# SEO Panel review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Free open-source SEO control panel you host on your own server

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

SEO Panel is a free, open-source SEO control panel that you install on your own PHP and MySQL server to manage any number of websites. It tracks keyword rankings on Google, Bing and Yahoo, audits pages, monitors Moz metrics, backlinks, indexing and page speed, and pulls in Google Analytics and Search Console data. Its makers also sell a cloud-hosted edition, plugins and data API plans.

- **Category:** SEO Tools
- **Made by:** SEO Panel (since 2010)
- **Website:** https://www.seopanel.org
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you've never run a PHP server and don't want to pay for the cloud edition.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, SEO Panel has a free plan, and paid plans start at $34.95 per month for 1 website, cloud hosted.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** The self-hosted edition is free under GNU GPL v2 with unlimited websites; you supply the PHP and MySQL server, and some plugins and API data cost extra.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial on cloud-hosted plans, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Self-hosted | $0 | The open-source edition, installed on your own server: unlimited websites and users, rank tracking, site audits and Google data. |
| Starter | $34.95 per month for 1 website, cloud hosted | Enhanced cloud edition: 50 keywords per project, 2 search engines, 1 user, 1 social project with 3 channels and 2 article connections. |
| SEO Manager | $99.95 per month for 6 websites, cloud hosted | 150 keywords per project, 3 search engines, 2 users, 10 social projects and 15 article connections. |
| Agency | $269.95 per month for 10 websites, cloud hosted | 150 keywords per project, 3 search engines, 5 users, 50 social projects, 35 article connections and priority support. |

Read from https://www.seopanel.org/webhosting/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SEO Panel before buying.

## Key features

- **Keyword rank tracker:** Checks positions on Google, Bing and Yahoo automatically and charts daily changes. Country domains such as google.de come with a $10 plugin.
- **Site auditor and sitemaps:** Audits every page of a site for SEO issues and generates XML, HTML and text sitemaps.
- **Moz metrics and backlinks:** Tracks Domain Authority, Page Authority and backlinks over time; the $30 Link Diagnosis plugin adds detailed backlink reports for you and competitors.
- **Indexing and page speed:** Counts how many pages Google, Bing and Yahoo have indexed and tracks PageSpeed scores and mobile usability.
- **Google Analytics and Search Console:** Brings traffic, clicks, impressions and average positions into the panel's reports.
- **Users, proxies and directories:** Unlimited user accounts with access levels, a proxy manager that rotates proxies for rank checks, directory submission and a review manager.

## Good for

- Site owners and agencies willing to host their own SEO software
- Tracking rankings for many websites without a per-site fee
- Developers who want an open-source panel they can extend

## Worth knowing

- Self-hosting needs a server with PHP 5.5 to 8.x, MySQL or MariaDB and cURL; installing and maintaining it is up to you.
- Some tools are paid plugins ($10 to $30 each, or $249 for all), and live data from the SEO Panel Cloud API costs $9.99 to $99.99 a month.
- AI article publishing, social media publishing and the AI assistant come only with the paid cloud-hosted edition.
- Cloud plans cap tracking at 50 or 150 keywords per project, on 2 or 3 search engines.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. SEO Panel is a free, open-source SEO control panel you install on your own PHP and MySQL server: rank tracking on Google, Bing and Yahoo, site audits, Moz metrics, backlinks, indexing and page speed, for any number of sites. But installing and keeping it running is on you, some tools are paid plugins, live API data costs extra, and the hosted edition starts at $34.95 a month for one site.

- **Value for money: C.** The self-hosted edition is free, but only if you run your own server, which we count as a C. The cloud edition is $34.95 a month for 1 website, mid-range for this category, and plugins at $10 to $30 and live API data from $9.99 a month cost extra.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free means hosting it yourself: the open-source edition has unlimited websites and users, rank tracking, audits and Google data, which one person really could live on. Country Google domains and detailed backlinks are paid plugins, though.
- **Features: C.** Rank tracking, a site auditor with sitemaps, Moz metrics and backlinks, indexing, page speed and Google data. The basics with gaps: no keyword research, country domains need a $10 plugin, and the AI features are cloud only.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Self-hosting needs PHP, MySQL and cURL, and keeping it running is on you. The cloud edition takes that away and comes with setup help.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web app connected to Google Analytics, Search Console, Google Ads, PageSpeed Insights and Moz, run on your server or theirs. No desktop or phone app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SEO Panel's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SEO tools

- SEO Panel'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 features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $34.95 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 23 of the 56 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace SEO Panel you would be making an index of the links between billions of web pages. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $419.40 a year. SEO Panel is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself.

- You could not: An index of the links between billions of web pages.
- You could not: Daily checks of where your pages rank in search results.
- You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Google Ads among them.

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 Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Ads, Google PageSpeed Insights, Moz

**Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Rank tracking, Site audit, Backlink analysis, Page speed

## Alternatives

- [Serposcope](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serposcope): Free self-hosted rank tracker, now marked unsupported by its developer. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-panel-vs-serposcope)
- [SEO PowerSuite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seo-powersuite): Four desktop SEO apps for rankings, audits, backlinks and outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-panel-vs-seo-powersuite)
- [WebCEO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webceo): SEO platform for agencies with white-label reports and audits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-panel-vs-webceo)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://www.seopanel.org/webhosting/
- https://www.seopanel.org/
- https://www.seopanel.org/download/
- https://www.seopanel.org/install/requirements/
- https://www.seopanel.org/plugins/
- https://www.seopanel.org/apiplans/
- https://www.seopanel.org/aboutus/

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