Local Viking caps keyword and grid scans with credits and has no free tier. 15 alternatives compared, with sources.
Local Viking publishes plan prices by listing count. Note that its pricing page now redirects to a Local Optics address, so confirm who you are buying from. Checked August 2026.
Local Viking gives you geo grid tracking and Google Business Profile posting cheaply, which is a genuinely good combination at the price. The limits people hit are the credit allowances on keywords and grid scans, and the fact that there is no free tier, so you commit before finding out whether it fits.
Why businesses look for Local Viking alternatives
Credits cap what you can run
Each tier includes a set number of keyword and geo grid credits. Scanning more often or more widely means moving up a tier.
Priced by listing count
Plans are tied to how many profiles you manage, from one on the entry plan up to seventy at the top.
No free tier
You are committing before you know whether your team will use it week to week.
Narrower than a full platform
Strong on grid and posting. Reviews, listings and portfolio reporting are a different scope.
What Local Viking is genuinely good at
For the money, the combination of bulk posting and grid scanning is good, and the embeddable grid is something nobody else offers.
- Geo grid tracking and GBP posting together at a low price.
- White label reporting on the higher tiers.
- Straightforward pricing by listing count.
If those are the things you need most, Local Viking may well be the right answer and you can stop reading here.
All 15 next to Local Viking
The trial column is the one to read first. Most of this list lets you look before you pay, and Local Viking does not.
| Tool | Price | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Local Viking | Single $39, Starter $59, Pro $99, Agency $149, Enterprise $200 a month by listing count | Monthly |
| Local SEO Tool | $16 at 1 location, flat $37 for 2 to 7, $5.33 each from 8 | No contract, cancel any month |
| Local Falcon | Credit packages from about $25 to $200 a month | Monthly |
| Local Dominator | Lite $39, Advance $59, Pro $97, Powerhouse $197, Enterprise $399 a month, credit metered | Monthly or annual |
| BrightLocal | Track $39, Manage $49, Grow $59 per location per month | Monthly or annual, annual saves up to about 26 percent |
| Semrush Local | Local Base $30, Local Pro $60 per location per month, billed annually | No minimum term |
| Localo | Single Business $49 a month, or $39 billed annually. Pro $169, or $149 annually | Monthly or annual, no minimum term |
| Uberall | Not published. Quote on request | Annual agreements |
| Birdeye | Not published. Reported at $299 to $449 per location per month | Annual, and it auto renews unless you give 90 days written notice |
| Yext | Self serve $199 to $999 per location per year. Larger deals quoted | Annual billing only, typically 12 or 24 month minimum commitments |
| Moz Local | Lite $20, Preferred $30, Elite $40 per location per month | Monthly or annual, annual saves up to about 25 percent |
| Whitespark | Rank tracker from $25 a month. Reputation from $79. Managed GBP service $497 a month | Monthly |
| Synup | Solo $49 for one location, Premium $299 to 10, Pro $499 to 25, Scale $899 to 50 | Monthly, or annual at 20 percent off |
| SearchAtlas | Starter $99, Growth $199, Pro $399, Agency $999 a month | Month to month |
| GMBapi | $16 per location at one location, falling to $4.50 each at 201 and above | Monthly or annual. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period |
| RightChoice.AI | Solo $20 and Business $30 a month. Agency is $6 per profile | Monthly or annual, two months free on annual |
Scroll the table sideways on a phone. Trial terms are listed against each tool below.
The 15 alternatives, one by one
Ordered by whether you can try each one before committing money, then by what it does with citations.
Local SEO Tool
This is us- Price
- $16 at 1 location, flat $37 for 2 to 7, $5.33 each from 8
- Trial
- Three day free trial
- Terms
- No contract, cancel any month
- All 42 tools on the single plan. Nothing sits behind a higher tier.
- Priced per location only. Adding your team costs nothing.
- Starts at one location, with no minimum location count.
- Newer than the names below, so there is less third party review history to read.
- Not an enterprise procurement product. If you need a named account manager and a signed MSA, the enterprise vendors are built for that and we are not.
If you are leaving Local Viking. On credits we are simple. One plan, all 42 tools, priced per location at $16 for one, a flat $37 for two to seven, and $5.33 each from eight up. Our trial is the weak point for you though. Three days is far shorter than the 14 day no card trials at Localo and GMBapi.
Local Falcon
- Price
- Credit packages from about $25 to $200 a month
- Trial
- Credit based, so you can start small
- Terms
- Monthly
- The geo grid reporting is excellent and it is what they focus on entirely.
- Credits mean you can start very cheaply if you scan occasionally.
- Grid tracking only. No profile management, no review workflow, no listings.
- Credits mean the cost scales with how much you scan, which is hard to budget when scanning grows.
- You will need other tools alongside it to do the rest of the job.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Read this one carefully, because credits are exactly why you are leaving. Local Falcon is credit based too, with monthly packages from about $25 to $200 buying roughly 7,500 to 63,000 credits. The grid work is the best in the category, but it is all it does, so posting and profile work move elsewhere.
Local Dominator
- Price
- Lite $39, Advance $59, Pro $97, Powerhouse $197, Enterprise $399 a month, credit metered
- Trial
- Seven days, no card
- Terms
- Monthly or annual
- White label reporting on every tier, which most competitors reserve for higher plans.
- Low entry price.
- Credit based, so the sticker price is not what heavy scanning actually costs.
- Add ons on top. An AI tracker at about $49 per site and a citations builder at about $35 per location.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Local Dominator meters credits exactly like the tool you are leaving. Lite at $39 includes 5,000 monthly credits and top ups start at $100 for 10,000 more. What you gain is a seven day trial with no card, plus a free trial mode, though the citations builder is $35 a month extra.
BrightLocal
- Price
- Track $39, Manage $49, Grow $59 per location per month
- Trial
- 14 day free trial, no card required
- Terms
- Monthly or annual, annual saves up to about 26 percent
- Long established, widely used, and a lot of people already know how it works.
- A genuine free trial with no card, which most of this category does not offer.
- Strong citation and audit tooling.
- Features are split across tiers. Listings sync starts at Manage and review management only arrives on Grow.
- That means the tools most local businesses actually want tend to sit on the most expensive plan.
- Cost climbs with location count. Grow at 50 locations is listed at $449 a month.
If you are leaving Local Viking. For your first two complaints BrightLocal is a straight fix. A real 14 day trial with no card, and flat per location pricing with no scan meter at all. Citations and audits are strong too. The catch is tiers. Listings sync starts at Manage $49 and review management only arrives on Grow $59.
Semrush Local
- Price
- Local Base $30, Local Pro $60 per location per month, billed annually
- Trial
- Seven days, card required
- Terms
- No minimum term
- Sits inside a toolset a lot of marketers already have open.
- Listing management and review tools on the higher tiers.
- Map rank tracking included as credits.
- Listing management only arrives on the higher tiers.
- Rank tracking runs on credits, so heavy scanning costs more than the headline.
- You are buying into the wider Semrush account model, which is a bigger commitment than a local tool.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Credits follow you here as well. Map rank tracking runs on monthly credits, with extras at $5 per 1,000. The free Map Rank Tracker tier does let you sample a 5×5 grid without paying anything, which beats Local Viking's no trial position. Citation distribution sits on Local Pro at $60 per location.
Localo
- Price
- Single Business $49 a month, or $39 billed annually. Pro $169, or $149 annually
- Trial
- 14 days, no card
- Terms
- Monthly or annual, no minimum term
- Simple and quick to get going with.
- Priced for a single location rather than an portfolio.
- Free tools you can try in a browser.
- Built around a small number of locations, so it stretches at scale.
- Not the tool for an agency running dozens of client portfolios.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Localo hands you the trial Local Viking never advertised, 14 days with no card, and its grid runs on profile allowances instead of a scan credit balance. Cost is the catch at your size. One profile is $49 monthly and the next step is Pro at $169, where Local Viking gave you ten listings for $59.
Uberall
- Price
- Not published. Quote on request
- Trial
- No free trial
- Terms
- Annual agreements
- Built for large portfolios and wide publisher networks.
- Strong on listings distribution across many directories at once.
- A 25 location minimum, so smaller businesses and growing chains cannot buy it at all.
- No published pricing and no free trial, so evaluating it means booking a sales call first.
- Add ons for posting, local pages and messages sit outside the base packages.
If you are leaving Local Viking. If the missing citation work is what pushed you out, Uberall does listings distribution at real breadth. You almost certainly cannot buy it though. There is a 25 location minimum, no published price and no free trial, so you would swap one month of paying to evaluate for a sales call first.
Birdeye
- Price
- Not published. Reported at $299 to $449 per location per month
- Trial
- 30 days, but on single modules only, not the platform
- Terms
- Annual, and it auto renews unless you give 90 days written notice
- Deep review and messaging feature set, and it is well regarded by the businesses that use it.
- Wide integration list into CRM and practice management systems.
- Reported onboarding fees of $500 to $1,500 per location before the platform sends a single review request.
- A 12 month auto renewing contract with 90 days written notice to cancel.
- Integration fees of $500 to $2,000 reported for connecting a CRM or POS.
If you are leaving Local Viking. The 30 day trial only covers single modules like Reviews AI. The platform itself stays demo and quote only. Its review and messaging feature set is genuinely deep. But you would leave a $39 monthly plan for an annual agreement that auto renews unless you give 90 days written notice, at a reported $299 to $449 per location.
Yext
- Price
- Self serve $199 to $999 per location per year. Larger deals quoted
- Trial
- No self serve trial on the enterprise path
- Terms
- Annual billing only, typically 12 or 24 month minimum commitments
- The widest publisher network in the category.
- Built for large, complex portfolios with governance requirements.
- Annual billing only, with 12 to 24 month minimum commitments.
- Mid market deployments are commonly quoted in the tens of thousands per year.
- You are largely paying for listings distribution. Rank tracking and review workflow are a different shape of product.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Yext fills the citation gap and nothing else on your list. You are largely paying for listings distribution, so grid scanning would still need a second tool alongside it. Billing is annual only with 12 to 24 month minimums, and there is no self serve trial on the enterprise path, so testing first is out.
Moz Local
- Price
- Lite $20, Preferred $30, Elite $40 per location per month
- Trial
- No open ended free tier
- Terms
- Monthly or annual, annual saves up to about 25 percent
- Simple, cheap and good at the one thing it does.
- A trusted name with a long history in SEO.
- Listings focused. It is not a rank tracker, a review workflow or a reporting suite.
- Extra data aggregators cost more on top, and are limited to the higher tiers.
- You will usually end up buying something else alongside it.
If you are leaving Local Viking. At $20 to $40 per location a month Moz Local carries no credit meter, and it does the citation work Local Viking never touched. It does not track ranks at all though, so your geo grid disappears completely. Extra data aggregators cost more on top and only on the higher tiers.
Whitespark
- Price
- Rank tracker from $25 a month. Reputation from $79. Managed GBP service $497 a month
- Trial
- Varies by product
- Terms
- Monthly
- Genuinely good at citations, which is what they are known for.
- The rank tracker is inexpensive and covers unlimited domains and locations.
- Real local SEO expertise behind the products.
- Separate subscriptions rather than one login, so costs and logins add up as you add jobs.
- No single place where rank, reviews and profile health sit together.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Whitespark is the citation specialist you were missing, and its local rank tracker is $25 a month, covering unlimited domains and locations with no scan credits to run down. Understand the shape though. These are separate products with separate subscriptions, so the reputation tool is another $79 on top and a second login.
Synup
- Price
- Solo $49 for one location, Premium $299 to 10, Pro $499 to 25, Scale $899 to 50
- Trial
- 14 days, no card
- Terms
- Monthly, or annual at 20 percent off
- Built with agencies in mind rather than retrofitted for them.
- Listings distribution and reputation in one place.
- Two costs rather than one. A base plan and the band your location count falls into on top.
- The real monthly figure is hard to work out until you know your location count.
- Demo led rather than something you can just try.
If you are leaving Local Viking. Synup answers the citation gap properly, syndicating to 100 plus directories, and the 14 day trial needs no card. Credits return though. Agent work is metered on top of the band price, and the headline allowances are a launch promotion for accounts opened on or before September 30. One location is $49, two is $299.
SearchAtlas
- Price
- Starter $99, Growth $199, Pro $399, Agency $999 a month
- Trial
- Seven days
- Terms
- Month to month
- Covers general SEO as well as local, so it replaces more than one tool.
- Seats and projects included rather than charged per location.
- Priced by seats and projects, so a multi location local job is not what the pricing is shaped around.
- Local is one part of a much wider product, and depth varies.
If you are leaving Local Viking. SearchAtlas widens the scope you found narrow, adding citation submissions, geogrid heatmaps and general SEO in one subscription. Metering gets tighter though. GBP automations are capped at three a month on the $99 Starter, and top ups run $19 per 500 AI Gen points or $99 per 100 Hyperdrive credits.
GMBapi
- Price
- $16 per location at one location, falling to $4.50 each at 201 and above
- Trial
- 14 days, no card
- Terms
- Monthly or annual. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period
- Genuinely cheap per location at scale.
- A two week free trial and a free version.
- Setup and support included.
- Focused on GBP management and reporting rather than the whole local SEO job.
- Pricing is built around large portfolios, so the value case is weaker at a handful of locations.
If you are leaving Local Viking. GMBapi gives you a two week trial with no card and prices by location rather than by scan, from $16 at one location. Two things to check. Citations are a $30 add on at one location, close to tripling the bill, and cancellation only starts after your third month with a month of notice.
RightChoice.AI
- Price
- Solo $20 and Business $30 a month. Agency is $6 per profile
- Trial
- Seven days, no card
- Terms
- Monthly or annual, two months free on annual
- AI led approach to local SEO and profile work.
- Newer product, so it is built around how search works now.
- No published pricing at the time of writing, so comparing cost means asking.
- Less independent review history than the established names.
If you are leaving Local Viking. RightChoice is cheap and easy to test, with a seven day trial, no card, and geo grid included on the $20 entry plan. Check the ceilings before you move. Solo tracks 20 keywords with 15 to 20 geo grid scans, AI content runs on a Magic Coins balance, and syndication is Bing plus 20 or so directories.
Where GMBAudit fits, and where it does not
Paying for a month to find out whether software suits you is a small cost with a large annoyance attached. So is discovering the citation work was never included.
So it is one plan with all 42 tools on it and no feature held back for a higher tier. One location is $16 a month, two to seven locations is a flat $37 however many you add inside that range, and from eight it is $5.33 each. Three day free trial, no card, no contract.
For the jobs people are usually comparing here, that means grid rank tracking, scheduled posting and full grid exports sit on the same plan, rather than across three subscriptions or three tiers.
- Newer than the names below, so there is less third party review history to read.
- Not an enterprise procurement product. If you need a named account manager and a signed MSA, the enterprise vendors are built for that and we are not.
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Four questions worth asking before you switch
Question three is the one that pushed you here, so start with it and work back up. Our own answers are on the pricing page.
What is on the plan you can actually afford?
Not what is on the website. Open the pricing page and check which tier holds the feature you are buying this for. In this category it is often not the entry one.
What is the minimum, and the notice period?
A minimum location count decides whether you can buy at all. A notice period decides how long a bad decision lasts.
Can you try it before you commit?
A trial answers the only question that matters, which is whether your team will use it after month two. A demo does not.
What will it cost at the size you are growing into?
Per location pricing compounds. Work out the figure at double your current locations before you sign anything.
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Local Viking questions
How much is Local Viking?
From $39 a month on the Single plan up to $200 a month on Enterprise, priced by how many Google Business Profile listings you manage, with keyword and geo grid credits included at each tier.
Does Local Viking have a free trial?
There is no free tier, so evaluation means starting a paid plan.
Local Viking or Local Falcon?
Local Falcon is the stronger dedicated grid tool. Local Viking gives you grid plus posting in one place at a low price. Both are credit metered.
What is the best Local Viking alternative?
Local SEO Tool if you want grid tracking and posting without credit caps, alongside reviews, listings and reporting, at $5.33 per location per month.
Why do credits matter?
Because the cost of the thing you do most is the cost that grows. Grid scanning is the routine job in local SEO, so metering it means your bill scales with your discipline.
All 42 tools. One plan. No contract.
$16 at 1 location, flat $37 for 2 to 7, $5.33 each from 8, with a three day free trial and nothing held back for a higher tier.