AnswerThePublic vs RacoonDR Comparison 2026
Both cover seo & discovery. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
The questions people type into search
Domain Rating tracked daily, with a badge
At a glance
- RacoonDR starts cheaper, at $5.99.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
AnswerThePublic | RacoonDR | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $13.33 | From $5.99 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
AnswerThePublic
The questions people type into search
AnswerThePublic takes a keyword and returns the questions, prepositions and comparisons people search around it, which is a content calendar's worth of titles in one query. The wheel graphic is the famous part and the export is the useful part. Free use is capped at three searches a day, and the paid plans are counted in searches rather than in seats.
Only on this side
- Covers research & trends
RacoonDR
Domain Rating tracked daily, with a badge
RacoonDR watches one number, the Ahrefs Domain Rating of a site you own, and keeps the history so a month of link building can be told apart from a quiet one. A check needs no account. Every domain checked gets a public page with a chart, a global rank and the domain age, and the badge is the business model rather than a decoration: display it and the link on that page turns followed, or pay to skip it. What it does not do is the research, so anybody who needs the keyword and backlink data itself still needs the tool the number comes from.
Our note
CloutStack and RacoonDR have the same owner, so read this listing knowing whose product it is. It is here because it fits the category and publishes its prices, which is the same test every other listing had to pass, and the link out is followed rather than a tracking link. Weigh the write-up accordingly.
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.