Trademark Search & Monitoring Comparison

Markify vs. Signa

At a glance

Best for

Best for trademark attorneys and brand owners who order clearance reports and watches themselves, a few registers at a time.

Signa

Best for

Best for developers and law firms who build trademark search, screening and monitoring into their own software or AI assistants.

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Markify	Signa
Starting price	lower value From $39 / year For a US Federal watch (USPTO and WIPO designating the US), all classes included. Comprehensive search reports are paid per report, from $89 for any single database and $169 for US Full. Prices exclude VAT and are listed at the same figures in euros, with combo discounts from 5% for two registers up to 30% for 7 to 25.	From $99 / month Starter, billed yearly, with 20,000 credits a month (up to 2,000 searches) and $10 per 1,000 extra credits. Growth is $399 and Scale $999 a month, also billed yearly. The page offers monthly billing and says annual billing saves up to 25%, without stating the monthly amounts. A search costs 10 credits; credit costs for screening and watches are not yet announced.
Free trial	Free trial on request after creating an account; length not stated	Free tier with 10,000 credits on signup and 1,000 credits a month, up to 100 searches, no card required
API	API and raw data access to 190 trademark databases, on request	Yes, a REST API with webhooks, a TypeScript SDK, agent skills and a hosted MCP server at api.signa.so/mcp
Languages	Website in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese and Japanese; goods and services translated into 40 languages	Not stated
Hosting	Not stated	Cloud: a web app, a REST API, a hosted MCP server and agent skills
Made in	Sweden (Stockholm)	Not stated
Registers and countries covered	240 trademark databases: 190 country registers plus the 50 US states, with WIPO and Lisbon geographical indications among the international databases and daily data updates. Optional common law sources cover business names, domain names across 1,000+ TLDs, web search, images, social media and about 100 social network usernames.	13 production offices with more than 40 million records: USPTO, EUIPO, WIPO, CIPO (Canada), IP Australia, IPOS (Singapore), UKIPO, INPI (France), Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and IMPI (Mexico), most synced daily and Canada and France weekly. DPMA, BOIP, JPO, KIPO, CNIPA and further offices are listed as planned.
Word, phonetic and image search	Word mark similarity search with relevance-ranked results, image search for design and figurative marks by algorithm or with analyst review using Vienna and US design codes, and Boolean search across trademark data fields including goods and services in ProSearch	Text search through five similarity channels (identical, fuzzy, embedded, phonetic and look-alike characters), each hit labelled with its match tier and the channels that found it. Image search is listed as coming soon.
Goods, services and Nice classes	Comprehensive word searches include up to five classes plus identical results across all classes, each additional class 2.5% more; watches include all classes; goods and services can be keyword-filtered and are translated into 40 languages	Search and watches filter by Nice class, and classification endpoints list classes and goods and services and suggest and validate goods and services wording
Clearance and conflict screening	Comprehensive availability reports generated within minutes, with identical marks and dead marks in separate tabs, and analyst-driven reports in 2 business days (urgent) or 4 (standard). Image clearance runs by algorithm or with an analyst reviewing the results.	A documented knockout and full similarity search workflow for clearance, a Compare Marks endpoint that scores a candidate against up to 10 selected conflicts, and a Screening product open to design partners during beta. The vendor states the results are informational data and not legal advice.
Watch and alerts	Weekly watch reports by email and online across up to 190 registers, all classes included, plus owner watch, goods and services watch and domain name watch across 1,000+ TLDs. Bulk watching from 50 watches with template automation.	In beta: five watch types (mark, portfolio, owner, class and similarity), alerts typically within a day of office publication by signed webhook or polling, and computed opposition deadlines on alerts in supported jurisdictions. Image watch is listed as coming soon.
Reports and exports	PDF by email, and PDF, Word, RTF, HTML and Excel online, with custom branding, sorting, colour coding and sharing with colleagues inside or outside the company	JSON responses from every endpoint and a monthly proof-of-monitoring attestation per watch, as a PDF and a JSON file
Integrations and API	API and raw data access to 190 trademark databases on request; the vendor asks for the application, the markets and the expected daily API calls and publishes no price or format	REST API with webhooks, a TypeScript SDK, and a hosted MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code; Microsoft Copilot is listed as coming soon
AI features	Yes	Yes
MCP-ready	No	stated Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS)	more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Email helpdesk, Phone	Not stated
Onboarding	Not stated	Documentation and knowledge base
Integrations	Not stated	Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Visual Studio Code

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Markify From $39 / year Signa From $99 / month
Free trial Markify Free trial on request after creating an account; length not stated Signa Free tier with 10,000 credits on signup and 1,000 credits a month, up to 100 searches, no card required
Deployment Markify Cloud (SaaS) Signa Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
MCP-ready Markify No Signa Yes
API Markify API and raw data access to 190 trademark databases, on request Signa Yes, a REST API with webhooks, a TypeScript SDK, agent skills and a hosted MCP server at api.signa.so/mcp

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Markify

Strengths

Watches from $39 a year for the US and $129 a year for 190 registers, all classes included
Search reports ordered one at a time without a contract, from $89
Image search that includes common law images from the web and social media
Reports in PDF, Word, RTF, HTML and Excel, with custom branding

Limitations

ProSearch, API and analyst prices are not published
Analyst-reviewed image searches cost several times the algorithm price, for example $910 against $145 for a US design mark
The image search page states two different surcharges for additional classes

Signa

Strengths

Free tier with 10,000 credits on signup and 1,000 a month, no card required
Hosted MCP server and connectors for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
Thirteen registers in one JSON schema, most of them synced daily
Watch alerts carry a computed opposition deadline in supported jurisdictions

Limitations

Screening, listing scans and monitoring are in beta, and image search and image watch are not yet available
No German, Benelux, Japanese, Korean or Chinese register yet; these are listed as planned
Paid plans are shown billed yearly; monthly amounts are not stated on the pricing page
Credit costs for screening and watches are not yet announced

Plans

Pricing

Markify

US Federal Full watch $39 Per year, excluding VAT. USPTO and WIPO designating the US, all classes, weekly reports.
Global watch $129 Per year, excluding VAT. 190 registers, weekly reports.
Any Database Full search $89 Per report, excluding VAT. One trademark database, up to five classes.
US Full search $169 Per report, excluding VAT. Common law can be added.
EU Full search $589 Per report, excluding VAT. EU registers plus Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
ProSearch Not stated Flat-rate screening and research tool, price on request with a free trial.

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Signa

Free $0 Per month. 10,000 credits on signup, then 1,000 credits a month, up to 100 searches, no card required.
Starter $99 Per month billed yearly. 20,000 credits a month, up to 2,000 searches, $10 per 1,000 extra credits, 300 requests a minute.
Growth $399 Per month billed yearly. 100,000 credits a month, up to 10,000 searches, $5 per 1,000 extra credits, 1,000 requests a minute.
Scale $999 Per month billed yearly. 500,000 credits a month, up to 50,000 searches, $2.50 per 1,000 extra credits, 3,000 requests a minute.
Enterprise Not stated Contact sales. Custom credits, white-label and data rights, SLA and dedicated support.

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Where this comes from

Markify https://www.markify.com/ · checked against the official source on 2026-11-05

Signa https://signa.so/ · checked against the official source on 2026-11-05

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.