TubeBuddy

TubeBuddy is a YouTube channel management and optimization tool with AI title and thumbnail features. TubeBuddy's own pricing page, read directly, showed template placeholders instead of dollar amounts, so I could not verify prices and treat it as contact sales for this listing. The page shows a monthly billing or one-year save-20% toggle and three plans: Pro and Legend, described as creator licence packages for individual creators covering one YouTube channel, and Enterprise through Talk to Sales. It states a 30-day refund policy and shows no AI add-on pricing or credit limits. Third-party sources conflict badly: several list Pro at about $12 a month billed annually and Legend at $27, one page dated July 2026 lists Pro at $43.20 a year and Legend at $278.28, and others show $4.99 and $19.99 or $24.49, so none can be trusted.

Sources generally place the AI tools in the top tier, with one saying Legend adds bulk processing, retention analysis and the AI title and thumbnail tools. One reviewer calls the AI features weak and bolted on, using general models with no training on winning packaging and gated to Legend. I found nothing about a Bold Kit product. Enterprise is custom-quoted for agencies. If AI is the main reason you are buying, check that the plan you pick includes the AI tools, because the entry tier reportedly does not.

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YouTube SEO and optimisation

Browser extension.

A/B testing titles and thumbnails

Legend.

Pricing?

Check tubebuddy.com; third parties conflict.

Refunds?

30 days.

Which plan has AI?

Reportedly Legend.

Bold Kit?

I found nothing.