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Which Frase plan do you need, and what does it cost per article?
Summary
Frase's Starter plan is $49 a month for 10 articles, Professional is $129 for 40, and Scale is $299 for 100. Yearly billing brings the monthly equivalents to $39, $103 and $239. Per article, that's $4.90 down to $2.39. The bigger plans are cheaper per article only if you use most of the allowance. Seats, sites and audit pages also rise with each tier.
What each Frase plan includes
Frase's pricing page lists three published plans and a custom-priced Enterprise tier. The monthly allowances step up together:
- Starter: 10 articles, 50 audit pages, 25 AI generations, 20 AI prompts and 10 Content Guard pages.
- Professional: 40 articles, 250 audit pages, 100 AI generations, 50 AI prompts and 75 Content Guard pages.
- Scale: 100 articles, 1,000 audit pages, 350 AI generations, 75 AI prompts and 300 Content Guard pages.
The AI prompts are tracked across a different set of engines on each plan. Starter covers ChatGPT and Google AI. Professional adds Perplexity, and Scale adds Claude and Gemini.
What does each plan cost per article?
Dividing each price by the plan's monthly article allowance gives these rates. The calculation assumes you use the full allowance.
| Plan | Monthly price / annual-billing monthly equivalent | Articles a month | Cost per article (monthly / yearly) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 / $39 | 10 | $4.90 / $3.90 |
| Professional | $129 / $103 | 40 | $3.23 / $2.58 |
| Scale | $299 / $239 | 100 | $2.99 / $2.39 |
Write 20 articles a month on Professional and the $129 works out to $6.45 each, more than Starter's $4.90 at 10. Starter can't stretch past 10, though: Frase holds it at its monthly limits until the cycle resets or you upgrade.
On Professional and Scale, pay-as-you-go overages are optional and off by default. If you turn them on, extra usage is billed at the end of the cycle. An extra article costs $5 on Professional and $4 on Scale. An audit page costs $0.50 and $0.40, and an AI prompt costs $0.25 and $0.20.
At higher article volumes, compare Professional plus overages with Scale. On monthly billing, 74 articles on Professional cost $129 plus 34 extras at $5, or $299, the same as Scale. At 75 articles the bill is $129 plus 35 extras, or $304, and Scale is cheaper.
Extra seats can cost less than the next plan
Starter includes one seat and one domain. Professional includes three seats and five domains. Scale includes five seats and 10 domains. Frase's pricing page lists extra seats on Professional and Scale at $29 a month each.
On monthly billing, a fourth writer on Professional brings the bill to $158 a month ($129 plus $29), and a fifth to $187. Scale is $299. Six writers cost $216 on Professional with three extra seats, against $328 for Scale with one. Scale's extra 60 articles and five domains are what the higher price buys.
For a solo writer within Starter's other limits and 10 articles a month, Starter has the lowest listed plan charge: $39 a month equivalent, or $468 billed yearly. If five domains and Professional's other limits are enough, a team of six writing up to 40 articles a month pays $216 on monthly billing, against $328 on Scale. Scale is the plan to price once you pass 74 articles a month on monthly billing. The user and seat fees guide explains how to include the same team across several subscriptions.
How the trial and yearly billing work
Frase's pricing page offers a free seven-day trial on paid plans with no credit card. It also says yearly billing saves 20% off the monthly rate. Over twelve months, that comes to:
- Starter: $468 instead of $588.
- Professional: $1,236 instead of $1,548.
- Scale: $2,868 instead of $3,588.
Use the seven trial days to estimate monthly article volume and the other allowances your work consumes. Before paying for a year, confirm how a midyear plan change would affect the bill. Compare the trial workload with alternatives in the content optimization tools guide and the Surfer alternatives guide. Include seats and overages when entering your budget in /seo-tools-cost-calculator/.
Work out your own number: the SEO Tools Cost Calculator finds the cheapest published plan for your sites, tracked keywords and users.
Sources
Figures come from each vendor's own pricing pages and documentation. We have not tested these tools hands-on, and no ranking here is paid for.