SEOmatic: AI SEO Optimizer vs Seokai: AI Visibility & AEO
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 8, 2026 for SEOmatic, Nov 5, 2026 for Seokai.
The short answer
- Only SEOmatic lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $15/month for SEOmatic and $14.99/month for Seokai.
- SEOmatic lists 16 features Seokai’s listing doesn’t mention, including 404 pages, AI generation, Alt text.
Head to head
Image compression, alt tag & metadata optimization
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Free
- · 10 Products
- · AI Meta Description
- · AI Meta Title
- · AI SEO Audit & Optimization
- · Auto-pilot
- · HTML Sitemap Generator
Starter
- · 500 Products
- · AI Meta title & Description
- · Auto-pilot
- · Broken Links
- · SEO Audit & Optimization
- · Schema MarkUps
Basic
- · 2000 Products
- · AI Meta Title & Generator
- · Auto-pilot
- · Broken Links
- · SEO Audit & Optimization
- · Schema MarkUps
Advanced
- · 5000 Products
- · AI Meta Title & Description
- · Auto-pilot
- · Broken Links
- · SEO Audit & Optimization
- · Schema MarkUps
Explorer
- · 10 AI credits
- · AI image alt text
- · AI meta titles and descriptions
- · Image optimization
- · Site audit with AI crawler checks
- · Up to 15 products
Growth
- · 150 AI credits per month
- · AI visibility tracking
- · Auto SEO and alt text for new products
- · Bulk SEO updates
- · Everything in Explorer
- · Sites AI picked instead of you
Scale
- · 500 AI credits per month
- · Competing pages (cannibalization)
- · Everything in Growth
- · Internal link suggestions
- · Leaderboard of sites AI picks
- · Scheduled llms.txt generation
Enterprise
- · 2,000 AI credits per month
- · Everything in Scale
- · Up to 10,000 products
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureSEOmatic is your go-to solution for effortless site optimization. Its advanced AI SEO, SEO optimizer, and unlimited image compression capabilities simplify SEO audit, boost page speed, and ensure your images are search engine ready with ALT tags. Automatically generate HTML sitemap and XML sitemap files to improve indexing and visibility, while optimizing meta tags using templates, AI writer, or ChatGPT.
Seokai asks AI the questions your shoppers ask, using live web search. For each one, it shows whether the AI recommends your store with a link, only names it, or picks other sites, and which ones. A site audit flags robots.txt rules that block AI crawlers and missing structured data or FAQs. You then fix meta titles, descriptions, image alt text and structured data, one item at a time or in bulk.
- SEO booster: Automatically generate meta tags or insert keywords w/ ChatGPT
- Image & page speed optimizer: Unlimited image compression, lazy load, watermarks
- On-page SEO AI audit: Perform comprehensive SEO audits for on-page success
- Technical SEO: Monitor broken links & set up auto-redirects to preserve traffic
- AI-generated meta titles, descriptions, and focus keywords for all content types
- Image alt text generation using AI vision analysis of product photos
- Bulk SEO updates across your entire catalog with a single click
- Automatic metadata generation when new products or collections are created
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  SEOmatic |  Seokai |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | SEOmatic | Seokai |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 4.4 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 150 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | 0 | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
FAQ
SEOmatic and Seokai: common questions
- Is SEOmatic or Seokai cheaper?
- Only SEOmatic lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $15/month for SEOmatic and $14.99/month for Seokai. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- SEOmatic lists 16 the others don’t mention, such as 404 pages, AI generation, Alt text, Auto-optimization. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Nov 8, 2026 for SEOmatic, Nov 5, 2026 for Seokai; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Nov 8, 2026 for SEOmatic, Nov 5, 2026 for Seokai. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.