--- title: "AskWatch alternative | SEO Skill" description: "AskWatch alternative: compare it with the free SEO Skill MCP server on setup, tools, AI clients, price and data handling." canonical: "https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/askwatch" language: "en" --- # SEO Skill vs AskWatch AskWatch's Search Console MCP is a free hosted server from an AI visibility tracker. You connect it with a personal link instead of a sign-in. SEO Skill gives your agent your own Search Console, Google Analytics and keyword data for free, with nothing to install. [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. ## 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 Connect One URL and a Google sign-in ### AskWatch Free use Yes, 20 calls a minute Paid No paid plan Works in web chat Yes Connect Through its own account ## Pick AskWatch if From AskWatch's own pages. - You only need Search Console and want a free server with no paid tier at all. - You want to add it from the ChatGPT plugins directory or the Cursor Directory. - You want every answer to state its date window and use only finalised Google data. ## Pick SEO Skill if One hosted MCP server for your own search data. - You want every tool your agent calls to be free, with no usage cap and no trial that ends. - You want Search Console, Google Analytics, URL Inspection and Clicky behind one Google sign-in, plus keyword research with your own DataForSEO or Ahrefs key. - You want your Search Console rows fetched on each request and never stored, except what the paid weekly audit keeps for its sites. - You want a weekly crawl, daily index checks and drop alerts done for you, for $50 a month per site. ## Side by side Every fact we compared, with AskWatch's taken from the sources at the end of this page. SEO SkillAskWatch Connect SEO Skill: Add https://seoskill.dev/mcp to your agent and sign in with Google. Read-only access, no Google Cloud project, no API key. AskWatch: Sign up at AskWatch with an email and a six-digit code, approve one read-only Google consent screen, then paste your personal link into the AI client. Anyone with the link can read your data, so it works like a password. Tools SEO Skill: 7 hosted tools: seo\_sites, seo\_report, seo\_page, seo\_compare, seo\_index, seo\_research and seo\_data. The CLI adds the site crawl, internal links and Bing. AskWatch: 11 tools, listed on its MCP page (7 question tools, 1 raw Search Analytics query, 3 account tools). Data sources 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. AskWatch: Google Search Console AI clients SEO Skill: Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Le Chat and any remote MCP client AskWatch: Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI Works in web chat SEO Skill: Yes AskWatch: Yes Free SEO Skill: Every on-demand tool, with no usage cap and no time limit. AskWatch: Free with no card, no trial and no locked tools. The only hard limit is 20 calls a minute. Past 300 calls in a day, answers carry a notice and slow down slightly. URL inspection has a smaller daily budget. 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. AskWatch: No paid plan for this server, per its page. AskWatch's separate AI visibility product starts with a Monitor plan from $50 a month. Can it change anything 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. AskWatch: Read-only, per its page. The webmasters.readonly grant cannot submit a sitemap, request indexing, remove a URL or change a property. 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. AskWatch: Partly. It stores encrypted Google tokens, the list of readable properties, Google's answers cached for 30 minutes to 30 days depending on the age of the data, and daily call counts per tool. The link is stored as a hash. Disconnecting deletes the grant and the cache. History SEO Skill: Google's 16 months, read live. With the weekly audit, crawl and index history for the sites you audit. AskWatch: Not stated Licence SEO Skill: Hosted service, with the CLI and local MCP server open source (Apache 2.0) AskWatch: Hosted service. The GitHub repo holds documentation, the registry entry and the issue tracker only. GitHub SEO Skill: [iannuttall/seo](https://github.com/iannuttall/seo) AskWatch: [askwatch/gsc-mcp](https://github.com/askwatch/gsc-mcp), 0 stars, last commit 2026-09-30 ## Move from AskWatch in a few minutes Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove AskWatch 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.](https://seoskill.dev/integrations) - ### 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.](https://seoskill.dev/account) - ### Carry your prompts over Prompts in plain words work as they are. Prompts that name AskWatch's own tools need rewording. ## More comparisons Other ways to give your agent search data, next to SEO Skill. [ ### 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)[ ### 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) ## Questions about AskWatch Sources for AskWatch, read 2 November 2026: [11 tools, sign-in, clients, read-only, storage, limits, free](https://askwatch.ai/free-tools/google-search-console-mcp), [Monitor plan from $50 a month](https://askwatch.ai/pricing), [Repo holds docs only](https://github.com/askwatch/gsc-mcp).