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Yoast SEO at a glance
- Vendor
- Yoast BV
- Headquarters
- Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Data hosting
- Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Panel verdict
- The AI panel rates Yoast SEO 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Yoast SEO is a WordPress and Shopify plugin judged strongest on pricing transparency (5 to 7) and data portability (3 to 6): every tier carries a public price with VAT treatment stated — €118.80 / year (ex. how scores are made
- As of
- Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources
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The panel's verdict
Yoast SEO is a WordPress and Shopify plugin judged strongest on pricing transparency (5 to 7) and data portability (3 to 6): every tier carries a public price with VAT treatment stated — €118.80 / year (ex. VAT) for Premium, €178.80 / year (ex. VAT) for WooCommerce SEO, €358.80 / year (ex. VAT) for AI+, $19 / 30 days (ex. VAT) for Shopify — alongside a free plugin, and its data sits in the customer's own database. Keyword and content and reporting and API both sit at 4, on per-post keyphrase and readability analysis with Semrush keyword figures and a documented REST API. Weakest are technical audit (1 to 2), where the captured pages document crawl hygiene toggles rather than a site crawler, and rank and index data (0 to 1), where performance figures arrive through Site Kit by Google. Sovereignty spans 1 to 3 with no sovereignty attributes on record. The judges split on data portability: five scored 6 while the in-house SEO lead scored 3, over whether current-state exports suffice when no retention period is stated.
Speaks for it
- Public prices with VAT treatment stated for every tier — €118.80 / year (ex. VAT) for Premium, €178.80 / year (ex. VAT) for WooCommerce SEO, €358.80 / year (ex. VAT) for AI+, $19 / 30 days (ex. VAT) for Shopify.
- A free WordPress plugin, a 14-day Shopify trial and a published refund policy.
- Focus keyphrase with synonyms plus up to four related keyphrases, multilingual readability analysis, and Semrush search volume, intent, difficulty and trend figures.
- A documented REST API included in the free plugin, delivering metadata in two output formats to any frontend framework.
- SEO data stored in the customer's own WordPress database, with keyphrase and redirects CSV export and settings transfer between sites.
Held against it
- Captured pages document crawl hygiene toggles rather than a site crawler, and the vendor states its crawl settings 'do not have any effect on the crawl rate of a website'.
- Performance metrics arrive through Site Kit by Google and keyword figures through Semrush, with no public information on a proprietary rank or backlink index.
- No sovereignty attributes on record beyond contracting entity Yoast BV and a published privacy policy, with no public information on hosting location, subprocessors, certification or a data processing agreement.
- We found no public information on how many sites a license covers, on seat costs, or on renewal pricing.
- We found no public information on scheduled or white-label reports, multi-client management or stated API rate limits.
Best for
- You run content on WordPress and want per-post keyphrase and readability feedback with Semrush keyword figures.
- You are building a headless frontend and need SEO metadata delivered through an API in the free plugin.
- You want your SEO data to live in your own database with CSV exports and settings transfer between sites.
- You want every tier priced publicly with VAT treatment stated before you commit.
Avoid if
- You need a crawler-driven technical audit of your site, with Core Web Vitals or issue prioritisation.
- You need rank tracking or backlink data collected by the vendor itself.
- Your procurement requires a documented hosting location, subprocessor list or certification.
The scores
| Criterion | Panel median |
|---|---|
| Crawling & technical audit | 1 of 5 |
| Keyword research & content guidance | 2 of 5 |
| Rank tracking & index quality | 0.5 of 5 |
| Reporting, integrations & API | 2 of 5 |
| Data portability & exit | 3 of 5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5 of 5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3 of 5 |
Crawling & technical audit
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
The captured pages document crawl-control toggles — removing WordPress feeds, disallowing search URLs in robots.txt, auto-noindexing search results — and state plainly that these settings have no effect on Google's crawl rate. We found no public information on a site crawler, JavaScript rendering, Core Web Vitals diagnosis, or issue prioritisation, so there is nothing here I could hand to a developer as a ticket. 2 3
The Agency Owner
No site crawler appears anywhere on the captured pages — what Yoast documents is crawl-waste toggles, a redirect manager offering 301, 302, 307, 410 and 451 status codes, and indexing controls such as noindex and canonical. That is housekeeping on a single WordPress install, not an audit I could run across a portfolio; I found no public information on scheduled crawls, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering or issue prioritisation. 2 3 5 10
The Technical SEO
The crawl settings are real controls — robots.txt disallow rules for internal search and JSON endpoints, feed removal toggles, per-post canonical and meta robots, automatic noindex on search results — but we found no public information on a site crawler, JavaScript rendering or Core Web Vitals reporting, and the vendor states the crawl settings "do not have any effect on the crawl rate of a website". This is template-level hygiene, not diagnosis at crawl scale, and nothing in the captured pages compares what a crawler sees against what Google fetched. 2 3 5
The Content Strategist
No crawler appears on any captured page — the crawl settings are toggles that clean up what a WordPress site emits (feeds, emoji scripts, generator tags), and the help pages themselves say these settings don't affect crawl rate, which is housekeeping, not an audit that finds problems. We found no public information on broken-link detection, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript rendering, or issues ranked by traffic impact. 2 3
The Data Analyst
What is documented is crawl hygiene rather than a crawler: toggles to strip feeds, oEmbed links and generator tags, robots.txt rules against internal search URLs, and automatic noindexing of search results. We found no public information on a site crawler, page limits, Core Web Vitals, or indexation diagnosis, so there is nothing here producing audit data I could move into a warehouse. 1 2 3
The Skeptic
The captured pages describe crawl configuration — toggles that drop feeds, emoji scripts and search URLs, plus robots.txt rules — rather than a crawler that audits pages, and the vendor itself states the crawl settings "do not have any effect on the crawl rate of a website." We found no public information on JavaScript rendering, Core Web Vitals measurement, or indexation diagnosis at any stated page scale. 2 3
Keyword research & content guidance
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
On-page guidance is the core of the product: focus keyphrase feedback, real-time SEO analysis, multilingual readability analysis, synonyms plus up to four related keyphrases with Semrush volume, difficulty, intent and trends. We found no public information on SERP feature analysis, topic clustering, competitor gaps or cannibalisation, and nothing on the depth of German-market data beyond readability being available in many languages. 1 4 5
The Agency Owner
Keyword data arrives through the Semrush integration — search volume, difficulty, intent and trends in the related-keyphrase popup — and the on-page analysis around a focus keyphrase with synonyms, related keyphrases and multilingual readability is genuinely thorough. I found no public information on German-language keyword depth, SERP feature detail, topic clustering or competitor gap analysis, and the feedback scores a post against its own keyphrase rather than against what currently ranks. 1 4 5
The Technical SEO
The per-post loop is the product: focus keyphrase with synonyms, up to four related keyphrases, multilingual readability scoring, internal linking and orphaned-content workouts. Volume, intent, difficulty and trends arrive through the Semrush integration rather than the vendor's own data, and we found no public information on SERP feature composition, topic clustering, cannibalisation detection or the depth of German-language data; the analysis scores a post against the keyphrase rather than against what currently ranks. 1 4 5 7
The Content Strategist
Keyword discovery arrives only through the Semrush integration — volume, difficulty, intent and trends in a related-keyphrase pop-up — with nothing on German-language depth, SERP feature composition, topic clustering or cannibalisation, which is the work I'd commission first. On-page guidance is a focus-keyphrase and readability analysis loop, honest but keyword-use-driven, and we found no public information on briefs scored against what currently ranks. 4 5
The Data Analyst
Keyword numbers arrive through the Semrush integration — search volume, intent, difficulty and trends per related keyphrase — with intent split into navigational, informational, commercial and transactional. The on-page side is genuinely deep, with a focus keyphrase plus up to four related keyphrases and synonyms, multilingual readability analysis and internal linking suggestions; we found no public information on SERP feature data, topic clustering, or German-language data depth. 4 5
The Skeptic
Focus keyphrase analysis with up to four related keyphrases plus synonyms, multilingual readability analysis, and volume, search intent, difficulty and trend figures through the Semrush integration — but the vendor publishes no keyword numbers under its own name. We found no public information on SERP feature composition, topic clustering or content briefs, and no evidence on the depth of German-market data. 1 4 5
Rank tracking & index quality
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
The dashboard's impressions, clicks, CTR and average position arrive through Site Kit by Google, and the Indexables pages describe a metadata database table inside WordPress, not a ranking or backlink index. We found no public information on proprietary ranking or backlink data, collection methodology, update frequency, or how any of it would be reconciled with Search Console. 6 7 9
The Agency Owner
There is no proprietary ranking or backlink index documented; the impressions, clicks and average position on the dashboard come from Site Kit by Google and are explicitly optional. The Indexables framework stores the site's own metadata in a WordPress database table — nothing on the captured pages describes rank-tracking frequency, country or device granularity, or a backlink index of any kind. 6 7 9
The Technical SEO
The only ranking data in the captured pages is Google's own — impressions, clicks, CTR and average position surfaced through Site Kit by Google — with nothing documented about rankings or backlinks the vendor collects itself. We found no public information on a proprietary index, update frequency, location or device granularity; the Indexables are the customer's site metadata stored in the customer's own database, not a rank or link dataset. 6 9
The Content Strategist
No proprietary rank tracking or backlink index appears anywhere in the captured pages; the impressions, clicks and average position on the dashboard come through Site Kit by Google — the customer's own Search Console data — and the Indexables the vendor documents are metadata storage for the site itself, not a rankings dataset. We found no public information on ranking frequency, location or device granularity, or index size and freshness. 9 6
The Data Analyst
We found no public information on proprietary rank tracking or a backlink index — the only position figure on the captured pages is average position pulled from Search Console via Site Kit, which is Google's data rather than Yoast's. The Indexables are a metadata table on the customer's own site, not a vendor index, so no collection methodology or update cadence is documented for this criterion to score. 6 7 9
The Skeptic
The pages named for index quality describe an internal database table holding page metadata, not a ranking feed or a backlink index, and we found no public information on either collected by the vendor. Keyword figures arrive under the Semrush name and performance metrics only via Site Kit from Google — data whose methodology belongs to someone else, so there is nothing stated on frequency, granularity or collection to hold this vendor to. 4 6 9
Reporting, integrations & API
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
The REST API is documented with endpoints, code examples, two output formats and structured-data support, is included in the free plugin, and the dashboard brings Search Console and Analytics data in via Site Kit. We found no public information on scheduled or white-label reports, data-warehouse export, multi-client management, or stated API limits. 1 8 9
The Agency Owner
A REST API included in the free plugin, with developer documentation, code examples and two output formats, is genuinely worth building against, and the dashboard surfaces Search Console and analytics via Site Kit. But I found no public information on white-label reports, scheduled client-facing reports, multi-client or multi-site management, or stated API limits — the last group being exactly what my rebilling model runs on. 8 9
The Technical SEO
The REST API is included in the free plugin, documented with endpoints, code examples and integration guides, and serves metadata either as a ready-made meta tag and schema bundle or as raw key/value pairs for any frontend — an API a team can genuinely build on. But we found no public information on stated API limits, scheduled or white-label reporting, or multi-client management, and the dashboard is a WordPress sidebar view whose search performance metrics depend entirely on connecting Site Kit. 8 9 1
The Content Strategist
A WordPress dashboard aggregates site-wide SEO and readability scores, filterable by content type and category, and pulls Search Console and Analytics metrics once Site Kit is connected. The documented REST API is aimed at serving metadata to a headless frontend rather than at extracting reporting data, and we found no public information on stated API limits, scheduled or white-label reports, or data-warehouse export. 9 8
The Data Analyst
There is a documented REST API, included in the free plugin, with endpoints, code examples and two output formats — but it exists to push meta tags and schema to headless frontends, not to expose the tool's data for reporting. The dashboard pulls Search Console and Analytics via Site Kit; we found no public information on API rate limits, scheduled reports, white-label reporting, or data-warehouse export. 8 9
The Skeptic
The dashboard aggregates site-wide SEO and readability scores, filterable by content type and category, and surfaces impressions, clicks, CTR, average position and organic sessions once Site Kit is connected. A REST API ships in the free plugin with developer documentation, structured data support and two output formats, but it is built to deliver metadata to a headless frontend rather than to pull data out; we found no public information on rate limits, scheduled or white-label reports. 8 9
Data portability & exit
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
Keyphrase export to CSV in the premium version, redirects imported and exported at scale in CSV including regex and htaccess sources, and settings transfer between sites are all current-state exports. We found no public information on bulk export of accumulated history or on any retention period after cancellation. 10 11
The Agency Owner
Redirects import and export in CSV, plugin settings move between sites, and Premium exports keyphrases with scores and URLs to CSV. The keyphrase export is Premium-only and I found no public information on historical data export beyond these current-state files — though as a self-hosted plugin the indexables data sits in the client's own database, which is the strongest exit position in this field. 6 10 11
The Technical SEO
Keyphrases with scores, titles and meta descriptions export in bulk to CSV in Premium, redirects import and export in CSV at scale including regex, settings move between sites, and the free REST API reads the SEO data. The data the tool actually accumulates — the Indexables — lives in a table in the customer's own WordPress database, so it is never locked away, but we found no public information on retention terms for the subscription service itself. 7 8 10 11
The Content Strategist
Premium users can export every public post's keyphrases, scores and titles to CSV, redirects import and export in CSV with a template file, and settings move between sites — open formats, and we found no metering that would price an export out of reach. The captured pages don't address what remains retrievable after cancellation, and the keyphrase export sits behind the Premium tier. 11 10 7
The Data Analyst
The plugin's data sits in the customer's own database and exports in bulk CSV — keyphrases with scores, titles and meta descriptions, redirects, and settings — with imports from competing plugins and no credit metering anywhere. We found no public information on vendor-side retention of customer data, and no evidence of vendor-stored ranking or crawl history that could be lost at cancellation. 6 7 10 11
The Skeptic
Keyphrases export to CSV in the premium plugin with scores, URLs, titles and descriptions, redirects import and export in CSV including regex rules, and settings move between sites — open-format exports with no metering attached. The indexables pages state the data sits in a table on the customer's own site with post meta kept current "so they can move back or re-import if needed"; we found no public information on bulk export of that full table or a stated retention period after cancellation. 6 10 11
European sovereignty
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
We found no public information on hosting location, subprocessors, certification, or a data-processing agreement covering what the tool ingests. The captured pages give only the contracting entity name Yoast BV and a link to a privacy policy, which is not enough for me to say where my site data sits. 1 5 11
The Agency Owner
The contracting entity is Yoast BV, a Dutch-form company, and a privacy policy is published. No sovereignty attributes are on record beyond that: I found no public information on hosting locations, a subprocessor list, certification or a DPA covering the data the tool touches, while the Semrush integration and the AI monitoring features point to third-party data flows. 1 5 11
The Technical SEO
The contracting entity is named as Yoast BV and a privacy policy and terms of service are published. But the captured pages give no hosting location, no subprocessor list, no certification and no DPA covering the data the tool ingests — we found no public information on where account and analytics data are processed or by which subprocessors. 1 11
The Content Strategist
The captured pages name a contracting entity, Yoast BV, and link a privacy policy, but we found no public information on hosting location, subprocessors, certification, or a data-processing agreement. We also found no public information on how the Semrush keyword connection or the AI title and description generation handle site content. 5 1 4
The Data Analyst
The contracting entity is Yoast BV with published terms of service and a privacy policy, but we found no public information on hosting location, named infrastructure, subprocessors, certification, or a data processing agreement covering the Semrush keyword queries or Site Kit data the tool displays. With the subprocessor picture absent, this stays near the bottom of the scale. 1 5
The Skeptic
The only fact on record is the contracting entity's name, Yoast BV, with no country stated; we found no public information on hosting location, subprocessors, certification, or a data processing agreement. Keyword queries run through Semrush and analytics through Google, and the scope of what leaves the customer's own infrastructure is not described on the captured pages. 4 5 9
Pricing transparency
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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.
The In-House SEO Lead
Every tier carries a public price with VAT treatment stated — €118.80 / year for Premium, €178.80 / year for WooCommerce, €358.80 / year for AI+, $19 / 30 days for Shopify — and the inclusion lists are spelled out per tier. We found no public information on multi-site licensing, seat or team costs, or renewal pricing, so I cannot compute the full annual bill for a large multi-site estate from the public pages alone. 1 8 11
The Agency Owner
Every tier is priced publicly with VAT treatment stated — €118.80 / year (ex. VAT) for Premium, €178.80 / year (ex. VAT) for WooCommerce, €358.80 / year (ex. VAT) for AI+, $19 / 30 days (ex. VAT) for Shopify — and a flat annual licence means no keyword or crawl metering to surprise an invoice. I found no public information on how many sites or client seats a licence covers, which is the number that decides whether forty client sites work on this. 1 8 10 11
The Technical SEO
Every tier is priced publicly — "€118.80 / year (ex. VAT)" for Premium, "€178.80 / year (ex. VAT)" for WooCommerce SEO, "€358.80 / year (ex. VAT)" for AI+, "$19 / 30 days (ex. VAT)" for the Shopify app — alongside a free plugin, a 14-day Shopify trial, a published refund policy and bundle inclusions listed tier by tier. We found no public information on how many sites a license covers, minimum term or per-seat costs, though no keyword caps, crawl credits or API units appear anywhere in the model to obscure the invoice. 1 8 11
The Content Strategist
Every tier carries an exact public price with VAT treatment stated — €118.80 / year (ex. VAT) for Premium, €178.80 / year (ex. VAT) for WooCommerce SEO, €358.80 / year (ex. VAT) for AI+, and $19 / 30 days (ex. VAT) for Shopify — plus a free plugin, a 14-day trial and a refund policy, and we found no metered keyword limits, crawl credits or API charges. We found no public information on what a licence covers — one site or several — on seat costs, or on a minimum term, so a multi-site annual cost isn't derivable from the captured pages. 8 11 1
The Data Analyst
Every named tier carries a public price with VAT treatment stated: €118.80 / year (ex. VAT) for Premium, €178.80 / year (ex. VAT) for WooCommerce, €358.80 / year (ex. VAT) for AI+, and $19 / 30 days (ex. VAT) for Shopify, alongside a free plugin and a published refund policy. We found no public information on how many sites or seats each license covers or any minimum term, so a portfolio-wide annual invoice is not fully computable from public pages. 1 8 11
The Skeptic
Headline prices are public and explicit about VAT — Yoast SEO Premium at €118.80 / year (ex. VAT), WooCommerce SEO at €178.80 / year (ex. VAT), AI+ at €358.80 / year (ex. VAT), Shopify at $19 / 30 days (ex. VAT) — alongside a free plugin, a 14-day Shopify trial and a published refund policy. What the invoice does when a team adds a site is the open question: we found no public information on how many sites a license covers or what renewal costs. 1 8 11
Questions about Yoast SEO
Is Yoast SEO European?
Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Yoast SEO is based.
Where does Yoast SEO store data?
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.
Does Yoast SEO have a free plan?
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Yoast SEO?
As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates SE Ranking (3/5), Semrush (3/5) and SISTRIX (3/5) 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 (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Yoast SEO alternatives.
Where this could be wrong
- Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 20 Oct 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
- AI can misread a source. Extraction and judgement are automated; a citation guarantees traceability, not infallibility. If something here is wrong, say so — no account needed, every report is decided within 5 business days, and accepted corrections are published.
What we left out
A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.
- We found no public information on compliance on the pages we read (yoast.com, yoast.com/features/crawl-settings, yoast.com/help/yoast-seo-settings-crawl-optimization, yoast.com/keyword-research-yoast-seo-semrush, yoast.com/help/optimize-your-content-with-yoast-seo-sidebar, yoast.com/indexables and 5 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page. Know more? Tell us
- 5 pricing 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. Know more? Tell us
- 4 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. Know more? Tell us
- 1 legal 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. Know more? Tell us
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The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.
- 1 Vendor page yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 2 Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 3 Crawling & technical audit — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 4 Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 5 Keyword research & content guidance — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 6 Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 7 Rank tracking & index quality — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 8 Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 9 Reporting, integrations & API — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 10 Data portability & exit — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 11 Data portability & exit — found from sitemap yoast.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →