Picked by use case, not by marketing budget.
SEMrush is a full marketing platform — SEO audits are one slice. If you only want the audit slice automated, you'll spend $139+/month on features you won't touch. Here are alternatives by what you actually need.
If you spend most of your SEMrush time on site audits and you'd rather get JSON your code can act on, SEO Score API is the cheapest, fastest path. If you rely on SEMrush for backlinks, keyword research, or rank tracking, no API-first tool will fully replace it.
Only for the site-audit slice of SEMrush. We don't do keyword research, position tracking, paid-search analysis, or backlinks. If those drive your day, stay on SEMrush or move to Ahrefs.
SEMrush starts at $139.95/month for one user. SEO Score API starts at $0 (5/day) and $5/month for 200 audits. For audit-only workloads you're paying 96%+ less.
Yes — every plan including the free tier has full API access. SEMrush gates API behind custom enterprise plans.
Yes, we publish an official action. SEMrush doesn't have a comparable CI/CD integration.
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