SE Ranking vs SEOcrawl AI (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SE Ranking and SEOcrawl AI share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and SEOcrawl AI starts cheaper, at $36 a month against $103.20 a month.
Checked Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
SE Ranking grades higher on features. SEOcrawl AI grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
SE Ranking
SEO platform for rank tracking, audits, research and AI visibility
SEOcrawl AI
Search Console dashboards, site crawls and AI answer tracking in one
Which one is for you
Pick SE Ranking if
- Fits if you track lots of keywords daily across several client sites
- Works for small marketing teams who want research, audits and tracking under one login
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you're one person with one site, as Core is $103.20 a month even on yearly billing and there's no lower plan
- Tight if you need old data, since Core keeps 6 months of history and has 1 manager seat; extra seats start at $16 a month
- Pricey if you want white-label reports, as the Agency Pack is $69 a month extra and sold on yearly billing only
- Watch out: deeper AI search tracking is an add-on at $71.20 a month on yearly billing ($89 monthly)
- Watch out: payments are non-refundable unless the service wasn't delivered as promised, and there's no desktop or phone app
Pick SEOcrawl AI if
- Fits if you want Search Console, GA4 and AI answers on one screen
- Works for agencies sending white-labelled monthly PDF reports, from Growth
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you research competitors' sites, since rankings come from your own Search Console
- Tight if you work with others on Starter, which has one user and no PDF reports
- Not for you if you want the safety of refunds, as none are offered by default and canceling is by email
- Too light for link work, as there's no backlink tool, and the API starts at Agency for $287
- Watch out: prices are set in euros and converted to dollars at a fixed rate
How we grade them
| 2.2GPASE RankingFair | 2.2GPASEOcrawl AIFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DCore is $103.20 a month billed yearly ($129 monthly), and it's the lowest self-serve plan. That's well above this category's middle, for one manager seat with 10 projects and 2,000 keywords tracked daily; extra seats start at $16. | CStarter is $36 a month billed yearly ($428 a year) or $53 monthly, for 5 projects, 250 AI prompts a week, 25 crawls a month and unlimited tracked keywords. A bit above this category's cheapest quarter. Prices are set in euros, from 49€ a month. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but the 14-day trial needs no card and allows 10 projects, 750 keywords and 20 AI prompts a day. Payments are non-refundable after that, so use the trial properly. | CNo free plan, but a 30-day free trial on every paid plan. The Chrome extension is free with no account. There are no refunds by default, so use the month. |
| Features | BDaily rank tracking with share of voice, keyword, competitor and backlink research with no caps on either plan, audits of 250,000 pages a month, reports, listings in 100+ directories, AI answer tracking and API credits. The whole job. | CSearch Console and GA4 dashboards, crawls with a health score, a change monitor, AI answer tracking and an MCP server. The gap the listing names: rankings come from your connected Search Console, so there's no research on rivals' sites, and no backlinks. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. Projects, keyword lists and reports all need setting up before the tool pays off. | CNo rating on record. Nothing works until you connect Search Console and GA4, and then you choose the prompts you want checked each week. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, connected to Looker Studio, Google Analytics, Search Console, Matomo, n8n, Make and Claude, with 25,000 API credits a month and MCP on Core. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb plus a free Chrome extension, connected to Search Console and GA4, with an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor. The API starts at Agency. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | tracking rankings across many client sites | Search Console and AI answers in one dashboard |
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: SE Ranking and SEOcrawl AI. How we grade
Price against what you get
SE Ranking starts at $103.20 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SEOcrawl AI starts at $36 a month and scores 2.3.
SE Ranking scores higher, and starts $67.20 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other SEO tools on the chart, none scores higher than SE Ranking for less, and 7 score higher than SEOcrawl AI 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
- SE Ranking also covers keyword research and backlink analysis.
- SEOcrawl AI also covers dashboards and AI search visibility.
At a glance
| SE Ranking | SEOcrawl AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $103.20 per month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly) | $36 per month, billed annually ($53 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial, no credit card required; 10 projects, 750 keywords and 20 AI prompts a day | 30-day free trial on the Starter, Growth, Pro and Agency plans |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | SER Acquisition Inc. | SEOCRAWL, SL |
| Price read from | seranking.com | seocrawl.ai |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
SE Ranking
- Core keeps only 6 months of historical data and includes 1 manager seat; extra seats start at $16 a month.
- White-label reports need the Agency Pack, $69 a month and sold on annual billing only.
- Deeper AI search tracking is an add-on at $71.20 a month billed annually ($89 billed monthly).
- Payments are non-refundable except where the service was not delivered as promised.
SEOcrawl AI
- Prices are set in euros (Starter is 49€ a month); the page converts them to dollars at a fixed rate.
- Rankings and traffic come from your connected Search Console and GA4, so the tracker covers only sites you can connect.
- Starter has one user and no PDF reports, and API access starts at the Agency plan.
- Refunds are not offered by default, and canceling means emailing the company before the renewal date.
Key features
SE Ranking
- Rank Tracker
- Track rankings daily across major search engines, devices and locations, with Google top-100 tracking and share of voice.
- Keyword, competitor and backlink research
- Research keywords, competitors' traffic and backlinks with no usage caps on either plan, plus backlink monitoring.
- Website audit
- Crawl sites for technical issues, from 250,000 pages a month on Core to 2 million on Growth, with an on-page checker.
- AI visibility tracking
- Track 100 or 250 prompts a day across five AI models, with AI source tracking and AI competitor research by domain.
- Reports and local SEO
- Report Builder (10 or 30 reports), and local tools covering 3 locations, map rank tracking and listings in 100+ directories.
- API and MCP
- Plans include 25,000 or 100,000 research API credits a month and MCP access for querying the data from AI assistants.
SEOcrawl AI
- AI visibility tracking
- Checks set prompts each week in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and other AI engines, with share of voice and cited sources. One prompt is one answer from one AI.
- Search Console and GA4 dashboard
- Clicks, impressions, CTR, position and indexation from Search Console, split into branded and non-branded, plus GA4 sessions sent by AI assistants.
- Rank Tracker
- Unlimited keywords on every paid plan, updated daily from Search Console data, with growth trends by keyword, URL, folder and subdomain.
- Crawler and SEO Monitor
- Site crawls with a health score (25 to 1,000 a month by plan), and a monitor that logs changes to titles, meta tags, canonicals and status codes.
- MCP server
- Ask about your SEO and AI visibility data from ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor through 85 MCP tools, using monthly credits included on every plan.
- Free Chrome extension
- Shows a page's metadata, headings, canonical, hreflang, links and Search Console indexation, with no account and no usage limits.
Plans
SE Ranking
Core$103.20
per month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly)
1 manager seat, 10 projects, 2,000 keywords and 100 AI prompts tracked daily, 250,000 audit pages a month and 6 months of history.
Growth$223.20
per month, billed annually ($279 billed monthly)
3 manager seats, 30 projects, 5,000 keywords and 250 prompts daily, 2 million audit pages, all-time history and guest links.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom limits and terms, full API and advanced integrations, through sales.
SEOcrawl AI
Starter$36
per month, billed annually at $428 ($53 billed monthly)
1 user, 5 projects, Search Console data up to 100k clicks a month, 250 AI prompts a week and 25 site crawls a month. No PDF reports.
Growth$71
per month, billed annually at $855 ($107 billed monthly)
5 users, 25 projects, up to 1M clicks a month, 1,250 AI prompts a week, 100 crawls and 5 white-labelled PDF reports a month.
Pro$144
per month, billed annually at $1,719 ($215 billed monthly)
10 users, 100 projects, up to 10M clicks a month, 2,500 AI prompts a week, 400 crawls and 50 reports a month.
Agency$287
per month, billed annually at $3,447 ($431 billed monthly)
25 users, 200 projects, 6,000 AI prompts a week, 1,000 crawls and 200 reports a month, and standard API access.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited projects and users, 15,000+ prompts a week, private LLMs, a custom domain, priority API and a dedicated success manager.
Ways to pay less
SE Ranking
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
SE Ranking's pricing page lists Core at $103.20 a month billed annually instead of $129 monthly, and Growth at $223.20 instead of $279.
SEOcrawl AI
- Annual discount
Save 33% with yearly billing
The pricing page lists yearly billing at 33% off: Starter is $428 a year, about $36 a month, against $53 billed monthly.
- Education
Free for first-year SEO students
The pricing FAQ says SEOcrawl AI is free for students in the first year of an SEO course or Master's degree.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, SE Ranking or SEOcrawl AI?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SEOcrawl AI is cheaper to start with: $36 a month, against $103.20 a month for SE Ranking. SE Ranking starts at $103.20 per month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly), and SEOcrawl AI starts at $36 per month, billed annually ($53 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, SE Ranking or SEOcrawl AI?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither SE Ranking nor SEOcrawl AI has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
Which platforms do SE Ranking and SEOcrawl AI run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only SEOcrawl AI 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.