Semrush vs SISTRIX

Semrush

The audit skill names real modules — crawlability and indexability, canonicals, structured data, mobile parity and rendering, Core Web Vitals judged at Google's own good marks at the 75th percentile — plus a prioritized fix list, and Enterprise mentions multi-million-page crawling. But no crawl page cap is published per plan, and we found no public information on scheduled crawl cadence, log-file comparison against what Google fetched, or regression detection between crawls.

SISTRIX

Scheduled weekly crawls at stated page limits (30.000 to 4.000.000 URLs per month), JavaScript crawling, error categories with change deltas and concrete fix suggestions sorted by importance, and Core Web Vitals from both lab and field data with daily Lighthouse runs stored permanently and downloadable as JSON. I found no public information on log-file comparison against what Google fetched, indexation or canonical diagnosis, or issue weighting by traffic, so this is a strong crawl, not yet a diagnosis.

Semrush

Volume, difficulty and CPC with SERP feature presence, a 30-day SERP volatility chart, keyword cannibalization analysis on higher tiers and keyword history back to January 2012 are all documented. We found no public information on intent classification, topic clustering, or the depth of German-language data specifically, which is what I read for here.

SISTRIX

Search volume, click prices, competition intensity, a documented intent method read from SERP composition, automatic topic clustering and competitor keyword analysis cover the German and European market this tool is built on. I found no public information on cannibalisation detection, entity-level content briefs, or opportunity sizing against realistic traffic, so the guidance helps write but does not close the loop.

Semrush

Index size and freshness are published — 26.4 billion keywords, 43 trillion backlinks, daily updates claimed, city-level grids at 1.5 km, monthly snapshots from 2012 — which is more accountability than most vendors offer. But we found no public information on collection methodology, lost-and-found link detection, or whether a customer's own tracking history is retained and exportable for the life of the account.

SISTRIX

The refresh story is written down rather than implied: important keywords daily, notable volume weekly, everything at least monthly, over 200 country and language combinations, city-level queries, desktop or mobile, and eleven years of history at the upper tiers. The link index gets no such treatment — Domain-Pop and link counts are exposed but I found no public information on index size, refresh cadence or lost-and-found detection, and the "largest keyword database" is a homepage assertion a buyer cannot check.

Semrush

API v3 and v4 are documented with a checkable unit balance and per-endpoint costs shown where it counts — 20 API units per request on keyword metrics, a points-times-keywords credit formula on Map Rank Tracker, some methods consuming none. White-label reporting exists only as a paid add-on at €19.18/mo, tools with external users are routed to sales, and we found no public information on data-warehouse or BigQuery export.

SISTRIX

A documented API on api.sistrix.com returning JSON or XML, with a sandbox, a fair-use section and PHP, Python, NodeJS and cURL examples, plus tiered dashboards and reports, Search Console and Analytics connection, and free Data Studio, Sheets and Excel connectors — a team can build on this. I found no public information on white-label client reporting or data-warehouse export, and per-endpoint API credit costs are only implied by the note that functions without a listed price are free; the Data Studio connector is also still marked as in development.

Semrush

The terms commit to erasure no sooner than thirty days after termination, give a 30-day backup window after suspension, and API responses come in json or csv with read-only access to crawl snapshots. But API use is restricted to internal business purposes, caching beyond one month requires written consent, export consumes metered units, and we found no public information on bulk export of a customer's ranking and crawl history in open formats.

SISTRIX

Exports run through CSV, Excel, Google Sheets, chart files and a free API key with JSON or XML, and stored Lighthouse history is downloadable as JSON. But every export and API query draws down a weekly credit allowance — 1.000 to 100.000 by tier, topped up at 75,00 € for 10.000 credits per week — history itself is capped at three months on the entry plan, and I found no public information on any retention period after cancellation.

Semrush

The contracting entity is Semrush Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Boston, personal data may be transferred to the United States under Standard Contractual Clauses, hosting is unstated and the subprocessor list is absent. A Prague entity appears as joint controller, but we found no public information on any EU hosting option.

SISTRIX

The only residency statement is homepage marketing copy saying data is kept in Europe, naming no infrastructure and with no privacy terms or data-processing agreement captured to corroborate it; the subprocessor list is absent. The entity is named SISTRIX GmbH, but I found no public information confirming the contracting jurisdiction or ownership, so the chain ends at a claim.

Semrush

Tier limits are public — 5 to 40 websites and 500 to 5,000 keywords tracked daily — and the add-ons carry exact figures (users "Starting at €43/mo", Base Report €9.59/mo, Pro Report €19.18/mo). But the captured pages give no base subscription price per tier, no crawl page caps, no overage rate and no cash price for an API unit, while fees are exclusive of taxes and an unused trial auto-charges.

SISTRIX

The invoice is computable: four tiers at 119 €, 239 €, 419 € and 799 € per month, each "zzgl. MwSt.", monthly cancellation, users per tier with more at 24,90 € monthly, crawl limits with per-1.000-page overages of 0,21 €, 0,16 € or 0,14 €, weekly export and API credits by tier, further 10.000 credits a week at 75,00 €, additional projects priced per tier, and upgrade proration described. What keeps it from fully computable is that I found no public price for tracked-keyword quantities as such, and per-endpoint API costs appear only as the note that functions without a listed price are free.