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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).

AnswerThePublic: Register for a free account to get 3 searches a day. To try a paid plan, switch the pricing page to monthly and start the one-time 7-day free trial. You verify your email and add a payment method, and the trial turns into a paid monthly plan unless you cancel. Yearly plans are charged right away with no trial.

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.

AnswerThePublic: Keyword reports with a keyword wheel, Organic Searches (Google and Bing), Search Modifiers (questions, prepositions, comparisons, alphabeticals, numbers), People Also Ask, Trending Keywords, Social Media, Shopping and an AI Models report with ChatGPT and Gemini prompts, intent, sentiment and brand mentions. Also keyword lists, search listening alerts, keyword tracking, compare over time (Growth and Business), exports and Content Studio for AI articles. A public API in Alpha is on active paid plans only, not on the free plan, the trial or Lifetime plans. No MCP yet: its help says MCP support is launching soon for recurring-plan customers.

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.

AnswerThePublic: Autocomplete suggestions from Google, Bing, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Amazon, AI prompt suggestions and answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, Google search volume, updated monthly, and Google Ads CPC, Google People Also Ask, Google Trends for the last 30 days (Trending Keywords), Google Shopping top products, Your site's sitemap and published pages (Content Studio Keyword Coverage)

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.

AnswerThePublic: Web app

SEO Skill: Yes

AnswerThePublic: No. MCP support is announced as coming soon for recurring-plan customers.

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

AnswerThePublic: Free account with 3 searches a day, reset daily. Some suggestions are locked, search volume and CPC show for only two branches per report, XLSX exports are capped at 30 keywords, and images download at lower resolution. Free AI Models access includes 30 AI prompt responses a month and 10 prompts per search. No Content Studio credits and no API. Monthly plans also have a one-time 7-day free trial with 36 Content Studio credits and no API.

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.

AnswerThePublic: Starter US$20 a month (1 user, 100 searches a month). Growth US$99 a month (up to 3 users, 200 searches). Business US$199 a month (up to 10 users, 300 searches). Yearly, with a limited-time 50% off offer that ends Nov 8, 2026: Starter US$120 a year (regular US$160), Growth US$594 a year (regular US$792), Business US$1,194 a year (regular US$1,592). Fees are generally non-refundable once paid billing starts. Custom plans by quote.

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.

AnswerThePublic: Yes, through Content Studio. It can publish articles to WordPress or Webflow, save them as drafts or auto-publish after an article is generated. The API cannot publish. No changes in Google are stated.

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.

AnswerThePublic: Not stated. No Google Search Console or Google Analytics connection is stated.

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

AnswerThePublic: Not stated. Search volume reflects the previous month, Trending Keywords covers the last 30 days, and Compare shows changes between your own saved reports on Growth and Business.

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

AnswerThePublic: Hosted service