Blog · August 16, 2026
How many keywords can you track with Moz Pro?
Moz Pro tracks 300 keywords on Standard at $99 a month, 1,500 on Medium at $179 and 3,000 on Large at $299. Those keywords are spread across 3, 10 and 25 Campaigns, which is what Moz calls a tracked site. Two rules shape what the allowance is actually worth. Every plan updates rankings once a week, including the $299 one, and the update day is fixed by the date you created the Campaign rather than chosen by you.
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Moz sells a platform rather than a tracker, so the keyword ceiling is one line in a long feature table and it is easy to skim past until you hit it. It is also the limit most teams reach first, ahead of Campaigns, crawl budget or seats. Here is the arithmetic, read off the Moz Pro pricing table and the Moz help documentation on August 16, 2026, along with the distinction that causes most of the confusion.
The keyword limits on each Moz Pro plan
Three plans in the main comparison table, plus a $49 entry plan aimed at one person running a single website. Moz does not publish a tracked keyword figure for that entry plan in the plan comparison table, so treat it as unknown until you see it in the account.
| Plan | Monthly | Tracked keywords | Campaigns | Seats | Update frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $99 | 300 | 3 | 1 | Weekly |
| Medium | $179 | 1,500 | 10 | 2 | Weekly |
| Large | $299 | 3,000 | 25 | 3 | Weekly |
Paying yearly takes a flat 20 percent off the base plan and changes none of the allowances, so the same 300, 1,500 and 3,000 cost $79, $143 and $239 a month. Worth noting if you costed Moz earlier in 2026 and moved on: Large is now $299 rather than $359, a $60 cut with the keyword figure unchanged, and most comparison articles still quote the old number. The full plan breakdown is on our Moz alternatives page.
Tracked keywords and Keyword Explorer queries are not the same limit
This is where most of the confusion comes from, because Moz publishes several numbers with the word keyword in them and only one of them is your tracking allowance. Tracked keyword rankings are the 300, 1,500 and 3,000 above: terms Moz re-checks every week and keeps history for. Keyword queries per month, which read 150, 5,000 and 15,000, are research lookups in Keyword Explorer and do not track anything. Keyword lists, at 5, 30 and 60 per plan with 100, 500 and 750 keywords in each, are just saved research sets.
So a Standard plan that advertises 10,000 keywords per site query and 150 keyword queries a month still only monitors 300 positions. If someone quotes you a large keyword number for Moz, ask which of those four figures they mean. It is the same category confusion as the difference between a one-off lookup and ongoing monitoring, which is worked through in rank checker versus rank tracker.
Does mobile or local tracking use a second keyword slot in Moz?
Moz lists mobile rankings as an included feature on all three plans and lets you track a keyword nationally or locally. What its pricing table does not state is whether watching one keyword on both desktop and mobile, or in two locations, consumes one slot or two. That distinction matters enough to ask support before you buy, because it is exactly where competitors differ: Mangools states plainly in its FAQ that each tracking is separate and desktop plus mobile counts as two, which quietly halves its advertised allowance. We are not going to guess Moz's rule from another vendor's behavior. Confirm it in writing, then size the list.
What the weekly schedule does to your allowance
Moz's help documentation states that Campaign rankings update once per week, and that the day is determined by when you first set up the Campaign. There is no daily tier to upgrade into. Two practical effects follow. Keywords you add mid-week are labeled Not Collected until the next scheduled run, so a term added the day after your update sits without data for almost seven days. And your reporting rhythm inherits a day you did not choose, so a Monday client report built on a Thursday-updating Campaign is always reading positions that are four days old.
None of that is a reason to avoid Moz if a weekly reading matches how you work. It is a reason to stop treating the keyword count as the only number that matters. Three thousand keywords checked once a week produce fewer usable data points than 1,500 checked daily, and they cannot tell you which day something moved. The trade-off in full is in weekly versus daily rank tracking.
How to size a Moz keyword list that fits
Work from the pages that make money rather than from your sitemap. This is the method that keeps agencies off the next tier for another year.
- 1. List the pages with commercial intent. Product, pricing, category and high-converting comparison pages. Ignore the blog archive at this stage, however much traffic it gets.
- 2. Give each page one primary term and at most two variants. A page that ranks for its primary term almost always ranks nearby for the long tail, so tracking eleven variants of the same phrase buys you a wider chart and no extra decisions.
- 3. Add competitor-facing terms only where you would act on them. If you would not change anything on the strength of the number, it does not deserve a slot.
- 4. Divide by Campaign. Medium gives 1,500 keywords across 10 Campaigns. Across ten clients that is 150 each, and the biggest client will want more than the smallest, so allocate deliberately rather than first come first served.
- 5. Leave a fifth of the allowance spare. New pages, seasonal terms and one-off investigations all need room. A list at 100 percent capacity forces a mid-month upgrade or a rushed deletion, and deleting a keyword in Moz means losing its history.
Deciding which pages earn a slot is the same prioritization you would apply to any other part of the budget you are trying to put on autopilot: measure the things a decision hangs on, and stop paying to watch the rest. The general version of this exercise, independent of vendor, is in how many keywords should you track.
What to do when you hit the Moz keyword ceiling
Three options, in the order most teams should consider them. Prune first: export the current list, sort by how often anyone has acted on each term, and cut the bottom quarter. Most lists carry dead weight from a campaign that ended two years ago. Split second: if the tracking is the only part of Moz your team opens weekly, a dedicated tracker handles that half for less than the upgrade costs, and you keep Moz on a lower tier for Domain Authority, Link Explorer and keyword research. Upgrade last, because Standard to Medium is $80 a month for 1,200 more keywords and Medium to Large is $120 for 1,500 more, and neither step makes the checks any faster.
If you go the splitting route, run both tools in parallel for two to four weeks before you cancel anything, and export your Moz rankings to CSV first, because ranking history does not transfer between vendors. The full switching method is in how to switch rank trackers.
The short version
300 keywords on Standard, 1,500 on Medium, 3,000 on Large, across 3, 10 and 25 Campaigns, with 1, 2 and 3 seats. Weekly updates on every tier on a day fixed by your signup date, and no daily option at any price. Do not confuse the tracking allowance with the far larger Keyword Explorer research numbers. Size the list from the pages that make money, leave a fifth spare, and prune before you upgrade. If the ranking report is the screen your team actually opens, the arithmetic on the Moz alternatives page makes the case for splitting the job better than we can here.