# Local Viking review (2026): is it worth $39 a month? > Google Business Profile manager for agencies, with posts and geogrids Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Local Viking is a Google Business Profile management tool built by agency owners. It schedules posts and photos across many profiles, guards listing details against unwanted edits, tracks local and organic rankings and runs geogrid scans, with reviews and white-label reports in the same dashboard. Its app, help center and pricing now run under the LocalOptics name. - **Category:** Local SEO Tools - **Made by:** LocalViking - **Website:** https://localviking.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try it first, as no free plan or trial is listed. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Local Viking is a paid product, starting at $39 per month for 1 listing. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Single | $39 per month for 1 listing | Unlimited posts and Google accounts, 1,600 keyword credits and 7,500 geogrid credits a month. | | Starter | $59 per month for up to 10 listings | 3,200 keyword credits and 8,100 geogrid credits a month. | | Pro | $99 per month for up to 20 listings | 5,600 keyword credits and 16,200 geogrid credits a month, white-label reporting and the geogrid widget. | | Agency | $149 per month for up to 40 listings | 17,700 keyword credits and 24,300 geogrid credits a month, white-label reporting and the geogrid widget. | | Enterprise | $200 per month for up to 70 listings | 26,600 keyword credits and 32,400 geogrid credits a month. Custom pricing for more than 70 locations. | Read from https://app.localoptics.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Local Viking before buying. ## Key features - **Post scheduling:** Schedules standard, offer, event and alert posts to many profiles at once, with recurring posts, Spintax and location variables, and CSV bulk upload. - **Listing management and protection:** Edits profile details in one place, keeps a change log that includes Google's own edits, and alerts by email or SMS when anything changes. - **Rank tracking and geogrids:** Tracks keywords in the local pack, organic desktop and organic mobile, and runs live or scheduled geogrid scans with competitors at every point. - **Photo scheduling:** A media library that drip-schedules photos to profiles over weeks, with control over image metadata and file names. - **Reviews, audits and reports:** Reply to Google reviews across locations, run competitive audits against up to five rivals and send scheduled white-label reports. - **API, webhooks and MCP:** A public API, webhooks for new reviews and finished scans, a Looker Studio connector, and MCP connections for ChatGPT and Claude. ## Good for - Agencies posting to dozens of Google Business Profiles each week - Spotting unwanted edits to client listings, including Google's own - Showing clients geogrid ranking reports under the agency's brand ## Worth knowing - No free trial or free plan is listed on the pricing page. - Rank checks and geogrid scans spend credits: 1 keyword credit per rank type per check, 1 geogrid credit per grid point. Keyword credits do not roll over. - White-label reporting and the geogrid widget start at the Pro plan. - The marketing site still says Local Viking, but sign-up, pricing and the help center use the LocalOptics name. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Local Viking schedules posts and photos to many Google Business Profiles, logs every change to them, including Google's own edits, and tracks local rankings on geogrids, from $39 a month for one listing. There's no free plan or trial, scans spend credits that don't roll over, and the product now runs under the LocalOptics name. - **Value for money: C.** Single is $39 a month for one listing, with 1,600 keyword credits and 7,500 geogrid credits, between this category's middle ($31) and dearer quarter ($59). Up to 10 listings is $59, which is where agencies start. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free. The pricing page lists no free plan and no trial, so you pay before you see your own profiles in it. - **Features: C.** Bulk post and photo scheduling, profile edits with a change log and alerts, local and organic rank tracking, geogrids, review replies and white-label reports. It does Google Business Profile work fully, but that's one platform: no other directories or review requests. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You connect Google accounts and budget keyword and geogrid credits, where each rank type and each grid point uses one. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It links to Google Business Profile, Search Console, GA4, Looker Studio, ServiceTitan, CompanyCam and Zapier, with a public API, webhooks and MCP. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Local Viking's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among local SEO tools - Local Viking's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 4 of the 61 other local SEO tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 13 of 61) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $39 a month, against a middle price of $30.50 for the category: 26 of the 47 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/local-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Local Viking you would be making listings sent to dozens of directories and map apps, which takes an agreement with each. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 47 of the 61 other local SEO tools grade higher. It costs $468 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Listings sent to dozens of directories and map apps, which takes an agreement with each. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Business Profile, Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Business Profile, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, Looker Studio, ServiceTitan, CompanyCam, Zapier, OpenAI **Tags:** Local listings, Rank tracking, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Localo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/localo): Google Business Profile tool with rank maps, posts, reviews and tasks. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/local-dominator-vs-local-viking) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://app.localoptics.com/pricing - https://localviking.com/ - https://localviking.com/about-us - https://app.localoptics.com/docs/product-guide - https://app.localoptics.com/docs/product-guide/understanding-credits Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/local-viking Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).