Analytics and monitoring decision
SISTRIX
A narrow replacement (keyword rank checks, a simple visibility score, history and basic crawler) is realistic for a competent engineer in about a week, but you cannot reproduce SISTRIX's proprietary dataset, historical depth, or scale without significant time and data costs—so keep paying if you need full-scale coverage.
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Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Collect SERP positions for a set of keywords, compute a simple visibility score, store historical positions, surface domain/keyword reports and run an on-page crawler for a project.
What it still won’t have
- Proprietary dataset (visibility index across 100M+ domains and long historical depth)
- Scale (fast queries across huge keyword/domain sets)
- Built-in credit/usage model and integrations provided by SISTRIX
What remains hard
- Proprietary data
You’ll get access to the Visibility Index of over 100 Million Domains in 30+ countries.
- Proprietary data
Data from over 100 million domains is analysed and presented in fractions of a second.
- Infrastructure at scale
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First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal SEO visibility tracker using Node.js + Express, Postgres, and a headless-browser or SERP API. Implement: (1) keyword scheduler that queries SERPs and stores top-100 positions; (2) visibility-index computation (weighted sum of ranks); (3) domain and keyword history endpoints (JSON + CSV export); (4) a small React UI to view domain overview, keyword trends and run an on-page crawl for a project (JS-rendered page checks). Out of scope: recreating SISTRIX's 100M-domain dataset, enterprise multi-tenant role/audit features, and advanced content-marketing tooling. Include error handling, retry/backoff for API calls, credit usage logging, and unit tests for core functions.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Hard moats found in the evidence-6
- Evidence score52
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time — so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSISTRIX homepage
- official pricingSISTRIX pricing
- official docsSISTRIX API documentation
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
