SEO by Daniel vs Seobility

Seobility is an all-in-one online suite that gets less attention than it deserves. One login covers a site audit, rank monitoring, backlink monitoring and uptime checks. SEO by Daniel does one of those jobs: a scored audit and a client-ready report. The choice is breadth against speed and price, and there is a real argument for each.

Where Seobility wins

• A usable free tier. One project, 1,000 pages per crawl and 10 keywords, with no credit card. You can run a real audit before you pay anything, and that is not something every suite offers.
• Breadth per euro. Rank monitoring, backlink monitoring and uptime sit next to the audit. If you would otherwise pay for three separate tools, Seobility consolidates them.
• White-label exports. PDF and CSV exports with white-label options on paid plans, which matters when the report goes out under your brand.
• Language coverage. It is strong in German-speaking markets, a practical advantage if your clients are in DACH.

Where SEO by Daniel wins

• Instant and uncapped. No project setup, no crawl queue. A 0-100 score lands in about two seconds and you can run it on any domain immediately.
• Sitemap auto-discovery. We read robots.txt, follow nested sitemap indexes and handle gzipped sitemaps. Hand over a bare domain and the whole site is covered.
• Price. Seobility paid starts at €49.90/month. We start at €19/month with monitoring included. For someone reselling audits, that gap is margin.
• The report is the product. Executive summary, severity grouping and CSV are the default output. Seobility gives you a dashboard that you still have to shape for a client.

A real example

A two-person agency in Vienna keeps four retainer clients on Seobility. The rank and backlink tabs get used every week, and the uptime alerts have caught two outages. That part earns its €49.90. The friction shows up at the start of every new client relationship, where the agency needs a health score on a prospect's site before the kickoff call.

The old flow was a project, a plan decision, a crawl, then waiting. A crawl of a 900-page brochure site is not instant, and the free tier's one-project limit means the prospect site and the agency's own site compete for the same slot. So the agency started running the first pass in SEO by Daniel instead. Paste the domain, read the 0-100 score on the call, and export the CSV.

Seobility still holds the rank and backlink data, and nobody is cancelling it. The scored report moved because the deliverable moved. The agency charges for an audit artifact, and the artifact is what SEO by Daniel produces by default. Two tools, two jobs, and the cheaper one is the one clients actually read.

The free tier deserves a fair read as well. One project and 1,000 pages is a real audit, and the 10-keyword limit is the part that bites. If a client asks about two hundred search terms, you have outgrown the free plan before you have paid anything. The paid plan at €49.90 solves that, and for an agency already using the rank tracker it is money well spent. The point is not that the free tier is weak; it is that it answers a single-site question, and freelancers rarely have only one site. The scored report is also a different artifact from a rank dashboard. Clients read the score first and the keyword table second, if at all.

The verdict

| | Seobility | SEO by Daniel | |---|---|---| | Free tier | 1 project, 1k pages, 10 keywords | No-account scan, no project | | Jobs covered | Audit + rank + backlinks + uptime | Audit + monitoring | | Instant no-account score | No | About two seconds | | White-label export | Yes, on paid plans | CSV, ready to send as-is | | Entry price | €49.90/mo | €19/mo |

When to pick which

Pick Seobility if you want one subscription covering rank tracking, backlinks and uptime as well as audits, and €49.90 fits your budget. If you are consolidating three tools into one and delivering white-label reports at volume, the breadth justifies the premium. Use the free tier to test that fit first.

Pick SEO by Daniel when the deliverable is a scored audit and speed matters more than a multi-tab dashboard. At €19 with monitoring included, it is the cheaper path to the one document your client reads. Plenty of small agencies run both, and that is a fine answer.

Run a free scan on your next prospect and see whether you still need the full suite.

FAQ

Is Seobility free? It has a real free tier: one project, 1,000 pages per crawl and 10 keywords, no credit card. That is enough to evaluate the suite, though the single project gets tight once you handle more than one client.

Do I need Seobility to use SEO by Daniel? No. SEO by Daniel needs no account for a scan, and the €19/month plan includes monitoring and CSV export. There is no dependency either way.

Can I use both? Yes. Seobility covers rank and backlink tracking, SEO by Daniel covers the instant scored audit and the client report. Neither blocks the other.