Compare 7 SE Ranking Pricing Plans vs Semrush 2026

SE Ranking pricing is the monthly or annual cost of an all-in-one SEO seat (keywords, ranks, audit, backlinks) sold by SE Ranking. It is not a CMS, it is not Domain Authority, and it is not a Google rank. The seven tools on this page are SE Ranking, Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz, Mangools, Nightwatch, and AccuRanker. US Tech Automations sits above them as the ticket layer that can fail a row when a rank export, a unique fact, and a human sign-off have not all passed.

TL;DR: Ask SE Ranking for a current quote; this page will not invent a Essential/Pro/Business table. Use Zapier's 2026-09-04 dated rows for the suites that already printed a dollar: Moz Standard $99/month and Semrush paid SEO $139.95/month. Buy AccuRanker or Nightwatch if rank tracking is the whole job. Buy Mangools if KWFinder is the whole job.

Affordable all-in-one SEO

Search Engine Land's What Is SEO guide (updated 18 May 2026) defines SEO as optimizing websites and digital content to increase visibility, traffic, and brand authority across search engines and AI search, spanning technical, on-page, and off-page work, according to Search Engine Land. SE Ranking sells an all-in-one suite inside that job, according to SE Ranking. AccuRanker sells rank tracking. Those are different objects.

BEST_OF earn rate: 15.2% according to US Tech Automations (12,514 live pages, counted 2026-08-24). Neutral default earn rate: 10 according to the first-party mix-config (seo_automation is not in the vertical table; same count).

Semrush paid SEO: $139.95/month according to Zapier (2026-09-04; Starter $199, Pro+ $299, Advanced $549). Moz Standard: $99/month according to Zapier (same page). Those two rows are the only public suite dollars copied here. SE Ranking, Ahrefs, Mangools, Nightwatch, and AccuRanker are contact vendor.

Graders stay on the Clearscope comparison. SaaS Surfer-versus-Clearscope stays on the SaaS grader page. GEO stays on Profound vs Rankability.

Fit for SE Ranking buyers

This page is for SEO leads who typed "SE Ranking pricing" because they want an all-in-one cheaper than Semrush, and for teams who should actually buy a rank tracker.

Red flags: Skip SE Ranking if you only needed AccuRanker. Skip Semrush Advanced at $549/month if you only needed KWFinder. Skip Moz if you do not report Domain Authority. Skip the list if no one will action the rank export.

How we weighted the seven

Feature grid

Dated dollars and holes

SE Ranking's marketing often positions against Semrush on price. Without a primary SE Ranking dollar on this page, that positioning is a quote request, not a table row. Do not paste a remembered $39–$119 band and call it 2026.

Zero-traffic pages: 96.55% according to Ahrefs (about 14 billion pages, 1 Dec 2023). Rank trackers do not shrink that pile; unique facts do.

Vendor sketches

SE Ranking. Best fit: teams that want one login for keywords, ranks, and audit, and will get a dated quote. Limits: contact vendor here; not AccuRanker's specialist tracker. Implementation: SE Ranking account, project per domain, rank export. Primary evidence: seranking.com.

Semrush. Best fit: teams that need the larger toolkit and can pay $139.95+ on Zapier's dated rows. Limits: easy to over-buy Advanced at $549/month.

Ahrefs. Best fit: Site Explorer as the daily driver. Limits: contact vendor; the 96.55% study is content reality, not an Ahrefs SKU.

Moz. Best fit: DA reporting at a $99 Standard floor. Limits: DA ≠ rank.

Mangools. Best fit: KWFinder-led research. Limits: contact vendor; not an all-in-one audit suite.

Nightwatch. Best fit: rank tracking with white-label reports. Limits: contact vendor; not a keyword database.

AccuRanker. Best fit: high-volume rank tracking as the product. Limits: contact vendor; you will still need a research tool.

Rank-check ticket

Worked example: an 11-client agency tracking 2,500 keywords per host on a weekly Monday export, with SE Ranking as the all-in-one (quote pending) and a Semrush paid-SEO seat at $139.95/month for two hosts that need a site audit. The operator pulls ranks, joins Search Console searchAppearance, and still rejects 3 of 11 "write more content" requests because the unique-fact cell was empty while position 14 became position 16. The action gate is not the 16. The action gate is 11 unique facts, 2,500 keywords, and a human who signs the 3 refusals. A Zapier, Make, or n8n scenario can POST the export and retry on 5xx; the agency still owns the threshold, the idempotent page id, and who is allowed to flip post_status.

US Tech Automations can, as a proposed configuration, take the SE Ranking (or AccuRanker) export as a trigger, open a ticket per landing URL, and require a unique fact before a content sprint. Prerequisites: rank-tool CSV or API, optional GSC, a CMS webhook, and a named reviewer. It is not a live customer result on this page.

A second proposed path is an agentic workflow that fires when the weekly rank file lands, diffs positions, and parks a queue. The output in the user's hands would be a ticket list, not 400 auto-drafts.

When NOT to use US Tech Automations: if AccuRanker's own alerts already assign an owner, if Moz email is the only artifact, or if you only needed Mangools for ten keywords. In those cases the suite is the system of record.

The no-code path is real. Zapier, Make, and n8n can store run histories, retries, error branches, and audit evidence when configured. The buyer must still design observability, idempotency, escalation, access controls, retention, and maintenance. A proposed ticket-layer design would keep SE Ranking as the sensor and the unique-fact cell as the fail condition.

All-in-one versus specialist tracker

SE Ranking's pitch is one login for keywords, ranks, audit, and backlinks. AccuRanker's pitch is ranks at volume. Nightwatch's pitch is rank tracking with white-label reports. If the RFP only says "track 2,500 keywords per host across 11 clients," a specialist tracker is the object — 27,500 keywords of rank tracking, not an all-in-one you will ignore except the rank tab.

If the RFP also says site audit, content ideas, and backlink overlap, the all-in-one is the object. Then the dated comparison is Semrush paid SEO at $139.95/month and Moz Standard at $99/month on Zapier's 2026-09-04 page, plus an SE Ranking quote you retrieve this week. Ahrefs remains contact vendor. Mangools remains the KWFinder kit.

An 11-client shop that buys SE Ranking plus AccuRanker plus Semrush Advanced at $549/month plus Moz at $99/month is paying four times for overlapping rank tabs. Pick one rank source of record. Use Semrush for audit on the two hosts that need it ($139.95/month paid SEO in the worked example). Use Moz only if DA is in the client contract.

Search Engine Land's 18 May 2026 SEO definition includes AI search. Neither SE Ranking nor AccuRanker is a GEO monitor. Do not stretch a rank tracker into ChatGPT citations.

SE Ranking implementation sequence

1. Write the object in one sentence: all-in-one, or ranks-only.

2. If ranks-only, quote AccuRanker or Nightwatch. Stop.

3. If all-in-one, request SE Ranking's current grid (this page will not invent it). Put Semrush $139.95 and Moz $99 on the same slide as dated public floors.

4. Cap keywords honestly. 11 clients × 2,500 keywords is 27,500. Buy the cap, not a demo of 50 terms.

5. Export weekly. Join GSC searchAppearance. Fail content-sprint tickets when the unique-fact cell is empty.

6. Do not generate 400 pages because position 14 became 16.

Annual math you can date: Moz $1,188; Semrush paid SEO $1,679.40; Starter $2,388; Pro+ $3,588; Advanced $6,588. SE Ranking, Ahrefs, Mangools, Nightwatch, AccuRanker: contact vendor.

Common mistakes: pasting a remembered $39 SE Ranking plan into a 2026 SOW; using Ahrefs' 96.55% zero-traffic study as a reason to skip unique facts; treating BEST_OF 15.2% as a suite score; buying Mangools and SE Ranking and AccuRanker because three trials were free.

Glossary: all-in-one is SE Ranking's object; specialist tracker is AccuRanker or Nightwatch; DA is Moz; paid SEO is Zapier's Semrush row; searchAppearance is GSC; post_status is CMS publish.

Quote packet for procurement

Attach four artifacts, no more. One: SE Ranking's current quote with date and keyword cap (27,500 if you are the 11×2,500 shop). Two: Zapier's 2026-09-04 Moz Standard $99/month and Semrush paid SEO $139.95 / Starter $199 / Pro+ $299 / Advanced $549 rows. Three: AccuRanker or Nightwatch quote if ranks-only is still on the table. Four: a one-page object statement — all-in-one versus specialist tracker versus DA versus KWFinder versus Site Explorer.

Do not attach a remembered SE Ranking $39–$119 grid. Do not attach Ahrefs list prices you cannot date. Do not attach Mangools prices this page marked contact vendor. A thin honest packet beats a thick invented one.

If the SE Ranking quote lands below Semrush $139.95 with a cap that covers 27,500 keywords and an audit module you will actually open, SE Ranking is the all-in-one to try. If the quote lands near Semrush Advanced $549 with a smaller cap, you are not buying "affordable" — you are buying a logo. If the quote is ranks-only with a weak audit, AccuRanker is the cleaner object.

Run a 30-day overlap only if you can name the kill date. Two rank sources of record after day 30 is how the 3-of-11 content-sprint refusals in the worked example become 11-of-11 Slack arguments. Keep GSC searchAppearance as the free cross-check either way.

Ahrefs' 96.55% zero-traffic finding still governs what you do with a rank drop: unique fact, then a human, then maybe a URL. SE Ranking pricing does not include that gate. Search Engine Land's 18 May 2026 definition still includes technical and AI search work that no all-in-one rank tab will finish.

Annual dated floors you can put in the packet footer: Moz $1,188; Semrush paid SEO $1,679.40; Starter $2,388; Pro+ $3,588; Advanced $6,588. BEST_OF 15.2% on 12,514 pages is a USTA page-type rate, not a discount.

If legal asks whether SE Ranking, Semrush, or Ahrefs is "the cheapest all-in-one," the honest answer is that only Semrush and Moz have dated public dollars on this URL, and cheapest is the wrong question if the cap is 27,500 keywords. Buy the cap that matches 11 clients × 2,500 terms. Then buy the object (all-in-one, tracker, DA, KWFinder, Site Explorer). Then add the unique-fact gate. Rank software without that gate is how position 16 becomes 400 thin URLs.

Nightwatch and AccuRanker remain the specialist-tracker fork if the all-in-one quote is really a rank tab with extra menus. Mangools remains the KWFinder fork. Moz remains the DA fork at $99/month dated. None of those forks replace Search Console, and none of them replace a human on post_status.

Key Takeaways

• SE Ranking list price is contact vendor on this page; do not invent a plan grid.

• Dated public floors: Moz Standard $99/month, Semrush paid SEO $139.95/month (Zapier 2026-09-04).

• AccuRanker and Nightwatch win when rank tracking is the only object.

• BEST_OF URLs earned 15.2% in the 12,514-page corpus counted 2026-08-24.

• Ahrefs found 96.55% of pages with zero Google organic traffic — rank exports do not fix that.

• Export plus unique fact plus a human is the gate.

SE Ranking questions

How much is SE Ranking in 2026?

Contact vendor. This page copies dated Zapier dollars for Semrush and Moz instead of inventing an SE Ranking SKU.

Is SE Ranking cheaper than Semrush or Ahrefs?

Unknown until SE Ranking quotes. Semrush paid SEO is $139.95/month on Zapier's 2026-09-04 page. Ahrefs is contact vendor here.

What is the best affordable all-in-one SEO tool?

SE Ranking is the all-in-one named in the query. Mangools is cheaper-feeling if KWFinder is the job. AccuRanker is not an all-in-one.

Should I buy AccuRanker plus SE Ranking?

Only if rank volume exceeds what the all-in-one cap will hold. Two rank trackers without a unique-fact gate is two PDFs.

Does a rank drop mean I should generate 400 pages?

No. Ticket the URL. Check unique facts and coverageState. Scaled clones join the 96.55% zero-traffic set.

Can I stitch SE Ranking into Zapier instead of a ticket product?

Yes, with retries and an audit log you own. See agentic workflows. The public homepage indexes that layer; it does not replace SE Ranking.