SEO Minion vs Sprout SEO (2026): which should you pick?

Pick SEO Minion if

• Fits if you already pay for Keywords Everywhere Silver or higher and want page checks in the same plan
• Works for checking hreflang and redirect chains on international sites, one page at a time

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you only want page checks, as it means $168 a year up front where most of this category is free
• Not for you if you want to try it first, as there's no free version and no trial
• Watch out: Keywords Everywhere bills yearly only, with no monthly option, and Bronze doesn't include it
• Too light for whole-site audits, since it checks one page or one search at a time
• Skip it if you browse in Safari, as only Chrome, Firefox and Edge are listed

Pick Sprout SEO if

• Fits if you run quick on-page checks on client pages and want them in one panel
• Works for exporting a page's headings and copy for a content brief

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want rankings or backlinks, as it links out to Ahrefs and Semrush for those
• Too light for whole-site audits, since it checks one page at a time
• Not for you if you browse in Safari, as only Chrome, Firefox and Edge are named
• Tight if you're mapping a big migration, as the Wayback exporter stops at about 100,000 URLs
• Watch out: the developer hasn't identified itself as a trader, so EU consumer rights don't apply

SEO Minion

• It needs a Keywords Everywhere Silver, Gold or Platinum plan and its API key; there is no separate free version.
• Keywords Everywhere plans are billed annually only, with no monthly option.
• It checks one page or one search at a time and does not crawl whole sites.
• It is listed for Chrome, Firefox and Edge, with no Safari version.

Sprout SEO

• It checks one page at a time and has no ranking or backlink data of its own; it links out to tools such as Ahrefs and Semrush for that.
• It runs in Chrome, Firefox and Edge; the vendor names no Safari version.
• The Chrome Web Store notes the developer has not identified itself as a trader, so EU consumer rights do not apply.
• The Wayback exporter stops at about 100,000 URLs per domain.

SEO Minion

On-page analysis

Shows a page's meta tags, headings, Open Graph tags, canonical and robots settings in one panel.

Broken links and redirects

Checks every link on the page and groups them by status code, and traces a URL's server, meta refresh and JavaScript redirects.

Hreflang checker

Validates a page's hreflang tags and every page they point to, including return tags, x-default and language and region codes.

Multi-location SERP

Runs a Google search as if from any location, or compares the same search from two locations side by side, without personalization.

HTML vs DOM and structured data

Compares the source HTML with the rendered DOM to show what JavaScript changes, and validates JSON-LD, RDFa and microdata.

SERP tools

Previews a title and description against Google's pixel limits, counts SERP elements, scrapes People Also Ask and downloads listings.

Sprout SEO

Indexability and canonicals

Summarizes robots.txt status, meta robots and X-Robots-Tag headers, and flags a canonical that does not point back to the current URL.

Headings, links and images

Maps H1 to H6 with warnings, lists links with their HTTP status and anchor text, and groups images missing alt text or dimensions, all exportable to CSV.

Schema and hreflang checks

Detects JSON-LD types, exports each one and links to Google's Rich Results Test; the hreflang view checks each alternate's status and back-reference.

Core Web Vitals snapshot

Shows LCP, INP and CLS from Chrome user data with color cues, with a link to PageSpeed Insights for a fuller view.

Google results sidebar

Adds Google Trends data, keyword ideas, a People Also Ask extractor that exports to CSV and a simulator for searching from any location.

Wayback URL exporter

Pulls up to about 100,000 of a domain's URLs from archive.org within a date range, for mapping redirects after a site migration.

SEO Minion

• Silver$14

  per month for 400,000 credits a year, billed annually ($168)

  Keywords Everywhere plan with 3 user seats and SEO Minion included; the cheaper Bronze plan does not include it.

• Gold$40

  per month for 2 million credits a year, billed annually ($480)

  10 user seats, top 5,000 keywords and backlinks per website, SEO Minion and premium ChatGPT prompts.

• Platinum$120

  per month for 8 million credits a year, billed annually ($1,440)

  20 user seats, top 10,000 keywords and backlinks per website, SEO Minion and priority email support.

Sprout SEO

• Free$0

  Every check, export and SERP tool in the extension, free to install for Chrome, Firefox or Edge.