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5 platforms fit what you need

5 platforms cover everything you asked for. Add a detail or two below (your industry, interface language or the tools you use) to tell them apart.

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Semrush

Keyword research, site audits, rank tracking and competitor data for search, sold as monthly or annual plans.

Strong match100
  • Covers Search (SEO and paid search)
  • Publishes its plan prices and limits.

Check first: API access requires the Business tier.

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Google Analytics 4

Event-based analytics for websites and apps, in a standard edition and a paid Analytics 360 edition.

Strong match100
  • Covers Search (SEO and paid search)
  • Exports raw event data to BigQuery, including streaming export with no event limit.

Check first: The daily BigQuery export of a standard property is capped at 1 million events, and is paused if the cap is consistently exceeded.

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Ahrefs

Backlink, keyword and rank data for search, sold as published monthly plans with an API.

Strong match100
  • Covers Search (SEO and paid search)
  • Publishes prices for every plan, from $29 a month (Starter) to $1,499 a month (Enterprise).

Check first: The Starter plan is credit-based and can only be renewed monthly.

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Tools you already useAny
CRM
E-commerce
Ad platforms
Analytics
Data warehouse
Content management
Collaboration and automation
Messaging and service
How it is deployedAny

Most marketing teams choose a cloud service. Self-hosted and open source suit teams with their own engineers.

Pricing modelAny
Attestations you needAny
Where the data must be keptAny

A region covers its countries: data kept in Europe covers France.

Every discipline is a mustAny

Other platforms that fit (2)

  • Google AdsBuys ads on Google Search and Google's other properties through an auction, with campaigns run by the advertiser.
    Strong match100
  • Amazon AdsSells sponsored ads on Amazon's store and programmatic display, video, audio and streaming-TV ads, now managed in Amazon Ads Agent.
    Strong match100

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