Scalenut vs SEOpital (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Scalenut if

• Fits if you publish a steady stream of blog articles with AI help
• Makes sense if you want article writing and AI answer tracking in one account

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you're on Starter, at 5 new articles, 5 optimizations and 5 clusters a month
• Watch out: there are no refunds once the 7-day trial is over
• Skip it if you need daily AI answer checks, as prompts are checked weekly and Perplexity needs Professional at $199
• Pricey if you want internal links, audits or auto-publishing, which start at Plus for $89 a month
• Watch out: yearly prices only show as a time-limited Black Friday deal, with no regular yearly price

Pick SEOpital if

• Fits if you write blog posts in English, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese
• Works for teams that refresh old pages as often as they write new ones

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you write new articles, as each takes 2 credits and Basic's 20 cover just 10
• Skip it if you're not on WordPress, the only CMS the site names for publishing
• Pricey if you buy credit packs, at $150 for 50, and packs leave out the rank and duplicate checkers
• Watch out: the pricing table doesn't list the LLM Tracker or say what it costs
• Watch out: the trial needs no card, but the page doesn't say how much it includes

Scalenut

• Annual plans are sold only at a time-limited Black Friday price at present; the regular annual price is not shown.
• There is no free plan, and the refund policy rules out refunds once the 7-day trial is over.
• AI answers are checked weekly, not daily; Starter and Plus cover only ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews.
• Internal linking, content audits, auto-publishing, Social UpReach and the backlinks marketplace start at Plus.

SEOpital

• A new article uses twice the credits of an optimization, so Basic's 20 credits cover only 10 new articles a month.
• Credit packs without a subscription cost $150 for 50 credits, $225 for 100 and $375 for 200, and leave out the rank and duplicate checkers.
• One-click publishing is offered for WordPress; the site names no other CMS.
• The pricing table does not list the LLM Tracker or say what it costs.

Scalenut

AI Visibility

Tracks a set of prompts weekly in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, plus Perplexity on Professional, with insights on AI bot traffic.

GEO article writer

Cruise Mode drafts articles from keyword and SERP research, with tone of voice settings and AI images included in each plan's monthly allowance.

Content optimizer

Scores existing articles against the ranking pages with NLP terms and a content score, and suggests the changes to make.

Keyword planner

Groups keywords into topic clusters; Professional adds an advanced planner and cannibalization analysis.

Content audit and internal linking

From Plus, audits a set number of pages a month for topic gaps and suggests internal links between them.

Social UpReach and backlinks

From Plus, Social UpReach follows Reddit threads by keyword and subreddit, and a marketplace sells backlinks.

SEOpital

Top 10 analysis

Compares the top 10 Google results for a keyword on more than 50 variables, such as length, keywords used, FAQs and images, to find what the ranking pages share.

Generate new articles

Writes articles of 300 to 5,000 words that cover those factors, with AI-generated images, in English, French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese.

Optimize existing content

Adds the missing factors to a page you already have, keeping the tone and writing style you give it.

Keyword research and clustering

Finds keywords, groups them by search intent into clusters for a content plan, and suggests H1 titles based on the top 10 results.

Rank and cannibalization checks

Connects to Search Console to track every keyword, flag pages that recently lost traffic and find pages competing for the same keywords.

LLM Tracker

Tracks questions people might ask AI assistants to see whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and other LLMs mention your brand or cite your site.

Scalenut

• Starter$59

  per month, billed monthly

  1 domain, 10 prompts checked weekly in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, and 5 new articles, 5 optimizations and 5 keyword clusters a month.

• Plus$89

  per month, billed monthly

  2 domains, 4 team members, 25 prompts, 30 articles and 30 optimizations a month, a 200-page audit, internal linking and auto-publishing.

• Professional$199

  per month, billed monthly

  Unlimited domains and members, 100 prompts with Perplexity added, 75 articles a month, 1,000-page audits, cannibalization checks and a CSM.

• VIP ServiceCustom

  Done-for-you work by a dedicated strategist, writers, editors and AI agents, with backlinks and weekly reports. Sold after a strategy call.

SEOpital

• Basic$49

  per month for 20 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 10 new articles or 20 optimizations, with internal links, FAQs, custom tone, keyword research, clustering, rank checker and duplicate checker.

• Standard$97

  per month for 50 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 25 new articles or 50 optimizations a month, with the same tools as Basic.

• Expert$149

  per month for 100 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 50 new articles or 100 optimizations a month, with the same tools as Basic.

• Elite$249

  per month for 200 credits, billed monthly

  Up to 100 new articles or 200 optimizations a month, with the same tools as Basic.

Scalenut

• Other savings

  Black Friday early access: 65% off annual plans

  For a limited time, annual Starter is $21, Plus $31 and Professional $70 a month, with 3x usage limits. No end date is given and the deal is non-refundable.

SEOpital

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with an annual subscription

  SEOpital's pricing section says an annual subscription costs 20% less than the monthly prices shown.