# OpenSEO — Open-source SEO platform with ChatGPT and Google AI Overview brand visibility, $10/month plus metered usage credits. > Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/openseo (structured, researched, re-verified) > Facts last verified: 2026-09-09 OpenSEO is an open-source SEO platform, hosted or self-hosted, that pairs keyword research, rank tracking, backlinks and site audits with an AI brand visibility workspace. It is built around an MCP server so AI agents run the same research the web app shows. | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Website | https://openseo.so | | Price | from $10/month | | Free trial | Partly | Hosted: a free trial carrying $0.50 of credits, and the pricing FAQ states an active subscription is required to use OpenSEO. Self-hosting the open-source app costs $0 but needs your own paid DataForSEO key (minimum $50 top-up). The site audit page separately calls this a 'free plan' with audits up to 50 pages per crawl, which contradicts the subscription requirement. ## What it does **Monitors AI answers** · Yes — A dedicated AI Visibility screen looks up a brand or domain and reports how two AI-search sources mention or cite it, alongside the classic SEO tooling. > Search for a brand or domain and inspect how ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention or cite it in available results. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · What you can do, step 01 'Look up a brand' **Optimises your content** · Partly — The site audit inspects pages you already own and names page-level defects to fix, but the vendor states classic on-page content optimisation is deliberately out of scope. > Status codes, titles, meta descriptions, headings, indexability signals, image alt coverage, links, and response time for every crawled page. > — https://openseo.so/features/site-audit · FAQ, 'What does the OpenSEO site audit tool check?' **Generates content** · No — No feature writes copy today; the vendor lists content writing for agents on its roadmap under Soon, which is a plan rather than a shipped capability. > Content writing workflows for Agents > — https://openseo.so/roadmap · Soon section, bullet list **Publishes to your site** · No — The workspace is described as research, tracking and auditing only; no CMS, WordPress or publishing integration appears on the features index or in the docs. > Research keywords, track rankings, audit sites, and understand your AI visibility from one modern platform. > — https://openseo.so/features · Page heading section, 'All the tools you need, in one workspace' **Technical AEO** · Partly — Technical SEO checks are real — indexability signals, Lighthouse, URL inspection — but AEO-specific work such as llms.txt or agent readiness checks is roadmap, not shipped. > Inspect pages for status codes, titles, meta descriptions, headings, indexability signals, image alt coverage, links, response time, and optional Lighthouse findings. > — https://openseo.so/features/site-audit · What you can do, step 01 'Run a site crawl' **Done-for-you service** · No — This is self-serve software sold as one subscription or self-hosted for free; no managed, done-for-you or consulting engagement is offered anywhere on the site. > One plan. Everything included. > — https://openseo.so/pricing · Base Plan card, subtitle under the plan name ## Answer engines **ChatGPT** · Yes — ChatGPT is one of the two named sources behind the AI visibility report, and the pricing estimator meters ChatGPT brand checks as a billable unit. > AI brand visibility is how often your brand or domain appears in available ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention and citation data. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · FAQ, 'What is AI brand visibility?' **Google AI Overviews** · Yes — Google AI Overview is the second named data source for brand mentions and citations, stated on the feature page, its FAQ and the features index. > See whether ChatGPT and Google AI Overview data mention or cite your brand or domain. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · Use cases, first bullet **Google AI Mode** · No — The vendor defines its AI visibility data as ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mentions and citations; Google AI Mode is named nowhere on the site, including the roadmap. > AI brand visibility is how often your brand or domain appears in available ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention and citation data. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · FAQ, 'What is AI brand visibility?' **Microsoft Copilot** · No — Microsoft Copilot is absent from every public page, while the visibility feature states its mention and citation data comes from ChatGPT and Google AI Overview. > AI brand visibility is how often your brand or domain appears in available ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention and citation data. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · FAQ, 'What is AI brand visibility?' **Meta AI** · No — Meta AI never appears on the vendor's site, and the AI visibility report is defined as covering ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention and citation data only. > AI brand visibility is how often your brand or domain appears in available ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mention and citation data. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · FAQ, 'What is AI brand visibility?' **Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — Brand monitoring is stated as two sources, ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, while Prompt Explorer compares unnamed 'supported AI models', so the full engine list is undisclosed. > OpenSEO's AI visibility workflow looks at mentions, cited pages, related prompts, and platform-level metrics from supported AI-search sources. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · FAQ, 'How is AI visibility different from traditional SEO?' _Not established: Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek_ ## What it reports **Names the cited sources** · Yes — The report surfaces the URLs, domains and platforms behind brand mentions, and Prompt Explorer shows citation URLs returned with model answers. > Review the URLs, domains, and platforms contributing to brand mentions. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · What you can do, step 02 'Review citations and platforms' **Competitor tracking** · Partly — Classic competitor research is strong via domain overview and backlink comparison, but on the AI side the vendor describes highlighting one brand per prompt rather than a rival view. > Highlight a brand and see whether each model mentions it in the answer or cited sources. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-search-prompts · What you can do, step 03 'Check brand mentions' **Brand sentiment** · No — The AI visibility output is enumerated as mentions, cited pages and related prompts; no sentiment, attribute or perception scoring is described anywhere on the site. > Look up a brand or domain and review ChatGPT and Google AI Overview mentions, cited pages, and related prompts. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · Page description / intro line above 'What you can do' **Recommendations** · Partly — Audit findings and agent skills produce a next action to take, yet the vendor explicitly refuses on-page optimisation scoring such as keyword density. > Audit a website with your AI agent and get a one-page, plain-language SEO report built around a single next action. > — https://openseo.so/docs · Docs index, 'SEO Audit Agent Skill' card **AI crawler analytics** · No — The crawler runs outward from OpenSEO over your pages; the audit's stated checks are page signals only, with no AI bot hit or log analysis offered. > Status codes, titles, meta descriptions, headings, indexability signals, image alt coverage, links, and response time for every crawled page. > — https://openseo.so/features/site-audit · FAQ, 'What does the OpenSEO site audit tool check?' **Wrong answers about you** · No — Nothing in the AI visibility workflow checks whether an engine states something false; the described output stops at mentions, cited pages and prompts. > Use cited pages and related prompts as clues for content, reputation, or comparison coverage to investigate. > — https://openseo.so/features/ai-brand-visibility · What you can do, step 03 'Find visibility gaps' ## Plans and signing up **Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Volume is metered in dollars of usage rather than a prompt quota: the plan carries ten dollars of credit monthly and each ChatGPT brand check is priced individually. > Includes $10 of usage every month > — https://openseo.so/pricing · Base Plan card, included-items list **Projects or brands** · Yes — Several projects live in one account — the docs tell an agent to list projects and pass a project ID, and the agency estimator prices multiple websites. > If your agent cannot find a project, ask it to list OpenSEO projects first and use the returned project ID in later tool calls. > — https://openseo.so/docs/mcp · Troubleshooting section, final paragraph **Countries** · Yes — Rank tracking is configured per domain and location, and MCP exposes local SERP lookups around a coordinate; the AI visibility side is not described as geo-segmented. > Create rank tracking configurations for the domains and locations you care about. > — https://openseo.so/features/rank-tracking · What you can do, step 01 'Add tracked domains' **How often it checks** · Yes — Rank checks run manually, weekly or daily: I focused the vendor's frequency slider and stepped it through all three labelled positions; AI brand checks are on demand and billed per check. > Rank tracking frequency > — https://openseo.so/pricing · Estimate your month calculator, 'Rank tracking frequency' slider; stepping the control in a browser shows its three positions: Manual, Weekly, Daily **Card required to start** · No — Sign-up is advertised without a card, and the strategy library repeats that trying OpenSEO does not require one before the $10 subscription starts. > OpenSEO is open source, free to try, and does not require a credit card. > — https://openseo.so/library/keyword-research/intent-beyond-google · 'Run this strategy in OpenSEO' block at page foot **Self-serve signup** · Yes — One published plan, a sign-up link and no sales contact anywhere: a buyer starts free and subscribes at ten dollars without talking to anyone. > You can start OpenSEO for free; the paid plan is $10/month with usage credits included. > — https://openseo.so/features/keyword-research · FAQ, 'Can I use OpenSEO as a free keyword research tool?' ## Access and integrations **API** · Partly — Personal API keys exist, but they authenticate the hosted MCP endpoint for headless clients; the docs describe no separate REST or data API for your own stack. > Use an API key in headless environments, CI, or clients where OAuth is inconvenient. API keys are personal: anything an agent does with your key acts as you in your workspace. > — https://openseo.so/docs/mcp · 'Connect with an API key' section, opening paragraph **MCP server** · Yes — A hosted MCP server is the product's centrepiece, exposing keyword, SERP, domain, backlink, rank tracking and Search Console tools to any MCP client. > OpenSEO MCP lets compatible AI clients call OpenSEO tools for keyword research, SERP inspection, local business research, competitive search intelligence, domain research, backlink overview, saved keywords, rank tracking > — https://openseo.so/docs/mcp · Opening paragraph above the hosted server URL **BI export** · Partly — Audit data and Lighthouse findings can be exported for developers, but no Looker, Power BI or warehouse connector is documented; agents pull data over MCP instead. > Export crawled page data and Lighthouse findings for developers and content teams. > — https://openseo.so/features/site-audit · Use cases, third bullet ## Provenance Every fact above comes from the vendor. 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