The Searchmetrics alternative, now that Searchmetrics is gone

The full picture

Why teams switch

Real data, not a mockup

What it looks like in BusinessMCP

Recorded on our own site, PII scrubbed — the same product you get on the free plan.

What replaced Searchmetrics, and what it costs

Conductor publishes no pricing; the range is from Vendr’s recorded transactions, which is buyer-reported data and not a vendor quote. Semrush and Ahrefs prices are their own published list prices. We are listing the honest replacements here, including ones that are not us.

Where BusinessMCP is NOT the right choice

An alternatives page you can trust has to cut both ways. Honestly:

• We are not an enterprise SEO platform and this page should not be read as claiming otherwise. There is no site crawler, no log-file analysis, no content-scoring editor and no multi-domain rollup reporting. Searchmetrics had all four; Conductor has all four; we have none of them.
• Rank tracking is not our product. We read your Search Console data — real impressions, clicks and positions for queries you already rank for — but we do not track a keyword list you supply against a scheduled crawl of the SERP, which is the core of what an SEO suite sells.
• No keyword research database. Semrush and Ahrefs maintain indexes of billions of keywords with volume and difficulty; we have none, and for that job you should buy one of them.
• We measure five answer engines at most (Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude). Profound’s enterprise tier tracks up to nine platforms and Scrunch adds Meta AI; nobody, including us, can probe Copilot or Bing since Microsoft retired those APIs in 2025.
• We measure weekly, not daily. Profound Growth, Otterly and Semrush’s toolkit re-run prompts every day. If you need to see a change within 24 hours of shipping a page, they are faster.
• Sample sizes on the cheaper plans are small, so the intervals are wide. Zero mentions in five Gemini answers still leaves a 95% upper bound near 28% — we print that interval instead of a false-precision "0%", which some people find less satisfying than a single number.
• We do not estimate prompt volume. Ahrefs Brand Radar ranks prompts against a 475M-prompt database and Semrush ships prompt research; we tell you whether you are cited for the questions you chose to track, not how often people ask them.

Other honest alternatives

How to migrate

1. 1

   Decide first whether you need an SEO suite at all. If you were using Searchmetrics for crawling, content scoring and multi-domain rank tracking, price Conductor, Semrush and Ahrefs — this is not a like-for-like replacement and we would rather say so now.

2. 2

   If what you need is reporting and AI visibility, connect Google Search Console. Your query, page and position history persists daily from that point, and the query-trend view needs two weeks before it says anything.

3. 3

   Add the unbranded questions your category gets asked to AI visibility tracking, plus the competitors you want measured against. Five on the free plan, up to forty on Business.

4. 4

   Install the tracking script if you want the attribution side. Rankings on their own do not tell you which channel produced revenue, which was the gap in every SEO suite of the Searchmetrics era.

Sources & verification

Every price on this page traces to a public source, last verified September 16, 2026. Spotted a change? Tell us and we'll re-verify.

1. [1]Conductor — "Searchmetrics is now Conductor" legacy page (verified 2026-09-16)
2. [2]Search Engine Land — Conductor acquires Searchmetrics (February 2023)
3. [3]Conductor — acquisition announcement
4. [4]Vendr — Conductor recorded contract values
5. [5]Semrush pricing page
6. [6]Ahrefs pricing page

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