Paperboy vs Byword: which one should you use?

Researches, writes, fact checks and publishes SEO articles to your own site, then learns from Search Console.

Bulk SEO article and programmatic page writer with CMS publishing.

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.

Cheapest paid plan is Starter at $99 per month for 25 articles ($3.50 per extra article). Standard is $299 for 80 articles and Scale is $999 for 300. Byword's llms.txt says credits never expire and annual billing is 17% off. The pricing page is a JavaScript app, so these figures come from its meta description and Byword's own llms.txt.

The first article is free, no card. Any plan then starts with a 14-day trial (card required).

Start free with 5 articles. Byword's llms.txt adds no credit card and full access to all features.

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.

Partial. One-click publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Ghost, Shopify, HubSpot and Notion, plus Zapier. The quick start says generation does not publish automatically by default. Via MCP an agent can publish to a connected CMS, publishes default to draft, and approval gates are optional.

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.

No page found that claims automatic claim checking. The quick start and settings docs tell you to verify names, dates, figures and quotations yourself before publishing.

Optional read-only Search Console connection. It picks topics from your impressions and reports clicks per article.

Partial. The MCP docs list reading search, analytics and content performance data and connecting Search Console. A Byword comparison page lists GSC performance among its publishing and indexing controls and mentions GSC-backed actions. No page found that says it picks or refreshes posts automatically from GSC data.

The engine is open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host it with Docker and your own keys.

No open source or self-host statement found. Byword describes itself as a web-based SaaS platform.

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.

Official remote MCP server at api.byword.ai/mcp with OAuth (documented for Claude and Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and eligible ChatGPT workspaces). HTTP API (Standard plan and above per llms.txt) with docs at byword.ai/learn/api. Zapier app. No CLI listed.