Tool reviews: SEO and AI tools, tested and priced

The SEO data source to choose for automating and building: SERPs, volumes, backlinks and AI visibility at rock-bottom prices, with no subscription, and available in plain English in Claude or ChatGPT through the MCP server.

Pay as you go, no subscription: balance from $50 that never expires, Google SERP from $0.0006, volumes for 1,000 keywords for $0.06, $1 of free credit

Dozens of premium SEO tools, including Semrush and Ahrefs, for €14.99 a month: the best value for occasional needs or a small budget, as long as you accept the limits of a shared account.

€9.99 to €14.99 a month, 7-day trial for €1

The reference SEO tool for the French market: data taken from Google in France, a clean interface, paid search and backlinks on top, and the API and MCP server included in every plan.

From €32 to €399 a month excluding VAT, 7-day free trial

The platform to choose for applying on-page SEO to thousands of pages and dozens of sites without depending on the CMS, with pre-rendering that makes your pages readable by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.

10-day free trial, Business from $249 a month billed yearly ($299 month to month) for 5 sites, Agency from $499 a month billed yearly, Enterprise on quote

The reference suite for deciding on data: choosing topics, analysing competitors, auditing, tracking rankings and now AI visibility, on a database of nearly 29 billion keywords.

From $139 a month, $117.33 a month billed yearly

The tool to choose for writing content that ranks: an editor that scores every article in real time, a topical map, an audit of published pages and tracking of your brand in ChatGPT, Gemini and the AI Overviews.

Discovery from $49 a month billed yearly ($59 month to month), Standard $99, Pro $182, Peace of Mind $299 a month billed yearly

The SEO agent to choose when you want SEO to run without a team: articles published automatically, backlinks inside real articles, and visibility tracking in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.

3-day free trial, Grow $99 a month and Scale $399 a month on monthly billing (US), up to 40% off yearly

The SEO tool to install first on a Squarespace site: it tells you what to fix, page by page, right inside the editor, and tracks your visibility in ChatGPT and other AI search engines.

Free plan (50 pages), Starter $18.99 a month or $151.92 a year, Pro $49.99 a month, Expert $129.99 a month, Reseller on request, 7-day trial

The AI detector to choose for texts written in French: a model trained on the language, very few false positives, AI passages highlighted sentence by sentence, plagiarism on top, and the API and MCP server included in every plan.

Free detector up to 500 words, subscriptions from €10 to €150 a month VAT included, 30-day Pass at €19

SEO texts of 900 words on average, optimised from the SERP, produced in batches of hundreds and published to WordPress, for about €1 excluding VAT per text with no subscription: the most cost-effective tool for producing content at scale.

From €79 excl. VAT for 70 texts to €1,999 excl. VAT for 2,300 texts, or €1.12 to €0.86 per text

A safe choice to monetize a blog with sponsored posts: your own prices, orders accepted one by one, niche edits on existing articles and payouts from €5, with an international catalogue for advertisers.

Free sign-up, links from €10, publisher payouts from €5

One of the most complete link building platforms on the French market: a very wide marketplace, links in pages that already rank, fixed-price themed packs and a fully managed option, with low, displayed prices and a website in English.

Free sign-up, guest posts from €6.60 excl. VAT, packs from €8 per link

The cheapest link platform for volume: articles from €4, delivered within the hour on a network it controls, in five languages, with an unlimited indexing guarantee and a loyalty programme that brings prices down even further.

Free sign-up, first article for €2, links from €4 excl. VAT

One of the most affordable backlink platforms on the French market: links written and published from €7 in five languages, a fixed price grid, a 21-day indexing guarantee and free delegation for those who want to hand over everything.

Free sign-up, links from €7 excl. VAT, credit top-up from €20 excl. VAT

The link building platform to choose when you want more than a catalogue: vetted, scored French sites, major media at a shared price thanks to co-citation, and a team able to run the whole campaign.

Free sign-up, pay-as-you-go links, around €80 for an average site, co-citation around €500 excl. VAT

Links in tailor-made articles, on French-language sites scored every month, from €50 excl. VAT: the go-to platform to delegate your link building on the French-speaking market with consistent quality, seen from the inside on the publisher side.

€50 to €550 excl. VAT per link, writing included

The cheapest link marketplace on the French market, on both sides: links from €1, often published within a day, sites in over 40 countries and one of the lowest publisher commissions. Ideal for anyone who knows how to pick their spots.

Free sign-up, links from €1 excl. VAT, credit top-up from €20 excl. VAT

An independent and very well equipped host: SSH, WP-CLI and API on every plan, isolated projects spread across several servers, 45 days of backups and 24/7 human support, for a very low cost per website in packs.

From $9.67 a month per project to $1.80 per project in the pack of 100, promotion at $6.64 a month for 24 months

A complete and affordable European provider: web hosting that goes from the brochure site to the high-traffic website, more than 900 domain extensions with renewal prices shown up front and security included, all in a single Control Panel backed by an API. Just read the renewal price before ordering.

Web hosting from $1.89 a month for the first year ($3.09 after); .com at $9.20, then $16.49 a year

The best starting point for a first website or a series of small projects: a very simple hPanel, WordPress and LiteSpeed ready, domain, SSL and email included, an AI agent, and Agency plans of 100 to 300 sites for those who manage a portfolio.

From $2.49 a month over 48 months (Premium, renews at $10.99) to $29 a month for 100 sites on the Agency plan, excluding taxes

The email tool to choose to do everything in one place: newsletters, automation, SMS, WhatsApp, transactional emails and CRM, priced by email volume, with a free plan that has no time limit.

Free up to 300 emails a day, Starter from $9 a month ($8.08 billed yearly), Standard from $18 a month ($16.17), Professional from $499

The tool to choose when email is only part of the project: newsletters with unlimited sends, automation, landing pages, sales funnels, webinars and online courses in the same platform.

14-day free trial, Starter from $15.58 a month, Marketer from $48.38 and Creator from $56.58 billed yearly ($19, $59 and $69 month to month)

The email tool to choose when you live off your content: newsletters, Visual Automations, landing pages, digital product sales and a recommendation network in one platform, with a free plan up to 10,000 subscribers.

Free up to 10,000 subscribers, Creator from $33 a month and Pro from $66 a month billed yearly