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Both tools graded on the same fifteen criteria. The verdict lists the criteria where one tool leads the other by two points or more.
Verdict
Verdict
KeyClusters does not lead by two points on any criterion. Compare price and workflow fit.
Research depth
Discovery
How well the tool supports keyword, competitor, SERP, backlink, or market research before execution.
Frase
Broad first-party research and competitor context feeds content creation.
The homepage says Frase runs live SERP and competitor analysis and digs through the market before drafting. https://www.frase.io/
Read the full reviews: Frase and KeyClusters.
KeyClusters
Deep live-SERP clustering for an uploaded keyword set, without seed expansion, backlinks, or broader market research.
KeyClusters analyzes the top ten Google results for supplied keywords and groups terms by overlapping ranking pages. https://www.keyclusters.com/
Keyword research quality for SEO content
Discovery
How well the tool identifies, qualifies, clusters, and prioritizes keywords specifically for SEO content creation.
Frase
Strong SERP-grounded topic and content research, but the reviewed pages do not document a dedicated keyword database workflow.
Frase says it studies what ranks for a topic and provides research-backed briefs. https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
Strong grouping of an existing keyword set, but not documented as a keyword-discovery suite.
The product accepts Ahrefs, SEMRush, or custom keyword files and returns topical groups; it does not advertise seed expansion or keyword-volume discovery on the homepage: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Content execution
Execution
How well the tool helps produce, optimize, or operationalize SEO content.
Frase
Generates on-brand finished drafts, images, and revisions.
The agent page states Frase researches a query, drafts the page and images in brand voice, and scores fixes. https://www.frase.io/features/agent
KeyClusters
Provides planning signals, not documented content production.
The homepage says clusters indicate which pages to create and how to interlink them, but does not describe writing or brief-generation features: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Context gathering
Grounding
How well the tool gathers the business, competitor, SEO, internal, third-party, and custom API context needed for differentiated recommendations and content.
Frase
Carries brand, competitor, first-party visitor-question, and published-site context through the loop.
The homepage describes learning the brand, competitor picture, and questions visitors ask via Frase Answers. https://www.frase.io/
KeyClusters
Captures SERP, geography, language/file, and device context, with limited broader business context documented.
The official feature list documents any geography and desktop/mobile analysis plus Ahrefs/SEMRush/custom uploads: https://www.keyclusters.com/
AI-search / GEO
Visibility
How directly the tool helps teams improve visibility in AI answer engines and citation-oriented search journeys.
Frase
AI-visibility monitoring and GEO scoring are core capabilities.
The pricing page includes AI Visibility and the homepage describes monitoring citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI. https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
No product capability for AI-search or generative-engine visibility is documented.
The official product feature list describes Google SERP clustering, exports, geography, and device targeting, not AI-overview or generative-engine measurement: https://www.keyclusters.com/
GEO readiness
Visibility
How ready the tool is for generative engine optimization: answer-engine visibility, citation likelihood, AI-search prompt surfaces, and content structures that AI systems can use.
Frase
Provides GEO scores, citation tracking, and AI-search fixes in the publishing loop.
Frase’s homepage says drafts are scored for SEO and GEO and that AI citations are monitored after publishing. https://www.frase.io/
KeyClusters
Geographic SERP targeting is not generative-engine optimization support.
KeyClusters documents Google SERP clustering by country and device, but no AI-answer citation or GEO workflow. https://www.keyclusters.com/
Technical SEO
Diagnostics
How strong the tool is for crawling, audits, indexability, metadata, status codes, and technical site health.
Frase
Site auditing and page-level SEO readiness are present, but the reviewed first-party material does not establish a full technical crawler suite.
The homepage says Frase crawls a site page by page, scores SEO and AI readiness, and ranks fixes by impact. https://www.frase.io/
KeyClusters
No technical crawl, performance, schema, or site-audit function is documented.
The homepage scope is keyword upload, SERP analysis, clustering, and export; it does not claim technical SEO auditing: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Publishing workflow
Operations
How well the tool moves work into CMS, publishing, approvals, or automated production workflows.
Frase
Direct CMS publishing and hosted FraseCMS are supported.
The pricing page lists one-click publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, or FraseCMS. https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
No CMS connection or publishing workflow is documented.
The documented output is a CSV/Excel-style keyword grouping file, with no CMS publishing integration described: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Measurement & tracking
Measurement
How well the tool monitors rankings, content performance, visibility, or ongoing SEO progress.
Frase
Tracks Google rankings, AI citations, AI visibility, and decay.
The homepage explicitly lists ranking tracking, AI-citation monitoring, and Content Guard decay detection. https://www.frase.io/
KeyClusters
No ongoing rank, traffic, conversion, or experiment tracking is documented.
The official product page describes one-off clustering jobs and file output rather than monitoring or KPI dashboards: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Team collaboration
Operations
How well the tool fits multi-person workflows, agencies, approvals, handoffs, and repeatable processes.
Frase
Team seats, calendars, reports, and enterprise controls support collaboration.
Pricing lists multiple seats, a content calendar, client-ready exports, white-label reports, portals, SSO/SAML, and an account manager. https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
Exportable files support handoff, but team collaboration controls are not documented.
The product promises CSV/Excel output that can be used by a team, but the homepage does not document shared workspaces, roles, or approvals: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Value accessibility
Buying
How easy it is for a team to reach value relative to pricing, setup complexity, and required expertise.
Frase
Self-serve plans begin at a public price with a no-card trial, though meaningful scale is paid.
The homepage says self-serve from day one and the pricing page publishes Starter at $39/month yearly with a 7-day no-card trial. https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
Low-entry, usage-based pricing and non-expiring credits make burst usage accessible.
Public packs start at $19 for 2,500 keywords, with no subscription and no credit expiration: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Free tools
Buying
How useful the tool is before payment through free tools, free plans, trials, or public utilities.
Frase
A free trial and free FraseCMS hosting are available, but the core product is not a permanently free plan.
The pricing page documents a 7-day trial and FraseCMS Free at $0 with 100,000 page views/month. https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
No permanent free tool or free tier is documented on the pricing section.
The official pricing table lists three paid credit packs and says every credit pack includes full feature access; it does not list a free tier: https://www.keyclusters.com/
Estimated customer scale
Market proof
Estimated customer or user scale based on public claims, with source claims stored separately for auditability.
Frase
First-party positioning indicates thousands of teams, but no exact customer count is supplied.
The pricing page says “Thousands of teams already run on Frase.” https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
The site makes a broad first-party popularity statement but supplies no verifiable customer count.
The official comparison article says 'Join thousands of SEO professionals'; this is a marketing claim, not a customer-count breakdown: https://www.keyclusters.com/blog/keyword-clustering-tools-comparison
Agent readiness level
Automation
How ready the product is to operate as or inside an AI agent workflow, based on tracked subcriteria for autonomy, controls, integrations, memory, and evaluation.
Frase
The product has a named AI SEO Agent with natural-language workflows, API, and automation hooks.
The agent page describes research, briefs, drafts, scores, clustering, repurposing, and publishing in one chat; the API page describes REST API and webhooks. https://www.frase.io/features/agent https://www.frase.io/features/api-integrations
KeyClusters
A documented API and automated clustering flow provide some machine access, but autonomous agent controls are not documented.
The official comparison article says an API with token authentication is available and describes upload-to-cluster automation: https://www.keyclusters.com/blog/keyword-clustering-tools-comparison
Ease of use and autonomous level
Automation
How easy it is for a team to reach useful outcomes, and how much work the product can perform autonomously after setup.
Frase
Autonomous publishing and approval-based Content Guard fixes are explicit, with customer rules controlling what goes live.
The agent page says publishing occurs on approval and Content Guard proposes fixes for approval; pricing says the agent can publish on its own when enabled. https://www.frase.io/features/agent https://www.frase.io/pricing
KeyClusters
Clustering itself is automated after upload, but file preparation and workflow decisions remain user-led.
The homepage documents a three-step user flow—upload keywords, analyze SERPs, get results—rather than an autonomous end-to-end SEO workflow: https://www.keyclusters.com/