Keyword research, rankings, search results, backlinks and technical audits from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Hosted, with no API keys of your own and no SEO tool seat, paid per call. Comparing options first? See the best SEO MCP servers, compared. Already pay for an SEO suite? Our Semrush MCP and Ahrefs MCP guides cover their own servers.
What each tool returns, and what a call costs.
SEO tools in the docsCandidate keywords around a seed, with volume, difficulty, intent, CPC and trend for each.
Volume, difficulty, intent, CPC and 12-month trend for keywords you already have, with AI-engine prompt volume on request.
The top organic results and SERP features Google shows for one query.
Keywords a domain or one page ranks for in the top 100, with position, URL and metrics.
Keywords one competitor ranks for in the top 100 that the target does not rank for at all.
Where one target ranks for one keyword, scanning the top 100 server-side.
Traffic estimate, ranked keyword count, position spread, top pages and domain rank for one domain.
Individual backlinks pointing at a domain or page, strongest referring domain first.
Crawl a site for technical SEO issues.
Plain questions in any connected client. The agent picks the tools.
Which keywords do we rank 5 to 15 for that could reach page one?
Find the keywords our competitor ranks for that we don’t. [competitor.com]
Who links to our competitor but not to us?
Audit our blog for technical SEO issues and list the worst first.
What does Google show for “best CRM for startups”, and who ranks?
Rate these 200 domains by authority.
The big SEO suites now reach agents through MCP servers of their own, each tied to that suite’s plan. Manifold charges per call, and its answers come from DataForSEO.
| An SEO suite’s own MCP | Open-source servers | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly plan | The suite’s plan | Your data provider’s | No, pay per call |
| Keywords, rankings and SERPs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Backlinks | Yes | Some | Yes |
| What AI answers say and cite | Some | Rarely | Yes |
| Social and Reddit beside it | No | No | Yes |
| Setup | Paste a URL | Install and keys | Paste one URL |
Keyword research is the job people connect an SEO MCP server for most. Give your agent a seed topic or a competitor, and it pulls the ideas, the numbers and the pages that rank, then turns them into a plan in the same chat.
Ideas around a seed keyword, with search volume, difficulty, CPC and intent, for the country and language you pick.
The keywords a competitor ranks for that you don’t, ready to sort by volume or difficulty.
The live Google results for any keyword, so your agent can see what a page needs to compete before you write it.
Every keyword a domain ranks for, with its position and URL, so your agent can find the page-two terms worth a rewrite.
Who links to a site, a summary of its link profile, and an authority score for up to 1,000 domains in one call.
A background crawl of a whole site, page by page. If you already run Screaming Frog on your desktop, its own server is covered in our Screaming Frog MCP guide.
No seats and nothing else to subscribe to. Every workspace gets 250 free credits a month, and an answer already in the cache costs 25% of the price or less.
The same server URL and credit balance reach every source. Switch off what you don’t need.
All MCP serversA connector that lets an AI agent such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor look up live SEO data mid-conversation: keyword volume and difficulty, who ranks for a query, backlinks and site audits. The agent calls the server instead of you exporting reports from an SEO tool, then works with the numbers in the same chat. The best SEO MCP servers, compared
Yes. Your agent can pull keyword ideas around a seed, search volume, difficulty, CPC and intent, the keywords a competitor ranks for that you don’t, and the live results for each keyword, then group them into a content plan. Keyword tools in the docs
DataForSEO, one of the largest SEO data providers. Its domain rank runs from 0 to 1,000: the same kind of score as Ahrefs’ DR or Moz’s DA, on a different scale.
Yes, for your own sites: connect Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools in the app, and the console tools read your clicks, rankings, sitemaps and indexing. The SEO tools read Google’s public results, so they work for any site, including your competitors’.
Yes. The technical crawl checks a site page by page and runs in the background, and the on-page snapshot of a single URL is free. SEO tools in the docs
Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode and any other client that connects to a remote MCP server. Sign in with OAuth, or use an API key from the dashboard for scripts. Setup guides for every client
Most SEO calls cost a few credits, and a repeat of a recent call costs a fraction of that. Every workspace gets 250 free credits a month. Plans and pricing
Looking for the best SEO MCP server? Here are 11 compared: Ahrefs, Semrush, SE Ranking, Serpstat, DataForSEO, OpenSEO, a Search Console server, Screaming Frog, SEO Review Tools, ContextBolt and Manifold, with what each costs, how it connects, and which one fits your workflow.
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ChatGPT can do keyword research, SERP review, content briefs, technical audits and Search Console quick wins when connected to live search data. This guide shows how to add SEO data with a custom MCP server, which plans allow it, and four workflows with prompts you can copy.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider v24 added a built-in MCP server for crawling and analyzing sites from Claude, Cursor, LM Studio and other MCP clients. Here is how to set it up, fix the common errors, and run the community headless server for unattended audits.
Ahrefs MCP connects your agent to Ahrefs' data: keywords, backlinks, competitors, rank tracking and site audits. This guide covers the plans that include it, setup in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT and Cursor, how units are spent, and the fixes for common errors.
Semrush MCP connects your agent to Semrush's SEO data: keywords, domains, backlinks, competitors and site audits. This guide covers the plans that include it, setup in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT and Cursor, how units are spent, and a community server you run yourself.
The DataForSEO MCP server lets AI agents call DataForSEO's APIs for keywords, SERP results, backlinks and on-page crawls. Here is how to set up the v3 server in Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT and Cursor, run it locally or from the command line, and fix common problems.
