Standard vs Priority vs Live Rank Checks

When you start a ranking check yourself in SEO Tracker Pro, you can choose how fast it should run: Standard, Priority or Live. They return the same kind of data. What differs is how quickly the results come back and how many credits the check uses.

This guide explains each speed, what it costs and when it is worth paying more.

The short version

Speed	Credits per 10 results	Best for
Standard	1	Scheduled tracking and anything that is not urgent
Priority	2	Manual checks when you want results sooner
Live	4	Checking the current results right now, while you wait

Scheduled daily and weekly checks always run as Standard. Priority and Live are available for checks you start yourself on the Pro and Agency plans.

How credits are counted

One SERP credit pays for one page of 10 search results on the Standard speed. Checking deeper costs proportionally more, because more pages of results are retrieved:

Depth	Standard	Priority	Live
Top 10	1	2	4
Top 20	2	4	8
Top 30	3	6	12
Top 50	5	10	20
Top 100	10	20	40

These are credits per keyword per check. The app shows the total before you confirm, and credits are only charged when a check succeeds.

Standard: economical, best for scheduled tracking

Standard checks are queued and processed in turn. They are the most economical option, which is why every scheduled check runs as Standard.

Use Standard when:

• You track rankings on a daily or weekly schedule.
• You added new keywords and are happy to see results a little later.
• You want the most keywords for your monthly credits.

For most people, Standard is all they ever need. Rankings rarely change minute by minute, so a scheduled Standard check gives an accurate picture of where you stand.

Priority: faster processing

Priority checks are processed faster than Standard, at twice the credit cost.

Use Priority when:

• You fixed something (a title, a redirect, an internal link) and want a fresh reading sooner than your next scheduled run.
• You are preparing a report and want up-to-date numbers today.

Live: the current results, right away

Live checks fetch the current results immediately, so you get them while you wait. They cost four times as much as Standard.

Use Live when:

• You are on a call with a client and want to look at the results together.
• You need to confirm what a results page shows at this moment.

Two things to keep in mind:

• Live does not make rankings change faster. It retrieves the results as they are now. If Google has not re-evaluated your page yet, a Live check shows the same position as a Standard one.
• Live is available for Google, Bing, Yahoo and YouTube. Baidu, Naver and Seznam support Standard and Priority only.

A worked example

Say you track 50 keywords on Google at Top 20.

• A Standard check of all 50 uses 50 × 2 = 100 credits.
• A Priority check uses 50 × 4 = 200 credits.
• A Live check uses 50 × 8 = 400 credits.

On the Pro plan, with 5,000 SERP credits a month, a daily Standard schedule for those 50 keywords uses about 3,042 credits a month (30.42 runs on average), leaving room for some manual Priority or Live checks. The in-app capacity planner does this calculation for your exact keywords, depth and schedule.

Google AI Mode checks work the same way

Google AI Mode checks have the same three speeds, paid from a separate AI Mode credit wallet: 1 credit for Standard, 2 for Priority and 4 for Live, per answer. Your AI Mode checks never use up your rank-tracking credits, and the other way round.

Which should you choose?

• Default to Standard. Put your keywords on a schedule and let it run.
• Use Priority for the occasional manual check after a change.
• Save Live for the moments when you need to see the results now.

Read more about rank tracking, see how many keywords each plan covers on the pricing page, or learn why AI answers change rank tracking.