Clearscope vs Frase
We give Clearscope a 2.2 GPA and Frase a 2.4, out of 4.0. Frase grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Clearscope
Content optimization with term guidance and AI answer tracking
Frase
AI content agent that drafts, publishes and refreshes articles
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAClearscopeFair | 2.4GPAFraseFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DGraded against other content editors. Essentials is $129 a month with no yearly discount, against $49 for Surfer, $39 for Frase and $19 for NeuronWriter. Users are unlimited, so a team of five pays about $25.80 a head, but one marketer pays the lot. | CGraded against other content editors. Starter is $39 a month billed yearly ($49 monthly) for 1 seat, 1 site and 10 articles a month. Cheaper than Surfer's $49 and far under Clearscope's $129, but twice NeuronWriter's $19. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but there's a 14-day free trial, and the listing doesn't say whether it asks for a card. | CNo free plan, but the 7-day trial needs no card and gives you Professional features, capped at 5 articles and 50 audit pages. |
| Features | BTerm and intent guidance with a live grade, AI drafts, query discovery, tracking of your brand in ChatGPT and Gemini, content monitoring with 404 and indexing alerts, and internal links while you write. The whole content job. | BResearch, drafting with SEO and GEO scores, publishing to four CMSs or its own hosted one, Content Guard rewriting slipping pages, AI citation tracking and an MCP server, CLI and API. The whole content job and then some. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. Clearscope includes live onboarding and training, but there are tracked queries, pages and drafts to manage within each month's limits. | CNo rating on record. The agent does a lot for you, but connecting a CMS, choosing what it may publish on its own and approving revisions all take setting up. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with add-ons for Google Docs, Microsoft Word and WordPress, and links to Google Analytics and Search Console. No API on record, and no desktop or phone app. | BWeb, publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity and Wix, and run from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor through MCP, a CLI and an API. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | content teams with lots of writers | drafting and publishing articles for you |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Clearscope and Frase. How we grade
Price against what you get
Clearscope starts at $129 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Frase starts at $39 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Frase starts $90 a month lower. Of the other SEO tools on the chart, none scores higher than Clearscope for less, and none scores higher than Frase for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Clearscope starts at $129 per month, billed monthly. Frase starts at $39 per month, billed yearly ($49 billed monthly).
- Clearscope also covers keyword research.
- Frase also covers AI agents.
At a glance
| Clearscope | Frase | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $129 per month, billed monthly | $39 per month, billed yearly ($49 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial | 7-day free trial of Professional features, no credit card; capped at 5 articles and 50 audit pages |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Mushi Labs | Frase |
| Price read from | clearscope.io | frase.io |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Clearscope
- Content teams with many writers who all need access
- Editors who work in Google Docs, Word or WordPress
- Brands refreshing older articles that are losing traffic
Frase
- Small teams that want articles drafted and published with little hands-on work
- Content leads refreshing pages that are losing Google traffic
- Agencies running content for up to 10 client sites
Worth knowing
Clearscope
- There is no free plan, and the pricing page shows no discount for paying yearly.
- Essentials allows 50 tracked queries and 50 monitored pages; more pages and drafts are paid add-ons.
- The pricing page names ChatGPT and Gemini for query tracking, while the homepage also names Claude.
- Invoice payment is only for custom yearly plans; other plans are paid by card.
Frase
- Starter stops at its monthly limits; overages are optional on Professional and Scale at $5 or $4 per extra article.
- Extra seats cost $29 a month each on Professional and Scale.
- Reporting history is current only on Starter, 3 months on Professional and 12 months on Scale.
- White-label reports and a branded client portal need the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Key features
Clearscope
- Term and intent guidance
- Get suggested terms, questions and search intent for a target query, with a content grade that updates as you edit.
- AI drafting
- Generate and edit first drafts inside Clearscope; plans include 20 drafts a month, with more sold as add-ons.
- Query Discovery
- Enter a topic or a website to surface the queries that bring traffic and attention in Google and AI chat tools.
- AI query tracking
- Track chosen queries in ChatGPT and Gemini to see when your brand is mentioned and which competitors are recommended.
- Content monitoring
- Watch published pages with Google Analytics and Search Console data, and get alerts for 404s, indexing and crawl problems.
- Internal linking
- See internal link opportunities from your connected content while you write, tied to the recommended terms.
Frase
- Research and drafting
- Frase studies the pages that rank for a topic, then drafts and optimizes an article with SEO and GEO scores and generated images.
- Publishing agent
- Push finished posts to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix, or let the agent publish on its own for content types you choose.
- Content Guard
- Watches 10 to 300 published pages for falling Google rank or traffic, writes a revision and republishes it once you approve.
- AI Visibility
- Monitors daily whether ChatGPT and Google AI cite you; Professional adds Perplexity and Scale adds Claude and Gemini.
- FraseCMS
- A hosted or headless CMS included free up to 100,000 page views a month; paid tiers at $19 or $99 a month add room and drop the badge.
- MCP server, CLI and API
- Run Frase from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor, with 5,000 to 50,000 API, MCP and CLI requests a month by plan.
Plans
Clearscope
Essentials$129
per month, billed monthly
Unlimited users and projects, 50 tracked queries, 50 pages, 20 topic explorations and 20 AI drafts a month.
Business$399
per month, billed monthly
Unlimited users, 300 tracked queries, 300 pages, 50 topic explorations and 20 drafts a month, and a dedicated account manager.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom credits and agreements, crawler whitelisting and single sign-on, through sales.
Frase
Starter$39
per month, billed yearly ($49 billed monthly)
1 seat, 1 site, 10 articles and 50 audit pages a month, 50 AI prompts in ChatGPT and Google AI, 10 pages watched for decay.
Professional$103
per month, billed yearly ($129 billed monthly)
3 seats, 5 sites, 40 articles and 250 audit pages, 200 AI prompts adding Perplexity, content calendar and internal links.
Scale$239
per month, billed yearly ($299 billed monthly)
5 seats, 10 domains, 100 articles and 1,000 audit pages, 500 prompts adding Claude and Gemini, client-ready reports.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom seats and limits, white-label reports, a client portal, SSO and an SLA, through sales.
Ways to pay less
Clearscope
No public discounts listed.
Frase
- Annual discount
Save 20% with yearly billing
Frase's pricing page takes 20% off for yearly billing: Professional is $103 a month billed yearly instead of $129 month to month.
