Conductor alternative Which tool replaces which part of Conductor?

Eight tools for the whole suite, the technical part or AI visibility. With strengths, limits and prices, as of October 2026.

Michael Weber
Michael WeberFounder of searchVIU, around 20 years of SEO experience · updated on October 17, 2026

searchVIU is one of the tools in this comparison. How we compared them and where the information comes from is explained at the end of the page.

In short

You want to replace the whole suite and need rank tracking down to city level.seoClarity
Keyword and competitor data with a long history and automatic optimizations are the priority.BrightEdge
Market data, backlinks and AI visibility should sit in one contract, including in an Adobe environment.Semrush Enterprise
Your team mainly uses monitoring, rank tracking and AI visibility. Content is created elsewhere, or a relaunch is coming up.searchVIU
SEO checks should run in the CI/CD pipeline and be able to stop builds.Lumar
Log file analysis and rolling out changes without developers are the focus.Botify
AI visibility is the main topic, with many engines and prompt volume.Profound
You want to measure AI visibility daily and in self-service.Peec AI
Content creation is the main reason for Conductor, or your procurement requires SOC 2.Stay with Conductor

What Conductor is today

Conductor is a US platform for SEO and AI search made up of four products. Intelligence measures rankings, market share and visibility in AI answers. Creator writes content drafts. Monitoring, formerly ContentKing, monitors the website technically. AgentStack bundles the Data API, an MCP server, apps for ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot, and ready-made agents. In 2023 Conductor also acquired Searchmetrics.

What Conductor does well

  • Four tasks sit in one platform, with a shared data basis and no price per user.
  • AI visibility covers nine engines, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Grok, Copilot and Perplexity. The interval can be set per topic, up to daily.
  • Creator writes briefs and drafts and follows the brand voice and compliance rules from the Content Profiles.
  • Monitoring requests all pages within the booked scope again and again in a queue, important pages more often. It checks the robots.txt every 5 minutes.
  • Conductor is certified to ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 Type II. SSO is available from the Growth package.

How Conductor bills

Conductor does not publish prices. Billing is based on usage, in three packages called Essentials, Growth and Enterprise. AI visibility uses AI Search Credits, with a different number per prompt depending on the engine. According to the pricing page, Essentials and Growth each include 2,500 credits per year. According to Conductor, daily queries increase consumption significantly. In Monitoring, JavaScript rendering is missing from Essentials and costs extra in the higher packages.

Why teams look for an alternative

The suite plays to its strengths when a team uses all four products. If you mainly need monitoring and rankings, you may wonder whether a smaller setup is enough. There are also limits in the product. The AI assistant Ask Conductor and the MCP server do not access the monitoring data. There is no BigQuery connector; Conductor points to its own Data API instead. For relaunches Conductor offers a service, but there is no tool for it in the product. Alerts go out by email, Slack, Teams or in the app. There is no webhook.

Which part of the suite do you want to replace?

We have not found a tool that replaces Conductor one to one. The alternatives cover different amounts. The graphic shows schematically how each type checks the website over one week.

Replace the whole suite

Rankings, AI visibility, content and audit in a different platform. These suites capture the website in a scheduled crawl. This is how seoClarity, BrightEdge and Semrush Enterprise work.

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Technology, rankings and AI in one tool

A complete crawl every week, more often on request, plus Page Watch for the most important pages. Rank Tracking and AI visibility come as add-ons; content is created elsewhere. This is how searchVIU works.

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Only the technical part

Crawls at fixed times, often very fast and with log files. For rankings and content you need a second tool. This is how Lumar and Botify work.

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Stay with Conductor

Monitoring requests all pages one after another in a queue, important ones more often. The other three products of the suite come on top.

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Crawl of the websiteindividual requests in betweenSchematic, one week from Monday to Sunday

Profound and Peec AI are missing from this overview because they do not crawl a website. They query AI engines with fixed prompts and replace only the AI part of Intelligence. For the technical basis you then need a crawl or monitoring tool as well.

Which tool replaces which part

Rankings and keyword data

seoClarity, BrightEdge and Semrush Enterprise come with their own keyword databases. searchVIU measures the rankings of your keywords as an add-on, without a database for research. Lumar has no rank tracking; Botify uses Search Console data.

AI visibility

All tools on this page measure it, with different numbers of engines and different intervals. Profound and Peec AI do only this. searchVIU measures ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode weekly, with share of voice, sentiment, recommendations and the sources the answers cite. SEO Monitoring also includes llms.txt Monitoring, which checks the file once a day and reports changes.

Content creation

Replacements for Creator come mainly from the suites. seoClarity has an AI Content Writer and Content Briefs, BrightEdge a content area, Semrush Enterprise content audits and content optimization. searchVIU, Lumar and Botify do not create content.

Technical monitoring

searchVIU covers it with a weekly crawl and Page Watch for the most important pages. Lumar and Botify crawl on a schedule. For the suites, monitoring between two crawls is not documented, or only for page groups.

API, MCP and agents

Among the alternatives on this page, searchVIU, Lumar, Botify, seoClarity and Peec AI have an MCP server. The searchVIU MCP server reads the project's data and cannot change anything. We have not found official apps in ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot for any of the alternatives.

The alternatives

Every card has the same fields. The information comes from the vendors' websites, pricing pages and documentation, last checked on October 17, 2026.

searchVIU

Ours

SEO monitoring and crawling for complex websites, with relaunch comparison, reports and data consulting. Project data in the EU.

ApproachFull crawl plus Page WatchMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included
DataProject data in the EU
searchVIU: overview of SEO issues in the demo project
searchVIU, issue overview in the demo project

Strengths

  • Full crawl every week, more often if you want. Every URL is rendered in Chrome at no extra cost.
  • Page Watch checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day, from 1,000 pages depending on the project. If Page Watch detects a change, the alert usually arrives within a few minutes. searchVIU checks the robots.txt every 15 minutes and sitemaps daily.
  • Alerts are weighted by the share of affected URLs and Search Console clicks. They arrive by email, Slack, Teams or webhook.

Limits

  • searchVIU sees all other pages in the full crawl, once a week.
  • No CI/CD integration that can stop a build.
  • No SSO, interface in English.

Good fit for In-house SEO teams with complex websites, as well as agencies.

Add-ons AI visibility from €199, log file analysis from €199, Rank Tracking from €99 per month, each only together with SEO Monitoring. Migration Pack from €1,999 one-off. robots.txt and llms.txt monitoring are part of SEO Monitoring.

Consulting Up to 250,000 URLs: 30 minutes per month with the team
From 250,000 URLs: one hour per month with a senior consultant

Details on searchVIU
Price
Public, excl. VAT. From €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included. Larger websites according to a tiered scale, with guide prices in the calculator on the pricing page. Add-ons are only available together with SEO Monitoring. AI visibility costs from €199 per month with 300 prompts included, log file analysis from €199 and Rank Tracking from €99 with 500 keywords per market. The Migration Pack for relaunches costs from €1,999 one-off.
Specific to searchVIU
Before-and-after comparison per URL during a relaunch, weighted by clicks.
Security
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, project data in the EU (Google Cloud). No AI training with customer data.

Compared with Conductor Takes over the tasks of Monitoring, rank tracking and AI visibility. For content creation and keyword research you need another tool. Prices are public, JavaScript rendering costs nothing extra, and alerts also go out by webhook.

seoClarity

US suite for SEO and AI search. Content Guard monitors selected page groups.

ApproachScheduled audit, page groups closelyMTWTFSS
Pricefrom $2,500 (as of 2022)
DataProcessing also in the USA

Strengths

  • Content Guard checks selected page groups daily or hourly and archives HTML, JS and CSS.
  • Many alert channels, including webhook and SMS.
  • Rank tracking down to city and ZIP code, AI visibility in nine engines.

Limits

  • The entire website only via a scheduled audit, weekly to monthly.
  • No documented weighting of alerts by traffic.

Good fit for Brands, corporations and agencies with extensive rank tracking needs.

Details on seoClarity
Price
Partly public, in US dollars. Research & Content from $2,500, Technical SEO from $3,200, Enterprise from $4,500 per month, according to the pricing page as of October 2022. AI visibility on request.
Specific to seoClarity
Rank tracking down to geo-coordinates, split tests with ClarityAutomate as an add-on.
Security
SOC 2 Type 2, SSO. Data may be processed in the USA, safeguarded by standard contractual clauses.

Compared with Conductor Similarly broad as Conductor, deeper in rank tracking and implementation. seoClarity checks the whole website only in the scheduled audit.

BrightEdge

US platform for SEO and AI search with a keyword database, AI visibility, recommendations and a site audit (ContentIQ).

ApproachRecurring crawl, interval not statedMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
Datanot named

Strengths

  • Keyword and competitor data with ten years of history in Data Cube X.
  • AI visibility for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity alongside Google Search.
  • ContentIQ crawls on a recurring basis and on demand, for example before a migration.

Limits

  • Interval, rendering and alerts of ContentIQ are not documented.
  • We have not found continuous monitoring, robots.txt monitoring or sitemap monitoring.

Good fit for Enterprise marketing and SEO teams who want keyword data and recommendations in one platform.

Details on BrightEdge
Price
Not public. Entry via a demo; no trial is listed.
Specific to BrightEdge
Autopilot carries out optimizations on the website automatically.
Security
ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, SOC 2, SSO. Hosting location not stated; according to BrightEdge compliant with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Compared with Conductor Direct suite competitor with a focus on data and recommendations. Technical monitoring between two crawls is not documented.

Semrush Enterprise

Semrush's enterprise offering, part of Adobe since April 2026. Keyword, domain and backlink databases, AI visibility and the Site Intelligence crawler, which according to Semrush builds on Ryte's crawling technology.

ApproachCrawl daily or on demand, according to the providerMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
DataUSA

Strengths

  • Databases with 28.7 billion keywords and 43 trillion backlinks, according to the provider.
  • AI Optimization shows mentions, sources and competitors in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini.
  • Site Intelligence renders JavaScript and Shadow DOM and analyzes AI bots such as GPTBot.

Limits

  • Alert rules, channels, interval and history of Site Intelligence are not publicly documented.
  • Prices not public. We have not found certifications for the enterprise offering.

Good fit for Teams who want market data, backlinks, AI visibility and crawl in one contract.

Details on Semrush Enterprise
Price
Not public, entry via a demo. The public Semrush plans do not apply to the enterprise offering.
Specific to Semrush Enterprise
Backlink database, social listening and a joint offering with Adobe.
Security
SSO via SAML, data centers in the USA according to the Semrush security page. The page does not mention SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

Compared with Conductor More market data with keywords, backlinks and social listening. Technical monitoring is documented much more thinly.

Lumar

Cloud platform for the technical health of large websites, formerly Deepcrawl.

ApproachScheduled crawlsMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
DataAWS, region not named

Strengths

  • Very fast crawls with JavaScript rendering, schedulable up to hourly.
  • Protect checks SEO rules in the CI/CD pipeline and can stop a build.
  • AI visibility in six engines, MCP server for reading and acting.

Limits

  • No ongoing page monitoring, no dedicated robots.txt monitoring. The substitute is frequent crawls, which use up the URL allowance.
  • HTML and screenshots cost credits and are stored for 90 days. Seven crawls stay active.
  • No rank tracking, no redirect mapping. Interface and service in English.

Good fit for Enterprise teams and brands with several domains that want to build SEO checks into the development process.

Details on Lumar
Price
Not public. Price based on requirements, with a URL allowance per billing period; extra features such as stored HTML use credits. Entry via a demo.
Specific to Lumar
Protect, tests in the CI/CD pipeline with build stop.
Security
SOC 2 Type 2, SAML SSO, IP allowlist. Hosted on AWS, region not named.

Compared with Conductor Replaces Monitoring and AI measurement. For rankings and content you need a second tool.

Botify

Platform for crawling, log file analysis and deploying SEO changes, with AI visibility. The AlertPanel monitoring is fully available from the Growth plan.

ApproachScheduled crawls, URL list dailyMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
Datanot published

Strengths

  • LogAnalyzer as a core module, with many log sources and up to 36 months of data.
  • PageWorkers deploys changes without developers.
  • Export to BigQuery, GCS, S3 and Redshift.

Limits

  • AlertPanel checks a URL list once every 24 hours.
  • Custom alerts need at least five crawls as a baseline, no webhook.
  • Rankings only from Search Console data, no classic rank tracking.

Good fit for Large websites with a focus on e-commerce, travel and publishing.

Details on Botify
Price
Not public. Five plans, AlertPanel fully available from Growth. Botify does not mention a trial.
Specific to Botify
SpeedWorkers serves pre-rendered pages to bots.
Security
SOC 2, SSO in enterprise plans, hosting location not published.

Compared with Conductor Stronger on logs and implementation. For rank tracking and content you need a second tool.

Profound

US platform for AI visibility and AI marketing. It measures how AI engines answer your prompts and counts AI bot requests from your CDN logs.

ApproachNo crawl, prompts dailyMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
Datanot stated

Strengths

  • In the Enterprise plan, up to nine engines daily, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude.
  • According to the provider, Prompt Volumes shows how often topics come up in real AI chats.
  • Agent Analytics analyzes bot requests, with connections to Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS, Fastly, Vercel and others.

Limits

  • Prices on request only. The trial runs for 7 days with three engines, without export, API or support.
  • No website crawl, no technical SEO monitoring, no rank tracking.

Good fit for Large brands for whom AI search is a main topic and who want to measure many engines daily.

Details on Profound
Price
Not public. Enterprise individually priced. 7-day trial with 50 prompts daily in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
Specific to Profound
Prompt Volumes, visibility in ChatGPT Shopping and the AI Marketer agent.
Security
SSO via SAML and SOC 2 in the Enterprise plan. Data location not stated on the pages we checked.

Compared with Conductor Deeper in AI visibility. Website monitoring and rankings are missing.

Peec AI

AI search analytics from Berlin. Measures visibility, position, sentiment and sources in AI answers, and counts AI bot requests from CDN logs or uploaded log files.

ApproachNo crawl, prompts dailyMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €85 per month
DataCompany in Berlin, hosting not stated

Strengths

  • Prompts run every day in all plans, with three models from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI.
  • Sources down to the individual page, with citation share and classification of the source, plus gap analysis and fact checks.
  • Agent Analytics checks the robots.txt for more than 40 bots and counts AI bot requests via Cloudflare, AWS, Vercel, Akamai or CSV upload. Plus API, MCP server and unlimited users.

Limits

  • No website crawl and no rank tracking.
  • Three models per plan, each additional one costs extra. Agent Analytics is included in all plans, with a monthly quota of bot visits per plan. Once it is reached, Peec AI stores no new data until the end of the month (as of November 4, 2026).

Good fit for SEO and content teams who want to measure AI visibility daily in self-service.

Details on Peec AI
Price
Public, in euros. Monthly: Starter €85 with 50 prompts, Pro €205 with 150, Advanced €425 with 350 prompts; with annual payment €70, €180 and €360 per month. Enterprise individually priced with up to 13 models. An additional model costs from €30 per month depending on the plan, from €25 with annual payment.
Specific to Peec AI
Share of answers per source, counted at page level, and a daily interval in every plan.
Security
DPA linked, SSO in the Enterprise plan. Certifications and data location not documented.

Compared with Conductor Replaces only the AI part of Intelligence, with public plans and a daily interval.

Stay with Conductor

Conductor

US platform for SEO and AI search. Its technical monitoring is called Conductor Monitoring, formerly ContentKing. The platform also includes Intelligence for rankings and AI visibility, Creator for content, and AgentStack.

ApproachAll pages in a queueMTWTFSS
Pricenot public
DataCompany in NL, data center not named

Strengths

  • Requests all pages within the booked volume again and again in a queue. Important, frequently changed and faulty pages come up more often.
  • robots.txt every 5 minutes, sitemaps up to hourly.
  • Plus the suite with rank tracking, AI visibility in nine engines and content creation.

Limits

  • Conductor does not publish how often an individual page comes up.
  • JavaScript rendering is not available in Essentials, and is an add-on from Growth. Full HTML only in Enterprise, screenshots not documented.
  • No custom webhook, no relaunch tool in the product. The MCP server does not provide monitoring data.

Good fit for Enterprise teams that want monitoring, rankings, AI visibility and content from one suite, or that need SOC 2 for procurement.

Details on Conductor
Price
Not public, billed by usage. Packages Essentials (100,000 pages, 3 websites), Growth (500,000 pages, 5 websites) and Enterprise. AI queries cost AI Search Credits. 21-day trial.
Specific to Conductor
robots.txt every 5 minutes, with a record of which bot saw which version.
Security
ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, DPA. SSO from Growth, for Monitoring only together with Intelligence or Creator. For Monitoring, the contracting party and hosting provider are based in the Netherlands; Conductor does not name the data center location.

Compared with Conductor Keep using the suite with Intelligence, Creator, Monitoring and AgentStack, or adjust the package and add specialist tools for individual parts. Above all, check which of the four products your team actually uses.

Comparison at a glance

At the top are the capabilities for technical SEO monitoring, below them three that belong more to a suite. Hover over a cell or tap it to see what the rating is based on.

Full crawlDoes the tool capture every URL, including JavaScript?
Monitoring between crawlsDoes it notice changes without waiting for the next crawl?
Alerts by impactDoes the important stuff come first, without the noise?
History per URLCan you see what changed when, with HTML and a screenshot?
Checks before releaseAre errors on staging caught?
Relaunch and migrationIs there a per-URL comparison in the product?
Combining dataCrawl, Search Console, analytics and logs in one place?
Standard reportsAre there ready-made reports that stay up to date?
Reports on demandDoes the vendor build reports for you with its own data pipeline?
Log file analysisAre bot requests analyzed?
Service and consultingDoes someone help you with setup and analysis?
Security and data protectionCertification, data location, DPA?
Price and getting startedAre prices public?
Beyond that
AI visibility, GEO
Rankings and Search Console performance
Working with AIAI assistant or MCP with the data?
Full crawl: Partial. Monitors all pages within the booked volume continuously. JavaScript rendering is not available in Essentials, and is an add-on from Growth.
Monitoring between crawls: Yes. Requests all pages in a queue again and again, important ones more often. Conductor does not name an interval per page. robots.txt every 5 minutes, sitemaps up to hourly.
Alerts by impact: Yes. Weighted by importance score and number of affected pages, sensitivity adjustable. Email, Slack, Teams and in the app. According to the documentation, Conductor does not support custom webhooks.
History per URL: Partial. Stores changes to values such as title, status code and hreflang, up to 60 months depending on the contract. Headers from Growth, full HTML only in Enterprise, screenshots not documented. Older changes only in weekly steps.
Checks before release: Partial. Staging can be monitored with HTTP auth. A comparison with live is not documented.
Relaunch and migration: No. No tool in the product, support only as a service.
Combining data: Yes. Search Console and GA4 in all packages, Adobe Analytics from Growth, logs via CDN integrations, reporting API and Looker connector.
Standard reports: Yes. Page and issue overview, dashboard and a weekly report by email. Plus reports and templates in Conductor Intelligence.
Reports on demand: Partial. Workspaces as a toolkit for custom reports and a Looker connector. Conductor offers data analysis as a consulting service; scope and price are not published.
Log file analysis: Yes. Via CDN integrations, with AI bots. An add-on in Essentials and Growth, no upload.
Service and consulting: Partial. Customer success manager for training and planning, onboarding with setup. Further services on a project basis; whether they are included in the price is not published. Interface in English.
Security and data protection: Yes. ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2 Type II, DPA, SSO from Growth. Contracting party and hosting provider for Monitoring in the Netherlands, data center not named.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices. Packages Essentials, Growth and Enterprise, 21-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Nine AI engines, billed via AI Search Credits.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Rank tracking weekly, daily selectable, in Conductor Intelligence.
Working with AI: Partial. Extensive MCP offering, but without monitoring data. Ask Conductor uses AI and keyword data.
Full crawl: Yes. Full crawl every week, every URL rendered in Chrome. More often is possible but rarely necessary.
Monitoring between crawls: Yes. Page Watch checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day, from 1,000 pages depending on the project. The weekly full crawl checks all other pages. If Page Watch detects a change, the alert usually arrives within a few minutes by email, Slack, Teams or webhook. Plus robots.txt every 15 minutes and sitemaps daily.
Alerts by impact: Yes. Weighted by the share of affected URLs and Search Console clicks, with severities and custom rules per segment. Email, Slack, Teams, webhook. Other tools weight alerts too, Conductor for example by an importance score.
History per URL: Yes. Full HTML and a screenshot per URL, week by week, with diffs. 6 months by default.
Checks before release: Partial. Crawls staging and DEV regularly, including behind password protection. Staging Monitoring is in its pilot phase. No CI/CD integration.
Relaunch and migration: Yes. Before-and-after comparison per URL, weighted by clicks. Plus redirect mapping and export. The Migration Pack costs from €1,999 one-off.
Combining data: Yes. Crawl, Search Console, GA4, rankings, AI answers and log files in one project. BigQuery on request.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 80 standard reports, updated every week.
Reports on demand: Yes. searchVIU builds reports beyond the standard reports to your requirements, including with a dedicated data pipeline. Example: products per category, matched against log files and traffic.
Log file analysis: Yes. Add-on from €199 per month. Analyzes bot requests, including AI bots, with verification of genuine bots. Cloudflare and other log sources.
Service and consulting: Yes. Setup by searchVIU. Data consulting included, 30 minutes per month with the team, from 250,000 URLs one hour with a senior consultant. Consulting in German and English, interface in English.
Security and data protection: Yes. ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, project data in the EU (Google Cloud), no AI training with customer data, granular roles. No SSO.
Price and getting started: Yes. From €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included. Larger websites according to a tiered scale, guide prices in the calculator. Entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Add-on from €199 per month, 300 prompts included. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode weekly, more engines and daily queries can be added. Reports on share of voice, sentiment, recommendations and cited sources, plus the sources AI answers cite for competitors but not for you. robots.txt for AI bots and llms.txt monitoring once a day are part of SEO Monitoring.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Rank Tracking as an add-on from €99 per month, 500 keywords per market included. Weekly, daily possible. SEO Performance Monitoring with Search Console data.
Working with AI: Yes. AI assistant and MCP server at no extra cost. The MCP server reads the project's data and cannot change anything.
Full crawl: Partial. Site Audit weekly to monthly. Rendering optional, only from the Core plan.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Content Guard checks selected page groups daily or hourly. We did not find any sitemap monitoring.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Severities from Low to Critical. Email, Slack, Teams, SMS, Zoho Cliq and webhook. No documented weighting by traffic.
History per URL: Partial. HTML, JS and CSS per change, but only for monitored page groups. Retention not published.
Checks before release: Not documented. Crawling a staging environment behind a login is not documented.
Relaunch and migration: No. Only as a service.
Combining data: Yes. BigQuery, Redshift and logs from Professional, plus APIs.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on Site Audit, rankings and Content Guard, plus dashboards.
Reports on demand: Partial. Customizable dashboards and data exports, including to BigQuery. Reports built by the vendor are not described as a service.
Log file analysis: Partial. Bot Clarity from Professional. Log sources not published.
Service and consulting: Yes. Dedicated client success manager for strategy, workflows and training. Professional services included according to the pricing page, additional training as an add-on.
Security and data protection: Partial. SOC 2 Type 2 and SSO. Data may be processed in the USA, safeguarded by standard contractual clauses.
Price and getting started: Partial. “From” prices in US dollars, according to the pricing page as of 2022.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Nine AI engines.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Rank tracking is the core product, down to city and ZIP code.
Working with AI: Partial. MCP server without Content Guard data, assistant Sia with unclear scope.
Full crawl: Partial. ContentIQ crawls on a recurring basis and on demand, according to the provider also JavaScript frameworks. Interval and rendering method are not documented.
Monitoring between crawls: Not documented. Monitoring between crawls is not described.
Alerts by impact: Not documented. We have not found documentation on technical alerts.
History per URL: Not documented. Trend reports are mentioned. Duration and content of the history are not documented.
Checks before release: Not documented. Not documented.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Audits on demand, for example for migrations. A comparison per URL or a redirect mapping is not documented.
Combining data: Not documented. Integrations are mentioned; we have not found a list.
Standard reports: Yes. Reporting is part of the platform.
Reports on demand: Not documented. Not documented.
Log file analysis: Not documented. Not documented.
Service and consulting: Not documented. Not documented.
Security and data protection: Yes. ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, SOC 2 and SSO. Hosting location not stated; according to BrightEdge compliant with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices, entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity, plus mentions and sentiment.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Keyword and ranking data from Data Cube X.
Working with AI: Partial. Copilot gives recommendations, Agent Edge offers AI agents. An MCP server is not documented.
Full crawl: Yes. According to Semrush, Site Intelligence crawls with JavaScript and Shadow DOM, audits daily and on demand.
Monitoring between crawls: Not documented. Only the press release mentions continuous monitoring. How it works is not documented.
Alerts by impact: Not documented. We have not found documentation on technical alerts.
History per URL: Partial. Comparison with earlier crawls. HTML and screenshots per URL are not documented.
Checks before release: Not documented. Not documented.
Relaunch and migration: Not documented. Not documented.
Combining data: Not documented. The data sources in the enterprise offering are not documented.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on SEO, AI visibility and crawl; the scope is not documented.
Reports on demand: Not documented. Not documented.
Log file analysis: Partial. Bot Analytics, for example for GPTBot, according to the provider. The log sources are not documented.
Service and consulting: Partial. Dedicated support according to Adobe. The scope of consulting is not documented.
Security and data protection: Partial. SSO via SAML, data centers in the USA according to the Semrush security page. The page does not mention SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
Price and getting started: No. Enterprise prices not public, entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. AI Optimization with ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Position Tracking and keyword databases.
Working with AI: Partial. MCP server in Semrush's standard plans. Not documented for Enterprise.
Full crawl: Yes. Crawls schedulable up to hourly, with JavaScript rendering.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. No ongoing monitoring. The substitute is frequent crawls or Protect, both of which use up the URL allowance. No dedicated robots.txt monitoring.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Thresholds by number of affected URLs, Smart Alerts with two levels. In the app, by email, Slack and Teams. Lumar reports the results of Protect checks via webhook, but names no webhook for Monitor alerts. Weighting by clicks or traffic is not documented.
History per URL: Partial. HTML and full-page screenshots per URL for credits, stored for 90 days. Seven active crawls, older ones are archived after 60 days.
Checks before release: Yes. Protect checks SEO rules in the CI/CD pipeline and can stop a build.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Comparison against a test site and Changed Metrics. No redirect mapping.
Combining data: Yes. Search Console, GA4, Adobe Analytics, a summary of the logs, GraphQL API and Looker connector.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 250 reports for every crawl.
Reports on demand: Partial. Custom reports from filters and columns, custom metrics. The professional services mention tailored dashboards, price not published.
Log file analysis: Partial. Only a summary of the logs, from Splunk, Logz.io or upload.
Service and consulting: Partial. Customer success, plus professional services as packages or monthly support. Whether included in the price is not published. English only.
Security and data protection: Partial. SOC 2 Type 2 and SAML SSO. Hosted on AWS, region not named, no information on a DPA.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices, entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Six AI engines, up to daily.
Rankings and Search Console performance: No. No rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server for reading and acting. We did not find a chat assistant.
Full crawl: Yes. SiteCrawler runs daily to monthly, with JavaScript rendering.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. AlertPanel checks a URL list once every 24 hours.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Checks statistical significance and needs five crawls as a baseline. No severities, no weighting by traffic. Email, Slack, Teams and in the app; Botify does not mention a webhook.
History per URL: Partial. Crawl trends for 24 months, raw HTML for 1 to 6 months. No timeline per URL.
Checks before release: Partial. Staging can be crawled, the comparison with live is manual work.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Guide with a manual comparison of crawls. No redirect mapping.
Combining data: Yes. Export to BigQuery, GCS, S3 and Redshift from Pro, plus a public API.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports per module, for example for crawl, logs and keywords, plus ActionBoard.
Reports on demand: Partial. Custom dashboards and queries across all data sources. It is not described that Botify builds reports for customers.
Log file analysis: Yes. LogAnalyzer as a core module, many log sources, 13 to 36 months of data.
Service and consulting: Yes. A success manager sets up the platform, trains the team and holds monthly calls. Professional services at no extra cost, consulting separate.
Security and data protection: Partial. SOC 2, SSO and DPA. Location not published.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices, five plans. Botify does not mention a trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Five AI engines, weekly.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Search Console data via RealKeywords, no classic rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. Botify Assist and MCP server.
Full crawl: No. No website crawl.
Monitoring between crawls: No. No technical monitoring of the website.
Alerts by impact: No. No technical alerts.
History per URL: No. Only the history of AI answers.
Checks before release: No. Not available.
Relaunch and migration: No. Not available.
Combining data: Partial. Agent Analytics, API and export. No Search Console.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on AI visibility.
Reports on demand: No. Dashboards and exports; no on-demand reports described.
Log file analysis: Partial. Agent Analytics analyzes requests from AI bots and agents, via fixed integrations.
Service and consulting: Partial. Dedicated support in the Enterprise plan with a 24-hour SLA. Consulting is not described.
Security and data protection: Partial. SOC 2 and SSO only in the Enterprise plan. Data location not stated.
Price and getting started: No. Enterprise prices individual, 7-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Up to nine engines daily in the Enterprise plan.
Rankings and Search Console performance: No. No rank tracking.
Working with AI: Partial. AI Marketer agent and API. An MCP server is not documented.
Full crawl: No. No website crawl.
Monitoring between crawls: No. No technical monitoring of the website.
Alerts by impact: No. No technical alerts.
History per URL: No. Only the history of AI answers.
Checks before release: No. Not available.
Relaunch and migration: No. Not available.
Combining data: Partial. API, MCP server and Looker Studio, plus bot requests from CDN and log sources and Google Analytics. No Search Console or crawl data.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on visibility, position, sentiment and sources.
Reports on demand: No. Dashboards and exports; no on-demand reports described.
Log file analysis: Partial. Agent Analytics counts AI bot requests per page with status code, via Cloudflare, AWS, Vercel, Akamai, webhook or CSV upload. In all plans, with a monthly quota per plan (as of November 4, 2026). Other bots and SEO analyses are not described.
Service and consulting: Not documented. Not documented.
Security and data protection: Not documented. DPA linked, SSO in the Enterprise plan. Certifications and data location are not documented.
Price and getting started: Yes. Public in euros, monthly €85 (50 prompts), €205 (150) and €425 (350); with annual payment €70, €180 and €360 per month. Enterprise individual, entry via self-service.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Daily in all plans. Three models from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver AI, more as an add-on, up to 13 in the Enterprise plan. Sentiment, share of voice, sources and fact checks.
Rankings and Search Console performance: No. No rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server and API.

Yes: included in the product, also as an add-on. Anything that costs extra is stated in the cell. · Partial: only part of it or only in certain plans. · No: not available. · Not documented: the vendor makes no public statement on this. The Conductor column stands for the whole suite.

A combination often fits better than a new suite. One example is searchVIU for technology, rankings and AI visibility plus a separate tool for content. If you need to measure a large number of engines daily, add Profound or Peec AI.

What searchVIU does not replace

searchVIU does not replace these parts of Conductor, or only partly. If one of them matters to you, another tool fits better, or Conductor remains the right choice.

Content creation

searchVIU does not have a content writer like Conductor Creator. For briefs, drafts and content profiles you need a separate tool.

Keyword database and market share

searchVIU measures the rankings of your keywords. There is no keyword database for research and no market share metric.

AI visibility in many engines

By default, searchVIU queries ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode weekly. More engines and daily queries are available as an option. Conductor measures nine engines, up to daily.

All pages in a loop

searchVIU crawls the whole website once a week, more often on request. Page Watch continuously checks the most important pages, from 1,000 depending on the project. Conductor requests all pages within the booked scope again and again in a queue and stores changes for up to 60 months depending on the contract; searchVIU stores HTML and a screenshot per URL for six months.

Ready-made agents and LLM apps

searchVIU has an AI assistant and an MCP server that reads the data. There are no apps in the ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot directories and no ready-made agents like in AgentStack.

SSO and German interface

There is no single sign-on. The interface is in English, consulting is available in German and English.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Conductor cost?
Conductor does not publish prices and bills based on usage. The pricing page lists three packages with quantities. Essentials includes 500 keywords and 100,000 pages in Monitoring, Growth 5,000 keywords and 500,000 pages. Enterprise starts at 60,000 keywords and has no fixed number of pages. A trial is available for three weeks.
Is Conductor the same as ContentKing?
Conductor acquired ContentKing in 2022; since 2025 the product has been called Conductor Monitoring. It is one of four Conductor products. If you only want to replace the monitoring, you will find the more suitable tools on the ContentKing alternative page.
Can I replace only part of Conductor?
On the pricing page, every package includes Intelligence, Creator and Monitoring. Whether individual products can be booked separately is not stated there. If in doubt, ask Conductor directly.
Which alternative replaces Conductor completely?
The closest are the suites seoClarity, BrightEdge and Semrush Enterprise. All three have rankings, AI visibility, content tools and an audit. How they monitor the website between two crawls is not documented, or only partly, for all three.
Is there a Conductor alternative with public prices?
searchVIU lists prices from €399 per month for SEO Monitoring, 50,000 URLs included. The add-ons have “from” prices, for example AI visibility from €199 per month with 300 prompts. Peec AI shows its plans publicly. seoClarity lists “from” prices in US dollars, as of 2022 according to the pricing page.

How we compared

We read the vendors' websites, pricing pages and documentation, as of October 17, 2026. Review portals and third-party estimates are not included. We did not use accounts or trials for this comparison. The information on searchVIU comes from our own product.

Vendors change their products and prices, and we may also overlook something. If any information seems outdated or wrong to you, write to us. We will check it and update the page.

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