TikRadar’s free tier is not a demo — it is the production console, scoped to creators an admin has publicly featured. Without an account you can browse the public board, open any featured creator’s full live page, watch the real-time feed, follow PK battles, inspect gifter leaderboards and profiles, and read the audience panels. What you see is exactly what paying operators see.
Registering (still free) adds one time-boxed trial monitor — your first creator, tracked for you, so the "add a creator" flow and the private roster stop being hypothetical.
A credit unlocks the operator capabilities on creators YOU choose: tracking your own roster (not just the featured set), all-time and lifetime analytics, comment and data export in CSV/XLSX/TXT/PDF, favorite-gifter arrival alerts, groups, and the OBS overlay suite. One credit per creator, every feature included.
The design principle: free shows you everything the product can do; paid points it at your business. Nothing in the paid tier is a feature the free tier fakes — it is the same engine with your creators in it.