SEOmonitor API pricing: what unlimited API access costs, and what the same feed costs at ten other rank trackers

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What the SEOmonitor API costs, exactly

Nothing beyond the plan. The help center article on API access is titled "Unrestricted, free API access", is subtitled "Programmatically extract your data from SEOmonitor, without worrying about limits or extra costs", and states that "any data from your account can be extracted programmatically". The pricing page repeats the point in its header, four infinity symbols above the plan cards: unlimited users, unlimited API, unlimited exports, unlimited competitors. The pricing article in the help center lists "Integrations and API: unlimited access to your data using CSV exports, Google Sheets, and our API, and imports to Looker Studio, at no extra cost" among the things every batch of daily tracked keywords buys.

So the real question is not what the API costs but what the keywords behind it cost. Starter is EUR 99 a month for 1,000 daily tracked keywords on one website, capped at 3,000 keywords. Pro is EUR 299 for 3,000 daily keywords across unlimited websites, and every further block of 1,000 is EUR 49. A developer pulling 10,000 keywords a day into a warehouse is therefore paying about EUR 642 a month for the data and nothing for the pipe. The full plan breakdown, the overage model and the annual terms are on our SEOmonitor pricing page.

The one inconsistency to clear up before you buy Starter

Read three SEOmonitor sources and you get two answers about the EUR 99 plan. The pricing page header and the help center both say the API comes with tracking, full stop. The Pro plan card, however, lists "Unlimited API Access" inside the block headed "Includes everything in Starter, plus", which is where a vendor normally puts the features the cheaper plan lacks. A November 2025 capture of the same page marked Starter's API row with a check mark and the tooltip "Complete API access to the tracked data, with no volume restrictions", so the intent seems to be that Starter has it. The 2026 card is ambiguous. If the API is why you are buying and Starter is the budget, ask for it in writing.

What the API returns

Version 3.0 is the current API, with public documentation at api-docs.seomonitor.com, and version 1.2 remains operational for integrations already built on it. The token is generated, and can be regenerated, from Settings and then Profile inside the app; regenerating it breaks every report built on the old token, which the help center warns about. The data comes in two layers. Campaign level endpoints return the campaign itself, its keyword list, landing pages, organic traffic where Analytics and Search Console are connected, and the forecast. Keyword level endpoints return daily ranking history, search volume and SERP data, competitor positions and keyword level traffic. Separately, the API exposes SEOmonitor's curated US and UK keyword research databases.

Three limits are worth knowing. First, your own position is refreshed daily, but the full top 100 for competitor data is crawled weekly, so a competitor column pulled daily through the API will repeat itself six days out of seven. Second, "unlimited" means no tier based metering, not no ceiling: the help center sets a fair use limit of 10,000 requests a day, 10 requests a second and 1,000 rows per request, the same on every plan, which at 1,000 rows a call is 10 million rows a day and more than any ranking pipeline needs. Third, the API is for tracked campaigns; draft campaigns, the free one day snapshots, are not covered. The API can also write: version 3.0 has an Add New Keywords endpoint, and keywords added that way are billed at the normal keyword rate, which is the one place the "free" API can raise the invoice.

What an API feed costs at eleven rank trackers

Every row below is the cheapest published plan on which the vendor's API is available, read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown. Where the API is an add-on with no printed price, the row says so instead of guessing. Euro vendors stay in euros.

Three patterns fall out of that table. The agency tools, SEOmonitor, AgencyAnalytics and our own Agency plan, include the API at the tier an agency would buy anyway. The mid market trackers, Wincher, Nightwatch and Advanced Web Ranking, use the API as the reason to step up one tier, which costs EUR 40 at Wincher and $140 at AWR. The suites, Semrush and Ahrefs, treat the API as an enterprise feature, which is fine if you are buying the suite and a poor way to buy a ranking feed. The wider comparison, including what a rank tracker API can and cannot do, is in our best rank tracker with an API guide.

Is the SEOmonitor API a SERP API?

No, and the distinction decides which product you should be pricing. The SEOmonitor API returns the data SEOmonitor has already collected for the keywords you pay to track. It does not accept an arbitrary query and return a live Google results page. If what you need is raw SERPs on demand for keywords you have not committed to tracking, you are shopping for a SERP API, where DataForSEO, SerpApi and the rest charge per thousand results and are cheaper per result than any tracker. That market has its own pricing logic, covered on our SERP API pricing page. A tracker API is the right buy when you want stored daily history, competitor columns and alerts without building the storage layer yourself, and that is the layer SEOmonitor's unlimited access is really selling.

Who should pay EUR 299 for this, and who should not

An agency with a Looker Studio report per client, a developer who maintains the connectors and three or more people who need logins is the buyer SEOmonitor priced Pro for. Unlimited seats, unlimited campaigns and the unmetered API all sit inside the one number, and the same brief at Semrush or Ahrefs is a per seat charge plus an enterprise conversation. For a team keeping a running tally of its SaaS spend across the stack, SEOmonitor's shape is easy to forecast: the bill moves with keyword count and nothing else.

A developer who wants a clean daily ranking feed for one or two sites and does not need forecasting, content auditing or an agency dashboard is paying for a platform to get a pipe. On our side the rank tracking API comes with the $249 Agency plan, which covers 5,000 daily keywords across unlimited sites and stores the organic top 10 on every check, so the competitor column is daily rather than weekly. There is no Looker Studio connector here, and one login per account, both of which SEOmonitor does better. If those two things are on your list, SEOmonitor is the right call. If the list is positions, history and alerts through an API, it is not.

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