Compared
Moz vs Yext
Moz is a SEO suite; Yext is a digital presence platform. This guide lines the two up dimension by dimension using only facts read from their live pages, then shows where Rank.ai covers what both leave out.
01
The short answer
Moz, a Ziff Davis company, is the veteran SEO suite: Domain Authority, a 40-trillion-link index, keyword research, site crawls, and an AI module tracking two to three models weekly. Yext is the enterprise platform for managing business data: a Knowledge Graph as source of truth, Listings syndication, Reviews, Pages, and Scout as its listed AI search product. They compete only where the categories overlap; the ledger below lines them up dimension by dimension so the differences carry the decision.
Choose Moz when
- Domain Authority and Brand Authority metrics
- A 40T-link index and 1.25B-keyword research base
- Moz Local handles listings distribution
- Moz Academy and a deep learning ecosystem
Choose Yext when
- Listings syndication for hundreds of locations
- Knowledge Graph as a single source of truth
- Industry solutions for finance, healthcare, retail
- Reviews and social tooling in one platform
02
What each product is
Moz. Moz, a Ziff Davis company, is the veteran SEO suite: Domain Authority, a 40-trillion-link index, keyword research, site crawls, and an AI module tracking two to three models weekly. Pricing: Standard $99, Medium $179 and Large $299 a month (about 20% less annually) with a $49 single-site starter; extra AI prompts cost $50 per 100 and extra dashboards $20 each.
Yext. Yext is the enterprise platform for managing business data: a Knowledge Graph as source of truth, Listings syndication, Reviews, Pages, and Scout as its listed AI search product. Pricing: Demo-led; yext.com/pricing returned a page-not-found when rendered, so no dollar figure is claimable from their public site.
03
Dimension by dimension
Every cell below was read from the vendor’s own rendered pages (moz.com/products/pro/pricing and /products/local; yext.com (pricing URL 404s)), as of August 2026. Where a vendor’s public pages neither confirm nor deny a capability, the cell says so.
| Dimension | Moz | Yext |
|---|---|---|
| AI engines | 2 (GPT, Gemini) on $99; 3 (+ AI Mode) from $179 | Scout listed; scope not described publicly |
| Claude coverage | Not listed | Not stated |
| Tracking cadence | Weekly for both AI prompts and rankings | Data sync, not position measurement |
| Google rank tracking | Yes, weekly, across Google, Mobile, Yahoo, Bing | Not listed |
| Local / map tracking | Moz Local (separate listings product) | Listings distribution at enterprise scale |
| Content output | AI Content Briefs, 2 to 50/mo | Pages product (location landing pages) |
| CMS publishing | No | Own Pages platform |
| API / MCP | Moz API (separate product); no MCP listed | APIs documented for the platform |
| Entry price | $49/mo single-site plan | Demo call; /pricing 404s |
Sources: moz.com/products/pro/pricing and /products/local; yext.com (pricing URL 404s). Rendered in a browser, August 2026. Deeper one-on-one guides: Rank.ai vs Moz and Rank.ai vs Yext.
04
What both leave out
Open questions on each side, from the same rendered pages. Moz: claude and Perplexity absent from the tracked models; weekly cadence on both AI and rank tracking; content output stops at briefs. Yext: rank tracking appears nowhere on the public pages; aI answer tracking scope not described publicly; no published pricing.
Rank.ai is built for the loop that usually falls between these two products. It puts your market’s buying questions to seven AI engines every day, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Google AI Overviews and DeepSeek, three samples per engine, and records every answer with the brands named and the sources cited. It checks your Google rankings daily on every plan and scans a geo-grid of your Google Maps rank across your service area. And it finishes the job: the article pipeline researches, writes and publishes the missing pages into WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or WordPress.com with your approval, 10 a month included on the $0 plan.
05
Frequently asked
What is the core difference between Moz and Yext?
How does Moz's pricing compare to Yext's?
Which AI engines does each cover?
Who should pick Moz?
Who should pick Yext?
Is there a third option?
The third option starts at $0
Rank.ai’s free plan publishes 10 articles a month to your site, tracks 3 Google keywords daily and needs no card. Run it while you evaluate Moz and Yext, and compare the recorded output.
