ReachKit vs DebugBear
DebugBear's free Website SEO Checker reads one page and reports on what search engines and AI agents need from it. It sits beside DebugBear's main product, monitoring of site speed and Core Web Vitals. ReachKit does not monitor speed. Its free scan lists technical issues across up to 100 pages and shows the searches buyers in your market make and who shows up instead of you. The paid plan writes up to 7 pages a week, new or updated.
Who does each job?
You do 5 of the 5 jobs, for every page.
You do none of them. You can still edit or stop any page.
What DebugBear does well
The checker covers whether search engines can index the site, whether robots.txt blocks important pages, heading nesting, the title and meta description, image alt text, language, the canonical URL and Open Graph tags, with a preview of the social post.
It also checks whether AI agents can use the page: whether llms.txt is present and well formed, whether the accessibility tree has what agents need, and which WebMCP commands the page offers.
Behind it is a performance product: Core Web Vitals monitoring, synthetic and real user monitoring, uptime and Lighthouse score monitoring, with free tools such as a speed test, a TTFB test and an INP debugger. The checker page shows no price; the way past it is a free trial.
What ReachKit does instead
Every Monday we check what your buyers search and ask AI. Then up to 7 pages a week go live on your site by themselves.
Your part: about 10 minutes, once.
€49 a month. One plan. Cancel any time.See how it works
Side by side
| What it does | ReachKit | DebugBear |
|---|---|---|
| Free page check | Yes | Yes |
| Indexing and robots.txt checks | Partly: noindex and AI readers in robots.txt | Yes |
| llms.txt and WebMCP checks | No | Yes |
| Core Web Vitals and uptime monitoring | No | Yes |
| Checks the searches buyers make | Yes | No |
| Checks whether AI answers mention you | Yes | No |
| Puts pages live every week for you | Yes | No |
YesPartlyNo
Pick DebugBear when
- Your site is slow or Core Web Vitals are failing.
- You want alerts when a deploy makes things worse.
- You want llms.txt and AI agent access checked.
Pick ReachKit when
- Your site is fast enough and still not found.
- You want to know which searches buyers make and who wins them.
- You want pages going live for you every week.
Facts checked on 15 October 2026. Sources
- DebugBear Website SEO Checkerwww.debugbear.com
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