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LowFruits

Finds keywords where weak sites already rank, and charges you by the SERP

LowFruits is a keyword research tool that analyses live search results to find queries where low-authority sites already rank, flagging those weak spots so small publishers can target keywords they can realistically win; it is priced in credits at one credit per SERP analysed, sold either as pay-as-you-go packs from around $25 for 2,000 credits valid for a year, or as subscriptions at about $29.90 per month for 3,000 credits and $79.90 for 10,000.

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Overview

Every other keyword tool answers the difficulty question the same way: it computes a score from the link profiles of the pages currently ranking and hands you a number between zero and one hundred. LowFruits does something narrower and more useful for a specific kind of buyer. It pulls the actual search results for a query and flags the individual results that are weak, meaning forum posts, low-authority blogs, user-generated pages, and sites with almost no link equity. If three of the top ten results are weak, that is not a difficulty score, it is an opening.

The consequence is a completely different research workflow. Instead of sorting a keyword list by difficulty and hoping, you scan for SERPs with visible weak spots and write against those specifically. For a new site with no authority, this is the difference between a content plan that might work in two years and one that might work in two months. The tool also offers a Domain Explorer built on a database of roughly 150,000 identified weak websites, competitor keyword extraction, sitemap extraction, keyword clustering, and rank tracking for up to 100 keywords on Standard and 500 on Premium.

Pricing is credit-based and refreshingly literal: one SERP extracted, meaning one keyword analysed, costs one credit. Pay-as-you-go packs start around $25 for 2,000 credits and stay valid for a year, which suits the bursty way most people actually do keyword research. Subscriptions at about $29.90 per month for 3,000 credits and $79.90 for 10,000 unlock the tools that pay-as-you-go does not include, but subscription credits reset monthly and do not roll over, so a light month is money burned. The vendor's own guidance is admirably direct about this: if you consistently use fewer than 3,000 credits a month, the subscription is the wrong purchase.

LowFruits was built in Belgium by Paul Pilavachi and launched in late 2020, and was acquired in May 2024 by All in One SEO, the WordPress SEO plugin owned by Syed Balkhi's Awesome Motive. It continues to operate independently under that ownership. For a small publisher, the acquisition mostly means the tool is unlikely to disappear, and that its centre of gravity is now firmly the WordPress small-site audience it was already built for.

Best for

Niche site builders, affiliate publishers, new blogs with no domain authority, and content marketers at small businesses who need keywords they can actually rank for rather than a list of terms dominated by national brands.

Not the right fit for

  • Anyone who needs a full SEO suite; there is no site audit, no backlink index worth the name, and no technical crawling, so LowFruits is a research instrument and not a platform.
  • Established brands with real domain authority; the entire premise is finding SERPs weak enough for an unknown site to break into, and if you can already outrank most results the weak-spot signal tells you nothing you did not know.
  • Teams with steady heavy usage who dislike metering; at one credit per SERP, a serious research operation burns through allowances quickly and subscription credits do not roll over.
  • Buyers who want AI answer visibility tracking; LowFruits does not track ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overview citations at all, and if that is a requirement you need Mangools, Semrush, or SE Ranking instead.
  • Agencies needing client reporting; there is no white-label output, no client portal, and no multi-seat structure designed for delivery work.

How it works

  1. 1

    You start from a seed keyword, a competitor domain, a sitemap, or an imported list. LowFruits expands it into related queries and question variants, and you select which ones you want to spend credits analysing. Nothing is charged until you ask for a SERP.

  2. 2

    For each keyword you extract, LowFruits fetches the live results and evaluates every position. Weak results are marked explicitly: forums, low-authority domains, user-generated content, and pages with negligible link strength. The output is a list of keywords annotated with how many weak spots each SERP contains, which is a fundamentally different signal from a single difficulty number.

  3. 3

    Credits are consumed at one per SERP extracted. Pay-as-you-go packs stay valid for a year, so unused credits carry forward. Subscription credits reset every month and do not roll over, which is the single most important billing detail in the product and the reason the vendor's own plan guide tells light users to avoid subscriptions.

  4. 4

    Subscription plans add the tools built on top of the core analysis: a boosted keyword finder, keyword rank tracking at up to 100 keywords on Standard and 500 on Premium, a Domain Explorer over roughly 150,000 catalogued weak websites, competitor keyword extraction, and sitemap extraction. Results cluster into topics and export cleanly, which is how most users turn a research session into a content calendar.

Feature breakdown

24 features in 5 modules

SERP weakness analysis

The core idea, and the reason the tool exists.
Weak spot detection
Analyses live search results position by position and marks the individual results that are weak, rather than collapsing the whole SERP into a single difficulty score.
Weak result classification
Identifies forums, user-generated content, low-authority domains, and pages with negligible link equity, so you can see exactly which positions are winnable.
One credit per SERP
Metering is completely literal: one keyword analysed costs one credit, which makes cost forecasting trivial compared with credit systems that charge per report view and filter.
Selective extraction
You choose which keywords from a discovered list to actually analyse, so credits go on candidates you care about rather than on a bulk dump.
Bulk SERP analysis
Run large keyword lists through weak-spot analysis in one operation, which is how the tool is used at scale by niche site builders.
Keyword clustering
Groups analysed keywords into topics so the output is a content plan rather than a spreadsheet of unrelated terms.

Keyword discovery

Several routes into a keyword list before you spend a credit.
Seed keyword expansion
Expands a starting term into related queries, questions, prepositions, and comparisons, with discovery separated from paid analysis.
Boosted Keyword Finder
A subscription-only enhanced discovery mode returning more suggestions and more context than the standard finder.
Competitor keyword extraction
Pull the keywords a competitor domain ranks for and feed them straight into weak-spot analysis, available on subscription plans.
Sitemap extraction
Extract a site's URL structure from its sitemap to reverse-engineer its content strategy, a subscription-only tool.
Keyword import
Bring lists from Ahrefs, Semrush, Search Console, or a spreadsheet and run them through weakness analysis, which is how most people combine LowFruits with a bigger tool.

Domain Explorer and competitive research

A database of sites that are beatable.
Weak website database
Roughly 150,000 catalogued weak websites, searchable so you can find the low-authority sites already ranking in your niche and target what they cover.
Domain-level opportunity analysis
Examine what a weak competitor ranks for in aggregate rather than keyword by keyword, which usually reveals a whole content cluster at once.
Niche viability assessment
Judging whether a niche is winnable by counting weak results across its head terms is a materially better test than averaging difficulty scores.
Subscription gating
Domain Explorer, competitor extraction, and sitemap extraction are subscription-only and not available on pay-as-you-go credits.

Rank tracking and output

Enough to close the loop, not enough to be your tracker.
Keyword rank tracker
Up to 100 tracked keywords on Standard and 500 on Premium, included with the subscription rather than sold separately.
Export to CSV
Analysed keyword sets, weak spot annotations, and clusters export cleanly for use in a content calendar or brief template.
Saved projects and lists
Organise analysed keywords by site or topic so research done once is not re-run and re-charged later.
Country and language targeting
SERPs can be extracted for specific countries and languages, which matters because weak spots differ enormously between markets.

Pricing and access model

The most transparent metering in this category, with one sharp edge.
Pay-as-you-go credit packs
From around $25 for 2,000 credits, valid for a full year, which suits research that happens in bursts rather than continuously.
Standard subscription
About $29.90 per month, or roughly $249 per year, for 3,000 credits monthly plus the subscription-only tools and 100 tracked keywords.
Premium subscription
About $79.90 per month, or roughly $749 per year, for 10,000 credits monthly, 500 tracked keywords, and deeper competitor insight.
Subscription credits do not roll over
Monthly credits reset and are lost if unused, which the vendor's own plan guide states plainly along with the advice that light users should buy credit packs instead.
Free trial credits
A small allowance of free credits lets you run your first analysis before paying, though there is no permanently free plan.

Use cases

4 documented

Niche site builder starting from zero authority

A brand new domain with no links, and every keyword tool returns lists dominated by Wikipedia, Healthline, and national retailers.

Weak spot analysis surfaces the queries where forums and low-authority blogs currently rank, producing a first content plan that has a realistic chance inside months rather than years.

Affiliate publisher expanding into a new vertical

Needs to judge whether a niche is winnable before commissioning fifty articles, and difficulty scores average out the very variance that matters.

Counting weak results across the niche's head and mid-tail terms gives a direct viability read, and Domain Explorer shows which low-authority sites are already succeeding there.

Small business marketer with an existing keyword list

Has a list exported from Ahrefs or Search Console and no way to tell which items are actually attainable for a site with modest authority.

Import the list, spend one credit per keyword, and get back the same list annotated with weak spots, which reorders the priorities entirely for a few dollars.

Content agency scoping a new client

Needs a defensible opportunity assessment quickly, and cannot justify a monthly subscription for a one-off scoping exercise.

A $25 pay-as-you-go pack of 2,000 credits, valid for a year, covers the whole assessment with credits left over for the next pitch.

Pricing

from About $25 for 2,000 pay-as-you-go credits, or about $29.90 per month for the Standard subscription

Credit-based, at one credit per SERP analysed, sold either as pay-as-you-go packs valid for a year or as monthly subscriptions whose credits reset and do not roll over.

PlanPriceIncludes
Pay as you goFrom about $25
for 2,000 credits, valid one year
  • One credit per SERP analysed
  • Credits valid for a full year
  • Core weak spot analysis and keyword discovery
  • No monthly commitment
  • Larger packs available at better rates

The right purchase for anyone doing research in bursts, which is most people. Subscription-only tools are not included.

StandardAbout $29.90
per month, or roughly $249 per year
  • 3,000 credits per month
  • Boosted Keyword Finder
  • Rank tracking for up to 100 keywords
  • Domain Explorer, competitor extraction, and sitemap extraction
  • Credits reset monthly and do not roll over

Worth it only if you genuinely analyse around 100 keywords a day. Below that, credit packs are cheaper.

PremiumAbout $79.90
per month, or roughly $749 per year
  • 10,000 credits per month
  • Rank tracking for up to 500 keywords
  • Enhanced competitor insights
  • All subscription-only tools
  • Suited to agencies and multi-site publishers

Billing notes

  • Metering is one credit per SERP extracted, meaning one keyword analysed. This is the most literal and forecastable credit model in the category.
  • Pay-as-you-go credits stay valid for one year, so unused capacity carries forward rather than evaporating.
  • Subscription credits reset every month and do not roll over. LowFruits states this plainly and advises that anyone consistently using under 3,000 credits per month is overpaying on Standard.
  • Annual subscription billing brings Standard to roughly $249 and Premium to roughly $749, a meaningful discount against the monthly rate.
  • Several capabilities are subscription-only and unavailable on credit packs: Boosted Keyword Finder, rank tracking, Domain Explorer, competitor keyword extraction, and sitemap extraction.
  • There is no permanently free plan, only a small trial allowance covering your first analysis.
  • There is no per-seat pricing structure aimed at teams, which reflects that this is built for individual operators rather than agencies with several users.

Value assessment: LowFruits is cheap in absolute terms and unusually honest about when not to buy it, which is rare enough to be worth noting. The pay-as-you-go model at around $25 for 2,000 year-valid credits is the correct default for almost every individual buyer, and the vendor says so itself: subscription credits reset monthly, so a Standard plan only makes sense at roughly 100 analysed keywords a day. What you get for the money is one signal nothing else provides, namely which specific results in a SERP are weak enough to displace. That signal is worth disproportionately more to a site with no authority than a full research suite would be. What you do not get is anything else at all: no crawler, no real backlink index, no AI visibility, no client reporting. Buy it as a scalpel alongside a broader tool, not as a replacement for one.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

  • The weak-spot signal is genuinely differentiated. Nothing else at any price tells you which specific positions in a SERP are held by beatable sites.
  • Metering is completely transparent at one credit per SERP analysed, with no hidden charges for opening reports or applying filters.
  • Pay-as-you-go credits remain valid for a year, which matches how keyword research actually happens and avoids paying for idle months.
  • The vendor publishes guidance telling light users that a subscription would be worse value than credit packs, which is unusually straight commercial advice.
  • Domain Explorer over roughly 150,000 catalogued weak websites turns niche viability from guesswork into a countable question.
  • Extremely cheap entry at around $25, so the tool can be tested properly for the price of a lunch rather than a monthly commitment.
  • Backed since May 2024 by All in One SEO and Awesome Motive, which reduces the risk of a small independent tool quietly shutting down.

Limitations

  • It is a single-purpose research tool. No site audit, no technical crawling, no meaningful backlink index, and no content optimization.
  • No AI answer visibility tracking of any kind, which in 2026 is an increasingly conspicuous gap for a keyword research tool.
  • Subscription credits reset monthly and are lost if unused, which punishes variable workloads and makes the subscription the wrong default for most buyers.
  • The weak-spot premise loses value as your own domain gains authority, so the tool has a natural expiry date for a growing site.
  • SERP data depth is narrower than Ahrefs or Semrush, and volume figures should be treated as directional rather than precise.
  • No white-label reporting, client portal, or multi-seat structure, so agencies delivering to clients will need a second tool for the deliverable.
  • Several of the more useful capabilities including rank tracking and Domain Explorer are locked behind subscriptions, so the cheap pay-as-you-go route is genuinely more limited.

Head-to-head comparisons

5 alternatives

LowFruits vs Mangools

from About $29.90 per month billed annually (Basic), or roughly $49 billed monthly

Mangools gives you keyword research, SERP analysis, rank tracking, backlinks, and AI visibility across eight engines for about $29.90 a month. LowFruits gives you one signal Mangools does not have: which individual results are weak enough to displace. Small publishers commonly run both, using LowFruits to find the openings and Mangools for everything around them.

Full LowFruits vs Mangools comparison

LowFruits vs Ubersuggest

from $29 per month (Personal), or $290 one time for a lifetime Individual licence

Ubersuggest is a broad low-cost suite with a lifetime purchase option covering research, tracking, and site auditing. LowFruits does one thing far better and nothing else at all. If you can only spend once, buy the Ubersuggest lifetime licence for coverage and top up LowFruits credits when you are hunting for new topics, which costs about $25 a year for most people.

Full LowFruits vs Ubersuggest comparison

LowFruits vs Keywords Everywhere

from $84 per year (Bronze)

Both are credit-priced, both are cheap, and both are deliberately narrow, but they occupy opposite ends of the research workflow. Keywords Everywhere overlays volume and cost-per-click data wherever you already browse; LowFruits tells you whether a SERP is winnable once you have a candidate. Running both for under $10 a month combined is a common and sensible setup for a solo publisher.

Full LowFruits vs Keywords Everywhere comparison

LowFruits vs Surfer SEO

from 49 EUR per month (Discovery, billed yearly)

LowFruits tells you which keywords to write about; Surfer SEO grades the draft against the pages currently ranking and tracks AI answer visibility. They sit on either side of the same workflow and do not overlap. A small publisher on a budget will get more from LowFruits first, since optimizing an article for a keyword you cannot rank for is wasted effort.

Full LowFruits vs Surfer SEO comparison

LowFruits vs Frase

from $39 per month (Starter, billed yearly; $49 monthly)

Frase turns a chosen keyword into a research-backed brief and scores the draft against it, starting around $39 per month. LowFruits chooses the keyword. Neither replaces the other, and for a solo content operation the pairing of LowFruits credits for selection and Frase for execution costs less than a single Ahrefs subscription.

Full LowFruits vs Frase comparison

Implementation & onboarding

Setup time
Minutes. There is no project setup, no crawling, and no verification. Enter a seed keyword or import a list, choose which terms to analyse, and spend credits. The free trial allowance covers a first real analysis.
Learning curve
Low, with one conceptual shift required. Users arriving from Ahrefs or Semrush habitually look for a difficulty score and have to retrain themselves to read weak spot counts instead, which is the whole value of the tool and takes about one session to internalise.
Onboarding
Entirely self-serve. The vendor's plan guide is unusually candid about which purchase suits which usage pattern, and reading it before buying will save most people money.
Migration notes
Nothing to migrate. LowFruits is usually added alongside an existing tool rather than replacing one, and the common pattern is to export keyword lists from Ahrefs, Semrush, or Search Console and import them for weak-spot analysis. Rank tracking history, if you use the subscription tracker, starts when you add the keywords.

Platform, API & security

Platforms
Web applicationCSV import and export
API
No public API is advertised; LowFruits is designed as an interactive research tool rather than a data source for pipelines.
Compliance
GDPR
Data residency
No customer-selectable regional hosting is advertised.
SSO
Not offered.
Security notes
The data handled is public search data and keyword lists rather than customer records. Since the May 2024 acquisition the product operates under Awesome Motive, a substantially larger company, which generally improves continuity even though published security documentation remains light.

Support & resources

Channels
Email supportHelp documentation
Documentation
Documentation site covering credits, plan differences, and each tool, including a plan guide that states plainly when a subscription is worse value than credit packs.
Community
Strong following among niche site and affiliate publishing communities, where the weak-spot method is widely discussed; no large official forum.

Company

Founded
2020
Headquarters
Belgium
Ownership
Owned by All in One SEO, part of Syed Balkhi's Awesome Motive, following an acquisition announced in May 2024
Founders
Paul Pilavachi
Employees
Small team; not separately disclosed since acquisition
Funding
Bootstrapped by its founder from launch in late 2020 until the May 2024 acquisition by AIOSEO and Awesome Motive. Deal terms were not disclosed.

Timeline

  1. 2020Launched in Belgium by Paul Pilavachi as a bootstrapped tool for finding keywords where weak sites already rank.
  2. 2021Adds bulk SERP analysis and keyword clustering, turning a single-keyword check into a workable research process.
  3. 2022Introduces Domain Explorer over a catalogued database of weak websites, alongside competitor keyword extraction.
  4. 2023Adds subscription plans alongside pay-as-you-go credits, gating rank tracking and the advanced discovery tools behind them.
  5. 2024Acquired by All in One SEO, part of Awesome Motive, in a deal announced on 30 May, while continuing to operate independently.
  6. 2026Operates as a focused keyword research tool under AIOSEO ownership, with pay-as-you-go credits valid for a year and Standard and Premium subscriptions at 3,000 and 10,000 monthly credits.

Integrations

  • CSV import from Ahrefs, Semrush, and Google Search Console exports
  • CSV export to spreadsheets and content planning tools
  • All in One SEO (WordPress) as a sibling product under the same ownership

Frequently asked questions

10 questions

What is LowFruits?

LowFruits is a keyword research tool that analyses live search results and flags which individual results are weak, meaning forums, user-generated content, and low-authority sites. Instead of giving you a single difficulty score, it shows you exactly how many positions in a SERP are realistically displaceable, which is a far more useful signal for a site with little or no authority.

How much does LowFruits cost?

Pay-as-you-go credits start at around $25 for 2,000 credits and stay valid for a year. Subscriptions are about $29.90 per month or $249 per year for Standard with 3,000 monthly credits, and about $79.90 per month or $749 per year for Premium with 10,000. One credit buys one SERP analysis, meaning one keyword.

Should I buy credits or a subscription?

Credits, for most people. Subscription credits reset every month and do not roll over, so a Standard plan at 3,000 credits only makes sense if you genuinely analyse around 100 keywords a day. LowFruits says this itself in its own plan guidance. Pay-as-you-go packs stay valid for a year and match the bursty way research actually happens.

What is a weak spot?

A result in the search listing that a low-authority site could plausibly outrank: a forum thread, a user-generated page, a site with negligible link equity, or a low-authority blog. LowFruits marks these position by position, so a SERP with three weak spots is an opportunity even if its overall difficulty score looks discouraging.

What do I lose by buying credits instead of a subscription?

Several tools are subscription-only: the Boosted Keyword Finder, the keyword rank tracker at 100 keywords on Standard and 500 on Premium, Domain Explorer over roughly 150,000 catalogued weak websites, competitor keyword extraction, and sitemap extraction. Core weak-spot analysis and keyword discovery work on credits alone.

Does LowFruits track AI search visibility?

No. There is no tracking of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overview citations. In 2026 that is a real gap in a keyword research tool, and if AI answer visibility matters to you it has to come from elsewhere, with Mangools, Semrush, and SE Ranking all covering it.

Can LowFruits replace Ahrefs or Semrush?

No, and it does not try to. There is no site audit, no technical crawler, no serious backlink index, and no content optimization. LowFruits is a scalpel for one specific decision, which is whether a keyword is winnable for a site like yours. Most users pair it with a broader tool rather than replacing one.

Is LowFruits useful for an established site?

Less so, and this is worth being honest about. The entire premise is finding SERPs weak enough for an unknown site to break into. If your domain already outranks most results in your niche, weak-spot counts tell you little you did not know, and a conventional difficulty score plus a content gap report will serve you better.

Who owns LowFruits?

It was built and bootstrapped in Belgium by Paul Pilavachi from late 2020, and was acquired in May 2024 by All in One SEO, the WordPress SEO plugin owned by Syed Balkhi's Awesome Motive. It continues to operate independently under that ownership, which mainly means the tool is unlikely to be quietly discontinued.

Is there a free plan?

There is no permanently free plan, but a small allowance of free credits covers your first analysis so you can see what a weak-spot report looks like before paying. Given that a 2,000-credit pack costs around $25 and lasts a year, the cost of a proper evaluation is trivial either way.

Editorial verdict

LowFruits does one thing and does it better than anything else on the market: it tells you which specific results in a search listing are weak enough to displace, which is the question that actually matters when your site has no authority and every difficulty score looks discouraging. Priced at around $25 for 2,000 year-valid credits, it is cheap enough to be a rounding error next to a real SEO subscription, and the vendor's willingness to tell light users that its own subscription would be poor value for them is a good sign about how the business is run. The limits are absolute and should be taken at face value: no crawler, no backlink index, no AI visibility, no client reporting, and diminishing usefulness as your own domain grows. Buy it as a scalpel alongside Mangools, Ubersuggest, or a bigger suite, and buy credits rather than a subscription unless you really are analysing a hundred keywords a day.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.