SEO Skill vs Suganthan's GSC MCP
Suganthan's GSC MCP is a free open source Node.js server by Suganthan Mohanadasan that runs on your own machine for Claude Desktop and Claude Code. SEO Skill gives your agent your own Search Console, Google Analytics and keyword data for free, with nothing to install.
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
- Connect
- One URL and a Google sign-in
Suganthan's GSC MCP
- Free use
- Open source
- Paid
- No paid plan
- Works in web chat
- Not stated
- Connect
- Run it on your own machine
Pick Suganthan's GSC MCP if
From Suganthan's GSC MCP's own pages.
You want image search tools, including an on-page image audit.
You want a tool that re-queries Search Console to double-check a number.
You want a one-click bundle for Claude Desktop.
Pick SEO Skill if
One hosted MCP server for your own search data.
You want nothing to install and no Google Cloud project: one URL and a Google sign-in.
You want it in claude.ai, ChatGPT and Le Chat on the web, and in cloud agents that cannot reach your laptop.
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.
Side by side
Every fact we compared, with Suganthan's GSC MCP's taken from the sources at the end of this page.
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.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Your own Google Cloud OAuth client (Desktop app client secrets JSON, browser sign-in) or a service account JSON key added to the Search Console property. The setup wizard still needs your own OAuth client JSON; the README says a built in Google sign in ships once Google verifies a shared client.
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.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: 29 tools, stated in the README ('All 29 tools') and the setup guide on suganthan.com.
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.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Google Search Console, Google Indexing API
SEO Skill: Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Le Chat and any remote MCP client
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Claude Desktop, Claude Code
SEO Skill: Yes
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Not stated
SEO Skill: Every on-demand tool, with no usage cap and no time limit.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Yes. The README says 'Free and open source' and the setup guide lists the server as free with no ongoing cost.
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.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Free and open source
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.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Can submit URLs to Google's Indexing API (single or batch up to 200 a day) and submit sitemaps. generate_report saves a report to disk. The setup wizard defaults to a read only scope; a manual config with no GSC_SCOPES gets full access.
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.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Runs on your machine. Tokens are cached locally at ~/.gsc-mcp/. The README says data goes directly between your machine and Google and the developer operates no servers. image_page_audit also fetches pages from your own site.
SEO Skill: Google's 16 months, read live. With the weekly audit, crawl and index history for the sites you audit.
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Google's 16 months (the README says genai_conversation_queries classifies sixteen months of queries)
SEO Skill: Hosted service, with the CLI and local MCP server open source (Apache 2.0)
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Apache 2.0
SEO Skill: iannuttall/seo
Suganthan's GSC MCP: Suganthan-Mohanadasan/Suganthans-GSC-MCP, 169 stars, last commit 2026-09-27
Move from Suganthan's GSC MCP in a few minutes
Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove Suganthan's GSC MCP 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.
Carry your prompts over
Prompts in plain words work as they are. Prompts that name Suganthan's GSC MCP's own tools need rewording.
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Sources for Suganthan's GSC MCP, read 2 November 2026: README, tools, sign in, storage, licence, Setup guide, cost, 29 tools, Latest release v2.5.1, npm package.