In October 2026 an agency posted in r/SEO that its rank reports had stopped making sense. Its clients were fine and Search Console showed traffic going up, but in the tracker half the page-one keywords kept disappearing and coming back. A rank tracker is software that checks where your pages show up in Google. On October 19, 2026 we checked 10 of them against each vendor's pricing page and docs: Semrush, Ahrefs, RankControl, SE Ranking, AccuRanker, Advanced Web Ranking, Nightwatch, SEOmonitor, Keyword.com and Mangools. RankControl, an AI SEO and AEO platform, is one of the ten and sits third in our list.
Entry plans started at $4 a month for 50 keywords at Keyword.com, the lowest, and ran to $400 a month at RankControl, the highest. A fairer comparison is what 1,000 tracked keywords a month cost on each entry plan: Keyword.com's 360 plan about $33, SE Ranking $65, AccuRanker $112, Ahrefs Lite $172, Mangools about $189 and Semrush SEO $278. Advanced Web Ranking is left out because it counts keyword units its own way. Mangools' figure is its yearly billing price, and Keyword.com's comes from its 360 plan because its $4 plan covers only 50 keywords.
A low price per keyword is not the same as good value. Semrush's SEO plan, $139 a month, buys a whole SEO suite with 500 keywords tracked daily. Ahrefs Lite, $129 a month for 750 keywords, comes with backlink data most of the others do not have.
Nearly every tool now tracks AI answers in some form, but it is often a separate add-on. Ahrefs sells it as Brand Radar from $199 a month, AccuRanker sells it as AccuLLM, and Semrush has plain SEO or SEO plus AI Search versions of each plan, with the Starter SEO plus AI Search version at $199 a month.
Prices change often, so check them again before you buy. RankControl's AI visibility tracker tracks citations across 7 AI engines. Each tool's details are in the full write-up on Medium.