Conductor alternatives, with the prices Conductor does not show
By Michael Nefedov, noetio · Updated 21 October 2026
Conductor shows plan limits but no price: Essentials covers 3 websites and 500 tracked keywords. The cheapest public price among eight alternatives is SE Ranking Growth at €235 a month.
Entry prices at a glance
- Conductorthis pageNo amounts shownEssentials: 3 websites, 500 tracked keywords, Try for FreeUsage-based; three plans
- SE Ranking Growth€2355k keywords tracked daily, 14-day trial (capped)Monthly billing; €188/mo billed yearly
- Ahrefs Advanced€4195,000 keywords tracked weekly, no trial listedMonthly billing; €349/mo billed yearly
Vendor pricing pages linked in the table below, read 21 October 2026.
Short answer
- Conductor shows no amounts. Essentials has a Try for Free button.
- Limits: Essentials 3 websites and 500 keywords, Growth 5 and 5,000, Enterprise 10+ and 60,000+.
- Public prices, monthly billing: SE Ranking Growth €235, Semrush Pro+ €286.74, Ahrefs Advanced €419.
Which one to pick
If you need a price before a call, SE Ranking Growth at €235 a month is the lowest public one here.
- A price and a trial before a sales callSE Ranking Growth is €235 a month. Its 14-day trial needs no card and is capped, so it is not the full Growth plan.
- A team that writes a lot of contentFrase Scale lists 100 articles a month and 5 seats. It costs $299 monthly and has a 7-day trial with no card.
- Long keyword historyAhrefs Advanced tracks 5,000 keywords weekly with 5 years of history. It is €419 a month and has no trial.
- 3 websites and 500 keywords are enoughConductor Essentials No price is shown, but it has a Try for Free button.
Conductor vs the alternatives
Conductor is the only tool here with limits but no amounts; the others show prices or a custom quote.
Mid or higher plan of each tool, from its own page, read on 21 October 2026. Monthly billing means month to month; the yearly column is the monthly equivalent when you pay for a year. Currencies are as each page shows them.
| Tool | Monthly billing | Billed yearly | What you get | Trial or sales path |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conductor | No amounts shown | No amounts shown | Essentials: 3 websites, 500 tracked keywords, 5 competitors, 60 drafts a year | Essentials: Try for Free |
| BrightEdge | Not public | Not public | Data Cube X, AI Hyper Cube, Site Agents Suite (formerly Autopilot) | Request demo; no trial listed |
| Semrush Pro+ | €286.74 | €238/mo | 15 websites, 1,500 keywords and 100 AI prompts tracked daily | Free plan; page says "Try Semrush free for seven days. Cancel anytime." |
| Ahrefs Advanced | €419 | €349/mo (€4,190 a year) | 5,000 keywords tracked weekly, 20 AI prompts a day (600 checks a month), 5 years of history | No trial listed; Ahrefs Free plan |
| SE Ranking Growth | €235 | €188/mo | 30 projects, 3 seats, 5k keywords and 250 AI prompts tracked daily | 14-day trial, no card (capped) |
| Surfer Peace of Mind | €359 | €299/mo | 100 AI prompts daily, unlimited* documents, 10 team seats | "Start for Free" button; terms not on the page |
| Writesonic Growth | $499 (Monthly switch) | $399/mo | 200 prompts (600 answers) tracked daily, 50 AI articles, 50 site audits | Start free, no card needed; cards say Start free trial (length not stated); FAQ: 7-day refund |
| Frase Scale | $299 | $239/mo | 100 articles and 1,000 audit pages a month, 5 seats, 10 domains | 7-day trial, no card |
| Profound | Enterprise: custom (agencies tab: client workspace add-on $399/mo) | Custom | Up to 9 answer engines, SSO/SAML, SOC 2 | Free Trial: 50 prompts a day for 7 days |
Prices: each vendor's pricing page linked in the first column, read 21 October 2026, on both billing switches where a page has one. Semrush prints its monthly price rounded in the yearly view ("instead of €286"); its Monthly switch shows €286.74.
- *Surfer says a fair usage policy applies to "unlimited".
- Surfer and Writesonic show yearly prices first. Their monthly switches show Peace of Mind €359 and Growth $499 (the yearly Growth card says "Save $1200/year").
- Ahrefs tracks keywords weekly and AI prompts daily. SE Ranking and Semrush list keywords tracked daily.
Conductor plans and limits
Conductor has three plans, and the limits grow from 500 to 60,000+ tracked keywords.
| Plan | Websites | Tracked keywords | Competitors | Pages analyzed | Drafts a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials (Try for Free) | 3 | 500 | 5 | 1,000 | 60 |
| Growth (Request a Demo) | 5 | 5,000 | 25 | 25,000 | 180 |
| Enterprise (Contact Sales) | 10+ | 60,000+ | 75+ | 125,000+ | 600 in the plan summary, "Custom" in the detail table |
Source: Conductor pricing, read 21 October 2026. No amounts are shown.
- Pages monitored: 100,000 on Essentials and 500,000 on Growth.
- AI search credits a year: the summary cards list 2,500 on Growth and 2,500+ on Enterprise and none on Essentials. The detail table lists 2,500 a year for both Essentials and Growth, and Custom for Enterprise.
- The page says: "Industry first, value focused. Pricing built around the value you get, not the seats you buy."
What Conductor is
Conductor sells four products in one enterprise AEO platform.
Conductor calls itself the only all-in-one enterprise AEO platform.
- Creator writes and optimizes content.
- Intelligence covers visibility in search and AI search.
- Monitoring is 24/7 and, per the home page, tracks how AI bots crawl your site, with alerts and prioritized fixes.
- AgentStack includes Conductor inside ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot, a data API, an MCP server, and turnkey Content and Technical Agents.
It also offers a free AI visibility report for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
What are you replacing?
Decide which of Conductor's four products you are replacing before you compare prices.
The table maps each product to the alternatives that cover that job, from their own pages. It does not rate quality.
| Conductor product | Job | Alternatives that list the same job |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | Writing and optimizing content | Frase (10 articles a month on Starter, 100 on Scale), Surfer (documents), Writesonic (AI articles), Semrush (content optimization on Pro+) |
| Intelligence | Visibility in search and AI search | SE Ranking, Semrush, Ahrefs, Profound, Writesonic |
| Monitoring | 24/7 site and AI bot monitoring | Ahrefs lists Bot Analytics among its core tools. |
| AgentStack | Agents, data API, MCP | BrightEdge Site Agents Suite; Ahrefs, SE Ranking, Surfer and Otterly list API or MCP access; Frase lists an MCP server, CLI and API |
Whoever you pick, ask who approves a change. Conductor's pricing page and home page do not say. For how a person fits into the loop, see agentic SEO.
- BrightEdge says a person confirms every Publishing Agent change.
- Frase says its agent can publish on its own or keep every page under review, and that you set the dial.
Where Conductor wins
Conductor is one platform for content, tracking and site monitoring, and its plan limits are public, which BrightEdge's are not.
- Essentials is a way in with a Try for Free button, 3 websites and 500 tracked keywords.
- The pricing page says the model is built around "the value you get, not the seats you buy", so seats are not the unit.
- Enterprise lists 10+ websites, 60,000+ tracked keywords and 125,000+ pages analyzed.
- For comparison, Ahrefs Advanced tracks 5,000 keywords and Ahrefs Enterprise starts from 10,000; Semrush Advanced lists 5,000+. Those are different measures from pages analyzed, and Ahrefs tracks weekly.
Where Conductor falls short
There is no amount on the pricing page, so you cannot budget before a call for Growth or Enterprise.
- The page does not state the trial terms for Essentials.
- The Enterprise draft limit is 600 in one place and "Custom" in another.
- Its agents claim (published content in under two minutes) is the vendor's own, and its pages describe no approval step.
The 8 Conductor alternatives, one by one
Each tool below names the Conductor product it overlaps, and the plan that matches Conductor's scale.
BrightEdge
Overlaps Intelligence and AgentStack. It shows no price, only a demo request, and lists no free trial. Its Site Agents Suite (formerly Autopilot) has three agents: internal links, JSON-LD schema, and title, meta and H1 updates for a CMS, with a person confirming each Publishing Agent change. See BrightEdge alternatives; the BrightEdge Site Agents Suite page has the details.
Semrush
Overlaps Creator and Intelligence. Pro+ is €286.74 a month or €238 billed yearly for 15 websites, 1,500 keywords and 100 AI prompts tracked daily, with historical data and content optimization. Advanced is custom for 40+ websites. A free plan exists, and the page says "Try Semrush free for seven days. Cancel anytime." See Semrush alternatives.
Ahrefs
Overlaps Intelligence and, through Bot Analytics, possibly Monitoring. Advanced is €419 a month, or €349 a month billed €4,190 a year, with 5,000 keywords tracked weekly, 20 AI prompts a day (600 checks a month), 50 non-verified projects and 5 years of history. Enterprise shows €1,394 a month with an annual commitment required. No trial is listed for paid plans, and the FAQ says Ahrefs does not issue refunds in general.
SE Ranking
Overlaps Intelligence. Growth is €235 a month or €188 billed yearly: 30 projects, 3 seats, 5k keywords and 250 AI prompts tracked daily. Enterprise is custom, with flexible terms and custom limits. The 14-day trial needs no card and is capped (up to 10 projects, 750 tracked keywords and 20 AI prompts a day), so it is not the full Growth plan. Payments are non-refundable unless the service was not delivered as promised.
Surfer
Overlaps Creator. Pro is €182 a month billed yearly (€219 monthly) with 360 documents on yearly billing (30 on monthly) and 50 AI prompts a day. Peace of Mind is €299 yearly (€359 monthly) with unlimited* documents, 100 prompts a day, 10 team seats, API access and a dedicated success manager. Enterprise is custom.
Writesonic
Overlaps Creator and Intelligence. Growth is $399 a month billed annually: 200 prompts and 600 answers tracked daily, 50 AI articles, 50 site audits of 2,500 pages each, 3 users and 2 projects. The Action Center is a trial on Growth (5 off-page and 5 on-page actions a month) and listed as available on Enterprise. Starting needs no card, and the FAQ promises a 7-day refund.
Frase
Overlaps Creator, and its agent is the closest match to AgentStack among the public-price tools. Scale is $239 a month billed yearly or $299 month to month: 100 articles and 1,000 audit pages a month, 5 seats and up to 10 domains, with extra seats at $29 a month. It lists publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix. Every plan has a free 7-day trial with no card, and Scale can switch on pay-as-you-go capacity.
Profound
Overlaps Intelligence. A free Trial plan runs 50 prompts a day for 7 days on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with limited credits for its AI Marketer. Enterprise is custom with up to 9 answer engines, a tailored prompt plan, SSO/SAML and SOC 2. See Profound alternatives.
How to pick a Conductor alternative
Pick by what you need first: a visible price, a quote, more keywords, or a test.
- A price before a callSemrush, Ahrefs, SE Ranking, Surfer, Writesonic, Frase publish plan prices. Conductor lists limits only.
- More than 500 keywords trackedSE Ranking Growth or Semrush Pro+ Conductor Essentials lists 500. SE Ranking Growth lists 5k and Semrush Pro+ lists 1,500 a day on public prices.
- To test firstConductor, Profound, SE Ranking, Frase, Semrush Conductor Essentials has Try for Free, Profound has 7 days, SE Ranking has 14 days, Frase has 7 days, and Semrush has a Try for free button.
- Another platform on quoteBrightEdge or Profound Enterprise are by quote. Compare data limits, agents and who approves changes.
More comparisons: BrightEdge alternatives, Semrush alternatives, Profound alternatives and all SEO tool alternatives.
Where Compass fits
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Sources
All read on 21 October 2026, in a browser with a German IP, both billing switches where the page has one.
- Conductor, Pricing, conductor.com. Plan highlights, detail tables, pricing philosophy text, buttons.
- Conductor, home page, conductor.com. Four products, "10+ years of proprietary search data", "Insight to published content in under two minutes", AI bot monitoring text, free AI visibility report.
- BrightEdge, home page and Site Agents Suite page, brightedge.com. No price, Request demo, three agents, the confirmation sentence.
- Semrush, Plans & Pricing, semrush.com. Both switches, Pro+ and Advanced, seven-day trial line.
- Ahrefs, Plans & pricing, ahrefs.com. Both switches, Enterprise, FAQ on trials, refunds and annual billing.
- SE Ranking, Subscription plans, seranking.com. Both switches, trial and refund FAQ.
- Surfer, Pricing, surferseo.com. Both billing switches, fair usage note.
- Writesonic, Plans & Pricing, writesonic.com. Both switches, FAQ on card and refund.
- Frase, Pricing, frase.io. Scale price, limits, trial, autonomy text.
- Profound, Pricing, tryprofound.com. Trial and Enterprise columns, agencies tab.
Questions
Conductor shows no amounts. Its pricing page calls the model usage-based and lists three plans: Essentials (Try for Free), Growth (Request a Demo) and Enterprise (Contact Sales). Read 21 October 2026.
The Essentials plan has a Try for Free button. The pricing page does not state the trial length or limits. Conductor also offers a free AI visibility report.
60 writing assistant drafts a year, 1,000 pages analyzed, 500 tracked keywords, 5 tracked competitors, 100,000 pages monitored and 3 tracked websites. Source: Conductor pricing, read 21 October 2026. The detail table on the same page also lists 2,500 AI search credits a year for Essentials.
500 on Essentials, 5,000 on Growth and 60,000+ on Enterprise. Websites: 3, 5 and 10+. Competitors: 5, 25 and 75+.
Its home page calls it the only all-in-one enterprise AEO platform, with four products: Creator, Intelligence, Monitoring and AgentStack. It says it runs on 10+ years of proprietary search data.
It says its Content and Technical Agents go from insight to published content in under two minutes. That is a vendor claim. Its pricing page and home page do not say whether a person approves each change.
Semrush, Ahrefs, SE Ranking, Surfer, Writesonic and Frase show plan prices. BrightEdge and Profound Enterprise do not (Profound's agencies tab does show a $399/mo client workspace add-on), and Profound has a free 7-day trial.
More alternatives pages
- Semrush alternatives
- Ahrefs alternatives
- Mangools alternatives
- BrightEdge alternatives
- Profound alternatives
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Written by Michael Nefedov, founder of noetio. Updated 21 October 2026.