Decodo Rank Tracker vs Dragon Metrics

Decodo Rank Tracker is a free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted SEO tool built on Decodo’s SERP Scraping API. It tracks organic rankings, AI Overview citations, featured snippets and People Also Ask presence by keyword, location and device. Results are stored in SQLite, with terminal trend reports, competitor comparisons and shareable HTML reports. Checks can run on schedules through the command line, cron, launchd or systemd. Alerts can go to Slack, Discord or SMTP email for new rankings, improvements, drops and lost rankings. Keywords are configured in CSV files with required keyword and target-domain columns, plus optional location, locale, device, activity and frequency settings. Each keyword, location, device and locale combination consumes an API call; frequency settings can reduce usage. The tracker runs on Linux, macOS and Windows and supports Google, country-level location tracking, mobile rankings, daily updates, competitor tracking and historical data. Decodo’s API lists a free plan for up to 5K crawls or 10K pages scraped monthly.

Dragon Metrics is a global SEO platform for tracking rankings and automating reports. It monitors rankings across eight listed search engines, including Google, Baidu, Naver, Sogou, Daum, and Seznam, and offers local tracking in more than 100,000 locations at city, neighborhood, or postal-code level. Its site auditor checks more than 70 common technical SEO issues and provides guidance for addressing them. Report Builder supports customized reports, white-labeled domains, and scheduled delivery. The platform integrates Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console data, and offers 13 Google Looker Studio connectors. API access is available with nearly every subscription level; the company says its use is free and unlimited. Dragon Metrics lists coverage for China, South Korea, and Japan as well as Google-focused markets. Plans start with Starter at $99 a month, including 1,000 keywords, 200,000 URLs crawled monthly, five campaigns, and three seats. There is no free plan, but a 30-day trial includes paid-plan features and daily rank tracking, with different feature-credit limits. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Hong Kong.