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AI SEO tool pricing comparison: what six tools cost, and what you actually pay
The price on the pricing page and the amount that leaves your account are rarely the same number, and the difference usually has a name: a second website, better images, a few articles more than the plan covers, or a yearly price that holds for one year.
This AI SEO tool pricing comparison covers six products: the advertised price of each, and then what thirty published articles a month actually costs once the add ons are counted. Every price here was read from the product's own public page on 9 September 2026. Domains are named in the text and deliberately not linked, because the useful part is the arithmetic, not another trip to somebody's landing page. What these products do, beyond costing money, is in our guide to AI SEO content software.
What AI SEO tools cost: the short answer
Most AI SEO tools cost about $99 a month for roughly thirty published articles. Of six public prices read on 9 September 2026, four advertise $99, one advertises $39, and one publishes no price at all. Add ons sit on top of that number.
- The common price. $99 a month, about thirty articles, one website. Four of the six sit here, which is why the landing pages all looked the same.
- The cheap end, and what it costs you instead. $19 to $39 a month exists, and it is usually paid for somewhere other than your wallet: the articles land on the vendor's own blog, or nothing checks them before they go live.
- The part that is not on the pricing page. Extra sites, better images, volume above the base plan, and the date a cheap first month becomes a full subscription.
The honest answer to how much do AI SEO tools cost is two numbers: the advertised one, which takes a minute to find, and the real one, which is the rest of this page.
The price table
The third column is the one worth reading: it is the only place the add ons appear. Prices here move quickly, so screenshot whatever number you are quoted today.
| Product | Advertised price | What thirty articles a month really costs |
|---|---|---|
| RankPill | $99/mo, or $82.50/mo billed yearly | $99. "30 SEO/GEO articles (1 daily)" are included in the base plan (rankpill.com/pricing) |
| RankYak | $99/mo, or $82.50/mo billed yearly | $99 for one site. Each extra website is another $99/mo, and the Site Guard add on is a further $99/mo (rankyak.com/pricing) |
| Outrank | $99/mo, or $999/year | $99 base. Beyond that: 60 articles +$85, 90 articles +$160, Premium Images $49, Backlink Premium $199, Human Curated $1,399, Free Tools Builder $199, Directory Submission $500 once (outrank.so/pricing) |
| Bunzy | $99/mo, or $19/mo billed yearly for the first year | $228 for the first year, then $468 a year, so $39 a month from year two (bunzy.io) |
| LaunchPist | $39/mo, or $19/mo billed yearly, after $1 for a 3 day entry offer | $19 to $39, and today it publishes to a LaunchPist hosted blog, with your own domain "rolling out next" (launchpist.com) |
| AutoSEO | Not shown on the homepage | Not calculable from the public page: the homepage advertises "1 article/day + backlinks" with no visible price (getautoseo.com) |
| Kitto | $49/mo on Growth, or $468 a year | $49 for 30 credits, one credit being one published article. No add ons, and credit packs are optional |
Four of the six other products advertise $99 for about thirty articles, one advertises $39, and one publishes no price at all. That count is ours, made from the rows above rather than borrowed from anyone's survey. The clustering at $99 is not a cartel: the shelf converged on one article a day, and $99 is what one article a day was priced at when these products launched. It says nothing about what any of them does before publishing, which is the part a price cannot show. One row is taken apart product by product on our RankPill alternative page.
One bill, built from the numbers in the table above. Look at the middle column: none of those three lines appears in the headline price, and each of them can be a fair purchase. The plan, the add ons and the total are illustrative.
Four things the pricing page will not add up for you
Arithmetic you can do in thirty seconds, on any product, including ones not in the table.
- Number of sites. The most expensive line and the least visible one. Where a plan is priced per website, three domains is not a bigger plan, it is three plans: $99 becomes $297 a month for the work you were already imagining. RankYak states it plainly, each extra website at another $99 a month (rankyak.com/pricing). Count your domains before you compare anything.
- Images. The pictures a plan includes are not always the pictures you want. Outrank sells Premium Images at $49 a month on top of the base plan (outrank.so/pricing). Check what the plan covers, check what the better option costs, then decide which of the two you were actually pricing.
- Volume above the base plan. Thirty articles a month is the shelf standard, and going past it is usually an add on rather than the next tier: 60 articles at $85 and 90 at $160 on top of a $99 plan (outrank.so/pricing). If your plan is sixty articles, price sixty.
- The entry step. A cheap first month that becomes a full subscription is normal here, and ours works that way too, so this is a habit rather than an accusation: write down the date and the amount of the first full charge, whoever you buy from, and check that cancelling is one click rather than an email. Before you pay anyone at all, you can run a free SEO audit and find out whether articles are your next move in the first place.
What the cheapest AI SEO content tool usually buys
The cheapest AI SEO content tool in any given week is real, and so is its price. What is worth understanding is where the difference went, because nobody on this shelf found a language model three times cheaper than everybody else. They made a trade instead, and there are four common ones.
- The articles are not published on your domain. LaunchPist publishes today to a LaunchPist hosted blog, with your own domain described as "rolling out next" (launchpist.com). Pages on someone else's domain build someone else's site.
- Nothing checks the article before it goes live. Checking costs money on every draft, so removing it is the easiest way to cut a price. What Google actually objects to is set out in is AI content safe for SEO.
- Links come bundled. Some cheap plans include link exchanges or placements: a different product, carrying a different risk, sold inside a content subscription. We do not sell links at any price.
- The yearly price holds for one year. Bunzy advertises $19 a month billed yearly, which is $228 for the first year and $468 a year from the second (bunzy.io). The first year is genuinely cheap. The second is the price you are actually signing up for.
None of that makes cheap bad. It means the cost was paid in something other than money, and the trade may well suit you. Our own row is not the cheapest on the table above: one product advertises less than Growth today, and another is cheaper for its first year.
How to compare prices when the unit is different
Half of this shelf does not sell articles. It sells credits, words, posts per day or something called unlimited, and a purchase you cannot state in one unit is a purchase you cannot compare. Convert everything into the same figure before you look at the money: what one published article costs you in a month.
| What the vendor counts | Turn it into this |
|---|---|
| Articles a month | Already there. Check whether an article means published or merely drafted |
| Credits | Ask what spends one credit, and whether a failed draft spends it too |
| Words | Divide by your usual article length. Thirty articles at 1,500 words is 45,000 words |
| Posts per day | Multiply by 30, then check whether the daily limit is per website or per account |
| Unlimited | Find the fair use line in the terms, because there is always one, and treat it as the real number |
Our own unit is the credit: one credit is one published article, an update to an existing page is 0.6 of one, and a draft that fails the quality check is not published and spends nothing.
Where Kitto sits on this table
Last row, not first, and not the cheapest. Three facts, so the same arithmetic works on us.
- Growth is $49 a month for 30 credits, one credit being one published article. Billed yearly it is $468, and the second year renews at the price of the first.
- Scale is $99 a month for 75 credits and up to three websites in that one price, the line where per site pricing usually starts multiplying.
- There are no add ons. Images and checks are in the plan. Credit packs exist if you want them, and buying one does not raise your subscription.
Start with a free SEO audit: one field, no card, no account, and the findings are yours to keep. If you decide to go further, your first month costs $4.99 on Start and covers 5 published articles on one website, each one waiting for your approval before it goes live. After that it becomes Growth at $49 a month unless you cancel. Cancel in one click, and we return your first full payment within 30 days if you ask.
The renewal date and amount are shown on the checkout page, in your receipt and in the billing portal. The full breakdown is on the Kitto pricing page, and the first group of sites is a waiting list rather than a checkout: leaving your address there charges nothing.
Two honest limitations, because a section about ourselves with none in it would undo the six rows above. Kitto publishes to WordPress and nothing else today, so if your site runs on Webflow, Wix, Shopify or Framer, none of this pricing applies to you yet. And the product is new: no case studies, no independent reviews, and we will not invent either. What you can check today, for nothing, is whether your own site has anything worth writing about.
Questions people ask about this
Are AI SEO tools worth the money?
It depends on whether you publish. A $99 plan spread over two articles a month is $49.50 an article, and the same plan used to its thirty is $3.30. Before you pay anyone, decide honestly how many articles a month you will actually approve, then divide.
Is annual billing cheaper for AI SEO tools?
Usually yes, and sometimes only for a year. Bunzy advertises $19 a month billed yearly, which is $228 for the first year and $468 a year after that, so $39 a month from year two (bunzy.io, read 9 September 2026). Read what the second year renews at before you count the saving.
What is a credit in an AI SEO tool?
A credit is a unit of work that the vendor defines, so ask what spends one. In Kitto a credit is one published article, an update to an existing page is 0.6, and a draft that fails the quality check is not published and does not spend anything. Other products count words, posts or seats instead.
Are there free AI SEO tools?
Free plans on this shelf are one of two things: a handful of articles, or planning without publishing. Publishing is where the cost sits, so almost nobody gives it away. Our own free part is the audit: a full crawl of your site with the findings in priority order, no card and no account.
What hidden costs do AI SEO tools have?
Four recur. Per site pricing, where each extra domain repeats the whole plan. Images, sold as a better model on top. Volume above the base plan, priced as an add on rather than the next tier. And the entry step, where a cheap first month becomes a full subscription on a date worth writing down.
Which AI SEO tool is cheapest for one small site?
On advertised price for a single site, the cheapest figures we read on 9 September 2026 were $19 to $39 a month, and the lowest of them publishes to a blog hosted by the vendor rather than your own domain. Cheapest and cheapest on your own domain are two different questions, and the second one is the one that matters.
