Whitespark vs Moz

Whitespark sells local SEO as separate tools: a Google and Bing rank tracker, ranking grids, the Citation Finder, Reputation Builder and a managed Listings Service, each with its own price. 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. They compete only where the categories overlap, and the chapters below walk every dimension a buyer would price: which AI engines each can see, how the tracking actually meters, what each produces on the content side, what surrounds the core product, and the full published tier lists.

Whitespark built its name on citations, and its pricing page is explicit about the model: the software and services are sold individually, with no forced bundling. The catalog spans the Local Rank Tracker (Local Packs, Maps and organic on Google and Bing), Local Ranking Grids up to 225 points, the Local Citation Finder, Reputation Builder, a $1-per-location Local Platform for GBP management, and services: a managed Listings Service sold as one-time packages, a Yext replacement service, and full SEO engagements.

Pricing model. Per tool: Local Platform $1 a month per location, ranking grids from $10, rank tracker $14 to $200, Citation Finder $33 to $149, Reputation Builder $79 per location; Listings Service one-time packages from $20 to $999 and SEO services $499 to $1,999 a month.

Moz was the first name in SEO software and remains one of the most trusted, now a Ziff Davis company, with Domain Authority and Brand Authority as industry-standard metrics, a link index past 40 trillion links, a 1.25B-keyword research base, and Moz Academy behind it. Moz Pro carries the suite: keyword research, competitive research, site crawls up to 1.25M pages a week, weekly rank tracking, and a new AI and GEO feature set with visibility dashboards, prompt tracking, citations data and content briefs. Moz Local and STAT sell separately for listings management and enterprise SERP tracking.

Pricing model. Standard $99, Medium $179 and Large $299 a month (20% off yearly: $79, $143, $239), with a $49 single-site starter plan; extra AI prompts cost $50 per 100, extra dashboards $20 each, and add-on seats $49 per user.

Whitespark. No AI answer engine appears anywhere on Whitespark's public surfaces: the rank tracker page covers Local Packs, Maps and organic results in Google and Bing on desktop and mobile, and neither the pricing page nor the tracker page mentions ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other assistant.

Moz. The tracked AI models are GPT and Gemini on the $99 Standard plan, with Google AI Mode joining from the $179 Medium plan, three models at most. Claude, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek appear nowhere in the tracked-model lists on the Moz Pro pricing page.

Summarized: Whitespark reads none on any surface; Moz reads 2 (GPT, Gemini) on $99; 3 (+ AI Mode) from $179. On Claude specifically, Whitespark: no; Moz: not listed.

Whitespark. The Local Rank Tracker follows Google and Bing rankings with white-label reporting via unique share URLs, and agencies can serve reports from a custom domain such as rankings.yoursite.com. Local Ranking Grids run the map-grid measurement as a separate product from $10 a month, up to 225 points per scan.

Moz. Both halves of tracking run weekly: AI prompt tracking frequency reads weekly on every tier, and the rank tracker checks each keyword weekly across Google US and international, Google Mobile, Yahoo and Bing, with 300 to 3,000 keywords by tier. AI citations data and prompt suggestions ship on every tier, and extra prompts are $50 per 100.

Whitespark. There is no self-serve content product; writing appears only inside SEO Services engagements, which the pricing page lists at $499 to $1,999 a month, done by their team.

Moz. Content output is AI Content Briefs: 2 a month on Standard, 10 on Medium, 50 on Large. There is no article writer and no CMS publishing; briefs hand off to your writers.

Whitespark. Citations are the flagship: the Citation Finder discovers directories and audits NAP consistency, and the Listings Service has an in-house team doing one-time cleanup and submission from $20 to $999, with the citations owned once built. Reputation Builder monitors 100+ review sites and runs branded review requests over email, SMS and tablet or kiosk modes at $79 per month per location.

Moz. Moz Pro carries the classic research stack with Domain Authority at its center, plus site crawls to 1.25M pages a week and an On-Page Grader. Local is a separate product, Moz Local, which syncs listings to directories; its pricing did not render dollar figures when checked, and no geo-grid appears on the Moz Pro page.

Whitespark. Neither the pricing page nor the rank tracker page mentions an API or an MCP server. Reporting depth comes through the white-label share URLs and custom domains on agency plans.

Moz. The Moz API sells separately with its own flexible pricing, and no MCP server is listed. Branded reports and report templates arrive on the Large tier, and MozBar Premium ships with every plan.

Every cell below was read from the vendors’ own rendered pages as of August 2026. Where a vendor’s public pages neither confirm nor deny a capability, the cell says so.