RavenTools vs. Semrush

RavenTools

62 Reviews and Ratings

Semrush

748 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
RavenTools	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	Raven Tools from the Tennessee company of the same name is Internet or search engine marketing optimization software consisting of popular tools targeted at SEO specialists who need research automation. To that end it contains the familiar set of website research and auditing, competitor monitoring, rank tracking, and also content investigation to see that material on the site is keyword-rich yet topically relevant. Social media and backlink checking tools facilitate outreach and drive traffic…	$49 per month
Semrush	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Semrush is a relatively popular search engine optimization tool set from the company of the same name based in Pennsylvania and founded in 2008. Largely the platforms relies on competitive intelligence, and features SEO staples like backlink checking, keyword analysis to refine SEO and PPC campaigning and locate low-cost / high-yield keywords, analysis of competitors who co-occupy desired ad and listing spaces, domain vs. domain analysis, as well as site audit and domain tracking. Semrush can…	$139.95 per month

Pricing

RavenTools

Semrush

Small Biz (2 users): $49
per month
Start (4 users): $109
per month
Grow (8 users): $199
per month
Thrive (20 users): $299
per month
Lead (40 users): $479
per month

Pro: $139.95
per month
Guru: $249.95
per month
Business: $499.95
per month

Pricing Offerings
RavenTools	Semrush
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

Optional

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17% discount for annual pricing.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	RavenTools	Semrush
Considered Both Products	RavenTools Verified User Chose RavenTools RavenTools created a stronger platform that allowed us to really streamline our processes and keep our clients happy by providing monthly insights to the progress, successes, and advantages of our team creating marketing and executing efforts. My agency had been long-time fans … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose RavenTools RavenTools, seoClarity, and BrightEdge are all ostensibly the same things—one-stop shops for SEO analysis of multiple domains. However, versus those other tools, RavenTools is a completely different beast. Its strength is in its reporting, which is modular and highly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose RavenTools I have used Majestic, Moz, and SEMrush for similar things and I like all these tools. I like majestic's interface best for competitive analysis and backlink exploration. I prefer some of Moz's tools to Raven, but Raven has the advantage of compiling data from all these … Incentivized Helpful?	Semrush Verified User Chose Semrush Semrush is nice and working on integrating more SEM. It still does not have as many reporting features for SEM as RavenTools, but you can tell they are working on it. It has more features than SpyFu or BrightLocal. Although I like BrightLocal's interface a little better, … Incentivized Helpful? Quentin Aisbett Digital Strategist in Marketing at OnQ Marketing Services (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Semrush As an agency starting out I began with Moz. While my memory is not that great of those earlier years, it served us well but we switched because we were looking to upgrade at the time and found RavenTools had a better offering for the money. Again we really enjoyed Raven and … Incentivized Helpful? Derren Dettloff Director of Digital Marketing in Marketing at The Vitae Foundation (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Semrush For the price, I think Semrush is the clear winner. Incentivized Helpful? Balaji Perumal Manager Digital and Social Media in Marketing at CPT (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Semrush I used a few other similar tools, each tool has its own strength. The main reason I suggest to use SEMRush is it gives 360-degree view of competitors' research. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Crocker Online Marketing Analyst in Marketing at The Karcher Group (TKG) \| Online Marketing & Web Development (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Semrush We have used a few similar products to SEMrush at different points. Generally the breadth of information in SEMrush is one of the biggest reasons to use it. If your focus is more specific on SEO Moz Pro might be a better choice. If you are exclusively focused on SEM/PPC it … Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Agarwal Digital Strategy Consultant in Marketing at Trenkwalder Group (Staffing and Recruiting, 201-500 employees) Chose Semrush SEMRush has a much stronger position when you compare it to other alternatives. The reason being that there are only a few tools that provide an overall service including both SEO and SEM. Also, the fact that it allows competitor analysis and a side by side analysis of KPIs … Incentivized Helpful? Victor Manuel Gañan Fernandez CEO Servilia in Marketing at IMF (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Semrush The ability to test almost all features for free, to learn the [long term] potential, helps to better understand what aspects of marketing tasks can help more. It also has multiple tools in various areas of SEM and SEO, something that not all tools have available. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

RavenTools

Semrush

Comparison of SEO features of RavenTools and Semrush
Feature	RavenTools 8.4 12 Ratings	Semrush 7.9 152 Ratings
Keyword analysis	10.011 Ratings	8.7152 Ratings
Backlink management	7.012 Ratings	8.2145 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking	10.012 Ratings	8.2148 Ratings
Page grader	10.011 Ratings	7.0127 Ratings
Competitive analysis	10.011 Ratings	8.6147 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics	10.012 Ratings	8.0148 Ratings
Site recommendations	2.011 Ratings	7.3137 Ratings
Task management	8.08 Ratings	7.090 Ratings

Comparison of SEO Channels features of RavenTools and Semrush
Feature	RavenTools 10.0 10 Ratings	Semrush 8.1 138 Ratings
Local SEO	10.08 Ratings	8.3126 Ratings
Social SEO	10.010 Ratings	8.0104 Ratings
Mobile SEO	10.08 Ratings	7.7111 Ratings
Global SEO	10.08 Ratings	8.3112 Ratings

Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of RavenTools and Semrush
Feature	RavenTools 10.0 12 Ratings	Semrush 8.7 123 Ratings
Multi-domain support	10.010 Ratings	8.3113 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools	10.012 Ratings	9.0117 Ratings

User Ratings
	RavenTools	Semrush
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (26 ratings)	8.8 (152 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (16 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)	7.7 (8 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.9 (17 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)