Open-source SEO platform.

Cloud access costs $3/month after a 7-day free trial without a card. Use your own provider keys, credits, or both. Buy credits separately when needed.

Accounts created before the switch to paid Cloud get a one-time free Cloud trial, with no card and no automatic subscription. When free access ends without a subscription, paid checks and schedules pause, while read access, exports and your credit balance stay available.

No. Cloud starts with a 7-day free trial without a card. Adding a card is optional and opts into $3/month from the date shown at checkout. Self-hosting does not require a card either.

You still need data for rank checks and research: use your own provider account, billed by that provider directly, or credits charged at provider cost plus a 30% markup.

No. bisibility does not run its own crawler or license an index. It is a layer above SEO data providers, and the provider you connect supplies the data. Rank checks can use DataForSEO or SerpApi in the order you choose; keyword research, domain overview, backlinks and brand visibility in AI search currently use DataForSEO.

bisibility adds the workspace around that data: scheduled checks, rank history in your project, alerts, competitors, Search Console and analytics context, a REST API, CLI and MCP. Each rank check records which provider returned it, when, and what it cost, so you can switch without losing history.

It depends on the provider you connect. Suites like Ahrefs and Semrush sell access to their own databases, and index depth differs from one vendor to the next. bisibility does not build its own index, so you choose whose data you trust and can switch later.

Rank checks read live Google results at check time, and each check stores its provider and timestamp, so you or your agent can see how fresh a number is. Keyword volumes and backlink counts are provider estimates that refresh on each provider's own schedule.

DataForSEO's MCP server gives an agent direct access to DataForSEO API calls. bisibility's MCP works one level up, on your project: tracked keywords, stored rank history, schedules, alerts, competitors and project context.

It can use more than one provider, estimates the cost of paid calls before they run, respects the budgets you set, and comes with agent skills for common SEO workflows.

I started bisibility around the time OpenSEO was taking off, with different goals. OpenSEO is an agent-first toolkit built on DataForSEO. bisibility focuses on rankings you can trust: you choose the data provider, every rank check shows where it came from, and ranking changes sit next to Search Console, deploy and index signals. Both are open source, so try both.

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Yes. Download a project package from the hosted app to keep its keywords and completed ranking history together, then restore that package into a self-hosted project. Provider keys, analytics tokens, and user passwords are intentionally excluded.

You can also export project rank history as CSV through the app or REST API. The API supports the same history filters as the app and streams completed checks as CSV.

Yes. bisibility Cloud hosts the application for you, so you can use it without operating PostgreSQL, Valkey, or the Temporal worker.

Cloud access costs $3/month. Use your own provider keys, credits, or both. Buy credits separately when needed. New users get a 7-day trial without a card.

The hosted service keeps your data portable through full-history export and a migration path to self-hosting; you do not own or operate the managed database.

You can also self-host the open-source application and operate the full stack yourself.

You can use, inspect, modify, and self-host the released application under AGPL-3.0. If you run a modified version as a network service for other people, the license generally requires you to offer those users the corresponding source code.

Running an unmodified bisibility deployment for your own team or company does not require you to publish anything.

Versions already released under AGPL-3.0 remain available under those terms. The license text governs; this FAQ is a practical summary, not legal advice.

With your own keys you pay the provider directly, with no markup. Tracking 100 keywords daily at Top 20 with DataForSEO Live costs about $12.00 a month in provider usage. SerpApi has a free plan with 250 searches a month, and DataForSEO starts with $1 of trial credit and a $50 minimum top-up, not a monthly fee. The cost calculator models your own keywords, locations and schedule.