AISA and SEOPress: same keys, different jobs
The short answer: both use your own API keys, with no markup. SEOPress mainly uses them to write one meta tag at a time and has a very wide technical toolbox; AISA uses them to optimize the whole site, for AI answers and to work from your assistant. And you can run both: AISA writes into SEOPress's own fields.
Published: September 26, 2026 · Both plugins' data read on 09/26/2026 from official sources
A technical suite and an optimization engine
SEOPress The full suite at a modest price
More than 300,000 installs. The free plugin covers metadata, sitemaps, basic schema and per-page redirects. PRO adds the AI features, Site Audit, Search Console inside your posts, advanced redirects with 404 monitoring, News and Video sitemaps, Local SEO, WooCommerce and white label.
AISA Data Optimization, GEO and MCP
It optimizes everything you've already published, hundreds of pages at a time, for Google and for AI answer engines, in your brand's voice. It works on its own or inside SEOPress. And it puts an MCP server inside the plugin, so you can work from Claude.
Side by side
Documented features only. For SEOPress: official seopress.org and wordpress.org pages read on September 26, 2026; for AISA: version 2.0.4 as published on WordPress.org.
| SEOPress | AISA | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; PRO $49/year for 1 site, $59 for 5 sites, $149 unlimited; renewal equals purchase price | Free with limited features; Solo €79.99, €39.99 the first year with FOUNDER50, then €19.99/year |
| AI in the free plugin | No | Yes: page-by-page SEO generation with your keys, no quotas |
| AI providers | PRO: your keys on 5 providers (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Mistral, DeepSeek), or AI Credits from $19/month | Your keys on 8 providers (also Perplexity, Grok, GLM), the WordPress AI connector, or AISA Cloud credits |
| What the AI does | PRO: titles, descriptions, Open Graph, alt text and captions, in bulk too; chat assistant in the editor; generation on publish | Titles, descriptions and keyphrases, fixes for failed checks, alt text with AI Vision, Q&A; site-wide One-Click in the background (Premium) |
| AI assistants (MCP) | Abilities API: 8 in free, some of them writing, plus 9 in PRO; connected through an MCP client or adapter | Built-in MCP server: 18 tools, 9 that read (Free) and 9 that write or run bulk jobs (Premium), with audits, fixes and background jobs |
| Search Console | PRO, with a service account: clicks, impressions and position inside posts | CSV import in SEO Doctor |
| Audit | PRO: Site Audit with 52 tests | Site-wide SEO Doctor and page audit with fixes, in Free |
| Redirects and 404s | Free per page; PRO with regex, 404 monitoring, broken link checker, CSV | 301 redirects and 404 log (Free); bulk 301s (Premium) |
| llms.txt and GEO | llms.txt in PRO | llms.txt, per-page AI Search Context, Q&A with structured data, in Free |
| Local SEO | PRO | From Google Business Profile, in Free |
| White label, News and Video sitemaps | PRO | No |
| SEO Rotation, Brand Context, Writing DNA | No | Yes (Rotation in Premium) |
Where SEOPress wins
- Price for several sites. $49 a year for one site and $59 for five, with renewal at the purchase price. An agency with five sites spends less in the first year than with AISA Pro, which covers three sites at €169.99.
- Search Console inside posts and a 52-test Site Audit. AISA currently imports Search Console data from CSV.
- The technical toolbox: regex redirects, 404 monitoring, broken link checker, News and Video sitemaps, white label, WP-CLI and more than 650 hooks.
- A chat assistant inside the editor and automatic titles and descriptions when you publish.
- Some writing abilities already in free: an AI agent can update SEOPress titles and descriptions without PRO. In AISA the MCP writing tools are Premium.
And on keys we're even: SEOPress PRO uses yours with no markup, just like AISA.
Where AISA wins
The whole site, not one meta tag
One-Click optimizes the whole site in the background, with scheduled regeneration and SEO Rotation: rotating titles and meta, identical for every visitor and every crawler in the same window.
AI in the free plugin too
AISA's free plugin already has AI: page-by-page SEO generation with your keys, no quotas. SEOPress's free plugin has no AI features.
An MCP server with audits and fixes
From Claude you ask for a page audit, the fix and a check on the live page; for dozens of pages, a background job. ChatGPT connects through a third-party OAuth connector.
GEO in Free
llms.txt, an AI Search Context for each page, questions and answers approved by hand with their structured data, Local SEO from Google Business Profile: all in the free version.
Your brand's voice
Brand Context and Writing DNA make copy sound like the rest of the site, in the page's real language, and AISA reads the real text even on pages built with Elementor and other builders.
More choice of models
Eight providers instead of five, the WordPress AI connector, or AISA Cloud if you'd rather not manage keys. And AISA's data stays out of WordPress autoload (0 KB on our test site).
Together, or just one?
Keep SEOPress PRO and add AISA
You use Site Audit, Search Console in posts, advanced redirects or white label. AISA writes into SEOPress's fields and adds site-wide optimization, Rotation, your brand's voice, bulk alt text with Vision, GEO and work from your AI assistant.
AISA only
You mostly care about AI with your own keys, visibility in AI answers and pages built with page builders, and you don't need Search Console in posts, a technical audit or white label.
SEOPress PRO only
You run many sites on a tight budget, you need Search Console in posts, News and Video sitemaps, white label or WP-CLI, or you want a chat assistant in the editor.
Same principle on keys: yours. SEOPress uses them to write one meta tag at a time; AISA to optimize the whole site, and to talk to your assistant.
What it costs
SEOPress PRO: $49 a year for one site, $59 for five sites, $149 for unlimited sites; renewal costs the same as purchase, promotions excluded. Optional AI Credits start at $19 a month (seopress.org, read on 09/26/2026; taxes not stated).
AISA Solo (one site, your own keys): €79.99; with the FOUNDER50 code the first year costs €39.99, then renewal is €19.99 per year. The discount applies to the first payment, for the first 500 licenses. For more sites there's AISA Pro, three sites at €169.99 with renewal at €59.99. The Free version, on WordPress.org, already includes page-by-page AI.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to uninstall SEOPress?
No. AISA detects SEOPress and writes into its fields: titles, descriptions and keyphrases stay where you've always seen them. If you want to move to AISA alone, the SEO transfer tool moves the data.
I already use my own keys in SEOPress. What changes?
The provider cost works on the same principle. What changes is what you do with it: with AISA the same keys optimize the whole site in the background, in your brand's voice, and also work from your AI assistant.
Does it work with ChatGPT?
AISA connects to Claude directly, with a WordPress application password. ChatGPT requires OAuth, so you go through a third-party connector such as Easy MCP AI. Either way you work one page at a time; for the whole site there's One-Click.
What do I get with AISA Free?
Page-by-page SEO generation with no quotas, SEO Doctor, llms.txt, schema, redirects, Local SEO, Brand Context and the MCP reading tools. Premium adds One-Click, Bulk, Rotation, scheduling and the MCP writing tools.
Try AISA next to SEOPress
Install the free version: it detects SEOPress on its own and writes into its fields. If it doesn't convince you, deactivate it and SEOPress stays exactly as it was.
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SEOPress sources, read on 09/26/2026: seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/pro, seopress.org/features/openai, seopress.org/wordpress-seo-plugins/seopress-ai-credits, seopress.org/support/guides/seopress-abilities, seopress.org/support/guides/how-to-use-google-search-console-api-with-seopress-pro, wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seopress. Third-party prices and features may change; AISA reference: version 2.0.1.