ContextBolt SEO Hosted, agent-native
One flat price, any MCP agent, and it remembers your research between sessions.
An SEO MCP you ask.
You get live numbers.
ContextBolt SEO is one you can use today. Connect Claude, Cursor or Codex with OAuth, sign in with your SEO account email, and ask your SEO questions in plain English. Get answers with live search data behind them.
7-day free trial · then $35/mo · 1,000 lookups
Short answer
An SEO MCP server gives an AI agent live SEO data. Connect it to Claude, Cursor or Codex and the agent can pull keyword volumes, difficulty, live SERPs, competitor and backlink data in plain language. No dashboard to work in.
keyword_research Related keywords with volume, difficulty and intent 1
keyword_difficulty How hard one keyword is to rank for 1
6,600 searches a month · difficulty 28/100, easy answered in your chat, 1 lookup
serp_overview Who ranks in Google’s top 10 right now 1
domain_overview A domain’s traffic, keywords and authority 1
backlink_gap Who links to your rivals but not you 3
site_audit On-page problems, worst first 1 / page
ai_visibility Whether ChatGPT and Google AI mention you 8
ai_visibility_report The full sweep behind your board’s AI tab 50 + 8 / competitor
search_console_performance Your real clicks and positions, from your GSC free
Most tools cost 1 lookup · the $35 plan includes 1,000 a month · your own Search Console is free Every tool, with a copyable question
What it is
What is an SEO MCP,
really?
MCP is the Model Context Protocol, a standard way for an AI agent to call outside tools. An SEO MCP is that protocol pointed at search data. Your agent knows none of this on its own: its training is months stale and never held live keyword volumes. If the agent is always-on, Hermes, Grok Bot or OpenClaw, the setup lives on SEO for agents.
What it does
Five SEO jobs,
one connection.
Keyword research
Give it a topic and get back a ranked shortlist, with volume, difficulty and intent on every term. You learn which ones are winnable before you spend a week on one that is not.
email marketing toolsKD 494,400/mo
email subject linesKD 312,900/mo
welcome email examplesKD 221,600/mo
abandoned cart emailKD 271,300/mo
email deliverabilityKD 18880/mo
Keyword difficulty
Point it at one term and ask if you can realistically rank.
24/100easy to rank
Who ranks (SERP)
See the live top ten for any term, and the gap to close.
1wirecutter.com
8yoursite.comyou
Competitor & domain
Estimated traffic, keyword count and authority for any site.
68domain rank
12.4Ktraffic / mo
3,180keywords
Backlinks
Find the domains linking to rivals but not you. An outreach list.
DRoutdoorgearlab.com74
DRgearjunkie.com68
MCP vs dashboard
Why ask your agent
instead of a dashboard?
The data inside Ahrefs or Semrush is good, but you are not only paying for data. You are paying for tabs, filters and a UI you re-learn, from roughly $129 to $449 a month. An SEO MCP puts the question and the answer in the same place you already work, and you still get a page to look at. It fills itself while you work instead of sitting empty until you go to it.
SEO in an MCP
You ask, your agent answers. Nothing to log into.
Lives where you write and build. No tab switch.
Nothing to learn. If you can type a question, you can use it.
Your answers collect on a board that builds itself.
The agent can act on the answer in the same chat.
SEO in a dashboard
A separate tool you log into and switch to.
Dozens of tabs and filters to learn first.
$129 to $449 a month, tiered by seats and credits.
It stays empty until you go there and run something.
You read the report, then go do the work elsewhere.
For deep monthly audits and whole teams sharing projects, a dashboard still earns its price. For everyone who does SEO in bursts, inside the agent they already use, an SEO MCP is the lighter setup.
How it compares
The shortlist,
and where we sit.
Ranked on price, data depth and setup in the full comparison.
Ahrefs MCP · Semrush MCP Bolted onto a big dashboard
Their dashboard data, reachable from an agent. Worth it if you already pay for the dashboard.
SE Ranking MCP Widest tool surface
The broadest suite behind one connection, and MCP access comes with any subscription.
DataForSEO MCP Raw data provider
Closest to the source, but pay-per-use and developer-grade. Hundreds of low-level tools.
Google Search Console MCP First-party, free
Free, and the only source of your real Google numbers. It only sees your own verified sites.
ContextBolt SEO
The SEO MCP built to be
used by a person.
Not a raw data feed, and not a dashboard with an API bolted on. A hosted SEO MCP server that answers SEO questions inside Claude, Cursor and Codex, remembers your research between sessions, and lands every lookup on your SEO Board. Ahrefs reports. ContextBolt does the work, right in your chat.
- Keywords, SERPs, backlinks and AI visibility, all from one chat
- Your own Google Search Console, connected in 20 seconds, zero credits
- Your own SEO Board, a shareable page your research fills in as you go, free
- Cross-session memory, so research compounds instead of vanishing
- One flat price, no seats, no tiers, cancel any time
7-day free trial · then $35/mo · 1,000 lookups
The honest limits
Where an SEO MCP
stops being the answer.
Four things no SEO MCP server does, ours included.
Estimates
The numbers are not Google's
Volume and difficulty come from a search-data provider, the same class of estimate behind most SEO products. Nobody outside Google has Google's exact figures. Pair it with Search Console when you need your own real clicks.
Metered
Every lookup spends a credit
Live data costs money to pull, so no SEO MCP lets an agent browse endlessly. You ask deliberate questions rather than leaving something running overnight.
No rank tracking
It answers, it does not alert
You do not get scheduled rank tracking across a keyword set, and nothing emails you when a position moves. Connect Search Console and your board refreshes that strip nightly, so your own numbers stay current. Chasing a keyword list day to day is still a tracker's job.
Client limits
Fixing the page depends on your agent
Claude Code and Cursor can open your files, so a fix can happen in the same session. ChatGPT has no file access, so you get the identical audit and take the list elsewhere. That is the client's limit, not the server's.
FAQ
SEO MCP,
common questions.
What is an SEO MCP server?
An SEO MCP server is a tool that gives an AI agent live SEO data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Connect it once to Claude, Cursor or Codex and the agent can pull keyword volumes, difficulty, live SERP results, competitor metrics and backlink data in plain language, without a dashboard to log into.
Is there a free SEO MCP?
Yes. The Google Search Console MCP is fully free and reads your own verified site's real data. DataForSEO's server is free to run but charges per data pull. A strong free combo is Search Console for your own numbers plus one estimate tool for the keyword and competitor side. ContextBolt SEO bundles that estimate side into one flat $35 a month.
What is the best SEO MCP server?
It depends on the job. If you already pay for Ahrefs or Semrush, their MCP rides on that. If you want raw endpoints, DataForSEO. If you want live SEO data inside the agent you already work in, for a flat price with nothing to learn, that is what ContextBolt SEO is built for. We ranked all ten on price, data depth and setup in the best SEO MCP servers compared, and the head-to-head comparisons match one to your workflow.
Does ChatGPT or Claude support SEO MCPs?
Yes. Any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol works, including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf and VS Code, plus ChatGPT through its connectors. The same SEO MCP server works in all of them without changes.
How do I add an SEO MCP to Claude or Cursor?
With ContextBolt SEO, start a trial or subscription, add https://seo.contextbolt.app/mcp to your agent, and complete OAuth with your account email and the code we send you. Existing personal URLs still work. The setup guide covers each client.
SEO MCP vs Ahrefs, what is the difference?
Ahrefs is a dashboard you log into, learn, and pay $129 or more a month for. An SEO MCP delivers the same class of data inside the agent you already use, so the question and the answer happen in one place. Full breakdown in ContextBolt SEO vs Ahrefs MCP.
Where does the data come from?
Real SEO MCP servers sit on top of an established search-data provider like DataForSEO, the same class of keyword, SERP and ranking estimates that quietly powers most SEO products. Nobody outside Google has Google's exact figures. The data is not new. The way you reach it, by asking your agent, is.
SEO data in your agent, $35 a month
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