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How we compare

Most content tools do one job. An article tool, a social scheduler and a tracker that tells you whether AI assistants name you are three subscriptions and three dashboards, and they cost more than one service that does all of it and waits for your approval.

Only what each vendor states publicly is listed here. Where a vendor does not state something, this table says so rather than guessing. Prices carrying a marker link to the page they were read from.

There is a deeper comparison for each of the three categories this table mixes together. Each one names the vendors in its category, prices them from their own pages, and says plainly who should buy one of them rather than us.

Pick in thirty seconds

PlainQuill If you want articles written for you, checked against their sources and held until they are approved, with a post for each network you connect, on one bill from $29 a month.
An article tool If your site runs on Shopify, Webflow, Ghost or Wix, you publish in several languages, or you want articles to go out with no review step. Soro, SEObot, Outrank, Koala, Frase and RightBlogger each do at least one of those.
A social scheduler If you already have something to post, or you need TikTok or YouTube. Buffer, SocialBee, Metricool and Later are cheaper per network and schedule what you bring.
A tracker If you need hundreds of positions or AI prompts watched every day. Plans include 2 to 6 tracked searches as part of the writing, and the rank and AI visibility trackers sell the volume.
All three of those If you were about to buy one of each, the last row of the table adds up what they cost together.

The table below is the long version, and each row's price links the page it was read from.

Feature and price comparison. Scroll sideways to see every column.
Product	Starting price	Approval required before publish	Claims checked against sources	Daily articles	Social posts with images	Named-author byline and schema	Instant IndexNow submission (Bing, Yandex)	Images included with articles
PlainQuill	From $29 per month^[1]	Yes, you approve every piece	Yes, sources on the page, shown at your discretion	Yes, one every day, 2 a day on Max	Yes, on every plan: 4, 6 or all 12 networks	Yes, on every post	Yes, with our key on the hosted blog and a key of yours on your own WordPress site^[2]	Yes, one with every article
Soro	From $39 per month^[3]	Optional, review is a setting	Not advertised	30 to unlimited per month, depending on plan	No	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes, included
SEObot	From $49 per month^[4]	Optional, an accept or decline email you can ask for	Fact checking with cited sources is advertised	Weekly output, no monthly count stated	No	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes, included
Outrank	$99 per month for 30 articles^[5]	Optional: a 30-day plan you approve and a preview of each article, then auto-publish	Human editors fact-check on a $1,399 per month plan	30 articles per month	No	Not advertised	Not advertised	Base images included, a better image model is $49 per month extra
Frase	From $39 per month billed yearly, $49 month to month^[6]	Optional, autonomy is a dial you set	Not advertised	10 articles a month on the entry plan	Drafted for each channel on its second plan, published to no network	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes, a hero image with each article
RightBlogger	From $59 per month, $49 billed yearly^[7]	Optional, drafts to review or published directly	Not advertised	One automation on the entry plan, set to daily if you choose	Shares each post: LinkedIn on the entry plan, 5 networks above it	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes, featured images included
A typical tool stack	$152 to $164 per month across three subscriptions^[8]	Plan approval from the article tool; none on posts at these tiers	Not at these tiers	30 articles a month from the article tool	Yes, from the scheduler, which is $24 to $36 of that^[9]	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes, from the article tool

Two things the columns above have no room for, and both go against us. Frase watches 50 to 500 AI prompts a day, where we watch 2 to 6 and check them weekly, or daily on Max, so on AI visibility it is much the deeper instrument. RightBlogger audits and re-optimises pages that are already live every three days, daily on its Agency plan, where we do it inside the weekly plan: when a page starts slipping in rank, the next plan proposes the rewrite with the evidence and you approve it, so a fix arrives with the next weekly plan rather than within days. What we are ahead on is narrower and worth stating exactly: we ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude on every plan, and the cheapest standalone tracker in that three-tool stack charges extra for Claude and Gemini.^[10]

Competitor prices are taken from their public pricing pages as of September 2026. Prices and features change. Verify current prices with each vendor before you decide.

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What the table does not tell you

Output volume is not quality

A plan that promises more articles per month is easy to sell and easy to deliver badly. What matters is whether each piece is sourced and whether you saw it before your customers did.

Auto-publish moves the risk to you

Tools that publish by default put unverified claims on your domain under your name. Every PlainQuill piece is written in your voice and delivered ready to proof. Nothing publishes without an approval of that exact version, given by you, a teammate you invite, or an assistant you have authorised to approve for you.

Add-on charges add up

Images, extra seats and credit top-ups are common line items elsewhere. Images are part of our plan price, and so are your team members: extra bylines cost nothing. The only optional charges are website hosting (included on Max), extra article volume, extra tracked searches and human review. Extra article volume is another article a day for $19 a month, or extra articles one at a time: $1.50 each on monthly billing, or 12 for $15 on either billing.

None of these tools, ours included, can promise you a search ranking. Anyone who does is selling something they do not control.

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Read the blog we publish for ourselves, through the same pipeline, then run it on your own site. Ask within 7 days of a payment and you get all of it back while fewer than 7 articles have been generated since that payment. From 7 on, you get back the part that covers the articles not yet generated.

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This page cites its own facts the way a PlainQuill article does. Each marker above jumps here; each source links to where the claim can be checked.

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PlainQuill pricingOur own plans, the optional add-ons and the refund policy, in full.
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IndexNow protocolThe instant-submission protocol behind the submission column. Bing and Yandex participate. Submitting a page tells those engines it exists; when, or whether, they index it is their decision.
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Soro pricingRead from their public pricing page as of September 2026. The page's questions section says plans generate 30 to unlimited articles per month and that articles include AI-generated images. The tool is at trysoro.com, not soro.ai.
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SEO Bot pricingRead from their public pricing section as of September 2026. The page says articles are produced every week and include image generation; no monthly count is given. It also advertises fact checking with citation of sources, and its questions section offers an email listing articles to accept or decline.
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Outrank pricingRead as of September 2026. The base plan includes in-article AI images; a Premium Images upgrade with a better image model is $49 per month. A Human Curated Service at $1,399 per month adds professional editors who review and fact-check every article before publication.
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Frase pricingRead from their public pricing page as of September 2026. Starter is $39 a month billed yearly, $49 month to month, and carries one seat, one site and "10 articles and 50 audit pages each month". Publishing goes to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix or their own hosted system, and no social network is in that list. Autonomy is a setting: "Let Frase publish on its own, keep every page under review, or anywhere in between." Their AI Visibility tracking is deeper than ours, and the paragraph under the table says so.
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RightBlogger pricingRead from their public pricing page as of September 2026. Solo is "$ 59" a month billed monthly or "$ 49" a month billed annually, and connects one website and one automation. Review is a choice on their home page: "Keep posts as drafts to review and edit, or let autoblogging publish directly to your connected site." Social sharing is "LinkedIn" on Solo and "X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, and Pinterest" on the plans above it. Its Site Agent audits live posts "every 3 days", daily on Agency. Neither page says anything about checking facts.
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Outrank pricing, the article tool in that stackThe same page as source 5, read as of September 2026: "Outrank costs $99 per month" for "30 SEO-optimized articles per month generated and published on auto-pilot", with AI images. The stack figure beside it is that plus a scheduler (source 9) and a standalone AI-visibility tracker at $29 a month (source 10), which is $152 to $164 depending on how many social networks the scheduler covers. Until this month the article tool here was Koala AI, whose pricing page no longer states a number of articles.
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Buffer pricing, the scheduler in that stackRead as of September 2026. Essentials is priced per channel, "$6/channel" at one to ten channels, so 4 networks is $24 a month and 6 is $36. "Approval workflows" start on its Team plan, not on Essentials. Buffer is cheaper than us at every network count and is the better scheduler; what it does not do is write the thing being scheduled.
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Otterly.ai pricing, the AI-visibility tracker in that stackRead as of September 2026. Lite is $29 a month for "15 search prompts" at a "Daily tracking frequency", tracking "ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, MS Copilot", with "Claude, Google AI-Mode, Gemini as extra Add-ons". It checks daily; we check weekly, and daily only on Max. Claude and Gemini being add-ons there is the comparison worth making: we ask all four on every plan.
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