# Botify — SEO

Botify by Botify SAS holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Botify SAS (https://www.botify.com)
- Category: [SEO](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/botify
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/botify/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/botify/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Botify SAS
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Botify (Botify SAS) earns its best scores on technical audit, reporting and API, and data portability, each 6 to 7: judges credited scheduled recurring crawls with diff filters between analyses, Core Web Vitals field data from the CrUX API, log analysis beside a daily full Search Console import, a documented developer portal with BQL export queries, and complete-file exports to your own AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage bucket. Weakest are rank and index data at 2 to 4, keyword and content at 3 to 4, and sovereignty at 2 to 3: keyword and ranking work is grounded in the site's own Search Console data, and we found no public information on a backlink index, difficulty, intent or SERP feature data — nor on hosting location, subprocessors or data-processing terms beyond the vendor's French corporate form. The judges split on rank and index data, 2 to 4: higher scores credit the documented daily Search Console import and the vendor's candor about data lineage; lower scores weigh the absence of a documented proprietary index. No prices appear in the captured pages.

**Speaks for it:**
- Technical audit scores cluster at 6 to 7 on scheduled recurring crawls, crawl-to-crawl comparison, log analysis and Core Web Vitals field data from the CrUX API.
- A documented developer portal with API tokens and BQL export queries gives teams a build path across over 1,000 report fields.
- Exports deliver the complete file rather than a sample to your own AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage bucket, on demand or scheduled.
- RealKeywords imports your complete Google Search Console data daily, feeding missed-clicks charts, keyword-loss monitoring and segmentation by page template.
- Instant 24/7 alerts cover critical site health and performance changes.

**Held against it:**
- Rank and index data scores span 2 to 4 — the widest spread of any criterion — with the documented position data being the customer's own Search Console import rather than a proprietary index.
- Keyword discovery is confined to queries the site already earns; we found no public information on difficulty scores, intent classification or SERP feature data.
- Sovereignty scores run 2 to 3, and we found no public information on hosting location, subprocessors, certification or a data-processing agreement.
- Automated and full exports are documented for the upper plans only, and we found no public information on retention after cancellation.
- No prices appear in the captured pages, which give different names for the upper tiers — Pro and Professional.

**Best for:**
- You need technical audits your developers can act on, built on recurring crawls compared crawl-to-crawl, log data and Core Web Vitals field data from the CrUX API.
- Your team wants SEO data landing in its own warehouse via a documented API with BQL export queries and scheduled complete-file exports.
- You want deep re-analysis of your own Google Search Console data — missed clicks, keyword losses, segmentation by page template and product type.
- You want to mirror your crawl archive continuously into cloud storage you control.

**Avoid if:**
- You need ranking or backlink data independent of Google Search Console; the documented position data is your own Search Console import, and we found no public information on a backlink index.
- You need keyword discovery beyond the queries your site already earns, with difficulty, intent or SERP feature data.
- Your procurement requires hosting location, subprocessors or data-processing terms to be publicly documented before signature.
- You need full or automated exports on a lower-tier plan; the captured pages document them for the upper tiers only.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The In-House SEO Lead | The Agency Owner | The Technical SEO | The Content Strategist | The Data Analyst | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crawling & technical audit | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Keyword research & content guidance | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Rank tracking & index quality | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 |
| Reporting, integrations & API | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Data portability & exit | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **3/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **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.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Data compliance page: Data & Compliance information page linked in footer [S7]

**Data**
- API export: yes [S10]
- Automated exports plans: Pro · Enterprise · after every crawl [S10]
- Custom report export format: PDF [S10]
- Export: yes [S9]
- Export availability: yes [S10]
- Full export preferred location plans: on demand · scheduled · Professional · Enterprise · AWS S3 · Google Cloud Storage [S10]
- Multivalue field options: first value only · all values in JSON within CSV · one value per line [S10]
- Visualization export formats: CSV · PNG [S10]

**Integrations**
- API token: Profile > Tokens · yes [S10]
- Aws s3 full export: auto-export of Botify reports to AWS S3 bucket · yes [S11]
- Docs location: Botify Developer Portal [S8]
- Gsc limits claim: 1000 [S6]
- Log keyword data: dashboard connects AI presence with website performance and bot behavior [S7]
- Managed services: Professional Services · Botify Consulting [S1]
- S3 bucket policy principal: 688073096776 [S11]
- S3 export scope: complete file, not just sample [S11]
- S3 setup via support: email Support with bucket name and bucket host name [S11]
- Sample CSV export: sample SiteCrawler data as CSV · yes [S11]

**Pricing**
- Historical data: yes [S9]

**Product**
- Access control crawling: Crawling websites with access control is supported [S2]
- AI bot tracking: track AI bot activity on the site using first-party site data [S7]
- AI citation breakdown: platform · category · query · competitor [S7]
- AI keyword optimization: AI icon provides recommended keyword optimizations per URL [S5]
- AI metrics: AI Share of Voice · sentiment · mentions · citation rates · presence in AI shopping carousels [S7]
- AI platforms covered: and more · Google AI Mode · ChatGPT [S7]
- AI recommendations: AI recommendations prioritized by impact [S7]
- AI report: leadership-ready report compiling results [S7]
- AI search positioning: Supports visibility strategy across traditional and AI search [S6]
- AI visibility purpose: Botify AI Visibility shows how a brand appears in AI and organic search, powered by first-party data [S7]
- Alerts: instant alerts · yes · 24/7 [S7]
- Analysis comparison: Analyses can be compared to previous analyses to evaluate KPI evolution across crawls available in the plan [S2]
- Analytics metrics: 1000 [S1]
- Annual performance comparison: Comparing Annual Performance use case for period-over-period keyword comparison [S5]
- Article date: Article last updated March 27, 2024 [S5]
- Botify assist: Botify Assist listed as a platform product [S7]
- Bulk export: reduce or eliminate sampling entirely · yes [S6]
- Comparison reports: 2 · yes · yes [S9]
- Content delivery: content delivery to AI agents · 300 [S1]
- Content optimization: scaled content optimization and testing [S1]
- Cookies custom headers: Using cookies and custom headers in crawls is supported [S2]
- Crawl efficiency claim: CMO testimonial · 122 [S1]
- Crawl frequency guidance: Recommended weekly crawls for constantly evolving content, monthly for slower-paced content [S2]
- Crawl manager: Crawl Manager maintains crawl history, links to crawl reports, and live stats during crawls [S2]
- Crawl reports location: Crawl reports available in SiteCrawler after crawl and analysis complete [S2]
- Crawl settings location: Crawl settings located in Project Settings [S2]
- Crawl speed adjustment: Adjusting crawl speed is supported [S2]
- Cross referencing: page depth · internal linking · device type [S6]
- Custom reports: yes [S9]
- Custom user agent: Crawling with a custom user agent is supported [S2]
- Customer segments: Enterprise · Growth Companies [S7]
- Cwv complement options: web-vitals JavaScript library via GTM/TMS · dedicated RUM software like Speed Curve or NewRelic · CDN e.g. Cloudflare [S3]
- Cwv coverage estimate: 130 [S3]
- Cwv crux integration: Core Web Vitals via Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) API [S3]
- Cwv field data availability: yes · EngagementAnalytics · report filters · report columns [S3]
- Cwv field data source: CrUX API [S3]
- Cwv metrics: Current Core Web Vitals metrics are LCP, INP, CLS [S3]
- Cwv percentile recommendation: mobile and desktop · 75 [S3]
- Cwv threshold cls: 0.1 [S3]
- Cwv threshold inp: 200 [S3]
- Cwv threshold lcp: 2.5 [S3]
- Data source: Combines Google Search Console data with Botify crawl intelligence for keyword visibility [S6]
- Dev cost reduction: 10 [S1]
- Diff between crawls filters: Diff Between Crawls · Has Changed [S9]
- Explorer fields usable: yes [S9]
- Gsc import frequency: daily · yes [S6]
- Keywords explorer report: Keywords Explorer report of keywords by average position segment [S5]
- Losses monitoring: keyword losses monitoring with compared periods, trendline chart and URL list [S5]
- Missed clicks chart: Missed Clicks By Average Position chart [S5]
- Modules: AI Readiness · AI Visibility · AI Activation · Botify Assist [S1]
- Modules other: other Botify platform modules [S7]
- Product feeds: product feed enrichment and delivery · Google · OpenAI [S1]
- Realkewords site data: RealKeywords reports keyword opportunities based on the site's own data [S5]
- Realtkeywords keywords explorer plan availability: Botify Analytics · RealKeywords · yes [S4]
- Recurring crawls: Recurring crawls can be managed via projects with automated results comparison over time [S2]
- Report field count: 1000 [S9]
- Robots txt override: Overriding robots.txt in crawls is supported [S2]
- Scheduled crawls: Scheduling crawls is supported [S2]
- Search volume example: Search volume can be added to RealKeywords reports (see Target Precise Keywords example) [S5]
- Segmentation: product type · content category · page template [S6]
- Sitemap comparison: Comparing crawled URLs to sitemaps is supported [S2]
- Solutions segments: Enterprise · Growth Companies · Be Found in AI Search · Search Automation · Agentic Commerce [S1]
- Technical diagnosis: diagnose query visibility issues using first-party crawl, log, and keyword data [S7]
- Time to value: 30 [S1]
- Title tag filter: filter to show where keyword is missing in the title tag [S5]
- Traffic growth: 10 [S1]
- Trend information: yes [S9]
- Trending keywords chart: Winning Data Dimensions chart for trending keywords [S5]
- URL level export: yes [S9]
- URL rewriting: Rewriting URLs in crawls is supported [S2]
- Visualizations: yes · yes [S9]

**Support**
- Academy: yes [S1]
- Knowledge base: yes [S1]
- Professional services: Professional Services offering [S7]

## Questions

### Is Botify European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Botify is based.

### Where does Botify store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Botify have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Botify?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [SE Ranking (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/se-ranking), [Semrush (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/semrush) and [SISTRIX (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/sistrix) highest among the other 32 SEO products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [SISTRIX](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/sistrix) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Botify alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/seo/botify/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 5 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 integrations fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 support fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.botify.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108540-about-botify-crawls (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108535-understanding-core-web-vitals (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108674-working-in-the-keywords-explorer (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108556-finding-new-keyword-opportunities (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap: https://www.botify.com/platform/visibility/realkeywords-feature (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap: https://www.botify.com/platform/visibility (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108631-botify-api-documentation (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108763-about-botify-reports (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Data portability & exit — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9108539-exporting-botify-data (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Data portability & exit — found from sitemap: https://support.botify.com/en/articles/9110242-enabling-full-exports-to-aws-s3 (checked 2026-10-13)

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