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Clearscope alternative for site owners who want to outrank a competitor's page
Clearscope is the content optimizer editorial teams pay for: a term list and a grade for each draft, with 20 drafts and 50 tracked queries on its $129 Essentials plan. That price buys an editor's workflow, not a plan for what a one-person site should write next.
Clearscope and GapDigest compared
| Clearscope | GapDigest | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | Essentials, $129/mo | Starter, $19/mo ($190/yr) |
| Keywords on that plan | 50 tracked queries; 20 drafts a month | 200 tracked keywords |
| Rank checks | Not listed | Daily |
| Keywords competitors rank for and you don't | Not listed | Yes, on every plan: up to 10 per competitor |
| Scheduled competitor email | Not listed | Yes, the weekly report, plus a same-day alert when a competitor passes you or a keyword drops |
| Tells you what to write | Yes, 20 drafts and 20 topic explorations a month, on demand | Yes, on every plan: a post plan or refresh plan for each gap worth writing, 4 to 60 a month |
| Backlink index and full site audit | No | No backlink index; a weekly health check of up to 200 of your own site's pages |
| Free plan or trial | 14-day trial | Free plan: 10 keywords, 1 competitor, no time limit |
Clearscope figures from www.clearscope.io and www.clearscope.io, checked September 2026. "Not listed" means their pages don't say. Check their site for current prices.
Why site owners switch
For a single content site, $129 a month buys optimization for posts you have already chosen. GapDigest does the choosing: every week it sends a post plan for the keywords your competitors rank for and you don't, filtered to what your site can win, with daily rank tracking and Search Console for $19.
When Clearscope is the better choice
Stay with Clearscope if a team of writers works to its grades, or you need unlimited seats and its Google Docs integration. GapDigest has one to three seats, no grading, and no editor.
Run the check on your own site
It's the same lookup behind the weekly report, but with a higher cap: your domain against one competitor, up to 20 keywords with searches, difficulty, and intent, five checks a day (the report itself lists up to 10 per competitor).
Ready to track your own keywords? Start free with 10 keywords.