RankYak vs SEOZilla (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SEOZilla grades higher than RankYak: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
SEOZilla grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
RankYak
Keyword planning, daily AI articles and backlinks, priced per site
SEOZilla
AI agents that plan, write and auto-publish SEO and GEO blog articles
Which one is for you
Pick RankYak if
- Fits if you want keywords picked and articles posted on set days for one site
- Works for agencies adding client sites, as each one is billed at the same per-site price
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you run several sites, since every website is a separate $99 monthly subscription
- Tight if you want to test it properly, as the trial lasts 3 days and the backlink exchange only opens once you pay
- Watch out: Site Guard, which fixes titles, descriptions and cannibalization on existing pages, is $99 a month on top
- Watch out: output follows your publishing days, so weekdays only means about 21 articles a month, not 30
- Skip it if you want links from outside its network, as backlinks come only from other member sites
Pick SEOZilla if
- Fits if you want a blog that fills itself on a schedule
- Works for teams that need a human editor on AI posts and can pay $199.99 a month or more for it
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you're on Basic: about 4 articles a month, WordPress only, and no API until Pro at $99.99
- Not for you if you want to try it without a card, as the 3-day trial needs one
- Pricey if you want a human editor, as those plans run $199.99 to $2,999.99 a month
- Watch out: the homepage puts human-edited plans from $99.99, the pricing page from $199.99
- Watch out: cancelling stops billing at the end of the cycle, with no partial refunds
How we grade them
| 2.2GPARankYakFair | 2.4GPASEOZillaFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$82.50 a month billed yearly, or $99 month to month, for one website. The yearly price sits just under this category's dearer quarter at $83, and the monthly one in its dearest tenth. Each extra site, agencies included, is another subscription. | BBasic is $19.99 a month for 100 credits, just inside this category's cheapest quarter ($20). That's only about 4 articles with images, though. 10 articles means Starter at $49.99, and API access Pro at $99.99. |
| Free plan and trial | DNo free plan. The trial gives full access for 3 days, shorter than a week, and the backlink exchange stays shut until the paid plan starts. | DNo free plan. The 3-day trial of the paid plans needs a card, with a reminder emailed the day before billing. Unused article credits can be refunded within 7 days. |
| Features | BKeyword discovery, a topical map, a content calendar, researched articles up to 5,000 words in 40+ languages, refreshes driven by Search Console, a backlink exchange and an API. It covers the whole job, though fixes for older pages' titles are the Site Guard add-on. | BSite and competitor analysis into an article queue, researched long-form posts with cited sources, TL;DRs and FAQs, scheduled publishing, paragraph rewrites in an editor, syndication and Blog2Video. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You connect your site and Search Console, approve a topical map and set publishing days before it runs. | CNo rating on record. It crawls your site and competitors first, then you approve or reject a queue of ideas and connect a CMS, or switch to full autopilot. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It publishes to WordPress, WordPress.com, Shopify, Webflow and Wix, links to Zapier, Make and Search Console, and has an MCP server and a REST API. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost and Shopify, lists Wix, HubSpot and Elementor, and has an API from Pro. |
| Best for | planned, auto-posted articles, priced per website | auto-published long articles laid out for AI answers |
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: RankYak and SEOZilla. How we grade
Price against what you get
RankYak starts at $82.50 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SEOZilla starts at $19.99 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and SEOZilla starts $62.51 a month lower. Of the other SEO content tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than RankYak for less, and 1 scores higher than SEOZilla 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
- RankYak also covers content optimization.
- SEOZilla also covers image generation.
At a glance
| RankYak | SEOZilla | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $82.50 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | $19.99 per month for 100 credits |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 3-day free trial with full access | 3-day free trial of paid plans; a credit card is required and a reminder is emailed the day before billing |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Height Labs | AI SEO Software Ltd |
| Price read from | rankyak.com | seozilla.ai |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
RankYak
- Every website is a separate $99 monthly subscription, including for agencies.
- Site Guard, which checks existing pages daily and writes fixes for titles, descriptions and cannibalization, is an add-on at $99 a month.
- The backlink exchange opens only once the paid subscription starts after the trial, and links come from other member sites.
- Output follows the publishing days you pick: about 30 articles a month publishing daily, about 21 on weekdays only.
SEOZilla
- Articles cost 10 to 25 credits by length and images 5 each, so Basic's 100 credits cover about four articles with a featured image.
- Basic publishes only to WordPress; Webflow, Ghost and Shopify start at Starter, and API access at Pro.
- Human-edited plans cost $199.99 to $2,999.99 a month for 4 to 120 articles; the homepage puts them from $99.99.
- Cancelling stops billing at the end of the cycle with no partial refunds; unused article credits can be refunded within 7 days of purchase.
Key features
RankYak
- Keyword discovery and topical map
- Scores keywords monthly by volume, difficulty and your site's authority, groups them into clusters under core topics, and waits for your approval.
- Content calendar
- Schedule articles on chosen days, batch them, or turn on autopilot to fill the month, with live or draft publishing.
- Researched articles
- Each article starts from the pages ranking now, runs up to 5,000 words, and adds citations, images, YouTube embeds and links, in 40+ languages.
- Article refreshes
- Watches Search Console for articles losing ground and rewrites them on the same URL, keeping a snapshot of each earlier version.
- Backlink exchange
- Your site joins a network of vetted member sites and earns contextual links from articles in your niche, with no outreach.
- Copilot, MCP and API
- An assistant answers questions and makes changes per site, an MCP server connects Claude or Cursor, and a REST API manages sites from code.
SEOZilla
- Site analysis and content plan
- Crawls your site, studies competitors and pulls keyword data, then builds a queue of article ideas you approve, edit or reject.
- Researched long-form articles
- Writes articles of up to about 4,000 words with live web research, cited sources, images, tables, YouTube embeds and internal links.
- Structure for AI answers
- Each article gets a TL;DR summary, FAQs and short self-contained sections, which SEOZilla says suit citation by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini.
- Scheduled auto-publishing
- Publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Shopify and other CMSs on your schedule, or runs on full autopilot without approvals.
- Editor and rewrites
- A visual editor lets you ask the AI to rewrite any paragraph for 2 credits; regenerating an article within 30 days costs 10.
- Syndication and Blog2Video
- Articles can be syndicated to sites such as Reddit, LinkedIn and Medium, capped at 10 links, and turned into videos at 5 credits a minute.
Plans
RankYak
RankYak Pro$82.50
per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
One website: an article each publishing day (about 30 a month), keyword research, Search Console refreshes, auto-publishing and backlink exchange.
SEOZilla
Basic$19.99
per month for 100 credits
About 4 articles and 4 AI images a month, unlimited projects and publishing to WordPress only.
Starter$49.99
per month for 250 credits
About 10 articles and 10 images a month, with publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost and Shopify.
Pro$99.99
per month for 750 credits
About 30 articles and 40 images a month, 1 extra seat and API access. The top card shows it as $99 against a crossed-out $200.
Ultimate$189.99
per month for 1,800 credits
About 70 articles and 100 images a month, 2 extra seats, API access and priority email support.
Ultimate+$299.99
per month for 3,050 credits
About 120 articles and 200 images a month, 3 extra seats, API access and priority email support.
Ways to pay less
RankYak
- Annual discount
Two months free with yearly billing
RankYak's pricing page says yearly billing gives 2 months free: $82.50 a month billed yearly against $99 billed monthly.
SEOZilla
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, RankYak or SEOZilla?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SEOZilla is cheaper to start with: $19.99 a month, against $82.50 a month for RankYak. RankYak starts at $82.50 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly), and SEOZilla starts at $19.99 per month for 100 credits.
Which has a free plan, RankYak or SEOZilla?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither RankYak nor SEOZilla has a free plan. Both have 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.