# Outlyo review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Outlier video ideas and Claude-written scripts in your channel's voice Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Outlyo is a web app that scans a YouTube niche each week for videos beating their own channel's usual views by 2x or more, then rewrites the strongest ideas for your channel. It learns your voice from the transcripts of your last 30 videos and writes full scripts with Claude in a chat-style editor. It works from public data, so you paste a channel handle instead of granting access, and every action spends monthly credits. - **Category:** YouTube SEO Tools - **Made by:** Outlyo - **Website:** https://www.outlyo.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you're staying free, as 1,000 credits a month is about one 8-minute script plus a batch of ideas. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Outlyo has a free plan, and paid plans start at $24 per month for 6,000 credits, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 connected channel and 1,000 credits a month for outlier ideas, scripts, the Script Editor and light research. No card required. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1 connected channel and 1,000 credits a month: ideas, scripts, the Script Editor, Intel and light research. | | Creator | $24 per month for 6,000 credits, billed monthly | 2 connected channels, Thumbnail Studio and Viral Remixer; scripts written with Claude Sonnet. $240 billed yearly. | | Automation | $62 per month for 18,000 credits, billed monthly | 5 connected channels, Claude Opus for scripts, a weekly competitor digest and the research assistant. $620 billed yearly. | | Scale | $99 per month for 50,000 credits, billed monthly | Unlimited channels, the top model with a priority queue, competitor digest and research assistant. API access is listed as coming soon. $990 billed yearly. | Read from https://www.outlyo.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Outlyo before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save about 17% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Outlyo's pricing page lists Creator at $240 a year, Automation at $620 and Scale at $990, saving $48, $124 and $198 against monthly billing. Source: https://www.outlyo.com/pricing ## Key features - **Outlier engine:** Scores niche videos against their own channel's baseline, refreshed every Monday, and sorts them into 2-5x, 5-10x and 10x-plus tiers. - **Ideas rewritten for your channel:** Turns the top outliers into about 10 ideas for your channel, each with an outlier score, a hook angle and a thumbnail concept. 200 credits a batch. - **Channel Voice:** Builds a voice profile from your last 30 videos' transcripts, or from five pasted writing samples, and filters out stock AI phrases. Training is free. - **Script Bot:** Writes scripts from Shorts to long-form with templates such as documentary, listicle and review; about 600 credits per 1,000 words. - **Thumbnail Studio:** From Creator up, rebuilds a winning thumbnail from another creator with you in the frame, alongside the Viral Remixer. - **Free tools:** 21 browser tools with no signup, including hook, title and tag generators, a tag extractor, a channel audit and a transcript generator. ## Good for - Creators who want ideas and a first script draft in one place - Faceless and talking-head channels alike, from Shorts to long videos - Trying an AI script tool free before paying ## Worth knowing - A typical 8-minute script costs about 720 credits, so the free 1,000 a month covers roughly one script plus a batch of ideas. - Thumbnail Studio and Viral Remixer need a paid plan, and Claude Opus scripts start on Automation at $62 a month. - Refunds are offered within 7 days of a charge only if under 20% of that period's credits were used. - API access on Scale is listed as coming soon, not available yet. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Outlyo scans your niche every Monday for videos beating their channel's usual views by 2x or more, turns them into ideas for your channel and writes scripts with Claude in your own voice. The free 1,000 credits cover about one script a month, thumbnails and Claude Opus cost more, and the API on its top plan isn't out yet. - **Value for money: C.** Creator is $24 a month, or $240 a year ($20 a month), between this category's cheaper and dearer quarters, for 6,000 credits and 2 channels. Claude Opus scripts start on Automation at $62 a month. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for good with no card: 1 channel and 1,000 credits a month. A typical 8-minute script is about 720, so that's roughly one script and a batch of ideas a month. - **Features: C.** Weekly outlier scoring, about 10 ideas a batch, a voice profile from your last 30 videos, scripts from Shorts to long-form and 21 free tools. The gaps: thumbnails need a paid plan, and the listing shows no rank checks or private channel analytics. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You paste a channel handle instead of granting access, but every action spends credits you have to watch: 200 for a batch of ideas, about 600 per 1,000 words of script. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, reading public YouTube data. No app, extension or integrations on record, and the API is still listed as coming soon. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Outlyo's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among YouTube SEO tools - Outlyo's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 6 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools we grade, and level with 4. - Its paid plans start at $24 a month, against a middle price of $17.79 for the category: 14 of the 23 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/youtube-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Outlyo you would be making an image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 18 of the 28 other YouTube SEO tools grade higher. It costs $288 a year. - You could make: Long-form writing: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An image model, which you can rent by the picture but not make. - You could not: Search data for YouTube topics and channels. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with YouTube, Claude **Tags:** YouTube SEO, AI features, Long-form writing, Image generation ## Alternatives - [1of10](https://toolgpa.com/tools/1of10): YouTube outlier finder with AI thumbnails, titles and video ideas. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/1of10-vs-outlyo) - [OutlierKit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/outlierkit): YouTube outlier and competitor research for expert-led channels. 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