Serposcope vs SERPRobot (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SERPRobot grades higher than Serposcope: 2.6 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Serposcope grades higher on the free plan. SERPRobot grades higher on value for money, features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Serposcope
Free self-hosted rank tracker, now marked unsupported by its developer
SERPRobot
Pay-per-bot rank tracker for Google, Bing, Yahoo and YouTube
Which one is for you
Pick Serposcope if
- Fits if you want ranking data kept on your own machine rather than in a vendor's cloud
- Works for technical users who already pay for proxies or a SERP API
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want software that's kept up: it's marked unsupported, may not work, and 3.5 from January 2025 is the last release
- Watch out: Google checks need paid add-ons, since Scraping Ant's free plan doesn't work with Google and captcha solvers cost money
- Not for you if setting login protection by hand in a config file sounds like hard work
- Tight if you have Serposcope 2 data, since it can't be moved into version 3
- Watch out: the Windows and Mac installers aren't signed, so both systems warn before installing
Pick SERPRobot if
- Fits if you're a freelancer tracking a few hundred keywords and want to pay per 75 daily checks
- Works for you if you need Bing, Yahoo or YouTube positions next to Google
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if AI Overviews or chatbot answers matter to you, as its pages don't mention tracking them
- Tight if you might cancel early, as there are no refunds and a cancelled bot just runs to the end of its period
- Pricey if you check thousands of keywords daily, since every 75 more is another $4.99 bot
- Watch out: paying yearly costs the same as twelve months, with no discount
- Not for you if you want a desktop or phone app, as it's web only with Looker Studio the one integration
How we grade them
| 2.2GPASerposcopeFair | 2.6GPASERPRobotGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BThe program is free, with no paid edition. Reliable checks need paid help, though: Scraping Ant's free plan doesn't work with Google, and the captcha solvers it supports are paid services, so running it well isn't really free. | AOne bot is $4.99 a month for 75 daily keyword checks, with every feature and unlimited projects. That's under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter ($10). Ten bots, 750 daily checks, are $49.90, and paying yearly saves nothing. |
| Free plan and trial | AVersion 3.5 is a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux, with no account and no paid edition. Everything it does comes without paying Serposcope anything. | CNo free plan, but a 14-day trial of the full service with no payment or card. There's also a free one-off SERP checker on the site. |
| Features | DRank tracking with saved result pages, a backlink watch and a local database you can query. But it needs proxies, captcha solvers or a SERP API to fetch Google reliably, and the developer says it may not work at all now. | CRankings on Google, Bing, Yahoo, YouTube and Google My Business, on desktop, mobile or tablet anywhere, with on-demand checks, competitors, alerts and search volumes. The gap its own pages leave: nothing on AI Overviews or AI chat answers. |
| Ease of use | DNo rating on record. You install it yourself, set login protection by hand in a config file and wire up proxies or captcha solvers, and both Windows and Mac warn before installing it. | CNo rating on record. There's a calculator to work out how many bots your keywords and check frequency need, then projects, competitors and locations to add. |
| Platforms and integrations | CA program for Windows, Mac and Linux that opens in your browser, linked only to scraping and captcha services. No phone app, and the API isn't documented. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. Paid accounts get an API, and there's a Looker Studio connector for dashboards, but that's the only ready-made integration listed. |
| Best for | free rank tracking on your own machine | pay-per-bot rank checks on several engines |
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: Serposcope and SERPRobot. How we grade
Price against what you get
Serposcope has no paid plan and scores 1.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SERPRobot starts at $4.99 a month and scores 2.3.
SERPRobot scores higher, and starts $4.99 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other rank trackers on the chart, none scores higher than Serposcope for less, and none scores higher than SERPRobot 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
- Serposcope is self-hostable, according to its own site.
- SERPRobot also covers reports.
At a glance
| Serposcope | SERPRobot | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free trial |
| Starts at | Free | $4.99 per bot / month for 75 keyword checks a day |
| Free plan | Version 3.5 is a free download for Windows, Mac and Debian or Ubuntu Linux, with no account needed and no paid edition. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial of the full service, no payment or credit card required |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Serposcope | MDE Multiple Digital Establishment |
| Price read from | serposcope.com | serprobot.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Serposcope
- The download section says Serposcope is no longer supported and may not work; the last release, 3.5, is dated January 2025.
- Reliable scraping needs paid add-ons: Scraping Ant's free plan does not work with Google, and captcha solvers are paid services.
- Login protection must be set by hand in a config file, and Serposcope 2 data cannot be moved into version 3.
- The Windows and Mac installers are not signed with paid certificates, so both systems warn before installing.
SERPRobot
- Cost follows checks: one bot covers 75 keywords checked daily, so 750 daily keywords need ten bots at $49.90 a month.
- Yearly billing costs the same as twelve months; the pricing page shows no annual discount.
- There are no refunds: a cancelled bot keeps working until its paid period ends. One-off yearly bots that do not renew are also sold.
- Its pages do not mention tracking AI Overviews or AI chat answers.
Key features
Serposcope
- Rank tracker
- Add keywords and websites, then follow each site's positions over time, with a view of the full result page for every check.
- Backlink watch
- A second module for adding backlinks and following their status, with an overview and a details page per link.
- Choice of scraping method
- Fetch result pages from your own IP, through your proxies, or through the paid Scraping Ant or Space Serp APIs.
- Captcha solver support
- When scraping through proxies, plug in capmonster.cloud, anticaptcha, 2captcha or imagetyperz; several can be set at once.
- Raw SERP storage
- Since version 3.3 it can keep the HTML or API response of each check for 1 to 7 days, purged after each run.
- Local database
- Data sits in a SQLite file in the data folder, which you can query directly; an API exists but is not documented.
SERPRobot
- Checks sold by the bot
- Each bot runs 75 keyword checks in 24 hours; a calculator shows how many bots a keyword count and check frequency need.
- Several search engines
- Tracks rankings on Google, Bing, Yahoo and YouTube, and Google My Business listings.
- Devices and locations
- Searches run as desktop, mobile or tablet from any location, with instant on-demand checks as well as scheduled ones.
- Competitor tracking
- Add competitor sites to a project and follow their positions on the same keywords.
- Reports and alerts
- Automatic checks with reports, alerts and history graphs, plus a connector for Google Data Studio dashboards.
- Search volumes and API
- Global and local Google search volumes for tracked keywords, and API access on paid accounts.
Plans
Serposcope
Self-hosted$0
Free download that you install and run yourself; rank tracking and backlink watch, with data kept in a local SQLite file.
SERPRobot
SERP Bot$4.99
per bot / month for 75 keyword checks a day
Every feature from the first bot, unlimited keywords and projects. Ten bots, 750 daily checks, cost $49.90 a month; yearly billing is twelve times the monthly price.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Serposcope or SERPRobot?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Serposcope is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $4.99 a month for SERPRobot. Serposcope is free, and SERPRobot starts at $4.99 per bot / month for 75 keyword checks a day.
Which has a free plan, Serposcope or SERPRobot?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Serposcope has a free plan. SERPRobot does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Serposcope and SERPRobot run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Serposcope lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps and only SERPRobot lists 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.