Free Mangools alternative
Mangools is a hosted bundle of SEO tools (KWFinder, SERPChecker, SERPWatcher, LinkMiner and SiteProfiler) plus AI Search Watcher, sold together in one subscription. 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 freeRun 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
Mangools
- Free use
- Free plan, 5 lookups a day
- Paid
- $61 a month (Basic)
- Works in web chat
- Yes. Add it as a custom connector in claude.ai or ChatGPT. It works on the Free plan too, and the server is in beta.
- Get started
- Create an account
Free tools for the jobs you use Mangools for
No account and no key. Each one opens in your browser.
Competitor keyword research
See the keywords a competitor ranks for, or the sites that compete with any domain.
Open competitor keyword researchSERP checker
See who ranks in Google for a keyword right now, and where your own domain sits.
Open the SERP checkerBacklink checker
See the sites that link to a domain or page, with anchor text, followed links and a year of history.
Open the backlink checkerDomain Rating checker
Check Domain Rating by Ahrefs for any website.
Open the Domain Rating checkerPick Mangools if
From Mangools's own pages.
You want simple keyword research with keyword difficulty, without a large suite to learn.
You want API and MCP access included on the cheapest paid plan.
You want an official MCP server you can add to claude.ai or ChatGPT, even on the Free plan.
You want AI search visibility monitoring bundled with your SEO tools at no extra cost.
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 Mangools's taken from the sources at the end of this page.
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).
Mangools: Create a free Mangools account. The Free plan needs no credit card and has no time limit. Mangools also has a Free+ plan, which its 2023 launch post describes as a 10-day plan with higher limits and no card. Paid plans are bought from the pricing page, monthly or yearly, and renew automatically.
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.
Mangools: KWFinder (keyword research, search volume history, keyword difficulty, competitor keywords), SERPChecker (SERP analysis), SERPWatcher (rank tracking, weekly updates, daily on Agency), LinkMiner (backlinks), SiteProfiler (domain metrics) and AI Search Watcher (AI visibility monitoring). The tools are not sold separately. API and MCP access are included on every paid plan. The Mangools MCP server is in beta, has about 35 tools and signs in with your Mangools account. Free and Free+ accounts get a one-time bonus of 100 keyword and 100 SERP lookups for API and MCP, then use the Free daily limits.
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.
Mangools: Mangools' own keyword data: 2.5 billion related keywords, per the KWFinder page, SERP results with SERP features and 49 metrics, Moz and Majestic URL metrics (in SERPChecker and LinkMiner), AI search answers from ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude and more (AI Search Watcher), No Google Search Console or Google Analytics connection stated
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.
Mangools: Web app, Claude (web, desktop and mobile), ChatGPT (web and desktop), Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot Studio, n8n, Open WebUI
SEO Skill: Yes
Mangools: Yes. Add it as a custom connector in claude.ai or ChatGPT. It works on the Free plan too, and the server is in beta.
SEO Skill: Every on-demand tool, with no usage cap and no time limit.
Mangools: Free plan with no credit card and no time limit. The KWFinder page lists 5 lookups per 24 hours, with 15 related and 5 competitor keywords per lookup. Other free limits are not stated on its pages. Free and Free+ accounts get a one-time 100 keyword and 100 SERP lookups for API and MCP. Paid plans have a 48-hour money-back guarantee.
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.
Mangools: Basic $61 a month, or $37.70 a month billed annually ($452.40 a year), 1 user, 100 keyword lookups a day, 200 tracked keywords, 100k backlink rows a month. Premium $81 a month, or $52.70 a month billed annually ($632.40 a year), 500 keyword lookups a day, 700 tracked keywords, 500k backlink rows, 3 extra seats available. Agency $141 a month, or $97.70 a month billed annually ($1,172.40 a year), 1.2k keyword lookups a day, 1.5k tracked keywords with daily updates, 1.2M backlink rows, 5 extra seats available. Every plan includes API, MCP and AI Search Watcher PRO (500 prompts). Annual billing saves about 35%. Prices in USD.
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.
Mangools: Not on your site or in Google. Through the MCP it can create keyword lists, SERPWatcher trackings and AI Search Watcher monitors inside Mangools. Some of these use paid quota and are marked as paid in the tool description.
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.
Mangools: Not stated. No 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.
Mangools: KWFinder shows search volume history and SERPWatcher keeps ranking history, but how far back either goes is not stated.
SEO Skill: Hosted service, with the CLI and local MCP server open source (Apache 2.0)
Mangools: Hosted service
Move from Mangools in a few minutes
Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove Mangools 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 Mangools 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 alternativeAhrefs
Free: Free account, verified sites. Paid: $29 a month (Starter).
Free Ahrefs alternativeAnswerThePublic
Free: Free, 3 searches a day. Paid: US$20 a month (Starter).
Free AnswerThePublic alternativeMajestic
Free: Free account, limits not stated. Paid: $49.99 a month (Lite).
Free Majestic alternativeQuestions about Mangools
Sources for Mangools, read 3 November 2026: Plans, prices, limits, seats, annual saving, API and MCP included, 48-hour money-back guarantee, Free plan with no card, tools not sold separately, monthly and annual plans, Free KWFinder limits, keyword database size, search volume history, MCP server, clients, tools, beta status, quota, Free bonus lookups, paid actions, API data and AI models covered, Free and 10-day Free+ plans.