G2 Vendor Directory

Pencil vs. Semrush

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricPencil

by Pencil

Semrush

by Adobe

Overall rating4.74.4
Review count164,293
Ease of use9.08.5
Ease of setup9.28.8
Quality of support9.98.7
Meets requirements9.18.9
NPS81.2564.381271
Small Business75.0%64.4%
Mid-Market18.8%29.1%
Enterprise6.3%6.5%
Total page views37413,335
Total LLM citations8,890122,903

Pencil

Pencil is the enterprise agentic marketing OS. It is the only platform covering the full marketing workflow, from brief to results, with AI agents at every step. Built for enterprise marketing teams, Pencil replaces fragmented tool stacks with a single operating system where every step lives in one place: insights, briefing, planning, creation, adaptation, approval, deployment, activation, analysis, optimisation, and reporting. AI agents handle the repetitive production work while humans stay on strategy, creative direction, and sign-off.

Pros

  • AI Technology

Semrush

Semrush, an Adobe Company, is the leading brand visibility platform, empowering marketers to command their online presence and create measurable impact. Built on the industry’s most expansive proprietary dataset, Semrush delivers AI-driven insights across SEO, Agentic Search Optimization, content marketing, paid media, and social strategy. Used by over 28 million users globally – from scaling startups to the Fortune 500 – Semrush provides the competitive intelligence needed to win visibility in an evolving digital landscape.

Pros

  • Features
  • Ease of Use
  • Keyword Research
  • Helpful
  • SEO Optimization
  • SEO Tools