What the Agency plan actually buys
Agencies pick Mangools when they want a simple, affordable toolkit for small clients: shared logins for the team, white-label rank reports and daily tracking. All three live on one plan. The Agency plan costs $129 a month, or $1,078.80 a year on annual billing [1], and it includes all five tools with the following allowances. This guide covers what that plan includes, how to run clients on it and where it stops, as of 12 October 2026.
| Agency plan allowance | Amount |
|---|---|
| Keyword and SERP lookups | 1,200 a day |
| Tracked keywords | 1,500, updated daily |
| Backlink rows | 1.2 million a month |
| SiteProfiler lookups | 150 |
| Sub-user seats | 5 |
| Simultaneous sessions | 10 |
| AI Search Watcher | 1 monitor, five prompts |
Daily tracking is the real reason to pay
Agency is the only Mangools plan with daily rank updates. The vendor's agency page stresses daily keyword changes, historical data and aggregate visibility metrics, and clients notice daily data. Over a month, daily tracking gives about 30 data points per keyword instead of four, which lets an agency explain a drop on the day it happened rather than a week later. Everything else on the plan comes in modest amounts. It is enough for a team with a handful of small clients, and that is exactly the agency Mangools fits.
Is Mangools the right size for your agency?
Mangools' testimonials include an enterprise-level SEO agency CEO who says some of his team use the suite, singling out LinkMiner and KWFinder. Most of Mangools' marketing, though, speaks to bloggers and small businesses. That tells you where the product sits, and the plan allowances confirm it. Small agencies fit best. Large agencies tend to use it alongside other tools rather than as their main platform.
The practical test is tracking volume, not headcount. If your clients are local businesses, freelancers' sites or small shops that each need a few dozen keywords watched, the 1,500-keyword ceiling stretches a long way. If one client alone needs hundreds of product keywords on two devices, you will hit the wall quickly. Count your clients' keywords before anything else, then read the rest of this guide with that number in mind.
Put white-label SERPWatcher reports on a custom subdomain such as reports.yourwebsite.com. Set it up once and reuse it for every client.
Seats, sessions and the limits everyone shares
How sub-users work
Agency includes 5 sub-users. Each has their own login, and only the account owner can change billing and subscription settings [2]. Sub-users arrived in October 2022; before that, agencies shared one login across up to ten devices. There is one catch when you invite people. A user with an active subscription cannot become a sub-user, so invite people with free or expired accounts. A freelancer who joins the team while still paying for their own Mangools plan has to cancel or let it expire first. Plan those invitations before the person's first day.
Sessions and shared lookups
Agency allows 10 simultaneous sessions, which is comfortable for the owner plus five sub-users. Basic's single session would not work for any team, so a team needs Agency or Premium. The bigger constraint is that all sub-users share the account's limits. Six people share 1,200 lookups a day, about 200 each. If one person runs heavy keyword research for a pitch and uses 600 lookups, the other five share the remaining 600 that day. Busy days need coordination, and a simple team rule about who runs bulk research when saves a lot of frustration.
All sub-users draw on the account's 1,200 daily lookups and 1,500 tracked keywords. One heavy research day by one person leaves less for everyone else.
Spending 1,500 keywords across clients
Splitting the allowance
SERPWatcher lets you split keywords across an unlimited number of domains within the plan total [3]. In practice, 1,500 keywords cover ten clients with 150 each, or 30 clients with 50. Small local clients fit well. Large clients do not. A single e-commerce client tracking 800 product keywords on mobile would use more than half of Agency's 1,500, leaving little room for anyone else. Before you sign a large client, check what their tracking would do to the rest of the roster.
One tracking per client, location and device
Each domain, location and device is a separate tracking, and mobile and desktop count separately. A client tracked on both devices in two cities uses four trackings. Budgets vanish fast this way. Ten clients tracked on mobile and desktop in two cities each, with 40 keywords per tracking, need 1,600 tracked keywords, already over Agency's 1,500. The fix is a team rule: one device by default, and the second device only where a client truly needs it.
Templates and tags save setup time
SERPWatcher's three-dots menu lets you clone a tracking and use it as a template. Agencies with many similar local clients can copy settings and tags, then change the domain and location. For an agency onboarding a new dentist every month, a cloned template with service tags and the right device saves most of the setup, leaving only the location and keyword list to change. Tags group keywords by topic, service or page, and every metric can be filtered by tag. Tag by the client's services so reports show progress per offering. Clients pay per service, so report the same way.
Reports clients actually read
White label and your own subdomain
SERPWatcher's white-label reports let you add your logo, colors, company name and contact info and control what is included [4]. Reports can be shared by link, emailed weekly or monthly, or published on a custom subdomain such as reports.yourwebsite.com. Clients see your brand. Not Mangools. Set the subdomain up once and reuse it for every client. Because the reports are interactive, clients can explore keywords, filters, charts and time frames themselves without a static export, which removes many of the routine questions agencies usually answer by email.
Notes, alerts and scheduled emails
White-label reports support personal notes and annotations on key dates and keywords, such as site changes, releases and migrations. A note on the day of a site migration explains a two-week dip before the client sees it, which is far easier than defending the drop after the fact. Annotate every change. The API also supports annotations for important SEO events, so an agency can log every deployment and content release automatically. Weekly or monthly email updates go to clients on their own, with alerts for important changes. Monthly suits most clients, and weekly suits launches.
Looker Studio and the volatility index
The Looker Studio connector brings SERPWatcher data into custom client dashboards, and the privacy policy says the integration does not store data retrieved from Google APIs. Combine it with Search Console to show rankings next to clicks. When Google shakes things up, the free SERP volatility index, based on 1,579,858 keywords tracked in SERPWatcher, shows whether results moved broadly on a given day. Sharing it with clients during an update calms nerves. Context helps a nervous client far more than a hurried explanation does.
Research, links and competitors for each client
KWFinder's search by domain shows up to 2,000 rows on Agency, and keyword gap compares a client with up to five competitors. That covers most small-client research. Keep one keyword list per client and name it by client. Lists also make handovers easier when a team member leaves, because the research for each client stays in the shared account rather than in personal files. To build a new client's competitor set, KWFinder suggests competitors when given one domain, and SiteProfiler lists similar websites, so the set takes minutes.
SERPWatcher then tracks those competitors' domains on the same keyword set and location, with alerts when a rival moves. Competitor data turns reports into strategy, because clients want to know who beats them. For links, LinkMiner's categories and filters find replicable links, and favorites keep prospects per campaign. Agency's 1.2 million backlink rows a month go far with one link per domain. Enough for outreach. Not for audits. SiteProfiler adds 150 lookups on Agency: profile each client's top competitors monthly and include authority trends in reports. Profiling five competitors for each of 20 clients once a month uses 100 lookups.
Winning new clients with free proof
Pitches land better with real data. SERPChecker snapshots can be exported as images, and the compare box shows a prospect's site against the top results. Prepare three keywords per prospect; it takes minutes, and three analyses use three of Agency's 1,200 daily SERP lookups, so an agency can prepare dozens of pitches a week without touching client work. The free AI Search Grader adds a fresh angle. It reports a brand's visibility, average ranking and a 0 to 100 AI Search Score across six named models, and running it for a prospect and two rivals makes a strong opening slide.
A new Mangools account also gets ten days of Free+ with 50 keywords tracked daily. An agency can show a prospect a short daily ranking trend before anyone signs. It costs nothing. After the ten days, the account falls back to the Free plan, so export or screenshot the trend before it disappears from the daily view. Starting one client this way also lets the team test daily tracking, sharing and white label before committing to $1,078.80 a year.
Clone a finished tracking with its tags and device settings for each similar client, then change only the domain, location and keyword list.
AI visibility and the API
Every plan includes one AI Search Watcher monitor with five prompts. That is not enough for an agency with several clients, which needs Pro: 500 prompts and unlimited monitors for $49 a month. AI reports are a new service line, so price them. With Pro at $418.80 a year billed annually, an agency charging even $50 a month per client for AI visibility reporting covers the add-on with a single client.
The API covers keyword research, SERPs, rank tracking, backlinks, domain data and AI monitoring with a free-account token, so agencies can feed their own dashboards. One gap matters here. API pricing is not published, so ask before you build a workflow that depends on scale. Until you have a number in writing, treat the API as a convenience for reporting rather than the backbone of your client delivery.
What it costs per client, and Agency versus Premium
Annual Agency at $1,078.80 spread over ten clients is about $9 a month per client; over 20 clients, about $4.50. Tracking is the limit, not price. Most agencies charge far more for reporting than the tool costs, and even ten hours a month of reporting work dwarfs a tool bill of about $90 a month on annual billing. Annual Agency saves 30% against monthly, and that is the main saving: there is no published agency discount beyond annual billing, only seasonal offers such as Black Friday and coupons tied to SEO training courses.
Premium costs $538.80 a year with 700 weekly keywords, 3 seats and 3 sessions. A two-person agency with weekly reporting can use it. Annual Agency costs exactly $540 a year more than annual Premium, which buys daily tracking, two more seats, seven more sessions and 800 more keywords. Choose by reporting cadence. If clients expect daily movement, Premium cannot deliver it. Refunds are available within 48 hours of payment, except for two consecutive subscriptions, and cancelling means disabling auto-renewal; the plan runs to the end of the period. Export client data before you end it, because reports stop with the plan.
When to look beyond Mangools
The gaps
Mangools has no site audit, no listings management, no own backlink index and a 1,500-keyword ceiling [1]. Agencies offering technical SEO need a crawler, and local agencies need a listings tool. An agency with 30 clients tracking 100 keywords each needs 3,000 tracked keywords, twice Agency's 1,500, and Mangools sells no larger self-serve plan in its plan data. Two Agency accounts billed annually would cost $2,157.60 a year for 3,000 keywords, close to SE Ranking Growth at $2,678.40 for 5,000, which is the more natural step for a growing agency.
SE Ranking, Semrush and Ahrefs
SE Ranking Growth costs $279 a month with 5,000 daily keywords, 30 projects and 3 seats; Core costs $129 with 2,000, the same sticker price Mangools Agency charges for 1,500. Per daily keyword on annual billing, Growth costs about 54 cents a year and Mangools Agency about 72 cents, so SE Ranking is cheaper at scale despite the higher sticker price. SE Ranking scales further. Mangools is simpler.
The big suites look different on a small team. Semrush's SEO plan costs $139 a month for 500 daily keywords, with extra users from $45 a month. A five-person team on it billed annually would pay $1,407.96 plus four extra users, or $3,567.96 a year, against $1,078.80 for Mangools Agency. Ahrefs Lite costs $129 a month with 750 weekly keywords and up to 2 more users at $40 each, so three users cost $209 a month billed monthly. Ahrefs has deeper data. Mangools has more tracking. Our Mangools vs Semrush comparison goes deeper on that matchup.
When the client should own the tool
Some clients prefer to run their own research rather than pay an agency for every report. Agencies that recommend Mangools to those clients can earn 25% to 35% recurring commission through the affiliate program, which is joined with a free account. That can turn a small client who outgrows a retainer into a steady referral instead of a lost account. Disclose it to the client. Transparency builds trust, and a client who learns about the commission later will question every recommendation you made.
A first month, and the mistakes to avoid
A sensible rollout takes four weeks and starts small, so the team learns daily tracking, sharing and white label on one client before the whole roster depends on it. Each week adds one layer, and the expensive commitment comes only after the trial has shown that the workflow suits the way your team reports. The schedule below is the one we would follow:
- Week one: run the Free+ trial on one client.
- Week two: move to the Agency plan, create trackings for five clients and tag them by service.
- Week three: set up the white-label domain and monthly emails.
- Week four: add Looker Studio dashboards and competitor tracking, then onboard the rest.
Onboarding each client follows the same pattern: import keywords from the client's Search Console into SERPWatcher, add their KWFinder search-by-domain keywords, tag them by service and share the report link. It takes about an hour, and because Agency updates daily, a report sent at the end of the first week already shows several data points for every keyword. The common mistakes are just as predictable: tracking both devices for every client, sharing one login, skipping annotations and promising daily data on Premium. Set rules for the team before the first client arrives.
Frequently asked questions
Does Mangools have white-label reports?+
Yes, in SERPWatcher, with your logo, colors and an optional custom subdomain.
How many users does the Mangools Agency plan include?+
Five sub-users plus the owner, with 10 simultaneous sessions. Only the owner can change billing and subscription settings.
Can someone with a paid Mangools plan join as a sub-user?+
No. A user with an active subscription cannot become a sub-user, so they must cancel or let it expire first.
Which Mangools plan has daily rank tracking?+
Only Agency. Premium tracks 700 keywords weekly for $538.80 a year; annual Agency costs $540 a year more.
How many clients fit on the Agency plan?+
It depends on keywords: 1,500 tracked keywords cover ten clients with 150 each, or 30 clients with 50. Each location and device is a separate tracking.
What does Mangools lack for agencies?+
A site audit, listings management, its own backlink index and any self-serve plan above 1,500 tracked keywords.
The bottom line
Mangools' Agency plan gives small agencies daily tracking, white-label reports, five sub-user seats and the full toolkit for $129 a month, or $1,078.80 a year on annual billing. It stops at 1,500 keywords and offers no audits or listings, so plan a crawler or listings tool if you sell those services. It is ideal for agencies with a handful of small clients and weekly-to-daily reporting needs. Larger agencies, or any agency heading past 1,500 tracked keywords, should compare SE Ranking first.
- [1] Mangools plans data (plans.json behind the pricing page) (2026-10) https://mangools.com/plans.json
- [2] Mangools blog: sub users one of the most requested features is finally here (2026-10) https://mangools.com/blog/sub-users-one-of-the-most-requested-features-is-finally-here/
- [3] Mangools blog: serpwatcher guide (2026-10) https://mangools.com/blog/serpwatcher-guide/
- [4] Mangools page: serpwatcher features white label seo reports (2026-10) https://mangools.com/serpwatcher/features/white-label-seo-reports/