01 / THE SHORT VERSION

Searchmetrics pricing, Searchmetrics alternatives, and Searchmetrics vs Semrush after Conductor retired it

If you are here looking for a Searchmetrics price, there is no longer one to find. We checked the domain, the successor product and every published replacement price on 11 August 2026, and we sell a much smaller tool than any of them, so read this as a comparison written by an interested party.

02 / The direct answer

Searchmetrics no longer exists. Conductor bought it, and searchmetrics.com now redirects to conductor.com.

Conductor acquired Searchmetrics in a deal announced on 7 February 2023 and retired the brand. As of 11 August 2026, searchmetrics.com returns an HTTP 301 redirect to conductor.com, so there is no Suite to buy, no login and no price list. Conductor is the official migration path but publishes no prices either. If you want a published number, Semrush starts at $139 a month and Ahrefs at $129.

That redirect is the part worth checking yourself, because most pages still ranking for Searchmetrics pricing were written while the product was alive and quietly never updated. Run curl -I https://www.searchmetrics.com/ and you get a 301 straight to Conductor.

The harder question is what to replace it with, and the honest answer is that no single tool covers what the Suite did. Section 05 splits it by job, because the enterprise reporting job and the keyword research job now live in different products at very different prices.

Last updated August 2026. Redirect status, Conductor plan quotas and SEO PowerSuite pricing verified on 11 August 2026. Semrush, Moz and Ahrefs pricing verified on 9 August 2026 and 31 July 2026 against each vendor's own pricing page.

03 / How it disappeared

What happened to Searchmetrics, in order

Searchmetrics was one of the two serious European enterprise SEO platforms, founded in Berlin and best known outside Germany for its SEO Visibility index. It did not fail loudly. It was bought, absorbed, and then switched off.

February 2023: the acquisition

Conductor, a US enterprise organic marketing platform, announced on 7 February 2023 that it had acquired Searchmetrics. Conductor stated the deal brought over 500 global customers, roughly 70 staff and Searchmetrics data assets, and named the Berlin office as its European headquarters.

The 18 month merge

Conductor said at the time it intended to bring the two platforms together into one within roughly 18 months, with the best of Searchmetrics moving onto the Conductor platform. Customers kept their existing support teams in the short term.

Now: the domain is gone

searchmetrics.com answers HTTP 301 and lands on conductor.com. Conductor keeps a legacy page headed "Searchmetrics is now Conductor" for former customers. It carries no retirement date, no migration instructions and no pricing.

The practical loss for customers was history. Rank tracking history, keyword lists and crawl archives lived inside the Suite, and a platform migration is not an export. Anyone who did not pull their data to CSV before the move did not get it back. That is the general lesson rather than a Searchmetrics one, and we wrote it up in what happened to Searchmetrics, which covers the story in more depth than this page needs to.

04 / Searchmetrics pricing

Searchmetrics pricing: why every number you find is unverifiable

This is the most searched thing about a product that cannot be bought, so it deserves a straight answer rather than a recycled figure. Searchmetrics sold the Suite on annual contracts through a sales team and never published a complete public price list in its later years. Now that the site is offline, no historic figure can be checked against the source.

Software directories still carry numbers, and they do not agree with each other. You will see an entry price near $69 a month, Suite tiers around $400, $675 and $1,325, and enterprise plans quoted from $2,000 a month on annual billing. We are not repeating those as facts, because we cannot verify a single one of them and neither can you. Treat any page that states a Searchmetrics price confidently in 2026 as a page that has not been updated since the brand died.

What you can verify is the successor, and the answer there is almost as unhelpful. Conductor publishes detailed quotas for all three tiers and not one dollar figure. Here is the whole grid, read off conductor.com/pricing on 11 August 2026.

Conductor plan	Price	Tracked keywords	Pages analyzed	Sites	Competitors	Pages monitored	AI drafts
Essentials	Not published	500	1,000	3	5	100,000	60 per year
Growth	Not published	5,000	25,000	5	25	500,000	180 per year
Enterprise	Not published	60,000+	125,000+	Not published	Not published	Not published	600 per year

Read the Essentials row against a self serve tool and the shape of the decision appears. Essentials tracks 500 keywords across 3 sites. Semrush SEO tracks 500 keywords across 5 sites for a published $139 a month. If Conductor quotes you materially more than that for Essentials, you are paying for governance, onboarding and a support contract rather than for data.

Every vendor ladder with actual published numbers is collected in our SEO software pricing comparison, which does the per keyword arithmetic across Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz and Surfer.

05 / What to move to

Searchmetrics alternatives, split by which job you are actually replacing

The Suite bundled enterprise reporting, keyword research, technical crawling, content optimization and a visibility index. Nothing on the market now bundles that set at a comparable price, so the useful question is which one of those you opened most weeks. Prices below are each vendor's own published figures, with the read date in the note underneath.

Tool	Replaces	Published price	Pick it if
Conductor	The official migration path	Not published, quote only	You were an enterprise Searchmetrics account and want continuity of contract and support
Semrush	Self serve research and tracking	$139 to $549 a month	You want the breadth of the Suite without an annual contract or a sales call
Ahrefs	Link and keyword research	$129 to $449 a month	Backlink data and keyword research were the parts of Searchmetrics you actually opened
Sistrix	The DACH visibility index	Published on request by market	You bought Searchmetrics for German language coverage and the visibility score
SEO PowerSuite	Unlimited tracking, desktop	$349 to $899 a year	Rank tracking volume is the whole job and you will trade convenience for cost
BrightEdge	Enterprise reporting	Not published, quote only	You are replacing a suite because procurement requires an enterprise vendor

Semrush and Moz pricing read on 9 August 2026, Ahrefs on 31 July 2026, SEO PowerSuite on 11 August 2026, Conductor on 11 August 2026. Sistrix prices by market and does not publish a single global ladder, so we have not invented one. Conductor and BrightEdge are quote only by design.

Two of those deserve a note. SEO PowerSuite is desktop software rather than a hosted platform, so its unlimited keyword tracking runs on your own machine and your own connection, which is why it can charge $349 a year rather than $1,668. That trade is real and it is not for everyone. Sistrix is the one genuine like for like on the visibility index if German language coverage was why you bought Searchmetrics in the first place.

If Semrush is the front runner, we have written it up at length from a competitor's perspective in our Semrush alternative comparison, and how accurate Semrush is works through its traffic estimates against measured Search Console data, which matters more than usual when you are migrating and cannot sanity check against your old numbers.

06 / Head to head

Searchmetrics vs Semrush, for anyone still comparing the two

People still search this, usually because a comparison article from 2021 is still ranking. The comparison no longer decides anything, since only one of the two can be bought, but the differences explain why so many former Searchmetrics accounts landed on Semrush rather than on Conductor.

Available to buy

Searchmetrics Suite

No, retired into Conductor

Semrush

Yes, self serve
Pricing model

Searchmetrics Suite

Annual contract via sales

Semrush

Published monthly from $139
Strongest market

Searchmetrics Suite

Germany and wider Europe

Semrush

United States and global
Signature metric

Searchmetrics Suite

SEO Visibility index

Semrush

Authority Score
Bought by

Searchmetrics Suite

Marketing and SEO leadership

Semrush

Practitioners and agencies
Onboarding

Searchmetrics Suite

Guided, with a success manager

Semrush

Self serve, free trial

	Searchmetrics Suite	Semrush
Available to buy	No, retired into Conductor	Yes, self serve
Pricing model	Annual contract via sales	Published monthly from $139
Strongest market	Germany and wider Europe	United States and global
Signature metric	SEO Visibility index	Authority Score
Bought by	Marketing and SEO leadership	Practitioners and agencies
Onboarding	Guided, with a success manager	Self serve, free trial

The pattern behind those rows: Searchmetrics sold upward, to the person who signs an annual contract, and Semrush sells to the person who will use it on Tuesday. When the Suite went away, teams that had bought it for governance moved to Conductor or BrightEdge, and the practitioners who had merely been given a login went and bought a Semrush seat. That is why the search demand splits the way it does.

If your shortlist has narrowed to the self serve suites, Semrush vs Ahrefs and Moz Pro vs Semrush compare them on current published prices, and the best SEO tools roundup puts the whole field in one table.

07 / The metric people miss

SEO Visibility is the thing former users actually miss

Searchmetrics SEO Visibility was an index built from the positions a domain held and the search volumes of those keywords, rolled into one number you could chart over time and compare against competitors. In Germany it was close to an industry standard, quoted in decks and press coverage the way Domain Authority is quoted in English language SEO.

Nothing inherited it. The Sistrix Visibility Index is the closest surviving counterpart and covers the same market, but it is a different calculation over a different keyword set, so your old chart does not continue in it. Semrush Authority Score and Moz Domain Authority measure something else again: they score a domain's link strength rather than its ranking footprint, which is why swapping one for the other quietly changes what your report means.

Worth knowing if authority scores are about to become your replacement metric: a 2023 peer reviewed study in Profesional de la informacion tested Moz Domain Authority, Semrush Authority Score and Ahrefs Domain Rating across 3,151 domains from 61 neutral queries, and found every pairwise Spearman correlation above 0.9. They order domains almost identically, so which one you pick matters far less than reviewers suggest. Pick the one that comes with the tool you were going to buy anyway.

The practical advice for the reporting gap: rebuild the chart from Search Console rather than from a vendor index. Impressions and average position for your tracked query set are measured rather than modeled, they are free, and they do not disappear when a vendor is acquired. That is the one lesson from this whole episode that is worth carrying into whatever you buy next.

08 / Where we fit

We are not a Searchmetrics replacement, and it would be easy to pretend otherwise

Seomake is $49 a month. Searchmetrics was an enterprise suite. We have no backlink index, no keyword volume database, no competitor traffic estimates and no visibility score, so if you are replacing a suite on a procurement cycle we are not on your shortlist and this page is not trying to get us there.

What we do is the job the suite left undone. Every enterprise platform in this comparison is very good at telling you what is wrong across ten thousand pages and produces nothing that fixes any of it. You paste a URL and the keyword it should rank for, and our SEO audit tool reads the live page, scores it, lists the issues with evidence, and writes the corrected title, meta description, heading outline and opening copy you can ship the same day.

There is one genuine advantage on this specific page, given the subject. If we go away, you keep everything we produced, because the output went into your source code rather than into our database. Nobody who used Searchmetrics can say that about their ranking history. Our pricing is published in full, monthly, with no contract, which is the smallest possible version of the same principle.

Buy an enterprise suite if

You manage SEO across many brands, markets or languages at once.
Procurement requires a vendor contract, security review and a named account manager.
Executive reporting is a deliverable in its own right, on a schedule.
You need seat level permissions and audit trails across a large team.

Buy self serve tools if

One or two people do the actual SEO work and nobody needs a dashboard.
You would rather see a published price than book a call to learn one.
The work is fixing pages and publishing content, not reporting on it.
You want to be able to cancel in a month rather than at the end of a contract year.

09 / Asked and answered

Searchmetrics, question by question

What happened to Searchmetrics?

Conductor acquired Searchmetrics in a deal announced on 7 February 2023 and folded it in. The brand is gone: searchmetrics.com now answers HTTP 301 and redirects to conductor.com. There is no standalone Searchmetrics Suite to buy, log into or price any more.

Is Searchmetrics still available?

No. The product no longer exists as a separate purchase. Conductor runs a legacy landing page for former Searchmetrics customers that says "Searchmetrics is now Conductor", and the old domain redirects there. Existing contracts were migrated onto Conductor rather than renewed on the Suite.

How much does Searchmetrics cost?

Nothing, because you cannot buy it. Searchmetrics never published a full price list in its later years, and now that the site is offline no historic figure can be verified. Third party directories still quote numbers from roughly $400 to over $2,000 a month, but none of them are checkable.

How much does Conductor cost?

Conductor does not publish prices. Its pricing page lists three tiers, Essentials, Growth and Enterprise, with quotas for keywords, pages and AI credits but no dollar figures anywhere. The only buttons are "Try for Free" and "Request a Demo", so every number comes from a sales call.

Is Conductor the same as Searchmetrics?

No. Conductor bought Searchmetrics and kept some of its data assets and its Berlin team, but the platform you log into is Conductor, built on Conductor's own stack. Workflows, report layouts and the visibility metric are different, which is the main complaint from migrated users.

What replaced Searchmetrics SEO Visibility?

Nothing replaced it exactly. SEO Visibility was an index built from the positions and search volumes of a domain's ranking keywords. The closest surviving equivalents are the Sistrix Visibility Index, which is the direct DACH counterpart, and Semrush Authority Score, though neither is calculated the same way.

Searchmetrics vs Semrush: which is better?

Semrush, on availability alone, since Searchmetrics cannot be bought. On the comparison people actually meant, Searchmetrics was a European enterprise suite sold on annual contracts, and Semrush is self serve from $139 a month. Semrush wins on price transparency and breadth.

What is the best Searchmetrics alternative?

It depends which job you are replacing. For enterprise reporting and governance, Conductor or BrightEdge. For self serve research and rank tracking, Semrush or Ahrefs. For the DACH visibility index specifically, Sistrix. There is no single tool that covers all of what the Suite did.

What should I use for Searchmetrics keyword research?

Semrush and Ahrefs both hold larger published keyword databases than Searchmetrics did, and either covers the research job on a monthly plan with no contract. If the reason you liked Searchmetrics research was the German language coverage, Sistrix is the closer match.

Can I still log in to Searchmetrics?

The login is gone with the domain. Anyone still holding a Searchmetrics account was migrated to Conductor or lapsed at renewal. If you never exported your ranking history and keyword lists before the migration, that data stayed inside the old platform and is not recoverable.

Do I need an enterprise SEO suite at all?

Most teams that bought one did not. Enterprise suites are priced for governance, seats and reporting across many sites. If you run one site and no client reporting, a self serve tool plus Search Console covers the same ground for a tenth of the money.

Why did Conductor buy Searchmetrics?

To accelerate European expansion. Conductor was a US enterprise organic marketing platform with little European footprint. The deal brought over 500 global customers, roughly 70 staff and unique data assets, and Conductor named the Berlin office as its European headquarters.

One last practical note for anyone migrating right now. Before you cancel or sign anything, export your ranking history and keyword lists to CSV from whatever tool currently holds them. Every vendor on this page keeps that data inside the subscription, and the Searchmetrics migration is the clearest recent proof that the data does not follow you out.

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