# Vendasta review (2026): is it worth $99 a month? > White-label local marketing platform for agencies to resell Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Vendasta is a white-label platform that agencies, franchises and software companies use to sell marketing software to local businesses under their own brand. Its products include Local SEO, which syncs listings to 125+ sites and tracks rankings on a map grid, Reputation AI for reviews, a client CRM and portal, and AI agents such as a receptionist. Partners commit to a monthly minimum that is spent on the products they deploy. - **Category:** Local SEO Tools - **Made by:** Vendasta - **Website:** https://www.vendasta.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you own one business and want a tool for yourself, as it's sold to resellers. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Vendasta is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per month minimum spend, billed monthly, no contract. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $99 per month minimum spend, billed monthly, no contract | 1 team seat, 10 Snapshot Reports a month and co-branding with Vendasta. Suits 1 to 2 client businesses; extra seats $30 a month. | | Professional | $499 per month minimum spend, billed monthly, 1-year contract | 5 seats, 25 Snapshot Reports, a white-label client portal and lower wholesale prices. Suits 3 or more clients; extra seats $35 a month. | | Premium | $999 per month minimum spend, billed monthly, 1-year contract | 10 seats, 50 Snapshot Reports, a multi-location client portal and lower wholesale prices again. Extra seats $65 a month. | | Custom Enterprise | Custom | For franchise networks, multi-location systems and software companies: volume pricing, priority support and invoiced billing. | Read from https://www.vendasta.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Vendasta before buying. ## Key features - **Local SEO and listings:** Syncs name, address and phone details to 125+ sites, submits to data aggregators such as Data Axle and Foursquare, and audits listings for errors. - **Local search grid:** Tracks a client's rankings at points across a map, with keyword suggestions and Google Business Profile performance data. - **Reputation AI:** Monitors and requests reviews and drafts replies, and can manage reviews for one, some or all of a multi-location client's sites. - **AI employees:** AI agents for answering calls and chats, social posting, blogging and reviews; an AI Search Specialist that tracks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity is in beta. - **White-label client portal:** Business App gives each client a login to see results and reviews; Professional and up remove Vendasta's branding. - **Snapshot Reports:** Automated audits of a prospect's listings, reviews, SEO and social presence for sales teams, with a monthly allowance per plan and $2 per extra report. ## Good for - Marketing agencies reselling local SEO and reviews under their own brand - Franchises managing listings and reviews for many locations - Software and media companies adding local marketing products to their own offer ## Worth knowing - It is sold to resellers, not to single businesses; per-product wholesale prices for Local SEO and the rest are not on the pricing page. - Unused minimum does not roll over, third-party Marketplace products do not count toward it, and any shortfall is billed. - Professional and Premium need a one-year contract; only Starter is month to month. - Payments taken through the platform cost 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Vendasta is a white-label platform that agencies use to resell listing sync to 125+ sites, map-grid rank tracking, review tools and AI agents to local businesses. You commit to a monthly minimum from $99, the wholesale prices it's spent on aren't on the pricing page, and it isn't sold to a single business buying for itself. - **Value for money: D.** Starter is a $99 a month minimum spend, where this category's dearest tenth starts ($99), and the wholesale prices of what it's spent on aren't published. The white-label portal needs Professional at $499 a month on a 1-year contract. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial with no card needed. Starter after it is month to month, with no contract. - **Features: B.** Listing sync to 125+ sites and data aggregators, a map-grid rank tracker, review monitoring, requests and AI replies, a client portal and prospect audit reports. It covers the whole job, though the AI search tracker is still in beta. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It's a reseller platform: you set up seats, client accounts and the products you deploy for each business before anything reaches a client. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It connects to Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram, Zapier, Stripe, WordPress and Data Axle, and has an API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Vendasta'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 - Vendasta's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 28 of the 61 other local SEO tools we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on features (B, above 48 of 61) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $99 a month, against a middle price of $30.50 for the category: 39 of the 47 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/local-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Vendasta 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. It costs $1,188 a year. - You could make: Review collection and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Listings sent to dozens of directories and map apps, which takes an agreement with each. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - 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: It plugs into other products, Google Business Profile, Facebook and Instagram among them, and has an API. - 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. ## Works with Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram, Zapier, Stripe, Yesware, WordPress, Data Axle **Tags:** Local listings, Rank tracking, Review collection, AI agents, AI search visibility, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Synup](https://toolgpa.com/tools/synup): Local marketing platform with an AI agent, priced by location band. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/synup-vs-vendasta) - [BrightLocal](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brightlocal): Local SEO platform for rankings, listings, reviews and AI visibility. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brightlocal-vs-vendasta) - [Yext](https://toolgpa.com/tools/yext): Enterprise listings, reviews and AI visibility for many locations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/vendasta-vs-yext) - [Uberall](https://toolgpa.com/tools/uberall): Listings, reviews and local social for multi-location brands. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/uberall-vs-vendasta) - [Advice Local](https://toolgpa.com/tools/advice-local): White-label listings platform that agencies resell as their own. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/advice-local-vs-vendasta) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.vendasta.com/pricing/ - https://www.vendasta.com/ - https://www.vendasta.com/local-listings/local-seo/ - https://www.vendasta.com/platform/business-app/ - https://www.vendasta.com/about-us/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/vendasta Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).