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At a glance
Each cell is taken from that product's comparison page, where the sources are listed. Last checked: 2026-11-04. Google's free tools have their own pages below.
| Topic | seops | Ahrefs | Semrush | OpenSEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay for what you need: first site free, each extra site $2.50/mo (+100 daily credits), credit packs $1/mo; no tiers, no seat fees. Enterprise (50+ sites) by quote. | Per account. Lite $129, Standard $249, Advanced $449, Enterprise $1,499/mo (annual). Starter $29 with tight limits. Extra seats $20–100. | Per account. Pro $139.95, Guru $249.95, Business $499.95/mo (monthly billing). Semrush One bundle with AI Visibility Toolkit from $199/mo. | Self-host free; you pay DataForSEO directly per lookup. Hosted $10/mo including $10 of usage, then per action (reviewer: ~28% markup on DataForSEO). |
| Data sources | Search Console, GA4, Bing Webmaster, Yandex Webmaster, Cloudflare, PageSpeed, IndexNow; AI answers via Cloudflare AI Gateway on pack credits. | Search Console connects for own-site reports; GA4 not a first-class source. | Both connect inside projects and reports. | DataForSEO (your key), Google Search Console. GA4 not listed. |
| AI visibility | Weekly prompt × engine matrix: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity asked directly with live web search via Cloudflare AI Gateway. Mention rate, citation rate, cited sites, full answers. Up to 20 prompts per site per week; each answer runs on pack credits. | Brand Radar AI from $199/mo (531M-prompt database); 5–20 tracked prompts/day included in Lite–Advanced; prompt packs $50–250/mo. | AI Visibility Toolkit, sold in the Semrush One bundle from $199/mo. | Brand lookup across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews; Prompt Explorer runs one prompt across several LLMs. |
| Cloudflare, backups | Cloudflare security events, AI crawler log, Workers/D1/R2 usage; nightly D1, Supabase, WordPress and Hostinger backups with alerts. | Not covered. | Not covered. | Not covered. |
| MCP / agents | Remote MCP server with OAuth; 45 tools (34 read, 11 write). Works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Code. | API on Enterprise; an MCP server exists for API users. | API access on Business; MCP server available for API users. | Every feature as MCP tools; prebuilt agent skills; Project Context and agent reports. |
| Hosting | Cloudflare Workers, D1 and R2. Keys stored encrypted; Google scopes read-only. Delete everything from My account. | Ahrefs cloud. | Semrush cloud. | MIT, GitHub every-app/open-seo. Self-host with Docker + Postgres, or hosted at app.openseo.so. |
SEO suites
seops vs Ahrefs
Ahrefs is a backlink and keyword research suite priced per account from $129/mo. seops is a per-site operations panel from $0. Where each one fits, with sources.
seops vs Semrush
Semrush is an all-in-one marketing suite from $139.95/mo per account. seops is a per-site panel from $0 built on data you already own. The differences, with sources.
seops vs OpenSEO
OpenSEO is an MIT-licensed, self-hostable SEO suite on DataForSEO with a $10/mo hosted option. seops is a hosted per-site panel on Cloudflare. Where they differ.
Google's free tools
seops vs Search Console alone
Search Console is free and authoritative. seops reads the same data and adds many sites in one list, hourly today, opportunity queries, index importance and MCP.
seops vs GA4 alone
GA4 is free and complete. seops reads a useful slice of it for every site: users, channels, landing pages, AI-assistant traffic and a three-step navigation flow.
Google Analytics 4 vs seops Analytics
GA4 with cookies, user IDs and ad attribution, or seops Analytics with no cookies and no persistent identifier: what each keeps, what each can't do, running both.
Starte kostenlos mit einer Site
Die erste Site ist dauerhaft kostenlos, ohne Karte. Jede weitere Site kostet 2,50 $ im Monat.