Prices read November 2, 2026
The best Writesonic alternatives depend on the job you pay it for. To track AI answers, Placton starts at $59 with Claude, Perplexity and Grok on every plan, which Writesonic keeps for Enterprise. For SEO articles, Frase from $39 billed yearly. For marketing copy, Jasper at $69. Placton replaces the tracking, not the SEO suite.
7 days free. No card required.
Writesonic now bundles an AI tracker, an article writer and a site auditor. Start from the part you really use. Prices from each maker’s page on November 2, 2026.
| If you want | Pick | From, a month | What you give up |
|---|---|---|---|
| See what AI answers say about your brand, Claude, Perplexity and Grok included | Placton | $59 | You give up: Google SEO data, whole-site audits and CMS publishing. It does not track Gemini or AI Mode, and Claude, Perplexity and Grok refresh weekly. |
| Track AI answers daily, with unlimited users | Peec AI | $95 | You give up: Any writer. You pick three models, and Claude and Grok need Enterprise. |
| Track AI answers on the smallest budget | Otterly.AI | $29 | You give up: Room to grow: 15 prompts, then a jump to $189. Claude costs extra and Grok is not offered. |
| Keep the same mix of writing, publishing and tracking, for less | Frase | $39billed yearly | You give up: AI coverage: two AIs on Starter. Claude needs Scale and Grok needs Enterprise. |
| Score each draft against the pages ranking on Google | Surfer | $59 | You give up: AI tracking on the entry plan. Five AIs start at Pro, $219, with no Claude or Grok. |
| Publish SEO articles in bulk for little money | Koala | $25 | You give up: AI tracking, and the editor with an SEO score, which starts at $49. |
| Keep marketing copy on brand across a team | Jasper | $69per seat | You give up: Tracking on Pro: its GEO agents are on the custom Business plan. |
| Share one chat with several AI models | Copy.ai | $295 seats | You give up: Everything past chat: its workflow plans start at $1,000 a month. |
| Write short copy for free | Rytr | Free | You give up: SEO and tracking. The free plan stops at 10,000 characters a month. |
| Run AI tracking and agents across a large company | Profound | Custom | You give up: A public price. You find out on a sales call. |
How far “alternative” goes for Placton. It replaces Writesonic’s AI tracking and gives you a first draft for each question. It does not replace the SEO data, the site audits with fixes, the CMS publishing or the outreach. If those are why you pay, start with Frase or Surfer, or stay put.
The difference that decides it. At Writesonic, Claude, Perplexity and Grok sit behind a demo call. At Placton they are on the $59 plan. And $299 buys the same 18,000 answers a month, by our math, that $499 buys at Writesonic, across five AIs instead of three.
Most reviews of Writesonic describe a product it no longer leads with. It began as an AI writer and now sells itself as an AI search platform that also writes. That turn, and the pricing that came with it, sits behind most searches for Writesonic alternatives and Writesonic competitors.
Its homepage now talks about tracking AI answers, fixing gaps and proving revenue, and its comparison pages set it against Profound, Peec AI, Semrush and Ahrefs instead of other writers. If you signed up to fill a blog, a good part of the bill now pays for a tracker you may never open.
The cheapest plan is $99 a month for 15 articles and one user. Fifty articles cost $499, and only Growth can buy more, at $100 a month for 20. Koala gives you 45,000 words for $25, and Rytr has a free plan.
Its site talks about 8 or 9 AI platforms, yet Starter, Basic and Growth track three: ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Perplexity, Claude, Grok, Copilot, AI Mode and Muse Spark need Enterprise, and Enterprise starts with a demo.
Trustpilot shows 8 reviews from the last 12 months. Five give one star, and four of those five are about charges or fees, two of them after cancelling. A small sample of individual accounts we did not verify, but it is what recent buyers wrote.
Check the date on any list you read. Its plans changed this year and the old ones live on. One list in Google’s top 10 today still quotes a free plan with 10,000 words and a $19 Pro plan, and a May review quotes Lite at $39 and Standard at $79. None of those are in its table, which no longer sells credits either.
Ten tools, with Writesonic at the bottom for reference, on what decides the purchase: the job, the entry price, the AIs you really get at that price, and how text reaches your site. Each row comes from that maker’s pricing page, read on .
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| Tool | Main job | From, monthly | Billed yearly, a month | AIs tracked at that price | Prompts | Writing | Publishes to a CMS | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlactonOur product | AI tracking, with a writer | $59 | $50.17 | Five: ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews daily*, Claude, Perplexity and Grok weekly | 20 | 5 texts a month | No. Copy, or export to HTML, Markdown or Word | 7 days, no card, 10 prompts |
| Peec AI | AI tracking | $95 | 15% off | Three you pick from ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini and Naver, daily | 50 | None | No | A “Start free trial” button; terms not stated |
| Otterly.AI | AI tracking | $29 | $25 | Four daily: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot. Gemini, AI Mode and Claude cost extra | 15 | None | No | 7 days, no card |
| Profound | AI tracking and agents for large teams | Custom | Custom | Up to 9 on Enterprise; three on the trial | Tailored; 50 on the trial | AI Marketer credits | Not stated | 7 days, 50 prompts daily |
| Frase | Articles, audits and some tracking | $49 | $39 | Two on Starter: ChatGPT and Google AI. Perplexity, Claude and Gemini on larger plans | 20 | 10 articles a month | WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix or FraseCMS | 7 days, no card, 5 articles |
| Surfer | Content editor, with tracking on larger plans | $59 | $49 | None on Discovery. ChatGPT weekly on Standard; five AIs daily from Pro | None; 25 on Standard | 120 documents a year | WordPress and Google Docs from Standard | 7 days of Pro, with payment details |
| Koala | Bulk SEO articles | $25 | 20% off | None on its pricing page | None | 45,000 words a month | WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, webhooks | 5,000 free words once, no card |
| Jasper | Marketing copy | $69 per seat | $59 | None on Pro; GEO agents on Business | None | No cap stated on Pro | Not stated; integrates with Webflow and Google Docs | 7 days; whether it needs a card is not stated |
| Copy.ai | Team chat, sales workflows | $29 | $24 | None | None | Unlimited words in chat | Not stated | A “Try for free” button; terms not stated |
| Rytr | Short copy on a budget | Free, then $9 | 20% off | None | None | 10,000 characters free; unlimited on Lite | Not stated | A free plan with no end date |
| WritesonicFor reference | AI tracking, articles and audits | $99 | $79, $948 upfront | Three, daily: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews. The other six on Enterprise | 50 | 15 articles a month | WordPress on its plan table; its writer page adds Sanity, Contentful, Webflow and Ghost | Says no card; see the trial section |
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Placton tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API. “Not stated” means its pricing page does not say. Before tax.
Shopping for a Writesonic GEO tool replacement? These four are built around AI answers. Placton comes first because it puts Claude, Perplexity and Grok on its cheapest plan, with no demo to book. Four questions separate them, and they apply to Writesonic as well.
AI answer tracking with a writer
$59/ month
$602 a year ($50.17 a month). Growth costs $129 and Scale $299.
Best for: Anyone who went to Writesonic to find out what AI says about their brand and would rather not book a demo to see Claude, Perplexity or Grok. Every plan asks all five AIs, sets you tasks each week and drafts a text for any question where you are missing.
Weak point: No Gemini, AI Mode or Copilot. Claude, Perplexity and Grok run weekly, through their APIs. No Google SEO data, whole-site audit, CMS publishing, API or data exports.
AI tracker only
$95/ month
Then $245 and $495.
Best for: More daily volume than Writesonic Starter for about the same money: 50 prompts on three models, which Peec AI itself counts as 4,500 answers a month. Users are unlimited.
Weak point: Three models only, and its list leaves out Claude and Grok. No writer.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026How Peec AI compares with Placton
AI tracker only
$29/ month
$25 billed yearly. The next plans are $189 and $489.
Best for: The smallest budget that still tracks four AIs every day, with no limit on team members.
Weak point: Fifteen prompts is not many, and the next plan costs $189.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026How Otterly.AI compares with Placton
AI tracker and agents for large teams
Custom/ month
Enterprise is quoted. The page also mentions a self-serve Agency Growth plan, with no price in the text we read.
Best for: Large marketing teams that want agents, SSO and SOC 2 and will talk to sales for them.
Weak point: Brands get no public price, and the trial covers only ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026How Profound compares with Placton
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Placton tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API.
Also on these lists. AthenaHQ offers a free Essential plan with 300 credits and a Starter at $295 across 11 engines; here is how it compares. Scrunch Core costs $250 for 125 prompts and 4 AIs, with a 7-day trial; see the comparison. If you already pay for an SEO suite, look at Ahrefs Brand Radar, where custom prompts start at $50 a month, or Semrush’s AI toolkit.
If you came to fill a blog, you need a writer and a way to publish. Writesonic says its article agent runs 100+ steps and produces 3,000 to 8,000 words, and that may be worth it. But $99 for 15 articles is a high price if you never open the tracker, and these three start lower.
Editor and AI tracking
$39/ month
Billed yearly. $49 appears struck through, which looks like the monthly price. Larger plans: $103 and $239 billed yearly.
Best for: The closest in shape to what Writesonic sells, for half the entry price ($49 against $99 on monthly billing): articles, audit pages, publishing and some AI tracking in one plan.
Weak point: Ten articles against fifteen at the start, one seat and one site on Starter. It tracks ChatGPT and Google AI there.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026How Frase compares with Placton
Content editor and AI tracker
$59/ month
$49 billed yearly, with no AI tracking. Standard at $119 tracks ChatGPT weekly; Pro at $219 tracks five AIs daily.
Best for: Teams that want live guidance from the pages ranking on Google while they write, not a finished article from one click.
Weak point: The entry plan has no AI tracking, and neither Claude nor Grok is on any plan we read.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026How Surfer compares with the rest
Bulk article writer
$25/ month
Then $49, $99 and up. Annual billing saves 20%.
Best for: Volume on a budget: long SEO articles in bulk, pushed straight to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost.
Weak point: It sells words and credits, not articles, and the article editor, SEO score and internal links start on the $49 plan.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Publishing is where these tools really differ. Writesonic’s plan table lists only WordPress, while its writer page names Sanity, Contentful, Webflow and Ghost as well; BlogSEO’s comparison says it found setup docs only for WordPress. Frase publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix or its own CMS. Koala goes to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Ghost, with webhooks. Surfer connects WordPress and Google Docs from Standard.
Others you will see. BlogSEO, third on Google for this search on November 2, says it auto-publishes 30 articles a month for $97 through 23 integrations and adds a backlink exchange, with AI tracking as an $89 add-on. Junia AI, which Google’s AI answer names first, shows $17 a month for 10 SEO articles and $29 for 68 on autopilot with yearly billing selected. We read both on their own pages and tested neither. The list in first place on Google on November 3, from eesel, adds three more, read on their own pages that day: Anyword, $49 a month or $39 billed yearly, for copy that comes with a predicted performance score; Writer, an enterprise platform for AI agents whose Starter plan takes up to 5 users, with a 14-day trial and no card, and no price in the text of its plans page; and eesel’s own blog writer, sold in credits, from a free plan of 100 to $299 a month for 500, with no price per article.
The Writesonic of a few years ago, the one with templates for ads, emails and product pages, has its closest heirs here. None of them will tell you what ChatGPT says about your brand, and if copy is your job, that is fine.
Marketing copy for brand teams
$69/ month
Per seat. $59 billed yearly. Business is custom.
Best for: Marketing teams that need one brand voice held steady across campaigns, products and audiences.
Weak point: You pay per seat, and on Pro it tracks nothing in AI answers.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Team chat and sales workflows
$29/ month
For 5 seats. $24 billed yearly ($288). Workflow plans start at $1,000 a month, billed yearly.
Best for: A small team that wants OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models in one place at a flat price.
Weak point: The company now sells sales and marketing workflows, and the step up from chat is $1,000 a month.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Budget writer
Free/ month
Free up to 10,000 characters a month. Lite is $9, Personal $19 and Pro $49; yearly billing saves 20%.
Best for: Anyone who writes short pieces and watches every dollar: 40+ use cases and 30+ languages on the free plan.
Weak point: Its pricing page lists no SEO or AI tracking, and the product now leans toward relationship follow-up as much as writing.
Per its pricing page, read November 2, 2026
Do you need a tool at all? ChatGPT and Grok both put Claude on their lists of alternatives. If you can do the research and the SEO yourself, a chat assistant may be enough: Claude Pro is $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, on its pricing page. ChatGPT’s pricing page refused our reader, so we quote no price for Plus. What you lose is the workflow: no research on your market, no brand memory across a team and no publishing.
Also named. Anyword came up in three of the five AI answers below. It starts at $49 a month, or $39 billed yearly, with a 7-day trial limited to 2,500 words, and AI tracking is absent from its pricing page.
The lists in Google’s top results tell you what their authors think. To see what the AIs themselves say, on we put one plain question to ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, using Placton’s engine: “best Writesonic alternatives”.
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tools named by all five: Frase, Jasper, Copy.ai and Rytr. All four are known for writing, not for AI tracking.
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AIs, ChatGPT and Grok, named no tool built only for AI tracking, even though that is what Writesonic now leads with.
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sites cited across the five answers. Only 2 appear in more than one answer: eesel and Frase, and both sell a writer.
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tools named by Google’s answer alongside a page from their own site: Junia AI, Honeyb and Prefer.
Asked . The number is the order each AI named the tool in.
| Tool |  ChatGPT |  Google AI Overviews |  Claude |  Perplexity |  Grok | AIs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frase | Named 4 | Named 3 | Named 2 | Named 3 | Named 10 | 5 |
| Jasper | Named 2 | Named 8 | Named 7 | Named 1 | Named 7 | 5 |
| Copy.ai | Named 3 | Named 9 | Named 8 | Named 2 | Named 6 | 5 |
| Rytr | Named 6 | Named 10 | Named 10 | Named 9 | Named 4 | 5 |
| Surfer | Not named | Named 2 | Named 1 | Named 4 | Named 9 | 4 |
| Anyword | Named 5 | Not named | Named 9 | Named 5 | Not named | 3 |
| Peec AI | Not named | Named 6 | Named 15 | Named 8 | Not named | 3 |
| Claude | Named 1 | Not named | Not named | Not named | Named 1 | 2 |
| Junia AI | Not named | Named 1 | Named 4 | Not named | Not named | 2 |
| Scalenut | Named 7 | Not named | Named 3 | Not named | Not named | 2 |
| Profound | Not named | Not named | Named 12 | Named 6 | Not named | 2 |
| AthenaHQ | Not named | Not named | Named 13 | Named 7 | Not named | 2 |
| Otterly.AI | Not named | Named 7 | Named 14 | Not named | Not named | 2 |
Named by one AI: Grammarly (Grok), Notion (Grok), Honeyb (Google), Clearscope (Claude), Prefer (Google), Sudowrite (Grok), NeuronWriter (Claude), Perplexity (Grok), Scrunch (Perplexity), Koala (Claude), QuillBot (Grok).
The answer depends on how the AI reads the question. Google, Claude and Perplexity split their answers by job and brought up trackers such as Peec AI, Profound and Otterly.AI. ChatGPT and Grok listed mostly writers. If you are replacing the tracker, say so in the question.
A vendor’s own page can shape the answer. Google’s answer named Junia AI, Honeyb and Prefer while citing a page from each of their sites, and ChatGPT and Perplexity both named Frase and cited Frase’s site. One reading proves no cause, but it is a fair reason to look at who wrote the page an AI leans on. Claude’s answer gave the same warning itself.
Take it as a snapshot. A single run per AI, from the United States, in English, on one date. Ask again tomorrow and some names will change, so Placton repeats every question and publishes its margins of error.
ChatGPT
Its search also returned, without citing them: dupple.com, RankControl, techsifted.com, nytech.in, pickedtech.com, relato.com.
Google AI Overviews
Claude
Its search also returned, without citing them: Rankability, RightBlogger, Omnia, Rankup, Orchly, getrefine.ai, RankSpot, searchmora.com, tools.growthvirality.com, Junia AI.
Perplexity
Grok
In bold, sites cited by more than one AI for that question.
ChatGPT: read on chatgpt.com, logged out, with web search on, with gpt-6.Google AI Overviews: the AI Overview Google shows above its results.Claude: asked through its API with live web search, with claude-haiku-5-5.Perplexity: asked through its API, which always searches, with sonar.Grok: asked through its API with live web search, with grok-4.3.We typed the question exactly as shown, naming no brand and adding no instructions. The product’s own reader pulled out the names, and we then compared them by hand with each answer, keeping one per vendor in order of appearance. Surfer SEO and Surfer AI count as Surfer, and Koala AI as Koala. Grok listed Anthropic’s Claude and Perplexity as alternatives, and we kept them as it wrote them. To check which sites an AI leans on for your own question, try our ChatGPT source finder.
From its pricing page, read on . Three self-serve plans, Enterprise, and two agency plans with no price shown. Its switch opens on yearly prices, which are paid 12 months upfront; the monthly figures sit behind the switch and in the page’s HTML.
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| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly, a month | AIs tracked | Prompts | Answers a day | Answers a month, our math | AI articles | Site audits a month | Users | Sentiment | Action Center |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99 | $79 ($948 upfront) | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | 50 | 50 | 1,500 | 15 a month | 10 of 100 pages | 1 user, no extras | No | No |
| Basic | $249 | $199 ($2,388 upfront) | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | 100 | 300 | 9,000 | 25 a month | 20 of 1,200 pages | 2 users, up to 3 more at $50 each | No | No |
| Growth | $499 | $399 ($4,788 upfront) | ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews | 200 | 600 | 18,000 | 50 a month, 20 more for $100 | 50 of 2,500 pages | 3 users, up to 2 more at $50 each | Yes | Trial: 5 off-page, 5 on-page a month |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | All 9: adds Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok, AI Mode and Muse Spark | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Yes | Full |
Answers a month are daily answers times 30, our math. A fair usage policy applies; it gives no figures and says access can be limited with or without notice.
Its pitch is one platform instead of three. So we priced the split: a tracker plus a writer, on monthly billing, at each Writesonic budget. In every row, Placton with Koala costs less, and you get Claude, Perplexity and Grok.
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| At this budget | Writesonic alone | Placton + Koala | Placton + Frase |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99: three AIs, 50 prompts, 1,500 answers a month, 15 articles, 1 user | $84: five AIs, 20 prompts, 1,440 answers a month, 5 drafts plus 45,000 words, 2 members | $108: five AIs, 20 prompts, 5 drafts plus 10 articles, 50 audit pages, CMS publishing |
| Basic | $249: three AIs, 100 prompts, 9,000 answers a month, 25 articles, 2 users | $178: five AIs, 75 prompts, 5,400 answers a month, 15 drafts plus 100,000 words, 10 members | $258: five AIs, 75 prompts, 15 drafts plus 40 articles, 250 audit pages, CMS publishing |
| Growth | $499: three AIs, 200 prompts, 18,000 answers a month, 50 articles, 3 users | $398: five AIs, 250 prompts, 18,000 answers a month, 40 drafts plus 250,000 words, unlimited members | $428: five AIs, 250 prompts, 40 drafts plus 40 articles, 250 audit pages, CMS publishing |
What you gain. Claude, Perplexity and Grok; more people; sentiment and weekly tasks at every price; and at the top end, $101 a month left over with 250 prompts against 200. Writesonic keeps the edge on prompts at the two lower budgets: 50 against 20 on Starter, and 100 against 75 on Basic.
What you lose. One login. Audits of up to 2,500 pages with automatic fixes, AI bot analytics, ad monitoring, agent runs and Gemini. Koala counts words, so articles depend on their length. Frase Professional also tracks ChatGPT, Google AI and Perplexity, which overlaps with Placton.
Placton wins on reach and price in the first rows, and those rows are why it exists. Writesonic wins most of what surrounds tracking: SEO data, audits, publishing, connections.
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| Row | Writesonic | Placton | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude, Perplexity and Grok | Enterprise only, through a demo | On every plan, weekly | Placton |
| Price to start | $99 a month, or $79 with $948 upfront | $59 a month, or $50.17 with $602 upfront | Placton |
| Top self-serve plan | Growth: $499, 200 prompts, 3 AIs, 18,000 answers a month | Scale: $299, 250 prompts, 5 AIs, 18,000 answers a month | Placton$200 less a month for the same answer count. |
| Cost per AI answer | 6.6, 2.8 and 2.8 cents | 4.1, 2.4 and 1.7 cents | PlactonOur math, plan by plan, on monthly billing. |
| People included | 1, 2 or 3. Up to 5 at $50 each from Basic | 2, 10 or unlimited | Placton |
| Sentiment | From Growth, $499 | On every plan | Placton |
| Alerts | Enterprise only | On paid plans, in the dashboard and by email, plus a weekly summary | Placton |
| Trial | Says no card. The plan table does not state the length | 7 days, no card, 10 prompts, 1 text | PlactonOn clarity. The trial itself is small. |
| Price for agencies | No public price on its pricing page. Each ongoing client from $150 a month | $15 per client a month plus prompts, on the page | PlactonWritesonic has white label, Placton does not. |
| Tasks after the reading | Action Center: a trial on Growth, full on Enterprise, with fixes it can run | Improvements: 3, 5 or 8 tasks a week on every plan. You do the work | It dependsPlacton on price. Writesonic on reach. |
| Answers a month | 1,500, 9,000 or 18,000 | 1,440, 5,400 or 18,000 | It dependsLevel at both ends. Writesonic in the middle, for nearly twice the price. |
| Prompts at entry | 50 for $99 | 20 for $59 | Writesonic |
| Gemini | On every plan | Not tracked | Writesonic |
| Copilot, AI Mode, Muse Spark | Enterprise only | Not tracked | Writesonic |
| Refresh | Daily on every AI in your plan | ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews daily*, the other three weekly | Writesonic |
| How answers are read | Crawls each AI’s web interface like a user, by its own account. We did not verify it | ChatGPT and AI Overviews as a user sees them. Claude, Perplexity and Grok through APIs with live search | WritesonicIf its claim holds. |
| Articles a month | 15, 25 or 50 | 5, 15 or 40 texts | Writesonic |
| How a text is built | 100+ steps and 3,000 to 8,000 words, by its own account | From the real answers and sources for that question. What only you know stays blank for you to fill in | It dependsNeither has been put through a published blind comparison. |
| Publishing | WordPress on its plan table; its writer page adds Sanity, Contentful, Webflow and Ghost | Copy, or export to HTML, Markdown or Word | Writesonic |
| Site audit | Up to 2,500 pages each, with automatic fixes | A free 18-point check of homepage, robots.txt, sitemap and llms.txt | Writesonic |
| Google SEO data | Keyword Planner, SERPs and Search Console | None | Writesonic |
| Earning citations | Finds sites that cite rivals and drafts your outreach, on Growth’s trial and Enterprise | Shows which pages decide a question and whether they name you. Sends nothing | Writesonic |
| Traffic from AI | AI bot analytics on every plan; GA4 on Enterprise | Not measured | Writesonic |
| Ads inside AI answers | Monitored on every plan | Not monitored | Writesonic |
| Connections and exports | Read-only MCP and a GEO API. PDF, CSV and shareable reports, it says. Looker Studio on Enterprise | None. Only texts can be exported | Writesonic |
| Markets | One country and language per plan, below Enterprise | 40 countries and 7 languages to choose from, one of each per workspace | It dependsA tie below Enterprise. |
| Company checks | SSO, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA on Enterprise | None of those | Writesonic |
| Track record | 10,000+ teams by its own count, thousands of reviews | Launched October 2026, no public reviews so far | Writesonic |
* On paid plans. ChatGPT is read on chatgpt.com in every country Placton tracks except Venezuela and Puerto Rico, where it is asked weekly through its API. Answers a month and cost per answer are our math. Writesonic’s figures come from its website, read . Placton’s come from its pricing page and methodology.
We run 18 checks on what helps AI assistants find, read and cite your site, and tell you what to fix first.
Ready as soon as you sign up, included in the free trial.
No account? Free GEO audit tool: the same 18 checks, without signing up.
Writesonic’s comparison pages say every other tool stops at the dashboard while it does the work. Placton sits in between: it hands you the gap, the task and a first draft, and you ship them.
Where you are missing
Questions where no AI brings you up come first. Each chip says how many of that AI’s answers name or cite you, in red, orange or green, and the line below shows who appears in your place.
From any row you can open those answers, or start a text aimed at that one question.
Improvements
Starter gets 3 tasks a week, Growth 5 and Scale 8. Code, not a model, chooses each task from a fixed catalog of 17 actions and says how strong the evidence is. A model only drafts why it matters.
The pages get re-read each week to see whether anything changed. Realistic gains are small: a few points over 8 weeks, in answers that search. Unlike the Action Center, Placton sends nothing and changes nothing for you.
Writer
It builds on what the AIs answered to that question, the sources they cited and searched, Google’s top results and your site. Facts only you hold are left as highlighted blanks, so it never makes up figures, customers or opinions.
You get an article or a ranking in 1 or 2 minutes, edit it right there, and take it away as a copy or as HTML, Markdown or Word. Starter includes 5 texts a month, Growth 15 and Scale 40, and publishing one does not guarantee a mention.
There is no free plan on its table. There is a trial, and a few things worth checking before you start it.
What Writesonic says. Its pricing page reads “Start free. No credit card needed.” and its FAQ says the same. Other pages offer 7 days, and the FAQ promises a 7-day refund. The plan table does not state the trial’s length.
So, before you accept: read the total on the checkout, not the figure on the plan card. Note the date of the first charge. Pick monthly if you are not sure, because $99 a month with an exit beats paying $948 for the year upfront.
For comparison. Frase and Otterly.AI each state 7 days with no card on their pricing pages. Placton’s trial is 7 days with no card, and it never turns into a paid plan on its own.
High scores, but most of them describe the old writer, not the AI search platform you would be buying today.
Trustpilot. Its page (opens in a new tab) showed 4.6 from 5,763 reviews on , but only 8 of them from the last 12 months, so the score mostly reflects earlier years. Those 8 split sharply: 5 give one star, mostly over charges and fees, while the others praise support and useful ideas, or find it decent but overpriced. Trustpilot notes that the company has not replied to negative reviews.
G2 and Capterra. Writesonic’s site counts 2,031 G2 reviews and 2,102 on Capterra. G2 refused our reader; BlogSEO’s October comparison quotes 4.7 from 2,144 and says price is its most frequent complaint. The Capterra excerpts (opens in a new tab) we could read praise speed and ease of use, and complain about credit limits, price and output that needs checking. The dated excerpts we saw are from 2025 and talk about a writer with credits, a model its plan table no longer sells.
Reviewers. NoGood’s March review, from an agency that works closely with a rival called Goodie, rates it well for drafts in volume and less so for accuracy, and reports that some users find its GEO advice broad.
What we could not read. Reddit, where buyers tend to be franker, and G2’s reviews themselves. And we have not used the paid dashboard, so none of this is a judgment of ours on the product.
Writesonic’s pitch to agencies is strong: 20 pitch projects a month, each running 1 to 7 days, with shareable reports and a one-click move to an ongoing client. What it does not show on its pricing page is a price. It does say an ongoing client costs from $150 a month.
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| Clients and prompts | Placton Agency, a month | Writesonic, ongoing clients only | Frase |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 clients, 100 prompts | $235 | From $750 a month, plus the plan, whose price is not public | Scale, $299: up to 10 domains, 75 prompts, 100 articles |
| 10 clients, 300 prompts | $615 | From $1,500 a month, plus the plan, whose price is not public | Scale, $299, at its limit of 10 domains and 75 prompts |
| 25 clients, 750 prompts | $1,425 | From $3,750 a month, plus the plan, whose price is not public | Enterprise, custom |
Placton’s price is $15 per client plus prompts in tiers, shown on the page. It is not an exact match: Writesonic does not state how many prompts an ongoing client includes, and its agency plans add pitch audits, white label on Agency Enterprise and a strategist. BlogSEO’s comparison quotes Agency Starter at $250 a month on monthly billing, which we could not confirm on Writesonic’s own pages.
Placton has no white label and no combined client dashboard, so an agency that resells branded reports should look elsewhere. Here is how the Agency plan works.
Nothing here takes long. The order is what saves you money, since a yearly plan is already paid.
Its FAQ says downgrades and cancellations take effect at the next billing cycle. If you paid for the year, that money is spent, so plan the move around that date. It also promises a 7-day refund, which we have not tested.
Write down your prompts, competitors and brand voice notes. Its tracker page mentions PDF and CSV exports, so pull your history while the account is open. Articles already on your site stay where they are.
Pick ten questions and put them in both. Placton’s trial takes up to 10 prompts with no card, and it asks all five AIs on the first day. Expect different numbers even for the same question: answers move between runs, so judge the trend and the reasons, not one reading.
Nothing imports into Placton, so your charts begin at the first reading. If you watch Gemini today, note that Placton has no equivalent.
Some teams get full value from the bundle. If these describe you, keep paying for it:
Tracking, articles, audits and agents under one login save real time. If your team opens all of them each week, splitting them up costs more than it saves.
It sits on every Writesonic plan and Placton does not track it. On Enterprise you also get Copilot, AI Mode and Muse Spark.
Writesonic refreshes the AIs in your plan every day. At Placton only ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews run that often; Claude, Perplexity and Grok run once a week.
Growth gives you 50 articles a month with one-click publishing. Placton’s largest plan gives you 40 texts, which you copy or export to HTML, Markdown or Word.
The Action Center drafts outreach and rewrites, and its audits apply fixes where they can. Placton tells you what to do and leaves the doing to you.
Writesonic lists SSO, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA on Enterprise, and white label on its top agency plan. Placton offers none of these.
The best Writesonic alternatives start from the job, so name it first and the list gets short. If you pay Writesonic to learn what AI says about your brand, Placton is the direct swap: Claude, Perplexity and Grok from $59, weekly tasks and a first draft where you are missing. If the budget is everything, Otterly.AI. If you want daily volume on three models, Peec AI.
If you pay it to fill a blog, Frase is the closest in shape and Koala the cheapest. If you pay it for copy, Jasper for a team or Rytr for yourself. And if you use the whole bundle every week, you may gain little by leaving.
All these alternatives to Writesonic are only as good as what they show for your own brand, so try them on your own questions. Compare Placton’s plans or start the 7-day trial below.
A tool made the list if it replaces one job Writesonic does today and we could read its own pricing page on the day we wrote this. We read them; we did not sign up and use them.
About Placton itself? Read the full FAQs or see every plan and price.
It depends on what you pay it for. To track AI answers, Placton from $59 a month, with Claude, Perplexity and Grok on every plan. Frase, from $39 billed yearly, comes closest if you want articles, audits and some tracking together. For bulk SEO articles, Koala from $25. For marketing copy, Jasper at $69 per seat. Prices read on November 2, 2026.
Writesonic competitors fall into three groups, because it does three jobs. In AI tracking: Placton, Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, AthenaHQ, Scrunch and the AI add-ons from Semrush and Ahrefs. In SEO content: Frase, Surfer, Koala and Junia AI. In marketing copy: Jasper, Copy.ai, Anyword and Rytr. Its own comparison pages only name AI tracking and SEO suites, which tells you where it now sees the fight.
The closest in shape, with writing and AI tracking under one login, are Frase and Surfer. If you only used it for AI chat and templates, try Copy.ai, Jasper or Rytr. If you only used its tracker, try Placton, Peec AI or Otterly.AI.
Not for good. Its plan table has no free plan, and the cheapest plan is $99 a month. Its pricing page says you can start free with no credit card, and other pages of its site offer a 7-day trial.
Writesonic says no: its pricing page reads “Start free. No credit card needed.” Some of its pages offer 7 days and its FAQ promises a 7-day refund, but the plan table does not state the trial’s length. Before you accept, read the total on the checkout screen and the date of the first charge.
Starter is $99 a month, Basic $249 and Growth $499. Billed yearly they drop to $79, $199 and $399 a month, with 12 months paid upfront: $948, $2,388 and $4,788. Enterprise and the agency plans show no price on its pricing page. Read on November 2, 2026.
We can only report what is public. Trustpilot showed 4.6 from 5,763 reviews on November 2, 2026, with only 8 from the last 12 months, 5 of them one star, and it notes the company has not replied to negative reviews. Writesonic, Inc. lists a San Francisco address, 10,000+ teams by its own count, and SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR on Enterprise. We have not used its paid product.
Only on Enterprise, which starts with a demo. Starter, Basic and Growth track ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Placton asks Claude, Perplexity and Grok weekly on every plan, from $59, and does not track Gemini.
For writing, Rytr: free up to 10,000 characters a month with no end date. Koala gives 5,000 free words once. For AI tracking we read no full free plan: AthenaHQ’s Essential gives 300 credits, and the rest are trials. If you first want to see whether AI can read your site, Placton’s audit is free, with no signup.
Otterly.AI Lite at $29 tracks four AIs daily with 15 prompts. Placton Starter at $59 tracks five with 20 prompts, two daily and three weekly. Peec AI Starter at $95 is close to Writesonic Starter in price, with 4,500 answers a month against about 1,500.
No, only part of it. It replaces the AI tracking and adds weekly tasks and a first draft per question. It has no Google SEO data, whole-site audit, CMS publishing, outreach or API. If you use those each week, pair Placton with a writer such as Frase or Koala, or stay where you are.
No. Its Writer hands you text: you edit it, then paste it into your CMS or download it as HTML, Markdown or Word. Nothing goes live or changes on your site without you.
There is no import. Copy your prompts and competitors by hand, and your history starts again at the first reading.
They now do different jobs. Jasper Pro at $69 per seat is for on-brand marketing copy, with GEO agents only on Business. Writesonic from $99 is mainly AI tracking with articles attached. Pick by the job, and note that we have used neither.
From each maker’s own pages, read on November 2, 2026, and from one reading of five AIs that same day. We never signed up to Writesonic, so its paid dashboard is unseen. G2 and ChatGPT’s pricing page refused our reader, and we could not reach Reddit. Plans move quickly, so confirm on the maker’s page before paying.
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