What is Surfer?
Scores drafts against top Google results and tracks brand mentions in AI answers for content teams.
Who is Surfer best for?
Surfer is best for content and SEO teams who write articles to rank on Google and get cited in AI answers.
SEO writers and editors
The Content Editor scores a draft against pages that already rank and lists the terms and structure to add.
Brands tracking AI answers
It checks your prompts in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, with mention gaps and sentiment.
Agencies with many clients
Pro manages 5 brand workspaces and Peace of Mind removes the cap and adds API access.
Refreshing old content
Content Audit and rank drop alerts flag pages that slipped so they can be updated first.
How much does Surfer cost?
Surfer has no free plan: Discovery costs $59 a month, Standard $119, Pro $219 and Peace of Mind $359 billed monthly, and new accounts get a 7-day Pro trial.
- 120 documents to write or optimize
- Content Score, Surfy assistant and humanizer
- 10 pages tracked; no AI prompt tracking
- 360 documents and 50 tracked pages
- 25 prompts tracked in ChatGPT, weekly
- Team collaboration and plagiarism checker
- 50 prompts tracked daily in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI
- 200 tracked pages and 5 brand workspaces
- Internal linking, content gap ideas and MCP
- Unlimited documents and brand workspaces
- 100 prompts tracked daily, 500 tracked pages
- API access and a dedicated success manager
Paying yearly brings Discovery to $49, Standard to $99, Pro to $182 and Peace of Mind to $299 a month, charged for the whole year upfront. AI Search Analytics, the AI visibility tracker on its own, costs $95 a month ($82 billed yearly) for 50 prompts checked daily. Enterprise is priced on request. The 7-day Pro trial needs a card and turns into the plan you picked unless you cancel. Full pricing on surfer.ai. We checked these prices on .
How do readers rate Surfer?
No one has rated Surfer yet. Be the first.
Sign in to rate. One rating per account.
How do I connect Surfer to my AI agent?
Surfer MCP is Surfer's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to optimise content and track AI search mentions with Surfer.
Gives your agent Surfer's Content Editor and AI Tracker plus its page suggestions, so it can score drafts against top results and check how often AI answers mention you.
Surfer gives each account its own server address. Open the setup guide, copy your address, then add it to Claude Code like any other server.
Use the address from Surfer's setup guide.
Surfer's setup guide covers the sign-in.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On the web
- Sign-in
- See guide
- Maker
- Surfer
- Guide
- surfer.ai
What are the best Surfer alternatives?
Two tools on Recaply do Surfer's job.
Questions about Surfer
What is Surfer?
Scores drafts against top Google results and tracks brand mentions in AI answers for content teams.
Who is Surfer for?
Surfer is best for content and SEO teams who write articles to rank on Google and get cited in AI answers.
Is Surfer free?
No. Surfer has no free plan, but new accounts get 7 days of the Pro plan free. A card is needed at checkout, and the trial turns into the plan you chose unless you cancel before it ends.
How much does Surfer cost?
Surfer's paid plans are Discovery at $59 per month, Standard at $119 per month, Pro at $219 per month and Peace of Mind at $359 per month.
Does Surfer have an MCP server?
Yes. Surfer MCP is Surfer's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can optimise content and track AI search mentions with Surfer. Surfer runs it on the web.
What are the best Surfer alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Clearscope and Frase.
Where can I try Surfer?
On its official website, surfer.ai.
Is Surfer the same as Surfer SEO?
Yes. Surfer SEO now goes by Surfer and lives at surfer.ai, and the old surferseo.com address redirects there. Next to its content editor it now tracks how brands show up in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers.
SE Ranking
Keyword
SurgeGraph
SEO Utils
Sonar
JotBot