# Featured review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> AI assistant for PR that finds journalist requests and drafts pitches

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

Featured is a web-based PR assistant from the company that owns HARO and Connectively. You ask it in plain language for journalist requests, podcasts, bylines, speaking slots or awards that fit your expertise, and it finds them and drafts the pitch for you to send. Scheduled workflows keep watching and deliver matches to Slack or email.

- **Category:** Backlinks & Link Building
- **Made by:** Featured
- **Website:** https://featured.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, at about 2 to 3 opportunities a week.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Featured has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Every feature, including Featured Chat and journalist request matching, on a small daily AI allowance; Featured's example is 2 to 3 opportunities a week.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | All features on a small daily allowance of AI usage, for trying the platform. No card needed. |
| Lite | $29 per month, billed annually ($39 billed monthly) | For one person: 5 times the Free plan's AI usage, plus workflows across saved opportunities. |
| Pro | $79 per month, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | 5 times Lite's daily usage, for running several workflows and regular drafting. |
| Pro+ | $239 per month, billed annually ($299 billed monthly) | 20 times Lite's daily usage, for agencies and power users handling several brands. |
| Team Lite | $159 per month for up to 25 members, billed annually ($199 monthly) | One shared usage pool, an admin dashboard showing each member's activity, shared workflows, central billing and SSO. |
| Team Pro | $399 per month for up to 25 members, billed annually ($499 monthly) | 5 times Team Lite's shared pool, priority processing, admin controls, team analytics and priority support. |

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

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Featured's pricing page lists a 20% saving on annual billing: Lite is $29 a month billed at $348 a year instead of $39 a month. Source: https://featured.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Journalist requests:** Matches live source requests from HARO, Connectively, Substack, X and LinkedIn to your expertise, sorted by deadline, and drafts a response.
- **Featured Chat:** Ask in plain language for podcasts, writers, publications taking bylines, speaking slots or awards, and get a list with pitches drafted.
- **Workflows:** Scheduled searches that keep watching for new opportunities and deliver results to Slack, email or the app.
- **GEO audit:** Checks how ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini describe your brand and which sources they cite.
- **Media and competitor monitoring:** Tracks mentions of your brand, people and competitors across news, blogs, podcasts and YouTube.
- **MCP server:** Connects Claude, Cursor, VS Code or your own agents to Featured's opportunity search and workflows.

## Good for

- Founders and experts who answer journalist requests for press mentions
- PR agencies watching HARO-style requests for many clients
- Teams that want earned media and AI-answer visibility checks in one tool

## Worth knowing

- Every plan has the same features; plans differ only in a daily AI allowance, and workflows queue until it resets.
- Team Pro+ costs $1,199 a month billed annually ($1,499 monthly); Enterprise is billed by usage at API rates.
- Besides earned media, it sells paid article placements and press-release distribution through newswire partners.
- Prices exclude applicable tax.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Featured finds journalist requests, podcasts, bylines and awards that fit your expertise and drafts the pitch for you to send, from $29 a month on yearly billing. Every plan runs on a daily AI allowance, so workflows queue once it's used up, and the free plan's allowance comes to about 2 to 3 opportunities a week.

- **Value for money: C.** Lite is $29 a month billed yearly ($39 monthly), between this category's cheaper quarter and its middle. That buys 5 times the free plan's AI use. Pro is $79 and Pro+ $239, and prices exclude tax.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with every feature and no card, but a small daily AI allowance. Featured's own example is 2 to 3 opportunities a week, which is a taste rather than a routine.
- **Features: B.** Journalist requests pulled from HARO, Connectively, Substack, X and LinkedIn, a chat that finds podcasts, bylines and awards, scheduled workflows, media monitoring and a check of how AI chatbots describe your brand. It covers the whole job.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You ask in plain English, but you'll set up your expertise and workflows, and once the daily allowance runs out, work waits until it resets.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. Results go to Slack or email, and an MCP server connects it to Claude, Cursor and VS Code.

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

## Where it stands among link building tools

- Featured's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade, and level with 5.
- It stands best on features (B, above 39 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 15 of the 41 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Featured you would be making a network of journalists who post requests for sources. 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 37 of the 50 other link building tools we grade. It costs $348 a year.

- You could not: A network of journalists who post requests for sources.
- You could not: An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make.
- You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change.
- You could not: The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- 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

Slack, Claude, Cursor, VS Code, HARO, Connectively

**Tags:** Journalist requests, Chat assistant, AI search visibility, Workflow automation, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Qwoted](https://toolgpa.com/tools/qwoted): Marketplace where reporters request expert sources and PRs pitch. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-qwoted)
- [SourceBottle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sourcebottle): Media call outs and expert profiles for people seeking press. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-sourcebottle)
- [Source of Sources](https://toolgpa.com/tools/source-of-sources): Free email list of journalist queries looking for expert sources. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-source-of-sources)
- [ResponseSource](https://toolgpa.com/tools/responsesource): UK journalist request service with a press release wire. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-responsesource)
- [Semrush AI PR Toolkit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/prowly): Media database, pitching and monitoring, formerly Prowly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/featured-vs-prowly)

## Sources

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

- https://featured.com/pricing
- https://featured.com/
- https://featured.com/product/features

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/featured
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