SISTRIX alternative Do you want to replace the suite or expand your monitoring?

Six suites and one monitoring tool, 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 a cheaper suite with rankings, an audit and GEO tracking.SE Ranking
You look after many projects and want a German vendor.XOVI
Your website is small, and so is your budget.Seobility
You work internationally and need ads and content tools in the same tool.Semrush
Backlinks are at the center of your work.Ahrefs
You are coming from Searchmetrics or need an enterprise platform with ongoing monitoring.Conductor
The on-page part of SISTRIX is not enough for you, for example with a large website, many releases or a relaunch.searchVIU
Your reporting depends on the Visibility Index, and more monitoring can be added.Stay with SISTRIX

Which part of SISTRIX do you want to replace?

SISTRIX is a complete suite. Visibility Index, keyword database, rank tracking, backlinks, AI visibility and the Optimizer for your own website all come in one package. Which alternative fits depends on which part you want to replace.

The whole suite

Then Semrush, SE Ranking, Ahrefs, XOVI and Seobility are the right candidates. For enterprise teams, Conductor joins the list.

Only the on-page and monitoring part

If the Optimizer is not enough for you, for example with a large website or before a relaunch, take a look at searchVIU. Ahrefs, SE Ranking and Conductor also offer ongoing audits.

Keep SISTRIX and add to it

SISTRIX stays in charge of visibility and competitors. A monitoring tool watches your own website. More on this in the card “Stay with SISTRIX” further down.

What SISTRIX is today

SISTRIX is an SEO suite from Germany. The Visibility Index has existed since 2008. The software is divided into three areas: Google, AI visibility and Amazon. Prices are public and range from €119 per month for Start to €799 for Premium, excl. VAT and cancelable monthly. Since 2026, mainly AI features have been added, such as Prompt Tracking, Prompt Research and an MCP server for all users.

What SISTRIX does well

  • The Visibility Index is available for every domain immediately, without setup, and in the larger packages with up to eleven years of history. Many teams in the DACH region report with this metric.
  • SISTRIX measures rankings daily in over 350 country and language combinations and in over 10,000 cities.
  • AI visibility covers AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity. The features currently run as a beta at no extra cost.
  • The servers are in the EU, there is SSO via SAML and German-language support by email and phone.

How the Optimizer checks your own website

For your own website, there is the Optimizer. It usually crawls the website once a week, or every two or four weeks or manually if you prefer, and renders JavaScript in the process. Between two crawls, it checks once a minute whether the homepage is reachable. Quality assurance shows what has changed from crawl to crawl, such as new or vanished URLs and changed titles. Besides HTML pages, the monthly allowance also counts resources and external links. SISTRIX does not describe any monitoring of the robots.txt or sitemaps.

Why teams look for an alternative

Often it is about the price. Full API access and more users only come with the higher packages, and Professional costs €419 per month. Other teams work in many countries and need a database that goes beyond the DACH region. A smaller group has a large website with many releases and needs more monitoring than the Optimizer offers between two crawls. Different tools fit these three cases.

Which type of tool do you need?

The tools on this page work in three ways, and free tools come on top for occasional checks. The graphic shows schematically how each type checks your own website over one week.

SEO suite with databases

Delivers rankings, keywords, backlinks and metrics from large databases. The suite crawls your own website at a fixed interval. This is how SISTRIX, Semrush, SE Ranking, Ahrefs, XOVI and Seobility work.

MTWTFSS
Full crawl plus Page Watch

Crawls the entire website every week, more often if you want, and checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day. This is how searchVIU works.

MTWTFSS
All pages in a queue

Requests all pages one after another, again and again, important ones more often. This is how Conductor Monitoring, formerly ContentKing, works.

MTWTFSS
Free tools

Search Console, a desktop crawler such as the free version of Screaming Frog with 500 URLs, or SISTRIX Smart. For websites that are only checked occasionally, that is often enough. SISTRIX makes the same argument on its own page about alternatives.

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

The lines are blurred. Ahrefs adds a background crawl to its audit, and SE Ranking monitors selected pages at a set interval. What matters is how often which pages are checked and whether an alert arrives when something changes.

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 SISTRIX Both crawl the whole website weekly with JavaScript. Between crawls, SISTRIX checks whether the homepage is reachable, while searchVIU checks the most important pages, the robots.txt and the sitemaps. On top of that come log files, HTML and a screenshot per URL for six months, and the relaunch comparison. The Visibility Index, the keyword database and daily rankings in many markets stay with SISTRIX.

Semrush

International SEO suite with Site Audit, rank tracking, keyword, backlink and competitor data, and AI visibility. Part of Adobe since April 2026.

ApproachSuite, Site Audit daily or weeklyMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €134 per month
DataUSA

Strengths

  • Large proprietary database on keywords, backlinks, competitors and AI prompts, for many countries.
  • Daily Position Tracking, 500 to over 5,000 keywords depending on the plan. Prompt tracking is included in the plans, the MCP server from Starter.
  • Site Audit with over 140 checks, including AI bot blocks and llms.txt. Re-crawls run in the cloud daily or weekly.

Limits

  • According to the help center, 20,000 to 100,000 pages per audit, depending on the toolkit tier. JavaScript rendering is only available in the higher tiers.
  • Email notification after the audit, other channels only via Zapier. We did not find any monitoring of robots.txt or sitemaps for changes.
  • Data in data centers in the USA. Additional users and toolkits cost extra.

Good fit for Teams that want a large suite with worldwide data on keywords, backlinks and competitors, including an audit.

Details on Semrush
Price
Public, in euros. SEO €134, Starter €190, Pro+ €286 per month, cheaper with annual payment. Advanced on request. 7-day trial and a free plan. The AI Visibility Toolkit is available separately from $99 per month.
Specific to Semrush
Worldwide database on keywords, backlinks and AI prompts, plus tools for ads, social and content in the same suite.
Security
Data centers in the USA, PCI DSS Level 1. SSO via SAML is enabled by support, data processing via a Data Processing Addendum. The security page does not mention SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

Compared with SISTRIX Broader and more international. A Visibility Index with SISTRIX history is missing.

SE Ranking

All-in-one suite with rank tracking, website audit, backlinks and GEO tracking.

ApproachSuite, plus selected pages at a set intervalMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €87.20 per month
Datanot named

Strengths

  • Daily rank tracking, 2,000 keywords in Core, 5,000 in Growth.
  • Website audit with JavaScript rendering, 250,000 pages per month in Core, 2 million in Growth. MCP access in both plans.
  • Page Changes Monitoring for selected pages from Growth, at an interval from daily to monthly.

Limits

  • Page monitoring only for pages you add individually. Alerts by email or in the app.
  • SE Ranking does not name the data location or certifications on its pricing page. The AI Search add-on costs extra.

Good fit for SMEs, agencies and in-house teams watching their budget.

Details on SE Ranking
Price
Public, in euros. Core €87.20 with annual billing (€109 monthly), Growth €188 (€235). The AI Search add-on costs from €63.20 per month (€79 monthly) with 200 prompts. 14-day trial without a credit card.
Specific to SE Ranking
Change monitoring for selected pages with a freely selectable interval in the suite package.
Security
Data location and certifications not stated on the vendor's website.

Compared with SISTRIX Cheaper entry with daily rankings and GEO tracking. A Visibility Index with SISTRIX history is missing.

Ahrefs

International SEO suite from Singapore with its own backlink index, keyword data, Site Audit, Rank Tracker and Brand Radar for AI search.

ApproachSuite, plus background auditMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €119 per month
DataAWS, region not named

Strengths

  • Backlink analysis on its own index as the core product.
  • The Always-on Audit continuously requests pages in the background, important ones first, without crawl credits.
  • Site Audit with JavaScript, 100,000 to 1.5 million crawl credits per month. MCP server from Lite.

Limits

  • Rank Tracker weekly in the standard plan, daily only via an add-on.
  • Always-on alerts only by email, one user included per plan.
  • Hosted on AWS, region not named.

Good fit for Teams focused on backlinks, content and international markets.

Details on Ahrefs
Price
Public, in euros. Lite €119, Standard €229, Advanced €419, Enterprise €1,394 per month, Enterprise only with an annual contract. Brand Radar AI from €179 extra.
Specific to Ahrefs
Always-on Audit, a background crawl at one URL per minute, with a boost of up to 30 for verified websites.
Security
Hosted on AWS, region not named. Data processing with EU standard contractual clauses. According to Ahrefs, SOC 2 is in progress; SSO via SAML is available in the Enterprise plan.

Compared with SISTRIX Stronger on backlinks and internationally. Rankings less frequent in the standard plan, but with an ongoing on-page audit in the background.

XOVI

German SEO suite from Cologne with keyword monitoring, on-page analysis and link checking. AI visibility via Riva GEO.

ApproachSuite, keywords weeklyMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €99 per month
Datanot named

Strengths

  • Unlimited projects in all packages, over 196 countries.
  • Entry from €99, on-page up to 500,000 pages per project in Enterprise.
  • Up to 30 read-only accounts for stakeholders in Enterprise.

Limits

  • Keyword queries per week are capped.
  • Riva GEO names ChatGPT as its engine and checks every two weeks.
  • On-page schedule, alerts and data location not documented. The JavaScript crawler runs as a beta.

Good fit for Agencies and SMEs in the DACH region with many projects.

Details on XOVI
Price
Public. PRO €99, BUSINESS €149, ENTERPRISE €499 per month, excl. VAT. Riva GEO extra.
Specific to XOVI
Unlimited projects in every package.
Security
Headquartered in Cologne, part of WebPros. Hosting and certifications not documented.

Compared with SISTRIX German suite with a cheaper entry and unlimited projects. A Visibility Index with SISTRIX history is not documented.

Seobility

Low-cost SEO suite from Nuremberg, Germany, with website audit, rank tracking, backlinks, uptime check and content tools, for smaller websites and agencies.

ApproachAudit crawl at a fixed interval plus rankingsMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €59.90 per month
DataData location not named

Strengths

  • Audit, rank tracking, backlinks, uptime check and keyword and content tools in one subscription from €59.90 per month, plus a permanently free plan.
  • Rank tracking daily on desktop, every three days on mobile, with cities, Local Pack and AI Overviews tracking.
  • MCP server as a beta. It reads data and can add entries such as keywords.

Limits

  • At most 100,000 pages per project crawl, 25,000 in Premium and 50,000 in Professional.
  • Alerts only by email, no robots.txt or sitemap monitoring as a separate feature. An integration with Search Console or GA4 is not documented.
  • The classic API has been discontinued. AI Visibility Tracking is already listed in the packages but, according to the product page, still runs as a closed beta.

Good fit for Smaller websites, freelancers and agencies with many smaller client websites looking for an inexpensive suite.

Details on Seobility
Price
Public, excl. VAT. Free €0 with 100 pages per crawl, Premium €59.90, Professional €99.90, Agency €209.90 per month. 20% cheaper with annual payment, 14-day trial.
Specific to Seobility
Permanently free plan, backlinks and WDF*IDF tools in the entry price. The uptime check runs every minute in the Agency package, otherwise every 3 to 60 minutes.
Security
Head office in Nuremberg. Seobility does not name the data location, certification or DPA on its website. The privacy policy names Cloudflare as CDN.

Compared with SISTRIX Considerably cheaper and simpler. No Visibility Index, crawl limit of 100,000 pages.

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 SISTRIX Enterprise platform with its own monitoring module. There is no Visibility Index in the SISTRIX sense.

Stay with SISTRIX

SISTRIX

SEO suite from Bonn, Germany, with a visibility index, keyword database, rank tracking, backlinks, on-page crawler and AI section.

ApproachWeekly crawl plus market dataMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €119 per month
DataEU data centers

Strengths

  • Visibility index and keyword database without setup, with up to eleven years of history.
  • Daily rank tracking in over 350 country-language combinations and over 10,000 cities.
  • AI visibility in AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity, as a beta at no extra cost. MCP server for all customers.

Limits

  • The on-page crawl runs automatically at most once a week. In between, SISTRIX only checks whether the homepage is reachable.
  • Changes to pages appear in quality assurance, without a dedicated alert. No log file analysis, no relaunch comparison.
  • The crawl allowance applies per month, and according to the manual, resources and external links count toward it. The full API is only available from Professional.

Good fit for SEO teams in the DACH region who track visibility, rankings and competitors daily and want a weekly on-page crawl as well.

Details on SISTRIX
Price
Public, excl. VAT. Start €119, Plus €239, Professional €419, Premium €799 per month, cancelable monthly. 14-day trial for Start and Plus. Crawl allowance 30,000 to 4 million URLs per month. AI features run as a beta, and SISTRIX reserves the right to price them separately later.
Specific to SISTRIX
Visibility index with its own keyword database and up to eleven years of history, plus backlink data, an Amazon module, and seminars and an academy in German.
Security
Servers exclusively in EU data centers certified to ISO/IEC 27001, core systems operated in-house. The site does not name a certificate for SISTRIX itself or a DPA. SSO via SAML, two-factor login, no AI training with customer data.

Compared with SISTRIX Keep using SISTRIX as a suite, in a higher tier if needed. If you need more monitoring, combine SISTRIX with a monitoring tool. searchVIU does not replace the Visibility Index and the keyword database.

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: Yes. The Optimizer crawls the entire website with JavaScript, usually once a week. The monthly allowance also counts resources and external links.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Between crawls, SISTRIX checks once a minute whether the homepage is reachable. Monitoring of robots.txt or sitemaps is not described.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Alerts for visibility, keywords, rankings and Amazon. In the Optimizer, SISTRIX only warns when the homepage is unreachable.
History per URL: Partial. Quality assurance compares two crawls, for example new and disappeared URLs or changed titles. HTML or screenshots per URL are not documented.
Checks before release: Partial. Staging can be crawled with HTTP login. A comparison with live is not described.
Relaunch and migration: No. No tool in the product. There are guides on relaunches.
Combining data: Partial. Search Console in the Optimizer, Looker Studio connector and API. There are no log files or BigQuery, and GA4 is not documented.
Standard reports: Yes. Report builder, white-label PDF and automatic sending by email.
Reports on demand: Partial. Report builder for building your own reports. Reports that SISTRIX builds for customers are not described.
Log file analysis: No. No log file analysis in the product.
Service and consulting: Partial. Support by email and phone from Monday to Friday, seminars depending on the package. Consulting is not included.
Security and data protection: Partial. Servers exclusively in EU data centers certified to ISO/IEC 27001. The site does not name a certificate for SISTRIX itself or a DPA. SSO via SAML, two-factor login.
Price and getting started: Yes. €119 to €799 per month public, cancelable monthly. 14-day trial for Start and Plus.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity according to the AI page (the manual names three engines), daily or weekly. 9,300 to 139,500 prompt updates per month depending on the package, plus prompt research. Currently a beta at no extra cost.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Daily in over 350 country-language combinations and over 10,000 cities, desktop, mobile and tablet. Search Console data in the Optimizer.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server for all users via OAuth, AI Deep Dives with chat.
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. According to the help center, 20,000 to 100,000 pages per audit, depending on the toolkit tier. JavaScript rendering is only available in the higher tiers.
Monitoring between crawls: No. Scheduled re-crawls daily or weekly. Ongoing monitoring of individual pages is not documented.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Severities per issue, email after the audit. Other channels only via Zapier.
History per URL: Partial. Comparison of two crawls. We did not find a history with HTML or screenshots.
Checks before release: Partial. Site Audit with Basic Auth.
Relaunch and migration: No. A tool for relaunch or migration is not described in the plans or the knowledge base.
Combining data: Partial. Google Analytics connection in Site Audit, log files via upload, plus API and Looker Studio.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports and dashboards for the toolkits, with PDF export.
Reports on demand: Partial. Report builder and white label. Reports by the vendor are not described.
Log file analysis: Partial. Log File Analyzer via upload, for Googlebot and, according to the vendor, AI crawlers too.
Service and consulting: Partial. Help center and onboarding. A consulting scope is not published.
Security and data protection: Partial. Data centers in the USA, PCI DSS Level 1, SSO via SAML through support. SOC 2 or ISO 27001 are not mentioned on the security page.
Price and getting started: Yes. €134 to €286 per month public, Advanced on request. Free plan and 7-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Daily prompts in the plans, plus the AI Visibility Toolkit from $99 per month.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Daily rank tracking, 500 to over 5,000 keywords depending on the plan.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server from the Starter plan.
Full crawl: Yes. Website audit with JavaScript rendering, 250,000 pages per month in Core, 2 million in Growth.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Page Changes Monitoring from Growth for pages you select, at an interval from daily to monthly.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Page Changes Monitoring reports by email or in the app. Weighting by impact is not documented.
History per URL: Partial. Comparison with earlier audits, plus changes on the selected pages.
Checks before release: Not documented. Crawling staging environments is not documented.
Relaunch and migration: Not documented. A relaunch tool is not documented.
Combining data: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on rankings, audit and backlinks, plus an SEO dashboard.
Reports on demand: Partial. Customizable dashboard and white label. Reports built by the vendor are not described.
Log file analysis: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Service and consulting: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Security and data protection: Not documented. Data location and certifications not stated on the vendor's website.
Price and getting started: Yes. Public from €87.20 per month, 14-day trial without a credit card.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. AI Search add-on with daily prompts in AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Daily rank tracking, 2,000 to 5,000 keywords.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP access in Core and Growth, uses API credits.
Full crawl: Yes. Site Audit with JavaScript, 100,000 to 1.5 million crawl credits per month depending on the plan.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. The Always-on Audit requests one URL per minute in the background, with a boost of up to 30 for verified websites. Important pages come first.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Email for a newly broken page, bundled every 30 minutes. There are no other channels for this.
History per URL: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Checks before release: Not documented. Crawling staging environments is not documented.
Relaunch and migration: Not documented. A relaunch tool is not documented.
Combining data: Partial. API available. Log files and BigQuery are not documented.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on Site Audit, Rank Tracker and backlinks.
Reports on demand: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Log file analysis: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Service and consulting: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Security and data protection: Partial. Hosted on AWS, region not named. Data processing with EU standard contractual clauses. According to Ahrefs, SOC 2 is in progress.
Price and getting started: Yes. €119 to €1,394 per month, public.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Brand Radar AI from €179 per month.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Weekly in the standard plan, daily via an add-on.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server from the Lite plan, billed via API units.
Full crawl: Partial. 50,000 to 500,000 pages per project. The JavaScript crawler runs as a beta.
Monitoring between crawls: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Alerts by impact: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
History per URL: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Checks before release: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Relaunch and migration: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Combining data: Not documented. API with credits. Other data sources are not documented.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports with automatic delivery.
Reports on demand: Partial. Custom reports in a report builder. Reports built by the vendor are not described.
Log file analysis: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Service and consulting: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Security and data protection: Not documented. Headquartered in Germany. Hosting and certifications not documented.
Price and getting started: Yes. €99 to €499 per month, public.
AI visibility, GEO: Partial. Riva GEO names ChatGPT as its engine and checks every two weeks.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Keyword queries per week are capped.
Working with AI: Not documented. The vendor makes no public statement on this.
Full crawl: Partial. Crawl interval freely selectable in days. 25,000 to 100,000 pages per project depending on the package; the JavaScript crawling technology is not documented.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Uptime check for one selectable URL per project, every 1 to 60 minutes depending on the package, every minute only in the Agency package. It does not check robots.txt or sitemaps.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Email for critical problems during a crawl, issues by severity. Other channels are not documented.
History per URL: Partial. History of values from crawl to crawl. A comparison per URL with HTML or screenshot is not documented.
Checks before release: Partial. Crawling with HTTP password protection is possible. Seobility does not specifically mention staging environments.
Relaunch and migration: No. No tool in the product. Seobility offers a checklist in its blog and a free redirect check.
Combining data: No. Rankings and backlinks come from its own data. Seobility does not describe an integration with Search Console or GA4, and the classic API has been discontinued.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on audit, rankings and backlinks as PDF or CSV, also white label, plus weekly email reports.
Reports on demand: No. Ready-made PDF reports with white label, with little customization. Seobility does not describe a report builder or reports by the vendor.
Log file analysis: No. No log file analysis in the product.
Service and consulting: Partial. Support by email, and by phone in the Agency package. Consulting in the package is not documented.
Security and data protection: Not documented. Based in Germany. The website does not name the data location, certification or DPA.
Price and getting started: Yes. From €59.90 per month, excl. VAT. Free account and 14-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Partial. AI Overview tracking per keyword is live. AI Visibility Tracking for ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode is listed in the packages but, according to the product page, still runs as a closed beta.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Rank tracking daily on desktop, every three days on mobile, with cities and Local Pack. A Search Console integration is not documented.
Working with AI: Partial. Seobility MCP in beta, reads and adds entries. An AI assistant in the tool is not documented.
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.

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 SISTRIX column stands for the suite with the Optimizer.

For the suite question, the three bottom rows and the “Specific to …” fields in the cards matter most. The upper rows concern the on-page and monitoring part. Many teams combine a suite with a monitoring tool.

What searchVIU does not replace

At SISTRIX, searchVIU only replaces the Optimizer. If one of these points matters to you, stay with SISTRIX or choose another suite.

Visibility Index and keyword database

searchVIU has no Visibility Index and no keyword database. You keep analyzing other domains without your own setup in SISTRIX.

Backlinks

searchVIU has no backlink analysis.

Rankings in many markets

At searchVIU, Rank Tracking is an add-on and runs weekly; daily is possible. SISTRIX measures daily in over 350 country and language combinations and at city level.

AI visibility on many platforms

By default, searchVIU queries ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode weekly. More engines can be added. There is no database of researched prompts like Prompt Research at SISTRIX.

Amazon and content

searchVIU has no Amazon module and no content assistant.

Entry, SSO and interface

searchVIU starts at €399 per month with 50,000 URLs included, SISTRIX at €119. There is no self-service trial; you start with a demo. Single sign-on is missing, and the interface is in English. Consulting is available in German and English.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a cheaper alternative to SISTRIX?
Seobility starts at €59.90 per month, SE Ranking at €87.20 and XOVI at €99. But the packages count different things, such as keywords, crawled pages or prompts. So compare the scope you need first and then the price.
Which alternative has a Visibility Index?
The Visibility Index is a SISTRIX metric, with up to eleven years of history in the larger packages. Other suites calculate their own values on their own databases. The figures cannot be compared directly. If your reporting depends on the index, switching is therefore a bigger step.
Is SISTRIX enough for large websites?
For visibility, keywords and competitors, the size of your own website hardly matters. The Optimizer usually crawls once a week and checks in between whether the homepage is reachable. Besides HTML pages, the monthly allowance also counts resources and external links. On large websites with many releases, a change is therefore often only noticed in the next crawl.
Can I use SISTRIX and searchVIU together?
Yes. SISTRIX stays in charge of visibility, keywords and competitors, searchVIU of crawling and monitoring your own website.
Does searchVIU notice errors before they cost rankings?
searchVIU detects errors quickly after they go live. Before go-live, the staging crawl checks. Staging Monitoring is currently in its pilot phase. 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 by email, Slack, Teams or webhook. The weekly full crawl checks all other pages. The SISTRIX Optimizer crawls at most once a week.
Where is the data stored with the alternatives?
SISTRIX and searchVIU store data in the EU. Semrush names data centers in the USA, Ahrefs names AWS without a region. SE Ranking, XOVI, Seobility and Conductor do not state the location of their data centers on their websites. This is not a legal assessment.

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.

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