Majestic vs Yoast SEO
Majestic Prices in Seven Kinds of Unit — You Cannot Estimate Your Usage Before Buying
One Yoast Premium Subscription Covers One Site — Price It Per Domain
The short answer
- Billing period
- These are quoted on different periods — $49.99/month against $118.80/year — so the two numbers are not comparable as printed. Put both on the same period before you weigh them.
- Our rating
- 3.7/5 against 3.9/5. That gap is inside our own margin, so treat these as rated level and decide on the specifics below rather than on the score.
- Against the rest of the category
- Of the 6 seo content tools we have reviewed that publish a starting price, Majestic is the 4th cheapest to start and Yoast SEO the 5th.
Majestic
from $49.99/monthLite is $49.99, Pro is $99.99, API is $399.99. Each plan is defined by seven separate unit allowances — analysis units, retrieval units, index item units, report units, data rows, analysis depth and users — and none of them map to anything you can count before you have used the tool.
What works
- ✓ Lite at $49.99 is among the cheapest entry points for dedicated backlink data
- ✓ Annual billing cuts the monthly equivalent to $41.67 on Lite and $83.33 on Pro
- ✓ Pro multiplies the Lite allowances 20-fold for double the price
- ✓ Every allowance is published per plan rather than hidden behind a sales call
What does not
- ✗ Seven different unit types, none of which mean anything until you have spent them
- ✗ Lite and Pro both include exactly 1 user — the 5-user plan costs $399.99
- ✗ The cost of additional seats is not stated on the pricing page
- ✗ Lite's 5,000 analysis depth is a hard ceiling on large-site link analysis
Yoast SEO
from $118.80/yearYoast SEO Premium is $118.80 a year excluding VAT, and the vendor states plainly that one subscription covers one site or domain. Run three sites and that is $356.40 before tax — bulk discounts exist, but the unit you are buying is the domain, not the account.
What works
- ✓ Premium bundles Local SEO, News SEO and Video SEO rather than selling them separately
- ✓ Includes one Google Docs add-on seat and academy access
- ✓ Subscriptions are transferable between live and staging sites
- ✓ Bulk discounts are available for multiple sites
What does not
- ✗ One subscription covers exactly one site or domain
- ✗ The $118.80 figure excludes VAT, so the billed total is higher in many countries
- ✗ Renewal terms are not stated on the plugin page
- ✗ A multi-site owner multiplies the price by domain count
Who should pick which
Pick Majestic if this is the thing that matters most to you:
Lite at $49.99 is among the cheapest entry points for dedicated backlink data.
What most often rules it out: Seven different unit types, none of which mean anything until you have spent them.
Pick Yoast SEO if this is the thing that matters most to you:
Premium bundles Local SEO, News SEO and Video SEO rather than selling them separately.
What most often rules it out: One subscription covers exactly one site or domain.
Figures come from our review of each product, checked against the vendor's own pricing page. We do not convert currencies or rank prices quoted on different billing periods — where that applies it is said above, not quietly resolved.
A third option, and what it is not
Bonfire Terminal is an AI agent that runs as a desktop app on your own machine — no cloud, nothing you type leaves your computer. It does not do what Majestic or Yoast SEO do, and we will not pretend it does. If either is doing its job for you, keep it.
What the $27 actually gets you→The way in is the AI Marketers Club — $27 one-time, including 21 days of access. Keeping it after that is a separate purchase; the vendor's FAQ states Bonfire Terminal starts at $5,000. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you, which is why both tools' drawbacks are printed in full above and the $5,000 is here rather than left for you to find later.