The short answer
- Pick SEO PowerSuite if you want rank tracking, backlink analysis and link building next to the site audit: the Professional suite at $349 a year covers all four apps.
- Pick SEO PowerSuite WebSite Auditor alone if you want a low-cost yearly desktop auditor with an in-app content editor and as-you-type on-page recommendations: $149 a year.
- Pick bseoa if you would rather pay once than every year, and want a command line with JSON, CSV and XML output on the base license.
- Pick bseoa if you want to audit from Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor, or need checks for AI crawler access and llms.txt; WebSite Auditor documents neither.
- Use both if you rely on Rank Tracker and SEO SpyGlass for keyword and link data and want bseoa as the technical crawler in CI and in your AI assistant.
SEO PowerSuite WebSite Auditor pricing
WebSite Auditor alone
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Limit | 3-year cost, one user |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 500 URLs; no saving projects, scheduled tasks, export or printing | $0 |
| Professional (in-house use) | Not offered | $149 | Unlimited crawling, saved projects, scheduled tasks; printed reports carry a watermark | $447 |
| Enterprise (client work) | Not offered | $359 | Adds saving, emailing and scheduling reports, and export to CSV, SQL, HTML | $1,077 |
Whole SEO PowerSuite (Rank Tracker, WebSite Auditor, SEO SpyGlass, LinkAssistant)
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | 2-year plan | 3-year plan (3-year cost) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0; 1 project, no saving, 500 URLs crawled |
| Professional | Not offered | $349 | $558 | $717 |
| Enterprise (adds white-label reports and data export) | Not offered | $599 | $1,118 | $1,377 |
| Max (Enterprise plus onboarding and perks) | Not offered | $899 | $1,498 | $1,947 |
How the pricing works now: every paid plan is a subscription billed once a year (the suite can also be prepaid for 2 or 3 years). The page shows per-month equivalents such as $29.10 a month for Professional, but there is no monthly billing. You can cancel at any time; partial periods are not refunded. Licenses ordered before 25 January 2020 work differently: those were one-time license keys plus a separate Search Algo Updates subscription that keeps the apps working with search engine changes and SEO PowerSuite Cloud, free for the first 6 months and paid after that (for one tool, $119.95 a year for Professional or $239.95 for Enterprise). Link-Assistant's prices page says that model applies only to those older licenses.
Sources: link-assistant.com/pricing.html (current plans) and link-assistant.com/prices.html (licenses ordered before 25 January 2020), checked on 31 October 2026.
bseoa pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | What you get | 3-year cost, one user |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single License | Not offered | Not offered | $279 once; no crawl limit; updates included | $279 |
| Agency License | Not offered | Not offered | $1,999 once; for teams | $1,999 (whole team) |
| Hosted connector, with a license | $15 | $120 | Claude.ai and ChatGPT; 25,000 pages per rolling 30 days, 2,000 per crawl | $360 on top of the license ($639 with a Single License) |
| Hosted connector, without a license | $50 | $500 | Same limits as above | $1,500 |
| Free trial | $0 | $0 | 14 days, every feature, no page limit, no credit card | $0 |
Source: blackseoanalyzer.com/en/pricing, checked on 31 October 2026. The desktop app, the CLI and the local MCP server need only the license; the hosted connector is optional.
Three-year cost for one person
bseoa: $279 for a Single License, or $639 with the hosted connector for Claude.ai and ChatGPT on yearly billing. WebSite Auditor alone: $447 for Professional or $1,077 for Enterprise. The full suite: $717 for Professional on the 3-year plan, $1,047 if you renew yearly. Over two years WebSite Auditor Professional ($298) costs about the same as bseoa; after that the subscription keeps going and bseoa does not.
Feature matrix
Yes, No or Partial, with a numbered note for every Partial. Competitor cells link to the page we read on 31 October 2026.
| bseoa | SEO PowerSuite WebSite Auditor | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs where | Desktop. GUI and CLI on your machine; optional hosted connector | Desktop. Desktop apps; projects can be stored in SEO PowerSuite Cloud (source) |
| Price model | One-time. Updates included | Yearly subscription. Suite also on 2- and 3-year plans; one-time keys only for licenses ordered before 25 January 2020 (source) |
| Entry price | $279. Single License, once | $149 a year. WebSite Auditor Professional; the suite starts at $349 a year (source) |
| Crawl limit at entry price | No limit. Desktop and CLI; the hosted connector allows 25,000 pages per rolling 30 days | Unlimited. Professional; the free version stops at 500 URLs (source) |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes. Headless Chrome in the desktop app and CLI; the hosted connector does not render JavaScript | Yes. Execute JavaScript option in the crawler settings, with a timeout (source) |
| Command line and automation | Yes. Full CLI; every crawl and report can be scripted | Partial1 |
| API or scriptable output | Yes. JSON, CSV, XML and HTML exports from the CLI | No. No WebSite Auditor API documented; Link-Assistant's API is a separate backlink product. Data export (CSV, SQL, HTML) is Enterprise only (source) |
| Scheduled crawls | No. No built-in scheduler; run the CLI from cron or Task Scheduler | Yes. Scheduled SEO tasks on paid licenses (source) |
| Log file analysis | No | No. Not mentioned (source) |
| Backlink data | No | Partial2 |
| Keyword and rank data | No | Partial3 |
| Search Console integration | No | Partial4 |
| 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 | No. Not mentioned (source) |
| AI-readiness checks | Yes. 26 checks: AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt, bylines and dates, JavaScript-dependent content | No. Not mentioned; the crawler can follow robots.txt as a selected bot, but no AI-specific checks are listed (source) |
| Reporting and exports | Yes. HTML reports, CSV, XML, JSON | Partial5 |
| Users and seats | Per license. Agency License ($1,999) for teams | Per license. Installable on many computers, but one license runs a tool on one computer at a time (licensing rule on the prices page) (source) |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux | Windows, macOS, Linux (source) |
| Free tier or trial | 14-day trial. Every feature, no page limit, no credit card | Free version. No time limit; 500 URLs, no saving (source) |
| Source code guarantee | Yes. On every purchase | No. None published |
- No command line documented. Paid licenses include scheduled SEO tasks that run crawls and build reports inside the desktop app. Source: link-assistant.com/website-auditor.
- Not in WebSite Auditor. The suite's SEO SpyGlass app has a backlink index and pulls backlinks from Search Console and Google Analytics. Source: link-assistant.com/pricing.html.
- Not in WebSite Auditor. The suite's Rank Tracker covers rank tracking, keyword research and Google AI Overviews tracking. Source: link-assistant.com/pricing.html.
- Documented for the suite (SEO SpyGlass imports backlinks from Search Console), not for WebSite Auditor's audit. Source: link-assistant.com/pricing.html.
- Professional can print reports, with a watermark. White-label reports, saving and emailing PDF or HTML reports, scheduled delivery and export to CSV, SQL and HTML need Enterprise ($359 a year alone, $599 in the suite). Source: link-assistant.com/pricing.html.
Where SEO PowerSuite WebSite Auditor wins
- A whole SEO suite on the desktop: rank tracking, backlinks and link building next to the audit for $349 a year. bseoa has no keyword, rank or backlink data.
- The cheapest yearly entry in this comparison: WebSite Auditor Professional at $149 a year, so the first two years cost about the same as bseoa.
- Content work inside the app: an in-app content editor, as-you-type SEO recommendations and a breakdown of competitors' on-page strategy.
- A free version with no time limit for sites under 500 URLs, and built-in scheduled SEO tasks.
- White-label, scheduled client reports on Enterprise.
Where bseoa wins
- You pay once. $279 with updates included, against a subscription that renews every year.
- A command line. bseoa's CLI scripts every crawl and writes JSON, CSV, XML or HTML on the base license; WebSite Auditor documents no CLI and reserves data export for Enterprise.
- AI assistant support: a local MCP server for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and Perplexity, and a hosted connector for Claude.ai and ChatGPT.
- 26 AI-readiness checks, including llms.txt, AI crawler rules in robots.txt, bylines and dates, and content that only appears after JavaScript runs.
- A 14-day trial with every feature and no page limit, and a source code guarantee on every purchase.
Who should pick which
- Agency: SEO PowerSuite Enterprise if you want rank, backlink and audit reports white-labeled from one desktop suite. bseoa, or its Agency License, if the work is technical audits and you want to stop paying yearly.
- In-house technical SEO: bseoa if the job is crawling and you want a CLI and AI-readiness checks. WebSite Auditor if you also edit content and like on-page recommendations in the app.
- Developer: bseoa. It has a CLI with JSON output for CI and an MCP server for your editor.
- Enterprise: Neither is an enterprise platform. bseoa fits engineering pipelines; SEO PowerSuite fits an SEO team that wants every function on the desktop.