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What does Clearscope cost, and what do its Drafts and Pages limits mean for your bill?
Summary
Clearscope Essentials is $129 a month and Business is $399 a month, and both include unlimited users. The two plans share the same 20 monthly Drafts. Business gets six times as many Pages and Tracked Queries, 300 against 50, and more monthly Discoveries. Go past an included allowance and Clearscope bills an add-on to your subscription automatically, so usage can push the bill above the plan price.
How Essentials and Business compare
Clearscope's pricing page lists three plans. Essentials and Business have published monthly prices, and Enterprise is custom. Every plan includes unlimited users.
| Allowance | Essentials ($129/mo) | Business ($399/mo) |
|---|---|---|
| Drafts | 20 a month | 20 a month |
| Pages | 50 | 300 |
| Tracked Queries | 50 | 300 |
| Discoveries | 20 a month | 50 a month |
Monthly plans have no contract or minimum term, and Clearscope says you can cancel them anytime without penalty. There's a 14-day free trial, and yearly custom plans can be invoiced.
What Drafts and Pages count toward
The included Draft allowance is unchanged. Both plans list 20 monthly Drafts, so upgrading does not increase the included Draft count. Business does list a lower Draft add-on price; compare the total with the pack size you need.
Creating a Draft generates a content analysis and uses a Draft credit. Pages are URLs held in Content Inventory, rather than a fresh monthly writing allowance. Unused monthly Draft credits do not roll over.
Pages and Tracked Queries rise from 50 to 300, and monthly Discoveries from 20 to 50. Clearscope's pricing page lists query tracking across ChatGPT and Gemini for all plans, so Essentials includes the same tracking at a sixth of the query count.
What going over an allowance costs
On overages, Clearscope's add-ons help page says: "Plan addons are automatically billed to your subscription if you exceed your included credit type." Clearscope's pricing page lists these add-on prices by plan:
- Additional Pages, Essentials: $25 a month per pack, with an example of $25 per additional 100 pages.
- Additional Pages, Business: $15 a month per pack.
- Additional Drafts: $50 per pack on Essentials and $20 per pack on Business.
The pricing page offers Pages add-ons in sizes from 100 to 5,000 pages and Drafts add-ons from 10 to 500 drafts. Apart from the $25 Essentials example, ask Clearscope which pack size each price covers on your plan before comparing them. Enterprise add-ons are custom.
A year on each plan
Twelve months of Essentials is $129 times 12, or $1,548. Twelve months of Business is $399 times 12, or $4,788. The gap is $3,240 a year.
The support page's example uses an older $189 plan with 100 included Pages. Using only its $25-per-100-page add-on rate, suppose your $129 Essentials plan needs 150 Pages instead of 50. One 100-page add-on at $25 a month brings the month to $129 plus $25, or $154.
Over a year that comes to $1,848, against $4,788 for Business. For the $270 a month between the plans, Business adds 250 Pages, 250 Tracked Queries and 30 monthly Discoveries.
For that 150-Page example, Essentials with a page pack costs less than Business. Confirm the pack price in your account before relying on the $154 total. Business includes more Tracked Queries and Discoveries, so compare those allowances if you need them too. Clearscope's 14-day free trial is a chance to count how many Pages your site needs before choosing.
Users are unlimited on both plans, so adding writers doesn't change these totals. The Surfer vs Clearscope guide sets that against a seat-priced tool, and the user and seat fees guide covers seat pricing more generally. The content optimization tools guide covers alternatives. Use /seo-tools-cost-calculator/ to compare the total subscription budget.
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Sources
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