RankMe puts the whole SEO workbench on your own server: audits, rankings, keywords, backlinks, and AI visibility without a per-seat subscription deciding what you may check. Crawl a site and it runs 26 automated checks, returning a plain-language report sorted into Fix now, Watch, and Passed, where each finding names the page, explains in one sentence why it matters, and tells you how to fix it, with an optional AI summary on top. Rank tracking follows Google organic positions over time plus Bing, YouTube, and Amazon, watches SERP features, fires confirmed-drop alerts, and maps local rankings on a geogrid. Keyword research covers volume, difficulty, trends, and SERP-overlap clustering, while Search Console data feeds cannibalization reports and connects to GA4, PageSpeed Insights, and CrUX for performance context. Backlink profiles, link-gap analysis, toxic-link review, and competitor discovery show who links to rivals and which content earns it. A dedicated AI visibility module tracks prompts in AI Overviews and LLM answers and measures share of voice in a weekly digest. Agencies get PDF and CSV exports, scheduled white-label client reports, read-only share links, a REST API, and an MCP server, with alerts delivered by email, Slack, or signed webhook across seven interface languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

OpenSEO provides an alternative to the $100+/month SEO suite monopoly by connecting directly to DataForSEO APIs on a pay-as-you-go basis — you bring your own API key and pay only for the queries you actually make. The platform delivers focused workflows for keyword research with volume, difficulty, CPC, intent, and live SERP inspection; rank tracking with historical position monitoring; backlink analysis with referring domain quality scoring; technical site audits that crawl pages and surface issues; competitor insights comparing SERP positions across keyword sets; and AI visibility monitoring that tracks brand mentions, citations, and prompts across AI models. The integrated MCP server exposes all tools to AI coding agents including Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, and Cursor, while Agent Skills provide reusable SKILL.md workflows that guide agents through complex SEO research tasks. Google Search Console integration reads first-party performance data including clicks, impressions, CTR, and position metrics with URL-level index status inspection. The Prompt Explorer compares how different AI models respond to SEO-relevant queries. Self-host via Docker for personal use or deploy to Cloudflare for team access with automatic database backups. The hosted version at openseo.so adds a 28% markup on DataForSEO requests. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.