Seobility vs Sistrix: Fixing Your Site or Reading the Market
By Joris van Huët
Enterprise Interim CMO & Marketing Leader · 15+ years · 50+ orgs
Published
2026-10-24
The short answer: if the first question is what is broken on your own website, Seobility answers it: the free Basic plan audits 100 pages per crawl, and Premium crawls 25,000 pages across 3 projects and monitors 300 keywords for €59.90 a month plus VAT (Seobility pricing, checked on 24 October 2026). If the question is how your domain and your competitors are moving in Google across more than 40 countries, that is what Sistrix and its Visibility Index are for, from €119 a month plus taxes on Start (Sistrix pricing). One looks inward. The other looks at the market.
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Questions to answer before a trial:
- What does a year cost on monthly billing? For example, Seobility Premium is 12 x €59.90 = €718.80 and Sistrix Start is 12 x €119 = €1,428, both before tax, on the Seobility and Sistrix pricing pages. The €709.20 between them buys market data; decide whether you will read it every month.
- How many pages does your site have? Your CMS knows. Seobility's crawl limits run 100, 25,000, 50,000 and 100,000 pages by plan; Sistrix Start allows 30,000 URLs crawled in projects (Sistrix pricing). A 60-page company site fits the free Seobility plan.
- Who are the two competitors your board asks about? Run them and yourself through Sistrix's free Visibility Index Check, which needs no account. If the board asks about them every quarter, the market view earns its price.
- What will count as progress? For Seobility, the number of issues closed between two crawls. For Sistrix, the visibility trend set beside your clicks in the Search Console performance report. When the two disagree, trust the clicks.
Seven questions, two answers
| Question you have | Seobility | Sistrix |
|---|---|---|
| What is broken on my site? | Website audit, 25,000 pages per crawl on Premium, JavaScript crawling (pricing) | On-page projects, 30,000 URLs crawled on Start (pricing) |
| Where do I rank? | 300 keywords; desktop daily, mobile every three days | 2,500 SERP updates on Start |
| How visible am I against rivals? | Competitor monitoring, 20 on Premium | The Visibility Index across its domain and keyword databases (homepage) |
| Who links to me? | Backlink monitoring, updated weekly | Backlink index |
| What do AI answers say? | AI visibility tracking listed as coming soon | AI Check and prompt tracking in beta, at no extra cost for now |
| Can an assistant query it? | MCP server in beta, paid plans (MCP page) | MCP server for all accounts (changelog); API from Plus |
| How many people? | Up to 3 members on Professional, unlimited on Agency | 1 user on Start, 3 on Plus, extra users €24.90 a month |
Where they differ
Your own pages, or the whole market
Seobility is built around a crawl of your site. Paid plans re-crawl without limit at an interval you set, check for pages blocked to AI bots, and monitor uptime as often as every three minutes, per its pricing page. Sistrix is built around data it collects on everyone. Its Start package opens the domain and keyword databases for over 40 countries so you can analyse your site and your competitors' and find openings, per its pricing FAQ. An owner with an error-strewn site needs the first. A head of marketing explaining why a rival overtook them needs the second.
What a euro buys at entry
At €59.90, Seobility Premium gives 3 projects, 25,000 pages per crawl and 300 tracked keywords. At €119, Sistrix Start gives one user, 3 projects, 3 months of data history and 10,000 results per analysis; history extends to 5 years on Plus at €239 and to the full 11 years on Professional at €419 (Sistrix pricing). If historical comparisons matter, Start's three months will feel short within a quarter.
People and the API
Seobility adds member accounts from Professional, at €99.90 a month for up to three, with unlimited members on Agency (pricing). Sistrix includes 3 users on Plus and sells extras at €24.90 each; full API access starts on Professional, with basic functions such as the Visibility Index from Plus, per its API documentation. A team that wants Sistrix data in its own dashboards is a Professional customer.
Free first: one crawl and three domains
Start with what costs nothing. Seobility's free Basic plan, with no card and no time limit, gives 1 project, 100 pages per crawl, 10 tracked keywords and 3 AI prompts (pricing). Crawl your site and work the top of the issue list. Then use Sistrix's free tools: the Visibility Index Check for your domain and two rivals, the Google Update Check to see whether an update hit you, and SISTRIX Smart for a free on-page analysis. Both also offer 14-day trials. If the free crawl and the free check answer this quarter's questions, neither subscription is urgent.
Prices in euros, checked on 24 October 2026
| Package | Per month, before tax | Projects | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seobility Basic | Free | 1 | Account holder only |
| Seobility Premium | €59.90 | 3 | Account holder only |
| Seobility Professional | €99.90 | 7 | Up to 3 members |
| Seobility Agency | €209.90 | 20 | Unlimited members |
| Sistrix Start | €119 | 3 | 1 |
| Sistrix Plus | €239 | 15 | 3 |
| Sistrix Professional | €419 | 40 | 6 |
| Sistrix Premium | €799 | 100 | 12 |
Monthly billing, from the Seobility pricing page and the Sistrix pricing page. Seobility's annual billing saves 20%; Sistrix offers an annual contract with lower monthly costs and says every customer pays the same price, with no discounts. Sistrix invoices in euros; enterprise customers can be billed in other currencies.
The index belongs to the vendor
Sistrix's homepage quotes an adviser calling its Visibility Index the standard for measuring SEO success (homepage). It is a useful market measure, and it is also the vendor's own unit, computed by the vendor from the data it collects. A vendor that defines the scoreboard has every reason for you to keep score in it. Use it to read the market; judge your own results in clicks, leads and revenue.
A crawl started from a chat
Seobility documents an MCP server, in beta on its paid plans, that connects ChatGPT or Claude to your Seobility data (MCP page). One of its example prompts starts a crawl for a named project and lists the top issues. One step of a monthly site check: you ask the assistant to start the crawl and return the five most severe issues with the pages affected. A person opens each in the Seobility app, confirms it is real and not a crawler setting, and only then writes the ticket for the developer. The page also offers fixes through a connection to your CMS; leave that off until the human check has run for a few months.
Sistrix opened its MCP server to all accounts with OAuth and added its Prompt Research data in August 2026, so a chatbot can run topic research on its data (changelog).
Choose Seobility if your job is
- Finding and fixing technical and on-page problems on your own sites.
- Monitoring rankings and uptime for a small business on a two-figure monthly budget.
- Starting free on a site of 100 pages or fewer.
Choose Sistrix if your job is
- Measuring visibility against competitors across Google markets.
- Explaining a traffic change with years of history behind it, on Plus or above.
- Pulling market data into your own reports through the API, on Professional.
The Seobility entry and how to use Seobility cover its audit step by step.
FAQ
Are these prices with or without VAT?
Without. Seobility lists its prices plus VAT, and Sistrix lists its packages per month plus taxes, on their pricing pages (Seobility, Sistrix).
Can I cancel either one monthly?
Yes. Seobility's monthly contract renews each month and can be cancelled at any time without a notice period, and Sistrix says it can be cancelled monthly, per the two pricing pages, checked on 24 October 2026.
Does Seobility track AI answers today?
Not yet: its pricing page lists AI visibility tracking as coming soon. Sistrix's AI Check and prompt tracking are in beta and included in all packages for now, and Sistrix reserves the right to price them separately later (pricing).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am Joris van Huët, an enterprise interim CMO. 15+ years, 50+ organizations, including ING, P&G, Nestlé, BNP Paribas, WeTransfer and Vinted. I take on innovation projects (venture building, design sprints), agentic marketing (setting up and running AI agents) and hands-on multi-channel work. See the track record.
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