Best European Alternatives to Semrush
Looking for a European alternative to Semrush? Semrush is a US-listed company holding your keyword strategy, competitor research and — through connected accounts — your Search Console and analytics data, at a price that has climbed steadily.
These European SEO tools cover crawling, rank tracking and visibility research, several with deeper German, French and Nordic SERP coverage than the American incumbents.
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7 European Alternatives to Semrush
Screaming Frog
The desktop crawler every technical SEO already owns
Sistrix
The Visibility Index and the deepest European SERP history
Mangools
Five focused SEO tools with the best UX in the category
Ryte
Technical SEO, content quality and website monitoring
OnCrawl
Log-file analysis and crawl data for enterprise SEO
Seobility
Affordable all-in-one SEO suite with a usable free tier
Advanced Web Ranking
Rank tracking with the most flexible reporting available
Key takeaways
- Adobe completed its acquisition of Semrush in April 2026, so the independent vendor you signed with is now part of Adobe.
- The Pro, Guru and Business tiers are gone; the current plans are SEO, Starter, Pro+ and Advanced, from about EUR 134 to EUR 526 a month at list price.
- EEA contracts are governed by Irish law with a Dublin venue, but the counterparty is a Delaware corporation in Boston, which is choice of law rather than jurisdiction.
- No European tool replaces Semrush whole; a realistic European stack is two or three specialists and usually costs less than one Semrush subscription.
- Screaming Frog runs on your own machine, so the crawl data never leaves it, which no cloud SEO platform can offer at any price.
Why people leave Semrush
The most important fact about Semrush is not in the product. Adobe announced on 19 November 2025 that it would acquire Semrush at $12.00 a share, valuing it at roughly $1.9 billion, and the deal has since closed: Semrush Holdings filed an 8-K on 28 April 2026 reporting completion of the acquisition and a change of control, the exchange filed a Form 25-NSE delisting the shares the same day, and the registration was terminated with a Form 15-12G on 8 May 2026. The investor relations site now redirects to the marketing site.
That changes what you are buying. An independent SEO vendor is now a component of the largest marketing software company in the world, alongside Adobe Analytics, Adobe Experience Manager and the rest of the Experience Cloud. Adobe's stated reason was brand visibility in generative AI, which is a strategy rather than a product commitment, and strategies are revisited at a parent company's cadence rather than at yours.
The jurisdiction question has a wrinkle worth knowing too. Semrush's terms apply Irish law with Dublin as the venue for customers in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK, which sounds reassuring until you notice the counterparty is still Semrush Inc., a Delaware corporation at 800 Boylston Street in Boston, and the privacy policy relies on standard contractual clauses for transfers to the United States.
A choice of law clause changes which court hears a contract dispute. It does not change which government can compel the company.
- You are now an Adobe customer The acquisition completed in April 2026, so contract renewals, pricing decisions and roadmap priorities are now taken inside Adobe. For a team already running Adobe Analytics that may be a consolidation benefit. For an agency that deliberately keeps its SEO stack separate from its client's marketing suite, it is a conflict that did not exist when the contract was signed, and it is the sort of thing worth raising before the next renewal rather than after.
- The pricing everyone quotes is gone The Pro, Guru and Business tiers at $139.95, $249.95 and $499.95 are no longer what Semrush sells. The current line-up is SEO, Starter, Pro+ and Advanced, listed at EUR 134, EUR 190, EUR 286 and EUR 526 a month, discounted on annual billing to EUR 112.52, EUR 158.40, EUR 238 and EUR 436.99. Additional users start at about EUR 43 a month each. Any comparison article using the old tier names is describing a product that has been restructured.
- Irish law, Delaware company For EEA, Swiss and UK customers the agreement is governed by the laws of the Republic of Ireland with jurisdiction and venue in Dublin. The provider is nonetheless Semrush Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Boston, and its privacy policy states that personal data may be transferred from your country to the United States under standard contractual clauses. This is the clearest example in this directory of choice of law being mistaken for jurisdiction.
- The data is American where your market is not Semrush is an aggregator that bought scale in every direction at once, and the direction it bought most of is the United States. For a business selling in Germany, France, Italy or the Nordics, the practical complaint is not privacy but resolution: the competitor set is different, the SERP features are different, and a keyword database weighted towards English-language US queries answers a question you did not ask.
What you have to replace, not just match
Nothing on this page replaces Semrush by itself, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Semrush bundles five products into one subscription, and the European market went the other way: each vendor here went deep on one of them.
Write down which of the five you actually open. Keyword research and the keyword database. The backlink index. Rank tracking. The site audit and technical crawl. And the content tools, from brief generation to on-page scoring. Most teams use two heavily and log into the rest quarterly to justify the invoice.
Then build a stack rather than buy a suite. Screaming Frog plus Mangools is a freelancer's working set. Screaming Frog plus Sistrix covers an agency selling into German-speaking markets. OnCrawl plus Advanced Web Ranking answers an enterprise with an indexation problem and a client reporting obligation. Two logins and two invoices, usually less money, and each part better at its job.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Screaming Frog | Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom | Free up to 500 URLs / £199 per year for unlimited | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #2 | Sistrix | Bonn, Germany | From about €99/month per module; bundles available | EU (Germany) |
| #3 | Mangools | Bratislava, Slovakia | From about €29/month (annual) | EU (Slovakia) |
| #4 | Ryte | Munich, Germany | Free up to 100 pages / Business from about €130/month | EU (Germany) |
| #5 | OnCrawl | Bordeaux, France | From about €69/month; enterprise on request | EU (France) |
| #6 | Seobility | Bayreuth, Germany | Free (1 project, 1,000 pages) / Premium from about €50/month | EU (Germany) |
| #7 | Advanced Web Ranking | Bucharest, Romania | From about $99/month; scales with tracked keywords | EU (Romania) |
How each alternative compares to Semrush
- Which law reaches it. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Your own computer.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: Anyone whose Semrush usage is mostly Site Audit
Screaming Frog Ltd has operated from Henley-on-Thames since 2010, and the product is desktop software rather than a platform. It crawls a site the way a search engine would and reports what is broken: dead links, redirect chains, duplicate content, missing or duplicated metadata, malformed sitemaps, and with JavaScript rendering what a crawler actually sees on a client-rendered page.
Against Semrush Site Audit the comparison is uncomfortable for Semrush. There is no crawl quota, no queue and no project limit, because the crawl runs on your hardware and the constraint is your own memory. Nothing is uploaded, so the Search Console and Analytics credentials you connect stay on your machine rather than in a vendor's account. And the log file analyser does something Semrush does not do at all.
The obvious caveat is that this is one product, not a suite. There is no keyword database, no backlink index and no rank tracking, so it is half a stack rather than a replacement. It is also British, under an adequacy decision rather than EU establishment, which matters to some procurement rules and not at all in practice given that nothing leaves your computer.
What Screaming Frog does better than Semrush
- The crawl runs on your own machine, so nothing is uploaded and no quota applies, unlike any cloud audit including Semrush's
- GBP 199 a year for unlimited crawling against EUR 134 a month for the entry Semrush plan
- Free up to 500 URLs, which is enough to audit a small site properly at no cost
- A log file analyser, which Semrush does not offer in any tier
- No seat pricing, so a second person on the team does not cost another EUR 43 a month
Where Screaming Frog is a step down from Semrush
- No keyword database, no backlink index and no rank tracking at all
- Desktop software, so there is no shared workspace, no scheduled cloud crawl and no client dashboard
- Large crawls need a well-specified machine, where Semrush rents you the hardware
- British rather than EU-established, which some public procurement rules distinguish even where processing is local
Standout against Semrush. It is the only tool in this comparison where your crawl data never exists anywhere except your own computer, which no subscription platform can offer regardless of jurisdiction.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: Businesses and agencies whose market is German-speaking, French, Italian or Spanish
SISTRIX GmbH has operated from Bonn since 2008 and hosts in Germany, and it owns something no competitor can acquire after the fact: an unbroken weekly record of European search results stretching back to its first year. The Visibility Index condenses a domain's search presence into one tracked number, and because the series never stops, a drop can be placed against history rather than interpreted alone.
Against Semrush the argument is resolution rather than breadth. Semrush bought scale in every direction and weighted it towards the United States; Sistrix went deep on the markets where European businesses actually sell, with coverage across German, Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian and Spanish results and more than 100 million domains across 30 or more countries. Every chart carries Google update annotations, so a decline is attributed to a dated algorithm change instead of guessed at in a meeting.
Its limits are the mirror image. US data is weaker than in the American tools, the backlink index is smaller than the leaders', and there is no equivalent of Semrush's content generation tooling. It is a visibility and research platform rather than a suite, and pricing that scales with modules and history depth adds up faster than the entry figure suggests.
What Sistrix does better than Semrush
- An unbroken weekly European SERP record since 2008, which Semrush cannot reconstruct retrospectively at any price
- Google update annotations on every chart, so a visibility drop is dated rather than debated
- German company, German hosting, intra-EEA processing with no standard contractual clauses required
- Coverage weighted towards German, Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian and Spanish results rather than towards the US
Where Sistrix is a step down from Semrush
- Weaker United States data than Semrush, which matters if any of your clients sell there
- A smaller backlink index than Semrush or Ahrefs
- No content generation or brief tooling of the kind Semrush has been adding
- Pricing that scales with modules and with how much visibility history you can see
Standout against Semrush. It can show you what your visibility did in 2014 and which Google update caused it, which is a question Semrush's European data cannot answer.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Slovakia). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. EU.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: Freelancers and small teams paying Semrush prices for keyword research
Mangools s.r.o. operates from Bratislava with EU data, and sells five focused tools rather than a platform: KWFinder for keyword research, SERPChecker for results analysis, SERPWatcher for rank tracking, LinkMiner for backlinks and SiteProfiler for a domain overview.
The comparison with Semrush is mostly about what you stop paying for. For most freelancers and small teams the real Semrush usage is keyword research and rank tracking, and Mangools does both from around EUR 29 a month on annual billing against EUR 112.52 for the cheapest annual Semrush plan. KWFinder's difficulty scores are realistic rather than flattering, which is the property that decides whether keyword research produces a usable list or an optimistic one.
It is also the friendliest interface in this market by a distance, which matters more than feature counts when the person running weekly reporting is not the person who chose the tool. What it does not have is a site crawler, a content module, a backlink index near Semrush's size, or the team and enterprise features an agency of thirty needs.
What Mangools does better than Semrush
- From about EUR 29 a month against EUR 112.52 for the cheapest annual Semrush plan
- Local keyword research down to city level, where Semrush reports national volumes for a market you may not sell into
- Slovak company with EU data, so intra-EEA processing rather than transfers under standard contractual clauses
- An interface a junior can be handed on day one, which Semrush has never been
- A 10-day free trial rather than a tier commitment to find out whether the data suits you
Where Mangools is a step down from Semrush
- No site crawler at all, so the audit half of Semrush has to come from Screaming Frog or Seobility
- A much smaller backlink index than Semrush
- No content tools, briefs or on-page scoring
- Limited team and enterprise features, so it does not scale to a large agency
Standout against Semrush. It is the cheapest credible answer to the two Semrush modules most subscribers actually use, which makes the rest of the Semrush bill visible as the optional part it usually is.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: European enterprises where accessibility and consent are now audit items
Ryte GmbH is based in Munich with German hosting, German data processing agreements and intra-EEA processing, which is the combination a large German organisation's procurement department asks for before it reads a feature list. Its framing is different from Semrush's: a website is a quality problem rather than a ranking problem.
That produces a capability Semrush does not have. The crawl carries Core Web Vitals, content success analysis, accessibility checks and consent and cookie scanning, and it runs continuously with alerting rather than whenever somebody remembers to press the button. For a European enterprise where the Accessibility Act turned accessibility into a compliance obligation, having that in the same crawl as the SEO audit removes a whole second tool and a second vendor assessment.
The gaps are large and clearly marked. There is no keyword database and no backlink index, so Ryte is not competing for the research half of Semrush at all, and each individual module is shallower than a dedicated specialist. A free tier covers up to 100 pages, with Business from about EUR 130 a month.
What Ryte does better than Semrush
- Accessibility and consent scanning beside the SEO audit, which Semrush does not do in any tier
- Continuous monitoring with alerting rather than an audit you remember to run
- German company, German hosting and a German data processing agreement, against transfers to Boston under standard contractual clauses
- A free tier up to 100 pages, enough to evaluate properly before any purchase order
Where Ryte is a step down from Semrush
- No keyword database and no backlink index, so half of Semrush is simply absent
- Each module is shallower than a specialist tool aimed at that job
- From about EUR 130 a month for Business, which is near Semrush's entry plan without replacing it
- Oriented to enterprise website quality, so a freelancer will not get value from most of it
Standout against Semrush. It is the only tool here whose crawl answers a legal question and a ranking question at the same time, which is a reason to buy it alongside Semrush rather than instead of it.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. EU.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: Marketplaces and publishers with an indexation problem Semrush cannot see
OnCrawl is operated by Cogniteev from Bordeaux with EU data, and it is built on a join nothing in the Semrush suite performs: crawl data against real server logs. A crawler reports the structure it can reach; a log file records every request a search engine genuinely made, including the pages it ignored and the ones it fetched pointlessly.
On a site of a few hundred pages that distinction is a curiosity, which is why Semrush has never needed it. On a marketplace with millions of URLs it is the difference between an indexation problem you can name and one you can only speculate about: the faceted navigation absorbing a third of the crawl budget, the orphaned section fetched daily that ranks for nothing, the new category pages never visited at all.
It also ingests analytics and business data alongside crawl and log data, so segmentation can be built on margin, stock level or product category rather than on URL patterns. The prerequisites are real: server log access, which lives with infrastructure rather than marketing and is frequently an internal negotiation, and no keyword or backlink research at all. Pricing starts around EUR 69 a month with enterprise on request.
What OnCrawl does better than Semrush
- Joins server logs to the crawl, which no Semrush tier does, so you see actual crawler behaviour rather than site structure
- Segmentation on business data such as margin or stock level rather than on URL patterns
- French company with EU data, so no transfer mechanism is involved
- Built for millions of URLs, where a cloud audit tool starts rationing at a fraction of that
Where OnCrawl is a step down from Semrush
- No keyword research and no backlink index, so it covers one Semrush module and ignores four
- Requires server log access, which is frequently the blocker rather than the price
- Overkill and unaffordable for a site of a few hundred pages
- Enterprise pricing on request above the entry tier, which means a sales cycle
Standout against Semrush. It is the only tool in this comparison that tells you what Googlebot actually did, which is the question a large site is really asking when it opens Semrush Site Audit.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: Small businesses and local agencies that cannot justify a suite price
Seobility GmbH operates from Bayreuth with German hosting, and it is the one all-in-one on this page, which makes it the closest thing in shape to Semrush even though it is nothing like it in scale. Site audit and crawling, on-page checks, rank tracking, backlink analysis, keyword research, TF*IDF content comparison and white-label PDF reporting sit in one subscription.
The free tier is the reason it belongs here rather than in a footnote: one project up to 1,000 pages with site audit, crawling, on-page checks and reporting, at no cost. That is a working audit for a small business that would otherwise be evaluating whether EUR 134 a month is justified, and very few tools in this market give away something genuinely useful.
The trade is depth. The backlink and keyword databases are small against Semrush, coverage is weaker outside German-language markets, and there is no enterprise tier or historic SERP depth. For a local agency serving local clients that is the right trade; for anyone benchmarking against competitors in three countries it is not.
What Seobility does better than Semrush
- One subscription covering audit, rank tracking, backlinks, keywords and content from about EUR 50 a month, against EUR 134 upwards
- A free tier that finds real problems on one project up to 1,000 pages, where Semrush's free access is a demo
- German company and German hosting, so intra-EEA processing with no transfer question
- White-label PDF reporting on paid plans, which at Semrush sits well up the tier list
Where Seobility is a step down from Semrush
- Much smaller keyword and backlink databases than Semrush
- Weaker coverage outside German-language markets
- No enterprise tier and no historic SERP depth to speak of
- Competent across the board rather than best at anything, which is the usual all-in-one problem
Standout against Semrush. Its free tier gives a small business a real working site audit, which is the single most useful thing Semrush charges a monthly subscription for.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Romania). Semrush is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. EU.
- Source code. Closed source, as Semrush is.
Best for: Agencies whose Semrush bill is really a reporting bill
Caphyon has run Advanced Web Ranking from Bucharest since 2002, which makes it the longest-established tool on this page, with EU data and intra-EEA processing. It does one job: daily rank data across local and mobile SERPs, assembled into reports.
Against Semrush Position Tracking the difference is the reporting layer rather than the ranking data. Reports are fully customisable and fully white-labelled, scheduled for automatic delivery, and built from daily rank data with CTR study data included, so the monthly client pack arrives without anyone building it. For an agency, the hours that disappear into assembling reports are a larger cost than any subscription, and this is the tool that addresses them directly.
It is a rank tracker and nothing else: no crawler, no keyword database, no backlinks, and an interface that shows its age. Pricing from about $99 a month scales with tracked keywords, which climbs steeply across a large client roster, so price the roster rather than the entry plan.
What Advanced Web Ranking does better than Semrush
- White-label reports that build and send themselves, where Semrush reporting still needs assembling
- Daily rank updates across local and mobile SERPs as the core product rather than one module among five
- Romanian company with EU data and twenty-four years of continuity
- An extensive API for pushing results into a client dashboard or a data warehouse
Where Advanced Web Ranking is a step down from Semrush
- A rank tracker only, with no crawler, keyword database or backlink index
- From about $99 a month scaling with tracked keywords, which climbs steeply across many clients
- An interface that shows its age next to newer tools
- No content or competitive research features at all
Standout against Semrush. It is the only tool here where the monthly client report is a scheduled job rather than somebody's afternoon, which is the agency cost Semrush has never addressed.
What actually breaks when you switch
Historic data is the thing you lose and the thing nobody plans for. Semrush position tracking history, project audit history and saved keyword lists do not export into anything another tool will ingest, so the year-on-year comparison you have been showing clients breaks at the switch. Export what you can to CSV before the subscription lapses and accept that the new baseline starts on the day you move.
Then there is the reconnection work. Search Console and Analytics properties, connected client accounts, scheduled reports and any API keys pointing at Semrush all need redoing in two or three tools instead of one, and each client account needs its own authorisation from someone on the client side. For an agency with twenty clients that is a fortnight of small administrative tasks, not an afternoon.
And the team has to learn two interfaces rather than one, which is the cost that shows up as grumbling rather than as an invoice. Mitigate it by splitting cleanly: one person owns the technical crawl, another owns rankings and reporting, and nobody has to hold the whole stack in their head. Teams that instead give everyone every tool tend to drift back to the suite within a quarter.
Does the Adobe acquisition change anything practical for me?
Not immediately, and anyone predicting product decisions is guessing. What is verifiable is the corporate change: the acquisition completed in April 2026, the shares were delisted on 28 April and the registration terminated on 8 May, and Semrush is now a business unit inside Adobe rather than a standalone public company.
Two practical consequences follow from that and not from speculation. First, the pricing and packaging of an acquired product tends to be revisited within a year or two, usually towards bundling with the parent's suite. Second, a company that publishes quarterly results makes commitments in public; a business unit does not, so the visibility you had into its finances and roadmap is gone.
The sensible response is not panic but timing. If you are on an annual plan, treat the next renewal as a real decision rather than a formality, and use the interval to test whether a European stack covers what you actually open.
Is a European stack genuinely cheaper, or is that a slogan?
Usually cheaper, and it is worth doing the arithmetic rather than assuming either way. Semrush at list price runs from EUR 134 to EUR 526 a month depending on tier, with additional users from about EUR 43 each, and the seat cost is what catches agencies out because SEO work is rarely done by one person.
The European figures are of a different order. Screaming Frog is free up to 500 URLs and GBP 199 a year for unlimited crawling. Mangools starts around EUR 29 a month on annual billing. Seobility has a free tier covering one project up to 1,000 pages, with Premium from about EUR 50. Ryte is free up to 100 pages. A freelancer's working stack costs less than a tenth of a mid-tier Semrush plan.
The stack gets expensive at the top, and that is the honest counterweight. OnCrawl from about EUR 69 a month and Advanced Web Ranking from about $99 rising with tracked keywords will, across a large client roster, land somewhere near Semrush Advanced. You would be paying it for log file analysis and white-label reporting that Semrush does not do as well.
What does Semrush do that no European tool does?
The backlink index, first and most honestly. Semrush crawls at a scale European vendors do not attempt, and if link analysis is central to your work no combination on this page matches it. Sistrix has a link module and a smaller index; Mangools has LinkMiner and a smaller one still. This is the gap that sends people back.
Second, the keyword database for the United States and for English generally. If your market is American, the American tools have better data and it is not close. This page argues that European tools are better where you are, not that they are better everywhere.
Third, having it all behind one login with one invoice and one person to phone. That is worth real money in an organisation where procurement is slow, and a European stack of two or three products means two or three of everything, including data processing agreements.
Does any of this actually matter for GDPR?
Less than in most categories, and more than nothing. An SEO platform holds less personal data than a CRM, but it typically holds connected Google Search Console and Analytics credentials, which is access to traffic data about identifiable visitors, plus whatever your team types into keyword and content briefs.
The transfer position is plain. Semrush Inc. is in the United States, its privacy policy states that personal data may be transferred there and relies on standard contractual clauses, and it does not cite the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Six of the seven tools here are EU-established, so no transfer mechanism applies at all, which is a tidier answer for a data protection officer than a well-drafted one.
Screaming Frog is the interesting case. Screaming Frog Ltd is British, so it operates under an adequacy decision rather than intra-EEA processing, and the crawl runs on your own computer, so in practice the processing question does not arise. That is a stronger position than any cloud platform can offer, European or otherwise.
Which one to pick
If you are reacting to the Adobe acquisition, react on the calendar rather than in the moment. The deal closed in April 2026 and nothing about the product broke on that day. Put the next renewal in the diary as a real decision and spend the interval measuring which modules your team actually opens.
For most freelancers and small teams the answer is Screaming Frog plus Mangools, which covers the technical audit and the keyword and rank work for a small fraction of any Semrush plan. Add Seobility's free tier if you want white-label reporting without paying for it yet.
For an agency selling into German-speaking, French, Italian or Spanish markets, Sistrix is the one thing on this page Semrush genuinely cannot match, because eighteen years of weekly European SERP history cannot be bought retrospectively. Pair it with Advanced Web Ranking if client reporting is where your hours go.
And if your work depends on the backlink index or on United States keyword data, stay where you are and stop reading comparison pages. This market has no European answer to link data at Semrush's scale, and pretending otherwise would waste your quarter.
Frequently Asked Questions
Pick two rather than one, because Semrush is five products in a trench coat. Screaming Frog for technical audits, Sistrix for European visibility history, Mangools for affordable keyword research and rank tracking, Ryte for website quality and compliance monitoring, OnCrawl for log file analysis at scale, Seobility for an all-in-one on a small budget, and Advanced Web Ranking for agency reporting.
Yes. Adobe announced the acquisition on 19 November 2025 at $12.00 a share, about $1.9 billion, and it has completed. Semrush Holdings filed an 8-K on 28 April 2026 reporting completion of the acquisition and a change of control, the shares were delisted the same day on a Form 25-NSE, and registration was terminated on 8 May 2026. Semrush is now part of Adobe rather than an independent public company.
The current plans are SEO, Starter, Pro+ and Advanced, listed at EUR 134, EUR 190, EUR 286 and EUR 526 a month, or EUR 112.52, EUR 158.40, EUR 238 and EUR 436.99 on annual billing. Additional users start at around EUR 43 a month each. The widely quoted Pro, Guru and Business tiers at $139.95, $249.95 and $499.95 no longer exist, so most comparison articles you will find are describing a discontinued structure.
Yes. For EEA, Swiss and UK customers the terms apply the laws of the Republic of Ireland with venue in Dublin, but the contracting party is Semrush Inc., a Delaware corporation in Boston. A governing law clause decides which court interprets the agreement; it does not change which state can compel the company to produce data it controls. The privacy policy is consistent with that, relying on standard contractual clauses for transfers to the United States.
No, and it is better to know that before buying. Semrush aggregates a keyword database, a backlink index, rank tracking, a site crawler and content tools into one subscription; the European vendors each went deep on one of those instead. A European stack is two or three products, typically cheaper in total and better at each job, but it is not one login and not one invoice.
Where you sell, usually yes. Sistrix has recorded its Visibility Index weekly since 2008 across German, Austrian, Swiss, French, Italian and Spanish markets, with Google update annotations so a drop can be dated rather than guessed at, and it covers over 100 million domains across 30 or more countries. Mangools does local keyword research down to city level. If your market is the United States, the American tools have the better data and this page does not pretend otherwise.
Screaming Frog, and only Screaming Frog. It is desktop software, so the crawl runs on your own machine and the results stay there, which is why the processing question does not arise even though Screaming Frog Ltd is a UK company under an adequacy decision rather than EU establishment. The practical limits are your own hardware and memory on very large crawls, not a quota someone else sets.
Screaming Frog for one-off technical audits, which is the industry standard and free up to 500 URLs with unlimited crawling at GBP 199 a year. Ryte for continuous monitoring with alerting, which adds Core Web Vitals, content quality, accessibility checks and consent scanning in the same crawl. OnCrawl when the site is large enough that the real question is what Googlebot actually did, which needs server log access rather than a crawler.
Advanced Web Ranking, which is built for exactly that job: daily rank data across local and mobile SERPs, fully customisable white-label reports, scheduled delivery and an extensive API for pushing results into a client dashboard. Caphyon has run it from Bucharest since 2002. Pricing from about $99 a month scales with tracked keywords, which climbs across a large roster, and it is a rank tracker rather than a suite.
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