Exploding Topics
Trend discovery platform that helps identify emerging trends before they become mainstream. Uses data from search, conversations, and other sources to spot fast-growing topics.
The problem it solves: Spot fast-growing products and search trends months early, so you enter markets before competitors notice them.
Our verdict: Exploding Topics instead of SimilarWeb?
Switch if: Founders, investors, and content strategists who want early signals on emerging trends, niches, and products months before they surface in conventional keyword tools — a discovery use case, not a competitor-analysis one.
Don’t switch if: Anyone doing competitor analysis — it cannot tell you anything about a specific website's traffic, traffic sources, keywords, ads, or audience, so it does not replace SimilarWeb for any core job.
Biggest caveat: Trial-to-paid billing is the dominant Trustpilot complaint — users report being auto-charged for the full Pro plan (~$99/mo, billed as ~€116) after the low-cost trial and being refused refunds even when requesting within 7 days.
Pricing Facts
Monthly (Entrepreneur); owned by Semrush
Public site shows some trend data without login; Pro has no free tier
Price verified against official pricing page, 2026-07-11
Ratings Across the Web
Scores from public review platforms, checked 2026-07-12. We don't rate tools ourselves.
Does it replace SimilarWeb?
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What Real Users Complain About
Negative feedback found on public platforms — because every tool has trade-offs, and vendors won't show you these.
“I signed up for the trial and was later charged €115.83, which appears to be around $99 per month... I requested a refund within 7 days of being charged, but they still refused to refund me.”
“I signed up for a trial and then they charged me like a full pro subscription. Then i told them, i would never use it because its not useful enough for me, but they still charged me.”
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