Pricing
Pick how often you want an article. Every plan researches, fact-checks and publishes each one, learns from Search Console and sends a weekly report. Yearly billing is two months free.
Three articles a week. Right for a new site building its base.
$49a month, per site
Billed monthly, cancel any time
3 articles a week
First article is free. No card to start.
One article a day. Right for a site that already gets some search traffic.
$99a month, per site
Billed monthly, cancel any time
1 article a day
First article is free. No card to start.
Two articles a day. Right for covering a whole market quickly.
$179a month, per site
Billed monthly, cancel any time
2 articles a day
First article is free. No card to start.
The first article is free and needs no card. After you read it, any plan starts with a 14-day trial: card required, cancel anytime. Prices are in US dollars, per site. Every plan has the same features, so the only choice is how often you publish.
Before you pay
Four promises we can keep, and the one thing we do not promise: rankings.
One article per person and per site, with its full fact check and no card. You pick a plan only after you have read it.
Any plan starts with a 14-day trial. Cancel on the Billing page with one button per site. Everything already published stays yours.
Every number and citation is checked against its source. An article that still fails after one rewrite is held for you, and you see why.
One article may use at most $1.50 of AI work. A run that would cross it stops and is held, so a bad run cannot run up a bill.
Cloud, open source, agents
The engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Pick the way that fits how you work.
We run it for you
From $49 a month per site, first article free
Free, AGPL-3.0
Free plus your own model bill
The public repo is coming soon. The self-host guide is live.
Credits, not a subscription
$20 for 100 credits
For agents
$20 buys 100 credits. Your agent spends them per task. Nothing renews on its own.
Reading sites, articles, performance and queries costs nothing. An article that fails on our side or stops at its cost cap gives its credits back.
Side by side
The three cloud plans have the same features. Pace is the only difference, so you can start small and move up.
| Feature | Starter | GrowthRecommended | Pro | Self-hostOpen source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | ||||
| Per site, monthly | $49 | $99 | $179 | Free |
| Per site, yearlyTwo months free | $490 | $990 | $1,790 | Free |
| Extra sites | 20% off each | 20% off each | 20% off each | No site fee |
| What else you pay | No add-ons | No add-ons | No add-ons | Your own model bill |
| Output | ||||
| Articles | 3 articles a week | 1 article a day | 2 articles a day | As many as you run |
| Topics from your Search Console dataOptional | With your own Google OAuth client | |||
| Publish to WordPress, Ghost or a webhook | ||||
| Hosted blog on your subdomain | ||||
| Quality | ||||
| Fact check on every articleNumbers and citations against the saved source | Open rule checks, or a model judge on your key | |||
| Tuned verifier and cross-site learning | ||||
| Tools and support | ||||
| Dashboard and content calendar | ||||
| Managed scheduling | ||||
| Hosted MCP serverAgent calls spend credits | ||||
| CLI and API | With credits | With credits | With credits | Your own instance |
| Support | Community on GitHub | |||
| License | Hosted | Hosted | Hosted | AGPL-3.0 |
Every cloud plan includes: a fact check on every article; every publishing option: a hosted blog on your domain, WordPress, Ghost, a webhook or a site builder prompt; the Search Console option; a weekly report by email. The same numbers for software and agents: /pricing.json. Comparing tools? See every side-by-side page.
Agencies
Yes. Run client sites on one account and every site after your first is 20% off.
For 5 or more client sites on one account.
$79.20 a site a month on daily articles (Growth)
That is the usual 20 percent off every site after your first. Your first site is $99 a month. Starter and Pro sites get the same 20 percent off. Yearly billing gives two months free.
First article free. No card to start.
Building a client list? See how agencies use Paperboy.
Questions
Short answers to what people ask before they pay.
Something else? Email hello@paperboyseo.com or read the help page.
Plans are billed per site: Starter is $49 a month, Growth is $99 a month and Pro is $179 a month. Starter writes 3 articles a week, Growth writes one a day and Pro writes two a day. Every plan includes the fact check, every publishing option and the weekly report.
Yes, one per person and per website, with its full fact check and no card. After you read it, any plan starts with a 14-day trial: card required, cancel anytime and you pay nothing before it ends. Paste your site address to get it.
Yearly billing gives you two months free. Starter is $490 a year, Growth is $990 and Pro is $1,790. It is ten times the monthly price, charged once a year.
Yes. Every site after your first is 20 percent off, on any plan, applied at checkout. Each site has its own plan, Search Console connection and weekly report.
Yes, from the Billing page, with one button per site. Articles keep publishing until the end of the period you paid for, and everything already published stays yours.
Self-host is the free open-source engine under AGPL-3.0, with your own keys and your own model bill. Agents and API run on credits: $20 for 100 credits, with no seat or site limit. Both are live today.
You can cancel any time and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for. We do not refund partial periods unless the law requires it. That is why the first article is free and the trial runs 14 days.
Yes. Upgrades and downgrades take effect right away and are prorated on your next invoice. Each site has its own plan, so a small site can stay on Starter while a busy one runs on Growth.
They run on credits, not on a plan. Reading your data is free, and writing an article costs 12 credits. Your plan covers the articles Paperboy schedules for your site.
We may change prices with at least 30 days of notice by email. A new price applies from your next renewal after that notice.
Paste your address. In under ten minutes you read a finished, fact-checked article written for your site. Free, no card.
Prefer to run it yourself? Self-host it (repo coming soon). Using an agent? Add the MCP server.