Answer Socrates vs QuestionDB (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Answer Socrates and QuestionDB share a 2.4 GPA, both have a free plan, and QuestionDB starts cheaper, at $9.99 a month against $15.83 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Answer Socrates grades higher on platforms. QuestionDB grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Answer Socrates
Question and keyword ideas with clustering and AI brand tracking
QuestionDB
Question and keyword research from search results, Reddit and Quora
Which one is for you
Pick Answer Socrates if
- Fits if you want question keywords and only need a few searches a day
- Works for writers turning a topic into clusters for pillar pages
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need numbers for free, as the free plan shows no volume or CPC
- Tight if you track lots of AI answers, as each engine query uses a brand tracker credit
- Pricey if you need the API, which starts at $39 a month or $32.50 on yearly billing
- Not for you if a team needs logins, as seats start at Aurelius ($69 a month) with 2
- Watch out: there's no trial, only a 7-day money-back guarantee, and allowances reset each cycle
Pick QuestionDB if
- Fits if you write FAQ sections and want the questions people ask on Reddit and Quora
- Works for a writer doing up to 100 question searches a month on Solo at $9.99
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you're staying free, at 5 searches a month with no volume, difficulty or exports
- Skip it if you want keyword data in other tools, as there's no API or integration on record
- Not for you if you like paying yearly for a discount, as only monthly prices are listed
- Too light for rank tracking or competitor research, which it doesn't do
- Watch out: the paid plans differ only in searches, so heavy use means $29.99 or $69.99 a month
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAAnswer SocratesFair | 2.4GPAQuestionDBFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CLite is $15.83 a month on yearly billing, $19 monthly, which is mid-table for this category. That's 1,200 searches, 60 AI articles and 600 brand tracker credits a year. API and MCP access start at Seneca, $32.50 a month yearly. | BSolo is $9.99 a month for 100 searches, inside this category's cheapest quarter, with volume, difficulty, CPC and exports. The bigger plans only add searches: 400 for $29.99, 1,000 for $69.99. There's no yearly option. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free plan with 3 searches a day, 500 cluster credits a month and 1 CSV download, no card needed. You'll hit those caps, and it shows no volume or CPC at all. Paid plans have a 7-day money-back guarantee, not a trial. | CA free plan with no card, but just 5 searches a month, and no volume, difficulty or exports. Fine for a look, not for real work. |
| Features | CQuestions and long-tail phrases from Google, Bing, YouTube and AI models, clustering, volume and CPC, trending topics and an LLM brand tracker. There's no difficulty score or competitor lookup on record. | CQuestions from Google, People Also Ask, Reddit and Quora, with volume, difficulty and CPC on paid plans, plus AI outlines and meta descriptions. It does question research fully, but that's a smaller job, with no rank tracking or competitor data. |
| Ease of use | BNo rating on record, but nothing to set up: type a seed or two and the questions come back, already grouped into clusters if you want them. | BNo rating on record, but nothing to set up. Type a topic, pick a country and language, and the questions come back. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb plus a browser extension, with no desktop or phone app. From Seneca there's a REST API and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and others. | CWeb only. No desktop or phone app, and no integrations or API on record, so results leave as a CSV file or an image. |
| Best for | free question research with clustering on top | question research from Reddit and Quora |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Answer Socrates and QuestionDB. How we grade
Price against what you get
Answer Socrates starts at $15.83 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. QuestionDB starts at $9.99 a month and scores 2.3.
Answer Socrates scores higher, and starts $5.84 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other keyword research tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than Answer Socrates for less, and 2 score higher than QuestionDB for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Answer Socrates also covers long-form writing and AI search visibility.
At a glance
| Answer Socrates | QuestionDB | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $15.83 per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly) | $9.99 per month for 100 searches |
| Free plan | 3 keyword searches and 1 recursive search a day, 500 cluster credits a month and 1 CSV download a month. No search metrics, brand tracking, projects or API. No card needed. | 5 searches a month, no card needed. Search volume, keyword difficulty, CPC and CSV or image export are listed only on the paid plans. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Toast Media FZCO | Geekflare LTD |
| Price read from | answersocrates.com | questiondb.io |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Answer Socrates
- The free plan shows no search volume, CPC or competition and has no projects, brand tracking or API.
- API and MCP access start at Seneca, $39 a month; team seats only come with Aurelius (2) and Senate (5).
- Each LLM Brand Tracker credit covers one AI engine query, so a keyword checked in three engines uses three credits.
- Plan allowances reset each billing cycle; paid plans have a 7-day money-back guarantee rather than a trial.
QuestionDB
- The free plan stops at 5 searches a month.
- Search volume, difficulty, CPC and exports are listed only on the paid plans.
- The plans differ only in their monthly search allowance, from 100 on Solo to 1,000 on Enterprise.
- Prices are shown per month only; the site lists no yearly option.
Key features
Answer Socrates
- Question and long-tail ideas
- Turns one or two seed keywords into hundreds of questions, comparisons and long-tail phrases gathered from Google, Bing, YouTube and AI models, in any country and language.
- Keyword clustering
- Groups a keyword list by meaning and intent into topic clusters, each with its total search volume and average CPC and competition. Uses cluster credits.
- Search volume, CPC and competition
- Paid plans show volume, cost per click and competition for every keyword and sort question keywords by volume. The free plan has no metrics.
- LLM Brand Tracker
- Runs keywords through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek, and scores your brand's mentions and share of voice over time. One credit covers one engine query.
- Trending Topics and AI articles
- Shows topics spiking in any country and language, and paid plans include AI-written SEO articles of up to 2,500 words each.
- MCP server and REST API
- From the Seneca plan, a hosted MCP server lets assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor pull keywords, trends and clusters into your projects.
QuestionDB
- Question research
- Collects questions for a topic from People Also Ask, People Also Search, Google results, Reddit and Quora, for a chosen country and language.
- Keyword metrics
- Paid plans show search volume, keyword difficulty, competition level and cost per click for each keyword, to help pick low-competition terms.
- AI keyword extractor
- Pulls the relevant keywords out of a piece of text or a web page, showing how an AI model groups them.
- AI outline and meta generator
- Turns a set of keywords into a structured outline for an article or blog post, and drafts meta descriptions.
- Brand Authority Score
- Analyzes mentions and sentiment for a brand name or website and gives an overall score for how AI tools perceive it.
- Exports
- Results can be downloaded as a CSV file or an image on every paid plan.
Plans
Answer Socrates
Free$0
3 searches a day, 500 cluster credits a month and 1 CSV download a month, without search volume or CPC data.
Socrates Lite$15.83
per month, billed yearly at $190 ($19 billed monthly)
1,200 searches, 60 AI articles and 600 LLM Brand Tracker credits a year, search metrics, unlimited CSVs and 2 projects. No API.
Seneca$32.50
per month, billed yearly at $390 ($39 billed monthly)
6,000 searches, 300 AI articles and 2,400 brand tracker credits a year, API and MCP access with 6,000 API credits, and 5 projects.
Aurelius$57.50
per month, billed yearly at $690 ($69 billed monthly)
Unlimited searches, 720 AI articles and 6,000 brand tracker credits a year, 30,000 API credits, 10 projects and 2 team seats.
Senate$249.17
per month, billed yearly at $2,990 ($299 billed monthly)
For agencies: 1,800 AI articles and 36,000 brand tracker credits a year, 300,000 API credits, 100 projects and 5 team seats.
QuestionDB
Free$0
5 searches a month, for trying the tool.
Solo$9.99
per month for 100 searches
For researchers: search volume, keyword difficulty, CPC, and CSV and image export.
Business$29.99
per month for 400 searches
For small businesses: the same data and exports as Solo with four times the searches.
Enterprise$69.99
per month for 1,000 searches
For larger businesses: the same data and exports with 1,000 searches a month.
Ways to pay less
Answer Socrates
- Annual discount
Save 17% with yearly billing
Answer Socrates's pricing page says yearly plans are billed once at a 17% discount, two months free: Lite is $190 a year against $19 a month.
QuestionDB
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Answer Socrates or QuestionDB?
As of Oct 23, 2026, QuestionDB is cheaper to start with: $9.99 a month, against $15.83 a month for Answer Socrates. Answer Socrates starts at $15.83 per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly), and QuestionDB starts at $9.99 per month for 100 searches.
Which has a free plan, Answer Socrates or QuestionDB?
As of Oct 23, 2026, both Answer Socrates and QuestionDB have a free plan.
Which platforms do Answer Socrates and QuestionDB run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Answer Socrates lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.