{
    "title": "Moz Pro Alternatives 2027: 9 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/moz-pro/",
    "summary": "The best Moz Pro alternatives in 2027 are Ahrefs (best overall, $129/mo), Semrush (best free plan) and OpenSEO (best open source, MIT). Moz Pro itself starts at $99/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 14 Nov 2026; 6 more are compared below, including 1 with a free plan and 2 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Moz Pro",
        "starting_price": "$99/mo",
        "free_plan": "No",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-14",
        "pricing_url": "https://moz.com/products/pricing"
    },
    "task": "SEO suite / rank tracking",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-14",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-14",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Ahrefs",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$129/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Ahrefs Free plan listed; its caps were not read",
            "best_for": "Backlink-heavy research for freelancers",
            "difference": "Lite lists 750 tracked keywords, 150 AI prompt checks and API plus MCP access at $129/mo; Moz Standard lists 300 keywords and 3 tracked sites at $99/mo. Ahrefs' AI tracker is Brand Radar.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "pricing_url": "https://ahrefs.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://ahrefs.com/",
            "zekai_score": 9.1,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/ahrefs/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Semrush",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$139/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Free plan: 1 demo project, 10 reports per day",
            "best_for": "Free trial run before paying",
            "difference": "Its SEO plan tracks 500 keywords daily on 5 websites for $139/mo, and a $0 plan gives 1 demo project and 10 reports a day. Moz has no free plan.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.semrush.com/prices/",
            "website": "https://www.semrush.com/",
            "zekai_score": 8.6,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/semrush/"
        },
        {
            "name": "SE Ranking",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$129/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Agencies tracking many daily projects",
            "difference": "Core lists 10 projects, 2,000 keywords tracked daily, 250k pages a month in site audits and 25 AI prompts daily on 5 engines for $129/mo. Moz Standard lists 3 sites and 300 keywords.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "pricing_url": "https://seranking.com/pricing.html",
            "website": "https://seranking.com/",
            "zekai_score": 8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/se-ranking/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Mangools",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$61/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Free account and free mini SEO tools; account caps not read",
            "best_for": "Beginners wanting simple, cheaper tools",
            "difference": "Basic costs $61/mo billed monthly with 200 tracked keywords, weekly rank updates and AI Search Watcher PRO (500 prompts) bundled; Agency adds daily rank updates. Moz Standard is $99/mo with 300 keywords.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "pricing_url": "https://mangools.com/",
            "website": "https://mangools.com/",
            "zekai_score": 8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/mangools/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Conductor",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "Not checked",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Enterprise teams with sales-led buying",
            "difference": "Lists Essentials, Growth and Enterprise plans with no dollar prices; limits are counted in drafts per year and pages monitored, and Enterprise is sales-only. Moz publishes $99, $179 and $299 plans.",
            "website": "https://www.conductor.com/",
            "zekai_score": 6.3,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/conductor/"
        },
        {
            "name": "SpyFu",
            "type": "Paid",
            "starting_price": "$39/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "No free plan",
            "best_for": "Competitor keyword research on a budget",
            "difference": "Basic is $39/mo billed monthly with 5,000 weekly tracked keyword rankings, 1 seat and extra seats at $15 each. Moz Standard includes 1 user and 300 keywords at $99/mo.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.spyfu.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://www.spyfu.com/"
        },
        {
            "name": "OpenSEO",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Pay-per-use SEO with MCP agents",
            "difference": "MIT-licensed; you bring a DataForSEO API key and pay per use instead of a subscription, and an MCP server lets Claude Code or ChatGPT query it. Moz is a fixed monthly plan with Domain Authority.",
            "website": "https://openseo.so",
            "repository": "https://github.com/every-app/open-seo",
            "zekai_open_source_page": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/openseo/",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT).",
            "runs_on": "Any server or computer with Docker, or a free Cloudflare account; no GPU.",
            "setup": "moderate: Docker or Cloudflare deploy plus a DataForSEO API key.",
            "github_stars": 27700,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-13",
            "last_release": "2026-11-11",
            "zekai_score": 8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/free-open-source/openseo/"
        },
        {
            "name": "SerpBear",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Self-hosted rank tracking, unlimited keywords",
            "difference": "Tracks unlimited domains and keywords and emails position changes, but its README lists only rank tracking, keyword research and Search Console data; no backlink or site-crawl feature. Needs a scraper or proxy you supply.",
            "website": "https://docs.serpbear.com/",
            "repository": "https://github.com/towfiqi/serpbear",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT).",
            "runs_on": "Small server or container with Docker; scraper or proxy credentials needed.",
            "setup": "moderate: Docker image plus a third-party scraper API or your own proxies.",
            "github_stars": 2200,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "last_commit": "2026-10-30",
            "last_release": "2026-10-30"
        },
        {
            "name": "Seo Panel",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "GPL-2.0",
            "best_for": "Managing many sites on shared hosting",
            "difference": "PHP and MySQL control panel for the SEO of multiple websites, installed through Softaculous, Installatron, Webuzo or AMPPS; there is no hosted plan, and its README intro lists no AI features.",
            "website": "https://github.com/sendtogeo/Seo-Panel",
            "repository": "https://github.com/sendtogeo/Seo-Panel",
            "commercial_use": "Yes; GPL-2.0 requires sharing source of any distributed modifications.",
            "runs_on": "Web server with PHP, MySQL and cURL enabled; shared hosting is enough.",
            "setup": "moderate: Upload files, set folder permissions, run the web installer.",
            "github_stars": 138,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-14",
            "last_commit": "2026-11-11",
            "last_release": "2026-11-11"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Moz Pro in 2027?",
            "a": "Ahrefs is the best overall Moz Pro alternative on this page ($129/mo). For no cost, Semrush has a free plan (Free plan: 1 demo project, 10 reports per day). To self-host, OpenSEO is open source (MIT)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Moz Pro?",
            "a": "No. Moz Pro has no free plan; paid plans start at $99/mo, checked on 14 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Moz Pro?",
            "a": "Yes. OpenSEO, SerpBear, Seo Panel are open source and free to self-host. Ahrefs, Semrush, Mangools have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than Moz Pro?",
            "a": "Mangools starts at $61/mo, against $99/mo for Moz Pro, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 14 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Moz Pro alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 14 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is SpyFu $195/mo, Mangools $305/mo, Ahrefs $645/mo, against Moz Pro $495/mo for Moz Pro. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Ahrefs or Moz Pro?",
            "a": "Lite lists 750 tracked keywords, 150 AI prompt checks and API plus MCP access at $129/mo; Moz Standard lists 300 keywords and 3 tracked sites at $99/mo. Ahrefs' AI tracker is Brand Radar. Choose Ahrefs if you need a bigger tracked-keyword allowance and API or MCP access, and can pay about $30 a month more. Stay with Moz Pro if you want Domain Authority as your client-facing metric and a lower entry price per month."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Moz Pro?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Moz's pricing page lists Standard at $99/mo (3 tracked sites, 300 keywords) and Medium at $179/mo, with a separate $49/mo entry plan for one website, so growth past three sites means a steep jump (14 Nov 2026); AI visibility extras are billed on top: the page lists additional AI Visibility Dashboards at $20 each and 100 extra tracked prompts at $50, on top of the plan allowance (14 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/moz-pro/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}