Pay-as-you-go keyword research, rank tracking and site audits on your Cloudflare account, with an MCP server for agents
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Self-hosted alternatives to SE Ranking
SE Ranking is a hosted SEO platform with rank tracking, keyword research, site audits, backlink checks and AI visibility tracking. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features SE Ranking describes on its own site.
SE Ranking features, app by app
| Feature | OpenSEO |
|---|---|
| Rank tracker | Yes |
| Keyword research | Yes |
| Website audit | Yes |
| Backlink checker | Yes |
| Competitor analysis | Partly |
| AI search visibility tracking | Yes |
| On-page checker and content tools | No |
| White-label reports and API | Partly |
Pay-as-you-go keyword research, rank tracking and site audits on your Cloudflare account, with an MCP server for agents
- What a SE Ranking user would miss
- It has no on-page or content tools; it covers keyword gap reports and white-label reports or REST API only in part; data comes from DataForSEO through your own API key rather than a vendor index.
- What it adds
- Your Cloudflare account holds the data, and you pay DataForSEO per request with your own key.
- Yes Rank tracker. Daily or weekly checks, desktop and mobile, manual runs.
- Yes Keyword research. Volume, CPC, difficulty, phrase match, related searches.
- Yes Website audit. Critical, warning and info issues; 10,000 pages self-hosted.
- Yes Backlink checker. Backlinks, referring domains, top pages, anchors; authority and spam filters.
- Partly Competitor analysis. Any-domain overview and SERP comparison; no keyword gap report.
- Yes AI search visibility tracking. ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews prompts with mentions and citations.
- No On-page checker and content tools. No on-page grader, optimizer or writer found.
- Partly White-label reports and API. Agent-written HTML reports; MCP server, no REST API or white-label option found.
Sources:github.com/every-app/open-seo#readmegithub.com/every-app/open-seo/blob/main/src/client/features/rank-tracking/SearchTargetingField.tsx