Decodo Rank Tracker vs RankMySEO

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.

RankMySEO tracks Google keyword positions, stores checks, and presents ranking history in a dashboard. It checks the first 20 organic results and marks a keyword unranked when a site falls outside that range. Free and Starter plans refresh weekly; Growth and higher plans refresh daily, and users can trigger manual checks. The service audits issues such as missing sitemaps, broken links, and thin titles, with affected-page details on Starter and above. Competitor comparisons and backlink review cover new and lost links and can produce a Google disavow file. Agency and Scale track whether ChatGPT and Gemini mention a site in selected prompts and which pages they cite. MCP connections let assistants such as Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok query rank data. The toolkit is described as Apache-2.0. Plans range from free to $69 a month; checkout is not live.