Rank Math Review

Rank Math is an SEO plugin for WordPress with a free core, paid PRO plans that add keyword rank tracking, and a separate Content AI subscription for AI writing. Every price is in euros and billed yearly. What decides whether it suits you is whether your site runs on WordPress and whether you want on-page SEO, rank tracking and AI writing in the same dashboard where you publish.

What is Rank Math?

Rank Math is a WordPress plugin for on-page SEO. The core Rank Math SEO plugin is free, and Rank Math PRO comes in three tiers: PRO, Business and Agency. Content AI, sold as Rank Math AI, is built into the plugin, so you need Rank Math SEO installed to use it.

It works with the Gutenberg block editor, the Classic Editor, Elementor and Divi. It works inside WordPress only: there is no Google Docs add-on and no browser extension.

What Rank Math does for your WordPress SEO

On-page SEO

You set focus keywords for posts, pages or any custom post type, and Rank Math scores each one out of 100 inside the editor, with recommendations from Content AI. The score checks your content against your focus keyword rather than against the pages ranking for it. Local SEO with multiple locations is a PRO feature.

Rank tracking

The free plugin has no keyword rank tracker. Rank Math PRO tracks a chosen list of keywords, with 12 months of position history: 500 keywords on PRO, 10,000 on Business and 50,000 on Agency. Position data comes from Google Search Console, which Rank Math fetches every 3 days on the free plugin and daily on PRO, alongside your Google Analytics 4 data. Google Trends is part of PRO.

Site analysis

The SEO Analyzer runs more than 30 site-wide tests from inside WordPress, and Fix SEO Tests with AI repairs the ones that fail. PRO adds Competitor SEO Analysis, which audits a competitor's URL and compares the two sites side by side. Rank Math has no backlink index: its link tools cover the links inside your own site.

Content AI writing

Content AI is a separate subscription from Rank Math PRO. It writes full long-form articles with one click and adds more than 40 writing tools, over 125 prompt templates, an AI blog post outline tool, AI-assisted keyword research and a Research Competitors tool. It writes in 30 languages.

Each Content AI plan sets monthly allowances that reset every month. Starter allows 15 long-form articles, 100 RankBot assists, 500 SEO fixes with AI and 50 image alt texts. Creator allows 60 long-form articles, and Expert allows unlimited articles under a Fair Usage Policy. The free plugin gets a small monthly sample, such as 1 use of each of the 40+ tools.

Content AI also includes AI Visibility, which tracks how your brand appears in ChatGPT and Gemini: 1 brand on Starter, 10 on Creator and 50 on Expert.

Internal linking

AI Link Genius reads your content and suggests relevant internal links with one click, with 50, 200 or 1,000 link suggestions depending on the plan. Automated keyword linking and a broken link checker are on PRO.

Working with other people

Rank Math PRO covers unlimited personal websites, while Business supports 100 client websites and Agency 500. Every Content AI plan includes unlimited websites and user seats. White-labelled SEO email reports carry your own branding.

Rank Math connects to Google Search Console, Google Analytics 4, Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, with SEO features for WooCommerce stores and EDD. It also offers MCP tools, so an AI assistant can run audits and edit SEO settings.

Rank Math pricing: what each plan gives

The core Rank Math SEO plugin is free, with Search Console data every 3 days and a small Content AI sample. All paid prices are in euros per month, billed yearly and excluding VAT.

PRO costs €7.99 a month for the first year and renews at €8.99 a month. It covers unlimited personal websites and tracks 500 keywords. Business costs €24.99 a month for the first year and renews at €27.99 a month, with 100 client websites and 10,000 tracked keywords. Agency costs €54.99 a month for the first year and renews at €64.99 a month, with 500 client websites and 50,000 tracked keywords.

Content AI is a separate subscription on top of any of these, billed yearly. Starter costs €5.99 a month, Creator €10.99 a month and Expert €16.99 a month, each with the allowances above.

Rank Math PRO and Content AI each have a 15-day free trial, and billing starts when the trial ends unless you cancel. PRO also carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Who Rank Math suits

Rank Math suits WordPress site owners who want on-page SEO, Search Console data, rank tracking and AI writing inside the dashboard where they publish. The free plugin covers on-page work, and the PRO tiers fit anyone from a single site owner to an agency managing hundreds of client sites, with white-labelled reports and Content AI seats that do not cost extra per user.

It suits less well anyone who writes outside WordPress, since there is no Google Docs add-on or browser extension, and anyone who needs backlink data. Buyers should also budget for the renewal price after the first year and for Content AI as a second subscription if they want AI writing beyond the free sample.

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