Answer Socrates review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Question and keyword ideas with clustering and AI brand tracking
Answer Socrates report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for free question research with clustering on top
Answer Socrates turns a topic into hundreds of questions and long-tail phrases, groups them into clusters, and on paid plans adds volume, CPC, AI articles and a tracker for whether AI chatbots mention your brand. The free plan gives 3 searches a day but shows no numbers. There's no difficulty score or competitor lookup on record, the API starts at $39 a month, and team seats only come at $69.
Who Answer Socrates is for
- Fits if you want question keywords and only need a few searches a day
- Works for writers turning a topic into clusters for pillar pages
Who Answer Socrates is not for
- Skip it if you need numbers for free, as the free plan shows no volume or CPC
- Tight if you track lots of AI answers, as each engine query uses a brand tracker credit
- Pricey if you need the API, which starts at $39 a month or $32.50 on yearly billing
- Not for you if a team needs logins, as seats start at Aurelius ($69 a month) with 2
- Watch out: there's no trial, only a 7-day money-back guarantee, and allowances reset each cycle
Why Answer Socrates gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyLite is $15.83 a month on yearly billing, $19 monthly, which is mid-table for this category. That's 1,200 searches, 60 AI articles and 600 brand tracker credits a year. API and MCP access start at Seneca, $32.50 a month yearly.
- CFree plan and trialA free plan with 3 searches a day, 500 cluster credits a month and 1 CSV download, no card needed. You'll hit those caps, and it shows no volume or CPC at all. Paid plans have a 7-day money-back guarantee, not a trial.
- CFeaturesQuestions and long-tail phrases from Google, Bing, YouTube and AI models, clustering, volume and CPC, trending topics and an LLM brand tracker. There's no difficulty score or competitor lookup on record.
- BEase of useNo rating on record, but nothing to set up: type a seed or two and the questions come back, already grouped into clusters if you want them.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb plus a browser extension, with no desktop or phone app. From Seneca there's a REST API and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and others.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Answer Socrates' own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Answer Socrates's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 23 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade, and level with 14.
It stands best on ease of use (B, above 28 of 51) and worst on value for money (C, above 4).
Its paid plans start at $15.83 a month, against a middle price of $18 for the category: 15 of the 35 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 52 keyword research tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Answer Socrates’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 4 of 51, level with 22
- CFree plan and trialAbove 11 of 51, level with 29
- CFeaturesAbove 6 of 51, level with 36
- BEase of useAbove 28 of 51, level with 23
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 26 of 51, level with 25
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 44 keyword research tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Answer Socrates, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Answer Socrates you would be making search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It costs $189.96 a year.
What you could make
- Long-form writing: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- It plugs into other products, Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Answer Socrates’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Answer Socrates?
Answer Socrates is a web-based keyword research tool that turns a seed topic into the questions and long-tail phrases people search for, then groups them into topic clusters. Paid plans add search volume and cost-per-click data, AI-written SEO articles, and an LLM Brand Tracker that checks whether AI chat tools mention your brand.
Worth knowing
- The free plan shows no search volume, CPC or competition and has no projects, brand tracking or API.
- API and MCP access start at Seneca, $39 a month; team seats only come with Aurelius (2) and Senate (5).
- Each LLM Brand Tracker credit covers one AI engine query, so a keyword checked in three engines uses three credits.
- Plan allowances reset each billing cycle; paid plans have a 7-day money-back guarantee rather than a trial.
Key features
- Question and long-tail ideas
- Turns one or two seed keywords into hundreds of questions, comparisons and long-tail phrases gathered from Google, Bing, YouTube and AI models, in any country and language.
- Keyword clustering
- Groups a keyword list by meaning and intent into topic clusters, each with its total search volume and average CPC and competition. Uses cluster credits.
- Search volume, CPC and competition
- Paid plans show volume, cost per click and competition for every keyword and sort question keywords by volume. The free plan has no metrics.
- LLM Brand Tracker
- Runs keywords through ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and DeepSeek, and scores your brand's mentions and share of voice over time. One credit covers one engine query.
- Trending Topics and AI articles
- Shows topics spiking in any country and language, and paid plans include AI-written SEO articles of up to 2,500 words each.
- MCP server and REST API
- From the Seneca plan, a hosted MCP server lets assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor pull keywords, trends and clusters into your projects.
Answer Socrates pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Answer Socrates has a free plan, and paid plans start at $15.83 per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $15.83 per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- 3 keyword searches and 1 recursive search a day, 500 cluster credits a month and 1 CSV download a month. No search metrics, brand tracking, projects or API. No card needed.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3 searches a day, 500 cluster credits a month and 1 CSV download a month, without search volume or CPC data. |
| Socrates Lite | $15.83per month, billed yearly at $190 ($19 billed monthly) | 1,200 searches, 60 AI articles and 600 LLM Brand Tracker credits a year, search metrics, unlimited CSVs and 2 projects. No API. |
| Seneca | $32.50per month, billed yearly at $390 ($39 billed monthly) | 6,000 searches, 300 AI articles and 2,400 brand tracker credits a year, API and MCP access with 6,000 API credits, and 5 projects. |
| Aurelius | $57.50per month, billed yearly at $690 ($69 billed monthly) | Unlimited searches, 720 AI articles and 6,000 brand tracker credits a year, 30,000 API credits, 10 projects and 2 team seats. |
| Senate | $249.17per month, billed yearly at $2,990 ($299 billed monthly) | For agencies: 1,800 AI articles and 36,000 brand tracker credits a year, 300,000 API credits, 100 projects and 5 team seats. |
Read from answersocrates.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Answer Socrates before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 17% with yearly billing
Answer Socrates's pricing page says yearly plans are billed once at a 17% discount, two months free: Lite is $190 a year against $19 a month.
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Common questions
Does Answer Socrates have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Answer Socrates is listed for Web.
Does Answer Socrates have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Answer Socrates is listed for Web.
Is Answer Socrates open source?
Answer Socrates is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Answer Socrates have an API?
Yes. Answer Socrates offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
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