Enterprise content suites
As of October 30, 2026, Alli AI's cheapest paid plan is Business at $249/month billed annually, per its own pricing page. Alli AI serves a different buyer and job from Paperboy, and the table below shows where the two overlap.
| Row | Paperboy | Alli AI |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month | $249/month billed annually |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes | Not listed |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes | Not listed |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly | Partly |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes | Partly |
Side by side
Every cell links the page it came from, with the day we read it.
| Feature | Paperboy | Alli AI |
|---|---|---|
| What it is for | Researches, writes, fact checks and publishes SEO articles to your own site, then learns from Search Console. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Site-wide on-page SEO automation and AI-crawler visibility: writes and deploys titles, schema and internal links in bulk, and pre-renders pages for AI crawlers. It is not an article writer. SourceRead Oct 30, 2026 |
| Cheapest paid plan | Starter is $49 a month per site for 3 articles a week. Growth is $99 and Pro is $179. Yearly billing is two months free. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Business is $249/month billed annually ($2,990/year), or $299/month on monthly billing. Agency is $499/month billed annually ($5,990/year), or $599/month monthly. Enterprise is custom. Extra sites and keywords are sold as add-ons. SourceRead Oct 30, 2026 |
| Free plan or trial | Yes The first article is free, no card. Any plan then starts with a 14-day trial (card required). SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly Posts directly to WordPress and Ghost. Other sites use a hosted blog, a signed webhook or a prompt that builds a blog in your code. No Shopify, Webflow, Wix or Squarespace connector. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Partly Partial. Changes are deployed automatically across sites by rules via a WordPress plugin, JavaScript snippet or tag manager. Publishing new long-form articles is not described. SourceRead Oct 30, 2026 |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes Every number and cited sentence is compared with the saved text of its source. An article that fails gets one rewrite, then is held for you. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes Optional read-only Search Console connection. It picks topics from your impressions and reports clicks per article. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | |
| Open source or self-host | Yes The engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host it with Docker and your own keys. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes A remote MCP server with eight tools and a REST API with an OpenAPI file. The CLI is built in the open but not on npm yet. Agents pay with credits, $20 for 100. SourceRead Oct 29, 2026 | Partly API access is listed on the Agency plan and above. MCP is not mentioned on the pricing page. SourceRead Oct 30, 2026 |
“Not listed” means we found no statement either way on the pages linked in that cell. It does not mean the answer is no. Vendors change their pages, so confirm before you buy.
The honest verdict
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What Alli AI does well, from its own pages
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The four that decide it for most people, each with the source for the other side.
The Alli AI pages we read do not say (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026). Paperboy compares every number and cited sentence with the saved text of the page it links to. An article that fails gets one rewrite and is then held for you instead of published.
The Alli AI pages we read do not say (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026). Paperboy reads Search Console, read-only, to choose the next topic and to report clicks and impressions per article.
The Alli AI pages we read do not say (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026). The Paperboy engine is open source under AGPL-3.0 and runs with Docker and your own keys.
API access is listed on the Agency plan and above. MCP is not mentioned on the pricing page (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026). Paperboy ships a remote MCP server with eight tools and a REST API with an OpenAPI file (the CLI is not on npm yet), so Claude Code, Cursor or n8n can run it.
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https://paperboyseo.com/start?url=yoursite.comThe engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-hosting for your own sites is free; you pay your own model bill. Self-host docs.
About Alli AI
Platform that automatically deploys on-page SEO changes (titles, schema, internal links) across many sites and serves pre-rendered pages to 50+ AI crawlers, without changing source code. (its own description, read Oct 30, 2026)
The pricing page shows two monthly figures per plan; the lower one matches the annual total divided by 12, so it is read as the annual-billing price and the higher as monthly billing. Annual prices are $2,990 and $5,990.
| Plan | Price | What the page says it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Business | $249/month billed annually ($2,990/year); the page also shows $299/month for monthly billing | 5 sites, 5 team members, 500 keywords, 1,250 pages; AI Search Visibility Engine, weekly crawl and recommendations |
| Agency | $499/month billed annually ($5,990/year); the page also shows $599/month for monthly billing | 15 sites, 15 team members, 2,000 keywords, 5,000 pages; adds API access and white label snippet hosting |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing (request a demo) | 50 sites, 50 team members, 5,000 keywords, 20,000 pages; white label dashboard |
From Alli AI's pricing page, read October 30, 2026. Paperboy's own prices are on our pricing page.
FAQ
As of Oct 30, 2026, Alli AI lists Business $249/month billed annually; Agency $499/month billed annually. alliai.com is the source, so confirm there before you buy.
The Alli AI pages we read do not say (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026).
Partial. Changes are deployed automatically across sites by rules via a WordPress plugin, JavaScript snippet or tag manager. Publishing new long-form articles is not described (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026).
The Alli AI pages we read do not say (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026).
API access is listed on the Agency plan and above. MCP is not mentioned on the pricing page (alliai.com, read Oct 30, 2026).
Sources
Every cell above links the page we read, and every date is the day we read it. Facts about Alli AI come from Alli AI's own pages only. Facts about Paperboy come from pages on this site. If something is wrong or out of date, write to hello@paperboyseo.com and we will fix it and change the date.
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