Issue 01
Your logo on their data, and what the plate costs
Reportroom prices the software agencies use to report SEO to clients — per client, per project, per dashboard, per data source — and says plainly which parts of a monthly report you can assemble for nothing.
Six vendors here pay us nothing · two of our four partners have not approved us
How this site reads a pricing page
The unit, not the sticker
Per client, per project, per dashboard, per data source, per keyword: five tools, five different meters. The price you compare is the one divided by the meter.
Whose name is on it
A logo in the corner is not the same as a custom domain, and neither is the same as the email the report arrives from. We list all three, per tool.
Where the numbers come from
Most of a client report is Search Console and Analytics data you already have for free. Knowing that changes what a reporting tool is worth to you.
Read on a stated day
Pricing pages redraw themselves in the browser and run promotions with countdowns. Every figure here carries the date it was copied, and the control that was clicked.
Why a whole site about reporting
Because reporting is where agency margin quietly goes. The tools are cheap per client and expensive per roster, the pricing pages meter six different things, and the one feature every agency assumes is included — its own name on the report — is a paid add-on at two of the biggest vendors. None of that is visible from a feature grid.
So this site does the division. When a vendor says $223.20 a month for a plan that carries 30 projects, and another $69 a month to put your name on the reports, the number that matters to you is $9.74 — and only once all thirty are in use. When a vendor prints a plan price and then says "plus client packs as you grow" without printing the pack, the honest answer is that its price is not published, and we write that instead of estimating.
How the figures here are taken
Every price is copied from the vendor's own pricing page on a stated day, with the monthly and annual toggle operated in both directions and, where the page is drawn by JavaScript, with the page opened in a browser first. Several of these pages are not stable: one ships a countdown timer and a "lowest price of the year" banner in its own source, switched off on the day we read it. A figure without a date is not a figure.
Nothing on this site has been tested against a client roster. There are no time-saved percentages, no retention figures and no accuracy claims here, because nobody here has measured them. Where a vendor makes such a claim on its own page, it is attributed to the vendor and left as a claim.
Who pays for this
Four vendors could: SE Ranking, AccuRanker, Sitebulb and Semrush. Two of those four have not approved this site, so as of today the site earns nothing from anyone. Meanwhile the platform we recommend most often — AgencyAnalytics — has no arrangement with us at all, and neither do DashThis, Databox, Swydo, Whatagraph or BrightLocal. Google's free tools and Screaming Frog's free crawler pay nothing to anybody and are recommended here anyway. The full list of who can and cannot pay us is public, and links that can pay us are labelled wherever they appear.
Start here
If you are choosing a platform, the comparison of SEO reporting software has all six with both billing terms and the per-client arithmetic. If you already have a tool and the question is branding, white-label SEO tools covers the five surfaces a vendor's name can survive on. If the budget is nil, free SEO reporting tools is the honest route, and it names what you give up.