Alternatives to Yoast SEO

3 tools that cover the same need, each with the one difference that matters most.

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Rank Math
WordPress SEO plugin with a free edition and yearly licences from €95.88 covering unlimited personal sites.
Why it’s an alternative: Unlimited personal sites on one licence and a keyword rank tracker Yoast does not include.
Differs on: Free plan, paid from €95.88/yr, while Yoast SEO is flat rate from $118.80/yr.
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Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Desktop website crawler for technical audits, free to 500 URLs and £199 a year for unlimited crawling.
Why it’s an alternative: External crawler for issues a content plugin cannot detect.
Differs on: Free plan, paid from £199/yr, while Yoast SEO is flat rate from $118.80/yr.
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Surfer
Content optimisation tool priced by documents and seats, from US$49 a month to US$999.
Why it’s an alternative: Content guidance measured against pages that already rank, rather than editor checks.
Differs on: Flat rate from $49/mo, while Yoast SEO is flat rate from $118.80/yr.
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