Free AccuRanker alternative

AccuRanker is a hosted rank tracker with daily keyword updates, plus tools to analyze, report on and forecast your keyword and AI prompt performance. SEO Skill is free: web tools for the everyday lookups, and your own Search Console, Google Analytics and keyword data in your AI agent.

Get started free

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.

At a glance

The four things most people compare first, from each product's own pages.

SEO Skill

Free use: Every on-demand tool, no usage cap
Paid: $50 a month per site, for the weekly audit
Works in web chat: Yes
Get started: Free web tools with no account, or one URL in your AI agent

AccuRanker

Free use: No
Paid: $249 a month (Professional)
Works in web chat: Yes
Get started: Create an account

Free tools for the jobs you use AccuRanker for

No account and no key. Each one opens in your browser.

SERP checker

See who ranks in Google for a keyword right now, and where your own domain sits.

Open the SERP checker

Google algorithm update checker

See every Google ranking update on a timeline, then add your Search Console clicks to check whether a drop lines up with one.

Open the Google algorithm update checker

Monthly SEO report

Turn a Search Console export into a month-on-month report, then download it as HTML or Markdown.

Build a monthly SEO report

Competitor keyword research

See the keywords a competitor ranks for, or the sites that compete with any domain.

Open competitor keyword research

Pick AccuRanker if

From AccuRanker's own pages.

You mainly need rank tracking, with daily updates for thousands of keywords.
You want unlimited users on every plan, with no charge per seat.
You want your own ranking data in ChatGPT, claude.ai or Claude Code through an MCP that comes with your plan.
You want unlimited API reads on Expert, or BigQuery export on Enterprise, to build your own dashboards.

Pick SEO Skill if

Free SEO tools in your browser, and your own search data in your AI agent.

You want the everyday lookups for free: backlinks, Domain Rating, competitor keywords, SERPs and traffic estimates, with no account.
You want your AI agent to answer from your own Search Console and Google Analytics data, not only from an index estimate.
You already pay for keyword data: SEO Skill uses your own DataForSEO or Ahrefs key, so you pay that provider and nothing on top.
You want a weekly crawl, daily index checks and drop alerts for $50 a month per site, with no seats to buy.

Side by side

Every fact we compared, with AccuRanker's taken from the sources at the end of this page.

SEO SkillAccuRanker

Get started

SEO Skill: Use the free web tools with no account. For your own data, add https://seoskill.dev/mcp to your AI agent and sign in with Google (read only).

AccuRanker: Pick a plan on the pricing page and enter your email, and AccuRanker sends a link to finish the purchase. You can also request a demo. No free plan or free trial is offered on its pricing or sign-up pages. The MCP signs in with your AccuRanker login through an authorization screen.

What it does

SEO Skill: Free web tools: backlink checker, Domain Rating, competitor keywords, SERP checker, traffic estimates, robots.txt, sitemap, schema and more. In your AI agent: Search Console reports (quick wins, low CTR, striking distance, content decay, cannibalization, traffic drops), page checks, index checks, before and after comparisons, and keyword research with your own key. A site crawler and internal links in the CLI.

AccuRanker: Rank tracking, keyword research database, Organic Site Explorer, SERP analysis, tagging, reporting, forecasting, AI CTR and AccuRanker Search Volume, plus AccuLLM for AI visibility on a separate plan. The API is unlimited read on Expert and unlimited write on Enterprise. AccuRanker MCP is included in every AccuRanker or AccuLLM plan at no extra charge and is read-only. Its tool reference lists domain, keyword, history, AccuLLM and filter URL tools; no tool count stated.

Data

SEO Skill: Google Search Console, Google Analytics, URL Inspection, Clicky, and DataForSEO or Ahrefs with your own key. Bing Webmaster Tools in the CLI. Free Domain Rating by Ahrefs on research rows.

AccuRanker: AccuRanker's own daily rank tracking, from servers in every country it supports, Keyword research database, AccuRanker Search Volume (Expert and up), Google Search Console (keyword import), Google Analytics (estimated visitors and potential per keyword, with Search Console), AccuLLM AI visibility data (separate plan), Looker Studio, Google BigQuery (Enterprise), Google Sheets, Databox, Swydo and CSV import

Where you use it

SEO Skill: Your browser for the web tools. Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Le Chat and any remote MCP client for your own data.

AccuRanker: AccuRanker web app, ChatGPT (AccuRanker Search Intelligence app), Claude (claude.ai custom connector), Claude Code, Perplexity, Other MCP-capable assistants

In Claude or ChatGPT on the web

SEO Skill: Yes

AccuRanker: Yes

Free

SEO Skill: Every on-demand tool, with no usage cap and no time limit.

AccuRanker: No free plan. No free trial is offered on its pricing or sign-up pages; the sign-up page now asks you to request a demo. A 14-day refund policy applies from the initial purchase.

Paid plans

SEO Skill: The weekly site audit is $50 a month per site: weekly crawl, daily Google index checks, stored history, drop and return alerts, and a Monday email and webhook. Cancel any time.

AccuRanker: Professional, monthly: $249 a month for 2,000 keywords, $369 for 3,000, $609 for 5,000. Expert, monthly: $849 a month for 10,000 keywords, $1,089 for 15,000, $1,329 for 20,000, $1,569 for 25,000. Paying yearly gives 10% off: Professional $224, $332 or $548 a month, Expert $764, $980, $1,196 or $1,412 a month. Enterprise is for more than 25K keywords, contact sales for pricing. All current plans include unlimited users. Prices shown in $.

Can it change your site

SEO Skill: Read-only Google sign-in. Your agent can start the paid audit for a site, which returns a Stripe Checkout link for you to open.

AccuRanker: No changes to your site or to Google stated. The MCP is read-only and cannot create, edit or delete keywords, tags, domains or settings. The Enterprise write API changes data inside your AccuRanker account.

Your data

SEO Skill: Search Console and analytics rows are fetched on each request and never stored, except what the paid weekly audit keeps for its sites. Your linked accounts and saved keys are kept, encrypted.

AccuRanker: Not stated for Search Console or Google Analytics data. Its terms say data you entered and your account's AccuRanker data are not kept beyond 30 days after your subscription is terminated and the period has ended. After a cancellation, data stays in the account but cannot be opened until you reactivate.

History

SEO Skill: Google's 16 months, read live. With the weekly audit, crawl and index history for the sites you audit.

AccuRanker: Each tracked keyword keeps its entire ranking and landing page history in the app. Historical search volume goes back up to 3 years through the API and Looker Studio.

Licence

SEO Skill: Hosted service, with the CLI and local MCP server open source (Apache 2.0)

AccuRanker: Hosted service

Move from AccuRanker in a few minutes

Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove AccuRanker from your agent and revoke its access.

Add SEO Skill to your agentUse the setup box above, or the steps for your client on the integrations page.
Check your access
Ask "list my Search Console properties". Every Google account you link shows up.
Add your research keySave a DataForSEO or Ahrefs key on your account page if you use keyword research.
Keep what you still need
Projects and history you built in AccuRanker stay there. SEO Skill reads Search Console live, so you can run both while you decide.

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Majestic

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Questions about AccuRanker

Not stated for Search Console or Google Analytics data. Its terms say data you entered and your account's AccuRanker data are not kept beyond 30 days after your subscription is terminated and the period has ended. After a cancellation, data stays in the account but cannot be opened until you reactivate. SEO Skill fetches your Search Console and analytics rows on each request and does not keep them, except for sites in its paid weekly audit, where it keeps the crawls, index checks with each page's clicks and impressions, and the issues list.

Sources for AccuRanker, read 3 November 2026: Plans, keyword tiers, prices, yearly discount, unlimited users, 14-day refund, plan features, Feature list, Sign-up page now a demo request, MCP included in plan, read-only, OAuth login, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Perplexity setup, Unlimited API and integrations, Search Console keyword import and Google Analytics estimates, Data kept no more than 30 days after a subscription ends, Entire keyword ranking history, Historical search volume up to 3 years.