Comparison

Incisory vs. open-source.

Projects like OpenSEO are real, free, and worth knowing about — a self-hosted SEO toolkit, including AI-visibility tracking, built on pay-as-you-go data. If you have the time to run infrastructure and want full control, that's a legitimate path. Here's the honest tradeoff against a hosted product.

Setup

Docker + Postgres + Redis + your own DataForSEO account

Type your website — live in ~2 minutes

AI-visibility measurement

Yes, on DataForSEO's data

Yes — blind-queried directly against ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity, verbatim

Cost

Free software + pay-as-you-go DataForSEO API fees

€49/mo flat, everything included

History & trend

Starts at zero — you own and maintain the database

Accumulates weekly from day one, yours to export anytime

Fixes it finds

Diagnoses the gap

Diagnoses AND writes the citation-engineered article, drafts the Reddit reply, decodes the rival

Maintenance

You patch, host, and scale it

We run it

Agent access

Self-hosted MCP server

Hosted MCP, official registry, OAuth — no server to run

The honest read: self-hosting is real leverage if you have the time and the ops appetite. Incisory is for the businesses that would rather have the number moving than the server running — measurement plus the execution loop, done for you, proven every week.

Get my free audit Start free — then €49/mo