Keyword Chef 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, and it grades higher too, 2.4 against 2.2.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Keyword Chef grades higher on ease of use. Keyword Revealer grades higher on features and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money and the free plan.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Keyword Chef
Credit-based long-tail keyword finder for bloggers and niche sites
Keyword Revealer
Keyword research tool that now also tracks AI search citations
Which one is for you
Pick Keyword Chef if
- Fits if you run a niche site and want topics where forums rank on page one
- Works for occasional research, as pay-as-you-go credits never expire
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you write in anything other than English, as that's all it supports
- Tight if you target a country outside its 7, which only get global volume
- Pricey if you want Niche Insights without a subscription, as that's $97 a year on its own
- Watch out: monthly credits don't roll over, and pay-as-you-go credits cost more per keyword
- Watch out: the free trial allows only 30 SERP lookups and no bulk SERP checks
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
| 2.2GPAKeyword ChefFair | 2.4GPAKeyword RevealerFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStarter is $29 a month for 5,000 keywords, at the dearer end of this category. If you only dip in now and then, $20 buys 1,200 credits once and they never expire. Monthly credits don't roll over. | 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, but the trial needs no card and has no time limit: 1,000 credits and up to 30 SERP lookups. That's enough to see if it suits you, not to run on. | 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 | CAutomatic filtering, a SERP Score for weak results on page one, bulk SERP checks, wildcard searches and Niche Insights. It does long-tail hunting fully, but the listing names the gaps: English only, and country volume for just 7 countries. | 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 | BNo rating on record, but there's nothing to set up. Type a seed and it does the sorting for you, grouping what's left into questions, best-of and how-to. | 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. No desktop or phone app, and no integrations or API on record. | 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 | low-competition long-tail keywords for bloggers | 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: Keyword Chef and Keyword Revealer. How we grade
Price against what you get
Keyword Chef starts at $29 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 $16.50 a month lower. Of the other keyword research tools on the chart, 9 score higher than Keyword Chef 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
- Keyword Chef can be bought with a one-time purchase.
- Keyword Revealer also covers rank tracking, backlink analysis, AI search visibility and content optimization.
At a glance
| Keyword Chef | Keyword Revealer | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $29 per month for 5,000 credits, or $20 once for 1,200 credits | $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 | Free trial: 1,000 one-time credits with no time limit and up to 30 SERP lookups; no credit card needed | 7-day free trial, no credit card needed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Keyword Chef | Keyword Revealer |
| Price read from | app.keywordchef.com | keywordrevealer.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Keyword Chef
- Only English is supported, and country-level search volume covers just 7 countries; other countries get global volume.
- Monthly credits do not roll over, while pay-as-you-go credits never expire but cost more per keyword.
- The free trial allows only 30 SERP lookups and no bulk SERP checks.
- Niche Insights is not included with pay-as-you-go credits; on its own it costs $97 a year.
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
Keyword Chef
- Automatic keyword filtering
- Removes broad, competitive and junk keywords and groups the rest into categories such as questions, best-of and how-to.
- SERP Score
- Counts the easy-to-outrank results, such as forums and user-generated content, on page one for each keyword, and can be customized.
- Bulk SERP checks
- Paid users can pull the search results for every keyword in a report at once with Get All SERPs, at no extra credit cost.
- Wildcard search
- Search patterns like 'best * for chefs' or 'can you cook * in the oven' to find best-of topics and clusters, with minus signs to exclude words.
- Keyword import
- Upload keywords from other tools to check their volume and SERP Score.
- Niche Insights
- Ten years of trend data, keywords by intent, topic lists, products and affiliate brands for a niche. Included in monthly plans or $97 a year on its own.
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
Keyword Chef
Starter$29
per month for 5,000 credits
1 credit is 1 keyword in a report. Monthly credits expire each cycle; includes Niche Insights, Domain Age and queue priority.
Plus$69
per month for 20,000 credits
The same features as Starter, at about $0.0034 a credit.
Pro$119
per month for 50,000 credits
The same features as Starter, at about $0.0024 a credit.
Pay As You Go Starter$20
one-time, for 1,200 credits that never expire
Lifetime credits for occasional use. Pay-as-you-go packs do not include Niche Insights.
Pay As You Go Plus$100
one-time, for 10,000 credits that never expire
Lifetime credits at $0.01 each, without Niche Insights.
Pay As You Go Pro$250
one-time, for 50,000 credits that never expire
Lifetime credits at $0.005 each, without Niche Insights.
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
Keyword Chef
No public discounts listed.
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, Keyword Chef or Keyword Revealer?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Keyword Revealer is cheaper to start with: $12.50 a month, against $29 a month for Keyword Chef. Keyword Chef starts at $29 per month for 5,000 credits, or $20 once for 1,200 credits, and Keyword Revealer starts at $12.50 per month, billed annually ($19.97 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Keyword Chef or Keyword Revealer?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Keyword Revealer has a free plan. Keyword Chef 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.