Full-suite SEO platform centered on Domain Authority · Pricing: $99 – $599 / mo
Moz Pro and SEO Score API both touch SEO, but they are different shapes of product. Moz Pro is a Web app + Moz Links API; SEO Score API is a hosted REST API that returns a scored audit as JSON in about two seconds. This page is an honest side-by-side — including when you should pick Moz Pro over us.
| Feature | Moz Pro | SEO Score API |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $99 / mo | $0 free, $5+ / mo paid |
| Site audits | Scheduled crawls | On-demand single URL or batch |
| API access | Moz Links API (separate) | Single unified API for everything |
| Domain Authority score | Yes (signature metric) | No |
| AI readability / GEO checks | No | Yes (every audit) |
| SXO / AEO / AIO scores | No | Yes (Starter+) |
| Keyword research | Yes | No |
| CI/CD friendly | Limited | GitHub Action + SDKs |
| Free tier | 30-day trial | 5 audits/day, no card |
| Time to first result | Sign-up + onboarding | API key in seconds |
Only if you use Moz primarily for site audits. We don't track Domain Authority and we don't do keyword research. If those are core to your workflow, stay on Moz or move to Ahrefs.
Moz Pro starts at $99/month. SEO Score API has a free tier and starts at $5/month for 200 audits. For audit-only workloads, the savings are 20–95% depending on volume.
No. We score on-page and technical SEO, AI readability, performance, and accessibility. DA is Moz's proprietary metric and we don't replicate it.
Yes — every audit returns a `priorities` array of the highest-impact fixes, sorted by what would move the score most.
Run an audit in your terminal in 30 seconds.