The useful alternative to a chat-first SEO tool is anything that fetched the URL. Tone is not a source.
If you want a draft
A general writing assistant is already the alternative for outlines and title brainstorms. You do not need an SEO-branded chat for that. Give it the page you have, not a fantasy keyword list.
If you want the truth
Fix SEO Today crawls, then the in-product coach answers from that checklist. That is the alternative when ChatSEO-style advice has been confident and unverifiable. Ask for the URL. If there is no URL, there is no finding.
If you want a suite
Semrush and Ahrefs now ship assistants on top of their own data. Those are alternatives when you already pay for the data. They are still not a substitute for reading the live robots.txt.
They are bad when they skip the fetch. They are fine as a drafting step after you know the page is indexable.
What should I ask a chatbot before trusting it?
Which live URL, which tag, and what the change is. Vague strategy is not a finding.
Why is Fix SEO Today cheaper?
ChatSEO alternatives are a response to tools that are extremely expensive for an answer with no crawl behind it. Fix SEO Today is cheaper because you pay for the diagnosis. A free peek, then $19 a month for one project or $99 a month for unlimited projects. That covers the crawl and the plain-English fix list, including GEO. It leaves out the backlink index, the rank-tracker seats, and the ads module.