Niche Benchmark Analyzer
Compare your video against the top performers in your niche. See exactly where you stand on views, engagement, tags, and titles, with data-driven recommendations to outperform the competition.
One video here. Your whole channel in ChannelGrade.
Connect your channel and every upload is pulled in on its own, no pasting links.
Free to connect. A plan adds the written read of each upload: why viewers left, what comments ask for, what to make next.
Every video against the middle of your own others of the same kind, at the same age. Shorts with Shorts.
On screen: one still shot of the pan while the voice-over explains the rule. Said: "so the reason this works is". Likely why: the payoff already happened, and the explanation is slower than everything before it.
Why: StarterYour title and thumbnail in real YouTube search, next to the videos you are up against. Checks that give the same answer every time, no made-up scores.
Channels like yours, each video against that channel's own usual. You see the moment one of theirs takes off.
Mostly excited and asking for more. A few viewers say the music drowns out your voice in the middle.
They ask you to make
do this in the snow next PLEASE
what spices did you use at 2:10?
They ask
where is that pan from??
how many hours was the hike in
The niche is one benchmark. Your own videos are the one that counts.
Paste your channel and see your newest videos compared with each other, in seconds. Free, no sign-in.
How It Works
Paste Your Video
Link any video from your channel you want to benchmark
Niche Detection
We find the top 10 competing videos and build a full comparison dataset
Get Your Report
See exactly where you rank and what to fix to outperform the competition
Perfect For
Competitive Analysis
See how your video stacks up against the best in your niche
Performance Gaps
Identify exactly which metrics are holding your video back
Tag Strategy
Discover which tags top performers use that you are missing
Title Optimization
Learn the title patterns that work best in your specific niche
FAQ
How does the niche detection work?
We analyze your video's title and description to extract the core topic, then search YouTube for the top-performing videos on that same topic. This gives us a real competitive dataset of 10 videos to benchmark against, not generic averages.
What metrics are compared?
Views, likes, comments, like ratio, title length, description length, and tag count. We also analyze tag overlap, missing niche tags, and title patterns (numbers, questions, how-to formats) that top performers use.
Is this different from the SEO Analyzer?
Yes. The SEO Analyzer audits your video in isolation against best practices. The Niche Benchmark compares you against actual competitors in your specific niche with real data, showing you where you rank and what the top performers do differently.
How accurate is the ranking?
The ranking is based on the top 10 search results for your video's topic. It is a strong directional signal but not exhaustive. YouTube has millions of videos, so think of it as "how you compare against the most visible competitors" rather than a global rank.
Get the full read of every video you upload
Niche Benchmark stays free here. A plan reads every video on your channel for you: what to change, where viewers left and why, what your comments ask for, and what to make next. It also follows channels like yours and checks every title and thumbnail before you post.
- 1 channel, every video compared with your usual
- Views per day and the retention curve (with YouTube Studio)
- Where viewers came from and who watched
- 5 free runs a day of every tool
- 1 channel, every new upload read for you
- Where viewers stop watching and why (with YouTube Studio)
- What to change on each video, from its own numbers
- What your comments ask for, counted and quoted
- What works on your channel, and what to make next
- Follow 10 channels like yours and see what takes off for them
- Check every title and thumbnail before you post
- A weekly email: what moved and what to make next
- 30 tool credits/month
- 3 channels, every new upload read for you
- Where viewers stop watching and why (with YouTube Studio)
- What to change on each video, from its own numbers
- What your comments ask for, counted and quoted
- What works on your channel, and what to make next
- Follow 30 channels like yours and see what takes off for them
- Check every title and thumbnail before you post
- A weekly email: what moved and what to make next
- 100 tool credits/month
- Priority support
- 20 channels, every new upload read for you
- Where viewers stop watching and why (with YouTube Studio)
- What to change on each video, from its own numbers
- What your comments ask for, counted and quoted
- What works on your channel, and what to make next
- Follow 100 channels like yours and see what takes off for them
- Check every title and thumbnail before you post
- A weekly email: what moved and what to make next
- 500 tool credits/month
- Priority support
Monthly, cancel anytime. Payment by Stripe. Plans include more runs of every tool.
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