Mega SEO vs Scalenut

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Cheaper: Scalenut — $59/mo vs $339/mo for Mega SEO
Free plan: Neither — Mega SEO has paid plans only, Scalenut has paid plans only
Higher Trust score: Scalenut — 94 vs 84 for Mega SEO
Best fit: Mega SEO: Local and service businesses that want SEO, ads and lead follow-up handled without hiring an agency · Scalenut: In-house content teams running a steady editorial calendar on one or two domains
Status: Both up at our last check (Oct 15, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Mega SEODeploys AI agents that run SEO, paid ads, website changes, and lead follow-up, with a human strategist overseeing the work.

ScalenutSEO content workflow from keyword clusters to optimised drafts

Side by side

Fact	Mega SEO	Scalenut
Category	SEO Tools	SEO Tools
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starts at	$339/mo	$59/mo
Trust score	84 / 100	94 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	Mega	Scalenut Technologies Private Limited
Launched	2024	2020
Last verified	Oct 15, 2026	Oct 15, 2026

What our research says

Mega SEO

Mega SEO is positioned as an agency replacement: AI agents do the SEO, ads, lead handling and site work, and in the bundles a named specialist reviews anything high-impact before it goes live. A single agent from $339 a month with no setup fee and cancel-any-time billing makes it far easier to trial than its earlier four-figure entry price, but the expert review that is the core of the pitch only comes with bundles starting at $840 a month.

Pros

Published per-agent and bundle prices with no setup fee and dashboard cancellation
Approval modes range from full sign-off on every action to autonomous within guardrails
Covers organic search, AI-answer visibility, paid ads, lead booking and the website in one account
Customer keeps ownership of the assets built

Cons

Single agents get only automated oversight; named expert review requires a bundle
Ad spend is billed by Google and Meta on top of the agent fee
The largest savings require prepaying 6 or 12 months

Scalenut

A reasonable single-tool replacement for a Surfer plus writer plus brief-builder stack if you publish 20-70 articles a month. Below that volume the entry plan's five-article cap makes the price per piece embarrassing.

Pros

Cluster research, brief, draft and optimiser share one data model, so briefs actually reflect the SERP data
Publishes straight to WordPress and Shopify, which removes the usual copy-paste step
Higher tiers include unlimited workspaces and seats rather than charging per user

Cons

The jump from Starter to Plus is $30/month for six times the quota, which makes Starter look like a trap tier
Constant sitewide discounting makes it hard to know what you will actually renew at
No API and a short integration list compared with Semrush or Ahrefs
AI-answer-visibility tracking is capped at 10 prompts a month on the entry plan, too few to be a real signal

Which one fits

Choose Mega SEO if you need

Local and service businesses that want SEO, ads and lead follow-up handled without hiring an agency
Owners who want to approve every change before it reaches a live site or ad account
Small teams on WordPress, Webflow or Shopify that want pages published directly

Choose Scalenut if you need

In-house content teams running a steady editorial calendar on one or two domains
Agencies that want briefs, drafts and optimisation scores in one place instead of three subscriptions
Teams starting to track brand mentions inside AI answer engines alongside classic rankings