KeptSEO vs Google Search Console
Google Search Console is Google's free tool for your site's search data, and KeptSEO reads its data, so you keep using both. KeptSEO adds what Search Console does not: your history kept past 16 months, all your sites in one place, and comparisons, notes and tests on top.
The short version
- Search Console alone is enough if you have one or two sites, the last 16 months is all you need, and you can work within its exports.
- Add KeptSEO if you want your history kept for good, every site in one dashboard, more than 1,000 rows, notes that show their impact, SEO tests, or opportunities turned into tasks.
| Area | Google Search Console | KeptSEO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free forever (2 active sites, no card), or Pro $19/month |
| History | The last 16 months | Every day from when you connect, kept on every plan (Free shows the last 16 months; Pro shows all of it) |
| Queries and pages per view | Up to 1,000 rows to export from the reports; the API returns up to 50,000 rows a day per search type; bulk export to BigQuery for complete lists | Free: the top 5,000 per view. Pro: every query and page we import |
| All your sites in one place | One property at a time; no combined view of several sites | A portfolio of all your sites with trends, and every property of one domain counted as one site |
| Comparing periods | One date comparison at a time, with a Difference column | Comparison windows you drag on the chart, Growing, Decaying, New and Lost tabs, and each row's share of the change |
| Annotations | Notes on the Performance chart (since November 2025): up to 200 per property, 120 characters, no editing, deleted after 500 days | Notes for the whole site, a page, a group, a query or a topic cluster, editable and kept, with their impact at 14 days, 28 days and 3 months (25 per site on Free) |
| SEO tests | Not offered | Add control pages to a note to test a change, with p-value, effect size and a plain verdict (Pro) |
| Branded vs non-branded | An AI-assisted branded queries filter for eligible top-level properties with enough traffic | Your own brand terms (exact, contains or regex) on any site, with a branded share card (Pro) |
| Grouping | AI query groups in the Insights report for large properties; regex filters | Content groups of pages and topic clusters of queries, by your rules or picked by hand (Pro); regex filters (Pro) |
| What to work on next | Recommendations on the overview page (experimental) and an Insights report | Opportunities: queries just off page one, low CTR, decay and cannibalization with page pairs (Pro; Free sees the top 3 of each), turned into tasks |
| Index monitoring | URL Inspection one page at a time, indexing reports and email messages about issues | Daily URL Inspection of the pages you track, with each change kept as a note (Pro 50 pages per site, Agency 2,000) |
| Fresh data | A 24-hour view with hourly data | Daily data, with the newest days marked preliminary until Google finalizes them |
| Bing | Google only | Bing Webmaster Tools next to your Google sites, on every plan |
| AI assistants (MCP) | Not offered | MCP: $9/month add-on on Free or Pro, included in Agency |
What KeptSEO does not do
KeptSEO does not replace Search Console: you still use it to verify your sites, submit sitemaps and request indexing. KeptSEO does not do rank tracking or site crawling. See features and pricing, or other comparisons.