Practice Radar vs BrightLocal for UK dental practices
BrightLocal is a well-priced local SEO tool for any kind of business. Practice Radar is built only for dental practices, and on its higher plan it makes the changes you approve. Which suits you depends on who will do the work.
Practice Radar shows a dental practice where it ranks against every practice nearby, and does the work to move up.
Thirty days free. No card, and nothing starts automatically when it ends.
The short answer: BrightLocal is cheaper, works for any local business and suits someone who will check the reports and make the changes by hand. Practice Radar is built only for dental practices, reads your whole town rather than a list of keywords, and on its Growth plan makes the changes you approve, on your website, your Google listing and your ads.
We make Practice Radar, so weigh what we say about it accordingly. Every BrightLocal price and feature below is taken from BrightLocal's own pricing page on 19 October 2026. Prices change, so check again before you buy.
At a glance
| BrightLocal | Practice Radar | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Any local business, in many countries | UK dental practices only |
| Price | From $41 a month, or $31 a month billed yearly, for one location | £249 a month to see where you stand, £549 to have changes made, month to month |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | First month free, no card |
| Rankings | 100 keywords against 4 competitors on the entry plan | The searches that bring patients in your town, checked every week |
| Map grid | Local Search Grid, for 5 keywords on the entry plan | 25 points across your town every month, set against where people actually live |
| Who you compete with | The competitors you choose | Every practice near you, sized by its share of local search |
| Listings | Citation monitoring, and a citation builder from $2 a citation | Listed on 30 UK and dental directories, kept in step on Google, Facebook, Bing and Apple Maps (Growth) |
| Reviews | Monitoring, collection by email, SMS and in-store, and a website widget, on the Grow plan | Reply drafts in your voice, posted on approval (Growth) |
| Changes to your website | Not among the features on its pricing page | Titles, descriptions, local pages and structured data, applied when you approve (Growth) |
| NHS and CQC data | No | Every practice near you as the NHS and CQC record it |
See this for your own town.
Every practice competing with yours on one map, sized by the share of local search each one holds, re-checked every week. The sample town shows the whole thing now, with no sign-up.
Run on our own practice first: ninth of the 14 practices measured in its town in May, first of 18 in September, on UK-wide search value. Page-one keywords: 6 in May, 194 in September.
Thirty days free. No card, and nothing starts automatically when it ends.
What BrightLocal does well
BrightLocal is one of the best known local SEO tools, and its prices are hard to beat. Its plans, as its pricing page lists them on 19 October 2026:
- Track, $41 a month ($31 billed yearly). Rank tracking for 100 keywords against four competitors, the Local Search Grid for five keywords, citation monitoring, a Google Business Profile audit, a local SEO audit and its Local AI Visibility Tracker.
- Manage, $54 a month ($40 billed yearly). Everything in Track, plus AI Insights, Active Sync for listings and a Google Business Profile post scheduler.
- Grow, $65 a month ($49 billed yearly). Everything in Manage, plus review monitoring across sites, review collection by email, SMS and in-store, and a review widget for your website.
Prices go up with the number of locations. Directory listings can be bought separately from $2 a citation, and BrightLocal also sells a managed local SEO service from $1,299 a month, where its team does the work.
If someone at your practice has a few hours a week and wants to manage listings, track rankings and collect reviews themselves, BrightLocal is excellent value.
Where Practice Radar is different
Practice Radar starts from a different question. Instead of tracking a list of keywords you chose, it maps every practice competing for patients in your town and shows who Google puts first, where, and why. Then it proposes the handful of changes worth making, and on the Growth plan it makes them once you approve.
- It does the work. Connect a WordPress, Webflow or Wix site and the findings become a queue of exact changes to your page titles, descriptions, local pages and structured data. Connect Google Ads and wasted searches become negatives to approve. Connect your Google listing and review replies are posted for you.
- It is built around people, not points. The map grid is set against where people actually live, so you see the share of your neighbours who find you in Google's first three, not just a coloured square.
- It knows dentistry. Every practice near you is shown as the NHS and CQC record it, alongside the search market. Treatment searches, NHS and private, are tracked as patients actually type them.
On our own practice in Cheshire, new private patients went from 8 a month before we started in June 2026 to 19 a month since, from the practice's own records. The full case study sets out what changed and what we can and cannot claim from it.
Which should you choose?
- Choose BrightLocal if you want the lowest price, you have several locations or several kinds of business, or someone in the team will make the changes by hand.
- Choose Practice Radar if you run a dental practice, want to see your whole local market rather than a keyword list, and want the changes made for you without hiring an agency.
- Use both if you already run BrightLocal for review collection. Practice Radar does not need you to give it up.
See the plans, or run the free audit to see where your practice stands before you choose.
Frequently asked questions
Is BrightLocal good for dentists?
Yes, for what it does. It tracks local rankings, manages listings and collects reviews for any local business, dental practices included, at a low price. It is not built around dentistry, so it does not show NHS or CQC data, and its pricing page does not list changes to your website among its features.
How much does BrightLocal cost compared with Practice Radar?
On 19 October 2026 BrightLocal's plans cost $41 to $65 a month for one location, or $31 to $49 a month billed yearly. Practice Radar costs £249 a month to see where you stand, or £549 a month to have the changes made for you. Both have a free trial with no card.
Does Practice Radar replace BrightLocal?
For most dental practices it covers the same ground on rankings, map grids and listings, and adds the website, ads and review changes it makes for you. If you rely on BrightLocal's SMS review requests, you can keep using them alongside.
Which one makes changes for me?
Practice Radar's Growth plan applies the changes you approve to your website, Google listing, directory listings and Google Ads. BrightLocal's software tracks and manages listings and reviews, and its separate managed service, from $1,299 a month, is where its team does the work for you.
See your own town before you pick a tool
The free audit shows who Google puts first for the searches in your town, and where your practice sits, in a few minutes and with nothing to install.
Run on our own practice first: ninth of the 14 practices measured in its town in May, first of 18 in September, on UK-wide search value. Page-one keywords: 6 in May, 194 in September.
Thirty days free. No card, and nothing starts automatically when it ends.