Dorqa vs TubeBuddy
Dorqa's YouTube layer is built to audit somebody else's channel — a client's, a competitor's, a pitch you have not won. TubeBuddy is built to run your own, and is deeper at that. The split is whose channel, not whose tool is better.
Monthly prices, read from the vendor’s own page on 8 August 2026.
You audit other people's channels — clients, competitors, and pitches you have not won yet.
You run your own channel and want tools inside your own Studio.
TubeBuddy is deeper on a channel you own
At $15 a month for Legend, or $3 for Pro, it is one of the best-value tools in this whole comparison set. It installs into YouTube Studio and does things Dorqa does not attempt.
Read from the vendor’s own site, 8 August 2026.
Where each one actually wins
Every row states what each side actually does. Where they win, it says so.
What their plans cost
Monthly figures, so they compare like for like with Dorqa Pro at $79.
Descriptions are the vendor's own, read from their pricing page.
Where Dorqa is the better choice
Same standard as the section below. These are claims about what Dorqa does that this tool does not, not claims about being better overall.
It works on channels you do not own
A video ID is all it takes. No sign-in, no OAuth, no extension installed in somebody else's browser. That is what competitor research and a new client pitch actually need, and a Studio extension cannot do it by design.
The arithmetic is printed
1.59% shown as 66.4K likes divided by 4.2M views, times 100. You can check it in your head. A bare percentage with a colour cannot be checked at all.
Video lands in the client report
YouTube findings arrive alongside the site audit, local presence and AI visibility for the same client, in one document.
Built around a roster, not a channel
TubeBuddy is priced and shaped for one creator improving one channel. Dorqa assumes you are looking after several people's.
Where TubeBuddy is the better tool
If any of the following is central to your work, buy theirs. We would rather say so now than take a subscription and have you find out.
It is far deeper on YouTube, and it is cheap
Fifteen dollars a month for A/B testing, bulk end-screen and card editing, Channelytics, Demonetization Audit, Click Magnet, Opportunity Finder and a long tail of tools. Dorqa has one YouTube surface. This is not a fight worth picking.
It lives inside YouTube Studio
A browser extension that puts the tools where the work happens. Dorqa is a dashboard you visit.
Publishing and moderation workflow
Scheduling, canned responses, comment word clouds, default upload profiles. Dorqa does none of this and should not try.
Pro at $3 is remarkable value
If all you need is title and tag optimisation for one channel, three dollars a month is the answer and nothing here beats it.
All six audit a channel from outside. None of them writes to it. 6 surfaces, named as they appear in the app.
Straight answers
It depends whose channel. For auditing other people's — clients, competitors, or a pitch you have not won yet — Dorqa works from a video ID with no access to the channel, and the result lands in the same report as their site, local presence and AI visibility. For running your own channel, TubeBuddy installs into your Studio, does far more there, and costs $15. They are not substitutes for each other.
When the channel is not yours. TubeBuddy installs into your own YouTube Studio; Dorqa audits any video or channel from outside, which is what competitor research and new client pitches actually need.
Yes. TubeBuddy's page defaults to Longterm billing, where $199 buys three years of Legend. On the Monthly tab, Pro is $3 and Legend is $15. Checked 8 August 2026.
Almost everything to do with running a channel: A/B testing, bulk editing, publishing workflow, and depth of tooling. Buy it as well as Dorqa, not instead of.
Try it on a client you already have.
Free tier, no card. If theirs is the right answer for your work, keep theirs.