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Sovereignty: not determined

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

by SISTRIX GmbH · www.sistrix.de

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The Content Strategist

Weighted verdict

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.

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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 Content Strategist

Scheduled crawling is documented at real scale (30,000 to 4,000,000 URLs a month by tier), JavaScript rendering described as built on the same technology as the official Googlebot, error categories sorted by importance with concrete fix suggestions, and Core Web Vitals handled properly with lab and field data, daily Lighthouse measurements stored permanently and downloadable as JSON. We found no public information on log-file analysis, crawl-budget analysis, canonical or indexation diagnosis, or issues ranked by traffic impact, so this reads as a strong scanner rather than a full diagnostic. 2 3 4

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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 Content Strategist

The vendor calls its keyword database the largest for the German and European market, clusters keywords into topics automatically for a structured content strategy, and derives intent from the actual SERP composition with the point allocation published, plus competitor keyword analysis by URL and per-tier SERP feature counts. We found no public information on cannibalisation detection or content briefs with entity coverage — the two things I would commission next — and no evidence that content is scored against what currently ranks. 2 5 6

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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 Content Strategist

The update methodology is documented unusually honestly: important keywords daily, notable-volume keywords weekly, everything at least monthly, with keywords moving to a faster cycle automatically when demand shifts, plus over 200 country and language combinations, city-level queries and desktop/mobile split, with eleven-year history on the top tiers and three months on the entry tier. The backlink half is the hole: we found no public information on backlink index size or refresh cadence, SERP feature attribution, or lost-and-found link detection. 2 3 7 8

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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 Content Strategist

The API is genuinely buildable: HTTP requests in JSON or XML, a sandbox, wrappers in four languages, a documented fair-use policy, and credit costs published as a per-data-point principle with weekly allocations per tier and a priced add-on pack, alongside Search Console and Analytics integration, per-tier dashboards and reports, team roles and a free Data Studio connector still marked in development. We found no public information on white-label client reporting, data-warehouse or BigQuery export, or a versioned API with a deprecation policy. 2 9 10 11

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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 Content Strategist

Rankings, keywords and crawl results export as CSV, Excel or Google Sheets from the interface and via API in JSON or XML, with the eleven-year history exportable on the top tiers and stored Lighthouse data downloadable as JSON. But every export draws on weekly credit allocations, history is capped at three months on the entry tier, and we found no public information on a retention period or grace period after cancellation — exit is workable while you pay, not designed for. 2 9 11

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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 Content Strategist

The only residency statement is homepage marketing copy saying data is kept in Europe, with no named infrastructure provider, no subprocessor list and no privacy policy or DPA excerpt captured to corroborate it. The company appears as SISTRIX GmbH on its own pages, but the captured pages give no confirmation of contracting jurisdiction or ownership. 1 9

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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 Content Strategist

Every tier is priced publicly at 119 €, 239 €, 419 € and 799 € per month excluding VAT, with included users stated, additional users at 24,90 € per month, additional projects priced, extra crawled pages priced per 1,000, further credits for 75,00 €, monthly cancellation, proration rules and per-tier export and API credit allowances — a buyer can budget the real annual cost before the sales call. The one soft spot is API cost per endpoint, described only as typically based on the number of data points retrieved. 2 9 11

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 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.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
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Sources (11)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 11 Sep 2026, 2 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Data portability & exit — found from sitemap www.sistrix.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →