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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "seomatic",
 "name": "SEOmatic",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "seomatic.io",
 "category": "SEO & Marketing",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "SEO suite for Shopify from Aheadworks: unlimited image compression with alt text, AI-generated meta titles and descriptions, SEO audit, schema markup and both XML and HTML sitemaps. Live since 2015.",
 "best_for": "Shopify stores under 5,000 products that want image compression, alt text, auto-generated meta tags, schema and sitemaps from one app on a flat monthly fee, and would rather not pay per AI credit",
 "skip_if": "your catalogue is larger than 5,000 products, or you want the safest bet in a category where three rivals on the same page carry 950 to 2,750 reviews at 4.9-5.0 against this app's 4.4 over 151",
 "honest_knock": "This app is eleven years old and has 151 reviews (28 September 2026; it was 114 in August). That is the number to sit with. On the same listing page Shopify shows three direct rivals. On 28 September 2026 SEOLab stood at 4.9 over 2,752 reviews, TinySEO at 5.0 over 2,518 and Smart SEO at 5.0 over 956; in our August reading SEOLab was free, Tiny SEO free to install and Smart SEO had a free plan. All three carry between six and eighteen times the review volume, all are rated higher, and none of them charges by product count. SEOmatic's 4.4 is a real rating from real merchants, but it is the weakest track record on its own page.\n\nThe distribution behind that 4.4 matters too: 81% five stars against 7% one star, with almost nothing in the middle. The most substantial recent review, from March 2025, is a merchant of six months saying it appears to work on images and nothing else, and that support is difficult and slow. The vendor replied that the reports do exist, and asked them to get in touch. An older one-star from a merchant who lasted seventeen minutes reads 'Paid for it to tell me 0% savings'. Both are about the same thing: what the app actually did after installation was not visible to the person paying for it.\n\nAnd the product cap is a hard ceiling, not a soft one. There is no tier above 5,000 products on the listing or on seomatic.io, so if your catalogue is larger than that, the published ladder simply does not have a row for you.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$15",
  "entry_price_terms": "Starter · per month for up to 500 products, billed in USD every 30 days",
  "from_price_usd_month": 15.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-08-19 on apps.shopify.com/minifier and on seomatic.io, re-verified unchanged on both 2026-09-28 and again on 2026-11-12) Four tiers, and the only thing that changes between the three paid ones is how many products they cover. Free: 10 products, 50 image optimisations, AI SEO audit, auto-pilot AI meta title and description, schema markup, HTML sitemap. Starter $15 a month or $144 a year (save 20%): 500 products, unlimited image optimiser, broken links, XML and HTML sitemaps, 14-day free trial. Basic $25 a month or $240 a year: 2,000 products. Advanced $40 a month or $384 a year: 5,000 products. All charges are billed in USD and recur every 30 days. The vendor's own pricing page at seomatic.io publishes the identical ladder, which is worth noting because the two often disagree — here they do not. There is no plan above 5,000 products on either page, so a larger catalogue has no listed price at all. Developer Aheadworks, 12495 S Parkland Bay Trail, Parkland, Florida; the app launched 18 August 2015 and carried a 4.4 average over 114 App Store reviews on 19 August 2026 and 4.4 over 151 on 28 September, and it holds Shopify's 'Built for Shopify' badge. On 12 November 2026 the listing showed 4.4 over 150 reviews.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-12",
  "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/minifier",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 15.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Starter, per month for up to 500 products, billed in USD every 30 days; the same plan is $144 a year if you pay annually, and the free plan caps you at 10 products. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-12.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/seomatic-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free: 10 products, 50 image optimisations, AI SEO audit, auto-pilot AI meta title and description, schema markup, HTML sitemap.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "meter: unit · products covered",
   "verified_at": "2026-11-12",
   "source_url": "https://apps.shopify.com/minifier"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": null,
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/seomatic.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/seomatic-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/seomatic/",
  "vendor_site": "https://seomatic.io"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://platform.shoffi.app/r/rl_CVTgz8Zx",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "seomatic:seomatic-q1",
   "key": "seomatic-q1",
   "question": "If I uninstall SEOmatic, do the AI-written meta tags stay on my products, and can compressed images be restored to the originals?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "seomatic:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "seomatic:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "seomatic:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "seomatic:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}