Package

Rankbist Starter

For writers who want every issue explained.

65%
73
of 113 features included
+43
more than Start for free
40
only in a higher package

How much you can use

Each bar shows Starter against the largest allowance in any package.

Content checks
25
per day
Live URL checks
25
per week
Generated articles
10
per month
Words per article
1,500
at most
Site scans
2
per month
Pages per site scan
100
at most
Page speed checks
20
per day
Google index checks
100
per day
Tracked keywords
50
updated daily
Monitored pages
Not included
AI titles & descriptions
Not included
AI citation prompts
10
per week
Domain lookups
20
per day
Keyword searches
30
per day
AI actions
50
per month
Referring domains listed
100
per site
Domains compared
2
side by side
Authority Score history
4
quarters
Creator Studio videos
30
per month
Longest creator video
25
minutes
Creator video file size
500
MB at most
Content Keyword lookups
Unlimited
Creator profiles
1
Team seats
1
people
Workspaces
1

What Starter adds

Everything in Start for free, plus these 43.

  • 1

    Full issue detail & fixes

    Every issue with the exact problem and how to fix it.

  • 2

    Rule-based fixes

    Ready-made meta title, meta description and slug fixes with before/after and copy.

  • 3

    In-editor issue highlighting

    Issues underlined at their exact place in the editor, with the explanation and fix on click.

  • 4

    Sentence-rhythm heatmap

    Paragraphs shaded by how much their sentence lengths vary.

  • 5

    Before/after & version history

    Re-check the same article, keep every version and see the score change.

  • 6

    AI-answer readiness

    A readiness score for being quoted in AI answers, with its own checklist.

  • 7

    Structured data (JSON-LD)

    Generate and validate Article, FAQ, HowTo, Organization, Person and Breadcrumb markup.

  • 8

    Trust-signal (E-E-A-T) panel

    Author, credentials, experience, sources and dates shown as found or missing.

  • 9

    Impact prioritization

    Fixes ranked by severity and page importance: the five to do first.

and 34 more. See every feature

Every feature, marked

73 of 113 are in Starter. The rest show which package has them.

Content engine

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  • Pasted-content check

    Score pasted text with its title, keywords, meta title, meta description, slug and excerpt.

  • Live URL check

    Fetch a public page, extract the main article and score it.

  • Scoring engine (28 tests, 8 categories)

    On-page, metadata, content, structure, semantic, readability, linking and AI-content quality. Real issue counts, never inflated.

  • Category scores & issue counts

    Overall score, a score for each category and how many issues it has.

  • Full issue detail & fixes

    Every issue with the exact problem and how to fix it.

  • Rule-based fixes

    Ready-made meta title, meta description and slug fixes with before/after and copy.

  • AI fixes

    AIIn Pro

    Rewrites for content issues, quoted from your article, with placeholders instead of invented facts.

  • AI-content quality checks

    Unsourced claims and statistics, overused transitions, missing first-hand experience and flat sentence rhythm.

  • In-editor issue highlighting

    Issues underlined at their exact place in the editor, with the explanation and fix on click.

  • Sentence-rhythm heatmap

    Paragraphs shaded by how much their sentence lengths vary.

  • Before/after & version history

    Re-check the same article, keep every version and see the score change.

  • Fact & claim risk checking

    AIIn Pro

    Flags numbers without a source, untraceable references and likely-outdated facts for review.

  • Search-intent match

    AIIn Pro

    Checks whether the article's format fits what people searching the keyword want.

  • AI-answer readiness

    A readiness score for being quoted in AI answers, with its own checklist.

  • Structured data (JSON-LD)

    Generate and validate Article, FAQ, HowTo, Organization, Person and Breadcrumb markup.

  • Trust-signal (E-E-A-T) panel

    Author, credentials, experience, sources and dates shown as found or missing.

  • Topic & entity coverage

    AIIn Pro

    What the article covers against what the topic normally needs.

  • Information gain vs competitors

    AIIn Pro

    What only your article covers, and what every competitor covers that it lacks.

  • Competitor side-by-side

    In Pro

    Scores and categories for your page next to up to five competitor pages.

  • Own keyword difficulty

    In Pro

    A 0–100 difficulty estimate from the competitor pages you supply.

  • Impact prioritization

    Fixes ranked by severity and page importance: the five to do first.

Article generator

All included
  • Generate from brief

    AI

    A full article from a title, a short brief and a minimum word count.

  • Generator options

    Focus keyword, audience, tone, language, website and FAQ on or off.

  • Automatic keyword research

    Focus and secondary keywords found for you, shown and editable.

  • Intent-based format

    AI

    Picks guide, comparison, how-to, listicle or explainer from search intent.

  • Outline with word targets

    AI

    An editable H2/H3 outline with a word target for each section.

  • Guaranteed minimum word count

    AI

    Written section by section and expanded until it reaches the minimum.

  • Score-and-revise loop

    AI

    Scored by the real engine and rewritten up to three times.

  • No invented facts

    Marked placeholders instead of made-up statistics, studies or experience.

  • Meta title, description, slug, excerpt

    AI

    Length-correct, keyword-placed and editable.

  • FAQ section

    AI

    Built from real search questions, with matching FAQ markup.

  • JSON-LD

    Article and FAQ markup, plus HowTo when relevant, validated.

  • Internal link suggestions

    Target page, anchor text and placement from your sitemap.

  • Google preview

    Desktop and mobile preview of a typical search result.

  • Real SEO score

    Overall and category scores from the same engine as checks.

  • Articles page + versions

    Every generated article saved, searchable, with versions and status.

  • Regenerate sections

    AI

    Rewrite or expand one section; re-scored automatically.

  • Word (.docx) download

    One Word file with the article, metadata, FAQ, markup and score.

  • Markdown / HTML copy

    Copy or download as Markdown or clean HTML.

  • Article quota

    Articles per month and words per article, set by your package.

Site & technical

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  • Whole-site scan

    Crawls your site from its sitemap and links, obeying robots.txt.

  • Site-wide report

    In Pro

    Per-page scores and the patterns across your site, with export.

  • Technical checks

    In Pro

    Broken links, redirect chains, canonical problems, missing tags, noindex and status codes.

  • Duplicate & mass-produced content risk

    In Pro

    Near-duplicate, thin and templated pages.

  • Internal link map & suggestions

    In Pro

    Link graph, orphan pages and suggested links with anchor text.

  • JavaScript-rendering check

    In Advanced

    Flags content that only appears after JavaScript runs.

  • AI crawler access

    In Pro

    robots.txt rules for AI crawlers, noindex/nosnippet signals and llms.txt.

  • Image file checks

    In Pro

    Format, file size, dimensions, file names and missing alt text.

  • Health Score & issue priorities

    One score for the whole site and every issue grouped into errors, warnings and notices.

  • Page speed & Core Web Vitals

    Lab speed and real-user Core Web Vitals from Google's free PageSpeed and Chrome UX Report data.

  • Scheduled re-audits & trends

    In Pro

    Audits that re-run on a schedule, with what was fixed and what is new since last time.

  • Daily website watch

    Add one or more of your websites. At the end of every day each one gets every check we have — home page tests, Google speed, a full Site Audit, Authority Score and Search Console totals — and you get a report by email and in your notifications with what changed and what to fix next, plus an alert within the hour if the site stops answering.

Google indexing

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  • URL index check

    Paste any page of your site and see straight from Google whether it's indexed, when it was last crawled, robots and canonical — with what to do next.

  • Sitemap status

    See every sitemap Google has for your site, with its errors, warnings and URLs.

  • Index coverage & Indexing Health Score

    How many of your pages are indexed, not indexed, excluded or have errors, a 0–100 health score and its trend, and a list of every problem page.

  • Bulk index check

    In Pro

    Paste or upload thousands of URLs; Rankbist checks them within Google's daily limits, shows progress and the time left, and continues by itself the next day.

  • Automatic index monitoring & alerts

    Priority pages re-checked every day and your sitemap pages in rotation, with alerts when a page gets indexed, drops out of Google, health falls or new errors appear.

  • IndexNow (Bing, Yandex and others)

    New and changed pages announced instantly to Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver through the free IndexNow protocol (it doesn't reach Google).

  • Indexing reports & export

    In Pro

    Full history per page and CSV export of every page, its index state and Google's reason.

  • Indexing API for job & livestream pages (experimental)

    In Pro

    For job boards and live video pages only: tell Google the moment a job or livestream page is published or removed, through Google's Indexing API. Only pages with valid JobPosting or BroadcastEvent structured data can be sent — the rule Google sets.

  • Why pages aren't indexed — and what to do

    Google's reason for every page that isn't indexed, in plain words, with the fix, the full crawl details and the reasons grouped across your site.

  • Submit and remove sitemaps

    Send a new sitemap to Google or remove an old one, straight from Rankbist.

Technical files & implementation

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  • Sitemap, robots.txt & schema files

    In Pro

    A sitemap, a robots.txt and JSON-LD for the whole site, generated from a scan and ready to download.

  • Page-by-page guidance

    In Pro

    What to fix on every page, sorted into critical, recommended and optional, with a PDF report.

  • Developer implementation guides

    In Pro

    Step-by-step guides for WordPress, Shopify, static sites and others, with a check of what is live.

  • AI titles & descriptions for every page

    AIIn Advanced

    Drafts a title and description for each scanned page, for you to review.

Local SEO & Google Business Profile

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  • Business details & NAP check

    In Pro

    One place for a business's name, address, phone, hours and services, checked against what its website says.

  • Google Business Profile content pack

    AIIn Pro

    A description, service list and photo plan ready to paste into Google Business Profile.

  • Citation directories (US)

    In Pro

    The US directories worth being listed in for this kind of business, with tracking.

  • Action Required & step-by-step guides

    In Pro

    The things only the business owner can do, as guided tasks with progress.

  • Review requests & tracking

    In Pro

    Ready-made messages for asking customers for a review, and a count of how many came in.

Competitor research & links

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  • Site Explorer & Authority Score

    A 0–100 Authority Score and global rank for any domain, from a public web graph, with history by quarter.

  • Domain comparison

    Two or three domains side by side: Authority Score, rank and referring domains.

  • Referring domains

    The domains that link to a site, ranked by their Authority Score, with export.

  • New & lost referring domains

    In Pro

    Domains that started or stopped linking to a site since the previous quarter.

  • Link gap

    In Pro

    Domains that link to your competitors but not to you, best first.

Keywords & trends

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  • Keyword suggestions & questions

    Real autocomplete suggestions and question phrases for any topic.

  • Trend direction

    Whether interest in a keyword is rising, steady or falling.

  • Trending topics

    What people are reading and discussing right now.

  • Search volume ranges

    In Pro

    Google Ads Keyword Planner ranges, labelled as ranges.

  • Keyword clustering & topic maps

    AIIn Pro

    Keywords grouped by meaning, with a pillar page per cluster.

  • Ideas from YouTube, Amazon and Bing

    Keyword ideas from four autocomplete sources, filterable by source.

  • Bing search volumes

    Monthly search counts from Bing's own keyword data, labelled as Bing's.

Search performance

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  • Search Console rankings

    Real positions, clicks and impressions for your queries.

  • Closest-to-the-top opportunities

    Queries ranking 4–20 with the most impressions.

  • Content-decay alerts

    In Pro

    Pages losing clicks or impressions, with in-app and email alerts.

  • Scheduled monitoring

    In Pro

    Chosen URLs re-checked every week with an email digest.

  • Competing pages

    In Pro

    Queries where two or more of your pages compete.

  • Bing Webmaster data

    In Pro

    Bing rankings, traffic and backlinks for your verified site.

  • GA4 AI referrals & conversions

    In Advanced

    Visits and conversions referred by AI assistants.

  • AI citation tracking

    AI

    A weekly sampled estimate of how often AI answers cite you.

  • Position history

    Daily positions stored from Search Console, so rankings can be charted over months.

  • Tracked keywords

    A list of the keywords you care about, with movement, winners and losers.

  • Brand Radar

    AI

    Whether AI answers mention or cite your brand, which competitors appear instead, and the weekly trend.

Growth & integrations

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  • Public no-signup checker

    One free check a day on the website, no account needed.

  • Shareable report links

    A public read-only link to a report that you can revoke.

  • Fix agent with approval

    AIIn Advanced

    Drafts fixes across monitored pages; nothing changes until you approve.

Agency & business

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  • White-label PDF reports

    In Advanced

    Report PDFs with your logo, colors and contact details.

  • Workspaces, sites & seats

    In Advanced

    Multiple workspaces and sites, team invites and roles.

  • Prepaid credit packs

    One-off packs of checks or articles, used after your plan quota.

Creator StudioNew · see what it does

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  • Creator profile

    Save your niche, audience and (optionally) your channel once; every Creator Studio tool uses it.

  • Shorts from long videos

    AI

    Upload a long video and get the moments that work as short videos, cut on your own computer in full quality.

  • SEO package for every video

    AI

    A title, caption and hashtags for every short video, and a full title, description, chapters and tags package for the long video.

  • Captions in Bengali, English and Hindi

    Burned-in captions with word highlighting, plus an .srt file for any platform.

  • Thumbnail suggestions & brief

    The sharpest frames near each video's strongest moment in full resolution, a version with the title on it, and a brief for designing your own thumbnail.

  • Content Keyword research

    Demand, competition and an overall score for any video keyword, with related searches, top videos and their most-used tags.

  • Trending video ideas

    What is taking off in your niche right now, outlier videos from small channels, and what people search for, from real video data.

  • Video SEO checker

    Score a title, description, tags and chapters against video platforms' rules, or check a published video from its link.

  • Chapters & transcript

    AI

    Chapters with real timestamps, a full transcript and an .srt file for every long video.

  • No watermark

    In Pro

    Short videos without the small "Made with Rankbist" mark.

Platform

All included
  • Accounts

    Email + code sign-up, Google sign-in and password reset.

  • Billing

    Secure checkout, cancel any time and a billing portal.

  • Limits & meters

    Clear quotas with live usage meters.

Starter: $22 /month

Need more? Pro has 107 features.