Decodo Rank Tracker vs Positionly

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.

Positionly is inbound marketing software for tracking keyword positions and improving search visibility. It checks rankings daily across local and global search engines, with results available around noon in the user's time zone. Users can compare rankings, historical positions and overlapping keywords with competitors. Inbound-link tools support keyword-level searches, competitive backlink analysis and link quality review, powered by Majestic. The website auditor checks page crawlability and identifies missing keywords. Reports can be customized and branded, automated, exported as CSV or PDF, and generated manually or on a recurring schedule. Users can invite clients or colleagues with read or write access to selected sites. White-label options include a custom domain, platform color, company name, logo and removal of Positionly branding. The service lists Google Analytics integration and add-ons for syncing with Google Spreadsheets. Its free plan covers five keywords and one website; a 14-day trial requires no credit card to start. Basic costs $15 a month billed for 12 months.