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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Chartbeat

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AChartbeat delivers real-time analytics, insights, and transformative tools for content teams around the world, to help improve audience engagement, inform editorial decisions, and increase loyalty.N/A

    Serpstat

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Serpstat is a search marketing platform designed to help businesses, agencies, and in-house teams improve visibility across traditional and AI-powered search. Its environment combines more than 50 tools for keyword and competitor research, rank tracking, backlink analysis, technical SEO auditing, content optimization, and market analysis. SEO and Competitor Intelligence Serpstat helps teams identify organic and paid search competitors, compare domain…

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    Pricing
    ChartbeatSerpstat
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Individual
    $69
    per month
    Team
    $129
    per month
    Agency
    $499
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChartbeatSerpstat
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsChartbeat pricing is based on monthly site page views. Discounts are applied to multi-year contracts. The Basic Plan includes the Real-time Dashboard, Historical Dashboard, Heads Up Display, Reports, Big Board, iOS and Android app, and Real-time API endpoints. The Plus Plan includes all of the Basic Plan features, plus ONE of the following Premium features: Headline Testing, Advanced Queries, or Multi-Site View. The Premium Plan includes all of the Basic Plan features, plus ALL Premium features: Headline Testing, Advanced Queries, Multi-Site View, and enterprise-level support and custom trainings.Each plan includes access to 230 Google databases. To meet the demands of big enterprises, Serpstat offers specific services to enterprise customers. A discount is available for annual billing.
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    ChartbeatSerpstat
    Considered Both Products
    Chartbeat, Inc.
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    Serpstat.com
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    100%
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    Features
    ChartbeatSerpstat
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Chartbeat and Serpstat
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    7.8
    15 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Serpstat
    -
    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement6.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting7.714 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking8.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time9.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking8.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards6.712 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Chartbeat and Serpstat
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Serpstat
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Chartbeat and Serpstat
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Serpstat
    9.6
    14 Ratings
    23% above category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings9.57 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Chartbeat and Serpstat
    Feature
    Chartbeat
    -
    Ratings
    Serpstat
    10.0
    13 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
    Nozzle
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Lead Forensics
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Alexa Internet (discontinued)
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChartbeatSerpstat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (69 ratings)
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (60 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChartbeatSerpstat
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    The main point of benefit is the realtime data. This is vital to our team as we are publishing a lot of content per day, so we have a busy homepage to manage and it's important to know which content is performing well. We also like to get an understanding as quickly as possible - which Chartbeat offers - of where traffic is coming from. Often we will see an example where a page is getting high traffic from Google, for example, and we know that might not need to be placed so prominently on the homepage because the traffic is arriving to us externally anyway. Without that depth of understanding what is performing best and why - updated immediately, unlike in Google Analytics now - our homepage would not be as well optimised for users coming to us direct
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    Serpstat.com
    If you are looking for an affordable all-in-one SEO tool to manage multiple websites then Serpstat is a great option. It is not the best in category for any one feature, but it offers a wide range of very good SEO tools, all housed in a single app. If you are serious with SEO, this will not be your only tool but it will save you the cost and trouble of managing several different SEO monthly subscriptions for various tools.
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    Pros
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    • Provides easy at-a-glance look at what people are reading right now
    • Heads-up Display allows you to make sure the homepage is showing the content people want to read
    • Headline testing tool provides fascinating insight into what makes people read a story and improves headline-writing ability
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    Serpstat.com
    • Serpstat has an incredible Chrome extension. It allows us to perform an on-page analysis, domain analysis, and look at on-page SEO parameters. Rather than logging into Serpstat I'm easily able to access and view competitor and our own analytics at a moment's notice.
    • We love using the organic keyword tool to help us track keyword positions over time and benchmark against ourselves and our competitors. These reports also give a dashboard view of all keywords, along with keyword volume, keyword competition, and the average cost per keyword.
    • Being a global company it's important to not only view rankings in the US, but other major countries as well. With Serpstat we are able to view how our website performs all around the world.
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    Cons
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    • Source of traffic needs improvement. Search and social make sense, but "internal" and "links" is a grey area. It would be helpful to define those with an organization and provide an information icon so users can easily remember what each of those buckets is tracking.
    • More ways to customize the real-time board. For example, with video content, that's great that I can see a user has started a video, but what is the completion rate, was that only on O&O or can that track Facebook, too?
    • Would like to see demo (age) information included as a way to slice the data so I can see what's working with my older and younger demo.
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    Serpstat.com
    • As a complete product, Serpstat stands with other industry tools. Keyword data is good, but again, as someone who purchased a basic plan to demo the product, limited information really turns me away.
    • Compared to other industry tools, Serpstat is literally right in the middle. There doesn't seem to be any differentiation that makes it stand out against Ahrefs or SEMRush. Perhaps something exclusive to Serpstat would make the product more alluring.
    • Share counting doesn't seem too useful, especially as an SEO tool. The content marketing tools are going in the right path, but do not provide enough information to really be useful.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    I gave Chartbeat a 5 for a renewal rating, because, while it delivers clear and understandable content, Google Analytics also provides many of the same features for free. For a small to medium website, I believe it would be more cost effective to use Google Analytics. A website with a high amount of traffic, however, could merit spending the money on Chartbeat to maximize their potential.
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    Serpstat.com
    I am very happy with the program and their services.
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    Usability
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    I am able to "set it and forget it," keeping it up on my monitor for either constant checking or just keeping an eye on the numbers during the day. I'm also able to keep track of what times are perfect to post a story and which stories rack up the most traffic.
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    Serpstat.com
    Serpstat is great to use on the desktop. Being able to get around the site is easy, and using tools such as rank tracking and filtering are intuitive if you’ve used other SEO software. However, their app is not mobile friendly. I do a lot of my work on mobile when traveling or when dad’ing, and it would be much appreciated for the the app to have better mobile UI functionality. I know I’m dreaming, but other SEO software I use is able to accomplish this.
    Things like filtering and how powerful it is are not aa easy to understand until you watch some tutorial videos. I think making this feature more intuitive would also help the sites early on adoption from new users.
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    Support Rating
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    I have had limited experience of support for Chartbeat but whenever I have needed help it has been there. Recently there was an issue of seeing different forms of data in real time - app and otherwise effectively, and the issue was being clearly dealt with and communicated back to us.
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    Serpstat.com
    I believe I've only contacted support once because I had a question about access to a feature, and they told me it wasn't available on the plan I was on. No big deal, they were polite and prompt to respond and answered my question to my satisfaction. I haven't had any real issues with the software, so I haven't needed much in the way of support outside of that question, but I have no reason to believe their support wouldn't be helpful in more pressing situations.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    Omnilytics is more robust, detailed, and catered for an intermediate media user, while I think Chartbeat is a more user-friendly and beginner-oriented piece of technology. That being said, there is an impressive amount of lift for Chartbeat, and it's evident that simplicity is the key to using a software daily (which is absolutely the point in the content world).
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    Serpstat.com
    I have used Google Analytics and found it to be good, but limiting. Serpstat does have a much more transparent way to identify, and examine the wealth of SEO links that my sites have. I've tried a few other free programs online for tracking ranks and I looked into other paid versions for SEO tracking. None of them had a good balance between value for money paid. Serpstat finds a good home in value and return.
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    Return on Investment
    Chartbeat, Inc.
    • It has helped us save time in report generation and performance analysis.
    • By helping us evaluate our contributors, we're able to get our money's worth.
    • Seeing our numbers on the Big Board fosters healthy competition among brands, motivating us to distribute our stories better.
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    Serpstat.com
    • We had a positive ROI with Serpstat in under a month. The time it saved us with website audits and the ability to cancel other monthly subscriptions, and redundant SEO tools, was a huge positive for us.
    • We save dozens of hours a month with SEO research by being able to use a single app for the majority of our SEO work where we used to have to jump back and forth between several different tools.
    • We've been able to offer prospective clients a free website audit as a lead-in for our marketing services. Serpstat has made it fast, easy and inexpensive to offer this valuable service.
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    ScreenShots

    Chartbeat Screenshots

    Screenshot of Big Board: For newsrooms, the leaderboard-style visualization shows the top stories on the biggest screen.Screenshot of Real-time dashboard: Displays how an audience is connecting with content in the moment – across platforms, channels, and devices.Screenshot of Historical Dashboard: To assess content performance, KPIs, and valuable trends over the long term.Screenshot of Heads Up Display: Shows which homepage articles are the top performers, how stories are trending up or down in traffic, and how far visitors are scrolling down the page.Screenshot of Video Dashboard: Reveals how video content captures viewer attention.Screenshot of Conversion Dashboard: Tracks conversion metrics and insights.

    Serpstat Screenshots

    Screenshot of Search analytics dashboardScreenshot of AI overview opportunities reportScreenshot of AI Overview detailed report