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SEOmoz rank checker and SEOmoz rank tracker: what Moz Pro gives you, and what it costs

The short answer

SEOmoz became Moz on May 29, 2013, so the SEOmoz rank checker is today's Moz Pro Rank Checker, and it is not free. It ships inside a paid Moz Pro subscription starting at $99 a month and is capped at 200 checks a day on Standard and Medium, 500 on Large. It is also not a tracker: Moz's own help pages call it on demand spot checking with no automation and no emailed results. Automated tracking is a separate feature called Campaigns, and Campaign rankings update once per week, not daily.

Every price, cap and quoted phrase below was read off moz.com on August 23, 2026. Serpstracker builds a dedicated daily rank tracker and competes with the ranking module inside Moz Pro. We are not affiliated with Moz and earn no commission on any link on this page.

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What happened to the SEOmoz rank checker

The name went away in 2013. The tool moved behind the paywall.

SEOmoz announced its rename to Moz on May 29, 2013, dropping the SEO prefix as the company moved past pure search tooling. Thirteen years later the old name is still typed into Google thousands of times a month, usually attached to a tool that people half remember being free. That memory is the reason this query disappoints so many people, so it is worth being blunt about the current state of things.

Moz still publishes a genuinely useful set of free tools. A rank checker is not among them. The free lineup on moz.com covers domain metrics, keyword research, backlinks, a Brand Authority score, competitive research, local citations, the MozCast algorithm weather report and the MozBar extension. Checking where a specific URL sits for a specific keyword is a paid feature, and has been for years.

If you only need the number once, you do not need a subscription at all. Our Google rank checker returns a live position and the surrounding top ten without an account. If you need the number to keep arriving on its own, that is a tracker, and the distinction between the two is the whole subject of the next section. It is also unpacked in rank checker vs rank tracker.

Moz free tools, August 2026

  • Domain Analysis Domain Authority, top pages, competitive metrics
  • Keyword Explorer volume, difficulty and keyword suggestions
  • Link Explorer backlinks and linking domains
  • Brand Authority checker brand strength scored 1 to 100
  • Competitive Research top SERP competitors and content gaps
  • Online presence checker local citation coverage
  • MozCast day to day Google algorithm volatility
  • MozBar browser extension with page and domain metrics

No keyword rank checker appears on that list. Rank Checker sits inside Moz Pro.

The part almost every review skips

Moz Pro has two different ranking tools, and people buy the wrong one.

This is the single most useful thing to understand before you pay. Rank Checker and Campaign Rankings are separate features with separate limits, separate cadences and separate purposes. Reviews routinely blend them into one paragraph, which is how people end up subscribing for automated daily tracking Moz does not sell.

  Rank Checker Campaign Rankings
What it is for One off spot checks and competitor lookups Ongoing tracking of a keyword set over time
Runs on its own No. Moz states it is meant for on demand spot checking Yes, automatically
Update frequency Only when you press the button Once per week, on the day you created the Campaign
Allowance 200 checks per day on Standard and Medium, 500 on Large 300, 1,500 or 3,000 tracked keywords by plan
Emailed results No. Moz states there is no option to send the data by email Yes, scheduled reports
History retained Up to one year in the rank history graph Kept for the life of the Campaign, including deleted keywords
Engines Google, Bing, Yahoo or Google Mobile, plus a country selector Up to four search engines per tracked keyword
Volume and difficulty shown Yes, though volume is Google only Yes

Straight from Moz's help pages

Asked whether tracking in Rank Checker can be automated, Moz answers plainly that it cannot, describing the tool as meant for on demand spot checking and pointing you to Campaigns to automate weekly rank tracking. On the Rankings page the company is equally direct: your Campaign rankings update once per week, and the actual day is determined by the day you first set up your Campaign. Both sentences are worth reading twice if you arrived expecting a daily tool.

The practical effect is arithmetic. A weekly refresh produces about 4.3 observations per keyword per month against roughly 30 from a daily one. If a page slips on a Tuesday and your Campaign refreshes on Sundays, five days pass before the chart admits anything happened, and by then the cause is much harder to reconstruct. Whether that matters depends entirely on what you do with the data, which is argued both ways in weekly vs daily rank tracking.

A name collision worth knowing about

Most free "MozRank checker" tools do not check your Google position at all.

Search for a Moz rank checker and page one fills with third party sites offering a free MozRank checker. Many people assume they have found what they wanted. They have not. MozRank was Moz's link popularity metric, a score derived from the quantity and quality of links pointing at a page. It says nothing about where you sit for a keyword. You can hold a respectable MozRank and rank nowhere.

Those tools have also aged. Moz's own explainer page for MozRank at moz.com/learn/seo/mozrank no longer exists as a separate article: request it today and you land on the Domain Authority explainer instead. Domain Authority, scored 1 to 100, is the metric Moz actively maintains and documents. A page confidently reporting your MozRank in 2026 is reporting on a metric its own author has folded away.

So there are three different things wearing similar names, and it pays to be precise about which one you actually need before you spend anything.

Three things, three answers

MozRank

A link popularity score. Not a search position. Moz now folds this explainer into Domain Authority.

Domain Authority

A 1 to 100 prediction of how well a domain may rank overall. Free from Moz. Still not a keyword position.

Rank Checker

The actual keyword position tool. Paid, inside Moz Pro, 200 checks a day on the entry tiers.

What it costs to get the checker

Moz Pro pricing, and the daily cap nobody quotes.

List prices in dollars, read off moz.com on August 23, 2026. The last column is the one that never makes it into review articles: Rank Checker is metered per day, and the cap does not improve when you step from Standard to Medium.

Plan Monthly Annual Seats Tracked keywords Rank Checker per day
Moz Pro Standard $99 $79 1 300 200
Moz Pro Medium $179 $143 2 1,500 200
Moz Pro Large $299 $239 3 3,000 500

Annual billing is a flat 20 percent off, presented on the vendor page as $950, $1,719 and $2,868 billed for your first year, saving $238, $429 and $720. Moz also runs periodic promotions with larger headline numbers, so the banner figure you see may be above the standing 20 percent. Campaigns are limited to 3, 10 and 25, and a Campaign pairs your site with three competitors.

There is a fourth plan that sits outside the comparison grid. Moz lists an entry level subscription at $49 a month, described on its own pricing page as designed specifically for individuals managing a single website. It is easy to mistake for the real Standard plan when you are scanning for the cheapest way in.

Two limits catch buyers out after they have paid. Branded reports and report templates are marked unavailable on Standard, so if you bought Moz Pro to send a client a report with your own logo on it, your real entry price is $179 rather than $99. And extra user seats are $49 a month each at every plan level, which climbs quickly for a three person team on Standard.

Worth noting if you are comparing crawl budgets: Moz quotes the same allowance in two different units on one page, 400,000 pages per month on the plan cards and 100,000 pages per week in the comparison table below them. They agree, but only after you do the conversion. Tier by tier costings sit on rank tracker cost comparison.

Where the checker runs out

Four ceilings you meet in the first month.

200 checks a day

Standard and Medium share the same cap, so paying $80 more a month buys tracked keywords rather than checking headroom. Only Large lifts it, to 500. An agency auditing several client sites in one afternoon can spend that allowance well before the working day ends.

No automation

Rank Checker will not run to a schedule. Every result is a button press. Moz is candid about this and directs you to Campaigns for anything repeating, which means accepting the weekly cadence that comes with them.

No emailed results

There is no option to have Rank Checker output sent to you. If a colleague or client needs the numbers, you export or screenshot them yourself. Scheduled reporting belongs to Campaigns, and branded reporting only from the $179 tier.

One year of history

The rank history graph holds up to twelve months. That covers the usual year on year question and stops short of the multi year view some teams keep for seasonal work or for arguing a case about a long recovery after a core update.

One more quirk to expect in the results table. Rank Checker will happily check Bing, Yahoo and Google Mobile alongside desktop Google, but the volume column stays empty on the non Google engines, because Moz's volume database is built on Google. The position is real; the volume beside it simply reads no data. If you need volume for a Bing strategy, it is not going to come from here.

If on demand is not enough

When Moz is the right answer, and when it plainly is not.

Moz Pro is a good buy for a specific person: someone who wants one platform covering keyword research, a site crawler, link data, Domain Authority and AI visibility, who checks rankings as one job among many, and for whom a weekly number is genuinely sufficient. At $99 it is the cheapest way into a full platform of that kind, the interface assumes less prior knowledge than its rivals, and the four engines per tracked keyword rule means multi engine coverage does not eat your allowance the way it does at some competitors. None of that is faint praise.

It is the wrong buy if ranking data is the actual reason you are paying. Spot checks metered at 200 a day plus a weekly automated refresh is a research workflow, not a monitoring one. You will not learn that a page fell on the day it fell, and you cannot set an alert on something you only observe every seventh day.

For comparison, since this is our page and you should be able to discount it accordingly: Serpstracker is a dedicated tracker at $39 a month for 250 keywords, $99 for 1,500 and $249 for 5,000. Everything is checked daily on every plan, positions are per location and per device, the organic top ten is stored on every check, and drop alerts go out the same day. There is no daily cap on checking because checking daily is the product.

What we do not do, so you can rule us out quickly: no backlink index, no keyword research database, no site audit crawler, no Domain Authority equivalent. We store the organic top ten rather than the full top 100 and compute no visibility score. If you need those, Moz is a platform and we are one instrument. The common outcome is that teams keep a suite and drop a tier on it, which is costed in Serpstracker vs Moz, Moz alternatives and Moz vs Semrush vs Ahrefs.

SEOmoz rank checker questions

Questions people ask about the Moz rank checker.

Is the SEOmoz rank checker free?

No. Rank Checker is available only with a paid Moz Pro subscription, which starts at $99 a month. Moz publishes a substantial set of free tools covering domain metrics, keywords, links and local citations, but a keyword position checker is not among them and has not been for years.

What is the SEOmoz rank checker called now?

Moz Pro Rank Checker. SEOmoz renamed itself Moz on May 29, 2013, and the ranking tools moved inside the Moz Pro subscription. Rank Checker handles one off lookups, while ongoing tracking lives in a separate feature called Campaigns.

How many rank checks do you get with Moz Pro?

Two hundred per day on Standard and on Medium, and 500 per day on Large. The cap is identical on the $99 and $179 plans, so stepping up a tier for more checking headroom does not work. The higher tier buys tracked keywords and seats instead.

Does Moz update rankings daily?

No. Moz states that Campaign rankings update once per week, on a day set by when you created the Campaign. Rank Checker can be run whenever you like, but only manually, so daily figures mean pressing the button yourself every day within your 200 check allowance.

Can I automate rank tracking in Moz Rank Checker?

No. Moz answers this directly in its help pages, describing Rank Checker as meant for on demand spot checking and pointing users to Campaigns to automate weekly rank tracking. There is also no option to have Rank Checker results emailed to you.

What is the difference between MozRank and Moz Rank Checker?

MozRank is a link popularity score and tells you nothing about your keyword positions. Rank Checker reports where a URL actually sits on a search engine results page. Moz has since folded its MozRank explainer into the Domain Authority page, which is the metric it now maintains.

How many keywords can you track with Moz Pro?

Standard tracks 300, Medium 1,500 and Large 3,000. Those counts stretch further than they look, because Moz collects ranking data across up to four search engines per tracked keyword rather than charging a separate slot for each engine. Campaigns are capped at 3, 10 and 25.

Which search engines does Moz Rank Checker support?

Google, Bing, Yahoo and Google Mobile, with a country selector alongside them. One caveat shows up in the results table: search volume is a Google only dataset at Moz, so the volume column reads no data when you check Bing or Yahoo.

How long does Moz keep rank history?

Rank Checker retains up to one year of history in its rank history graph. Campaign rankings keep data for the life of the Campaign, and Moz confirms you can still view historical data for keywords you have removed by selecting a date range from when they were tracked.

Is Moz Pro worth it just for rank tracking?

Rarely. At $99 a month for 300 weekly updated keywords you are paying platform prices for one module, and dedicated trackers start near $39 with daily checks. Moz earns its price when you also use the crawler, keyword research and link data that come with it.

What is a good free alternative to the Moz rank checker?

For a one off lookup, any live checker that returns a real position will do, including ours, which needs no account. The thing to watch is that most free tools headed MozRank checker report link authority rather than your search position, so confirm what the number actually measures.

Does Moz Pro include branded client reports?

Only on Medium and Large. The Moz pricing comparison table marks branded reports and report templates as unavailable on Standard. If white labelled client reporting is the reason you are buying Moz Pro, your practical entry price is $179 a month rather than $99.

The wider buying question is answered in is Moz worth it for rank tracking, and if you need to check many keywords at once rather than one at a time, see bulk rank checker.

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Moz vs Semrush vs Ahrefs

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Serpstracker vs Moz

A dedicated tracker against the platform.

Google rank checker

A live position with no account and no daily cap.

Bulk rank checker

Many keywords at once instead of one at a time.

Daily rank tracker

What changes when the number arrives every day.

Rank tracker cost comparison

Cost per tracked keyword across eleven tools.

Semrush pricing

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Serpstracker pricing

Our three plans and what each ceiling costs.

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