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Surfer

bySurfer
in Enterprise SEO Platforms
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Surfer

Updated 25th November 2025

What is Surfer?

Surfer is an AI content optimization platform designed for marketers, agencies, and large organizations. It enables teams to plan, write, and audit content to improve visibility in organic search and AI models. Core tools include keyword research, clustering, Content Editor, which provides real-time optimization guidelines, Content Audit, which provides real-time content performance tracking and personalized improvement recommendations, as well as AI Tracker for monitoring and growing AI visibility. Surfer Enterprise tier supports scalability through API access, whitelabeling, and custom usage limits. It addresses security and compliance needs with Single Sign-On (SSO) and granular permission management. Enterprise users gain access to priority support, strategic advisory services, and 16+ months of performance data. The platform integrates with Google Docs and WordPress to fit existing workflows.

Surfer Pricing

For Enterprise plans, we offer a yearly subscription model with limits and prices custom-tailored for your business case.

Overall experience with Surfer

HEAD OF SEM
50M - 250M USD, Media
FAVORABLE

“The Benefits and Limitations of Modern Content Briefing Tools”

4.0
Oct 5, 2024
It was a game-changer when it appeared, but might mislead SEO teams into just copying competitors content and rehashing what was already said. On the other hand, it does allow you to easily see what Google values for page 1.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Surfer is a Content Intelligence tool designed to integrate content strategy, creation and optimization into one coordinated process. It aids content teams with the growth of brands, organic traffic, and revenue. The main objective is to assist individuals in delivering relevant and high-quality content for web use. Surfer utilizes effective algorithms, enabling its users to swiftly pinpoint ideal content opportunities, develop long-term content strategies, and produce attractive pages based on data-guided directives. Additionally, Surfer aims to automate the monotonous aspects of the work, thus fostering creativity backed by solid data.

Company Details

Updated 11th August 2025
Year Founded
2017
Head office location
Wrocław, Poland
Website
https://surferseo.com

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Surfer Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like the fact that it gathers topics of all competitor pages and makes it easy to craft a content brief. Also, the LSI keywords are a good addition, although I feel not a lot of people are aware how they are supposed to use them.

Like

1) AI outline generator feature helps to create ready-to write content briefs. 2) The Content Editor tool data helps to give a reading score on how hard the content is to read and seo-optimized score for the written content, as well. 3) The new product of Surfer AI, the AI writing assistant really handful when you are stuck with a particular thought. 4) The Audit feature has been helping me to audit my old content and optimize it further.

Like

Precison of operation Ease of use Audit and content editing options are awesome

Dislike

I think they should make it a bit easier to see what topics they are covering instead of just listing the headings they are covering. Also, the new Ai article writer feature is expensive and might lead tocontent that is churned from existing online content. The options for innovation are limited.

Dislike

1) Learning Curve- When I started Surfer SEO, I had to tackle a learning curve, too much of data and suggestions took time to grasp and this made me overwhelm as well. 2) Price Consideration- It is not the most budget friendly tool, its quite a hefty for small businesses to use. However, the quality is good but it comes at a price. 3) Focused on On-Page- Surfer SEO leads with on-page optimization but being a not full SEO Stack tool, it lacks in giving off-page analysis for the content piece.

Dislike

Taking a bit more time to load from my laptop. The tools available (Not everything, some tools) are not that much useful. Should focus on the widely used tools.

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Surfer Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(13 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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46%
4 Star
54%
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0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • HEAD OF SEM
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    The Benefits and Limitations of Modern Content Briefing Tools

    4.0
    Oct 5, 2024
    It was a game-changer when it appeared, but might mislead SEO teams into just copying competitors content and rehashing what was already said. On the other hand, it does allow you to easily see what Google values for page 1.
  • CONTENT MARKETING SPECIALIST
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Trying out Surfer SEO: What I found and How it Works

    4.0
    Aug 28, 2023
    Sharing my experience with Surfer SEO, its been a true game changer for the content team. Using the recommendations from the tool, has helped the website to gain remarkable improvements in the organic visibility with high ranking and organic traffic. The new features that are rolling on are really amazing, especially the AI features has made my job one click away. They write seamless and SEO optimized content with proper headings, sections and summarize the content as well.
  • Finance Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Amazing product and service

    5.0
    Nov 21, 2022
    Everything i wanted in one tool. Must have for reducing the website traffic.
  • PROGRAMMER ANALYST
    10B+ USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Create user funnel and perform conversion analysis at the visitor level

    4.0
    Jun 7, 2022
    Surfer tool automatically shows user about any difference in results when a visitor visits our website with different URLs of same type.
  • SENIOR MANAGER STRATEGY
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    An in-depth tool to optimize SEO

    4.0
    May 16, 2022
    Surfer has allowed us to perform in-depth SEO audits and do direct comparisons between our content and that of the competition. What I like the most is what use to take a lot of time in running manual search queries is not already pre-plugged and definitely helps reducing the time spent in optimizing SEO.
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