# Telescope review (2026): is it worth $29 a month? > Low-cost SEO toolkit with pay-per-request keyword and backlink data Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Telescope is a web-based SEO toolkit covering keyword research and clustering, backlink and competitor research, daily rank tracking, site audits and internal link suggestions. Research is paid for with credits, either on a $0 pay-as-you-go plan or from a monthly allowance, while tracking, audits and the other modules come with the Growth and Scale subscriptions. - **Category:** SEO Tools - **Made by:** Blank Page Studio - **Website:** https://withtelescope.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try it first, as there's no trial, only a money-back guarantee. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Telescope is a paid product, starting at $29 per month for 1,000 research credits. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay as you go | $0 per month, plus research credits bought in advance | 1 project and 1 seat with every research tool, paid per request; no rank tracking, site audits or competitor tracking. | | Growth | $29 per month for 1,000 research credits | 1 project, unlimited seats, 200 tracked keywords updated daily, 30 site audits a month, 10 competitors and the internal linking tool. | | Scale | $99 per month for 3,000 research credits | 5 projects, 500 tracked keywords per project (2,500 in all), 150 audits a month, 15 competitors per project, Slack support and onboarding. | Read from https://withtelescope.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Telescope before buying. ## Key features - **Keyword research and clustering:** Search a database Telescope puts at over 5 billion keywords, see difficulty, volume and the live SERP, and group saved keywords into clusters. - **Competitor and backlink research:** Overview any website's keywords and backlinks, find keyword and backlink gaps against rivals, and follow competitors over time on paid plans. - **Rank Tracker:** Daily positions for up to 500 keywords per project, organized with tags, with history charts and a breakdown by ranking bucket. - **Site Audit:** Crawls every page on a manual or scheduled basis and reports a health score, errors and warnings, each with an explanation of how to fix it. - **Internal Linking Tool:** Finds internal linking opportunities across a website; it is included on the Growth and Scale plans. ## Good for - Site owners who do keyword research only now and then and want to pay per search - Small teams wanting rank tracking and audits for one site at a low monthly price - Agencies adding colleagues without paying per seat ## Worth knowing - Research costs 3 to 6 credits a request; the pricing page estimates 50 keyword pages plus 20 keyword overviews at about $3. - Rank tracking, site audits, competitor tracking and internal linking need Growth at $29 a month or Scale at $99. - There is no free trial; the FAQ offers a money-back guarantee, and unused credits can be refunded within 30 days of purchase. - Growth covers one website and 200 tracked keywords; more projects need Scale, which allows 5. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Telescope covers keyword research and clustering, competitor and backlink research, daily rank tracking, site audits and internal link suggestions. Research can be paid per request on a $0 plan, and Growth is $29 a month with unlimited seats. But there's no trial, tracking and audits need a paid plan, and Growth stops at one website and 200 keywords. - **Value for money: C.** Growth is $29 a month for 1,000 research credits, 200 tracked keywords and 30 audits, between this category's cheaper quarter and its middle. Seats are unlimited. The $0 plan charges per request: about $3 for 50 keyword pages and 20 keyword overviews. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: the $0 plan only runs on credits you buy first, and there's no trial. The money-back guarantee and refunds on unused credits within 30 days aren't a trial. - **Features: B.** Keyword research from a database it puts at over 5 billion keywords, clustering, competitor and backlink gaps, daily rank tracking, scheduled site audits and internal linking. It covers the whole job, though the $0 plan has no tracking or audits. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Research costs 3 to 6 credits a request, so there's a meter to watch, and tracking and audits need a project set up first. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations or API on record, and no desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Telescope'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 - Telescope's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 64 other SEO tools we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (B, above 43 of 64) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $39 for the category: 16 of the 56 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/seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Telescope 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 61 of the 64 other SEO tools grade higher. It costs $348 a year. - You could make: Internal linking: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - 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: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Keyword research, Rank tracking, Backlink analysis, Site audit, Internal linking ## Alternatives - [Semrush](https://toolgpa.com/tools/semrush): SEO suite for keyword research, rank tracking and AI search visibility. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/semrush-vs-telescope) - [Ahrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahrefs): SEO toolset for backlinks, keyword research, audits and rank tracking. 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