Can AI replace SISTRIX?
Do not mistake the interface for the product. SISTRIX's durable value is proprietary data, index, crawl scale, which a solo one-shot build cannot reproduce responsibly. The prompt therefore builds only the closest honest personal consolation tool.
01What it costs
Checked Aug 14, 2026 · source: sistrix.com.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | $137.25 | — | 1 user; 10,000 results/analysis; 3 months of history; 3 projects; 30,000 crawl pages/month; 2,500 SERP updates; 1,000 export/API credits/week; 3 reports, dashboards, and lists. |
| Plus | $275.66 | — | 3 users; 50,000 results/analysis; 5 years of history; 15 projects; 500,000 crawl pages/month; 15,000 SERP updates; 10 content projects; 10,000 credits/week; 25 reports, dashboards, and lists. |
| Professional | $483.27 | — | 6 users; 100,000 results/analysis; 13 years of history; 40 projects; 2,000,000 crawl pages/month; 40,000 SERP updates; 25 content projects; 30,000 credits/week; 100 reports, dashboards, and lists. |
| Premium | $921.57 | — | 12 users; unlimited results; 13 years of history; 100 projects; 4,000,000 crawl pages/month; 100,000 SERP updates; 100 content projects; 100,000 credits/week; 500 reports, dashboards, and lists. |
| Enterprise | — | — | Custom users, projects, crawl pages, SERP updates, credits, reports, and data services. |
Hidden costs: On Plus and above, extra users cost about $28.72/month; extra projects start around $11.42/month; 10,000 extra weekly export/API credits cost about $86.51/month. Crawl-page, SERP-update, content-project, and report units are also metered.
02Could AI build it for you?
The core job: Build a focused SEO intelligence audit for user-owned sites that crawls pages, records technical signals, and exports a prioritized CSV and HTML report.
What a working version needs:
- Python 3.12
- Playwright browsers
- permission to crawl the target site
- Explicit README warning that this is a consolation build, not a production replacement
Credibility row: SISTRIX survives for a structural reason, not because its interface is difficult to copy.
03What you'd give up
- fresh proprietary keyword, backlink, or ranking data
- proprietary web and keyword indexes
- fresh rank and clickstream data
- large-scale crawling infrastructure
- historical competitor datasets and support
SISTRIX: The dashboard is reproducible; the expensive part is continuously collecting, cleaning, storing, and defending a useful index of the web.
04The build prompt
Read the verdict first: this one is hard to get right.
The complete build prompt, plus 11 step-by-step prompts from research to launch, a design system file, a page-by-page spec, the data model and a launch checklist.
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05Free open-source starting points
- Lighthouse: Open-source automated auditing for performance, accessibility, and SEO.
- Unlighthouse: Open-source site-wide Lighthouse crawler and dashboard.
Prices change; confirm on the vendor's site before you decide.
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