SaaS SEO agency pricing compared
Fourteen agencies, side by side. Only one figure here is a published rate, which is the finding as much as the data. Plus what each price band physically buys, and the calculation that tells you what you can actually afford.
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Only one figure on this page is a published rate: ours. Every other number is a market-tier estimate assembled from category benchmarks, public statements and buyer reports, and marked with a tilde. Treat them as a guide to the tier an agency operates in, not as a quote. We publish this because the pricing question is the one buyers most consistently cannot get answered, and because we are the only agency here with nothing to lose by answering it.
What do SaaS SEO agencies actually charge?
Starter programs run $3,000 to $5,000 per month. Growth programs run $5,000 to $10,000. Enterprise scope runs $10,000 to $25,000 or more. Consulting is $3,000 to $7,000 monthly or $100 to $300 hourly. One-off audits are $4,000 to $8,000.
Of the fourteen agencies compared below, one publishes its rates. Cost per click on agency keywords reaches $368, which explains the incentive to price every client individually rather than post a number.
14 SaaS SEO agencies, pricing compared
The comparison nobody in this category publishes, including the column that makes us look good and everyone else look evasive.
| Agency | Monthly range | Rates published? | What the fee covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Authority Magnet | From $5,000, typically $10,000 to $15,000 | Published | Content, technical guidance, links, AI search, attribution |
| Skale | ~$10,000 to $20,000+ | Not published | Revenue-accountable organic program |
| Omniscient Digital | ~$10,000 to $25,000 | Not published | Content-led authority, senior strategists |
| SimpleTiger | ~$8,000 to $20,000 | Not published | Balanced technical and content |
| Powered by Search | ~$15,000 to $30,000 | Not published | Demand gen plus organic |
| Directive Consulting | ~$15,000 to $40,000+ | Not published | Integrated paid, organic and CRO |
| First Page Sage | ~$15,000 to $40,000 | Not published | Thought leadership and GEO |
| Siege Media | ~$10,000 to $30,000 | Not published | Content and digital PR at volume |
| MADX Digital | ~$8,000 to $18,000 | Not published | Revenue-first with GEO |
| Grow and Convert | ~$8,000 to $15,000 | Not published | Pain-point content only |
| Minuttia | ~$6,000 to $15,000 | Not published | Content operations and editorial |
| TripleDart | ~$5,000 to $15,000 | Not published | Full-funnel at mid-market pricing |
| Kalungi | ~$15,000 to $40,000 | Not published | Fractional CMO, full marketing function |
| Embarque | ~$2,000 to $6,000 | Not published | Budget content production |
Estimates reflect category benchmarks and public statements as of July 2026. Ask every agency directly, and compare itemized deliverables rather than headline monthly totals, because two $8,000 retainers can differ threefold in real delivery.
Why the same service costs $5,000 or $25,000
It is almost never the same service. Five variables account for nearly all of the spread, and knowing them lets you compare proposals that look incomparable.
- Content velocity. Four pages a month and twenty pages a month are different businesses to run. This is usually the single largest line item.
- Technical implementation. Whether the agency specifies fixes and hands them to your engineers, or ships them itself. The difference is often $3,000 to $6,000 a month.
- Link volume and method. Earned placements on genuinely authoritative publications cost $200 to $800 each. Ten a month is a different proposal from three.
- AI-search measurement. Still in scope for a minority of agencies. If it is included, it is real work: prompt sets, seven engines, competitor benchmarking, on a schedule.
- Who works on your account. The largest hidden variable. A senior operator running your campaign and a junior executing a template cost the agency very different amounts, and the proposal rarely says which you get.
Ask any agency to itemize: pages per month, who writes them, links per month, who implements technical changes, and whether AI-search work is included. Agencies confident in their scope answer immediately. Agencies selling a headline number get vague, and the vagueness is the answer.
Whether a price is right for you
Benchmarks tell you what the market charges. This calculation tells you what you can afford, which is the number that matters.
Take your average contract value. Multiply by your organic trial-to-paid rate to get the revenue value of one qualified trial. Divide the monthly retainer by that figure. The result is how many trials a month the program must produce to break even in year one.
$12,000 ACV, 12% conversion
$24,000 ACV, 10% conversion
$60,000 ACV, 8% conversion
$3,000 ACV, 15% conversion
What each price band actually buys
Honest description of what is physically possible at each level after an agency covers its overhead.
Under $3,000 a month
Roughly 10 to 15 hours of qualified time. That buys two to four blog posts. No technical remediation, no earned links, no senior strategist thinking about your funnel. This is the band where most companies conclude SEO does not work, when what failed was the budget shape.
$3,000 to $5,000
A starter program: keyword strategy, a technical audit, limited content volume. Or, better value at this level, a consulting engagement where you get senior direction and your team executes.
$5,000 to $10,000
A real program becomes possible. Technical fixes, four to six pages a month, early authority work, and reporting wired to your CRM. The most common band in the market.
$10,000 to $25,000
Full service: content velocity, meaningful link volume, digital PR, AI-search measurement and conversion work running together, with a senior operator on the account.
Above $25,000
Multi-product or multi-market programs, or integrated paid and organic. At this level you should be asking hard questions about how much of the fee is delivery and how much is agency overhead.
The one row in that table with a real number in it
We publish because hiding the number only helps the seller. A price that appears after two discovery calls is a price that moved based on what you revealed. Ours is on the site, it is the same for everyone, and we decline work below it rather than discounting.
- No setup fees, no deposit, and no annual lock-in
- Content and tooling included, not billed as extras on top
- Rate fixed for 12 months from signing, in writing
- We will tell you which tier fits on the first call, including when the answer is none of them
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