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Google Search Console pricing
Google Search Console publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the seo tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, Google Search Console pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Google Search Console plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Google Search Console stops being free
Google Search Console, Free
- Unlimited verified properties per account
- 16 months of performance history
- Index coverage, sitemaps and Core Web Vitals reporting
- Search Console API access with daily quota limits
No paid tier on record
Google Search Console lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Google Search Console feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Performance reports
- Index coverage
- URL inspection
- Core Web Vitals report
- Sitemap and manual actions
- Search Console API
People bring Google Search Console in for any site owner confirming what google actually indexed versus what a crawler assumes it indexed, a team diagnosing a traffic drop by checking for manual actions or a spike in crawl errors first, an seo analyst exporting query-level click data via the api to blend with a paid rank tracker's history, a developer validating that structured data and mobile rendering match what googlebot sees. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Google Search Console are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in SEO
Too few seo tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Search Console (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Wincher | On request | quote | - | vs Google Search Console |
| Keyword Insights | On request | Per month by credit volume, with pay-as-you-go available | - | vs Google Search Console |
| Rank Math | Free | Freemium, paid tiers billed annually only | - | vs Google Search Console |
| Nightwatch | On request | Per month by tracked keywords, sites and AI usage volume | - | vs Google Search Console |
| Linkody | On request | Per month by tracked domains and backlinks | - | vs Google Search Console |
| Advanced Web Ranking | On request | Per month by tracked keyword count | - | vs Google Search Console |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Google Search Console badges page.
Before you pay for Google Search Console
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Google Search Console runs on web, and is published by Google LLC of Mountain View, California, United States. The full record is on the Google Search Console review, and the rest of the category is under best seo tools.
Google Search Console pricing questions
- How much does Google Search Console cost?
- Google Search Console publishes a single tier, Google Search Console, at Free.
- Does Google Search Console have a free plan?
- Yes. The Google Search Console tier costs nothing and covers unlimited verified properties per account, 16 months of performance history, index coverage, sitemaps and core web vitals reporting.
- Which seo tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 seo tools listed alongside Google Search Console have a free tier: Rank Math.
- What am I actually paying for with Google Search Console?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for any site owner confirming what google actually indexed versus what a crawler assumes it indexed, a team diagnosing a traffic drop by checking for manual actions or a spike in crawl errors first, an seo analyst exporting query-level click data via the api to blend with a paid rank tracker's history.
- Does Google Search Console charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Google Search Console prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Google Search Console against before paying?
- The closest seo tools in this directory are Wincher, Keyword Insights, Rank Math, Nightwatch. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Google Search Console covering price, platforms and features.