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Exploding Topics (Exploding Topics Pro)

No MCP found Paid, self-serve Community & Dark Social RESEARCHED Checked 2026-08-24
RESEARCHED Facts from public sources with URLs. No usage claims. Nobody has run this tool. The other tier is BENCH-TESTED, which means Andrew personally ran the tool on a stated date and cannot be bought at any price. Across the whole directory that count is 0.

Vendor: https://explodingtopics.com · entry id 15-exploding-topics · source 15-community-dark-social.md line 216

What it does
Surfaces topics, products, and search queries showing accelerating growth in interest before they go mainstream, by tracking search/social/web signal velocity across a large keyword database.
AI features, separated from automation with an AI label on it
Vendor markets a proprietary trend-detection algorithm for identifying "exploding" (rapidly accelerating) topics; methodology is not publicly disclosed in detail, so treat the "AI-powered" framing as an unverified vendor claim rather than a confirmed ML architecture.
RevOps role
Early trend/topic-discovery layer for content and product-marketing ideation - more upstream/strategic than a real-time mention-monitoring tool, but relevant to GTM engineers building topic-based outbound triggers.
MCP server
Status bucket
No MCP found
Auth
n/a
Parsed URLs
0 found in the mcp_url field

No server was found at the time of the check. That is a statement about the search, not a promise that none exists. The status was established on 2026-08-24 and has not been re-fetched since.

mcp_status, verbatim from the file:

none-found

mcp_url, verbatim from the file:

none

Access gate
Gate bucket
Paid, self-serve
Can a solo operator reach it
Yes, by paying, no sales call

api_gate, verbatim from the file:

paid (the API is an add-on to the Business plan which starts at $249/mo, with request tiers at $1,000/mo for 1,000 requests, $2,000/mo for 5,000 and $4,000/mo for 25,000, so the real solo-operator floor is about $1,249/mo; commercial or product-embedded use needs custom pricing)

API documentation

No documentation URL recorded.

263 of 293 entries are in the same position. Blank is legal and it is published as blank.

GitHub health

Not measured. github_url, github_stars, github_last_commit and github_archived are null on every entry in this build.

The refresh rail specced in SPEC section 7.2 has not been run. An unstamped star count is a lie, so nothing is shown rather than something stale.

Jobs it can do

No job tag on this entry.

Reason recorded by the tagging pass: no-job-fits. Trend and topic velocity detection. It is not mention monitoring and it is not an account signal, so monitor-social-mentions would be wrong. Candidate new job: detect-emerging-topic.

22 of 293 entries are untagged. An empty list here means nobody has tagged this, not that the tool does nothing. The vocabulary is closed, so a tool whose job is genuinely not in it stays blank rather than being forced into the nearest tag.

Sources

2 source URLs. Raw sources field, verbatim:

https://explodingtopics.com/pricing, https://explodingtopics.com/feature/et-api

Notes, verbatim from the file
Confirmed current ownership - the pricing page footer states "Exploding Topics is a Trademark of Semrush Inc," and pricing links route through semrush.com, confirming the product is now sold as "Exploding Topics Pro" within Semrush's portfolio rather than as an independent company. Checked GitHub and PulseMCP - no MCP server found. [api_gate 2026-08-25] Reclassified unknown -> paid from the vendor's own page (https://explodingtopics.com/feature/et-api): the API is an add-on to the Business plan which starts at $249/mo, with request tiers at $1,000/mo for 1,000 requests, $2,000/mo for 5,000 and $4,000/mo for 25,000, so the real solo-operator floor is about $1,249/mo; commercial or product-embedded use needs custom pricing.
Provenance
Entry id
15-exploding-topics
Source file
15-community-dark-social.md
Source line
216
Tier
RESEARCHED
last_checked
2026-08-24
Data baked
2026-08-28

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