# Contadu review (2026): is it worth $37 a month, billed yearly?

> Content planning and NLP-based SEO editor for teams and agencies

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Contadu is a web-based content intelligence platform from the Polish company Conti, which also makes NeuronWriter. It plans content from competitor and keyword analysis with topical maps and keyword clusters, and its editor scores drafts against NLP terms and entities from the pages ranking on Google. It adds AI writing, plagiarism checks, task management and reporting, with unlimited team members on every plan.

- **Category:** SEO Content Optimizers
- **Made by:** Conti sp. z o.o. (since 2019)
- **Website:** https://contadu.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a free plan, as there's only a 7-day trial.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Contadu is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $37 per month, billed annually ($47 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial after creating an account.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Freelance | $37 per month, billed annually ($47 billed monthly) | 5 content strategies, 50 content writer analyses, up to 150,000 AI words, 5 projects, 100 plagiarism checks and 1,000 backlink checks. |
| Business | $77 per month, billed annually ($97 billed monthly) | 10 content strategies, 100 content writer analyses, up to 300,000 AI words, 10 projects, 200 plagiarism checks and 10,000 backlink checks. |
| Agency | $149 per month, billed annually ($187 billed monthly) | 25 content strategies, 250 content writer analyses, up to 500,000 AI words, 25 projects and 500 plagiarism checks. |
| Enterprise | $293 per month, billed annually ($367 billed monthly) | 50 content strategies, 500 content writer analyses, up to 750,000 AI words, 50 projects, editor integration with your own CMS, extended API access and onboarding. |

Read from https://contadu.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Contadu before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Contadu's pricing page lists yearly billing at 20% off: Freelance is $37 a month billed yearly instead of $47 billed monthly. Source: https://contadu.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Content strategy planner:** Builds a content plan from competitor analysis, with topical maps, keyword clusters, keyword details and coverage gaps against rival sites.
- **NLP terms and entities:** The Content Writer editor suggests terms drawn from the top Google results and the people, places and events they mention, with entities in 19 languages.
- **AI writing and Content Designer:** Generates articles and outlines enriched with NLP terms, from built-in or custom templates; your own OpenAI or Anthropic key lifts the plan's word limit.
- **Plagiarism and internal links:** The editor checks text for plagiarism, within a monthly allowance, and suggests internal links between related pages.
- **Tasks and reporting:** Assign content tasks with due dates to colleagues or outside writers, and produce reports on content quality, competition and progress.
- **Chrome extension and WordPress:** The extension brings recommendations into Google Docs, WordPress and Shopify editors, and the WordPress integration imports and exports posts.

## Good for

- Agencies planning and optimizing content for several client sites
- Content teams that hand briefs and tasks to outside writers
- Writers working in languages other than English

## Worth knowing

- There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial; a refund can be requested within 30 days for the first plan bought.
- Each plan caps content strategies, content writer analyses, AI words and projects; Freelance stops at 5 projects.
- Editor integration with your own CMS and extended API access come only with Enterprise.
- The company also sells NeuronWriter, which covers much of the same ground.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Contadu plans content from competitor and keyword analysis and scores drafts against the terms and entities in the top Google results, with AI writing, plagiarism checks and tasks for writers. There's no free plan, only a 7-day trial. Freelance stops at 5 projects, and its maker also sells NeuronWriter, which covers much of the same ground.

- **Value for money: C.** Freelance is $37 a month billed yearly ($47 monthly), between this category's cheaper quarter ($20) and its middle ($45), with unlimited team members. Business, with 10 projects, is $77.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 7-day trial once you make an account, and the listing doesn't say it needs a card. Refunds cover the first plan bought, within 30 days.
- **Features: B.** A strategy planner with topical maps and clusters, an editor with NLP terms and entities, AI writing, plagiarism checks, internal links, tasks and reports. The whole job, though own-CMS editor integration and extended API access need Enterprise.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Strategies, writer analyses, AI words and projects each have their own monthly cap to keep track of.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus a Chrome extension for Google Docs, WordPress and Shopify editors, with Search Console, Zapier, OpenAI and Anthropic. Extended API access needs Enterprise. No desktop or phone app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Contadu's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SEO content tools

- Contadu's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 59 of the 87 other SEO content tools we grade, and level with 21.
- It stands best on features (B, above 42 of 87) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $37 a month, against a middle price of $45 for the category: 34 of the 80 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-content

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Contadu you would be making search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 59 of the 87 other SEO content tools we grade. It costs $444 a year.

- You could make: Internal linking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Google Search Console and Google Docs among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

WordPress, Google Search Console, Google Docs, Shopify, Zapier, OpenAI, Anthropic

**Tags:** Content optimization, Keyword research, Internal linking, Reports, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [NeuronWriter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/neuronwriter): Content editor that scores drafts against the pages already ranking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/contadu-vs-neuronwriter)
- [Surfer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surfer): Content editor that scores articles for search and AI citations. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/contadu-vs-surfer)
- [Frase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/frase): AI content agent that drafts, publishes and refreshes articles. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/contadu-vs-frase)
- [Page Optimizer Pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/page-optimizer-pro): On-page SEO scoring against the pages that already rank. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/contadu-vs-page-optimizer-pro)
- [Scalenut](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scalenut): AI article writing and optimization with AI answer tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/contadu-vs-scalenut)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://contadu.com/pricing/
- https://contadu.com/
- https://contadu.com/content-writer/
- https://contadu.com/content-strategy/
- https://contadu.com/integrations/
- https://contadu.com/about/

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