Writesonic review (2026): is it worth $79 a month, billed yearly?
AI search visibility tracking with an article writer and site audits
Writesonic report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for AI tracking with an article writer attached
Writesonic, once an AI writer, now tracks whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews mention you, then writes articles and audits your site to close the gaps. Starter is $79 a month on yearly billing for one user, one project, one market, 50 prompts and three engines. Perplexity, Claude and AI Mode need Enterprise, sentiment waits for $399, and extra users are $50 a month each.
Who Writesonic is for
- Fits if you want the gaps found and the articles to fill them written in one place
- Works for solo marketers, since Starter is built for one user and one project
Who Writesonic is not for
- Skip it if Perplexity, Claude or AI Mode matter, as all need Enterprise
- Pricey if your team grows, at $50 a month for each extra user, up to 5 in all
- Tight if you want sentiment, which starts at Growth for $399 a month
- Watch out: the full Action Center is Enterprise only, and Growth gets just a limited trial of it
- Too light for more than one market or project, as Starter allows one of each
Why Writesonic gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyStarter is $79 a month billed annually, $99 monthly, for 50 prompts, 15 articles and 10 site audits. That's this category's usual range. Extra users are $50 a month each, and sentiment waits for Growth at $399.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan, but a 7-day free trial with no credit card needed.
- CFeaturesDaily tracking with ads monitoring, an article writer, site audits, agent workflows, and an Action Center from Growth. The gap the listing names: self-serve plans track only ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, so Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and AI Mode mean Enterprise.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Tracking, articles, audits and agent runs each have their own monthly limits to learn.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It publishes to WordPress and reads Google Analytics 4, with Looker Studio on Enterprise.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Writesonic's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Writesonic's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 68 of the 157 other AI search visibility tools we grade, and level with 56.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 51 of 157) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $79 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 77 of the 128 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 158 AI search visibility tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Writesonic’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 19 of 157, level with 100
- CFree plan and trialAbove 63 of 157, level with 88
- CFeaturesAbove 6 of 157, level with 118
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 157, level with 145
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 51 of 157, level with 106
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 131 AI search visibility tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Writesonic, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Writesonic you could make: long-form writing. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
It costs $948 a year.
What you could make
- Long-form writing: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Writesonic’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Writesonic?
Writesonic now sells itself as an AI search platform: it tracks whether a brand appears in answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, then helps close the gaps with AI-written articles, site audits and agent workflows. Higher plans add sentiment analysis and an Action Center of on-page, off-page and technical fixes, and Enterprise covers nine AI platforms.
Worth knowing
- Self-serve plans track only ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews; Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok and AI Mode need Enterprise.
- Extra users cost $50 a month each, up to 5 users in total on Basic and Growth.
- Growth can add 20 articles for $100; the full Action Center is Enterprise-only.
- Starter is limited to 1 user, 1 project and 1 market.
Key features
- AI visibility tracking
- Tracks set prompts daily on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on self-serve plans, with ads monitoring included.
- AI article writer
- Writes articles aimed at both search and AI answers: 15 a month on Starter, 25 on Basic and 50 on Growth.
- Site audits
- Crawls the site for problems, from 10 audits of 100 pages on Starter to 50 audits of 2,500 pages on Growth.
- Action Center
- Prioritized on-page, off-page and technical actions. Growth gets a trial of 5 off-page and 5 on-page actions a month; Enterprise gets full access.
- Agentic workflows
- Agents that run content and SEO tasks; self-serve plans get a set number of trial runs, from 10 to 100.
- Sentiment and AI search tools
- Growth adds sentiment analysis; Enterprise adds AI search volume, Brand Explorer, Prompt Explorer, Page Tracker and alerts.
Writesonic pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Writesonic is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $79 per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $79 per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 7-day free trial, no credit card needed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $79per month for 50 prompts, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews tracked daily, 15 AI articles and 10 site audits of 100 pages a month, 1 user and 1 project. |
| Basic | $199per month for 100 prompts, billed annually ($249 billed monthly) | 300 answers tracked daily, 25 articles and 20 site audits of 1,200 pages a month, 2 users and 1 project. |
| Growth | $399per month for 200 prompts, billed annually ($499 billed monthly) | Adds sentiment analysis and a limited Action Center trial, with 50 articles and 50 site audits a month, 3 users and 2 projects. |
| Enterprise | Custom | All 9 AI platforms, custom prompts, regions and languages, the full Action Center, Looker Studio, SSO/SAML and an AI search strategist. |
Read from writesonic.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Writesonic before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 20% with annual billing
Writesonic's pricing page lists a 20% saving on annual billing: Starter is $79 a month instead of $99, saving $240 a year.
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Common questions
Does Writesonic have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Writesonic is listed for Web.
Does Writesonic have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Writesonic is listed for Web.
Is Writesonic open source?
Writesonic is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
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