An affordable rank tracker: pay for the checks, not the suite

Most small businesses and freelancers buy an all-in-one SEO suite to use one feature: rank tracking. Here is an honest look at the alternative.

All-in-one SEO suites are excellent tools. They also cost €100-140 or more a month per user, and most of their value — backlink databases, keyword research across the whole web, site audits, content tools — is something many businesses open twice a year. What they check every week is simpler: where do we rank for the searches that bring customers?

Suite or rank tracker?

	All-in-one SEO suite	Spider
Typical price	€100-140+/month per user	From €0 (200 free checks); plans €29, €79, €149/month; packs from €9
Daily rank tracking	Yes, within plan limits	Yes, down to the top 100
Country and language	Yes	Yes: 26 Google markets, one per project
Competitors per search	Yes	Top 5 of each search, plus in-depth competitor analysis
Reports for clients	Yes	PDF report per project, per client block or global
API	Often only on higher plans	Included in every account
Backlinks, site audits, whole-web keyword research	Yes	No

When a suite IS worth it

If you do link building, large technical audits or keyword research for brand-new markets every week, a suite pays for itself — keep it. Spider is not trying to replace that.

When a rank tracker is enough

You want to know every morning whether your important searches went up or down.
You manage several small clients and need a clean report each month.
You are an in-house marketer who needs evidence that the SEO work is paying off.
You want to feed rankings into your own dashboard through an API.

How Spider keeps it cheap without cutting corners

You pay per check: one credit checks one keyword. Keywords in the top 30 are checked every day; keywords that don't rank yet get a short daily check plus a full scan to the top 100 once a week, so you don't pay ten pages of results every day for a keyword that isn't there. Plan credits renew monthly; credits you buy separately never expire. No minimum term.

Try the affordable option — 200 free checks, no card →

Is Spider a replacement for an all-in-one SEO suite?

Only for rank tracking. Spider does daily positions, history, competitors per search, reports and an API. It does not do backlinks, site audits or whole-web keyword research.

How much does it cost to track 100 keywords daily?

About 3,000 credits a month, which fits in the Individual plan (€29/month, 4,000 credits). Keywords that don't rank yet are cheaper to track because they get a short daily check.

Do I need a card to try it?

No. You get 200 free credits when you sign up, and they never expire.

Can I track rankings outside Spain?

Yes. Each project tracks the Google market you choose: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Germany, France and many more.

Keep reading: Check your Google rankings · Rank tracker for agencies · Rank tracking API.