--- title: "Free Majestic alternative | SEO Skill" description: "Free Majestic alternative: free backlink, keyword and traffic tools, plus your own Search Console data in your AI agent. Compare features and price." canonical: "https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/majestic" language: "en" --- # Free Majestic alternative Majestic is a hosted backlink research tool that maps the web with its own crawler and scores links with its Trust Flow and Citation Flow metrics. 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](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 Get started Free web tools with no account, or one URL in your AI agent ### Majestic Free use Free account, limits not stated Paid $49.99 a month (Lite) Works in web chat No. No MCP server or chat connector is stated. Get started Create an account ## Free tools for the jobs you use Majestic for No account and no key. Each one opens in your browser. [ ### Backlink checker See the sites that link to a domain or page, with anchor text, followed links and a year of history. Open the backlink checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/backlink-checker)[ ### Domain Rating checker Check Domain Rating by Ahrefs for any website. Open the Domain Rating checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/domain-rating-checker)[ ### Spam score checker Check the spam score for a domain or page URL. Open the spam score checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/spam-score-checker)[ ### Domain age checker See when a domain was registered, when it expires and who its registrar is, read from the registry. Open the domain age checker](https://seoskill.dev/tools/domain-age-checker) ## Pick Majestic if From Majestic's own pages. - You mainly need backlink data from a crawler the company runs itself. - You want Trust Flow, Citation Flow and Topical Trust Flow to judge link quality. - You want backlink history going back to 2006. - You want a monthly backlink tool for $49.99 with no annual commitment. ## 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 Majestic's taken from the sources at the end of this page. SEO SkillMajestic 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). Majestic: Sign up for a free Majestic account with the Sign Up for FREE button. Paid plans are bought from the pricing page, monthly or every 12 months. Lite and Pro have a 7-day money-back guarantee for a first-ever subscription. No free trial is stated, and the site does not say whether the free account needs a card. 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. Majestic: Site Explorer, Trust Flow and Topical Trust Flow, referring domains, IPs and subnets, Link Graph, Link Context, Related Sites, Bulk Backlink Checker, Keyword Checker, Backlink Campaigns and PDF reports on Lite. Pro adds the Historic Index, Compare, Backlink History, Flow Metric History, Clique Hunter, Search Explorer, raw exports, custom reports, email alerts, Author Explorer and a Rank Tracker that reads Google Search Console. No site audit. The full API is only on the API plan. OpenApps lets any paid plan connect to third-party apps. No MCP server or AI assistant integration is stated on its own pages. 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. Majestic: Majestic's Fresh Index: backlinks seen in the last 120 days, 189 billion URLs crawled at the time of checking, Majestic's Historic Index: backlinks seen since 2006, 4.5 trillion URLs crawled, Google Search Console (Rank Tracker on Pro and up, and importing verified sites) 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. Majestic: Web app, Chrome and Firefox plugins, Google Sheets plugin, Third-party OpenApps In Claude or ChatGPT on the web SEO Skill: Yes Majestic: No. No MCP server or chat connector is stated. Free SEO Skill: Every on-demand tool, with no usage cap and no time limit. Majestic: Free account. Majestic says free accounts are designed to give you a taste and regular users will hit usage limits. It offers a limited Site Explorer Preview and the Majestic Million list. Exact free limits are not stated. No free trial. Lite and Pro have a 7-day money-back guarantee for new customers. 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. Majestic: Lite $49.99 a month, or $499.99 every 12 months ($41.67 a month), 1 user, 1 million analysis units, no API. Pro $99.99 a month, or $999.99 every 12 months ($83.33 a month), 1 user, 20 million analysis units, no API. API $399.99 a month, or $3,999.90 every 12 months ($333.33 a month), 5 users, 100 million analysis units, with 300 million, 1,000 million and custom options. Prices in USD and exclude VAT. The page also shows prices in GBP and EUR. 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. Majestic: None stated. It reads link data and Search Console data. Verifying a domain means you add a meta tag or a text file to your site yourself. 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. Majestic: Its Rank Tracker regularly imports your Google ranking data from Search Console into Majestic and combines it with Majestic data to build a long-term view. How long it keeps that data is not stated. History SEO Skill: Google's 16 months, read live. With the weekly audit, crawl and index history for the sites you audit. Majestic: The Historic Index holds backlinks seen since 2006, on Pro and API. Its pricing page shows the Historic Index date range as 06 Jun 2006 to 26 Mar 2024, last updated 03 May 2024. The Fresh Index covers the last 120 days. Licence SEO Skill: Hosted service, with the CLI and local MCP server open source (Apache 2.0) Majestic: Hosted service ## Move from Majestic in a few minutes Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove Majestic 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) - ### Keep what you still need Projects and history you built in Majestic stay there. SEO Skill reads Search Console live, so you can run both while you decide. ## More comparisons Other ways to give your agent search data, next to SEO Skill. [ ### 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)[ ### Mangools Free: Free plan, 5 lookups a day. Paid: $61 a month (Basic). Free Mangools alternative](https://seoskill.dev/alternatives/mangools) ## Questions about Majestic Sources for Majestic, read 3 November 2026: [Plans, prices, users, analysis units, API, money-back guarantee, index sizes and date ranges](https://majestic.com/plans-pricing), [Free account, tools by plan, Rank Tracker, Google Sheets plugin](https://majestic.com/help/tools), [Search Console use for verification and Rank Tracker](https://majestic.com/help/tools/verified-domains), [Rank Tracker imports Search Console data and combines it with Majestic data](https://blog.majestic.com/development/rank-tracker-changes), [OpenApps on any paid plan](https://majestic.com/account/applications/openapps), [Product description, free sign-up](https://majestic.com/).