Virlo is a social listening platform for short-form video, with AI research agents, Meta ads research and an AI content studio, paid for in monthly credits. Statly is built for agency owners, social media managers and growth operators who monitor competitors and niches they do not own. It tracks the public accounts you choose every day and scores every video against its own account’s median, with no credits and no account limit.
No card needed · 500 videos · 3 days
Choose Virlo if you want AI agents that search for trends by keyword, Meta ads next to organic outliers, and an AI studio that writes briefs and ad copy. Choose Statly if you want your competitors and your own accounts tracked every day across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, with a clear outlier score and room for your whole team, from €39 a month.
| Feature | Virlo | Statly |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Keyword research, trend discovery and AI content creation | Monitoring the competitors and niches you don’t own, every day |
| Platforms | TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts | Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X |
| How videos are found | AI research agents by keyword, a niche analyzer and hashtag rankings | You add public accounts and group them into niches; Trend Finder ranks their videos |
| Outlier score | Outlier detection with daily alerts; the threshold is not published | Views ÷ the account’s median views, on every video |
| Data refresh | Daily | Every 24 hours, ready by a time you choose Faster refresh is coming soon. |
| Pricing model | Monthly credits: 2,000 on Starter, 12,000 on Pro. What a credit buys is not published | No credits. Plans by videos kept fresh: 2,000, 5,000 or 10,000 |
| Entry price | $49/month (Starter) | €39/month (Starter), or €390/year |
| Tracked accounts | Not published | No account limit on any paid plan |
| Team seats | 3 on Pro ($199/month); not stated for Starter | 5 on Starter, 10 on Scale, unlimited on Agency |
| AI content creation | Yes: Content Studio for briefs, ad copy and reports, plus media generation | No |
| Meta ads research | Yes, on Pro | No |
| Posting | A content calendar can publish to connected TikTok, Instagram and YouTube accounts | Never posts, and needs no social media login |
| Alerts and integrations | Slack, Discord, webhooks, Zapier and n8n on Pro | Telegram, Discord and Slack updates on paid plans |
| Exports | Excel, CSV, JSON and branded PDF | CSV from every table |
| API and MCP | MCP server; API on Enterprise | API and MCP on Scale (€89/month) and Agency |
| Try it | 7-day free trial | Free preview: 500 videos for 3 days, no card |
Virlo is built to discover and create: you describe a topic and its agents go looking. Statly is built to track: you choose the accounts that matter and it re-reads them every day.
Virlo uses AI to help you make the next video. Statly is built for the step before: catching what is taking off in your niche, every day. Writing scripts, hooks or ideas for you is not what Statly is for. AI copy built from the same viral videos tends to sound generic and promise more than the video delivers, and the creative call should stay yours.
Statly does the reading every day. You decide what to make next.
Each account gets a baseline: its median views. A video’s outlier score is its views divided by that median, so a small account’s breakout is as visible as a big account’s.
Trend Finder shows what is growing fastest since the last daily scan, the top outliers and the top sounds across your niches. Save the winners to your Library with tags and folders.
Yes, if what you need is daily tracking of specific public accounts and their outliers. Statly scans every account you add every 24 hours and scores each video against its own account’s median. If you mainly want AI agents that search by keyword, Meta ads research or AI-written briefs, Virlo covers more of that.
Agency owners, social media managers and growth operators who monitor competitors and niches they do not own. Statly never posts, needs no social media logins and tracks any public account every day, with no account limit.
At entry they are close: Statly Starter is €39 a month with 2,000 videos, no account limit and 5 seats, and Virlo Starter is $49 a month with 2,000 credits. For teams, Statly Scale is €89 a month with 10 seats, API and MCP, while Virlo Pro is $199 a month with 3 seats.
No. Statly plans are measured in videos kept fresh (2,000, 5,000 or 10,000), and tracking runs every day within that. Virlo uses monthly credits (2,000 on Starter, 12,000 on Pro) and does not publish what each action costs.
Virlo covers TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Statly covers Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X.
No. Statly finds and scores the videos that won and leaves the creative work to you. On Scale and Agency, Statly MCP lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor read your workspace and answer questions about it.
Not for Statly: it reads public data only and never posts. Virlo offers an optional Account Connect for TikTok and YouTube and a calendar that can publish to connected accounts.
Yes. Virlo offers a 7-day free trial. Statly has a free preview: 500 videos from as many accounts as you like, scanned daily for 3 days, with no card.
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Add the accounts you compete with and Statly re-reads them every day, with no credits to count.
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