AgentGrown vs SEOAgent
AgentGrown and SEOAgent start from the same belief: SEO should happen where you build, inside your coding agent, not in a separate browser dashboard. If you're a dev or founder shipping with Claude Code or Cursor, both tools are aimed squarely at you — which makes the differences worth understanding before you pick one.
The short version: SEOAgent is a worker — a skill that uses your agent's model to audit, write, and refresh content, with a per-site cloud autopilot on top. AgentGrown is a data layer — an MCP server that feeds your agent real Google keyword, Search Console, GA4, and AI-citation data so the agent you already direct makes evidence-based calls. One sells you output; the other sells your agent better judgment.
What each tool is
SEOAgent
SEOAgent ships a free skill that runs locally in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex and uses the model you already pay for to run site audits, create landing pages, and generate articles inside your repo. Its paid tier, Autopilot ($49 per site per month, as of August 2026), adds cloud automation: Google Search Console measurement with a weekly digest, keyword and competitor research, proposed audits and content refreshes, automatic sitemap regeneration, and roughly 30 generated articles per site per month. Changes land in your codebase for approval before publishing.
AgentGrown
AgentGrown is an MCP server. One line adds it to Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-capable agent, and from then on the agent you already build with has real SEO data: Google keyword research with volume, CPC, and competition, your Search Console ranking history, GA4 behavior data, and AI answer-engine citation tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. It doesn't write your content — it makes the agent that already writes your code make SEO decisions with evidence instead of guesses. 50 free tokens on signup, no card, then pay as you go.
Side by side
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Key differences
A worker vs a data layer
SEOAgent's pitch is that it does the SEO work: audits, landing pages, a monthly queue of generated articles. AgentGrown's pitch is that your agent should do the work — it already knows your codebase and your voice — but with real numbers in front of it. When your agent builds a page with AgentGrown connected, it checks actual search volume before choosing a target, looks up what the page already ranks for before touching a title, and knows which AI engines cite you and who they cite instead.
Per-site subscription vs one shared pool
SEOAgent charges $49 per site per month for its cloud tier. AgentGrown has no per-site pricing: tokens live in one pool that every project and teammate draws from, with scoped per-repo API keys. If you run four or five projects — most devs building with agents do — the difference compounds quickly.
What the data covers
Both read Search Console. AgentGrown also brings Google keyword-planner demand data (volume, CPC, competition) into every session including free ones, adds GA4 so the agent sees what visitors do after landing, and tracks AI answer-engine citations — the traffic channel growing fastest for developer tools. SEOAgent's listed data sources center on Search Console plus its own keyword and SERP research on the paid plan.
Which should you choose?
Choose SEOAgent if…
- –You want articles produced for you on a schedule without directing an agent yourself.
- –You like an autopilot proposing audits and refreshes for one main site, and $49/month for that site is fine.
- –You want a free local skill that audits and drafts using only the model subscription you already have.
Choose AgentGrown if…
- ✓You already work with Claude Code or Cursor daily and want that agent making real SEO calls mid-build, not a second workflow.
- ✓You run more than one site and don't want a per-site subscription.
- ✓You care about AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity) as a channel, not just Google rankings.
- ✓You'd rather review pages your own agent wrote with your context than a generated content queue.
Pricing
As of August 2026: SEOAgent's skill is free, and Autopilot is $49 per site per month with a $1 seven-day trial. AgentGrown starts with 50 free tokens (no card) and is pay-as-you-go after that — $10 for 100 tokens, $25 for 275, $50 for 600, with auto top-up adding 10% to every refill. There's no per-site or per-seat fee; one pool covers all your projects and teammates.
Frequently asked questions
Do AgentGrown and SEOAgent do the same thing?
They overlap in philosophy — SEO inside your coding agent — but not in mechanics. SEOAgent is a skill and autopilot that produce SEO work (audits, articles, refreshes). AgentGrown is an MCP server that supplies data (keyword volume, Search Console history, GA4, AI citations) so your own agent produces the work.
Which is cheaper?
For one site with heavy generated-content needs, SEOAgent's flat $49/month can be economical. For multiple sites, or for devs who want data rather than generated articles, AgentGrown's shared pay-as-you-go pool (from $10) is usually much cheaper, because nothing scales per site.
Can I use AgentGrown and SEOAgent together?
Technically yes — one is a skill, the other an MCP server, and they don't conflict. In practice most people pick the model they believe in: an autopilot that produces content, or a data layer that informs the agent they already direct.
Does AgentGrown write articles like SEOAgent does?
No, and that's deliberate. Your agent already writes well and knows your codebase. AgentGrown gives it the demand data, ranking history, and citation gaps to decide what's worth writing — then measures whether shipped changes actually worked.
Give your agent the data. See for yourself.
50 free tokens. No card. Works with any MCP agent.
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