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# Semrush User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.6/5
- Total reviews: 2,330

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.3/5
- Customer support: 4.4/5
- Value for money: 4.2/5
- Functionality: 4.6/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 1,624 reviews (70%)
- 4 stars: 606 reviews (26%)
- 3 stars: 66 reviews (3%)
- 2 stars: 9 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 25 reviews (1%)

### Most mentioned pros

- The platform makes it highly efficient to track organic rankings, audit websites for technical issues, and discover content gaps that boost search visibility significantly.
- Overall, it saves you a lot of time and work in different areas of digital marketing by centralizing everything on a single platform, with a fairly large database of keywords and backlinks, making it possible to analyze/work on any digital project, whether they are small digital businesses or large projects, their support is quite good, even offering a multitude of training resources and new AI-related features that they are introducing.
- Semrush is the only keyword research tool on the market right now that shows how content performs across AI platforms like ChatGPT and search - an important SEO building block in 2025 and going forward, especially for content creators.

### Most mentioned cons

- It is that there appears to be no flexibility whatsoever, even when a customer requests a refund almost immediately after being charged, cancels the service right away, and receives no meaningful benefit from the paid subscription.
- For a confirmed, repeat data integrity failure that made my entire dashboard unusable for days and cost me billable client work.
- The website construction and administration attributes seem to be as an after-thought and the customer care is usually sluggish whenever we have pressing issues concerning the security of our accounts.

## Semrush customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 2,330 (page 1).

### SEMRUSH – Ideal for High-Level Insights and In-Depth Analysis

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Patrick G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I’m very satisfied with the tool. If you are looking for a solution that helps you efficiently collect and analyze data about your own performance and that of your competitors in a clear and structured way, SEMRUSH is an excellent choice.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

SEMRUSH provides comprehensive, generic data that makes competitor comparisons very straightforward. It is also easy to compare different country markets and gain valuable insights quickly. The traffic estimations are particularly useful and reliable.

#### Cons

The user experience can occasionally be a bit challenging, but this is a minor drawback overall. Also i see improvements in the last months

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### A must have for any SEO agency

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Alexandra L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall, SEMrush it’s a great tool. We use it daily at work for many different reasons: keyword research, keyword opportunities, compare to competitors, backlink audits, etc.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Helps to make an organic traffic assesment, make organic keyword research based on traffic volume, keyword difficulty, find other keyword alternatives, compare website behaviour with competitors, make reports, and find organic traffic opportunities. It’s time saving when it comes to keyword research, with the use of AI also lets you know if a website is able to rank on this keyword and what needs to be optimized.

#### Cons

We operate on a smaller country with its own language, so many keyword information are not always available. The reports are based on SEMrush database so it’s not always accurate.

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

SEMrush was much easier to use and had more tools.

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### Semrush review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Paul V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2022
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Competitive SEO is very helpful and accurate.

#### Cons

Can get overwhelmed with features and possibilities at times.

#### Reasons for switching to Semrush

Needed more powerful tools

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### SEMRUSH Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Andrew B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It is good online software. It is not very easy to understand initially, once you understood then it will be very easy to work with it. Price is somewhat more than other software. They can offer some discounts to companies so that customer will attract to work with it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It is an excellent tool when you are working with Adwords. List of important keywords will available on the website. The investigation is very simple through this software. You can modify your reports according to the customer needs through information sheets.

#### Cons

There should be the area for improvement in keyword tracking field. As there are so many links in that, it should become in the single click. Some more tools can be added.

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### Semrush, the digital marketers secret weapon.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Joseph A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall, the experience with Semrush has been positive due to its great depth of analytics and integrations available. I was able to get a very thorough look at the rankings, serps, and keyword optimization for each page and my competitors.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I like how easy it is to navigate the website even when there are so many options and features available. It never gets overwhelming.

#### Cons

I dislike the reporting options that are available, as far as exporting and creating reports for clients. It didn't have the type of reporting that I was looking for.

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

The overall feature list and other reviews we saw online, swayed our decision.

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### Refund Requested Within 30 Minutes, Immediate Cancellation, Yet No Refund

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Devinda D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I signed up for Semrush's free trial to evaluate whether the platform would be suitable for my business. After testing the service, I determined that it was not the right fit for our requirements and budget. The trial automatically converted into a paid subscription, resulting in a USD 199 charge. Within approximately 30 minutes of the payment being processed, I contacted support, requested a refund, and immediately canceled the subscription. The account was not used for any meaningful activity after the charge other than logging in to cancel the subscription and submit the refund request. Despite explaining the situation, including the fact that we are a small business and that the service would not be used, Semrush refused to provide a refund. I submitted multiple requests, including a goodwill appeal, and the matter was escalated internally. After review, Semrush confirmed that they would not refund the payment and would not reopen the case. My disappointment is not that a refund policy exists. It is that there appears to be no flexibility whatsoever, even when a customer requests a refund almost immediately after being charged, cancels the service right away, and receives no meaningful benefit from the paid subscription. Potential customers should be extremely careful when signing up for a trial. Set multiple reminders and cancel well before the trial expires if you are unsure. Based on my experience, immediate cancellation and an immediate refund request were not sufficient for Semrush to make an exception. This experience has left me disappointed with both the company's customer service and its approach to handling genuine billing disputes.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Large database and extensive marketing tools, Good SEO and keyword research capabilities, good dashboards

#### Cons

Automatic trial conversion can lead to unexpected charges if you are not monitoring renewal dates closely. Very strict refund policy with little room for exceptions. Customer service appears focused on policy enforcement rather than customer circumstances. Expensive for small businesses, particularly outside North America and Europe.

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

Cheaper and better software in general, very useful for a small scale company

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### The gold standard for search engine optimization insights

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Defense & Space
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall it has been very helpful for me to fix and adjust things on your website, it gives a great breakdown of where you need for focus your efforts in order to achieve the best optimization for SEO. There is a lot of additional value add in the features and information it can generate for you as well.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Semrush is an absolute must for optimizing your site for SEO, the site audit feature gives you invaluable insight on your website in order to fix and optimize things for best performance. I also like how you can easily and quickly gather competitive analysis on any website.

#### Cons

I wish there was better insight on Advertising analysis of competitors, it only shows google search keywords mostly from what I have seen, I would like for it to show a more comprehensive footprint of digital advertising.

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

Both are good but from experience I've found Semrush to be better.

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### STAY AWAY FROM SEMRUSH

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Daniel M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

My overall experience was overshadowed by their rigid refund policy and difficulty of cancellation. Customer support is not really interested in helping you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Easy to navigate, and powerful tracking tools make it easy to test everything from SEO to ranking online.

#### Cons

This is not a customer experience focused business. I was showing a client the platform and trying to convince them to adopt it. I have sold many accounts on Semrush in the past. I requested a refund and was denied even though i requested it just hours after the initial charge. Not much thanks for opening several accounts with them for customers.

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

Because they always try to work with you and believe the customer is mostly always right. Semrush makes too much money to care about customers anymore.

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### NO TRIALS, NO REFUNDS, NOT WORTH IT

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: October 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I was on trial for multiple things on the platform and have asked for refund multiple times. They rejected my refunds and charged me for the whole year. I tried to ask for a refund they rejected it 3 times. Their tools that cost thousands of dollars are useless and not worth half of the price that they list it at. Will be moving on to AHREF. I'm new to the SEO game, lesson learnt. STAY AWAY.

#### Reasons for switching to Semrush

Semrush was expensive, no trial, charged me for the whole year and their features were not useful for the most part

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### Unwanted add-on charges, no refund, and no easy way to remove payment details

- Overall rating: 1/5
- Reviewer: Arsene S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

My overall experience with Semrush started positively because the platform is powerful and offers many useful SEO and competitor analysis features. However, that positive impression was completely overshadowed by a very poor billing and account management experience. I was charged for an expensive AdClarity add-on that I did not clearly intend to subscribe to, and the charges continued until I noticed them. When I contacted support, my refund request was denied. I also found it very frustrating that I could not simply remove my payment card directly, and that removing the add-on required contacting support by email and waiting up to two weeks. As a result, my experience went from initially positive to deeply disappointing, mainly because of the lack of transparency and customer control.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

The platform is comprehensive and includes a wide range of SEO and competitor analysis tools. Semrush

#### Cons

The biggest issue was not the software itself, but the billing practices. An expensive add-on was charged to my account without clear and informed consent on my side, and once discovered, no refund was offered. On top of that, I could not directly remove my card, and canceling the add-on required contacting support and waiting up to two weeks. That creates a very poor level of trust for a platform charging business customers at this price point.

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### Best for SEO

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Matt D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Semrush has helped my SEO so much making it easy to rank for pages, however it has been slightly difficult to navigate and understand

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Semrush offers so much insight into domains and SEO making ranking for keywords much easier as I can actually see what’s going on more clearly!

#### Cons

Semrush’s naming techniques for its features are so confusing and it can often be difficult to find the right tool in the software.

#### Reasons for switching to Semrush

Semrush felt more professional and complete in comparison to AHrefs

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### Semrush software Review.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: calvin z.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Its the tool I need on my marketing and blogging business, because it has most of the features I need in one software, from offering insights into search volume, keyword difficulty, trends, cost per click, and others.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I liked the keyword magic tool, it provides an extensive database of keywords, offering insights into search volume, keyword difficulty, trends, cost per click, and more.

#### Cons

Its not that easy to use when you are just starting with it, with so many tools and data available, it might be hard to know where to start or how to use everything effectively. other thing is cost can be high for small businesses and individuals.

#### Reasons for switching to Semrush

It didn't give me all features I need for my marketing needs

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### Powerful SEO all-rounder

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: James D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I use semrush mostly for it's domain overview and keyword functions. It helps me to quickly assess competitors and potential clients, as well as for researching on-page topics. I'm very happy with my experience with on-page and technical SEO tools, though the off-page tools feel less powerful. I also use the local SEO package, though am considering switching to more custom products elsewhere.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

All in one tool that gives me a deep understanding of my work

#### Cons

A little expensive and the link & on-page suggestions don't feel useful to me.

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

keyword analysis toolkit & agency reporting abilities

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### Boosting traffic to our transport company.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: John P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Visibility drives are used in transport. I rely on this tool to optimize our site on terms of car shipping. It opens small business opportunities in an effective manner.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The information quality in terms of the number of keywords is outstanding, and it assists us to focus on particular shipping routes that are not being considered by rivals at the moment.

#### Cons

It is fairly expensive as a subscription, especially to small business and the interface can sometimes be overwhelming to someone like me who is not a marketing professional.

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### A lot of service, too much for a beginner and horrible cancelation processing

- Overall rating: 2/5
- Reviewer: Bryce M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, like I said they would benefit greatly from at least having a BEGINNER view or some kind of onboarding survey that directly puts you into a beginner view with just the tools available to handle whatever the new subscriber came to handle. Then it can expand out from there. The peopel I dealt with in person were fine but the cancelation experience is against the law and a nightmare, honestly.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Value for money: 2/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It was a decent tool to SEO optimize blog articles. There are a ton of things to do in the platform, but I feel it's so much built it can be difficult to navigate. You have to have a "degree in semrush" in order to actually fully utilize it. This is problematic when there are other tools like the ones by [sensitive content hidden] which are simpler. I feel there really needs to be a beginner UI and the various UI elements should be unlockable or in some way there should be a beginner version.

#### Cons

There's quite a few things. Their SEO optimization for articles is okay, but I find just prompting a free GPT instance to be about the same. Using paid GPT is considerably better. The article builder has an image suggestion tool that's absolutely bogus. It's generative AI image prompting bordering on 2019 quality and looks like it hasn't been iterated on since launch. Just unusable and even when you can create a halfway decent image it still looks like AI gen slop. Their cancelation policy is incredibly out-dated and violates FTC guidelines on a one-click cancellation. I've spoken to support about this and I get back a robotic response of "That's just what our policy is." They don't seem to get it's factually against the law. Here's the entire process: 1. You can't just go to your subscription and click cancel 2. You have submit a chat request 3. The chat then takes you to a form you have to fill out with your reason for canceling and VERIFY you want to cancel. 4. Then you are sent an eMail CONFIRMING your cancelation that you need to click on. 5. Further still I was told despite going through all these steps, "You didn't give clear intent of your desire to cancel." so I was billed for another month. I tried to clarify for the 4th time that it's not supposed to be this way and is in fact an FTC violation. No acknowledgement of that. Just robotic replies ignoring it.

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### Powerful SEO Tool bit Expensive though

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Rahul G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Semrush is widely regarded as one of the most powerful and versatile all-in-one digital marketing platforms available today. Users—from SEO specialists and content marketers to PPC managers and competitive intelligence analysts—often describe their experience as comprehensive, data-rich, and highly actionable, albeit with a learning curve.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Features like the SEO Writing Assistant, Content Audit, and Topic Research tools seamlessly blend content creation with SEO best practices, making it especially valuable for content marketers.

#### Cons

It's traffic estimates, keyword volumes, or backlink counts can differ from Google Search Console, Ahrefs, or other sources.

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### Great tool for marketing insights and organic search

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Alternative Medicine
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall it is a great tool that we use for marketing, direction, content, and organic search rankings.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Site analysis, keyword analysis, SEO metrics, site health and diagnostics, search rankings, competitor analysis

#### Cons

Platform is not intuitive or particularly user friendly. There is so much information sometimes it is difficult to navigate.

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### Really helpful took for growing organic traffic

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Anna G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I’ve been using it for almost 2 years now and it’s really easy to use. I like the new features they’ve added, but what I appreciate the most with Semrush is how accurate and detailed the data is, which makes it great for starting new projects. Their customer support is also quick to respond and helpful.

#### Cons

With so many features, the learning curve can feel overwhelming for beginners, and the price might also seem “high” for small businesses and freelancers.

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### Comprehensive and easy to use

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Fergus C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Building Materials
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Semrush has a comprehensive overview of website analytics, easy to navigate and easy to find issues to change.

#### Cons

Website scores sometimes fluctuate randomly, and maybe more of a search engine issue but pages with similar descriptions are flagged when often unavoidable.

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### SEMRush review

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for free trial
- Reviewed: January 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Comprehensive SEO suite with deep insights, versatile competitive tools, and valuable for digital marketing.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Robust keyword research, competitor analysis, versatile reporting, and all-in-one SEO/marketing toolkit.

#### Cons

Can feel overwhelming, data limits on lower plans, and some tools aren’t as intuitive for beginners.

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### Powerful marketing software

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Andrew W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Semrush is the largest SEO tool available - quite useful if you've got the budget

#### Cons

The pricing is on the steeper side for most features, and you'll find the daily search limits rather restrictive

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### Powerful tool, not much free functionality

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Ellie S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I learned a lot about SEO with this and (if you get the paid version) it can be a powerful helper

#### Cons

There's somewhat of a steep learning curve with this tool, and I wish that fewer features were paid

#### Reasons for choosing Semrush

Semrush felt more user friendly than others

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### Good Service

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Jazz A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Marketing and Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall it was good, we could have done with getting more out of it for the amount that we paid.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Easy to use and the analytics side of it was also good.

#### Cons

The expense. We used it mainly for social media scheduling and it was expensive for that.

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### Does the job... and more

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Elle D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

A really positive experience. I find it really easy to use.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Semrush gives you all the important information in an easy to use interface.

#### Cons

I haven't seen any cons thus far. It is all pretty straightforward

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### Keywords finder

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Rickilee W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Writing and Editing
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: January 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Delivers a powerful set of tools for SEO, content, advertising, and social media

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

A wide range of features paired with detailed data makes it a strong contender

#### Cons

The subscription pricing feels expensive, and the free version's severe limitations can pose challenges for smaller businesses or budget-conscious users

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