The verdict
- Pick SE Ranking if you need daily rank tracking, keyword and backlink research and client reporting in one subscription.
- Pick SE Ranking if you want audits that rerun weekly or monthly on their own and an assistant that can also pull ranking and keyword data.
- Pick bseoa if the audit is what you use: $279 once, no monthly page quota, against Core's 250,000 audit pages a month.
- Pick bseoa if you need a CLI, local crawls of staging or internal sites your machine can reach, or the 26 AI-readiness checks.
- Use both if you track rankings in SE Ranking and want unlimited, scriptable technical crawls alongside it.
SE Ranking pricing
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $129/month | $1,238.40/year ($103.20/month) | 1 manager seat, 10 projects, 2,000 keywords tracked daily, 250,000 audit pages a month, 25K API credits a month |
| Growth | $279/month | $2,678.40/year ($223.20/month) | 3 manager seats, 30 projects, 5,000 keywords tracked daily, 2M audit pages a month (1M per project), 100K API credits a month |
| Enterprise | Quote | Quote | "Talk to sales"; custom limits, full API |
The pricing page shows two prices per plan beside a "Monthly / Annually, save 20%" toggle without labeling each figure; the lower one is 20% less, so we read it as the annual rate. Extra manager seats start at $16 a month, an Agency Pack (30 client seats) is $69 a month on annual billing, and API add-ons start at $29 a month. The trial is 14 days with no credit card.
Source: seranking.com/subscription.html. Checked on 31 October 2026. Prices in USD, excluding tax.
bseoa pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single License | $279 one-time | Not applicable | One person, no crawl limit, updates included |
| Agency License | $1,999 one-time | Not applicable | Licenses for a team, configuration profiles, custom report templates, priority support |
| Hosted connector, with a license | $15 | $120 | Audits from Claude.ai and ChatGPT: 25,000 crawled pages per rolling 30 days, 2,000 per crawl, results kept 90 days |
| Hosted connector, without a license | $50 | $500 | Same limits as above |
| Free trial | $0 for 14 days | Not applicable | Every feature, no page limit, no credit card (hosted trial: 5,000 pages) |
Licenses are one-time purchases with updates included and a source code guarantee. The hosted connector is optional; the desktop app, CLI and local MCP server need only a license.
Source: bseoa pricing. Checked on 31 October 2026.
Three-year cost for one user
| Tool and plan | 3-year cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| bseoa Single License | $279 | One-time; updates included |
| bseoa Single License + hosted connector, yearly | $639 | $279 + $120 x 3 |
| SE Ranking Core, annual | $3,715.20 | $1,238.40 x 3 |
| SE Ranking Core, monthly | $4,644 | $129 x 36 |
| SE Ranking Growth, annual | $8,035.20 | $2,678.40 x 3; 3 seats |
List prices checked on 31 October 2026, before tax. SE Ranking's figures come from the pricing table above.
Feature matrix
| Feature | bseoa | SE Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| Runs where | Desktop GUI and CLI on your own machine; hosted connector in Claude.ai and ChatGPT | Cloud web app source |
| Price model | One-time license | Monthly or annual subscription source |
| Entry price | $279 one-time | $129/month Core ($103.20/month billed annually) source |
| Crawl limit at entry price | No limit (bounded by your machine's memory and disk) | 250,000 audit pages a month; each audit defaults to 1,000 pages until you raise it source |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes, headless Chrome in the desktop app and CLI (the hosted connector does not render) | Yes, an option in the audit's parser settings source |
| Command line and automation | Yes, a full CLI | No CLI; automation runs through the API |
| API or scriptable output | Yes: JSON, CSV, XML and HTML output from the CLI, plus MCP tools. No REST API | Yes: 25K API credits a month on Core, larger API add-ons source |
| Scheduled crawls | No built-in scheduler; run the CLI from cron or Task Scheduler | Yes, weekly or monthly rechecks source |
| Log file analysis | No | No1 |
| Backlink data | No | Yes, backlink research included source |
| Keyword and rank data | No | Yes: 2,000 keywords tracked daily on Core, keyword research source |
| Search Console integration | No | Yes (GA and GSC integrations listed) source |
| AI assistant integration | Yes: local MCP server in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and Perplexity; hosted connector in Claude.ai and ChatGPT | Yes2 source |
| AI-readiness checks | Yes, 26 checks: AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt, bylines and dates, JavaScript-dependent content | Not documented3 source |
| Reporting and exports | HTML, CSV, XML and JSON exports | Reports, Looker Studio ("Data Studio") integration, 50,000 export rows on Core source |
| Users and seats | Single License per person; Agency License ($1,999) for teams | 1 manager seat on Core, 3 on Growth; extra seats from $16/month source |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux | Any modern browser |
| Free tier or trial | 14-day trial, every feature, no page limit, no credit card | 14-day trial, no credit card source |
| Source code guarantee | Yes | No |
- Log file analysis is not listed on SE Ranking's pricing page, and we found no log analyzer in its help center.
- SE Ranking runs an official MCP server at api.seranking.com/mcp for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and others. Its docs say the data depends on your subscription, "not every API endpoint is available through MCP", and do not confirm that Website Audit data is exposed.
- SE Ranking tracks AI visibility (25 prompts a day across 5 AI engines on Core), which measures whether assistants mention you. We found no documented llms.txt or AI-crawler robots.txt checks in its Website Audit.
SE Ranking cells checked on 31 October 2026 against the linked pages. "Not documented" means we could not find the feature in SE Ranking's own documentation; it does not prove the feature is absent.
Where SE Ranking wins
- Rankings and research data. Daily rank tracking, keyword and backlink research and competitor analysis are built in. bseoa has none of them.
- An MCP server with more than crawl data. SE Ranking's connector can answer questions about rankings, keywords and backlinks. bseoa's answers questions about your crawl only.
- Scheduled audits and client reporting. Audits rerun weekly or monthly, reports go out to clients, and Search Console and GA data sit beside the audit.
- Nothing to install, seats for a team. It runs in a browser; extra seats start at $16 a month.
Where bseoa wins
- Cost. $279 once against $3,715 for three years of Core billed annually.
- No page quota. Core audits 250,000 pages a month across all projects. bseoa crawls as much as your machine holds, as often as you like.
- A CLI and files you own. Run crawls from scripts and CI, and get JSON, CSV, XML and HTML on disk.
- Crawls from your machine. bseoa can audit staging or internal sites your computer can reach; a cloud crawler needs them on the public internet or allowlisted.
- 26 AI-readiness checks. AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt, bylines and dates, and content that only exists after JavaScript runs.
Who should pick which
Agency
SE Ranking if clients pay for rank tracking and reports; bseoa's Agency License for deep technical audits without per-page quotas.
In-house technical SEO
bseoa for crawling. SE Ranking if you also own rank tracking and keyword research.
Developer
bseoa: a CLI, files on disk and a local MCP server in your editor.
Enterprise
SE Ranking Enterprise for research data across many sites. For millions of URLs with log analysis, an enterprise crawler; bseoa for ad hoc and pre-release audits.