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Blog · 23 Sep 2026

On-page SEO should not need a credit card

Subscriptions make sense for crawl indexes. They do not make sense for reading the title tag on the tab you already opened. We keep Pagehand at $0 so the habit stays honest.

Freemium checkers teach a broken loop: run a free scan, hit a wall on density or export, upgrade. That wall is not a data cost — it is a funnel. Open-Tab SEO is local DOM reading. There is no Pagehand invoice behind Export.

What “free forever” covers

Score, Keywords, Meta, Links, Images, Social, Schema, Tech, Issues, Markdown/JSON export. Listed on Free forever and Features.

Trade-off we accept

We will not grow by locking the useful half of the panel. Growth has to come from the category story — Open-Tab SEO — and from people sharing score cards, not from dark patterns.