The SE Ranking alternative
for Google and AI answers.

SE Ranking is a capable all-rounder, with tiers, limits and add-ons to work through. UtilitySEO is SEO, AEO and GEO for small businesses at a small-business price: keyword tracking from your own Search Console, fixes ranked by the traffic they cost you and, from Entrepreneur, weekly checks of what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity say about you. Plans from £39 a month.

14 days free of Minimum · No credit card · AI visibility from Entrepreneur

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“Cheaper than what I was using and far easier to get around. I had never seen keyword data laid out so visually before, the topic clusters especially, which made the whole thing easy to understand.”
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Side by side

UtilitySEO vs SE Ranking

SEO, AEO and GEO side by side, including the things SE Ranking still does better.

UtilitySEO
SE Ranking
Starting price
From £39 a month; everything for £99
£95.00/mo (Core)
AI visibility (AEO and GEO)
Weekly in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, more engines when switched on; from Entrepreneur at £79/mo
100 prompts tracked daily on Core; AI Search add-on +£69.00/mo
Free trial
14 days, no card needed
14 days, no card needed
Built for
Small businesses without an SEO specialist
Marketing teams and agencies
Site audit
Renders JavaScript, 100+ checks per page, ranked fix list
250k pages a month on Core
Rank tracking
From your Google Search Console data, 500 to 10,000 keywords by plan
2,000 keywords tracked daily
Backlink data
No backlink index of our own
Backlink research included
Reporting and export
CSV and PDF export, white-label on Enterprise
White-label via Agency Pack, +£49.00/mo, annual only
Setup help
Free onboarding help on every plan
Free assisted migration on annual plans

SE Ranking pricing and features as published at the time of writing. We keep this current, tell us if anything looks out of date.

Who should switch from SE Ranking, and who shouldn't

SE Ranking is a solid, mature platform, particularly for agencies that need client seats, white-label reporting and backlink monitoring in one place.

The friction is the shape of it: which tier, which limits, which add-on. For a founder or a small team who just wants to know what to fix, that is a lot of decisions before any value arrives.

Switch to UtilitySEO if…

  • You want three simple plans, no add-on maths
  • You want a ranked, plain-English fix list rather than a reporting suite
  • AI visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and more matters
  • £39/mo beats £95/mo for the job you actually do

Stay on SE Ranking if…

  • You are an agency running many client accounts and need their client-management depth
  • Backlink monitoring is central to your workflow
  • Your reporting is already built around their white-label templates

For agencies at scale, SE Ranking is the more mature product. For small teams, we think we are the simpler and cheaper answer.

Further reading

Tool comparisons and alternatives covers the wider field, and Measuring progress covers judging whether a switch actually helped.

Free 30-second scan.
No signup. No credit card.

Run the same audit SE Ranking charges for, free. Real Google scores and a ranked fix list in under a minute.

Runs a full SEO + performance audit (mobile + desktop) · takes ~30 seconds · no signup required

Simple pricing

Three plans from £39 a month. AI visibility starts on Entrepreneur. 14 days free of Minimum, no card needed.

Minimum

For one website: keyword tracking and SEO fixes. No AI features.

£39/mo
  • 500 tracked keywords from your own Search Console
  • 3 site scans a day, up to 500 pages each, fixes ranked by impact
  • Fix guides, Site Health, rank tracking and GA4
  • 3 competitors tracked
  • 1 project and 1 seat
  • No AI visibility: that starts on Entrepreneur
  • 14 days free, no card needed
  • Free onboarding help
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Entrepreneur

For a few websites. AI visibility (AEO and GEO) starts here.

£79/mo
  • AI visibility: weekly checks of what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity say about you
  • 100 AI uses a month: insights, content briefs, Writer, Ask and clustering
  • 1,000 tracked keywords per project
  • 5 site scans a day, up to 2,000 pages each, fixes ranked by impact
  • 5 competitors per project
  • 20 growth blogs a month, written for you
  • 3 projects and 3 seats
  • Free onboarding help
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Best value

Enterprise

Everything unlimited, with white-label reports, for £99 a month.

£99/mo
  • AI visibility, plus unlimited AI features (fair use)
  • 10,000 tracked keywords per project
  • 20 site scans a day, up to 10,000 pages each
  • Unlimited competitors (fair use)
  • 100 growth blogs a month across all projects
  • Unlimited projects and seats (fair use)
  • White-label client reports
  • Priority support and free onboarding help
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Price changes: if we ever change your plan's price, we email you first, at least 2 months before a yearly renewal or 28 days before a monthly payment, and you can cancel before it applies.

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