How we check a plan before it goes on the bench

Where every number comes from

Every price, seat cost, limit and trial term on Suitecheck comes from the vendor's own pricing or help page, read on the date printed beside it. The current round of checks was made on 22 September 2026.

Some pricing pages build themselves in the browser and show nothing to a simple download; for those we load the page in a real browser and read what it renders. When a page hides a figure behind a toggle and we cannot read it, we write that the figure is not printed rather than work it out. Ahrefs' per-plan annual prices are the clearest case: the page says "save up to 17%" and we leave it there.

What we refuse to publish

We do not publish data-accuracy scores, database sizes, crawl speeds or "most accurate" verdicts. The suites report different search volumes and difficulty scores for the same keyword, and we have run no measurement that could say which is closer to the truth.

We also do not publish coupon codes or "exclusive" discounts. None of the vendors on this site has given us one, and Ahrefs states that it never runs discounts. Where a vendor's own page shows a saving for annual billing, we quote that saving with its date.

The one rating on the site

Suitecheck carries a single numbered rating, on the SE Ranking review, because a review reader expects one. It is a judgement out of ten of how much of a typical rank-tracking and audit workload the plan covers for its published price — not a test score.

Our scale is simple: 9 or 10 means we would struggle to name a better-value plan for that job; 7 or 8 means a strong choice with a limit you should check first; 5 or 6 means it fits a narrow case; below 5 means we would point you elsewhere. Head-to-head pages carry no score, because a score cannot tell you which of two tools fits your week.

Arithmetic you can check

Where a page adds things up — three seats on Ahrefs Lite, a year of Semrush billed annually — it shows the sum and its inputs. A team of three on Ahrefs Lite, for example, is written as $129 + 2 × $40 = $209, so you can redo it with your own head-count.

The charts are drawn from the same figures as the sentences beside them, and the site will not build if a chart and its sentence disagree. If you find a sum that doesn't add up anyway, we want to hear about it.

Corrections

SEO suites change prices, limits and plan names without much notice — Semrush's pricing page still carries a help answer naming plans it no longer sells. If a figure here no longer matches the vendor's page, write to the bench with the page and the figure; we re-read the source, correct it, and move the date.