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Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Mangools s.r.o. · mangools.com

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

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.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

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Crawling & technical audit

How this is scored

Site crawling at real scale: what the crawler finds, how deeply it checks, whether Core Web Vitals and indexation problems are diagnosed rather than merely listed.

0 — No site crawler; the product is keyword data only.

3 — A crawler with a low page cap that reports broken links and missing tags, with no prioritisation and no rendering of JavaScript.

5 — Scheduled crawls at a stated page limit, JavaScript rendering, issue categories with severity, and Core Web Vitals pulled per template.

8 — Log-file or Search Console integration to compare what the crawler sees against what Google fetched, indexation and canonical diagnosis, structured-data validation, and issues prioritised by traffic impact rather than count.

10 — The audit is diagnostic rather than a list: crawl budget analysed, rendering differences surfaced, regressions detected between crawls with the deploy that caused them inferrable, and remediation guidance specific enough for a developer ticket.

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The Skeptic

The captured page prices site analysis by requests per 24 hours — 20, 70 or 150 depending on tier — which reads as on-demand lookups rather than a crawl at page scale. We found no public information on crawl depth or page limits, JavaScript rendering, Core Web Vitals, or how issues are prioritised. Nothing here shows the tool comparing what it sees against what Google actually fetched. 1

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Keyword research & content guidance

How this is scored

Keyword discovery, intent classification, SERP feature analysis and on-page guidance — judged on the depth of the German-language data as much as the English.

0 — A keyword list with volumes from one source and no intent or difficulty signal.

3 — Volume and difficulty for major markets, with thin or stale German data and no SERP feature detail.

5 — Keyword research with volume, difficulty and intent across German and other EU markets, SERP feature presence, and basic on-page recommendations.

8 — Topic clustering, competitor gap analysis, SERP composition tracked over time, content briefs with entity coverage, and cannibalisation detection.

10 — Research and guidance close the loop: opportunity sized against realistic traffic, content scored against what currently ranks rather than against a keyword density heuristic, and recommendations that reference the specific pages in the customer's own site.

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The Skeptic

Keyword research and SERP analysis modules exist with concrete request ceilings (100 to 1,200 requests per 24 hours by tier) and a self-declared database of 2.5 billion keywords, but the page documents none of the substance a buyer needs: no intent classification, no difficulty methodology, no SERP feature detail, and nothing on German-market depth. A database size is precisely the number no buyer can check; the daily request limits are the only part I can hold. 1

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Rank tracking & index quality

How this is scored

The proprietary data: ranking accuracy and frequency, backlink index size and freshness. Scored on what the vendor documents about their own data, because nothing here can be verified from outside.

0 — Rankings and backlinks with no stated update frequency, no country or device granularity, and no documentation of how either is collected.

3 — Weekly rankings for one country and device, a backlink index with no stated refresh cadence or size.

5 — Daily rankings with country, language and device selection, local results, and a backlink index with a documented crawl frequency.

8 — Rankings at stated frequency across many locations including city-level, SERP feature attribution, backlink index size and refresh published, lost-and-found link detection, and historical data retained for the life of the account.

10 — The vendor is accountable for their own data: methodology documented, index size and freshness published and updated, historical rankings retained and exportable in full, and discrepancies against Search Console explained rather than hidden.

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The Skeptic

Update frequency is stated honestly per tier — weekly on Basic and Premium, daily only on Agency — and 65,000+ city-level locations is a concrete granularity claim, which I credit. But the backlink figures are monthly usage allowances (100k to 1.2M per month), not an index size, and we found no public information on index size, refresh cadence, or how rankings and links are collected. The vendor documents the metering of their data far better than the data itself. 1

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Reporting, integrations & API

How this is scored

Getting the data out and in front of someone: dashboards, white-label reporting for agencies, Search Console and analytics integration, and an API a team can build on.

0 — On-screen views only; export is a manual CSV and there is no API.

3 — Scheduled PDF reports and CSV export, one analytics integration, no API worth building against.

5 — Customisable dashboards, scheduled reports, Search Console and analytics integration, and a documented API with stated limits.

8 — White-label reporting with client access, data-warehouse or BigQuery export, multi-site and multi-client management, and an API with credit costs published per endpoint.

10 — The tool is a data source rather than a destination: full historical export in open formats, a versioned API with a deprecation policy, integrations the vendor maintains, and reporting an agency can hand a client unedited.

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The Skeptic

A Looker Studio connector for the rank tracker and a Search Console import are real, named integrations, and custom data exports are advertised. We found no public information on an API — no rate limits, no credit costs per endpoint — nor on scheduled reports or white-label client reporting. On the one thing I always look for, the per-endpoint credit price, the captured page is silent. 1

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Data portability & exit

How this is scored

Whether the ranking and crawl history — the only thing a multi-year subscription actually accumulates — remains the customer's when they leave.

0 — No bulk export; history is visible in the interface and nowhere else, and ends with the subscription.

3 — CSV export of current views only, with historical data capped or unavailable in bulk.

5 — Bulk export of rankings, keywords and crawl results including history, via interface or API.

8 — Complete historical export in open formats without credit metering that prices it out of reach, plus a documented retention period after cancellation.

10 — Exit is designed for: the full account exportable including every historical data point, API access sufficient to mirror the data continuously, and a stated grace period during which the archive remains retrievable.

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The Skeptic

Custom data exports are advertised, which is more than an on-screen view, but the page says nothing about whether historical rankings and crawl history are included, in what format, or for how long after cancellation. On the question that decides this — whether the multi-year history a subscription accumulates leaves with the customer — we found no public information. 1

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the account and crawl data live and who the contracting entity is. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; weighted lower here than in categories holding personal data, because an SEO tool mostly holds the customer's own strategy rather than their customers' identities.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and site or user data of unclear scope leaving the EU.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessor list published, and any analytics or Search Console data handling described with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor European, certification published, and a DPA that covers the crawl and analytics data the tool ingests.

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The Skeptic

The only artifacts on record are a downloadable Data Processing Agreement and a 48-hour money-back guarantee; hosting location, the contracting entity's jurisdiction, and the subprocessor list are all unstated on the captured page. For a tool that ingests Search Console data, we found no public information on where that data is processed or under which legal basis. 1

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

The category where the headline price is least often the invoice. Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost including keyword limits, crawl credits, API units, extra users and client seats — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A monthly headline exists, but keyword limits, crawl credits or the cost of an additional user are unstated — the invoice is unknowable.

5 — Tier prices public with the main limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (extra seats, API credits, historical data) is unpriced or metered opaquely.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with keyword, crawl and API limits, overage rates, per-seat costs, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given keyword count, crawl volume, API usage and team size, with overage and every credit cost published.

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The Skeptic

The limit grid is unusually concrete — per-tier prices in euros with annual and monthly figures, request ceilings per 24 hours, backlink allowances per month, and stated seat counts (none on Basic, three on Premium, five on Agency) — and I credit that. But the price of an additional seat is never stated, the asterisk on "Unlimited*" keyword suggestions is unexplained, and we found no public information on VAT treatment, minimum term, or overage. The headline is public; the invoice for a growing team is not computable. 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Sources (12)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page mangools.com Checked 29 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Terms of service — found from the homepage mangools.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy — found from the homepage mangools.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Data processing agreement (dpa) — found from the homepage mangools.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Data portability & exit — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Data portability & exit — found from sitemap mangools.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →