Despite the fact that you can hardly do without Semrush as an SEO professional, Semrush isn’t for everyone! Here’s a look at some of the best free and paid SEMrush alternatives.
Semrush is the award-winning software solution for SEO and marketing professionals. It has over 45 tools which give you everything you need, and much more.
It has comprehensive analytics, a powerful keyword research tool, on-demand reports, and more.
But despite its magnificent array of impressive features. Despite the fact that you can hardly do without Semrush as an SEO professional. And in spite of the fact that Semrush is used by over 6 million professionals in 12 countries, Semrush isn’t for everyone.
And I can relate.

Because no matter how good a product or service is, it couldn’t possibly be for everyone. For a myriad of reasons.
Thankfully there are a number of Semrush alternatives available today, both free and paid. And in this article, I will review the best Semrush competitors and the top SEMrush alternatives.
First, a look at Semrush.
If we’re reviewing the Semrush alternatives, then it makes sense to start by first appraising Semrush.
That makes sense. Right?
So, if you’re still with me, let’s go for it.

Editor’s Note
Before deciding which Semrush alternative to go for, please read our detailed Comparison of the SEO Tools Killer Features. It’s a Must-Read. You can find it at the bottom of this page. Click >>> here to be taken to the SEO tools killer features section.
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Semrush – The Market Leading SEO Software with Some Killer Features
Semrush is the market leading suite of tools with over 6 million users in 12 countries.
Semrush is also a serial award winner. In addition to all the awards it won in 2019, Semrush has also been awarded the Best SEO Suite, as well as the Best Search Software Tool in the EU Search Awards 2020.


Editor’s Note
You’ll need the following tools to follow this appraisal of Semrush:
Semrush Pro (free 14 day trial), the all-in-one versatile tool for digital marketing, competitive research, keyword research, backlinks analysis and much more.
The Semrush Tools Suite
SEMrush has over 45 tools and reports to enable you find the best solutions to your challenges as a digital marketer.
Ready to dive in? Awesome! Let’s go right in.
Start by login into Semrush. Click >>> here to start your FREE Semrush 14 day trial, to get you started.
When you login, you will be taken to this dashboard. This is the brand new dashboard which Semrush is phasing in shortly.
The All New Semrush Dashboard
As you can see, the dashboard is amazing, and everything you need is all very well laid out.
- The blue arrow pints out the tab for the toolkits.
- The red arrow points to domain overview.
- The green arrow points to domain analytics. At a glance, you can see that Facebook has 99M organic keywords, 579M organic traffic, 1.8M paid traffic and an authority score of 97.
- The blue box highlights 6 broad areas – Digital agencies, SEO, Content marketing, Social media and Competitive research. Click on any of them to reveal different tools.
- The red box highlights the Content marketing dashboard.
- The green box highlights management tools including Projects, Reports, Oppty etc.

And as you can see from the image below, there are more tools!
When you click on the Domain Overview drop down, you see a list of 12 additional tools including Organic Research, Backlinks Analytics, Keyword Manager, Keyword Magic tool etc.