Frase

Frase

Frase is a content operating system that runs SEO and AI-search work end to end — audit, research, write, optimize, publish, monitor, fix.

87/100Safe BetFree · from $19/moFreemium

If AI citations matter to you as much as blue links, Frase is one of the few single subscriptions that covers audit, brief, draft, publish, and daily decay monitoring. The Site Audit → Fix Pack → Content Guard chain is what you're paying for, and it's the part competitors like Surfer SEO and Semrush don't replicate cleanly. The catch is volume: Starter at $39/mo billed yearly gives you one seat, one site, 10 articles and 50 audit pages a month, and the caps are hard stops rather than overages. An active blog outgrows Starter in a quarter. Buy Frase for the loop, not for writing throughput.

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Best for
  • Content teams that need Google rankings and AI-search citations managed in one workflow
  • SEO leads who want audit, brief, draft, publish and refresh automation instead of five subscriptions
  • Agencies running multi-site client content with exportable reports
  • Enterprise content orgs needing SSO/SAML, an SLA, white-label reports and a branded client portal
Not ideal for
  • Developers hunting crawl errors, log-file analysis, or deep technical SEO diagnostics
  • Teams expecting Frase to publish to social channels — atomization produces drafts you post yourself
  • Anyone who wants a pure AI writing tool with no audit and monitoring loop
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IntermediateStarter: run the Site Audit immediately after signup and you'll have a scored Fix Pack within the first session; connecting WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix takes minutes. Professional and Scale add seats and sites, so budget an hour to wire up extra domains and the content calendar. Driving Frase from Claude, Cursor or a terminal via the MCP server is a short configuration on any plan.Web · API · CLIAPI available3.3k viewsVerified 10d ago
Pricing
Free · from $19/mo
FreemiumFree tier7 plans5 hidden costs
Learning curve
Intermediate
Starter: run the Site Audit immediately after signup and you'll have a scored Fix Pack within the first session; connecting WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix takes minutes. Professional and Scale add seats and sites, so budget an hour to wire up extra domains and the content calendar. Driving Frase from Claude, Cursor or a terminal via the MCP server is a short configuration on any plan.
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Who it's for
In-house SEO lead at a 20-person SaaS companyAgency content manager with six client sitesSolo consultant publishing on their own domain
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Skip Frase if you only need a scoring editor for drafts you write yourself, or if your bottleneck is technical SEO (crawl errors, log files) rather than content volume and AI-citation tracking.

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Biggest gripe

Extra seats on Professional and Scale cost $29/mo each, so a five-person team on Professional adds $58/mo over the 3-seat allowance.

Price reality

Starter lands at $39/mo billed yearly for one seat and one site, which is a real step up from free tools but well under a combined Semrush-plus-Surfer SEO subscription. Professional at $103/mo billed yearly ($129/mo month to month) is the tier most in-house teams settle on. Scale at $239/mo billed yearly is priced for agencies running up to 10 domains. Against point tools you're paying for the loop and the AI-citation tracking rather than for writing volume.

In short

Frase — Frase is a content operating system that runs SEO and AI-search work end to end — audit, research, write, optimize, publish, monitor, fix. Best for Content teams that need Google rankings and AI-search citations managed in one workflow, SEO leads who want audit, brief, draft, publish and refresh automation instead of five subscriptions, Agencies running multi-site client content with exportable reports. Free to start; paid plans from $19/mo.

Compared withvs Surfer Seo

What's new in Frase

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Viability Score

87/100
Safe Bet

How well maintained and how widely used is Frase? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this

Recent activity
90
Traction
not measured
Site health
95
User sentiment
not measured
What the vendor publishes
80

Last calculated: October 2026

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Key Features

  • AI Agent drafts content against the pages already ranking and your brand profile
  • Brand Voice learns your tone from your own pages, or you set it in the Brand Hub
  • Real-time Content Optimization score plus a GEO score for AI citation on every draft
  • AI Visibility tracking: ChatGPT and Google AI on Starter, Perplexity on Professional, Claude and Gemini on Scale
  • Content Guard re-checks published pages daily and drafts the fix when rankings decay
  • Agent Autonomy dial: hold everything for review, auto-publish low-risk updates, or anything between
  • Site Audit scores pages for search and AI answers and returns a prioritised Fix Pack
  • Opportunity report ranks work by estimated payoff, including Search Console and competitor gaps
  • Topic Clusters map the cluster around every topic, with gap analysis
  • One-click publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, and Wix
  • FraseCMS agent-ready hosting with structured data, llms.txt, and WebMCP on every page
  • Frase Answers conversational widget captures the questions visitors actually ask
  • Content calendar with internal linking suggestions and one piece turned into posts for every channel
  • MCP server, CLI, and API to run Frase from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, or your own terminal
  • Native writing in 70+ languages, never machine-translated

About Frase

FreemiumIntermediateAPI availableWeb · API · CLI

Frase is built for teams that now have to win two results at once: the Google ranking and the AI answer above it. The loop starts with a Site Audit that crawls your site page by page, scores each page for search and for AI-answer readiness, and returns a Fix Pack — the most valuable fixes first, with the estimated upside attached. From there the AI Agent drafts against the pages already ranking on your topic and your brand profile, which it can learn from your own site or that you set in the Brand Hub. Every draft carries both a Content Optimization score for Google and a GEO score for AI citation. Publishing goes out to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, or Wix, or onto FraseCMS — an agent-ready CMS, hosted or headless, with structured data, llms.txt and WebMCP on every page so AI assistants can read and act on them. After publish, Content Guard checks rankings and AI mentions daily; when a page slips, Frase drafts the revision for your approval. The Autonomy dial decides how much ships on its own: hold everything for review, auto-publish low-risk updates only, or anywhere in between. AI Visibility tracks share of voice across the AI assistants on your plan — ChatGPT and Google AI on Starter, Perplexity added on Professional, Claude and Gemini added on Scale. Frase Answers is a free conversational widget that captures the questions visitors actually ask on your site so you can write for them. The core loop runs on every plan, and you can drive it from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or your own terminal through the MCP server and CLI. Content is written natively in 70+ languages rather than machine-translated. Starter is $39/mo billed yearly ($49/mo month to month), Professional $103/mo billed yearly ($129/mo month to month), Scale $239/mo billed yearly ($299/mo month to month), with a 7-day free trial and no credit card. Pick Frase for the monitoring-and-fixing loop and AI-citation tracking; if all you need is an editor that scores drafts, a point tool costs less.

Behind the Verdict

Frase's pitch is that search has split in two and most content stacks only serve half of it. The product backs that up structurally. Site Audit scores pages for both Google and AI answers and returns a ranked Fix Pack with an estimated upside figure, so the first thing you see is a prioritized to-do list rather than a dashboard of numbers. The AI Agent then drafts against the pages already ranking for the query plus a brand profile learned from your site, and every draft carries two scores — Content Optimization for search and GEO for AI citation. That dual scoring, applied inside the editor, is the workflow most teams end up assembling by hand from a keyword tool, a writing assistant, an SEO scorer, and a separate AI-visibility tracker. The post-publish half is where Frase separates further from point tools. Content Guard re-checks rankings and AI mentions daily and drafts the fix when a page decays; how many pages it watches scales with tier (10 on Starter, 75 on Professional, 300 on Scale). The Autonomy dial controls how much of that ships without you — hold everything, auto-publish low-risk updates only, or anything between. FraseCMS gives you somewhere to publish that isn't a plugin: structured data, llms.txt and WebMCP on every page, plus the research kept alongside the post. If you already run WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix, one-click publishing covers you instead. Two things to weigh honestly. First, cost and volume: Starter at $39/mo billed yearly is a single seat on a single site with 10 articles a month, and Frase says plainly that Starter simply stops at its monthly limits — there are no overages to buy your way out of on that tier. You move to Professional ($103/mo billed yearly, 3 seats, 5 sites, 40 articles) or Scale ($239/mo billed yearly, 5 seats, 10 domains, 100 articles) if you publish regularly; Professional and Scale have optional pay-as-you-go that is off by default. Second, fit: this is a content marketing system, not a technical SEO crawler. There's no log-file analysis or crawl-error triage here, and social atomization produces drafts you still post yourself. If you want a pure AI writer with no audit and monitoring layer, you're paying for machinery you won't use.

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Real-world workflow fit

Concrete scenarios for the personas Frase actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.

In-house SEO lead at a 20-person SaaS company

Runs a Site Audit on the marketing site, works the top of the Fix Pack, then uses the AI Agent to draft against the pages already ranking while the Content Optimization and GEO scores guide revisions. Drafts go out to WordPress on approval.

Outcome: One prioritized fix list instead of three spreadsheets, and every published page carries both a search score and an AI-citation score from the start.

Agency content manager with six client sites

On Scale, runs the agent across each client domain, tracks AI Visibility including Claude and Gemini, and exports client-ready reports each month. Content Guard watches 300 pages and drafts fixes when a client page slips.

Outcome: Monthly reporting is an export rather than an afternoon of screenshots, and decayed pages get a drafted fix before the client notices.

Solo consultant publishing on their own domain

Starts on Starter at $39/mo billed yearly after the 7-day no-credit-card trial, uses the Opportunity report to pick topics, drafts 10 articles a month and hosts them on FraseCMS Free or Basic at $19/mo.

Outcome: A full research-to-publish loop for the price of one point tool, with the constraint that the 10-article cap is a hard stop each month.

Use Cases

Limitations

  • Plans are differentiated by volume and automation rather than by features, so the ceiling you hit first is article and audit-page count: 10 articles and 50 audit pages a month on Starter, 40 and 250 on Professional, 100 and 1,000 on Scale.
  • On Starter the caps are hard stops — the plan simply pauses at its monthly limit rather than rolling into overage charges.
  • Content Guard's monitoring breadth is tiered too: 10 pages on Starter, 75 on Professional, 300 on Scale.
  • Extra seats cost $29/mo on Professional and Scale.
  • White-label reports and a branded client portal are Enterprise only.
  • Social atomization produces drafts rather than published posts.
  • If your problem is technical SEO — crawl errors, log-file analysis, deep diagnostics — Frase is not that tool.

as of 2026-09-28

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12-month cost

Project the real annual outlay, including the implied monthly cost when only an annual tier is published.

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Effective monthly
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Billed monthly

Vendor list price only. Add-on usage, seat overages, and contract minimums are surfaced under Hidden costs & gotchas.

Plans compared

For each published Frase tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.

FraseCMS Free

$0/mo

Ideal for

Anyone who wants to host content on an agent-ready CMS at no cost while testing whether Frase's publishing layer fits.

What this tier adds

Starting tier: $0 for 100,000 page views a month, 25 GB bandwidth, structured data and llms.txt on every page, with a small Powered by Frase badge.

FraseCMS Basic

$19/mo

Ideal for

A blogger or small brand that wants pages published under its own domain and no third-party badge.

What this tier adds

Adds publishing at blog.yoursite.com or yoursite.com/blog so link authority stays on your main site, removes the Frase badge, and raises the allowance to 250,000 page views and 100 GB bandwidth.

FraseCMS Pro

$99/mo

Ideal for

A content-heavy site or a team that has outgrown a standard hosted blog and wants hosted or headless.

What this tier adds

Raises the allowance tenfold to 1,000,000 page views a month, for a site that has outgrown the lower bandwidth and view caps.

Starter

$39/mo billed yearly ($49/mo month to month)

Ideal for

Solos, freelancers and single-site teams running the core loop on one site and one seat.

What this tier adds

Starting tier of the main product: $39/mo billed yearly ($49/mo month to month), 1 seat and 1 site, 10 articles and 50 audit pages a month, SEO and GEO scores, AI Visibility on ChatGPT and Google AI, Content Guard on 10 pages.

Professional

$103/mo billed yearly ($129/mo month to month)

Ideal for

In-house content teams and growing SMBs publishing on a weekly cadence across a few sites.

What this tier adds

Adds 2 more seats and 4 more sites (3 seats, 5 sites, extra seats $29/mo), raises output to 40 articles and 250 audit pages a month, and adds the content calendar, internal linking suggestions, channel atomization, AI crawler monitoring and Perplexity in AI Visibility.

Scale

$239/mo billed yearly ($299/mo month to month)

Ideal for

Agencies and multi-site brands running the loop across many domains with client-facing reporting.

What this tier adds

Takes it to 5 seats and up to 10 domains, 100 articles and 1,000 audit pages a month, Content Guard on 300 pages, Claude and Gemini added to AI Visibility, and exportable client-ready reports.

Enterprise

Custom scoped to your org

Ideal for

Large orgs and agencies that need SSO, an SLA, white-label deliverables or custom limits.

What this tier adds

Adds custom seats and domains, white-label reports with a branded client portal, SSO and SAML, a dedicated account manager and an SLA, plus custom API access and two years of history.

Hidden costs & gotchas

What the public pricing page doesn't put in bold. Captured from pricing-page footnotes, contract terms, and recurring complaints.

  • Extra seats on Professional and Scale cost $29/mo each, so a five-person team on Professional adds $58/mo over the 3-seat allowance.
  • Content Guard only watches 10 pages on Starter and 75 on Professional — if you publish more than that you'll want Scale, where it covers 300 pages.
  • White-label reports and a branded client portal are Enterprise-only, so agencies that need to strip Frase branding from client deliverables have to move off the published tiers.
  • On Professional and Scale pay-as-you-go is optional and off by default — leaving it off means work simply stops when the monthly article or audit-page cap is reached, and turning it on turns a fixed bill into a variable
  • Starter is capped at 1 seat and 1 site, so adding a second writer or a second domain means jumping to Professional at $103/mo billed yearly.

Where the pricing makes sense

The company stage and team size where Frase's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.

Starter lands at $39/mo billed yearly for one seat and one site, which is a real step up from free tools but well under a combined Semrush-plus-Surfer SEO subscription. Professional at $103/mo billed yearly ($129/mo month to month) is the tier most in-house teams settle on. Scale at $239/mo billed yearly is priced for agencies running up to 10 domains. Against point tools you're paying for the loop and the AI-citation tracking rather than for writing volume.

Setup time & first value

How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Frase — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.

Starter: run the Site Audit immediately after signup and you'll have a scored Fix Pack within the first session; connecting WordPress, Webflow, Sanity or Wix takes minutes. Professional and Scale add seats and sites, so budget an hour to wire up extra domains and the content calendar. Driving Frase from Claude, Cursor or a terminal via the MCP server is a short configuration on any plan.

Switching to or from Frase

How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.

Migrating in
  • →From Surfer SEO: point Frase's Site Audit at the same pages, rebuild your briefs from the Opportunity report, and let the AI Agent draft against your existing ranking pages.
  • →From Semrush Content Toolkit: export your tracked topics, map them into Topic Clusters, and use competitor gap analysis as the brief source.
  • →From a manual process (Sheets + an AI writer + a separate scorer): connect your CMS for one-click publishing and let Content Guard take over the refresh list you've been maintaining by hand.
  • →From a hosted blog on another platform: publish to FraseCMS Basic at $19/mo to get structured data and llms.txt on every page, or keep your domain and publish through the subdirectory option.
Migrating out
  • ↗To Surfer SEO: export your drafts and rebuild the scoring workflow there, but you'll need a separate tool for AI-citation tracking and page-decay monitoring.
  • ↗To Semrush: move keyword and audit tracking over, accepting that the agentic draft-and-publish loop has no direct equivalent.
  • ↗To a plain AI writer: export published content and cancel — you lose the Site Audit, Content Guard and AI Visibility layers entirely.
  • ↗To self-hosted WordPress plus point tools: re-host anything on FraseCMS and rebuild publishing through plugins, losing the llms.txt and WebMCP page layer.

Integrations

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Resources & Guides

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