--- title: "Free alternatives to Ahrefs, Semrush and SEO tools" description: "Free alternatives to Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Similarweb, SpyFu and 29 more SEO tools and MCP servers, compared with SEO Skill on features, price and data." canonical: "https://seoskill.dev/alternatives" language: "en" --- # SEO tool alternatives compared Free alternatives to Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Similarweb and the rest of the SEO stack, plus every other way to give an AI agent your search data. What each one does, what it costs and what it keeps, next to SEO Skill. [Get started free](https://seoskill.dev/account) Run it in a terminal, then sign in with Google. Or run it on your machine Installs the CLI, signs you in and adds the skill to your agents. Site crawls and Bing data run this way, on your own machine. A crawl fetches many pages, and Bing blocks our hosted server. ## Why teams pick SEO Skill Free SEO tools in your browser, and your own search data in your AI agent. Add the URL, sign in with Google and ask. - [Free SEO tools, no accountBacklinks, Domain Rating, competitor keywords, SERPs, traffic estimates and site checks in your browser.](https://seoskill.dev/tools) - ### Free in your AI agent, with no usage cap Every tool your agent calls on demand costs nothing, with no trial and no daily limit. - ### One Google sign-in Search Console, Google Analytics and URL Inspection with read-only access. No Google Cloud project, no API key. - ### Works in every client Claude, ChatGPT and Le Chat on the web, plus Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Gemini CLI. - ### Your data is not stored Rows are fetched when your agent asks and returned, never stored, except what the paid weekly audit keeps for its sites. Your sign-ins and saved keys are kept, encrypted. - ### Keyword research with your own key DataForSEO or Ahrefs results next to your own numbers, kept clearly apart from them. ## SEO tools and suites Keyword research, backlinks, rank tracking, crawling and traffic estimates. Free tools for the everyday jobs, and your own Search Console data in your AI agent. [ ### AccuRanker Free: No. Paid: $249 a month (Professional). Free AccuRanker alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/accuranker)[ ### Ahrefs Free: Free account, verified sites. Paid: $29 a month (Starter). Free Ahrefs alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/ahrefs)[ ### AnswerThePublic Free: Free, 3 searches a day. Paid: US$20 a month (Starter). Free AnswerThePublic alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/answerthepublic)[ ### Majestic Free: Free account, limits not stated. Paid: $49.99 a month (Lite). Free Majestic alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/majestic)[ ### Mangools Free: Free plan, 5 lookups a day. Paid: $61 a month (Basic). Free Mangools alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/mangools)[ ### Moz Pro Free: Free tools, 7-day trial. Paid: $49 a month (Starter). Free Moz Pro alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/moz)[ ### Screaming Frog Free: Free up to 500 URLs a crawl. Paid: £199 a year. Free Screaming Frog alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/screaming-frog)[ ### SE Ranking Free: 14-day trial, no card. Paid: $129 a month (Core). Free SE Ranking alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/se-ranking)[ ### Semrush Free: Free plan, 10 reports a day. Paid: $139 a month (SEO). Free Semrush alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/semrush)[ ### SEO PowerSuite Free: Free version, no time limit. Paid: $349 a year (Professional). Free SEO PowerSuite alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/seo-powersuite)[ ### Similarweb Free: 7-day trial, card needed. Paid: $99 a month (Competitive Intelligence). Free Similarweb alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/similarweb)[ ### Sitebulb Free: 14-day free trial, no card. Paid: £12.50 a month (Lite). Free Sitebulb alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/sitebulb)[ ### SpyFu Free: Free version. Paid: $39 a month (Basic). Free SpyFu alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/spyfu)[ ### Surfer Free: 7-day Pro trial, card required. Paid: $59 a month (Discovery). Free Surfer alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/surfer-seo)[ ### Ubersuggest Free: Free account, 3 searches a day. Paid: $29 a month (Individual). Free Ubersuggest alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/ubersuggest)[ ### All free SEO tools Every free tool on SEO Skill in one place, with no account and no key. Browse the free tools](https://seoskill.dev/tools) ## Hosted SEO MCP servers Add a URL to your agent and sign in. The closest match to the SEO Skill MCP server. [ ### Advanced GSC Free: Limited free version, limits not stated. Paid: $15 a month. SEO Skill vs Advanced GSC](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/advanced-gsc)[ ### Ahrefs MCP Free: No. Paid: $129 a month (Lite). SEO Skill vs Ahrefs MCP](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/ahrefs-mcp)[ ### AskWatch Free: Yes, 20 calls a minute. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs AskWatch](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/askwatch)[ ### ChatSEO Free: 7-day trial with a card. Paid: €49 a month for MCP (Pro). SEO Skill vs ChatSEO](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/chatseo)[ ### GSC Wizard Free: 7-day trial. Paid: €17 a month. SEO Skill vs GSC Wizard](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/gsc-wizard)[ ### mcpsearchconsole Free: 15 data pulls a day, 40 a month. Paid: €4.99 a month. SEO Skill vs mcpsearchconsole](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/mcpsearchconsole) ## Open source servers you run yourself Free, but you run them on your own machine, usually with your own Google Cloud project. [ ### Google Analytics MCP Free: Open source. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs Google Analytics MCP](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/google-analytics-mcp)[ ### mcp-gsc Free: Open source. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs mcp-gsc](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/mcp-gsc)[ ### search-console-mcp Free: Open source. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs search-console-mcp](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/search-console-mcp)[ ### mcp-server-gsc Free: Open source. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs mcp-server-gsc](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/mcp-server-gsc)[ ### Suganthan's GSC MCP Free: Open source. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs Suganthan's GSC MCP](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/suganthan-gsc-mcp) ## SEO skills for coding agents Instructions for Claude Code and similar agents. They bring their own data sources. [ ### Claude SEO Free: Open source. Paid: No paid plan. SEO Skill vs Claude SEO](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/claude-seo) ## Marketing data connectors Search Console as one source among many ad, CRM and analytics sources. [ ### Coupler.io Free: 1 data source, 100 rows a run. Paid: $24 a month, billed yearly. SEO Skill vs Coupler.io](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/coupler)[ ### Supermetrics Free: 14-day trial. Paid: $44 a month, billed yearly. SEO Skill vs Supermetrics](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/supermetrics)[ ### Windsor.ai Free: 1 data source, 30-day history. Paid: $19 a month, billed yearly. SEO Skill vs Windsor.ai](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/windsor) ## Developer tool platforms Search Console as one toolkit in a platform for building your own agents. [ ### Pipedream Free: Free to add to an AI assistant. Paid: $99 a month for Connect, billed yearly. SEO Skill vs Pipedream](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/pipedream)[ ### treg Free: Your own Search Console calls are not metered. Paid: Pay per call, no subscription. SEO Skill vs treg](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/treg)[ ### Composio Free: 100,000 tool calls a month. Paid: $29 a month. SEO Skill vs Composio](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/composio) ## SEO data providers Keyword, ranking and backlink data from their own index, billed by use. [ ### DataForSEO MCP Free: $1 trial credit. Paid: Pay as you go, $50 top-up. SEO Skill vs DataForSEO MCP](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/dataforseo-mcp) ## Questions about the alternatives