Clode vs Google Search Console
This is not really a competition. Search Console is where our data comes from, and you should keep using it. The useful question is which jobs it does badly enough that a second tool is worth having.
Search Console answers different questions
Both read the same data. Search Console is the only tool that can answer the first list, and it is free. The second is the analysis we add on top, with 24 months of history, about eight more than Google keeps.
Open Search Console for
- Indexing status
- Manual actions
- Crawl errors
- Submitting a sitemap
- Inspecting one URL
Open Clode for
- Grouping pages and searches
- Comparing two periods
- What moved, ranked
- Being told something dropped
- Up to 24 months of history
- The full query list, past 1,000 rows
Side by side
| Search Console | Clode | |
|---|---|---|
| How far back | Partly: ~16 months, then permanently deleted | Does it better: Those months copied on connection, then a rolling 24 months for as long as you subscribe, about eight more than Google |
| Query list | Partly: 1,000 rows per view or export | Does it better: Every query Google names, up to its 5,000 a day, stored day by day |
| Grouping pages or searches | Not at all: Not available: flat lists only | Does it better: By folder, rule or regex, applied across every report |
| Brand vs non-brand | Partly: Filter by hand, every time | Does it better: A saved group; every report can be read either way |
| Comparing two periods | Partly: Two lines on one chart | Does it better: Ranked winners and losers by clicks and by position, for pages and queries |
| Two of your pages competing | Not at all: Not detected | Does it better: Found, ranked by the impressions landing off the best page, with that page named |
| Sitemap vs what actually shows | Partly: Sitemap status only | Does it better: Reconciled: never shown, shown but not listed, stopped being shown |
| Being told when something drops | Not at all: You have to go and look | Does it better: Four week-over-week checks after every sync, each with a volume floor, said in a sentence |
| Pivot tables | Not at all: No | Does it better: Any dimension by any dimension, computed on the server |
| Export | Partly: CSV, capped at 1,000 rows | Does it better: CSV of every row in the table on screen; Excel to 200,000 rows, and the file says where it stopped |
| Team access | Does it as well: Per-property Google permissions | Does it as well: Unlimited viewer / editor / owner seats, free on every plan |
| Price | Does it better: Free | Partly: One site free; paid is €10 a site a month, cheaper per site from 3 sites, and never more than €129 a month in total |
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Where they're better
Search Console is free, official, and the only source of truth for the parts of SEO that are not about traffic. It shows crawl and indexing detail we cannot see at all, lets you request a re-crawl, and reports Core Web Vitals and structured-data errors. It is not fresher than us by more than a day either: both sides wait the same two to three days for Google to publish, and our copy is at most one daily sync behind that. If your site is small and you look at it monthly, Search Console alone may genuinely be enough.
vs the BigQuery bulk export
Google's free BigQuery export keeps data past 16 months, but it records only forward from setup day and never backfills. Side by side on setup and cost.
Learn morevs Looker Studio
Looker Studio is free and Google's own, but it keeps no archive: a Search Console dashboard stops where Google stops. Side by side on history and upkeep.
Learn morePricing
How many sites, how far back your history goes, and how many reports you save. Everything else is the same on both plans, and the price depends only on how many sites you connect.
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