Launched 2020 · Listed Aug 2026 · Verified Sep 6, 2026

Writesonic

Name: Writesonic
Price: 79 USD
Author: Writesonic

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Tracks how brands surface inside ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews

ai search visibilitygenerative engine optimizationbrand monitoring content generationsite auditsFreemium · from $79/mo

Web · API

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Overview

About Writesonic

Writesonic now sells itself as an AI search visibility platform: it watches a set of prompts each day across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and reports where a brand gets named and where a competitor takes the slot instead. The article generator the product was known for is still there, metered per month, next to site audits and agentic workflow runs. Which AI engines you are allowed to watch is the real tier boundary, and all ten are reserved for Enterprise.

Platforms: Web · API
API: Yes
Last verified: Sep 6, 2026

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Plans and prices: Starter $79/mo annual, Basic $199, Growth $399, Enterprise custom; 20% annual discount; 3 AI platforms below Enterprise, all 10 on Enterprise; extra seats $50/mo, extra articles $100 per 20writesonic.com ↗
Starter is $79/month billed annually and around $99/month billed monthly; a free plan exists with no credit card requiredeesel.ai ↗
Repositioned from AI copywriting templates to an AI search visibility / generative engine optimization platform over 2024-2025choppingblock.ai ↗
Founded October 2020 by Samanyou Garg, headquartered in San Franciscoen.wikipedia.org ↗
REST API still offered and documented after the pivot; writesonic.com/api resolves to live docs and api.writesonic.com answers on HTTPdocs.writesonic.com ↗

Pricing

Pricing model: Freemium
Paid options from: $79/mo
Billing: Monthly

Starter is $79/month on annual billing and about $99 month-to-month, and it tracks only three AI platforms, 50 prompts a day and 15 articles a month. Perplexity, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI and Google AI Mode are Enterprise-only. Extra seats run $50/month and extra articles $100 per 20.

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Writesonic

high confidence

This is not the AI copywriter the catalogs still describe — it is a GEO tracking suite priced like one, and at $79 to start you are paying enterprise-monitoring money for a three-engine view of your own brand.

Pros

Daily prompt and answer tracking is the core of the product, not a bolt-on dashboard
Site audits, content generation and publishing sit in the same tool as the monitoring
A genuine free tier still exists, with no card required

Cons

Starter watches three engines out of ten; the interesting ones are all Enterprise
Month-to-month costs about 25% more than the advertised annual rate
The old writing-tool positioning is gone, so most third-party reviews describe a different product
Prompt and article caps are daily and monthly, so a burst of work stalls until the counter resets

Best for

Brands that already know they are losing citations inside ChatGPT and want it measured
Agencies reporting AI-answer share of voice to clients month over month
Teams that want prompt tracking and article production billed on one invoice

Not for

Anyone shopping for the cheap bulk article writer Writesonic used to be
Solo bloggers, for whom the entry tier is far past sensible

Watch out: The headline price buys three AI platforms. If the point of the purchase is tracking Perplexity or Claude, you are on an Enterprise call, not a $79 plan.

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