Rank Monitor review (2026): is it worth $15 a month?
Credit-based rank tracker with AI answer and social monitoring
Rank Monitor report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for agencies paying only for the checks they run
Rank Monitor, the new home of SEO Rank Monitor, is a web rank tracker that runs on credits: one credit checks one keyword once, at the depth and frequency you choose. It also watches ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and social profiles from the same pool, at different rates. White-label reports are a $99 add-on for Pro and up, AI Brand Monitor is $105 more, and the API is Custom only.
Who Rank Monitor is for
- Fits if you track lots of long-tail keywords weekly and only a few key ones daily
- Works for a team that needs many logins, as users and projects are unlimited from Starter
Who Rank Monitor is not for
- Pricey if you want white-label reports, as the Agency Package is $99 a month on top of Pro
- Skip it if you don't want to work out costs, as every check spends credits at its own rate
- Tight if you need the API, which is only listed with the Custom plan
- Watch out: AI Brand Monitor is a $105-a-month add-on, and only for Pro and Expert
- Watch out: Lite is sold as a plan for testing, a top-100 crawl costs five times a shallow one, and euro prices show first
Why Rank Monitor 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 moneyLite is $15 a month for 3,000 credits, about 300 keywords checked every few days, and it's sold as a plan for testing. Starter is $49 for about 1,400 keywords, which is where the dearer quarter of rank trackers begins.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan, but a 14-day trial on every plan with full access and no card needed.
- BFeaturesDepth and frequency per keyword, daily desktop and mobile rankings with Google updates on the charts, share of voice, competitors picked up for you, AI answer and AI Overview tracking, and a social monitor. It covers the whole job; white label is a paid add-on.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Credits pay for everything at different rates: a top-100 crawl costs five times a shallow one, an AI prompt 5 credits and a social profile 50, so there are sums to do.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It links to Search Console, GA4, ChatGPT and Claude, but an API connection is listed only with the Custom plan.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rank Monitor'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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Rank Monitor's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 23 of the 39 other rank trackers we grade, and level with 10.
It stands best on features (B, above 26 of 39) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2).
Its paid plans start at $15 a month, against a middle price of $20.49 for the category: 8 of the 29 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 40 rank trackers we grade, cut by the letter each got. Rank Monitor’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 3 of 39, level with 22
- CFree plan and trialAbove 6 of 39, level with 30
- BFeaturesAbove 26 of 39, level with 13
- CEase of useAbove 2 of 39, level with 36
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 12 of 39, level with 27
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 33 rank trackers. 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 Rank Monitor, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Rank Monitor you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It costs $180 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- 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.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4 and ChatGPT among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Rank Monitor’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 Rank Monitor?
Rank Monitor is a web-based rank tracker from the Netherlands that also follows how a brand shows up in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers, in Google AI Overviews and on social platforms. Every plan is a monthly pool of credits: one credit checks one keyword once, so users choose how deep and how often each keyword is crawled. The older SEO Rank Monitor site now sends sign-ups to Rank Monitor, which it calls its new platform.
Worth knowing
- Credits cover everything: a full top-100 crawl costs five times a shallow one, an AI prompt 5 credits and a social profile 50 credits per check.
- White-label reports, client logins and a branded subdomain need the $99-a-month Agency Package, sold only with Pro and Expert.
- AI Brand Monitor is a $105-a-month add-on for Pro and Expert, and an API connection is listed only with the Custom plan.
- The site shows euro prices first; dollar prices appear through its currency switcher. The old seorankmonitor.com plans from $19 now lead to Rank Monitor.
Key features
- Credit-based keyword tracking
- Set the crawl depth (top 10, 30, 50 or 100) and frequency (daily, every 3 days, weekly or monthly) for each keyword. Keywords and projects are unlimited.
- Desktop and mobile rankings
- Daily rank updates for desktop and mobile results, with Google algorithm updates plotted on every chart and annotations for your own changes.
- AI answer tracking
- AI monitors check how a brand appears in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers, and AI Overview tracking shows when Google cites the site.
- Share of voice and competitors
- Daily share of voice across the top 100 of a keyword set, with the competitors ranking around you picked up automatically.
- Social monitor
- Follows social profiles and competitor activity on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, paid for from the same credit pool.
- Prospecting tool
- Shows which terms a prospective client's site already ranks for, before it is set up as a tracked project.
Rank Monitor pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Rank Monitor is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $15 per month for up to 3,000 credits, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $15 per month for up to 3,000 credits, billed monthly
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial on every plan with full access, no credit card required
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | $15per month for up to 3,000 credits, billed monthly | Sold as a plan for testing: about 300 keywords or AI prompts tracked every few days. 1 credit buys 1 keyword checked once. |
| Starter | $49per month for up to 27,000 credits, billed monthly | About 1,400 keywords or prompts, unlimited monitors and users, share of voice, local insights, annotations and AI Overview tracking. |
| Pro | $129per month for up to 98,000 credits, billed monthly | About 4,900 keywords or prompts, adds AI content suggestions and can take the Agency Package and AI Brand Monitor add-ons. |
| Expert | $269per month for up to 245,000 credits, billed monthly | About 12,300 keywords or prompts, with a custom domain and AI suggestions at scale. |
| Custom | Custom | A custom credit bundle with the Agency Package, a dedicated account manager, a custom domain and an API connection. Sold through sales. |
Read from rankmonitor.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Rank Monitor before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountTwo months free with yearly billing
Rank Monitor's pricing page says paying yearly gives two months free, which it puts at about 17% less than paying monthly.
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Common questions
Does Rank Monitor have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Rank Monitor is listed for Web.
Does Rank Monitor have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Rank Monitor is listed for Web.
Is Rank Monitor open source?
Rank Monitor is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Rank Monitor have an API?
Yes. Rank Monitor 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.