specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
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provider: Yoast
providerId: yoast
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance: originally written by the API Evangelist bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04
# (roadmap#35). Re-harvested 2026-08-13 from the live Yoast pricing page, which
# confirmed the Premium headline price and the per-seat Google Docs add-on.
method: searched
modified: '2026-08-13'
reconciled: true
reconciled_date: '2026-08-13'
plan_count: 2
tags:
  - SEO
  - WordPress
  - Plugin
  - Content
description: |
  Yoast is sold as a WordPress / Shopify plugin licence rather than a metered API. The
  Yoast SEO plugin exposes its functionality via internal WordPress REST routes (under
  /wp-json/yoast/v1/...) which inherit the WordPress site's own auth and throttling
  rather than a Yoast-hosted gateway. Pricing below reflects the published Yoast Premium
  plugin licence; there is no separate Yoast API price card to reconcile.
sources:
  - https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/pricing/
currencies:
  - USD
  - EUR
  - GBP
api_pricing:
  metered: false
  api_price_card_published: false
  note: >-
    No per-call, per-seat or per-quota API pricing exists. Licence pricing is the only
    price Yoast publishes.
notes: |
  Re-checked against https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/pricing/ on 2026-08-13
  (HTTP 200). Confirmed: Yoast SEO Premium is USD 118.80 per year excluding VAT, one
  subscription covers one site or domain, multiple subscriptions are bought at checkout
  with a bulk discount, and extra Yoast SEO Google Docs seats are USD 5 excl. VAT per
  month each. EUR and GBP are also offered. The page does not publish comparative
  pricing for WooCommerce SEO, Local SEO, Video SEO, News SEO or the Shopify app, so
  those remain unpriced here rather than guessed.

  IMPORTANT for API consumers: none of these plans is an API price. Yoast sells a plugin
  licence. The Yoast REST, Schema Aggregator and Abilities endpoints run inside the
  customer's own WordPress install and cost nothing per call; the one Yoast-hosted API,
  the MyYoast Provisioning API, is partner-gated with no published price card at all.
  There is no metered Yoast API tier to compare against competitors.
plans:
  - id: yoast-seo-free
    name: Yoast SEO (Free)
    type: freemium
    description: Free WordPress plugin available via wordpress.org. No paid entitlement;
      the plugin operates entirely inside the user's WordPress install.
    entries:
      - label: Plugin Licence
        name: free_licence
        type: flat
        metric: month
        limit: -1
        timeFrame: month
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '$0'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Core SEO checks
      - name: Readability analysis
      - name: WordPress REST integration on the host site
  - id: yoast-seo-premium
    name: Yoast SEO Premium
    type: subscription
    description: Annual licence for the Yoast SEO Premium plugin on a single WordPress site.
    entries:
      - label: Premium Licence (1 site)
        name: premium_licence
        type: subscription
        metric: year
        limit: 1
        timeFrame: year
        geo: global
        unit: 1
        price: '$118.80 / year (ex VAT)'
        userMultiplied: false
    elements:
      - name: Up to 5 keyphrases per page
      - name: Redirect manager
      - name: Internal linking suggestions
      - name: AI title and description suggestions
      - name: Social previews (Facebook, X)
      - name: 24/7 support
      - name: Bundled Local SEO, Video SEO, News SEO plugins
      - name: One Google Docs add-on seat
    addOns:
      - name: Additional Yoast SEO Google Docs seat
        price: '$5 / month (ex VAT) per seat'
        source: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/pricing/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com