SEOJuice vs Surfer

SEOJuice

Most SEO tools produce a list of fixes and leave you to make them; SEOJuice makes the edits on the live site, which is the point and also the risk, softened now by a per-feature review gate. Bolting AI citation tracking onto the same product covers the two things people currently worry about in one subscription. The price has moved up a weight class: the free tier and the EUR 24 entry plan are gone, and every site is $99 a month, so a portfolio of small sites adds up fast.

Pros

• +Applies internal links, meta rewrites, schema and alt text automatically to a live site, and re-runs on content changes
• +Tracks citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot plus AI crawler hits
• +Integrations for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Framer, Ghost, Next.js, raw JS and a Cloudflare Worker
• +Named legal entity, Calm North Labs UAB in Lithuania, with a public founder

Cons

• −Automatic edits to a production site are hard to audit after the fact, even with the review option
• −$99 per website per month with no free tier; the earlier free and EUR 24 plans have been withdrawn
• −Fair-use cap of 2,000 processed pages a month per site, with extra pages sold in $49 bundles
• −No public API found

Surfer

Surfer is the editor to buy when a team writes for Google in volume and wants a number on every draft before it ships; the term-coverage score is a proxy, but a disciplined one, and the Google Docs and WordPress routes keep writers out of yet another tab. Solo bloggers on a budget and teams who already run Clearscope will find the yearly-first pricing and the document quotas harder to love. The 2025 pivot to AI-search tracking is real but priced as a second product.

Pros

• +Live score in the editor turns a ranking-page analysis into concrete edits
• +WordPress plugin, Google Docs and Contentful integrations put the score where writing happens
• +Audit and ranking-drop alerts catch decay on pages that were once fine
• +AI-search visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews under the same login

Cons

• −Headline prices are billed yearly; monthly plans cost about 20% more
• −Documents and tracked pages are metered, and unused credits reset rather than roll over
• −API access is reserved for the Peace of Mind tier or an add-on
• −Owned by Positive Group since October 2025, so roadmap and pricing may follow the group's packaging

Is SEOJuice cheaper than Surfer?

On published entry prices, Surfer starts lower — $49/mo against $99/mo for SEOJuice. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Which has a public API, SEOJuice or Surfer?

Surfer ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for SEOJuice is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.