# Writesonic review (2026): is it worth $79 a month, billed yearly? > AI search visibility tracking with an article writer and site audits Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** AI Search Visibility (AEO & GEO) - **Made by:** Writesonic, Inc. - **Website:** https://writesonic.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if Perplexity, Claude or AI Mode matter, as all need Enterprise. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $79 per 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 | $199 per 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 | $399 per 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 https://writesonic.com/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Writesonic before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 20% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Writesonic's pricing page lists a 20% saving on annual billing: Starter is $79 a month instead of $99, saving $240 a year. Source: https://writesonic.com/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Marketing teams that want AI tracking and content production in one subscription - Small sites starting with 50 prompts and a handful of articles a month - Teams that also want site audits without a separate SEO crawler ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 7-day free trial with no credit card needed. - **Features: C.** Daily 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. Tracking, articles, audits and agent runs each have their own monthly limits to learn. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with no desktop or phone app. It publishes to WordPress and reads Google Analytics 4, with Looker Studio on Enterprise. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among AI search visibility tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-visibility ## Keep it, 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. - You could make: Long-form writing: an app builder makes this well. - 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: A crawler that checks every page of a site. - You could not: A score built from what the top results for each keyword cover. - 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 WordPress, Google Analytics 4, Looker Studio **Tags:** AI search visibility, Long-form writing, Site audit, Content optimization, AI features ## Alternatives - [Profound](https://toolgpa.com/tools/profound): AI search visibility tracking with an AI marketing agent built in. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/semrush-vs-writesonic) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://writesonic.com/pricing - https://writesonic.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/writesonic Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).