SEO Skill

Free Ubersuggest alternative

Ubersuggest is Neil Patel's hosted SEO tool for keyword research, site audits, rank tracking, competitor and backlink research, and AI search visibility. 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

Ubersuggest

Free use
Free account, 3 searches a day
Paid
$29 a month (Individual)
Works in web chat
Yes
Get started
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Free tools for the jobs you use Ubersuggest for

No account and no key. Each one opens in your browser.

Pick Ubersuggest if

From Ubersuggest's own pages.

  • You want a free account with no time limit for a few keyword, backlink and audit checks each day.

  • You would rather pay once: it sells one-time lifetime plans as well as monthly and yearly ones.

  • You want the same 42 tools in ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Cursor, and a free account is enough to try them in Claude.

  • You run WordPress and want to apply audit fixes for titles, meta descriptions and H1s from wp-admin.

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

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).

Ubersuggest: Register with an email to get a free account, with no activation needed. Paid monthly plans start with a one-time 7-day free trial that needs payment details (card, debit card, Google Pay, Apple Pay or PayPal) and bills automatically unless you cancel. Lifetime plans are charged at once. The MCP, ChatGPT app and Claude plugin sign in with your Ubersuggest account through OAuth.

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.

Ubersuggest: Keyword research, AI prompt ideas, domain and traffic analysis, competitor keyword gap and top pages, backlinks, site audit, weekly rank tracking, local SEO, AI search visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, an AI writer and AI Chat. The Ubersuggest MCP server has 42 tools in 8 groups (domain analysis, keyword research, backlinks, site audit, AI brand visibility, content, projects, utilities). Its Claude page says a free account is enough for the Claude plugin and its 9 skills; the MCP page does not state a plan. No API access plans, per the pricing FAQ.

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.

Ubersuggest: Ubersuggest's own keyword, SERP and traffic estimates, built from Google's API with monthly updates, Backlink data from the Moz API, Google Search Console, Google Analytics (organic traffic for connected projects comes straight from Google Analytics), AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews

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.

Ubersuggest: Ubersuggest web app, Chrome extension, WordPress plugin, ChatGPT (web, mobile and desktop), Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Other MCP-compatible clients

In Claude or ChatGPT on the web

SEO Skill: Yes

Ubersuggest: Yes

Free

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

Ubersuggest: Free account with no time limit: 3 searches or reports a day, 1 project, 25 tracked keywords with weekly desktop-only updates in 1 location, 2 competitors per project, a site audit of 150 pages a week with no recrawling, 100 backlinks per site, 3 keyword lists of up to 30 keywords, no historical traffic data, AI Writer up to 2,000 words and 5 searches a day, and 40 Chrome extension searches a day. Paid monthly plans also have a one-time 7-day free trial that needs payment details.

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.

Ubersuggest: Monthly: Individual $29 a month, Business $49 a month, Enterprise $99 a month. Yearly: Individual $16 a month ($192 billed annually), Business $27.17 a month ($326 billed annually), Enterprise $54.75 a month ($657 billed annually). Lifetime, shown as a limited offer: Individual $290, Business $490, Enterprise $990, one-time and non-refundable, with an optional AI add-on at $108, $348 or $828 a year (shown discounted to $81, $261 or $621, with 3 months free). Custom plans by quote. Add-ons such as extra projects, users, keywords and credits cost $5 a month each. Prices in US$.

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.

Ubersuggest: Its WordPress plugin can change your site: it applies AI fixes for meta descriptions, titles and missing H1s in one click after a before and after preview. Its Claude project-setup skill creates a project, competitors and tracked keywords inside Ubersuggest. No Google 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.

Ubersuggest: Not stated for Search Console or Google Analytics data. Its help center says customer data is processed and stored in the United States, on AWS us-east-1, with no choice of region.

History

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

Ubersuggest: Length not stated for keyword and traffic data. Paid plans include historical data and free accounts get no historical traffic data. Backlink link history goes back 3 years on paid plans, and new and lost links cover 30 days.

Licence

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

Ubersuggest: Hosted service

Move from Ubersuggest in a few minutes

Nothing to migrate: SEO Skill reads your accounts live. When you are done, remove Ubersuggest from your agent and revoke its access.

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Questions about Ubersuggest

Sources for Ubersuggest, read 3 November 2026: Plans, monthly, yearly and lifetime prices, AI add-on, add-ons, 7-day trial, no API plans, link history, Free account limits and no time limit, Trial needs payment details, once per account, monthly plans only, MCP server, 42 tools in 8 groups, OAuth, supported clients, ChatGPT app on web, mobile and desktop, Claude plugin, 9 skills, free account is enough, WordPress plugin one-click AI fixes, Google API data, monthly updates, Moz backlinks, Search Console and Google Analytics, Data stored in the United States on AWS us-east-1, Organic traffic for Google Analytics connected projects comes from Google Analytics.