Clearscope vs Yoast

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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Clearscope edges out Yoast overall, with a score of 7 versus 8... wait, actually Yoast scores slightly higher overall (8 vs 7), even though Clearscope gets named more often — 11 of 75 answers compared to Yoast's 9 of 75. Head to head, Clearscope comes out ahead in 7 questions, Yoast in 2, with 16 ties. Clearscope shows up most for blog post optimization and professional SEO software questions, while Yoast leads clearly on ecommerce, named in 3 of 3 answers for Shopify-related questions. Claude rates Clearscope highest (11), while Perplexity favors Yoast (12). Both tools are never named for technical audits or rank tracking questions.

Head to head

metric	Clearscope	Yoast
score	7	8
questions won	9	5

By assistant

Clearscope

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	5	5% of answers	#8.0
Claude	11	30% of answers	#19.5
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	6	5% of answers	#3.0

Yoast

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	3	5% of answers	#5.0
Claude	8	15% of answers	#12.7
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	12	25% of answers	#7.2

Where they differ

Only Clearscope gets named for

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Only Yoast gets named for

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