PR-CY vs SEOptimer (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SEOptimer grades higher than PR-CY: 2.6 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
PR-CY grades higher on value for money. SEOptimer grades higher on ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on the free plan and features.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
PR-CY
Site checker, Google and Yandex rank tracker and AI tool catalog
SEOptimer
SEO audit tool with white-label reports and a lead-generation widget
Which one is for you
Pick PR-CY if
- Fits if your sites need rankings in Yandex as well as Google
- Works for quick checks of a domain without making an account
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need Bing or any engine besides Google and Yandex, as no others are named
- Watch out: the Pro trial needs a bank card and turns into a paid plan after 7 days, with refunds asked within 48 hours
- Tight if you track a lot, as rank checks and tools share one pool, at 0.1 limit per keyword, engine and region
- Pricey if you need the API or a team, as the API starts on Pro at $35 and team access only comes with Agency at $140
- Tight if you stay free, with 1 project, about 100 keyword checks a day and a 10-page audit
Pick SEOptimer if
- Fits if you're an agency sending clients audits with your own logo, from White Label at $29.25 a month
- Works for small sites that want a list of on-page fixes in priority order
Look elsewhere if
- Too light for real rank tracking, with 20 keywords and 25 keyword searches on DIY SEO
- Tight if you crawl often, as DIY SEO allows 4 crawls of one site
- Pricey if you want the lead form, webhooks or Zapier, which need Lead Generation at $44.25 a month on yearly billing
- Watch out: local SEO packs from $29 a month, extra GEO audits and the API from $100 a month are separate add-ons
- Not for you if you want to pay with PayPal or use a phone or desktop app, as it takes cards only and runs on the web
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAPR-CYFair | 2.6GPASEOptimerGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | ABasic is $15 a month for 2 projects and about 500 keyword checks a day, or 12 months for the price of 10 on yearly billing, about $12.50 a month. That's under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter. The API waits for Pro at $35. | BDIY SEO is $21.75 a month on yearly billing ($29 monthly), right on the line of this category's cheapest quarter. The limits are tight for the money: 4 crawls of 1 site, 20 tracked keywords and 25 keyword searches. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free plan: 1 project, 10 limits a day, about 100 keyword checks, and a 10-page audit. You'll hit that fast. The Pro trial lasts 7 days but needs a bank card and becomes a paid plan. | CFree single-page audits from the Chrome extension with no account, limited per day, plus a 14-day trial with the plan's full features. Fine for checking pages, not for running your SEO. |
| Features | CDaily rank tracking with position history and URL change alerts, a site audit, instant domain checks, PDF reports, an AI assistant and a site analysis API. The gap the listing names: rankings cover Google and Yandex only. | CPage audits, a site crawler, keyword and backlink research, rank tracking, an AI writer, white-label reports and a lead-capture audit form. Broad, but the listing shows the gaps: 4 crawls and 20 tracked keywords on DIY SEO. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. A domain check needs no account, but rank checks and tools draw on one shared pool of limits, which takes some working out. | BNo rating on record, but there's little to set up: paste a URL or click the extension and you get an audit with fixes in priority order. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, with no integrations on record. The one link out is a site analysis API on Pro and Agency, and there's no desktop or phone app. | BWeb plus a Chrome extension, with Zapier and webhooks on Lead Generation and an SEO Audit API as a paid add-on from $100 a month. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | rank tracking in Google and Yandex | branded SEO audits for agencies |
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: PR-CY and SEOptimer. How we grade
Price against what you get
PR-CY starts at $15 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SEOptimer starts at $21.75 a month and scores 2.7.
SEOptimer scores higher, and starts $6.75 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other SEO tools on the chart, 4 score higher than PR-CY for less, and none scores higher than SEOptimer 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
- SEOptimer also covers backlink analysis.
At a glance
| PR-CY | SEOptimer | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $15 per month for 1,500 limits (15,000 keyword checks), billed monthly | $21.75 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | 1 project, 10 limits a day (about 100 keyword position checks), express site analysis and an audit of 10 pages. | Free SEO audits of any page from the Chrome extension, with no account needed; free users are limited in how many audits they can run a day. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial of the Pro plan; a bank card is required and is charged when the trial ends | 14-day free trial with full access to the plan's features |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | PR-CY IO | SEOptimer Pte. Ltd. |
| Price read from | pr-cy.io | web.archive.org (not the vendor's own page) |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Worth knowing
PR-CY
- Rank checks and tools share one pool of limits: one keyword checked in one search engine and region uses 0.1 limit.
- The Pro trial needs a bank card and becomes a paid plan after 7 days; the FAQ allows a refund request within 48 hours of that charge.
- API access starts with Pro; team access for up to 10 users comes only with Agency.
- Rank tracking covers Google and Yandex only; the site names no other search engines.
SEOptimer
- Limits are tight on DIY SEO: 4 crawls of one site, 20 tracked keywords and 25 keyword searches.
- White-label reports need the White Label plan, and the embeddable lead form, webhooks and Zapier need Lead Generation.
- Local SEO packs (from $29 a month), extra GEO audits and the SEO Audit API (from $100 a month) are separate add-ons.
- Payment is by credit card only; PayPal is not accepted.
Key features
PR-CY
- Rank tracking in Google and Yandex
- Automatic daily position checks, results for other locations, position history, summaries by group and alerts when the ranking URL changes.
- Site audit
- Checks a whole site for duplicate H1s, server response codes, speed and meta tags, sorts errors by priority and exports the report.
- Express domain analysis
- Enter any domain, without signing up, for a quick list of passed tests, warnings and errors, each with advice on how to fix it.
- AI assistant and tool catalog
- An AI assistant suggests fixes for each project. Paid plans include AI chat and image generation, and a catalog lists 149 AI-based apps for sites, keywords and text.
- Site Analysis API
- Returns more than 80 SEO and technical metrics for a domain as JSON: 1 credit per stored report, 5 credits to refresh it. On Pro and Agency.
- PDF reports
- PDF reports at 5, 20 or 100 a day on Basic, Pro and Agency, with a comparison table that also lists branding of the PDF report.
SEOptimer
- SEO and GEO audits
- Checks a page's on-page elements, crawlability, speed and Core Web Vitals, backlinks, social and local details, and signals AI search engines use.
- White-label PDF reports
- Reports carry your logo, colors and company details, can be produced in 15 languages and scheduled; from the White Label plan.
- Lead-generation audit form
- An audit widget for your own website that collects visitors' contact details with each audit and sends leads by email, webhook or Zapier.
- Site crawler
- Crawls every page of a site to find problems in depth, with the number of crawls set by plan.
- Keyword and backlink research
- Keyword research, rank tracking, backlink research and backlink change monitoring, each with monthly limits by plan.
- Chrome extension
- Runs a full audit of the page in the current tab, with prioritized recommendations, without needing an account.
Plans
PR-CY
Free$0
1 project, 10 limits a day for site checks and tools, about 100 keyword checks a day and a 10-page audit.
Basic$15
per month for 1,500 limits (15,000 keyword checks), billed monthly
2 projects, about 500 keyword checks a day, site audit of 500 pages a day, 2 tracked competitors, 5 PDF reports a day and AI chat.
Pro$35
per month for 6,000 limits (60,000 keyword checks), billed monthly
5 projects, about 2,000 keyword checks a day, audit of 2,000 pages a day, 7 competitors, 20 PDF reports a day and API access. Has a 7-day trial.
Agency$140
per month for 27,000 limits (270,000 keyword checks), billed monthly
20 projects, about 9,000 keyword checks a day, audit of 5,000 pages a day, 100 PDF reports a day, API access and 10 team members.
SEOptimer
DIY SEO$21.75
per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly)
SEO audits for your own site, 4 crawls of 1 site, 20 tracked keywords, 25 keyword and 25 backlink searches, 20 AI articles a month.
White Label$29.25
per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)
Branded PDF audit reports, 10 crawls, 100 tracked keywords, 100 keyword and 50 backlink searches, and 3 users.
Lead Generation$44.25
per month, billed annually ($59 billed monthly)
Adds the embeddable audit form for leads, webhooks and Zapier; 50 crawls, 250 tracked keywords and 6 users.
CustomCustom
Custom limits, requirements and API integration for enterprises, arranged by chat with the sales team.
Ways to pay less
PR-CY
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
PR-CY's pricing FAQ says an annual subscription gives 12 months of access for the price of 10.
SEOptimer
- Annual discount
25% off with annual billing
SEOptimer's pricing FAQ offers annual billing on every plan at 25% off the monthly price, which it likens to three months free.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, PR-CY or SEOptimer?
As of Oct 23, 2026, PR-CY is cheaper to start with: $15 a month, against $21.75 a month for SEOptimer. PR-CY starts at $15 per month for 1,500 limits (15,000 keyword checks), billed monthly, and SEOptimer starts at $21.75 per month, billed annually ($29 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, PR-CY or SEOptimer?
As of Oct 23, 2026, both PR-CY and SEOptimer have a free plan.
Which platforms do PR-CY and SEOptimer run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only SEOptimer 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.