Plans, credits and billing
What each plan includes, what uses credits, and how to manage top-ups, plan changes and invoices on hosted OpenSEO.
Hosted OpenSEO has a monthly plan that includes credits. Looking up new SEO data spends those credits. The app shows credits in dollars, so $1 of credits buys $1 of usage. For current prices and a usage estimator, see Pricing.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Credits included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0.50 when you sign up; doesn't refill |
| Base | $10/month | $10 each month |
| Pro | $30/month | $36 each month |
| Agency | $100/month | $120 each month |
Signing up needs no card. A paid plan adds:
- Rank checks. On the free plan you can set up trackers, but checks don't run until you upgrade.
- Prompt Research, Prompt Explorer and Brand Lookup.
- Site audits of up to 10,000 pages, instead of 50.
- Buying extra credits and auto-reload.
Yearly plans cost the same as 10 months. They're set up by email for now: write to support@openseo.so.
What uses credits
Credits pay for new data you look up. Each lookup costs what the data costs OpenSEO plus 28%.
Uses credits:
- Keyword research, SERPs, domain overviews and backlinks
- Rank checks
- AI visibility research, prompt answers and tracking checks
- Local SEO searches and rank grids
- Lighthouse and JavaScript rendering in site audits
Uses no credits:
- Projects, project context and saved keywords
- Saved results, exports and reports
- Search Console and Google Analytics data
- Site audit crawls without Lighthouse or rendering
Running the same lookup again soon after is free, because the result is reused within the same project. Keyword research and Prompt Research results are reused for 24 hours, SERPs and domain data for 12 hours, backlinks for 6 hours, and Prompt Explorer answers for 7 days.
Features that can run up a bill show the cost first. Rank tracking and AI visibility tracking show an "up to" estimate before you start a check or a schedule, and a rendered audit shows its maximum cost on the form.
When you run out
Your plan's monthly credits are spent first, then any extra credits you bought. When both run out, actions that need credits stop with "You don't have enough credits for this." Scheduled rank checks and AI visibility checks are skipped until you have credits again. Nothing you've saved is deleted.
To keep going, upgrade from the free plan, buy credits, or wait for your plan to refill on its renewal date.
Buy credits and auto-reload
On the Billing page, click Buy credits to buy $10 to $99 of credits at a time. Bought credits never expire. The credits included with your plan reset each billing cycle and don't roll over.
Auto-reload buys credits for you when your bought credits fall to $5. Choose how much to add each time ($10 to $99) and a monthly budget (up to $1,000). The budget includes credits you buy by hand. If your bought credits are already low, turning auto-reload on buys credits straight away.
Manage your plan
Open Billing from the menu under your email at the bottom of the sidebar. Only the organization's owner can change the plan or buy credits; teammates see the Usage tab. See Teams.
- Upgrade: click Change plan, then Upgrade on the plan you want. You pay the new plan's full price today, and your billing cycle starts over. Credits you haven't used carry over until the new plan renews.
- Downgrade: choose Email us to switch on the cheaper plan.
- Cancel or change your card: click Manage subscription to open the Stripe billing portal. After you cancel, your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for.
- Failed payment: OpenSEO emails you a link to a Fix your payment page. Nothing is turned off straight away. Click Open billing portal to update your card.
Usage and invoices
- Usage shows what your organization spent in the last 30 days, by day, by feature and by project.
- Invoices lists your last 12 invoices with a PDF download for each. Older invoices are in Manage subscription. Turn on Email me a receipt for each invoice to have Stripe email a receipt to your billing email after each payment.
Checkout asks for your company name, tax ID and billing address so they appear on invoices. To correct them on an invoice, email support@openseo.so.
Refunds
Subscriptions have a 30-day money-back guarantee: email support@openseo.so within 30 days of the charge. The guarantee doesn't cover bought credits.
If a check or audit failed and still used credits, email support with the project, what you ran and when it ran.
Self-hosting
Self-hosted OpenSEO has no plan, no credits and no Billing page. You pay DataForSEO directly for SEO data, and OpenRouter for AI features if you use them. See Self-hosting.