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

> Autopilot SEO that publishes pages and rewrites them until they rank

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

RankAI scans a live website to learn the business and its market, picks keywords, writes and publishes pages to the existing CMS, and adds technical fixes, schema and internal links. Pages that have not ranked after about three weeks are rewritten, and paid plans track prompts in AI answer engines. It calls itself an AI-native SEO and AEO agency, with self-serve plans and a custom plan that adds a named strategist.

- **Category:** SEO Content Optimizers
- **Made by:** LineUpp, Corp.
- **Website:** https://rankai.ai
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you're one person with one blog, at $199 a month for 10 articles.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, RankAI has a free plan, and paid plans start at $199 per month for 10 articles.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** An SEO and AI search audit, 5 keywords with a 7-day content plan, 2 sample articles and 10 AI prompts checked once. It does not publish anything. No card required.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Site audit, a one-time 7-day content plan with 2 sample articles, 10 AI prompts checked once and read-only analytics. |
| Starter | $199 per month for 10 articles | 50 AI prompts tracked on 3 AI platforms every 14 days, technical fixes, internal links, unlimited rewrites and unlimited users. |
| Growth | $499 per month for 20 articles | 150 AI prompts tracked every 14 days, AI visibility actions carried out for you, competitor and citation tracking, and Slack support. |
| Expert | Custom | Everything in Growth plus a named SEO and GEO strategist, a custom 90-day plan and expert-reviewed outreach. |

Read from https://rankai.ai/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with RankAI before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **20% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): RankAI's plans and billing help page says yearly billing is 20% off the monthly price of the self-serve plans. Source: https://docs.rankai.ai/account/plans-and-billing

## Key features

- **Business and keyword research:** Scans the live site and can pull context from Slack, Notion, Salesforce and Gong, then picks keywords from a large keyword database and revisits them monthly.
- **Pages published to your CMS:** Writes pages in your brand voice and publishes them to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Sanity or Framer, with schema, metadata and internal links.
- **Rewrites until a page ranks:** Pages that do not rank after three weeks are flagged and rewritten; rewrites do not count against the monthly page allowance.
- **AI visibility tracking:** Checks tracked prompts every 14 days on three AI platforms; the help docs name ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews.
- **Technical SEO and AEO fixes:** Applies on-page and technical fixes on top of the existing site, without a migration, and flags gaps where AI answers leave the brand out.
- **Results reporting:** Reports keyword rankings, impressions and clicks from RankAI pages, rewrite status and new AI mentions.

## Good for

- Founders without a marketing team who want pages published for them
- Agencies running SEO for many client sites from one account
- Businesses that want Google rankings and AI answer mentions tracked together

## Worth knowing

- The free plan is a preview: sample content and one-off checks, with no publishing.
- It needs an existing website; it does not build one from scratch yet.
- All fees are non-refundable under its terms.
- The help docs list Growth at 30 pages and 250 prompts, more than the pricing page's 20 and 150.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. RankAI researches keywords, publishes pages to your CMS, rewrites any that haven't ranked after three weeks and tracks mentions in AI answers. It starts at $199 a month for 10 articles, the free plan publishes nothing, all fees are non-refundable, and its help docs and pricing page disagree on Growth's limits.

- **Value for money: D.** Starter is $199 a month for 10 articles, more than four times this category's middle ($45) and well past where its dearest tenth starts ($99). Unlimited users and rewrites are included, but competitor and citation tracking wait on Growth at $499.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with no card: a site audit, 5 keywords with a one-time 7-day plan, 2 sample articles and 10 AI prompts checked once. It's a preview, though, and it publishes nothing.
- **Features: B.** Keyword research, pages in your brand voice published with schema and internal links, rewrites until a page ranks, technical fixes and AI answer tracking on three platforms. It covers the whole job, though it needs an existing website to work on.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You connect your CMS and Search Console, and it can pull context from Slack, Notion, Salesforce and Gong, so there's setup before the first page goes out.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It publishes to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Wix, Sanity and Framer, and links to Search Console and Slack.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from RankAI'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

- RankAI's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 35 of the 87 other SEO content tools we grade, and level with 23.
- It stands best on features (B, above 42 of 87) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $199 a month, against a middle price of $45 for the category: 79 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 RankAI 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 costs $2,388 a year.

- You could make: Long-form writing, internal linking and schema markup: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Search volumes for millions of keywords, gathered and kept up to date.
- 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: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Shopify and Webflow among them.
- 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, Wix, Sanity, Framer, Google Search Console, Slack

**Tags:** Long-form writing, AI search visibility, Keyword research, Internal linking, Schema markup, AI features

## Alternatives

- [ClickFlow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clickflow): Plans, drafts, refreshes and tracks SEO content from Search Console. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clickflow-vs-rankai)
- [SEO Content Machine](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seo-content-machine): Desktop SEO workspace for planning, drafting and publishing pages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rankai-vs-seo-content-machine)
- [Autorank](https://toolgpa.com/tools/autorank): Writes and publishes SEO blog posts from Search Console data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autorank-vs-rankai)
- [Casper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/casper): Autoblogging SEO writer with AI search visibility tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/casper-vs-rankai)
- [AirOps](https://toolgpa.com/tools/airops): AI search insights plus agents that write and refresh content. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airops-vs-rankai)

## Sources

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

- https://rankai.ai/
- https://rankai.ai/self-serve
- https://docs.rankai.ai/account/plans-and-billing
- https://docs.rankai.ai/ai-visibility/overview
- https://rankai.ai/tos

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