How many keywords can you track with Mangools?

Mangools sells some of the tightest keyword ceilings in the rank tracking category, which is the trade for a suite that costs a third of what Ahrefs or Semrush charge. That trade is fine as long as you size the list correctly before you pay. The mistake people make is reading 200 as 200 keywords, when for most real setups it is closer to 100 or 66. Here is the arithmetic, taken off the Mangools pricing table, the SERPWatcher product page and the Mangools FAQ on August 15, 2026.

The keyword limits on each Mangools plan

Three paid plans, one figure each, and unlimited domains on all of them. The last column is the one that decides whether the allowance is any use to you.

Annual billing does not change any of these allowances, it only changes the price, to $37.70, $52.70 and $97.70 a month. If your reason for upgrading is capacity rather than seats or lookups, the only two steps available are 200 to 700 for $20 a month, and 700 to 1,500 for a further $60.

Do desktop and mobile count as two keywords in Mangools?

Yes. The Mangools FAQ answers this in one line: each tracking is separate, and tracking one keyword for one domain on both desktop and mobile counts as two tracked keywords. So a Basic plan advertised at 200 covers 100 phrases if you watch both device types. This is the single biggest reason people run out of room earlier than they budgeted for, because nothing on the pricing table hints at it.

Locations meter the same way. A phrase you track in Austin, Dallas and Houston is three tracked keywords, not one. Combine the two rules and a local business watching 40 phrases across three cities on both devices needs 240 slots, which is over the Basic ceiling before the second city is added. That is normal for the category rather than a Mangools quirk, and we count identically: each phrase, city and device combination is its own tracked keyword here too, because each one is a separate query against a separate results page.

What counts as one tracked keyword

A tracked keyword is one phrase, for one domain, in one location, on one device. Change any of those four and you have spent another slot. Worth knowing before you plan:

• Domains are free, keywords are not. Mangools lists unlimited domains on every plan, so spreading 200 keywords across 10 client sites costs nothing extra. The budget is the keyword pool, not the site count. That is genuinely generous compared with tools that meter both.
• Competitor rankings do not consume your slots. SERPWatcher shows you who else ranks for a keyword you already track without charging you a second slot for them.
• Keyword research lookups are a separate budget. KWFinder is metered at 100, 500 and 1,200 lookups per 24 hours, and importing a list counts as one lookup. Running out of research lookups does not touch your tracking allowance and vice versa.
• A featured snippet is recorded as position one. The Mangools FAQ states SERPWatcher counts a featured snippet as a regular first position, while SERPChecker does not. Expect small disagreements with other tools on the same keyword.

How often does Mangools update tracked keywords?

Weekly on Basic and Premium, daily on Agency. Mangools is consistent about this in four places: the "Ranks update frequency" row on the pricing table, the SERPWatcher description in its own navigation menu, the SERPWatcher page headline, and the stats strip on that page counting 900,000 keyword positions checked weekly, daily on Agency. So the cheapest Mangools plan that checks a keyword every day is Agency at $141 a month.

This matters for sizing because an allowance you cannot read often enough is not really capacity. If you are diagnosing a drop, a weekly reading cannot tell you whether the position moved on the day you shipped a template change or three days later when a core update finished. If you are reporting to a client monthly on a stable site, weekly is perfectly adequate and paying for daily is waste. The full trade is in weekly versus daily rank tracking.

How to size a keyword list that fits

Work backwards from the report someone actually reads, not from your sitemap. In practice the exercise takes an hour and usually cuts a list by a third.

1. Start with money pages, not all pages. Take the 10 to 20 URLs that produce revenue or leads and list the one or two phrases each is genuinely built to rank for. That is your core list and it is nearly always under 40 phrases.
2. Add the terms you would act on. A keyword earns a slot if a drop on it would make you change something this week. If a drop would change nothing, it is a report line, not a tracked keyword.
3. Decide devices once. Track mobile only unless desktop and mobile results genuinely differ for your terms, which is worth checking on a handful before you commit half your allowance to it. For most business-to-business queries they track closely enough that one device is enough.
4. Multiply by locations last. Only after the phrase list is final. Three cities on a 60 phrase list is 180 slots, and that is the number to compare against the plan, not 60.
5. Leave 20 percent headroom. New pages ship, campaigns launch, and hitting the ceiling mid-quarter forces an upgrade you did not plan for.

If the list that survives this is 40 phrases on one device in one location, Mangools Basic at 200 is generous and you are buying the other four tools anyway. If it is 300 phrases across two devices, you need Agency, and at that point it is worth pricing the job against a dedicated tracker. We put the full arithmetic on the Mangools pricing breakdown.

What to do when you hit the Mangools keyword limit

There is no published keyword top up for Mangools the way some vendors sell add on capacity, so the routes are prune, upgrade or split.

Prune first. Every list older than six months carries dead weight: keywords for pages that were consolidated, brand variants that never move, and terms someone added during a campaign that ended. Sort by how long a position has been static and delete the bottom third. Most teams recover 20 to 30 percent of their allowance this way, which is cheaper than any upgrade.

Upgrading is the obvious second step, and the step from Premium to Agency is worth thinking about carefully because it does two things at once: it more than doubles capacity and it switches you from weekly to daily. If you only need capacity, you are paying $60 a month for a cadence change you did not ask for. If you only need daily, you are paying for 800 slots you will not use.

Splitting is the third option and it is more common than vendors like to admit. Keep Mangools for KWFinder and LinkMiner, where it is genuinely strong, and move the tracking to a dedicated tool. For teams already running several small tools and automating the reporting layer around them, that separation tends to cost less than the top tier of any one suite. It is the same logic behind putting the repetitive marketing work on autopilot rather than buying one very expensive platform that does every job adequately. How to switch rank trackers covers moving without losing your history.

How does Mangools compare on keyword allowances?

Against the rest of the category, Mangools sits at the low end on capacity and the low end on price, which is a coherent position rather than a flaw. Semrush includes 500 keywords checked daily on its cheapest plan at $139 and 5,000 on Advanced at $549. Ahrefs includes 750 on Lite at $129, but checks weekly by default on every plan including its $1,499 Enterprise tier. Ranktracker Launch covers 500 daily keywords at $39.

The comparison worth running is the one where two plans do the same job. Mangools Agency and Serpstracker Growth both cover 1,500 keywords checked daily; Agency is $141 a month and Growth is $99. That $42 gap is only a saving if the ranking table is what you were buying, because Agency also includes keyword research, backlinks, SERP analysis, site metrics and AI prompt monitoring, and a dedicated tracker includes none of that. Both sides of that trade are laid out on Serpstracker vs Mangools, including where Mangools wins outright.

The short version

200 keywords on Basic, 700 on Premium, 1,500 on Agency, across unlimited domains. Halve each figure if you track desktop and mobile, and divide again by the number of locations you need. Weekly updates below Agency, daily only at $141. Size the list from the pages that make money rather than from your sitemap, leave a fifth of the allowance spare, and prune before you upgrade. If the position report is the only screen anyone in your team opens, the arithmetic on the Mangools pricing page makes the case for splitting the job better than we can here.