visible FAQs backed by FAQPage schema | No |
| Public methodology page | Yes — public methodology page documenting sources and limits | No public data-methodology page observed |
| No login required | Yes for pages and current figures; the full daily history needs a free account | No — personal stats are login-gated; public entity pages are thin by design |
Competitor facts are from their public pages as of September 15, 2026; pricing and tiers change — check stats.fm for the current figures.
The two products barely overlap, which is exactly why the comparison is useful. stats.fm is a personal analytics app: connect your Spotify account and it tells you about you. StreamClout never sees your listening — it records Spotify's public numbers (playcounts, monthly listeners, followers) once a day for 4.7M+ artists and publishes them for anyone to read without connecting a Spotify account.
If you arrived here searching for an artist's stream count and found stats.fm's thin entity pages or a login wall, StreamClout is the direct answer: open any artist, album or track page and get the figures with narrative context and FAQs — free, in the browser, no app install.
There is a free tier — top 50 artists/songs and one year of history, ad-supported. stats.fm Plus, which unlocks deeper lists, full history import and per-track play counts, is a one-time purchase according to their official support FAQ. StreamClout's website is free; its API has a free tier and paid plans.
Personal listening analytics: your top artists, tracks, listening clocks and Wrapped-style insights from your own Spotify history, primarily through their mobile and web apps. It is not designed as a public artist-research database.
Their public artist/album/track web pages exist but are thin — the personal-history statistics are login-gated and there is almost no indexable prose. For public stats without an account, StreamClout's entity pages carry the current figures plus narrative and FAQs.
stats.fm analyzes your private listening history; StreamClout publishes public streaming data about artists, albums and tracks — playcounts, monthly listeners, followers, daily trends — collected once a day, free for anyone to read with no account. Different jobs, different products.
It is app-first (iOS, Android and a web app); the public entity pages function mainly as landing pages for the app funnel. StreamClout is web-first: every artist, album and track page is a full public page in the browser.
Anyone who landed on stats.fm looking for an artist's public stats and hit thin pages or a login wall.
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