KeySearch vs Keyword Revealer (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, we pick Keyword Revealer: it is first in our ranking of keyword research tools (KeySearch is second), and it grades higher too, 2.4 against 2.2.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Keyword Revealer grades higher on platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, 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.
KeySearch
Low-cost keyword research tool with rank tracking and site audits
Keyword Revealer
Keyword research tool that now also tracks AI search citations
Which one is for you
Pick KeySearch if
- Fits if you run a blog or niche site and want the main SEO jobs for about $20 a month
- Works for hunting long-tail keywords a small site can rank for
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you track lots of keywords, as Starter stops at 80 and Pro at 200
- Skip it if you want keyword data in your other tools, as there's no API on record
- Not for you if you want longer than a week to try it, as there's no free plan
- Watch out: Foresight and team sharing are Pro only, at $40 a month on yearly billing
- Watch out: AI writing runs on monthly credits, 5,000 on Starter, and the listing doesn't say if the trial needs a card
Pick Keyword Revealer if
- Fits if you want keyword research and AI citation checks on one plan under $20 a month
- Works for a small agency with up to 5 client domains, which the Agency plan covers
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you research all day, as searches, evaluations and AI audits all have daily limits
- Watch out: extra AI queries cost $4.99 per 10 once the daily audits run out
- Pricey if you track AI visibility across many domains, at $199 a month for 15 or $399 for 50
- Skip it if you want auto-publishing or mobile rank tracking on Basic, as both start at Pro
- Watch out: monthly billing costs more ($19.97 for Basic against $12.50 paid yearly), and only 4 AI engines are covered
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAKeySearchFair | 2.4GPAKeyword RevealerFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStarter is $20 a month on yearly billing, or $24 monthly, which sits a little above this category's $17 middle for research, tracking and audits in one account. Pro, with Foresight and team sharing, is $40. | CBasic is $12.50 a month on yearly billing, $19.97 monthly, just above this category's cheapest quarter. Pro, with auto-publishing, is $17.97, just above the $17 middle. The first month of Pro is $1 at the moment. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, just a 7-day trial and a set of free stand-alone tools. The listing doesn't say whether a card is needed. The terms let you ask for a refund within 30 days of a first purchase. | CA free plan with 3 AI audits and 7 keyword evaluations a day and 50 suggestions a search, plus a 7-day trial with no card. You'll hit those daily caps quickly if you do much research. |
| Features | BVolume, CPC and a difficulty score by country, a rival's keywords, a backlink checker, YouTube research, rank tracking, audits and an AI writer. That covers the whole job. The limits are on the extras, like 80 tracked keywords on Starter. | BVolume, CPC and difficulty with keyword trees, rank tracking, backlinks, and AI citation audits across four AI engines with alerts. That covers the whole job of the category, plus AI citation checks. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. Looking up a keyword is quick, but it's a suite: rank tracking, audits and Foresight all need your site and keywords set up first, and AI use runs on monthly credits. | CNo rating on record. It's grown into a lot of tools with their own daily limits, and the publishing side wants WordPress, Webflow or Git connected before it does anything. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only. There's no desktop or phone app, and the listing shows no integrations and no API. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It publishes to WordPress and Webflow, works with a Git workflow and sends alerts to Slack. |
| Best for | keyword research with rank tracking included | keyword research with AI citation checks, from $12.50 |
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: KeySearch and Keyword Revealer. How we grade
Price against what you get
KeySearch starts at $20 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Keyword Revealer starts at $12.50 a month and scores 2.7.
Keyword Revealer scores higher and starts $7.50 a month lower. Of the other keyword research tools on the chart, 7 score higher than KeySearch for less, and 1 scores higher than Keyword Revealer 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
- KeySearch also covers site audit and youTube SEO.
- Keyword Revealer also covers AI search visibility.
At a glance
| KeySearch | Keyword Revealer | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $20 per month, billed annually ($24 billed monthly) | $12.50 per month, billed annually ($19.97 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | 3 AI visibility audits a day, 1 monitored citation keyword, 50 keyword suggestions per search and 7 keyword evaluations a day. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial, cancel anytime | 7-day free trial, no credit card needed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | KeySearch LLC | Keyword Revealer |
| Price read from | keysearch.co | keywordrevealer.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
KeySearch
- There is no free plan after the 7-day trial, only a set of free stand-alone tools.
- Rank tracking is capped at 80 keywords on Starter and 200 on Pro, low next to dedicated rank trackers.
- Foresight and team collaboration are only on the Pro plan.
- Refunds can be requested within 30 days of the first purchase, according to the terms.
Keyword Revealer
- Larger AI visibility plans cost $199 a month for 15 domains and $399 for 50, billed annually ($249 and $499 monthly).
- Daily limits apply to searches, keyword evaluations and AI audits on every plan; extra AI queries cost $4.99 per 10.
- AEO Autopilot publishing and the page generator start at the Pro plan.
- The AI engines covered are Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.
Key features
KeySearch
- Keyword research and difficulty
- Look up search volume, cost per click and a difficulty score for keywords by language and country, with filters for long-tail ideas.
- Live SERP and competitor analysis
- See which pages rank for a keyword and what keywords a rival site ranks for, along with a backlink checker and URL metrics.
- Foresight recommendations
- On the Pro plan, Foresight reads a site's niche, authority and rankings and suggests keywords it could win and pages worth improving.
- AI content assistant
- Builds outlines and drafts from the pages that already rank and checks topic coverage. AI use is metered in monthly credits.
- Rank tracking and site audit
- Track positions for 80 or 200 keywords depending on plan, and audit up to 2,000 or 5,000 pages a month for technical problems.
- YouTube research
- Research keywords for YouTube and look at the videos that perform well in a niche.
Keyword Revealer
- Keyword research and keyword trees
- Look up monthly search volume, CPC and difficulty, and explore related ideas as an expanding tree of branches.
- AI citation audits
- Checks whether Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite a site for a prompt, with a daily allowance of audits by plan.
- Citation monitoring and alerts
- Keeps watching chosen keywords and alerts you when a site loses a citation in AI answers; the AI visibility plans re-measure prompts weekly.
- AEO Autopilot and page generator
- From Pro, generates pages aimed at AI answers and pushes fixes to WordPress, Webflow or a Git workflow, re-auditing after 72 hours.
- Rank tracking
- Tracks Google positions for 25 to 500 keywords depending on plan, with mobile tracking from Pro.
- Backlink analysis
- Paid plans include a daily allowance of backlink rows, from 1,000 on Basic to 7,000 on Elite and Agency.
Plans
KeySearch
Starter Plan$20
per month, billed annually ($24 billed monthly)
200 keyword searches a day, 80 tracked keywords, 2,000 audited pages and 5,000 AI credits a month. No Foresight.
Pro Plan$40
per month, billed annually ($48 billed monthly)
500 keyword searches a day, 200 tracked keywords, 5,000 audited pages, 15,000 AI credits a month, Foresight and team sharing.
Keyword Revealer
Free$0
A few AI visibility audits and keyword evaluations a day, with basic search metrics.
Basic$12.50
per month, billed annually at $150 ($19.97 billed monthly)
50 daily search credits, 100 keyword evaluations a day, 25 tracked keywords, 25 AI prompt audits a day and 1,000 backlink rows.
Pro$17.97
per month, billed annually at $215.64 ($27.97 billed monthly)
300 daily search credits, 150 tracked keywords, 150 AI prompt audits a day, AEO Autopilot publishing and 3 generated pages a day.
Elite$49
per month, billed annually at $588 ($69 billed monthly)
800 daily search credits, 400 tracked keywords, 400 AI prompt audits a day, content health audits and 15 generated pages a day.
Agency$41.58
per month, billed annually at $499 ($59 billed monthly)
5 client domains with their own workspaces, 500 tracked keywords, 500 AI prompt audits a day and white-label reports.
Brand (AI Visibility)$79
per month for 3 domains, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
50 prompts re-measured weekly across 4 AI engines, competitor citation share, and 400 tracked keywords with keyword research.
Ways to pay less
KeySearch
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
KeySearch's pricing section offers annual billing with 2 months free: Starter is $20 a month instead of $24, and Pro $40 instead of $48.
Keyword Revealer
- Annual discount
Lower monthly price with annual billing
Keyword Revealer's pricing section lists annual billing at about two-thirds of the monthly rate: Pro is $215.64 a year ($17.97 a month) instead of $27.97 a month.
- Other savings
First month of Pro for $1
A banner on Keyword Revealer's homepage offers the first month of Pro for $1, after which it renews at $27.97 a month.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, KeySearch or Keyword Revealer?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Keyword Revealer is cheaper to start with: $12.50 a month, against $20 a month for KeySearch. KeySearch starts at $20 per month, billed annually ($24 billed monthly), and Keyword Revealer starts at $12.50 per month, billed annually ($19.97 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, KeySearch or Keyword Revealer?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Keyword Revealer has a free plan. KeySearch does not, though it has a free trial.
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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.