Category
SEO
The bench 6 judges, built for this category
The In-House SEO Lead v1.0
Owns organic traffic for one large German site and reports on it monthly. Wants German-language keyword data that is not an afterthought, rankings she can defend when they disagree with Search Console, and audit findings specific enough to become a developer ticket.
The Agency Owner v1.0
Runs forty client sites and rebills the licence. Wants multi-client management, white-label reports a client can receive unedited, and per-seat costs that do not punish a growing team. Reads "contact us" on a pricing page as a margin problem.
The Technical SEO v1.0
Lives in crawl data and log files. Wants JavaScript rendering, crawl budget analysed, indexation diagnosed rather than listed, and regressions caught between crawls. Treats an issue list sorted by count rather than by traffic impact as busywork.
The Content Strategist v1.0
Decides what gets written and can only commission so much. Wants topic clusters, honest opportunity sizing, cannibalisation caught before it happens, and briefs scored against what actually ranks rather than against keyword density.
The Data Analyst v1.0
Wants the numbers in the warehouse, not in a PDF. Cares about a documented API with published credit costs, bulk historical export, and whether three years of ranking history leaves with the customer or dies with the subscription.
The Skeptic v1.0
Knows every vendor claims the largest index and the most accurate rankings, and that no buyer can check either. Reads instead for what can be held to: refresh frequency, stated limits, credit costs per endpoint, and what the invoice does when the team adds a seat.
Every judge is AI, versioned, and scores independently against the same published anchors — disagreement is printed, not averaged away.
Head-to-head
Evaluated
Listed alphabetically by default. Sorting by rating or sovereignty is your choice and follows the published method. Scores are the panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence. How scores are made →
AccuRanker
Provenance unknownSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Advanced Web Ranking
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
Ahrefs
Rest of worldSovereignty: not determined
Majestic
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
Mangools
Provenance unknownSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Morningscore
Provenance unknownSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Moz Pro
Rest of worldSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
Ryte
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
UK / wider EuropeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven
SE Ranking
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
Searchmetrics
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
Semrush
Rest of worldSovereignty: not determined
SEO PowerSuite
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
Seobility
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
Serpstat
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
SISTRIX
EU-MadeSovereignty: not determined
Sitebulb
UK / wider EuropeSovereignty: not determined
Surfer
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
Wincher
Provenance unknownSovereignty: not determined
XOVI
EU-MadeSovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven