By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
The thing you are actually buying is data coverage, and that is the one thing you cannot verify — Serpstat's own published figures do not agree with each other.
solo SEOs and small in-house teams who want the whole workflow — keywords, rankings, audit, competitors — under one subscription at roughly a third of what the incumbents charge, and who will judge the data on their own market during the trial.
your work depends on deep backlink analysis, since the 10,000 results per report ceiling does not move no matter which tier you buy; or you need more than three seats, because seats are not sold separately and the next tier roughly doubles the bill.
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✓ Pricing re-verified 19 Sep 2026
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Individual | $50/month annually, $69 month to month | 1 user, 100 searches a day, 5 projects, 50,000 export rows, no API and no JavaScript rendering |
| Team | $100/month annually, $129 month to month | 3 users, 500 searches a day, unlimited projects, API from 200,000 credits, AI tools and batch analysis |
| Team x2 | $169/month annually, $209 month to month | 6 users, 1,000 searches a day, 400,000 API credits, 500,000 export rows |
| Agency | $410/month annually, $499 month to month | 30 users, 5,000 searches a day, 2,000,000 API credits, white-label reports and phone support |
(2026-07-24, read on their own pricing page) Four plans, and the page opens on the annual view — so the first number you see is not the month-to-month price. Individual $69/month, or $50 on annual billing. Team $129, or $100 annually. Team x2 $209, or $169. Agency $499, or $410. There is a hidden middle step: two dropdowns inside the Team column (position checks 50,000 or 99,999, API credits 200,000 or 400,000) move Team to $169/month monthly or $135 annually, so Team is really three price points.
Seats are capped rather than sold: Individual is single-user, Team 3, Team x2 6, Agency 30, and no per-seat price is published anywhere — a fourth user means the next tier. The limits matter more than the prices: 100 searches a day on Individual (500 / 1,000 / 5,000 above it), export rows 50,000 a month, and no API at all on the entry plan.
The 7-day trial takes a card, charges $1 to verify, turns on auto-renewal and bills the plan after seven days unless you cancel. Re-verified 2026-08-26: the four annual prices are unchanged, and the page now heads the table with 'save up to 27% with annual discount' and prints the saving per plan — $228, $348, $484 and $1,068 a year. That is the arithmetic that turns $50, $100, $169 and $410 back into $69, $129, $209 and $499, which matters because the monthly column itself is not in the page's HTML at all; only the annual one renders.
The comparison table still carries the two-value Team column (position checks 50,000 or 99,999, API credits 200,000 or 400,000), so the hidden middle step is still there, but its price is printed nowhere on the page today. Three limits worth reading before anyone picks Individual: Site Audit does no JavaScript rendering on that plan, it scans at most 5,000 pages, and its data retention figure is 2 where Team gets 10 and Agency 100.
Re-verified 2026-09-19 on the same page: the four annual figures, the four annual savings and the two-value Team column are all unchanged, as are the seat caps of 1, 3, 6 and 30 and the seven-day trial with its $1 card verification and automatic renewal. What is new on the page is what the plans now sell rather than what they cost — Team upward advertises a ChatGPT and Claude integration over MCP and an AI Overview brand-opportunities report, and a separate LLM Brand Monitor is promoted underneath the plans with its own free scan and no price attached to it.
Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
Category context: Marketing. Across the 29 tools in this category that we researched with a public US-dollar price, the median entry price is $29 a month (lowest paid plan as listed, per seat where the vendor prices per seat). Serpstat’s entry price of $50 a month sits above that median. Compare pricing conditions in the Software Cost Atlas →

Re-read on 24 July 2026, their homepage says 529 billion backlinks, their data hub says 1.1 trillion, and their backlinks page says 1.7 trillion in the prose while its own spec block on that same page says 1.1 trillion. The keyword count reads 8.62 billion on one page and 7.46 billion on another. That is not evidence the data is thin; it is evidence that these numbers cannot serve as a basis for your decision.
Judge it on your own searches during the trial instead. Two other things to weigh. Backlink reports are capped at 10,000 results per report on Team, Team x2 and Agency alike, so paying from $129 to $499 buys more of everything except a deeper backlink report. And 'maximum pages to scan' in a single crawl (5,000 / 25,000 / 50,000) is a far smaller number than the monthly 'pages to audit' allowance it sits next to.
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All-in-one SEO platform — keyword research, competitor analysis, rank tracking, site audit and backlink data — cheaper on annual billing, with a 7-day trial that takes a card and auto-renews.

Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: Gartner Peer Insights, Research, read August 2026
Themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Serpstat ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
Individual at $69 monthly (or $50 annually) is a genuine working plan for one person, but two ceilings decide whether it holds: 100 searches a day, and no API access at all. If either binds you, the floor is Team at $129 monthly — that is where the API, unlimited projects and JavaScript rendering in the site audit start. Watch the middle step there: two dropdowns inside Team (more position checks, more API credits) push it to $169 monthly, which is within $40 of Team x2 at $209, so price the upgrade you actually need against the next tier before you pick.
Above that it is mostly volume: Team x2 doubles the seats to six, Agency takes you to thirty. What no tier fixes is the backlink report ceiling of 10,000 rows, identical on Team, Team x2 and Agency.
Treat the trial as a subscription with a seven-day escape hatch, not as a free look. Serpstat's own FAQ says it takes a card, charges $1 to verify and returns it within 5 to 30 minutes. It turns on auto-renewal when the trial starts, and bills the plan automatically after seven days unless you cancel. Put that date in your calendar before you do anything else. Then spend the week on the only question that matters.
Run your own keywords, in your own country, and compare what comes back against what you already know to be true — that tells you more than any published database size, especially given those figures contradict each other. Watch the daily search counter while you do it; on Individual it stops at 100 a day, which is easy to hit in an afternoon of research and is the limit most likely to force you up a tier.
Distilled from Serpstat's own pricing page, pricing FAQ, trial page and data-product pages, all re-read on 24 July 2026
The natural comparison is SE Ranking — the closest self-serve rival on price and scope — both sell the full workflow well under what the incumbents charge, so the decision comes down to which one's data holds up on your own market and how each counts its limits. Compare the units carefully: a daily allowance and a monthly stock are not the same number, and both vendors mix them. Verify both current price lists yourself..
Only if you pay for a year up front. Read on 19 September 2026, the plan cards render the annual view and nothing else — $50, $100, $169 and $410 a month for Individual, Team, Team x2 and Agency — under a heading that says you save up to 27% with the annual discount. The month-to-month column is not on the page at all. What the page does print is the saving per plan: $228, $348, $484 and $1,068 a year. Divide those by twelve and add them back and you get the real month-to-month rates of roughly $69, $129, $209 and $499. So the gap between the two ways of paying is about a fifth to a quarter of the bill, and the number you are reading is the lower one. Budget from the figure you will actually be billed, not from the card.
Fewer than you would guess, and you cannot buy your way around it a seat at a time. The comparison table, read 19 September 2026, puts an em dash under multi-user access on Individual — it is a single-user plan — then 3 users on Team, 6 on Team x2 and 30 on Agency. No per-seat price is published anywhere on the page. That makes the fourth person on a Team plan an upgrade rather than an add-on: $100 a month becomes $169, and the seventh person makes it $410. Serpstat's own FAQ points small agencies at Team and names the three-member limit in the same breath. Count the people who will log in before you compare this with anything else, because on headcount the cheap tier stops being cheap in one step.
You are billed unless you cancel, and the trial takes a card to start. Serpstat's own pricing FAQ, read 19 September 2026, is unusually direct about it: the trial runs seven days and gives you Individual or Team access; you enter a card for verification, which charges $1 and returns it to your account in five to thirty minutes; and — their wording — after initiating a free trial plan, auto-renewal of the plan is automatically activated, so if the renewal is not cancelled the plan amount is withdrawn after seven days. That is a trial that converts by default rather than one that lapses. Put the cancellation date in your calendar on day one, and use the week on your own keywords: seven days is enough to judge the data, and the bill arrives whether you did or not.
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