Dragon Metrics review (2026): is it worth $82 a month, billed yearly?
Global SEO platform with rank tracking on Baidu, Naver and Google
Dragon Metrics report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for SEO in China, Korea and Japan
Dragon Metrics is an SEO platform for international work: it tracks Baidu, Naver, Sogou, Daum and Seznam as well as Google and Bing, with audits, keyword research and reports. Starter is $82 a month on yearly billing for 1,000 keywords, but that's weekly updates. Daily ones cost $50 to $250 a month more, and the API and white label wait for Basic at $207.
Who Dragon Metrics is for
- Fits if you do SEO in China, Korea or Japan as well as on Google
- Works for agencies tracking many cities, languages and engines, with white-label reports from Basic
Who Dragon Metrics is not for
- Pricey if you need daily rankings, which cost $50 to $250 a month extra on Starter to Standard
- Tight if you want the API, white label or Looker Studio on Starter, which has none of them
- Skip it if Naver research matters and your budget stops short of Standard at $415
- Watch out: each mix of keyword, engine, place, language and device counts as one keyword against the limit
- Watch out: the trial stops at 200 keywords, and onboarding with an account manager comes only with yearly plans
Why Dragon Metrics 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 moneyStarter is $82 a month billed yearly ($99 monthly) for 1,000 keywords, 5 campaigns and 3 users, mid-range for this category. But that's weekly rank updates; daily ones add $50 a month, which pushes it to the dear end.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan, but a 30-day trial with every feature and no credit card. It's capped at 200 tracked keywords.
- BFeaturesRank tracking on 8 engines in over 100,000 local areas, Baidu and Naver research, a site auditor with JavaScript rendering, competitor discovery, keyword gaps and a report builder. It covers the whole job, Asian engines included.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Every mix of keyword, engine, place, language and device counts as one keyword, so campaigns take some planning.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, connected to Search Console, Google Analytics and Looker Studio, with an API from Basic. No desktop or phone app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dragon Metrics'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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Dragon Metrics'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 features (B, above 43 of 64) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $82 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 43 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. Dragon Metrics’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 11 of 64, level with 32
- CFree plan and trialAbove 14 of 64, level with 44
- 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 Dragon Metrics, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Dragon Metrics 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 $984 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
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.
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Looker Studio among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Dragon Metrics’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 Dragon Metrics?
Dragon Metrics is a web-based SEO platform for rank tracking, site audits, keyword research, backlinks and white-labeled reporting, built for international work: it tracks Baidu, Naver, Sogou, Daum and Seznam as well as Google and Bing. It was founded in Hong Kong in 2011 and acquired by Semify in December 2025, and says it continues as its own brand.
Worth knowing
- Listed prices cover weekly rank updates; daily updates cost $50, $100 or $250 a month more on Starter, Basic and Standard.
- Each mix of keyword, search engine, location, language and device counts as one keyword against the plan's limit.
- Starter has no API access, white-labeled reports or Looker Studio connectors, and Naver keyword research starts at Standard.
- There is no free plan; the trial has every feature but only 200 tracked keywords. Onboarding with an account manager comes with annual plans.
Key features
- Rank tracking on 8 search engines
- Tracks Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Naver, Sogou, Daum and Seznam, on mobile and in over 100,000 local areas, with more than 30 SERP features and 12 ranking reports.
- Tools for China, Korea and Japan
- Baidu and Naver keyword research and search volumes, a database of over 23 million Baidu results and a multilingual interface, alongside Google research.
- Site auditor and indexation tracking
- Crawls checked for 70+ technical issues with fix guides, including JavaScript rendering and Core Web Vitals, plus tracking of which URLs Google has indexed.
- Competitor discovery and keyword gap
- Finds the 50 highest-ranking sites for each engine, location and tag, shows keywords competitors rank for that you do not, and looks up any site in a 500M-result Google database.
- Report Builder
- Drag-and-drop custom reports shared on a white-labeled domain, scheduled Excel exports and custom alerts; white labeling starts at Basic.
- Search Console and Analytics data
- Pulls up to 50,000 Search Console keywords per campaign each day and 25+ Google Analytics reports, with ROI forecasting from ranking changes.
Dragon Metrics pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Dragon Metrics is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $82 per month for 1,000 keywords, billed yearly ($99 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $82 per month for 1,000 keywords, billed yearly ($99 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial with every feature and 200 keywords, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $82per month for 1,000 keywords, billed yearly ($99 billed monthly) | 5 campaigns, 3 users and 200,000 URLs crawled a month, with weekly rank updates. No API, white-labeled reports or Looker Studio connectors. |
| Basic | $207per month for 2,500 keywords, billed yearly ($249 billed monthly) | 20 campaigns, 5 users and 500,000 URLs crawled a month, adding the API, white-labeled reports and Looker Studio connectors. |
| Standard | $415per month for 5,000 keywords, billed yearly ($499 billed monthly) | 50 campaigns, 7 users and 1 million URLs crawled a month, adding Naver keyword research. |
| Pro | $624per month for 7,500 keywords, billed yearly ($749 billed monthly) | 30 campaigns, unlimited users and 750,000 URLs crawled a month. |
| Enterprise | $832per month for 10,000 keywords, billed yearly ($999 billed monthly) | Unlimited campaigns and users, with 2 million URLs crawled a month. |
| Custom | Custom | More than 10,000 keywords, quoted with volume discounts down to $0.01 per tracked keyword. |
Read from dragonmetrics.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dragon Metrics before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountTwo months free with yearly billing
Dragon Metrics' pricing FAQ says annual subscriptions get a discount equal to 2 months free, shown as saving 17%: Starter is $82 a month yearly instead of $99.
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Common questions
Does Dragon Metrics have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Dragon Metrics is listed for Web.
Does Dragon Metrics have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Dragon Metrics is listed for Web.
Is Dragon Metrics open source?
Dragon Metrics is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Dragon Metrics have an API?
Yes. Dragon Metrics 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.