SE Ranking
The value all-in-one — GBP pricing, API included on every plan, the cheapest AI-search add-on per prompt, and the best Trustpilot score of the SEO suites.
How we testSE Ranking publishes UK pricing outright: Core £95 month-to-month or £76 annual (1 seat, 2,000 keywords tracked daily, 250k audit pages, 25k API credits) and Growth £209/£167.20 (3 seats, 5,000 keywords, 2M audit pages, 100k API credits). Its AI Search add-on is £69/£55.20 a month for 200 prompts on Core (450 on Growth) across AI Overviews, AI Mode, Perplexity and ChatGPT — the most prompts per pound of any suite here — and a separate SE Visible product handles heavier GEO tracking.
The data is smaller than Ahrefs' (2.7–2.9 trillion backlinks, ~420 million domains) and the add-on skips Copilot, Claude and Grok, but the platform API is included on every plan and Trustpilot is a healthy 4.3/5 from 707 reviews. No MCP server found. SE Ranking was one of the four platforms we tested at length before settling on Ahrefs + Geogen — a genuinely good value option that lost on data depth and the combined toolset rather than on price or reliability.
Pros
- +Clear GBP pricing; API included on every plan
- +Cheapest AI-search add-on per prompt
- +4.3/5 Trustpilot from 707 reviews — best of the suites
Cons
- −Smaller backlink and keyword data than Ahrefs or Semrush
- −AI add-on excludes Copilot, Claude and Grok
- −Two overlapping GEO products (add-on and SE Visible) confuse buyers
Pricing
Minimum commitment: £95 — £95/mo × 1 seat × 1 month — no commitment. The least you can spend before walking away; excludes numbers, minutes and add-ons.
Core
£95/mo · month-to-month
£76/mo on an annual commitment
Month-to-month costs 25% more
- ✓1 seat, 2,000 keywords, 250k audit pages, 25k API credits
Growth
£209/mo · month-to-month
£167.20/mo on an annual commitment
Month-to-month costs 25% more
- ✓3 seats, 5,000 keywords, 2M audit pages
AI Search add-on
£69/mo · month-to-month
£55.20/mo on an annual commitment
Month-to-month costs 25% more
- ✓200 prompts (Core) / 450 (Growth); requires a base plan
Specifications
| Rating | 4.0 |
| Month-to-month (entry plan) | £95/mo |
| Annual commit, per month | £76/mo |
| Monthly premium | 25% |
| Minimum commitment* | £95 |
| Keywords tracked | 2000 |
| Backlink index (T) | 2.8 |
| Site audit | ✓ |
| AI engines tracked | 4 |
| Prompts included | 200 |
| API included | ✓ |
| MCP server | No |
| Trustpilot (reviews) | 4.3 (707) |
| AI engines (list) | Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity +1 |
| Commitment for annual rate (months) | 0 |
*How we calculate minimum commitment. Headline per-user prices hide the real cost of trying a platform. Total cost of ownership is licence × seats × term, plus usage, add-ons, setup fees and any early-exit charges. Our "minimum commitment" figure is the floor of that: the entry plan's committed rate × the minimum seats the vendor will sell × the months you must commit to (one month at the month-to-month rate where there is no commitment; the licence price where it is sold per year). It deliberately excludes usage, add-ons and prerequisite licences, so your real first bill will be higher — but never lower than this.
Researched and drafted with AI assistance; reviewed and approved by Tim Meredith. How we use AI