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OpenSEO
The open source Ahrefs alternative
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The open source Ahrefs alternative
1.1K followers
Without good data, your agent gives generic advice. Keyword research, competitor research, backlinks and site audits, starting at $10/month instead of a $100-plus monthly subscription. Connect with MCP so that you can work with your agent to build an SEO strategy and write content tailored to your company.
The $10 vs $100+ framing is what got me. I've watched so many small teams skip SEO tools entirely because the pricing assumes you're an agency, so an open source option at a tenth of the cost fills a real gap.
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@talhakhalidmtk Glad its connecting with you!
This is a solid price point for small teams. One thing that would make it way more useful for me would be a built-in content brief generator that pulls the keyword and competitor data together and hands the agent a ready-to-go outline, so I'm not repeating the same "now organize this into a brief" prompt every time.
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@diyard3qn Nice, this seems be the most requested feature. I need to get on it! What does your prompt for organizing the brief look like out of curiousity?
This looks and work really well, just 10 minutes in using it and I can see the ease-of-use and clarity! Adding my 2nd project and will add more. Tip: when adding 1st project it didn't pick the name of the "google search console", just default, so it was a bit tricky to figure out that "a project" was the way to add another. Great work otherwise!
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@vegardwikeby This is great feedback, thank you. Glad the setup was smooth otherwise!
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Long-time Ahrefs user here, and the price gap is real — but the moat has always been the crawler and index freshness. What is your crawl coverage like today, and how often does the backlink index refresh? If the data quality holds up for mid-size sites this becomes very easy to recommend.
Open-source SEO is overdue, and the MCP angle is smart — letting an agent actually pull the data instead of guessing is the whole point. The hard part of any Ahrefs alt has always been the backlink index; that's the real moat, not the UI. Where does your link/keyword data come from, and how fresh is it? Following.
Thanks for the straight answers on DataForSEO all through this thread. One follow-up now that GSC is in the loop: does the agent get ranking history as its own MCP tool, or does it come back bundled with the keyword call? We found agents behave very differently when the "what happened after we shipped" data is a separate tool they have to decide to call, instead of something that arrives for free with the research.
The data grounding solves half the problem. The other half is what the agent does with it: give an agent keyword targets and it will happily over optimize, stuffing the exact phrases until the content reads generic and obviously machine written. Real data plus a light touch on the writing is where this gets genuinely useful. How opinionated is it about the output, or does it leave the writing style to you?