Five jobs people put on SISTRIX, each sized by the quota that ends a tier.
Rank tracking priced in SERP updates, 2,500 to 100,000 by tier
SISTRIX meters rank tracking in SERP updates, one update being one rank check. The included counts climb steeply: 2,500 on Start, 15,000 on Plus, 40,000 on Professional, 100,000 on Premium. How far an allowance goes depends entirely on cadence. A 500-keyword list checked daily spends vastly more updates than the same list checked weekly, so the tier question is really a cadence question. Start's 2,500 suits a freelancer watching a few core terms; a daily habit across several markets is Plus arithmetic at minimum. SISTRIX prints the counts without fine print, so the included number is the planning number.
From Plus upward the meter opens: extra updates are sold per unit, and the unit rate halves between Plus and Premium. The crossover is worth knowing before a heavy quarter. Around 4,500 extra updates on Plus, the top-up spend matches the whole $207.97 converted step to Professional, which carries 25,000 more included updates plus the API and the complete archive. On Start the question never arises, because no top-up exists there: a tracking habit that outgrows 2,500 updates has outgrown the tier itself.
On the published ratesPlus includes 15,000 SERP updates at $276.14 converted; about 4,500 bought extras equal the $207.97 step to Professional and its 25,000 more.
Site audits: 30,000 crawled URLs on Start, 4 million on Premium
The onpage crawler is budgeted in URLs: 30,000 on Start, 500,000 on Plus, 2 million on Professional, 4 million on Premium. The entry budget covers a small business site with room to re-crawl; it does not cover a mid-size shop. A catalog of 100,000 URLs is past Start three times over before the first full crawl completes, and Start sells no refills. That makes site size the fastest tier decision here: measure the URL count, and the crawler budget names the tier for you.
From Plus upward, crawl refills are sold per 1,000 pages, with the Premium rate a third under the Plus rate. Refills suit bursts, tier steps suit baselines. Around 860,000 topped-up pages on Plus, the refill spend passes the $207.97 converted step to Professional, which brings 1.5 million more included URLs and everything else on the tier. Agencies auditing on schedule should size the whole portfolio's URL count rather than the biggest single site, because the budget belongs to the account, and ten mid-size crawls spend it as surely as one giant one.
On the published ratesStart crawls 30,000 URLs at $137.49 converted and sells no refills; Plus at $276.14 crawls 500,000 with per-1,000-page top-ups open.
Competitor research: the Visibility Index and the rows behind it
The toolbox's headline metric is the Visibility Index, the vendor's measure of a domain's search visibility over time, and competitor work is where SISTRIX earns its reputation. The Index itself comes with every tier. The meter underneath is results per analysis: how many rows one query returns. Start shows 10,000, Plus 50,000, Professional 100,000, Premium unlimited. For small domains 10,000 rows answers most questions. Against a large rival, a keyword or directory analysis truncates at the row cap, and a truncated table is a wrong answer that looks like a right one.
That is why serious competitor work starts at Plus and settles at Professional. The 100,000-row ceiling covers nearly every real domain, and the complete 13-year archive arrives on the same tier, which turns a snapshot into a history: who rose, when, and on what. Premium's unlimited rows exist for the genuinely huge analyses and for exports feeding other systems. No unit rate applies anywhere on this meter; rows are purely a tier property, like history, so the row cap you buy is the row cap you keep.
On the published ratesPlus shows 50,000 rows per analysis at $276.14 converted; the full 100,000 rows and the 13-year archive cost the $207.97 step to Professional.
Agency portfolios: 15 included projects on Plus, then a unit line
A project is a monitored domain setup, and the included counts run 3 on Start, 15 on Plus, 40 on Professional, 100 on Premium. Agencies live on this meter. Fifteen included projects on Plus hold a boutique client book, and the unit line absorbs the next few signings without a tier conversation, at a per-project rate that falls roughly 40 percent between Plus and Premium. Start's three projects, with no unit line behind them, suit a freelancer's own properties rather than a client book of any size.
The crossover deserves arithmetic before a growth year. Around nineteen extra projects on Plus, the unit spend passes the whole $207.97 converted step to Professional, whose 25 additional included projects arrive with six users, the API and telephone support. An agency planning to sit at twenty-plus clients should skip the unit-line era entirely and price Professional from the start. The falling unit rates are a deliberate slope: SISTRIX makes topping up progressively worse value than moving up, tier by tier.
On the published ratesFifteen projects ride in Plus at $276.14 converted; around nineteen bought extras equal the $207.97 step to Professional and its 40 included.
Content work: 10 content projects on Plus, 100 on Premium
The content tools arrive at Plus, never on Start, and they are metered as content projects: 10 a month included on Plus, 25 on Professional, 100 on Premium, with plagiarism checks scaled alongside at 20, 100 and 500. A content project is a piece being optimised in the toolbox, so the included counts map roughly onto a publishing calendar. A team shipping two or three optimised pieces a week sits comfortably on Plus; an agency running content across a client book does not. Start's omission is total: no content tools exist there at any price.
Extras are sold per project from Plus up, at about half the Plus unit rate on Premium, and the crossover lands near 23 extra projects on Plus against the $207.97 converted step to Professional. The plagiarism check counts are the quieter constraint: 20 a month on Plus disappears fast in an editorial workflow that checks every draft, and the check allowance moves only with the tier. Price the content operation on drafts per month rather than published pieces, because the checks meter both.
On the published ratesTen content projects sit inside Plus at $276.14 converted; around 23 bought extras equal the $207.97 step to Professional and its 25 included.
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Oleh Kem
