SE Ranking vs Sitechecker (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SE Ranking and Sitechecker share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan, and Sitechecker starts cheaper, at $83 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. Sitechecker 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
Sitechecker
Site audits, monitoring, rank and AI visibility tracking for agencies
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 Sitechecker if
- Fits if you look after many client sites and need to know when one breaks
- Works for agencies with many people, since every plan has unlimited users
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need keyword or backlink research, which it doesn't list
- Tight if you track keywords in several places, as each engine, location, language or device uses another keyword
- Pricey if you want the app under your own brand, which starts at Premium for $375
- Tight if you're on Basic, with 3 websites, weekly rescans and 12 months of data
- Watch out: refunds cover only the first payment within 48 hours, and a failed payment ends access
How we grade them
| 2.2GPASE RankingFair | 2.2GPASitecheckerFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CBasic is $83 a month on yearly billing ($99 monthly) for 3 websites, 500 keywords and 50 AI prompts. That's toward the dear end of this category's middle, with unlimited users on every plan. |
| 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 14 days of full access free. Refunds only cover the first payment, within 48 hours, so do your testing in the trial. |
| 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. | CSite audits for 300+ issues, change and uptime monitoring, rank tracking on Google, Bing and Yahoo, Search Console dashboards and AI visibility. There's no keyword or backlink research on record, and Basic rescans weekly. |
| 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. You add sites and keywords, then alerts, dashboards and reports for each client take setting up. |
| 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 browser extension, connected to Search Console, GA4, Looker Studio, Sheets, Slack, ChatGPT and Claude, with an API and an MCP server. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | tracking rankings across many client sites | watching many client sites for breakage |
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 Sitechecker. 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. Sitechecker starts at $83 a month and scores 2.3.
SE Ranking scores higher, and starts $20.20 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 13 score higher than Sitechecker 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.
- Sitechecker also covers dashboards and AI search visibility.
At a glance
| SE Ranking | Sitechecker | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $103.20 per month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly) | $83 per month for 500 keywords, billed annually ($99 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 | 14 days of full access free |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | SER Acquisition Inc. | Cyber Circus Limited |
| Price read from | seranking.com | sitechecker.pro |
| 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.
Sitechecker
- Refunds cover only the first payment, within 48 hours of the subscription starting.
- Each extra search engine, location, language or device for a keyword uses another keyword from the plan's limit.
- Basic rescans sites weekly and keeps 12 months of data; app branding and a custom domain start at Premium.
- Cancelling or a failed payment ends access, and data stops being collected.
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.
Sitechecker
- Site audit
- Crawls sites for more than 300 technical and on-page issues, with JavaScript rendering, unlimited recrawls and how-to-fix guides.
- Website monitoring and alerts
- Watches for content, status code, robots.txt and hreflang changes, removed tracking codes, SSL and domain expiry, with uptime checks every 5 minutes.
- Rank Tracker
- Tracks the top 100 positions in Google, Bing or Yahoo by location, language and device, with SERP history and up to 15 competitors.
- Search Console and GA4 dashboards
- Reports on Search Console data past its 1,000-row export limit, blended GSC and GA4 reports, and SEO tests comparing page versions.
- AI visibility tracking
- Tracks brand mentions and citations on ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Copilot and AI Overviews, plus AI traffic from GA4.
- White label, API and MCP
- White-label PDF reports and app branding, an API across six data sources, and an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude and Codex.
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.
Sitechecker
Basic$83
per month for 500 keywords, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
3 websites, 50 AI prompts, 10,000 crawl pages and weekly monitoring. A larger step with 6 websites and 2,000 keywords costs more.
Standard$208
per month for 2,500 keywords, billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
20 websites, 150 prompts on 5 AI models, 50,000 crawl pages, daily monitoring, Slack alerts and SEO tests. A larger step has 40 sites.
Premium$375
per month for 5,000 keywords, billed annually ($449 billed monthly)
50 websites, 250 prompts, 200,000 crawl pages, checks every 12 hours, and the app white-labeled on your own domain.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited websites, keywords and prompts, team training, a dedicated success manager, custom exports and integrations.
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.
Sitechecker
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Annual billing gives 2 months free: Basic is $83 a month instead of $99, saving $198 a year.
- Education
Free premium access for students of partner schools
Through Sitechecker's educational partnership, schools can give their students free access to premium features during training.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, SE Ranking or Sitechecker?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Sitechecker is cheaper to start with: $83 a month, against $103.20 a month for SE Ranking. SE Ranking starts at $103.20 per month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly), and Sitechecker starts at $83 per month for 500 keywords, billed annually ($99 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, SE Ranking or Sitechecker?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither SE Ranking nor Sitechecker has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
Which platforms do SE Ranking and Sitechecker run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Sitechecker 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.