Frase vs SurgeGraph (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Frase if

• Fits if you want articles drafted and published with little work on your part
• Works for agencies running content for up to 10 client sites on Scale at $239 a month

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you publish a lot, as Starter stops at 10 articles a month with no overage option
• Pricey if you need a team, since 3 seats means Professional at $103 a month, and extra seats are $29 each
• Not for you if you need white-label reports or a client portal, which are Enterprise only
• Watch out: reporting history is current only on Starter, 3 months on Professional and 12 on Scale
• Too light for watching many pages on Starter, which tracks 10 pages for decay and 50 AI prompts

Pick SurgeGraph if

• Fits if you're an agency selling AI search work to several clients
• Works for WordPress sites that want to count visits sent by ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI tools

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to try it first, as there's no free plan or trial, only a once-only 14-day refund
• Watch out: Spark tracks only ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, every 5 days; Perplexity starts at Scale
• Pricey if you need Gemini, Google AI Mode, daily updates or MCP, which all wait on Signature at $107.50
• Tight if you write and track a lot, as one credit pool covers both and unused credits don't roll over
• Skip it if your site isn't on WordPress, since the optimizer and the AI traffic dashboard both need it

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.

SurgeGraph

• There is no free plan or free trial; the 14-day money-back guarantee can be used only once per user.
• Perplexity tracking starts at Scale; Gemini, Google AI Mode, daily updates and MCP access need Signature.
• Credits are shared by tracking, writing and research, and unused subscription credits do not roll over.
• The AI traffic dashboard needs SurgeGraph's WordPress plugin, and the optimizer pushes updates to WordPress.

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.

SurgeGraph

AI visibility tracking

Tracks set prompts in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overview for citations, mentions and sentiment. Which engines, and how often, depends on the plan.

AEO and SEO scoring with fixes

Each page gets a score for Google rankings and one for AI citation readiness, and suggested fixes can be applied and reviewed as a diff.

AI article writer and bulk mode

Turns a keyword into an article with an outline and metadata, using OpenAI or Google Gemini models. Bulk mode takes a CSV of up to 50 keywords.

Content optimizer for WordPress

Imports existing pages from WordPress, applies SEO and AEO fixes, and pushes the updated page back, then tracks which changes moved traffic.

AI traffic dashboard

A WordPress plugin counts visits referred by AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot, refreshed every 5 minutes.

Author voice and knowledge

Builds voice profiles from writing samples and knowledge bases from URLs, documents and text, so drafts draw on a client's own material.

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.

SurgeGraph

• Spark$32.50

  per month for 3,000 credits, billed annually ($39 billed monthly)

  2 projects and 2 seats; credits cover up to 333 prompts or 150 articles. Tracks ChatGPT and Google AI Overview, updated every 5 days.

• Scale$65.83

  per month for 8,000 credits, billed annually ($79 billed monthly)

  10 projects and 5 seats, up to 888 prompts or 400 articles. Adds Perplexity, updates every 3 days, white-label reports and your own API key.

• Signature$107.50

  per month for 15,000 credits, billed annually ($129 billed monthly)

  50 projects and 10 seats, up to 1,666 prompts. Adds Gemini and Google AI Mode, daily updates, MCP access and project access controls.

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.

SurgeGraph

• Annual discount

  Two months free with annual billing

  SurgeGraph's pricing table bills Spark at $390 a year instead of $39 a month, which it calls 2 months free; Scale and Signature get the same discount.