# mowteng vs Semrush MCP

Semrush's MCP server gives your assistant Semrush's market, keyword and competitor data. mowteng gives it your own console data. They answer different questions.

## In short

Semrush MCP opens Semrush's SEO and trends data and read-only project data to your assistant, as part of a Semrush plan from $199 a month. Your own Search Console data was not listed in its MCP docs. mowteng brings your first-party clicks, impressions, positions and index status from Google, Bing and Yandex for $9 a month. Use Semrush for the market, mowteng for your own site.

## Where mowteng leads

|  | mowteng | Semrush MCP |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Engines | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, Yandex Webmaster and IndexNow. | Semrush's databases (keywords, domains, backlinks, trends) and your Semrush projects. Your own Search Console data not listed. |
| Actions | Submits or removes sitemaps, adds properties, and sends changed URLs to Bing, Yandex and IndexNow. Your assistant asks before each one. | Read-only. |
| Price | 7-day free trial without a card, then $9 a month or $90 a year. No free plan. | Included with some plans, such as Semrush One Starter at $199 a month ($165.17 a month billed yearly), with 50,000 MCP API units. |

## Why choose mowteng over Semrush MCP

- Brings your own first-party data: real clicks, impressions, positions and index status from Google, Bing and Yandex.

- Costs $9 a month, without an SEO suite subscription.

- Can act, not only read: submit sitemaps to Google, Bing and Yandex and send changed URLs to IndexNow, with your assistant asking before each write.

- Ready-made analyses such as [content decay](https://mowteng.app/analyses/content-decay), [striking distance](https://mowteng.app/analyses/striking-distance-keywords) and [index audit](https://mowteng.app/analyses/index-coverage-audit), plus a daily to-do list and scheduled routines.

## When Semrush MCP may suit you better

- You need market, keyword and competitor data, not only your own site's numbers.

- It has official apps in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.

- You already pay for Semrush.

> **Ask your assistant:** Show the queries where my site ranks 11 to 20 in Google, and whether Bing ranks the same page.

## About this comparison

What this page says about Semrush MCP was read from its own pages on 5 November 2026: [MCP docs](https://developer.semrush.com/api/v4/introduction/semrush-mcp/), [knowledge base](https://www.semrush.com/kb/1618-mcp), [pricing](https://www.semrush.com/prices/). Products change quickly; if something here is out of date, email [hi@milowda.com](mailto:hi@milowda.com) and we will correct it. Where a page did not say something, we say "not listed" rather than "no".

## Related

- [SEO suite data vs your console](https://mowteng.app/compare/seo-suite-data-vs-search-console): Estimates and first-party numbers, and when to use each.

- [mowteng vs Ahrefs MCP](https://mowteng.app/compare/ahrefs-mcp): Another SEO suite's MCP server.

- [All comparisons](https://mowteng.app/compare): Every product and category we compare.

- [Google Search Console MCP server](https://mowteng.app/google-search-console-mcp): What mowteng's Search Console tools return.

Source: https://mowteng.app/compare/semrush-mcp