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Compare Surfer and Yoast 
At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (93.5% of reviews)
Small-Business (81.8% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $79.00
Starting at $19.00 Per Month
Surfer
Star Rating
(539)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (93.5% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $79.00
Browse all 3 pricing plansYoast
Star Rating
(195)4.5 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (81.8% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $19.00 Per Month
Browse all 4 pricing plansSurfer vs Yoast
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Surfer easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Surfer overall.
- Reviewers felt that Surfer meets the needs of their business better than Yoast.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Surfer is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Surfer over Yoast.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Surfer
Essential
Starting at $79.00
For individuals and small teams starting to grow their organic visibility.
Create content that ranks on Google and in AI search, stays on-brand, and keeps your site up to date — no SEO expertise or additional tools required.
- Publish content that ranks on Google and earns AI search visibility
- Generate ready-to-rank articles in minutes
- Stay on-brand with built-in templates and custom voice
Yoast
Yoast SEO for Shopify
Starting at $19.00
Per Month
SEO best practice can be difficult to navigate, especially if you are wearing multiple hats and have limited time available. Yoast SEO for Shopify takes the guesswork out of SEO, guiding you through optimization best practice.
Set up in 5 mins or less
- Structured data output for your products, meaning more attractive SERP listings
- AI powered suggestions to optimize your meta descriptions and titles for SEO
- Seamless integrations: judge.me, Ali Reviews, Loox, Opinew, Semrush & Weglot
Free Trial
Surfer
No trial information availableYoast
Free Trial is available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
9.3
314
9.0
135
Ease of Use
9.3
320
9.1
141
Ease of Setup
9.4
150
8.8
62
Ease of Admin
9.4
123
8.7
47
Quality of Support
9.4
277
8.4
99
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.6
118
8.3
41
Product Direction (% positive)
9.3
275
8.6
129
Features by Category
SEO Auditing & Monitoring
7.6
164
Feature Not Available
9.2
196
Feature Not Available
8.0
162
Feature Not Available
8.1
166
8.6
69
Agentic AI - SEO Tools
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
7.0
5
Not enough data
8.0
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.0
5
SEO Content & Rankings
7.0
173
Feature Not Available
8.5
235
7.8
98
8.8
40
7.9
82
8.1
178
7.7
63
9.2
208
8.4
74
SEO Reporting
8.9
225
Feature Not Available
8.6
203
7.7
69
7.9
161
Feature Not Available
7.5
121
Feature Not Available
Generative AI
8.1
57
7.6
30
7.6
55
7.9
30
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Surfer and Yoast are categorized as SEO Tools
Unique Categories
Surfer has no unique categories
Yoast has no unique categories
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Surfer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Yoast
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Marketing and Advertising
36.6%
Health, Wellness and Fitness
4.3%
Information Technology and Services
4.0%
Computer Software
4.0%
Writing and Editing
3.8%
Other
47.4%
Marketing and Advertising
26.9%
Information Technology and Services
13.0%
Computer Software
7.3%
Education Management
4.7%
Writing and Editing
2.6%
Other
45.6%
Discussions
Can NLP be more clearly incorporated into the content editor?
2 Comments
TN
Hello Nikolai! Great question :-) Traditional audit is based on the frequency and commonness of keywords among competitors. With NLP we pass the content to...Read more
how to write content
2 Comments
TW
Surfer make it so easy to use and improves content 100%
Thanks Surfer,
Pro Cars Woking
www.procarswoking.comRead more
How to measure ROI?
1 Comment
BS
1. Track visitor click-through rates: The first step in measuring ROI on SurferSEO is to track the number of visitors that click through to your website from...Read more
How can we go beyond Yoast?
4 Comments
HN
Well, To go beyond Yoast SEO is probably dangerous. However, try not to optimize too much, as you'll end up making engines happy and not readers. Focus on...Read more
What is Yoast software?
2 Comments
AG
Yoast is an app that helps you add SEO to your Wordpress site/blog. Very helpful if you don’t know much about thatRead more
What can Yoast do?
2 Comments
ST
It helps me to improve https://surftware.com and https://sahconn.comRead more
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