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 SpyFu
SpyFu is a hosted competitor research tool for organic and paid search keywords, ad history and backlinks. 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 SpyFu describes on its own site.
SpyFu features, app by app
| Feature | OpenSEO |
|---|---|
| Competitor organic keyword research | Yes |
| PPC keyword and ad history | No |
| Keyword overlap and gaps | No |
| Backlink analysis | Yes |
| Rank tracking | Yes |
| Site audit | Yes |
| Branded SEO reports | Partly |
| API access | Partly |
Pay-as-you-go keyword research, rank tracking and site audits on your Cloudflare account, with an MCP server for agents
- What a SpyFu user would miss
- It has no PPC and ad history data or keyword overlap reports; it covers white-label reports and REST API only in part.
- Yes Competitor organic keyword research. Ranking keywords, top pages, estimated traffic for any domain.
- No PPC keyword and ad history. No PPC or ad history data found.
- No Keyword overlap and gaps. No keyword overlap report found.
- Yes Backlink analysis. Backlinks and referring domains for any domain.
- Yes Rank tracking. Daily or weekly checks, desktop and mobile, manual runs.
- Yes Site audit. Critical, warning and info issues; 10,000 pages self-hosted.
- Partly Branded SEO reports. Agent-written HTML reports; no white-label option found.
- Partly API access. MCP server and agent skills; no REST API found.
Sources:github.com/every-app/open-seo#readmegithub.com/every-app/open-seo/blob/main/src/client/features/rank-tracking/SearchTargetingField.tsx