Free SEO PowerSuite alternative

SEO PowerSuite is desktop SEO software from Link-Assistant made of four apps: Rank Tracker for keywords and rankings, WebSite Auditor for site audits, SEO SpyGlass for backlinks and LinkAssistant for link building. 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

SEO PowerSuite

Free use: Free version, no time limit
Paid: $349 a year (Professional)
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 SEO PowerSuite 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

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

Internal linking tool

Find the internal links your site is missing, placed in sentences you already wrote, plus orphan and weakly linked pages.

Open the internal linking tool

robots.txt validator and tester

Check a robots.txt file for errors and test whether specific crawler URLs are allowed or blocked.

Open the robots.txt validator

Pick SEO PowerSuite if

From SEO PowerSuite's own pages.

You want unlimited projects, tracked keywords and site crawls for a flat yearly price.
You prefer desktop software that keeps your projects on your own computer.
You want rank tracking, audits, backlinks and outreach in one licence.
You want a free version with no time limit to test it on a small site.

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 SEO PowerSuite's taken from the sources at the end of this page.

SEO SkillSEO PowerSuite

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).

SEO PowerSuite: Download and install the free version for Windows, macOS or Linux. It needs no registration, no licence key and no card, and has no time limit. For paid features, order a licence and enter a key in each app. Support offers a 7-day trial of all paid features on request, and a 14-day Enterprise trial comes with a booked demo.

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.

SEO PowerSuite: Rank Tracker (rank tracking in hundreds of search engines, local and mobile rankings, Google AI Overviews tracking, 20+ keyword research tools), WebSite Auditor (site crawl and audit, content audit, in-app content editor), SEO SpyGlass (backlink research, penalty risk audit, disavow file) and LinkAssistant (link prospecting, outreach email, link verification). A separate Backlink API is sold from $149 a month. No MCP server or AI assistant integration is 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.

SEO PowerSuite: SEO PowerSuite's own backlink index: 6.5T backlinks from its BLEXBot crawler, SEO PowerSuite's own keyword database: 216M keywords, Rank checks in 400+ search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing and more), Google Search Console (backlinks), Google Analytics, including GA4 (organic keywords and traffic)

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.

SEO PowerSuite: Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux

In Claude or ChatGPT on the web

SEO Skill: Yes

SEO PowerSuite: No. No MCP server or chat connector is stated.

Free

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

SEO PowerSuite: Free version with no time limit: 1 project with no saving, rank checks with no saving, crawl and audit 500 URLs, 1,100 backlinks per project, 1 competitor per project, 1,000 link prospects per project and Google AI Overviews tracking. A 7-day trial of paid features is available on request from support.

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.

SEO PowerSuite: Professional $349 a year ($29.10 a month), $558 every 2 years or $717 every 3 years. Enterprise $599 a year ($49.95 a month), $1,118 every 2 years or $1,377 every 3 years, adds white-label reports, saved and scheduled reports and data export. Max $899 a year ($74.95 a month), $1,498 every 2 years or $1,947 every 3 years. Billed upfront for the term, with no monthly plan. No refunds for partial use. Prices in USD. Single apps are also sold on their own, from $129 a year (SEO SpyGlass or LinkAssistant Professional). Backlink API $149, $349 or $899 a month.

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.

SEO PowerSuite: No direct changes stated. WebSite Auditor exports optimized pages for you to upload yourself, and LinkAssistant sends outreach email from its built-in email client. No Search Console write actions stated.

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.

SEO PowerSuite: The software stores projects and settings locally on your hard drive by default. Paid users can also save projects to SEO PowerSuite Cloud (20 projects on Professional, 400 on Enterprise). It does not say separately what it keeps from Search Console or Google Analytics.

History

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

SEO PowerSuite: Professional lists 1-year historical data. The backlink index keeps new and lost backlink history for the previous 12 months. Paid plans save projects with their history. No limit on that saved history is stated.

Licence

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

SEO PowerSuite: Paid desktop licence, sold as a yearly subscription, with a free version

Move from SEO PowerSuite in a few minutes

Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove SEO PowerSuite 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 SEO PowerSuite stay there. SEO Skill reads Search Console live, so you can run both while you decide.

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AnswerThePublic

Free: Free, 3 searches a day. Paid: US$20 a month (Starter).

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Majestic

Free: Free account, limits not stated. Paid: $49.99 a month (Lite).

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Questions about SEO PowerSuite

The software stores projects and settings locally on your hard drive by default. Paid users can also save projects to SEO PowerSuite Cloud (20 projects on Professional, 400 on Enterprise). It does not say separately what it keeps from Search Console or Google Analytics. 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 SEO PowerSuite, read 3 November 2026: Editions, prices, terms, free limits, index and keyword database sizes, history, standalone apps, refunds, Free version needs no registration and has no time limit, 7-day trial on request, Four apps, Windows, macOS and Linux, 14-day Enterprise trial with a demo, Backlink API prices, BLEXBot crawler, 12 months of backlink history, Projects stored locally, SEO PowerSuite Cloud, Google Analytics 4 support.