COMPARISON · CHECKED AUGUST 26, 2026
SEO Minion does several things we do not do at all — hreflang return-tag validation, whole-page broken-link checking with status codes, People Also Ask scraping, SERP export, redirect tracing across server/meta/JS, and HTML-versus-DOM diffing — and it ships on Firefox and Edge while we ship only on Chrome. If that technical toolkit is what you need, it is the better tool and there is no close substitute. Two things separate them from ours. It describes and extracts where ours scores and prioritises: you get the fields, the outline and the SERP preview, and you decide what matters. And since June 2023 it has required a paid Keywords Everywhere annual subscription, Silver tier or higher, plus a second extension and an API key; ours is free with nothing to sign into. If you already pay for Keywords Everywhere, you already have SEO Minion and should use it. If you do not, ours is where to start.
Written by SEO Bandwagon, who make one of the two extensions on this page. We have tried to make that impossible to forget rather than easy to miss: SEO Minion's advantages are listed before ours, and every row in the table below is checkable against their own Chrome Web Store listing.
This section comes first on purpose. SEO Minion is published by Keywords Everywhere and, as of August 26, 2026, its Chrome Web Store listing shows 200,000 users at 4.0 out of 5, from 797 ratings. It runs on Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Cross-sourced: the Firefox add-on is v3.20, updated 20 February 2026; the Edge add-on is v3.20, updated 20 February 2026; their own site offers all three ("Install for Chrome / Install for Firefox / Install for Edge")., and was last updated 22 February 2026.
Capabilities only — nothing here rates how well either tool does its job. 5 rows go our way, 2 go theirs.
| CAPABILITY | SEO BANDWAGON | SEO MINION |
|---|---|---|
| Scores the page and assigns a letter gradeTheir Chrome listing publishes a closed, numbered list of nine tasks and their site a grid of twelve features; no score or grade appears in either, or in the full changelog from v1.1 to v3.20. Their on-page feature is descriptive: it lets you "view useful information that will help you optimize the On-Page SEO". | Yes | No |
| Lists prioritised fixes, ranked by impactSEO Minion does surface issues — it will "alert you to any issues". What is not claimed anywhere in their nine-item listing, their twelve-item feature grid, their FAQ or their changelog is any ordering of those issues by impact. | Yes | No |
| Google SERP preview of the title and descriptionTheirs is a strong implementation, not a token one: "preview your website on a real Google search result and update this in real time". | Yes | Yes |
| Heading structure outlineHeadings are surfaced, highlighted on the page and downloadable — their site lists "Meta Tags, Headings, Open Graph etc" under on-page analysis. No source of theirs describes a nested H1–H6 hierarchy, so we do not claim one either way. | Yes | Partial |
| Structured data / schema viewTheirs also validates, in three formats as they name them: "Analyze & Validate the structured data (JSON-LD, RDFa, POSH) of any webpage". | Yes | Yes |
| Core Web Vitals, measured on the pageNo performance, page-speed, Lighthouse or Core Web Vitals claim appears in their nine-item listing, their feature grid, their FAQ or any changelog entry. Their scope is HTML/DOM and SERP work, which is a design choice rather than a shortfall. | Yes | No |
| Readability scoringThe nearest thing in their product is counting rather than scoring — a word and character count in the on-page feature. No readability, reading-level or grade-level metric is claimed on any of their surfaces. | Yes | No |
| Free, with no sign-in required to analyseThis is the sharpest difference between the two, and it is total rather than per-feature: "SEO Minion is available only to customers of Keywords Everywhere’s Silver or higher plan." Setup also requires installing a second extension and pasting a validated API key. It was genuinely free from its 2020 launch until June 2023 — much of the writing you will find about it predates the change. | Yes | No |
| Firefox buildTheirs, not ours, and current with their Chrome build at the same version. They ship on Edge too. Our Firefox port is on the roadmap and is not shipped. | No | Yes |
| Published install count and ratingThey have 200,000 Chrome installs and 797 ratings. We are new and have neither. | No | Yes |
Every row above was checked on August 26, 2026 against SEO Minion's own Chrome Web Store listing and its published changelog, and against our own extension in the same sitting. Install counts and ratings are whatever the Web Store displayed that day.
Products change. A comparison page that is right on the day it ships and never re-checked becomes a false claim about someone else's software, so this one carries its date in the open and gets re-verified before every publish rather than left to age.
If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
SRC: SEO Minion on the Chrome Web Store · their landing page · checked August 26, 2026