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All four tools here will produce a draft, every one of them for a fraction of what we charge, and two of them will publish it to your site without being asked. Each comparison sets that tool beside a service where a person picks the topic, writes the piece, edits it, ships it, and answers for the quarter. Where buying the licence outright is the better decision, the page says so.
How it all works
Most teams shopping for a content tool are not short of drafting capacity. They are short of somebody who will decide what is worth writing and then still be there in month four. Those are different purchases, and these pages keep them apart. If the deciding is the part you want handed over, what the managed service actually covers is set out in full elsewhere.
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Every tool here meters output. Clearscope allows twenty drafts a month on both paid plans, Frase ten articles on Starter, Writesonic fifteen. Look at what you actually published last quarter before buying a larger allowance. Credits nobody spent are not a tooling problem. Ranking the published result is metered differently again, and the SEO tool comparisons work that cost out the same way.
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Jasper Pro includes one seat, and a second person means moving to Business and a sales call. Writesonic Starter admits no additional users at all, while Basic and Growth charge fifty dollars a month for each one. Clearscope is the exception, with unlimited users on every tier. Divide the annual figure by the posts you genuinely shipped and the cheap tool sometimes stops being cheap.
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A draft is the easy half. Somebody has to know a topic will not sell, cut two thousand words down to eight hundred, and say out loud that last quarter did not work. If that person is already on your payroll, buy the licence direct and keep the difference. No allowance creates one. Where the worry is whether AI answers cite the piece at all, the AI visibility tool comparisons take that apart separately.
Four products, four different answers to who writes the thing and who carries the result.
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Drafts, Not Publishes
Sixty Nine Per Seat
One Seat On Pro
Jasper is a marketing writing platform at sixty nine dollars a month per seat, or fifty nine on annual billing, and it holds a brand voice across a lot of output better than anything else here. Pro carries exactly one seat, so a second writer means the Business plan and a conversation with sales. It drafts well. It does not choose the topic, cut the draft in half, or put the post on your site.
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Briefs And Grades
Unlimited Users
Twenty Drafts A Month
Clearscope is one hundred and twenty nine dollars a month on Essentials and three hundred and ninety nine on Business, with unlimited users and unlimited projects on both, which makes it the best value here for a team that already writes. Drafts cap at twenty a month on either paid plan. It tells you what to cover and grades what came back. Somebody on your side is still doing the writing.
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Publishes To WordPress
Thirty Nine To Start
Ten Articles On Starter
Frase is the closest product here to what we sell and the cheapest, from thirty nine dollars a month on annual billing, and it will research a topic, draft it and push it to WordPress on its own. Starter covers one seat, one site and ten articles a month. Read it seriously before reading us. What software cannot do is decide a topic is not worth writing, or answer for a quarter that produced nothing.
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AI Search Visibility
Seventy Nine To Start
No Second Seat
Writesonic has moved from writing tool to AI search visibility platform, seventy nine dollars a month on Starter through three hundred and ninety nine on Growth, billed annually. Starter is one user and one project with no option to add a second, fifteen articles a month, and content optimisation is held back for Enterprise. Watching which AI answers name your competitor instead of you is a real job. It is not the same job as writing the page.
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About the service
Managed content is not a writing tool with our name on it. The posts, the domain and the traffic they earn stay in your accounts on your own hosting. We choose the topics with your pricing in front of us, write the pieces, edit them, publish them to your WordPress site, go back and refresh the ones that start slipping, and tell you when content is not the reason growth stalled. You run the business. The publishing calendar is ours.
Content tooling has got very good at producing volume and no better at deciding what is worth writing. Every option below will fill a calendar. None of them knows your customers, which objection kills your deals, or why the last proposal was turned down. That knowledge sits in your sales calls, and getting it onto the page is the actual work, whatever you use to draft it.
There is also a growing cost to publishing volume for its own sake. Search engines have got better at spotting content written to exist rather than to answer, and a site carrying two hundred thin pages now ranks worse than the same site carrying twenty good ones. If a tool promises fifty articles a month, the honest question is what happens to your domain after six months of that.
Where these platforms genuinely help is the mechanical parts: briefs, outlines, keeping a house style consistent across writers, clearing the blank page. Those are real savings. Buy a tool from the table below if the writing is the bottleneck. If the thinking is the bottleneck, no tool here will help.
A draft sitting in a document changes nothing. It waits for somebody who has the site login and a spare hour, and those two rarely turn up in the same week. We write the piece, format it, put the internal links in, and publish it. The month a calendar stops is visible in the traffic about ninety days later, which is the whole reason it has to be somebody's job rather than somebody's intention.
Volume is the number everybody over weights. Two hundred readers who arrive ready to buy beat four thousand who are only reading, and no scoring tool knows which is which for what you sell. We pick the topics with your pricing in front of us and write the reasoning down, so you can argue with it rather than take it on faith.
Most of what a blog earns comes from posts written a year or more ago, and those are the ones that quietly decay while everybody works on the next new thing. We track which pages are losing position, rewrite the parts that went stale, and republish them. It is unglamorous work and it is usually cheaper per visitor than anything new.
What does a managed content service do that Jasper does not?
Jasper produces a draft in your brand voice, quickly and at volume, and it is good at that. It does not judge whether the topic is worth the money, cut the draft where it sags, add the internal links, publish it, or come back in six months and rewrite it. Those are the parts that turn writing into traffic, and each one needs a person with access to your site rather than a better prompt.
Why did our traffic flatten while we published more than ever?
Usually because output went up and selection did not. Thirty posts on subjects nobody searches for return what three would, minus the time. It also happens when new pieces keep arriving while the older ones are left to decay, so the blog runs hard to stand still. Before buying more drafting capacity, look at how much of your traffic comes from posts over a year old.
Does the blog have to move to your platform?
It does not. Posts go onto your own WordPress install, on your domain, in your accounts, and the archive builds as an asset on your balance sheet rather than ours. One of the tools here will host the blog for you on its own subdomain, which is convenient and quietly parks your best long term asset on somebody else's property. We do not offer that and would talk you out of it.
Will an AI written post rank?
Sometimes, and that is the honest answer. Google's published guidance is about whether a page is useful, not about how it was typed. What sinks most machine written content is that it comes out generic, because a model works from what already ranks and averages it. A post that says something only your business could say is the hard one to generate and also the one worth publishing. We use these tools. A person decides what the piece argues.
Which of these tools will publish the post for us?
Frase and Writesonic both connect to WordPress and will push a finished piece across, and Frase will republish a fix to a decaying page once you approve it. Jasper and Clearscope will not, so the draft leaves in a document. Publishing turned out to be the easiest job on this page to automate, which is why the tools took it first. Choosing and editing are the hard ones and they are still open.
Why not buy the cheapest tool and write the posts ourselves?
You should, if writing is not the constraint. Frase starts at thirty nine dollars a month on annual billing and Jasper at fifty nine, and against our four hundred and ninety nine that is not a close contest on price. What none of them include is a person who picks the subject, writes it, cuts it, ships it and returns to it, in a busy month as well as a quiet one. That is what we sell, and it is the expensive thing to hire.
How long before content shows a return?
Three to six months before a new post settles into a position, and longer on anything competitive. Output is also lumpy: roughly one post in five carries most of the traffic and there is no reliable way to pick it in advance, which is the real argument for a steady calendar over a burst. We report position and clicks side by side, because a post can climb ten places and still send nobody.
Can we keep the tool we already pay for?
Yes, and we will work inside your account so the history stays with you rather than restarting in ours. We will also say if the subscription has stopped earning its keep. A drafting tool billed monthly and opened twice a quarter is not insurance, and if that is what is happening we would rather tell you than quietly invoice alongside it.
We have somebody in house who writes. What is left for you?
Plenty, and it is a common arrangement. If somebody already writes well about your business, the hardest part is solved. We take the topic selection, the editing, the publishing, the internal linking and the refresh cycle, and hand the drafting back. It usually costs less than the full service and works better, because they know the business and we know the channel.
Is there a dashboard, or a seat to learn?
Neither, deliberately. Every product on this page is something you log into, and the cost nobody prices is the hour a week somebody spends inside it. What arrives here instead is a monthly summary: what was published, what moved, what did not, and what we are changing about the part that did not. When a decision is yours to make, we come and ask for it.
When are we the wrong purchase?
Two cases. If somebody in house genuinely enjoys writing about the business and has the hours, buy Frase or Clearscope and keep the difference, because the tools are good and the gap in price is enormous. And once you employ a content marketer outright, buy the licences direct and let them run it. We fit the band between those two, which is wider than most owners expect and is not everybody.
What if content is not our real problem?
We will say so before taking your money, and looking costs nothing. Content is one channel. A product nobody is searching for, or a site that loses people the moment they land, will survive a year of excellent posts untouched. Selling a publishing calendar against either of those would be dishonest, and it would show up in month six anyway.
What does the higher tier add?
Managed Content at four hundred and ninety nine dollars a month covers topic selection, writing, editing, publishing and the refresh cycle. Managed Content Growth at nine hundred and ninety nine roughly doubles the monthly output and extends coverage to more than one product line or location. Most businesses starting from a quiet blog do not need the second tier, and we will say so before you buy it.
Are we locked in?
No. Month to month, thirty days notice, no setup fee. Worth noticing on the tool side: most of the discounted prices quoted on this page assume annual billing, and Jasper commits you to twelve months to get it. Clearscope is the one that says no contracts outright. Content is also not a purchase that finishes. Posts decay and competitors keep publishing, so treat the calendar as a running cost of the channel rather than a project with an end date.
What do you need from us to start?
Author access to the site, read access to Search Console and analytics, and an hour to talk through what you sell and what a customer is worth to you. The first weeks are mostly reading: your existing posts, what already ranks, and what your competitors have not covered. Publishing starts in week three or four, and you see the plan before anything goes live.
