Pick AIOSEO if you want
- ✓ WooCommerce SEO (product schema, category)
- ✓ Local SEO + Google Business optimization
- ✓ Title + meta + schema + sitemap authoring
- ✓ 404 + redirect manager built in
- ✓ AI Suite visibility tracking + llms.txt generation
Honest comparison · Verified 2026-07-13 The audit layer
Aetos SEO vs AIOSEO
AIOSEO combines SEO authoring, commerce and local features, an audit checklist, llms.txt, and AI visibility tools. Aetos adds a separate evidence-first diagnostic workflow with site-wide findings, priorities, and structured remediation context.
Pick Aetos if you want
- ✓ 200+ signals across 17 categories (including AEO/AIO/GEO)
- ✓ ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity citation readiness
- ✓ llms.txt + AI-bot policy + graph integrity audit
- ✓ JSON export for a prioritized ChatGPT/developer fix plan
Best move: run both. AIOSEO writes the SEO + handles WooCommerce. Aetos audits whether what got written is AI-ready.
Full comparison
20 capabilities across 3 categories.
Reviewed against AIOSEO's official feature documentation on 2026-07-13. Spot an inaccuracy? Tell us.
Authoring
| Capability | Aetos | AIOSEO |
|---|---|---|
| Title + meta description writing | — | ✓ |
| Schema markup generation | — | ✓ |
| Sitemap.xml + video + news sitemaps | — | ✓ |
| Local SEO + Google Business optimization | — | Pro |
| WooCommerce-specific SEO | — | Pro |
| 404 + redirect manager | — | ✓ |
| AI title + meta suggestions | — | Pro |
Auditing
| Capability | Aetos | AIOSEO |
|---|---|---|
| Primary analysis model | 200+ site-wide signals / 17 categories | SEO Audit Checklist + authoring tools |
| On-page SEO checker | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site-wide technical SEO audit | ✓ | partial |
| Core Web Vitals diagnostics | ✓ | partial |
| Schema validation (does my schema parse?) | ✓ | partial |
| Hreflang + canonical site-wide audit | ✓ | partial |
| robots.txt + AI-bot policy audit AIOSEO includes a robots.txt editor; Aetos diagnoses AI crawler policy. | ✓ | partial |
AI era
| Capability | Aetos | AIOSEO |
|---|---|---|
| Technical AI-readiness score AIOSEO AI Suite tracks brand visibility, which is a different metric. | ✓ | partial |
| AEO diagnostic grading | ✓ | partial |
| AI-platform visibility evidence AIOSEO AI Suite tracks prompts and responses; Aetos audits on-site signals. | partial | ✓ |
| Google AI search readiness signals | ✓ | partial |
| AI-ready JSON audit bundle (for ChatGPT/Claude) | ✓ | — |
| llms.txt support | Audit | Generator |
AIOSEO® is a registered trademark of Awesome Motive / AIOSEO. We are not affiliated. Feature claims verified 2026-07-13 on aioseo.com.
FAQ
Aetos vs AIOSEO — common questions
AIOSEO has been around since 2007. Why pick a new plugin like Aetos?
You can stack them. AIOSEO provides authoring, WooCommerce, Local SEO, AI content, and AI visibility tools. Aetos adds a separate diagnostic layer for technical SEO, AEO, AIO, GEO, crawler policy, and structured-data integrity. The overlap is real, but the primary workflows are different.
Can I use Aetos and AIOSEO on the same site?
Yes. Aetos is a read-only audit layer that does not write to the post meta keys AIOSEO owns. We tested compatibility against AIOSEO 4.x as part of pre-release audit. No conflicts observed in 7 rounds of multi-model review.
AIOSEO has AI title and meta generation. Doesn't that cover "AI readiness"?
AIOSEO now includes both AI-assisted authoring and an AI Suite for brand-visibility tracking. Aetos focuses on the site itself: technical, content-structure, schema, and crawler-policy signals, with evidence and remediation context. Neither product can guarantee a citation.
I run a WooCommerce store. Which is better for me?
AIOSEO provides WooCommerce authoring features such as product schema and category SEO. Aetos complements that by checking the implementation across product URLs, including schema integrity, language signals, canonicals, and crawl issues. Use both when you need both authoring and independent diagnostics.
Is this comparison biased?
Yes, by us — we counter by (a) crediting AIOSEO for every authoring + WooCommerce + Local SEO feature they actually have, (b) verifying claims on aioseo.com on the date below, (c) footnoting any soft superlatives, (d) inviting AIOSEO to flag inaccuracies at support@aetosseo.com. We correct and date the change.
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