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title: "ClearScore vs Credit Sesame: Which is more popular by branded search?"
description: "Which is more popular in search, ClearScore or Credit Sesame? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Credit monitoring brands set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
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# ClearScore vs Credit Sesame: Which is more popular by branded search?

Which is more popular in search, ClearScore or Credit Sesame? Compare estimated monthly branded-search demand and Share of Search inside the Credit monitoring brands set worldwide. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Compared**: ClearScore and Credit Sesame
- **Competitive set**: Credit monitoring brands
- **Market**: Global
- **Month measured**: Aug 2026
- **ClearScore Share of Search**: 9.5%
- **Credit Sesame Share of Search**: 0.71%

## Which is more popular in search, ClearScore or Credit Sesame?

- In August 2026, ClearScore had more branded searches than Credit Sesame among credit monitoring brands worldwide. ClearScore was estimated to have 1M branded searches compared to Credit Sesame’s 74K, and held a 9.5% Share of Search versus Credit Sesame’s 0.71%.
- ClearScore was ahead of Credit Sesame in every measured month of the 11 months ending August 2026.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, ClearScore’s estimated Share of Search among credit monitoring brands worldwide held steady at 9.5%, and its estimated monthly branded searches held steady at 1M.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Credit Sesame’s estimated Share of Search among credit monitoring brands worldwide moved from 1% to 0.71%, and its estimated monthly branded searches moved from 110K to 74K.

## How did search popularity change for credit monitoring brands worldwide in August 2026?

- In August 2026, TransUnion overtook ClearScore to rank 4th among credit monitoring brands worldwide, at 11.6%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Credit Sesame worldwide fell 32.7% over 11 measured months, from 110K to 74K in August 2026.

## Month by month

| Month | ClearScore estimated searches | ClearScore Share of Search | ClearScore rank | Credit Sesame estimated searches | Credit Sesame Share of Search | Credit Sesame rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | 1M | 9.5% | 5 | 110K | 1% | 6 |
| Nov 2025 | 1M | 10.3% | 4 | 90.5K | 0.93% | 6 |
| Dec 2025 | 823K | 9.3% | 5 | 90.5K | 1% | 6 |
| Jan 2026 | 1M | 9.5% | 5 | 110K | 1% | 6 |
| Feb 2026 | 1M | 9.5% | 5 | 110K | 1% | 6 |
| Mar 2026 | 1M | 8.6% | 5 | 110K | 0.95% | 6 |
| Apr 2026 | 1M | 9.5% | 5 | 90.5K | 0.86% | 6 |
| May 2026 | 1M | 9.7% | 4 | 90.5K | 0.88% | 6 |
| Jun 2026 | 1M | 9.7% | 4 | 90.5K | 0.88% | 6 |
| Jul 2026 | 1M | 9.7% | 4 | 74K | 0.72% | 6 |
| Aug 2026 | 1M | 9.5% | 5 | 74K | 0.71% | 6 |
| Sep 2026 | — | — | — | — | — | — |

## How each brand is measured

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using ClearScore’s and Credit Sesame’s names. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brands is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- **ClearScore**: Measured on the search term “clearscore”.
- **Credit Sesame**: Measured on the search term “credit sesame”.

- [ClearScore profile](/demand/global-en/brands/clearscore)
- [Credit Sesame profile](/demand/global-en/brands/credit-sesame)
- [All credit monitoring brands worldwide](/demand/global-en/categories/credit-monitoring-brands): The set both shares are measured inside, 6 brands.

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is more popular in search, ClearScore or Credit Sesame?

In August 2026, ClearScore had more branded searches than Credit Sesame among credit monitoring brands worldwide. ClearScore was estimated to have 1M branded searches compared to Credit Sesame’s 74K, and held a 9.5% Share of Search versus Credit Sesame’s 0.71%.

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