What is SISTRIX: the Visibility Index, market data and search history

SISTRIX is an independent German SEO platform, based in Bonn and founded in 2007. Its core metric is the Visibility Index, which measures a domain organic search visibility in one national market. The index is updated weekly and stored as a historical archive rather than a single snapshot, and the subscription tiers differ mainly by how much of that history they open: three months on the entry plan, five years above it, and the full thirteen years on the two top plans. The same tiers set the analysis limits, from 10,000 results per analysis to unlimited, and the number of user accounts, from one to twelve. Billing is monthly in euros plus VAT, and no annual rate is published.

Every rival can tell you where a domain stands this week. This one can tell you where it stood in 2013, which is a different product sold under the same category name.

So much for the published shape. The tier card, the euro figures and the unit price list sit on the full SISTRIX pricing breakdown.

SISTRIX features by plan: Visibility Index, history depth and results

One number defines this product. The Visibility Index scores how much organic presence a domain holds in a national market, updated weekly and kept since 2008, and almost everything else in the toolbox exists to explain a movement in it.

Slide the grid sideways. The capability column stays put.

The index is worth understanding before it is quoted. It is a single weekly score per domain per country, built from ranking positions weighted by search demand, which makes it a measure of presence rather than of traffic. Two uses hold up. Compare a domain against its national competitors on one chart, where the relative shape tells you who is gaining without either party publishing analytics. Then read a drop backwards against the date it happened: with thirteen years behind the curve, an algorithm update, a migration or a penalty leaves a signature that a three month window would simply not contain.

Where this platform declines to compete is breadth. There is no answer engine module, no social scheduling, no content generator, and the keyword database is not the largest here. What it holds instead is memory and market focus, and those are the two things a rival cannot bolt on next quarter.

SISTRIX limits: user accounts, results per analysis and history depth

The tier is decided by three ceilings and one of them is unusual. Accounts and results behave as expected, and then memory turns out to be a paid feature: how far back the data reaches depends on which tier is holding it.

Put the ceilings together and the four tiers read differently than they look. The first tier is a single seat with a three month memory and no right to buy anything extra, which makes it a trial with an invoice rather than a working plan. The product people describe when they recommend SISTRIX starts at the third tier.

One more line belongs on the invoice and not on the tier card. The vendor prices in euros and adds tax on top, so the figures we print here are converted at the European Central Bank reference rate on the day of our check. A buyer paying from inside the EU should expect VAT above the rate, and a buyer outside it should expect currency movement between checks.

SISTRIX in 2026: the plans hold while the extras become a price list

Rates held across our checks, which is worth stating plainly in a category where two rivals restructured this year. What did move is the surrounding detail: the vendor now publishes a unit price for almost every kind of capacity.

For a buyer this is the least eventful record in the category, and that is information too. A vendor that leaves its rates alone and adds precision to its unit pricing is optimising for predictability, which fits a customer base doing long term market work rather than chasing feature announcements.

Who should use SISTRIX: DACH agencies, EU teams and market analysts

We priced four setups against the published tiers. Each names what it needs, the rate that produces and the ceiling it meets first. Account arithmetic uses the published extra account rate, which applies on every tier except the entry one.

Stated plainly: this is a measurement instrument for people who study markets over years, sold to a customer base that values the archive more than the toolbox. It rewards patience and punishes anyone who arrived looking for the widest feature list at the price.

SISTRIX alternatives: Semrush, SE Ranking, Moz Pro, Ahrefs and Mangools

Only one rival on this strip opens above this door, and the rest sit well below it. The spread runs $29 to $139, which puts the median at $44. Four of the six open between $29 and $49, then the strip goes quiet until $129. The distance from the cheap end to this end is what buyers are really weighing.

Semrush

SEO$139/mo+$1.51 vs entry

The broad platform bought instead of this one when the brief is international rather than national. Its entry rate is about the same, covers paid search and answer engines that this vendor leaves alone, and charges $45 for each extra person where accounts here come with the tier.

SE Ranking

Core$129/mo-$8.49 vs entry

$8.49 under this door and aimed at reporting workflow rather than archive depth. Agencies compare the two when the deliverable is a monthly client report; this platform wins when the question involves last year rather than last week.

Moz Pro

Starter$49/mo-$88.49 vs entry

A gentler comparison: its authority score plays the role this index does, with far less history behind it and colleagues included in the tier. Teams choose it for simplicity, not for market depth.

SpyFu

Basic$39/mo-$98.49 vs entry

Advertising history rather than organic visibility, and a different question entirely: what a competitor has been paying for and since when. At $98.49 under this door it sits beside this platform rather than against it.

Mangools

Basic$30.50/mo-$106.99 vs entry

The far end of the strip, at $30.50, doing keyword research and light tracking. Nothing about it addresses market visibility over time, which is the whole reason this platform exists.

Ahrefs

Starter$29/mo-$108.49 vs entry

A specialist purchase in the opposite direction: link data rather than market presence. Its published floor is $29, the tier that actually runs projects costs far more, and colleagues are billed per head there rather than included.

What people give up when they leave is usually the archive, and what they gain is breadth. The dearest rival covers paid search, content and answer engines from one account for about the same money. The tools underneath this one do a single job well and remember almost nothing. Nobody else on this strip keeps thirteen years of a national market on one chart, and for the agencies that buy this platform that single fact settles the comparison. The full ranking sits on the seo tools category page.

Is SISTRIX worth it in 2026: our verdict on the visibility platform

Verdict · SISTRIX · August 2026★★★★★★★★★★CE 4.5/5

The fact that organises SISTRIX pricing is the missing lever: the vendor sells no annual discount at any tier. Converted at the August 2026 rate the four tiers run $137.49 to $923.16 a month, billed in euro plus taxes and cancelable month by month. Measured against what this category usually charges to get in, that entry sits high, and the vendor never apologises for it. The printed rate is the only rate, whether an account stays a month or five years.

The tier logic is unusually clean once you are inside. Each step buys users, bigger quotas and cheaper unit rates at once, so the extras table rewards moving up rather than topping up. The catch is the entry tier itself. Start is sealed, with three months of history, one user and nothing purchasable, so the first growth spurt costs the whole $138.65 converted step to Plus rather than a small line on the invoice.

what drives this invoice

• included users: 1, 3, 6 or 12 by tier, then $28.77 a month converted for each one more, from Plus up only.
• the included quotas: 3 to 100 projects, 30,000 to 4 million crawled URLs, 2,500 to 100,000 SERP updates by tier.
• the unit rates step down by tier: every extra gets cheaper one tier up, halving on some lines between Plus and Premium.
• the invoice currency: euro plus taxes, so the dollar cost moves with the exchange rate.

when not to buy SISTRIX

• You want a discount for committing: none exists, at any tier, on any cycle.
• Your budget is fixed in dollars: the bill is euro plus taxes, and the converted figure moves with the rate.
• You will outgrow Start's quotas within months: the tier cannot be topped up, and the exit is the full step to Plus.
• You need history on a small budget: the entry archive is three months, and five years starts at $276.14 converted.

what it does well

• The Visibility Index is a single comparable number per country, kept weekly since 2008, and nothing else on this strip holds that much history.
• User accounts come with the tier, at one, three, six and twelve, instead of being billed per person.
• Capacity is sold by the unit with published rates that fall as the tier rises, so a busy month costs a little rather than forcing a tier change.
• Every tier cancels at the end of the month, which suits a fixed term market study.
• Governance is priced rather than negotiated: roles, rights and an audit log come with the top tier instead of a contract.

where it gets in the way

• History is tiered, and the full archive most people buy this for starts only at $484.11.
• The entry tier holds one account and may not buy a second, an extra project or a single additional crawl.
• No annual rate exists at any tier, so the discount common elsewhere in this category is unavailable.
• Rates are in euros plus tax, so the dollar figure here moves with the reference rate between our checks.
• There is no answer engine tracking, where three rivals on this strip now sell it.
• Results per analysis cap at ten thousand rows on the entry tier, which ends a broad market study early.

The price, in short

• Entry $137.49/mo · verified August 5, 2026
• Number 6 of 7 by entry rate, $8.49 over SE Ranking and $1.51 under Semrush
• The four tiers, the euro figures behind them and the unit price list are laid out on our SISTRIX pricing breakdown

Go deeper · plans and ratesThe four tiers with their euro figures, the account allowances, and every capacity unit the vendor prices individually

signed Oleh Kemmethod: live price list, dated recordverified August 5, 2026tracked since June 2026