Directory
SEO Tools Directory
Research and compare SEO software by the things that actually decide a purchase: what the tool is for, what it costs, where it stops, and what evidence sits behind the facts on the page.
103
Tools listed
33
Categories, by SEO job
196
Primary sources cited
16
Used or tested first-hand
20 Aug 2026
Most recent check
Alston Antony · SEO & AI Search Expert
This database is maintained by hand rather than scraped. Every price, limit and feature is read off the vendor’s own pricing page or documentation and carries the date it was checked, and where Alston has used a tool in real SEO work the listing says so and links to it. Where he has not, it says that too.
How every listing in this directory is verified
Primary sources only
196 vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs are linked from these 103 listings. No figure is repeated from another directory.
Every fact is dated
A price with no date is a guess. 103 of 103 records were re-checked in the last 30 days.
Evidence is labelled, not implied
13 tested hands-on, 3 used in real work, 87 desk-researched. Only the first two are allowed to call themselves a review.
Placement cannot be bought
There is no sponsored slot, no star rating behind an undisclosed formula, and a vendor submission gets the same verification as everything else.
01 The full database
Every listing, searchable and filterable, with what each tool is for, its published entry price, the evidence behind the record and the date it was last checked. The table is complete before any script runs, so it works with JavaScript off.
Matches product names, former names, categories, use cases and the company behind the tool.
Filter 103 of 103
Entry price is the lowest published figure on a plan you could buy on its own, add-ons and extra seats are excluded, and a tool whose vendor publishes no figure sits under “price not published” rather than being guessed at.
| Tool | What it is for | From | Evidence | Checked |
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| AccuRanker Rank Tracking | Track thousands of keywords with daily updates and refresh on demand | From $224/month for 2,000 keywords | 19 August 2026 | |
| Ahrefs All-in-One SEO Platforms | Analyse a competitor's backlink profile and referring-domain growth over time | Free plan for verified sites; paid from $29/month | Used in real workFree plan | 18 August 2026 |
| All in One SEO WordPress SEO | Cover a portfolio of sites under one licence rather than one subscription each | Free plugin; paid from $99/year list for one site | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Alli AI SEO Automation | Deploy technical SEO changes to a live site without developer time | From $249/month (Business), or $2,990 billed annually | 20 August 2026 | |
| AlsoAsked Keyword Research | See how Google branches questions around a topic, as a hierarchy | Free monthly credits without an account; paid from $12/month billed yearly | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Answer Socrates Keyword Research | Find the questions people actually ask about a topic, in their own words | Free tier; paid from $12.50/month billed yearly | Alston testedAlston videoFree plan | 19 August 2026 |
| AnswerThePublic Keyword Research | See how people actually phrase questions about a topic, as a visual map | From $13.33/month billed yearly (Starter) | 19 August 2026 | |
| Bing Webmaster Tools Search Console & Webmaster Tools | Get first-party query and click data for Bing, and by extension for Copilot's index | Free | Used in real workFree | 19 August 2026 |
| BrightEdge All-in-One SEO Platforms | Research domain-level ranking data across a long historical record | Not publicly disclosed | 20 August 2026 | |
| BrightLocal Local SEO | Measure local rank as a grid around a location rather than as one position | From $31/month per location (Track) | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Browseo Technical SEO | See a page as a crawler roughly sees it, with styling removed | Free | Free | 20 August 2026 |
| BuzzStream Link Building | Run link building and digital PR outreach with a full relationship history | From $49/month (Starter); ListIQ priced separately from $24/month | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Clearscope Content Optimization | Give a whole content team optimisation reports without paying per seat | From $129/month (Essentials); Business $399/month | Free trial | 18 August 2026 |
| ClickRank AI SEO | Rewrite and deploy titles and meta descriptions across a neglected site in bulk | From $59/month (Solo) | Alston testedAlston video | 19 August 2026 |
| Cloudflare Email Routing Outreach | Pitch guest posts and links from a domain-matched sender instead of a free webmail address | Free on every Cloudflare plan; outbound sending needs Workers Paid from $5/month | Alston testedAlston videoFree | 20 August 2026 |
| Conductor All-in-One SEO Platforms | Run SEO and answer-engine optimisation from one platform | Not publicly disclosed | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| CrawlWP Indexing | Submit new and updated posts to Bing and Yandex automatically as you publish | Free plugin; lifetime licences from $59 | Alston testedAlston videoFree plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Detailed SEO Extension SEO Browser Extensions | Check a page's title, description, canonical and robots directives in one click | Free | Free | 19 August 2026 |
| Frase Content Optimization | Take a topic from research to a published page without changing tools | From $49/month (Starter), or $39/month billed yearly; Professional $129/month | Free trial | 18 August 2026 |
| Google Business Profile Local SEO | Control how a business appears in Google Maps and local search results | Free | Free | 19 August 2026 |
| Google Keyword Planner Keyword Research | Cross-check a paid tool's volume estimate against Google's own figure | Free with a Google Ads account | Free | 19 August 2026 |
| Google Lighthouse Page Speed & Core Web Vitals | Audit performance, accessibility, SEO and best practices on any page | Free and open source | Free | 20 August 2026 |
| Google PageSpeed Insights Page Speed & Core Web Vitals | Check whether a page passes Core Web Vitals using real-user data rather than a lab score | Free | Free | 19 August 2026 |
| Google Rich Results Test Schema & Structured Data | Check which Google rich results a page's markup is eligible for | Free | Free | 20 August 2026 |
| Google Search Console Search Console & Webmaster Tools | Find queries where a page already ranks poorly but earns impressions, the cheapest available wins | Free | Used in real workAlston videoFree | 9 August 2026 |
| Google Trends Keyword Research | Find whether interest in a term is rising or declining before committing to a content plan | Free | Free | 19 August 2026 |
| JetOctopus Log File Analysis | Join crawl data to server logs to answer crawl-budget questions properly | From $159/month for 500,000 crawl pages | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Keyword Insights Keyword Research | Cluster a large keyword export by search intent to work out how many pages you need | From $58/month for 10,000 credits; $1 for a 7-day trial | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Keyword Tool Dominator Keyword Research | Harvest autocomplete suggestions from Amazon, Etsy, YouTube and Google | From $19 one payment for 30 days; a year from $99; lifetime from $199 | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Keywords Everywhere SEO Browser Extensions | See search volume and CPC directly in Google, YouTube, Amazon and 15-plus other sites | Free extension; paid credits from $84/year ($7/month equivalent) | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| KNWN AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Track daily whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini cite your brand for your target prompts | Free scan; plans from $49/month | Alston testedAlston videoAI searchFree trial | 19 August 2026 |
| KWFinder Keyword Research | Find long-tail keywords with a difficulty score you can see the reasoning behind | Included with Mangools, from $37.70/month billed annually | 19 August 2026 | |
| Link Research Tools Backlink Analysis | Audit a backlink profile for risk before or after a penalty | From $599/month, or $5,799/year; $17 for a 7-day trial | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| LinkMiner Backlink Analysis | Find a competitor's strongest backlinks to target the same sources | Included in Mangools from $37.70/month; backlink volume rises with the plan | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Linkody Backlink Monitoring | Get alerted when a backlink is lost, broken or turned nofollow | From $14.90/month, or $11.20/month billed annually | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Local Dominator Local SEO | Run geo-grid map ranking scans and compare them over time | From $39/month (Lite); annual billing gives two months free | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| Local Falcon Local SEO | See how local rankings change across a geographic area rather than at one point | From $24.99/month for 7,500 credits; 100 free credits on signup | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Local Viking Local SEO | Schedule Google Business Profile posts across many locations | From $39/month (Single, 1 listing); Enterprise from $200/month | 20 August 2026 | |
| Localo Local SEO | Monitor local keyword visibility for a Google Business Profile | From $39/month billed annually (Single Business); $49/month regular, plus VAT | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Lumar Website Crawlers | Crawl and monitor sites at a scale desktop and mid-market tools cannot reach | Not publicly disclosed | 19 August 2026 | |
| Majestic Backlink Analysis | Query a link index that is independent of Ahrefs, Semrush and Moz for a second opinion | From $41.67/month billed annually ($499.99/year); $49.99 monthly | 19 August 2026 | |
| Mangools All-in-One SEO Platforms | Get keyword research, rank tracking and backlink data in one affordable bundle | From $37.70/month billed annually ($452.40/year) | 19 August 2026 | |
| MarketMuse Content Optimization | Model which topics a site already has authority on, and where the gaps are | Free tier available; paid plan prices are not published | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Morningscore All-in-One SEO Platforms | Get a prioritised list of what to do next rather than a report to interpret | From $69/month (Lite); no permanent free tier | Alston testedFree trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Moz Pro All-in-One SEO Platforms | Get onto a full SEO platform at the lowest credible monthly price | From $49/month (Starter); Standard $99/month, or $79/month billed yearly | Free trial | 18 August 2026 |
| MozBar SEO Browser Extensions | See Domain and Page Authority for every result on a search page | Free with a Moz account; MozBar Premium is included with Moz Pro from $49/month | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| NEURONwriter Content Optimization | Score a draft against the pages currently ranking, cheaply | From $23/month (Bronze), or $19/month billed yearly | 19 August 2026 | |
| Nightwatch Rank Tracking | Track rankings and give the whole team access without paying per seat | From €79/month (Starter, 500 keywords) | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Nozzle SERP Feature Tracking | Track a large keyword set at mixed frequencies without paying per keyword | From $49/month; $5.88 per 1,000 SERPs at the entry tier | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Otterly.ai AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Find out cheaply whether AI answers mention your brand at all | From $29/month (Lite), or $25/month billed yearly; Standard $189/month | AI searchFree trial | 18 August 2026 |
| PageOptimizer Pro Content Optimization | Score a page's terms and structure against the pages currently ranking | From $40/month (Basic); Unlimited $72/month, or $62/month billed annually | 20 August 2026 | |
| Peec AI AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Track a prompt set daily across ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI surfaces | From $80/month billed yearly (Starter); Pro $205/month billed yearly | AI searchFree trial | 18 August 2026 |
| Pitchbox Link Building | Run continuous link building outreach across many campaigns | From $300/month, or $210/month billed annually | 20 August 2026 | |
| PlePer Local SEO | Get alerted when a Google Business Profile is changed without your knowledge | From $18/year (single business); Local pros $10/month | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| ProductRank.ai AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Find out which products AI models recommend in a given category | Free | AI searchFree | 20 August 2026 |
| Profound AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Track how ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews describe your brand against named competitors | From $99/month billed yearly (Starter); Growth $399/month billed yearly | AI searchFree trial | 18 August 2026 |
| ProRankTracker Rank Tracking | Track keywords across many locations and devices without a project cap | From $99/month for 1,000 Terms (discounted to $89 at the time of checking) | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Rank Math WordPress SEO | Get schema, redirects and 404 monitoring on a WordPress site without paying | Free plugin; PRO from €7.99/month billed annually, renewing at €8.99 | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Rankability Content Optimization | Give a whole agency and all its clients access without per-seat or per-client fees | From $99/month for 10,000 credits | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Raven Tools SEO Reporting | Automate client reports pulling from 25-plus data sources | From $39/month billed yearly ($468/year), or $49/month monthly | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Schema App Schema & Structured Data | Deploy schema markup and entity linking across a large enterprise site | Not publicly disclosed | 20 August 2026 | |
| Schema Markup Validator Schema & Structured Data | Validate schema.org markup of any type for correctness | Free | Free | 20 August 2026 |
| Schema Pro Schema & Structured Data | Apply schema markup across a whole post type by rule rather than per post | $69/year, or $229 once for a lifetime licence; both cover unlimited websites | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Screaming Frog SEO Spider Website Crawlers | Crawl a site and export every URL with its status code, canonical and indexability | Free up to 500 URLs; licence $279 per user/year | Free plan | 18 August 2026 |
| Scrunch AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Audit whether your pages are readable by the AI agents that would cite them | From $250/month (Core) | AI searchFree trial | 18 August 2026 |
| SE Ranking All-in-One SEO Platforms | Run daily rank tracking and AI-prompt tracking from one allowance | From $103.20/month billed annually; $129/month monthly | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Search Atlas All-in-One SEO Platforms | Have on-page fixes implemented rather than added to a backlog | From $99/month (1 project, 1 seat); 7-day free trial | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Searchable AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | Track brand mentions and citations across ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Perplexity | From $125/month (Pro, 100 prompts); 20% off billed annually | AI searchFree trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Semdash All-in-One SEO Platforms | Do keyword and competitor research without a suite-level subscription | From $30/month billed yearly, during a published 40% discount | Alston testedAlston video | 19 August 2026 |
| Semrush All-in-One SEO Platforms | Find the keywords a competitor already ranks for, and the gap between their coverage and yours | Free plan available; paid from $139/month | Alston verifiedAlston testedAlston videoFree plan | 20 August 2026 |
| SEO PowerSuite All-in-One SEO Platforms | Track unlimited keywords across unlimited projects for a fixed annual licence | Free edition; Professional $349/year | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| SEO Site Checkup Site Auditing | Audit a site against 70-plus ranking factors with per-page issue detection | From $39/month (Basic), or $29/month billed yearly | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| SEO Tools for Excel SEO APIs | Pull titles, headings, meta descriptions and status data into a spreadsheet by formula | €129 per machine per year, with bulk discounts from two licences | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Seobility Site Auditing | Audit a small site properly without paying anything | Free for one project; Premium 49.90 €/month | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| seoClarity All-in-One SEO Platforms | Run enterprise SEO across multiple domains and global teams | Rankings is query-priced; Research & Content from $2,500/month, Technical SEO from $3,200, Enterprise from $4,500 | 20 August 2026 | |
| Seodity All-in-One SEO Platforms | Research and analyse any website without a monthly cap | From $49/month (Basic), or $41/month billed annually | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| SEOmonitor Rank Tracking | Build a forecast and business case to win an SEO pitch | From €99/month (Starter, 1,000 keywords); Pro from €299/month | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| SEOPress WordPress SEO | Cover unlimited client sites on one licence at a fixed annual price | Free plugin; PRO from $49/year for one site, $149 unlimited | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| SEOptimer Site Auditing | Generate white-label audit PDFs to hand to clients | From $29/month (DIY SEO), or $21.75/month billed annually | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| SEOquake SEO Browser Extensions | Get a compact on-page SEO snapshot of any page without leaving it | Free | Free | 20 August 2026 |
| Serpstat All-in-One SEO Platforms | Get suite coverage (keywords, ranks, links, audits) below market-leader pricing | From $50/month (Individual); annual billing saves up to 27% | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| SERPWatcher Rank Tracking | Track keyword positions with a volume-weighted performance summary | Included in Mangools from $37.70/month; daily updates need Agency at $97.70/month | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Sitebulb Website Crawlers | Produce a technical audit a client can read and act on without a specialist translating it | From $18/month (Lite); Pro $42/month | Free trial | 9 August 2026 |
| Sitechecker Site Auditing | Re-crawl after every deploy without spending a quota | From $83/month billed annually; $99/month monthly | Free trial | 19 August 2026 |
| Slim SEO WordPress SEO | Get WordPress SEO handled automatically with almost no setup | Free; Slim SEO Pro from $59/year | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| SmartCrawl WordPress SEO | Run scheduled site crawls that also apply fixes | From $36/year for 1 site under a standing 40% discount; list price $60 | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| SpyFu Competitor Research | See every keyword a competitor has bid on, and their ad copy, going back years | From $29/month billed annually; $39/month monthly | 19 August 2026 | |
| Surfer Content Optimization | Score a draft against the pages currently ranking, and see the coverage gaps before publishing | From $49/month billed yearly (Discovery); Standard $99/month billed yearly | Free trial | 18 August 2026 |
| Taja AI YouTube SEO | Turn one long-form video into dozens of shorts without editing each one | From $15.99/month billed annually; $19.99 monthly | Alston testedAlston videoFree trial | 19 August 2026 |
| The SEO Framework WordPress SEO | Handle WordPress on-page SEO without ads or upsells in the admin | Free; paid extensions from $7/month billed yearly | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| Topvisor Rank Tracking | Pay for rank tracking by consumption rather than by a monthly keyword cap | From $0/month; plans at $29, $89, $299 and $599 credited to your balance | Free plan | 20 August 2026 |
| TubeBuddy YouTube SEO | Run a real A/B test on a thumbnail rather than choosing by opinion | From $12/month, or a one-time payment of $144 | 19 August 2026 | |
| Ubersuggest Keyword Research | Get search volume and CPC data on a small budget, or on a one-time payment | Free tier with a capped daily allowance; lifetime licences from $290 | Alston testedFree plan | 19 August 2026 |
| URL Profiler Site Auditing | Enrich a list of URLs with metrics, content and link data in bulk | From $19.95/month billed yearly (Solo); Pro $25.95 raises the import cap to 1,000,000 URLs | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| vidIQ YouTube SEO | Find video topics with demand and beatable competition inside YouTube search | Free tier; Boost from $16.58/month billed yearly | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Visby AI AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility | See AI visibility split by funnel stage rather than as a single score | From $79/month (Starter) | Alston testedAlston videoAI searchFree trial | 19 August 2026 |
| WebCEO All-in-One SEO Platforms | Run unlimited projects and teammates and pay for scanning by usage | From $36/month (Solo); Agency Unlimited $99/month plus scanning fees | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Whitespark Local SEO | Manage Google Business Profiles across many locations for $1 each | Sold per product, Local Platform $1/location/month; Local Ranking Grids from $10/month | 20 August 2026 | |
| WooRank Site Auditing | Produce unlimited website reviews without watching a crawl allowance | From $89.99/month (Pro), or $53.25/month billed yearly | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
| Wope Keyword Research | Find keyword opportunities and see monthly seasonality rather than a flat annual average | From $27/month (Basic); 14-day trial, no credit card | Alston testedAlston videoFree trial | 19 August 2026 |
| WordRocket SEO Writing | Generate long-form SEO articles paying only your own API costs, with no per-word markup | Free tier; lifetime licences from $199 one-time, plus your own API costs | Alston testedAlston videoFree plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Yoast SEO WordPress SEO | Control titles, meta descriptions, canonicals and sitemaps on a WordPress site | Free plugin; Premium $118.80/year ex VAT | Free plan | 19 August 2026 |
| Zutrix All-in-One SEO Platforms | Track rankings across unlimited projects on a small budget | From $19/month (Starter, 250 keywords); 20% off billed yearly | Free trial | 20 August 2026 |
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02 Browse by SEO job
Categories are SEO jobs, not keyword variations, and a category appears here once it has something in it. “Free” is a price filter on the table above rather than a category, because a free crawler and a free rank tracker share a price, not a workflow.
AI search
Research
- All-in-One SEO Platforms 19 Suites covering keywords, links, rankings and audits behind one subscription.
- Keyword Research 31 Find, size and cluster the queries a buyer actually runs.
- Competitor Research 29 See what rivals rank for, what they publish, and where the gaps are.
- SERP Analysis 20 Read the result page itself: features, intent, who owns it and why.
Technical
- Technical SEO 33 Diagnose the crawl, render and indexation problems that cap everything else.
- Website Crawlers 7 Crawl a site the way a search engine would, and list what breaks.
- Site Auditing 36 Scheduled health checks with prioritised, explained issue lists.
- Log File Analysis 2 What crawlers actually requested, from the server’s own record.
- Page Speed & Core Web Vitals 4 Measure and diagnose loading, interactivity and layout stability.
- Indexing 9 Get pages discovered, crawled and kept in the index.
- Schema & Structured Data 14 Generate, deploy and validate the markup search engines parse.
- Entity SEO 12 Make a brand legible as a thing search engines and models can identify.
Rankings
Links
- Backlink Analysis 18 Query a link index: who links to whom, with what anchor, from where.
- Backlink Monitoring 7 Watch earned links for removal, nofollow changes and decay.
- Link Building 5 Find, qualify and win placements on other people’s sites.
- Outreach 4 Run the prospecting, sending and follow-up side of link acquisition.
Content
Platforms & markets
Measurement
- Search Console & Webmaster Tools 2 First-party data straight from the search engine about your own site.
- Google SEO Tools 7 The free first-party tools Google itself publishes for search work.
- Analytics & Attribution for SEO 10 Tie organic and AI-search sessions to revenue rather than to sessions.
- SEO Reporting 23 Turn verified SEO data into something a client or board will read.
03 Free tools that run in your browser
7 utilities I built and host here, not listings of anyone else's software. No signup, no limits, and for all but one of them nothing you type ever leaves the page. See all 7.
- Domain Rating Checker Check any site's Ahrefs Domain Rating, one domain or twenty at once. Real DR from the official Ahrefs API rather than an estimate.
- Google Penalty Checker Pick the month your traffic fell and see every confirmed Google algorithm update from that window, what it targeted and how long it rolled out.
- Keyword Density Checker Rank every term in your text by frequency and density, or check one word or multi-word phrase against the correct phrase-density formula.
- Word Counter Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs, reading time and speaking time, all counted as you type.
- Case Converter Change text between lowercase, UPPERCASE, Sentence case, Title Case, alternating and inverse case, then copy or download it.
- Spintax Generator Turn a synonym list into {word1|word2|word3} spintax, build it word by word, or expand existing spintax to preview the variations.
- Column to Comma Converter Join a spreadsheet column into a comma-separated list, or split a comma-separated list back into a column. Custom separators and quote wrapping.
04 What the evidence behind these listings actually is
Most of this database is desk research, and the honest thing to do is show that rather than describe 103 listings as reviews. The label on every card and table row is the same one counted here.
How 103 published listings break down by evidence level
One scale, weakest to strongest, so a darker band means stronger evidence. A listing cannot carry Alston tested without a recorded date, the plan used and an artefact a reader can open, because the schema behind the directory refuses to build the page otherwise.
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primary sources linked across the directory
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documented limitations, the part no vendor writes
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listings with a walkthrough on Alston’s channel
Counted from the tools collection at build time, 23 August 2026. Vendor submissions are excluded: an unverified submission does not build an indexable page, so it is not in this total. Freshness windows differ by category, AI-search products get 45 days rather than 90, because their pricing moves fast enough that a quarterly cycle would publish fiction.
05 Tools Alston has used himself
The 16 listings where there is first-hand experience behind the assessment. Everything else on this site is labelled as research, because it is. Filter the table to the 13 tested hands-on.
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Semrush
All-in-One SEO PlatformsAn all-in-one SEO, content and paid-search platform built on a very large keyword and advertising database. Strongest for competitor research; priced per person, with the API on the top tier.
Free plan available; paid from $139/month Checked 20 August 2026
- Find the keywords a competitor already ranks for, and the gap between their coverage and yours
- Read a competitor's paid keywords and ad copy to see what they have proven converts
Alston verifiedAlston testedAlston videoFree plan -
Answer Socrates
Keyword ResearchQuestion-based keyword research with clustering, free to start and $12.50/month billed yearly. No volume or difficulty at keyword level, which is the trade for the speed and the price.
Free tier; paid from $12.50/month billed yearly Checked 19 August 2026
- Find the questions people actually ask about a topic, in their own words
- Build an FAQ section that matches real user language rather than invented phrasing
Alston testedAlston videoFree plan -
ClickRank
AI SEOConnects to Search Console and automates on-page work, titles, meta descriptions, schema, internal links, deploying changes on any CMS. From $59/month. The AI content writer is the weak part.
From $59/month (Solo) Checked 19 August 2026
- Rewrite and deploy titles and meta descriptions across a neglected site in bulk
- Generate production-ready schema markup without hand-writing JSON-LD
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Cloudflare Email Routing
OutreachFree, unlimited inbound email forwarding on any domain using Cloudflare DNS. Gives outreach a domain-matched sender and a byline address that matches the site. Receive-only by design.
Free on every Cloudflare plan; outbound sending needs Workers Paid from $5/month Checked 20 August 2026
- Pitch guest posts and links from a domain-matched sender instead of a free webmail address
- Publish an author and contact address that matches the site's domain, on the byline and in Person schema
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CrawlWP
IndexingA WordPress plugin that submits new content to Bing and Yandex via IndexNow automatically, free, and adds Search Console data in the dashboard on Pro. Lifetime licences from $59.
Free plugin; lifetime licences from $59 Checked 19 August 2026
- Submit new and updated posts to Bing and Yandex automatically as you publish
- Audit which pages are indexed across a site, or across a portfolio of client sites
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KNWN
AI Search / GEO / LLM VisibilityRuns your prompts daily through ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini and reports brand mentions and citations. From $49/month for 10 prompts. Competitor tracking is still on the roadmap.
Free scan; plans from $49/month Checked 19 August 2026
- Track daily whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini cite your brand for your target prompts
- See the exact prompts a visibility score was calculated from
Alston testedAlston videoAI searchFree trial
06 AI search, GEO and LLM visibility
Measuring whether a brand appears inside AI answers is a different job from ranking a page, so it gets its own category rather than being folded into “AI SEO”. See all 37.
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Semrush
All-in-One SEO PlatformsAn all-in-one SEO, content and paid-search platform built on a very large keyword and advertising database. Strongest for competitor research; priced per person, with the API on the top tier.
Free plan available; paid from $139/month Checked 20 August 2026
- Find the keywords a competitor already ranks for, and the gap between their coverage and yours
- Read a competitor's paid keywords and ad copy to see what they have proven converts
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KNWN
AI Search / GEO / LLM VisibilityRuns your prompts daily through ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini and reports brand mentions and citations. From $49/month for 10 prompts. Competitor tracking is still on the roadmap.
Free scan; plans from $49/month Checked 19 August 2026
- Track daily whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini cite your brand for your target prompts
- See the exact prompts a visibility score was calculated from
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Otterly.ai
AI Search / GEO / LLM VisibilityDaily prompt tracking across four AI engines from $29 a month, with unlimited team members on every plan. Gemini, Google AI Mode and Claude are paid add-ons.
From $29/month (Lite), or $25/month billed yearly; Standard $189/month Checked 18 August 2026
- Find out cheaply whether AI answers mention your brand at all
- Audit pages for what an AI assistant can actually extract from them
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Peec AI
AI Search / GEO / LLM VisibilityRuns your prompts against AI assistants daily and reports mentions, cited sources and competitor share of voice. Unlimited users on every tier; three models on self-serve plans.
From $80/month billed yearly (Starter); Pro $205/month billed yearly Checked 18 August 2026
- Track a prompt set daily across ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI surfaces
- Give a whole client team access to AI-visibility reporting without paying per seat
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ProductRank.ai
AI Search / GEO / LLM VisibilityFree browsable dataset of how leading AI models rank and recommend products and brands by category, with the citations behind each answer. No account, no paid tier.
Free Checked 20 August 2026
- Find out which products AI models recommend in a given category
- See the citations behind an AI recommendation
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Profound
AI Search / GEO / LLM VisibilityTracks brand presence across up to nine AI assistants, with its own prompt-volume dataset and CDN-level AI crawler analytics. The coverage most buyers mean by Profound sits on Enterprise.
From $99/month billed yearly (Starter); Growth $399/month billed yearly Checked 18 August 2026
- Track how ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews describe your brand against named competitors
- See which prompts people actually run in assistants, from a dataset rather than a guess
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07 Tools with a walkthrough on Alston’s channel
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Answer Socrates Keyword Research
Find the questions people actually ask about a topic, in their own words
Alston tested
ClickRank AI SEO
Rewrite and deploy titles and meta descriptions across a neglected site in bulk
Alston tested
Cloudflare Email Routing Outreach
Pitch guest posts and links from a domain-matched sender instead of a free webmail address
Alston tested
CrawlWP Indexing
Submit new and updated posts to Bing and Yandex automatically as you publish
Alston tested
Google Search Console Search Console & Webmaster Tools
Find queries where a page already ranks poorly but earns impressions, the cheapest available wins
Used in real work
KNWN AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility
Track daily whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini cite your brand for your target prompts
Alston tested
Semdash All-in-One SEO Platforms
Do keyword and competitor research without a suite-level subscription
Alston tested
Semrush All-in-One SEO Platforms
Find the keywords a competitor already ranks for, and the gap between their coverage and yours
Alston tested
Taja AI YouTube SEO
Turn one long-form video into dozens of shorts without editing each one
Alston tested
Visby AI AI Search / GEO / LLM Visibility
See AI visibility split by funnel stage rather than as a single score
Alston tested
Wope Keyword Research
Find keyword opportunities and see monthly seasonality rather than a flat annual average
Alston tested
WordRocket SEO Writing
Generate long-form SEO articles paying only your own API costs, with no per-word markup
Alston tested
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20 August 2026 45 records
Alli AI, BrightEdge, Browseo, BuzzStream, Cloudflare Email Routing, Conductor and 39 more
19 August 2026 46 records
AccuRanker, All in One SEO, AlsoAsked, Answer Socrates, AnswerThePublic, Bing Webmaster Tools and 40 more
18 August 2026 10 records
Ahrefs, Clearscope, Frase, Moz Pro, Otterly.ai, Peec AI and 4 more
9 August 2026 2 records
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