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SFrase vs Writesonic
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Frase if…
- you want the lower entry price ($39/mo vs $79/mo)
- you're in its core audience: freelance content writers, in-house marketing teams
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Choose Writesonic if…
- you're in its core audience: seo and growth marketers, marketing agencies
Side by side
Feature Frase Writesonic
Pricing modelFree trialFree trial
Starting price$39/mo$79/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentNoNo
Data retentionAccount info kept while active plus a reasonable period; then deleted or anonymized—
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, GDPRSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR
AI search visibility
Content scoring editor—
Technical site audit
CMS publishing—
Backlink/competitor gap—
MCP server—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CategorySEOSEO
CompanyFrase, Inc.Writesonic, Inc.
Based inUnited StatesUnited States
Founded——
Part ofCopysmith AI, Inc.—
Key features
F Frase
- AI agent drafts content using a learned brand profile
- Content scoring for Google and GEO optimization
- AI Visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini
- Content Guard monitors pages and drafts revisions
- Site audit and backlink gap analysis with outreach drafts
- Publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, FraseCMS
- Writes in 70+ languages
- MCP server, CLI and API access
W Writesonic
- Brand visibility tracking across AI platforms
- Citation and sentiment monitoring
- Action Center that ranks optimization opportunities
- AI agent that rewrites pages for GEO
- Competitor citation source discovery with outreach drafts
- Technical audits of robots.txt, schema and indexing
- Fix impact measured at Day 14 and Day 28
- AI article generation and site audits
Plans and prices
From each vendor's site. Prices change — confirm before buying.
Frase
Starter$39/mo billed yearly ($49/mo monthly)
Professional$103/mo billed yearly ($129/mo monthly)
Scale$239/mo billed yearly ($299/mo monthly)
EnterpriseCustom
Writesonic
Starter$79/mo billed yearly
Basic$199/mo billed yearly
Growth$399/mo billed yearly
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Frase
- 7-day free trial with no credit card required
- Tracks visibility in multiple AI answer engines
- MCP server and CLI available on every plan
- Publishes directly to several CMSs, plus free FraseCMS hosting
- No free plan
- Starter is limited to 1 seat, 1 site and 10 articles
- Claude and Gemini tracking only on the Scale plan and above
- Extra seats cost $29/mo
Writesonic
- Free trial on self-serve plans with no credit card needed
- 7-day no-questions-asked refund
- Combines SEO and GEO in one platform from the Basic plan
- Integrates with Google Analytics, Search Console and WordPress
- Starting price is $79/mo billed yearly
- Platforms beyond ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews require Enterprise
- Full Action Center is limited to Enterprise
- No free plan
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