Maporio vs Yext
Yext syncs you to 50+ directories. Most of those directories are dead.
Yext was the listings-sync king when 50 different directories sent you traffic. In 2026, 90% of your local leads come from one place: Google Maps. Maporio focuses there, runs it well, and uses our own native scanner for the directories that still matter (Yelp, Apple Maps, Facebook, Bing). At a fifth of the price.
01
Focus where the leads are.
Google handles 90%+ of local search intent. Yext spreads your budget across 50+ directories that send you 1-2 visits a quarter. Maporio puts every dollar on the surface that pays.
02
$99-$300 vs $199-$999/yr per location.
Yext list pricing starts around $199/yr per location for Essentials and climbs to $999+ for Premium. Maporio Pro is $300/mo all-in, no per-directory upsells.
03
You own your listings on cancel.
Cancel Yext and you can lose the listing data they pushed - your hours, photos, descriptions revert. Maporio writes to your real GBP and citations - the data is yours, always.
§ The pricing, side by side
The number everyone actually cares about.
Maporio
$99-$300
/mo, all features
Yext
$199-$999
/yr per location (per tier)
Yext public list pricing: Essentials ~$199/yr, Complete ~$449/yr, Premium ~$999/yr per location. Enterprise contracts go higher. Maporio is monthly: $99 Starter, $300 Pro multi-location.
§ Feature by feature
The full breakdown, nothing hidden.
The phone rings. That's the review.
Plumbers, dentists, restaurants, med spas, salons - the busy people who live or die by the map. Here's what they say after a few weeks with us.
“We were paying an agency $1,400 a month for PDFs nobody read. Switched to Maporio. Phone started ringing inside three weeks. Saved the cost ten times over already.”
“The review replies sound exactly like how I talk on the phone. Customers don't know it's AI. We jumped from rank 14 to top 3 in our zip code in two months.”
“I run three locations. Maporio handles all of them from one screen. The Sunday auto-fixes are wild. I genuinely forgot it was running until the new bookings showed up.”
“We tried Birdeye and Podium. Both felt like enterprise software glued together. Maporio is one screen, plain English, and it actually moved our rank. Done.”
“Free audit told me my hours were wrong on Google for two years. Two years. Fixed in one click. Calls from people checking if we were open went down to zero.”
§ The verdict
When Yext wins, when Maporio wins.
Are you a 100+ location franchise that needs to sync NAP across every directory in North America? Yext is built for that. Are you a 1-20 location business where Google Maps is 90% of your leads? Maporio - focused, monthly, you keep your data.
Questions we get comparing us to the big names.
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