SEO / GEO · an alternative to OpenSEO, Semrush and Ahrefs

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SiteOS SEO / GEO audits your public pages, researches keywords, rankings and backlinks, and shows how AI answers mention your brand and cite your site. Find the gaps, improve your pages and check what changed, with your team and your AI agent. This page compares SiteOS SEO / GEO with OpenSEO, Semrush and Ahrefs on site audits, content checks, search research, AI visibility, exports and price.

Technical & content audits
Keywords & competitors
Google Search Console & AI answers

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SiteOS vs OpenSEO, Semrush & Ahrefs

Audit your pages, choose which findings to fix first, and compare brand mentions and cited sources in AI answers. Here’s how SiteOS and the alternatives support your team’s next step.

SiteOS, OpenSEO, Semrush and Ahrefs: capabilities and selected plans. Reviewed September 30, 2026.
Capability	SiteOS	OpenSEO	Semrush	Ahrefs
Free plan	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly
Price of the compared plan	Free	$10 / mo	$319 / mo	$328 / mo
Technical site audit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
AI content recommendations	Yes	Partly	Yes	Yes
CMS editor integration	Yes	No	Yes	No
Keyword and backlink research	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
AI answer checks across platforms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scheduled AI visibility tracking	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Competitor comparison in AI answers	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
PDF report export	Yes	Partly	Yes	Partly
Own backlink index	No	No	Yes	Yes
Audits of thousands of pages	Partly	Yes	Yes	Yes
MCP for AI agents	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Data export	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
One workspace with other website tools	Yes	No	Partly	Partly

YesPartly, with the condition in the notesNot offered or not documented

Prices are monthly totals for the features shown: Semrush Pro+ with one Pro Report, Ahrefs Lite with one Brand Radar AI index. Cheaper plans and limited free options exist; OpenSEO’s $0.50 trial excludes Brand Lookup.

OpenSEO checks titles, headings and metadata; content improvements are planned with your own AI agent.

OpenSEO and Ahrefs create PDF reports with the browser’s print-to-PDF flow.

Semrush is a marketing suite; Ahrefs adds GSC Insights and Web Analytics.

The AI tracking and comparison rows were checked against each vendor’s official pages on 4 Oct 2026. OpenSEO documents one-off prompt and brand lookups; Ahrefs’ quoted bundle includes one Brand Radar AI index.

The backlink index and audit size rows were checked against each vendor’s official pages on 13 Oct 2026. SiteOS and OpenSEO use external providers for backlink data; a SiteOS audit checks up to 500 pages. OpenSEO’s audit limits come from its open-source code.

Sources · reviewed 30 Sep 2026

How it works

A finding is
only the start.

Keep the report, the next step and the follow-up together. Work in the dashboard or bring your own AI agent.

01
Find what matters.
Opportunities brings together audit findings, Google Search data and evidence from AI answers, and ranks what to work on next. Open the affected pages and the evidence behind each item, weigh it with your team, then choose what to fix first.
Choose your next fix
02
Give your agent context.
Copy a repair brief for the issues or pages you choose and add your priorities and acceptance checks. Your agent prepares the changes in your repository; your team reviews them before anything is published.
Prepare a repair brief
03
Check the actual result.
After you publish, recheck the changed pages to see what is fixed, what remains and what wasn’t checked. Search and AI visibility move more slowly: follow them in later Search Console reports and comparable AI checks.
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FAQ

Questions
about SEO / GEO.

Yes. Brand lookup, prompt checks and AI content checks are included without a paid subscription, within your free monthly research credits. These credits renew every month and will continue after early access. New AI and external research runs can use credits; reading saved reports does not. Technical audits, Performance, Google Search Console reports and Google indexing checks do not use research credits. Check Usage & limits for your allowances and renewal dates.

SEO helps you understand visibility in search engines. GEO concerns how your brand appears in AI-generated answers. SiteOS combines technical and content audits with separate research into search demand, AI mentions and cited sources.

Site Audit checks your public pages and saves each finding with its severity, affected URLs and evidence. Opportunities then ranks your next steps from saved reports: audit errors and warnings on pages that get Google clicks, pages losing clicks, queries close to the top and AI questions where competitors are mentioned instead of you. The Google signals need a connected Google Search Console property. Copy a brief for your AI agent, review the changes and recheck the published pages to confirm what is fixed. Opportunity alerts can also send a weekly digest and an immediate message when a new high-impact opportunity appears.

Yes, with three tools for different questions. Brand lookup searches a provider's answer index, ChatGPT in the United States or Google AI Overviews, for mentions of your brand or domain. Prompt checks ask one question on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and show whether each answer mentions your brand and cites your site. AI Visibility monitors a saved set of questions on those four platforms against up to five competitors, with mention and citation rates, the order in which brands appear and the sources the answers cite, including sites cited when a competitor is mentioned and you are not. Run it on demand, daily or weekly, follow the trends and, after automatic checks, get a Slack, Telegram or email message when your brand gains or loses mentions. How AI visibility works.

Yes. Add each website as a Project in your organization, with separate environments for production and staging. Every website keeps its own audits and schedules, Google Search Console property, keyword sets and AI question sets. Your team, notification destinations and free monthly SEO credits are shared across the organization, and your AI agent works with the same Projects.

Public-page audits and external research can run without a website script or Google Search Console. Connect your Google Search Console property when you want your own Google impressions, clicks, queries and page reports.

No tool can guarantee them. Audits show issues on the pages checked, and AI reports are dated samples of selected questions and platforms. Use them to make informed improvements, then compare results over time.

Make your next
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SiteOS vs OpenSEO, Semrush & Ahrefs

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Find what matters.

Give your agent context.

Check the actual result.

Questionsabout SEO / GEO.

Is SEO / GEO free?

What is the difference between SEO and GEO?

How does SiteOS turn an SEO audit into a prioritized action plan?

Can SiteOS track brand mentions and citations in AI answers alongside competitors?

Can we manage SEO and AI visibility for several websites?

Do I need Google Search Console or a tracking script?

Can SiteOS guarantee rankings or AI mentions?

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