On @on
108,100 median views per post
- 693,159 followers
- 15.6% of followers, median post
- 5.3% median engagement
- 20 of 20 posts over 10,000 views
- Top post: 7.5M views
20 posts, 19 Sep to 5 Oct
Pentos vs TokConnect · checked 10 Oct 2026
Pentos vs TokConnect: TikTok tracking compared
For checking TikTok competitors, sounds and search demand, TokConnect is the better pick: it reads any public account on demand, inside your AI, pay per use. Pentos's site, pentos.co, no longer loads.
Benchmark your rivals
50 free credits, no card.
Status check
Is Pentos still running?
- pentos.co, 10 Oct 2026
- Does not load: the domain returns no address
- .co registry record
- Status
clientHold, last updated 8 Sep 2026 - Our earlier checks
- Same result on 28 Sep and 5 Oct 2026
- Last archived pricing
- 10 Jun 2026: $99, $299 and $999 a month
- Closure or sale notice
- None found
DNS and registry lookups on 10 Oct 2026; pricing from the Internet Archive copy. Every check with its quote.
The verdict
Choose TokConnect if
You want to see how any public TikTok account is doing right now: followers, each recent post's views, likes, comments, shares and saves, and the median across them. Add trending sounds and hashtags, and TikTok's own search counts with 30- and 180-day curves for a whole list of phrases. Ask in TokConnect's chat or inside ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor, and pay per use.
Choose Pentos if
You specifically need a stored daily history for each tracked song, hashtag and account, with a shared dashboard, and pentos.co comes back. Exolyt sells stored tracking today.
Proof 1 · the competitor benchmark
Pentos's Icon plan job, done in one ask
Pentos's Icon plan ($299 a month in its last archived pricing) covered one account plus three competitors. We ran that job in TokConnect on three running-shoe brands, the weekend before the Chicago Marathon on 11 October 2026. user_profile read each account and creator_posts read its latest 20 posts.
Brooks Running @brooksrunning
12,700 median views per post
- 239,033 followers
- 5.3% of followers, median post
- 1.9% median engagement
- 10 of 19 posts over 10,000 views
- Top post: 2.8M views
19 posts, 24 Aug to 9 Oct
HOKA @hoka
5,660 median views per post
- 265,134 followers
- 2.1% of followers, median post
- 1.7% median engagement
- 4 of 20 posts over 10,000 views
- Top post: 41,800 views
20 posts, 19 Aug to 9 Oct
Median views per post, latest 20 posts
- On108,100
- Brooks Running12,700
- HOKA5,660
TikTok public counts via TokConnect, pulled 10 October 2026. Engagement is likes, comments, shares and saves divided by views, per post. Data.
What the follower counts hide. HOKA has more followers than Brooks Running, yet its median post drew under half the views. On posted 20 times in 17 days; HOKA's last 20 posts span 52 days. A follower chart, the thing a tracker stores, shows none of that. The posts do.
Compare @hoka, @on and @brooksrunning on TikTok: followers, median views and engagement on each account's last 20 posts, and each one's top post.
Run this benchmark →
Proof 2 · a trend over 180 days
A trend you didn't have to start tracking in April
Pentos's FAQ said data "only begins to be documented after a tracker is placed." TikTok's own search counts come with their history. One search_popularity call returned 181 daily readings for "Chicago Marathon", from 12 April to 9 October 2026.
Daily TikTok search readings for "Chicago Marathon", global
689,420 on 2 Oct
12 Apr1 Jun1 Aug9 Oct
Source: TikTok Creator Search Insights via TokConnect, pulled 10 October 2026. Each bar is TikTok's daily global reading. Data.
46 of 181daily readings were 0, the last on 13 September
295,152searches in 7 days for "Chicago Marathon", 990 videos
16 of 20Chicago Marathon searches TikTok returned have no matching videos
Searches with no videos yet
These phrases drew searches in the 7 days to 9 October and TikTok matched no videos to them. A brand filming for race weekend could take any of them.
| Search phrase | Searches, 7 days |
|---|---|
| chicago marathon finish line | 276,417 |
| nike chicago marathon | 226,467 |
| chicago marathon nail inspo | 209,295 |
| chicago marathon merch 2026 | 208,279 |
| Chicago marathon 2026 | 206,796 |
| Chicago marathon expo | 152,254 |
| adidas chicago marathon | 144,656 |
Show TikTok searches for Chicago Marathon over the last 180 days, and list the Chicago Marathon searches that have no matching videos.
See the 180-day curve →
Proof 3 · songs and hashtags
Songs and hashtags, the other half of Pentos
Pentos's homepage said it "measures users, songs, topics, and trends across TikTok." TokConnect reads the same public counts when you ask: how many videos use a sound, a hashtag's lifetime videos and views, and which sounds a brand posts with.
Hot sounds
1,750,190
videos use "Hey, look at this! Look!Hey!" by aqunos. "VIDEO LEGAL" by MEGAX is in 75,034 and is flagged for commercial use.
hot_sounds, 10 Oct 2026
Hashtags
34,544,810
lifetime views on #chicagomarathon2024 across 2,779 videos. #chicagomarathonprep has 50 videos and 292,751 views.
search_hashtags, 10 Oct 2026
Brand sounds
18 of 20
of HOKA's latest posts use an original sound, against 17 of 20 for On and 10 of 19 for Brooks Running.
creator_posts, 10 Oct 2026
More on sound research: how to find trending sounds on TikTok and the TikTok trend tracker guide.
Line by line
Pentos vs TokConnect, feature by feature
Pentos's column comes from its last archived homepage (26 August 2026) and pricing page (10 June 2026), because pentos.co did not load on 10 October 2026.
| What you need | Pentos (last archived) | TokConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Available on 10 Oct 2026 | Site does not load | Yes |
| Any public account | Trackers: 3 competitors on Icon, 30 on Mega | Yes: any account, when you ask |
| Per-post numbers | Account analytics on Icon and Mega | Yes: views, likes, comments, shares, saves |
| Songs and sounds | Track 50 songs on Icon, 500 on Mega | Yes: hot sounds, videos per sound |
| Hashtags | Track 50 on Icon, 500 on Mega | Yes: lifetime videos and views |
| Stored history | Daily, from when a tracker is placed | Not stored |
| TikTok search counts | Not listed | Yes: 7-day counts, 30- and 180-day curves, whole lists at once |
| Searches with no videos | Not listed | Yes |
| Comments and transcripts | Not listed | Yes (transcripts where TikTok has captions) |
| Alerts | Custom trends notifications on custom proposals | Not offered |
| Dashboards | Shareable dashboard on Icon | Not offered |
| Export | CSV on Icon; database connection on Mega | Tables in chat; MCP for your own tools |
| Works inside your AI | Not listed | Yes: ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor (83 tools) |
| Price | $99, $299 or $999 a month | 50 free credits; $49, $99 or $199 a month |
Pentos: homepage, 26 Aug 2026 and pricing, 10 Jun 2026 (Internet Archive). TokConnect: pricing; failed calls are not charged. Every fact with its link.
Why on demand fits this job
You don't need to have started tracking
- No setup window. Pentos recorded from the day you placed a tracker. TokConnect reads any account's recent posts today, and TikTok's search curves already run back 180 days.
- Whole lists at once. One
search_topicscall returned 20 Chicago Marathon phrases with 7-day counts and video counts. TikTok's app shows them one topic at a time. - Inside the AI you already use. Ask in TokConnect's chat, or connect it to ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor and mix TikTok numbers with your own notes.
- Pay for what you check. 50 free credits with no card, then plans from $49 a month. See pricing. Teams running brand checks can start from TokConnect for brands.
Your turn
Run a weekly trend check on your niche
The parts of a Pentos tracker list you can rebuild in one ask. Paste it into TokConnect or any AI app you've connected it to.
Looking at other tools too? Read Pentos alternatives, Exolyt alternatives and Social Blade alternatives.
Track [your niche] on TikTok: trending sounds, top hashtags with views, 7-day searches for its main phrases with 30-day curves, and the searches with no videos.
Run your weekly check →Pentos vs TokConnect: questions people ask
Is Pentos still available?
Not that we could reach. On 10 October 2026, pentos.co returned no address and the .co registry listed the domain as clientHold; it also failed our checks on 28 September and 5 October. We found no announcement of a closure, sale or new address. For checking TikTok competitors, sounds and search demand today, TokConnect is the pick; for stored tracking history, Exolyt.
Which is better for TikTok competitor tracking, Pentos or an on-demand research tool?
TokConnect, for most people checking competitors today. It reads any public account's followers and each recent post's views and engagement when you ask, and adds TikTok's own search counts. On 10 October 2026 it showed On's median post at 108,100 views against 5,660 for HOKA. Pentos kept a daily history per tracker, which TokConnect does not store, but pentos.co no longer loads.
How much did Pentos cost?
Its last archived pricing page (10 June 2026) listed Trends Pro at $99 a month, Icon at $299 (1 account, 3 competitors, 50 songs, 50 hashtags) and Mega at $999 (10 accounts, 30 competitors, 500 songs, 500 hashtags), with custom quotes above that. TokConnect starts with 50 free credits, then plans from $49 a month.
Can you see how a TikTok search trend grew before you started tracking it?
Yes, for searches. TokConnect pulls TikTok's daily search readings for any topic over 30 or 180 days, on demand. Its 180-day pull for "Chicago Marathon" started on 12 April 2026 and peaked at 689,420 on 2 October. Past follower counts are a different job: Social Blade records those from the day it adds a profile.
How we checked
TikTok figures were pulled on 10 October 2026 with TokConnect: user_profile for @hoka, @on and @brooksrunning; creator_posts (20 posts each); search_topics for "running shoes" and "chicago marathon"; search_popularity (180 days) for "Chicago Marathon" and "running shoes 2026"; hot_sounds; search_hashtags for "chicago marathon". Search counts are TikTok's global 7-day search popularity; hashtag counts are lifetime totals.
Pentos: pentos.co gave no DNS answer on 10 October 2026, and the .co registry's WHOIS lists the domain as clientHold. Its features and prices come from the Internet Archive's latest copies of its homepage and pricing page. We found no closure, sale or new address in web searches that day.