SEO Pro vs SEOmatic (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SEO Pro and SEOmatic share a 2.6 GPA, neither has a free plan and their prices can't be set side by side, so the choice depends on whether you care more about features, where SEO Pro grades higher, or platforms, where SEOmatic does.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
SEO Pro
Statamic's own SEO addon for meta tags, site reports and redirects
Free trial · from $75 one-time
SEOmatic
SEO plugin for Craft CMS covering meta tags, JSON-LD and sitemaps
Free trial · from $99 one-time
Which one is for you
Pick SEO Pro if
- Fits if you build sites on Statamic and want SEO from Statamic itself
- Works for agencies that want editors to see search previews before publishing
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your site isn't on Statamic; the listing shows compatibility with Statamic 6
- Pricey if you run many sites, since each production site needs its own $75 license
- Watch out: multi-site and GraphQL use need Statamic Pro, Statamic's paid edition
Pick SEOmatic if
- Fits if you build sites on Craft CMS and want the SEO tags drawn from content fields
- Works for Craft Commerce stores that need product structured data
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if your site isn't on Craft CMS 3, 4 or 5
- Too light for 404 redirects, which need its maker's separate Retour plugin
- Pricey if you run lots of sites, since each Craft installation needs its own license
- Watch out: updates after the first year cost $69 a year
How we grade them
| 2.6GPASEO ProGood | 2.6GPASEOmaticGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | A$75 once per site with no yearly renewal, under seven months of this category's $10.99 middle subscription. | A$99 once per Craft installation, under a year of this category's $10.99 middle subscription. Updates after the first year are $69 a year, so two years come to $168, and licenses can be returned within 30 days. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but you can try it locally first; a license is needed before the site goes to production. | CNo free plan for live sites, but you can try it in a Craft development environment with no time limit. A license is needed before it goes live. |
| Features | BGraded site reports with fix lists, cascading meta and robots defaults, JSON-LD with custom types, Google, X and Facebook previews, a redirects manager with wildcards, automatic slug redirects, a 404 log and a sitemap. It covers the whole job. | CMeta tags from your own fields with per-entry overrides, JSON-LD, Twitter and Open Graph tags, sitemaps with files, images and video, robots, humans and ads.txt, and tracking scripts. 404 redirects aren't included; its maker points to the separate Retour plugin. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. It's an addon for a Statamic site you run yourself, and the field mapping and defaults need setting up before the reports mean much. | CNo store rating on record. It's a plugin for your own Craft site, and someone has to map each section's fields to the SEO title, description and image. |
| Platforms and integrations | CRuns only inside Statamic, with Statamic itself the one connection listed. It exposes SEO output through GraphQL, but that needs Statamic Pro. No phone or desktop app. | BWeb, inside Craft CMS 3 to 5 and Craft Commerce, with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel, LinkedIn Insight and HubSpot code, and GraphQL for headless sites. No phone or desktop app. |
| Best for | Statamic's own SEO addon, paid once per site | meta tags, JSON-LD and sitemaps on Craft CMS |
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: SEO Pro and SEOmatic. How we grade
Where they differ
- SEO Pro also covers site audit.
In commonWebContent optimizationSchema markup
At a glance
| SEO Pro | SEOmatic | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $75 one-time per site, with no annual renewal | $99 one-time per Craft installation, then $69 a year for updates |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | Free to try locally; a license is needed before the site goes to production | Free to try with no time limit in a Craft development environment; a license is needed for a live site |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Statamic | nystudio107 |
| Price read from | statamic.com | plugins.craftcms.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
SEO Pro
- Runs only on Statamic; the listing shows compatibility with Statamic 6.
- Each production site needs its own $75 license.
- Multi-site and GraphQL use depend on Statamic Pro, since Statamic reserves those features for its paid edition.
SEOmatic
- Runs only on Craft CMS (versions 3, 4 and 5).
- It does not handle 404 redirects; its maker points to its separate Retour plugin for that.
- Each Craft installation needs its own license, and updates after the first year cost $69 a year.
Key features
SEO Pro
- Graded site reports
- Gives every page a letter grade and a fix list, checking title uniqueness, title and description lengths, missing meta, broken links, canonicals and URL depth.
- Cascading meta defaults
- Site defaults flow down to collections, taxonomies and entries for titles, descriptions, canonical URLs with pagination, robots directives and verification codes.
- JSON-LD structured data
- Emits Organization or Person schema and breadcrumbs on every page, with per-section schemas and custom types such as Recipe, Article, Event or Product.
- Search and social previews
- Each entry's SEO tab previews how the page will look in Google results, on X and on Facebook before it is published.
- Redirects and 404 tracking
- A redirects manager with wildcards, automatic redirects when a slug changes, and a 404 log with one-click redirect creation.
- Sitemap and GraphQL
- Generates and caches sitemap.xml with per-collection settings and hooks, and exposes the SEO output through Statamic's GraphQL API for headless sites.
SEOmatic
- Meta tags from your content
- Pulls the SEO title, description and image from chosen fields for each section, entry type, category group and Commerce product type, per site, with field-level overrides.
- JSON-LD structured data
- Outputs JSON-LD microdata alongside the HTML meta tags, with tools for validating and debugging the metadata.
- Social sharing tags
- Writes Twitter Card and Facebook Open Graph tags that mirror the general SEO settings unless you set them separately.
- XML sitemaps
- Builds a sitemap index per site group with paginated sitemaps per section, and can add PDFs and other files, images and videos from Asset fields.
- Robots, humans and ads files
- Generates robots.txt, humans.txt and ads.txt, and handles SEO-friendly pagination tags.
- Tracking scripts
- Adds Google Analytics, gtag.js, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Pixel, LinkedIn Insight and HubSpot code from the control panel, only on the live site.
Plans
SEO Pro
Single-site license$75
one-time per site, with no annual renewal
Every feature for one production site: reports, meta and social tags, JSON-LD, sitemap, redirects and 404 tracking.
SEOmatic
Standard$99
one-time per Craft installation, then $69 a year for updates
One license per Craft installation with a year of updates; renew at $69 a year for later updates. Licenses can be returned within 30 days.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, SEO Pro or SEOmatic?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SEO Pro starts at $75 one-time per site, with no annual renewal, and SEOmatic starts at $99 one-time per Craft installation, then $69 a year for updates.
Which has a free plan, SEO Pro or SEOmatic?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither SEO Pro nor SEOmatic 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.