Authoritas review (2026): is the free plan enough?
SEO platform with credit-based rank tracking and AI search tracking
Authoritas report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for rank tracking across many countries and devices
Authoritas is a UK-made SEO platform priced by rank credits, where one credit is one keyword checked once in one engine, device and place. It covers rankings, research, content, crawling and backlinks, and the free account gives 1,000 credits a month. But paid plans start at $129, every extra place costs another credit, AI answer tracking is a separate product from $119, and the API and BigQuery need Enterprise.
Who Authoritas is for
- Fits if you track rankings across many countries, devices and cities
- Works for one small site that can live on 1,000 rank credits a month
Who Authoritas is not for
- Pricey if you just need a few hundred keywords tracked, at $129 a month for 1 user
- Tight if you track one keyword in many places, as each place uses another credit
- Skip it if AI answer tracking is the point, since that's a separate product from $119 a month
- Watch out: the Platform API, BigQuery and Looker Studio templates are Enterprise only, at an unpublished price
- Watch out: the free account goes if you don't log in every 30 days, and going past your credits means upgrading
Why Authoritas gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for moneyEssential is $129 a month, or $1,419 for a year (about $118 a month), for 1 user, 5 domains and enough credits for 500 keywords checked daily. That's in this category's dearest tenth, and AI tracking is a separate product from $119.
- BFree plan and trialA free account with every standard feature, 2 websites, 1,000 rank credits a month and 1 user. That's about 33 keywords checked daily, enough for one small site. The catch: log in every 30 days or you lose it.
- BFeaturesRank tracking on Google, Bing and regional engines, checked in a real browser, plus keyword research, market share, content tools, a crawler with Core Web Vitals and Majestic backlinks. The whole job, with AI search sold apart.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Every extra country, device or place for a keyword costs another credit, so plans take some working out.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, connected to Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Google Ads, Majestic, BigQuery, Looker Studio and Sheets, with a SERPs API. The Platform API and BigQuery need Enterprise.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Authoritas's 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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Authoritas's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 42 of the 64 other SEO tools we grade, and level with 13.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 59 of 64) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $129 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 54 of the 56 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 65 SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Authoritas’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 64, level with 10
- BFree plan and trialAbove 59 of 64, level with 4
- BFeaturesAbove 43 of 64, level with 21
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 64, level with 60
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 15 of 64, level with 49
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 57 SEO 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 Authoritas, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Authoritas 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 $1,548 a year.
What you could not
- Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- An index of the links between billions of web pages.
- Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results.
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Authoritas’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 Authoritas?
Authoritas is a UK-made SEO platform covering rank tracking, keyword research, competitor market share, content optimization, site crawling, backlinks and reporting. Plans are priced by keyword rank credits, so cost follows how many keywords are checked, where and how often. A separate AI Search Platform tracks brand visibility and citations in AI models.
Worth knowing
- Every rank check uses credits: a new country, device or location for the same keyword costs another credit.
- AI search tracking is a separate product, from $119 a month for 2,000 prompt credits; search-grounded models need an Enterprise plan.
- To go past a plan's monthly credit allowance on the SEO platform you upgrade to the next tier.
- Platform API access, BigQuery and Looker Studio templates are listed as Enterprise features.
Key features
- Rank tracking
- Track keywords daily, weekly or monthly in Google, Bing and regional engines, by country, device and location, checked with a real browser.
- Keyword research and market share
- Keyword research plus Market Share and Visibility Explorer tools that compare your search visibility with competitors.
- Content tools
- Optimize existing pages, generate content with AI and research the questions consumers ask, with content gap analysis against competitors.
- Technical SEO and backlinks
- A website crawler with Core Web Vitals checks, backlink analysis using Majestic data, influencer discovery and link-building campaigns.
- Reporting and APIs
- Custom reports, dashboards, alerts and BigQuery export, plus a SERPs API, Platform API, content API and a Google Sheets add-on.
- AI Search Platform
- Tracks brand visibility, sentiment and citations on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Bing.
Authoritas pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Authoritas has a free plan, and paid plans start at $129 per month for 15,000 rank credits, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $129 per month for 15,000 rank credits, billed monthly
- Free plan
- Freemium account with all standard platform features, limited to 2 websites, 1,000 keyword rank credits a month and 1 user. You must log in every 30 days to keep it.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 2 domains, 1,000 keyword rank credits a month and 1 user, with the standard platform features. |
| Essential | $129per month for 15,000 rank credits, billed monthly | 5 domains and 1 user. 1 credit = 1 keyword checked once in one search engine, device and location, so 15,000 covers 500 keywords daily. |
| Expert | $599per month for 100,000 rank credits, billed monthly | 35 domains and 5 users; enough for about 3,300 keywords checked daily in one search engine setup. |
| Business | $899per month for 300,000 rank credits, billed monthly | 75 domains; enough for about 10,000 keywords checked daily in one search engine setup. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom credits and user limits, unlimited domains, Platform API, eCommerce integrations, BigQuery, Looker Studio templates and senior account managers. |
Read from authoritas.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Authoritas before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountOne month free with annual billing
Authoritas says signing up for a year gives one month free: Essential is $1,419 a year instead of 12 × $129.
Stated on authoritas.com - Other savings20% off when adding the second platform
Upgrading in-app from the SEO platform to the AI Search platform, or the other way, within the first 90 days takes 20% off the total cost.
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Common questions
Does Authoritas have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Authoritas is listed for Web.
Does Authoritas have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Authoritas is listed for Web.
Is Authoritas open source?
Authoritas is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Authoritas have an API?
Yes. Authoritas offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.