# Koala review (2026): is it worth $25 a month? > AI article writer with SERP analysis, internal links and an SEO agent Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Koala, sold as Koala AI, is a web-based AI writing platform for bloggers, affiliate sites and agencies. KoalaWriter drafts articles from live search results and research, adds internal links and images, and publishes to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost. An SEO agent plans topics from your Search Console data, and paid plans include chat, image and internal-linking tools on a shared credit balance. - **Category:** SEO Content Optimizers - **Made by:** F5 Media, LLC - **Website:** https://koala.sh - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a free plan, as the free allowance is one-time. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Koala is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $25 per month, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free account with a one-time 5,000 words and 25 credits, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $25 per month for 45,000 words, billed monthly | 500 credits a month, 1 brand, 25 agent messages, bulk writing, publishing integrations, the API and MCP server. | | Professional | $49 per month for 100,000 words, billed monthly | 1,000 credits, 50 agent messages, Search Console and Analytics dashboard, SEO-scored editor, Deep Research and KoalaLinks for 50 sites. | | Boost | $99 per month for 250,000 words, billed monthly | 2,500 credits a month, the full Brand DNA experience with no agent message cap, and content calendar autopilot. | | Growth | $179 per month for 500,000 words, billed monthly | Everything in Boost with 5,000 credits a month and 3 brands. | | Elite | $350 per month for 1,000,000 words, billed monthly | Everything in Boost with 10,000 credits a month and 7 brands. | | Advanced | $500 per month for 1,500,000 words, billed monthly | Everything in Boost with 12,500 credits a month and 12 brands. Scale plans go on up to $2,000 a month. | Read from https://koala.sh/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Koala before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Koala's pricing page offers 20% off every plan with annual billing, with the whole year's words and credits given up front. Source: https://koala.sh/pricing ## Key features - **KoalaWriter:** Drafts articles that cover the entities and terms shared by the ranking pages, with Deep Research sources from Professional, AI images and a bulk mode. - **Brand DNA and SEO agent:** Reads your website or Google Maps listing once, then plans topics from your Search Console and Analytics with built-in keyword, backlink and SERP data. - **Automatic internal linking:** KoalaWriter indexes your site and places internal links in each article; KoalaLinks adds links and schema markup across existing pages from Professional. - **One-click publishing:** Publishes drafts or finished posts to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Ghost, or anywhere else through webhooks for Zapier and Make. - **Amazon affiliate articles:** Writes product roundups and single-product reviews from live Amazon data, including product details and customer reviews. - **API and MCP server:** Every paid plan can write by API or connect an AI assistant to 62 SEO tools; research calls cost 0.1 to 4 credits each. ## Good for - Bloggers and affiliate sites publishing articles in volume - Agencies writing for several client sites from one account - WordPress and Shopify site owners who want drafts published directly ## Worth knowing - There is no ongoing free plan; new accounts get a one-time 5,000 words and 25 credits. - Word allowances assume the GPT-6 Luna model; GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5 count double and Claude Opus 5.5 triple. - The SEO agent is capped at 25 messages a month on Starter and 50 on Professional; Boost removes the cap. - Extra brands cost $29 a month each; refunds are given within 15 days only if under 15,000 words and 100 credits were used. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Koala writes articles from live search results, adds internal links and images, and publishes them to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost. But there's no ongoing free plan, the SEO-scored editor waits on Professional at $49, and the dearer AI models use up your word allowance two or three times as fast. - **Value for money: C.** Starter is $25 a month for 45,000 words and 500 credits, between this category's cheaper quarter ($20) and its middle ($45). The SEO-scored editor, the Search Console dashboard and Deep Research start at Professional, $49. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No ongoing free plan. A new account gets a one-time 5,000 words and 25 credits with no card, which is enough for a look and not much more. - **Features: B.** An article writer working from the ranking pages, an SEO agent that plans from Search Console, automatic internal links, publishing to four CMSs, Amazon affiliate articles, an API and an MCP server. The whole job, though the scored editor starts at Professional. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. There's Brand DNA to set up, Search Console and a CMS to connect, and words and credits counted separately. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, publishing to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Ghost, with Zapier, Make, Search Console, Analytics, an API and an MCP server. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Koala'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 - Koala'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 $25 a month, against a middle price of $45 for the category: 26 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 Koala 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 $300 a year. - You could make: Long-form writing and internal linking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Shopify and Webflow 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, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, Zapier, Make, Google Search Console, Google Analytics **Tags:** Long-form writing, Content optimization, Internal linking, Keyword research, Image generation, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [Byword](https://toolgpa.com/tools/byword): AI article writer for SEO at scale, with programmatic page templates. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/byword-vs-koala) - [SEOWriting.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seowriting-ai): One-click SEO articles with bulk generation and WordPress posting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/koala-vs-seowriting-ai) - [Scalenut](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scalenut): AI article writing and optimization with AI answer tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/koala-vs-scalenut) - [Surfer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surfer): Content editor that scores articles for search and AI citations. 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