# RankHero review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Etsy SEO tools for tags, titles, listing grades and rank checks Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. RankHero is a set of SEO and research tools for Etsy sellers, with a smaller group for eBay listings and websites. It generates tags, titles and descriptions, grades listings and shops, finds trending niches and best sellers, and checks where a listing ranks for a keyword. Every tool has a daily use allowance that grows with the plan. - **Category:** Keyword Research Tools - **Made by:** RankHero - **Website:** https://www.rankhero.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you sell mainly outside Etsy, as only a handful of tools cover eBay and websites. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, RankHero has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5.99 per month, billed yearly ($7.99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 3 uses a day of almost every tool, 1 linked Etsy shop and 5 extension listing lookups a day. No credit card needed. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 3 uses a day of most tools and 1 linked shop. No RankHero AI. | | Side Hustle | $5.99 per month, billed yearly ($7.99 billed monthly) | 3 linked shops and 25 uses a day of most tools, with the Chrome extension, Etsy Trends and Niche Finder. $71.88 a year. | | Business | $9.99 per month, billed yearly ($12.99 billed monthly) | 10 linked shops, 100 uses a day of most tools, every tool unlocked and 50 RankHero AI messages a day. $119.88 a year. | | Enterprise | $29.99 per month, billed yearly ($49.99 billed monthly) | 25 linked shops, 300 uses a day of most tools and 100 RankHero AI messages a day. $359.88 a year. | Read from https://www.rankhero.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with RankHero before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 25% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): RankHero's pricing page labels yearly billing "Save 25%": Side Hustle is $5.99 a month billed yearly instead of $7.99 monthly, and Enterprise $29.99 instead of $49.99. Source: https://www.rankhero.com/pricing ## Key features - **Tag, title and keyword generators:** Suggest Etsy tags, titles and keywords with search volume and competition, plus a description generator. - **Listing and shop analyzers:** Grade a listing's title, tags and description with fixes to make, and audit any Etsy shop's performance. - **Trends, niches and best sellers:** Etsy Trends, Niche Finder and Best Sellers show rising searches, low-competition niches and top shops and listings. - **Rank Check:** Shows where one of your listings appears in Etsy search for a given keyword. - **Chrome extension:** Adds search volume, competition and estimated lifetime sales and revenue to Etsy search results and listing pages. - **eBay and web SEO tools:** eBay title, description and product research tools, and an AI Visibility Checker that tests prompts against AI answers. ## Good for - Etsy sellers writing tags and titles for new listings - Small shops that want low-cost keyword help with daily limits - Checking a listing's search position for a few keywords ## Worth knowing - Every tool has a daily cap (3 to 300 uses by plan) that resets at midnight Central time. - RankHero AI is not included on the Free or Side Hustle plans. - Sales and revenue figures are estimates, not numbers reported by Etsy. - Subscriptions are generally non-refundable; the page asks for issues to be raised within the first 7 days. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. RankHero is a set of Etsy SEO tools: tag, title and description generators with volume and competition, listing and shop grades, trend and niche finders, a rank check and a Chrome extension, with a few eBay tools on the side. Side Hustle is $5.99 a month on yearly billing. But every tool has a daily cap, RankHero AI starts on Business, sales figures are estimates, and subscriptions are generally non-refundable. - **Value for money: A.** Side Hustle is $5.99 a month on yearly billing ($7.99 monthly), under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter. Business, with every tool unlocked and RankHero AI, is $9.99, still inside that cheaper quarter. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free with no card: 3 uses a day of almost every tool, 1 linked Etsy shop and 5 extension lookups a day, with no RankHero AI. Three uses a day is a cap you'll hit in one sitting. - **Features: C.** Etsy tag, title and keyword generators with volume and competition, listing and shop grades, Etsy Trends, Niche Finder, Best Sellers, a rank check, and eBay and AI visibility tools. It does Etsy SEO fully, but that's a smaller job, and every tool runs on a daily cap. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Each generator is a search box, but there are many separate tools, each with its own daily allowance, and the shop tools work from linked Etsy shops. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus a Chrome extension that adds volume, competition and sales estimates to Etsy's own pages, linked to Etsy. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from RankHero's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among keyword research tools - RankHero's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 38 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 37 of 51) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $5.99 a month, against a middle price of $18 for the category: 1 of the 35 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/keyword-research ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace RankHero 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 38 of the 51 other keyword research tools we grade. It costs $71.88 a year. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results. - You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Etsy **Tags:** Keyword research, Rank tracking, AI features, AI search visibility ## Alternatives - [eRank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/erank): Etsy SEO tool for keywords, listing audits and competitor tracking. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ehunt-vs-rankhero) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.rankhero.com/pricing - https://www.rankhero.com/ - https://www.rankhero.com/chrome-extension - https://www.rankhero.com/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rankhero Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).