AskYourStack or AIOSEO: an SEO plugin for WordPress, or SEO for any site
AIOSEO is a WordPress SEO plugin, and its MCP lets an AI work through the plugin's abilities: meta, redirects, scores, search statistics. AskYourStack works from outside any one plugin: Search Console, Analytics and Bing for any site, and the server underneath it.
Side by side
| AIOSEO | AskYourStack | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A WordPress SEO plugin with MCP through the WordPress Abilities API | A hosted MCP for Google data and your servers |
| Sites | WordPress 6.9 or later for MCP | Any site in Search Console; on a server, Magento, WordPress and more |
| Setup for MCP | Plugin, MCP Adapter plugin and an application password | Sign in with Google, or one command on a server |
| Search Console data | Search Statistics and rank tracking on Elite | On every plan, Free included for one site |
| On-page SEO | TruSEO scores, schema generator, sitemaps, redirects, link assistant inside WordPress | Page audits, schema validation, sitemap and robots checks for any page |
| AI writing | AI credits for posts, images and meta | Your own AI client writes; we never charge for AI |
| llms.txt | Generator in the plugin | llms_txt builds one from your sitemap and pages |
| Pricing | From €49.50 a year introductory (renews higher), MCP free | Free for one site, SEO plans from €10 a month |
What we say about AIOSEO comes from its own pages, read on 11 October 2026: AIOSEO, AIOSEO pricing, Introducing AIOSEO MCP. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
AIOSEO is the better choice when
- Your site is WordPress and you want an SEO plugin to manage meta, schema, sitemaps and redirects inside it.
- You want internal-link suggestions in the editor.
- You want AI writing credits inside WordPress.
AskYourStack is the better choice when
- Your site is Magento, Shopify, a custom app or anything other than WordPress.
- You want Search Console, GA4 and Bing analysed together, with no plugin to install.
- You manage many clients' sites and want one connection for all of them.
- The SEO problem is on the server: redirects, caching, speed, robots, logs.
Can I use both?
Yes, and on WordPress they fit well: AIOSEO manages the SEO settings inside WordPress, AskYourStack brings the Google and Bing data and the server, and your AI uses both.
Questions
Can AskYourStack change AIOSEO's fields?
Not with seo_fields yet: it covers Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress and The SEO Framework, and Magento. On an AIOSEO site your AI can read the plugin's data with wp-cli as the site's owner, and AIOSEO's own MCP can sit next to AskYourStack in the same AI client.
Do I need WordPress?
No. The SEO connector works for any site you have in Search Console.
Is AskYourStack a WordPress plugin?
No. Nothing is installed in WordPress: Google is connected read-only, and server work goes through a small agent on the server.
What people ask their AI to do
MagentoWordPressVPS setupServer hardeningMalware cleanupServer migrationTechnical SEOSearch ConsoleGoogle AnalyticsStriking-distance keywordsLow-CTR pagesContent decayIndex coverage auditWeekly SEO reportllms.txt generator
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