KeySearch vs Ubersuggest (2026): which should you pick?

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 Ubersuggest if

• Fits if you do the SEO for your own small business site and want to spend about $16 a month
• Makes sense if you'd rather pay once than keep a subscription going

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want daily rankings, as tracking and audits run weekly on every plan
• Not for you if you need an API, since outside access is only through MCP and the chat apps
• Tight if you run more than one site on Individual, which has 1 project and 125 tracked keywords
• Watch out: lifetime purchases are final and non-refundable, and the one-time trial covers monthly plans only
• Pricey if you add users, projects, keywords, AI prompts or credits, at $5 a month each; the free plan's limits aren't published

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.

Ubersuggest

• Rank tracking and site audits update weekly on every plan.
• There is no API plan; outside access is through the MCP server and the ChatGPT and Claude apps.
• Lifetime purchases are final and non-refundable; the free trial covers monthly plans only.
• More users, projects, tracked keywords, AI prompts or credits cost $5 a month for each add-on.

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.

Ubersuggest

Keyword and content ideas

Get 20,000 to 100,000 keyword suggestions a month by plan, with search intent, AI prompt ideas and content ideas from top pages.

Competitor and backlink research

Track 5 to 15 competitors, see their top pages and keywords, and browse backlinks with 3 years of link history.

Site audit

Crawl 1,000 to 10,000 pages a week per report for SEO errors, using Google Search Console data for more detail.

Rank tracking

Track 125 to 300 keywords per project with weekly updates and mobile rankings, in 20 locations on Individual and unlimited above.

AI search visibility

Check set prompts per brand in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, monthly on Individual up to weekly on Enterprise.

AI chat, MCP and apps

Ask questions of your reports in AI Chat, or bring the data into ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor through apps and an MCP server.

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.

Ubersuggest

• Free$0

  Free account with limited access; the pricing page does not list its limits.

• Individual$29

  per month, billed monthly

  1 project, 150 reports a day, 250 credits a month, 125 tracked keywords, 1,000-page weekly audits and 10 AI prompts checked monthly.

• Business$49

  per month, billed monthly

  7 projects, 300 reports a day, 500 credits, 150 keywords per project, 5,000-page audits and 15 AI prompts checked every two weeks.

• Enterprise$99

  per month, billed monthly

  15 projects, 900 reports a day, 1,000 credits, 300 keywords per project, 10,000-page audits and 20 AI prompts checked weekly.

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.

Ubersuggest

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing from $192 a year

  The pricing page's US price list has yearly plans at $192 for Individual, $326 for Business and $657 for Enterprise, against $29, $49 and $99 a month.

• Lifetime license

  Lifetime access from $290, paid once

  A single payment of $290 (Individual), $490 (Business) or $990 (Enterprise) buys lifetime access. The page shows lifetime first, under a countdown banner.