Enterprise content suites
As of October 29, 2026, Search Atlas's cheapest paid plan is Starter at $99/month billed monthly, per its own pricing page. Search Atlas serves a different buyer and job from Paperboy, and the table below shows where the two overlap.
| Row | Paperboy | Search Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month | $99/month billed monthly |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes | Partly |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes | Yes |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly | Yes |
| 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 | Search Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | All-in-one SEO and AI visibility platform where OTTO applies fixes and Content Genius writes content, plus local SEO, ads and reporting. SourceRead Oct 29, 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 | Starter is $99/month billed monthly: 50,000 Universal Credits (about 50 premium AI articles or 100 AI content edits), 1 project, 1 seat. Growth is $199, Pro is $399, Agency is from $999. Credits are one shared pool for all actions. Annual prices are not shown. SourceRead Oct 29, 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 | Yes 7-day trial with a free 1-on-1 onboarding session, shown on Starter and Growth. The features page says the trial includes full platform access. 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 | Yes Yes. The pricing FAQ says every plan connects and publishes to any CMS, including WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and custom stacks. Content Genius publishes to a connected CMS, with approval steps where the team sets them. OTTO SEO (otto-seo page) writes on-page changes through native connectors for WordPress, HubSpot, Webflow, Shopify, Contentful and Duda, and has an approval mode. SourceRead Oct 29, 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 | Partly Partial. The Content Genius FAQ says a Research Microagent pulls data from Google, industry publications and academic sources and a Citation Validation system checks source quality. SCHOLAR grades drafts on 12 dimensions including factuality, which its page describes as specificity and entity coverage. The pages do not say each claim is checked against saved source text. 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 | Yes Yes. OTTO SEO connects Google Analytics, Search Console and Google Business Profile for live performance data. The features page lists connected GSC data as the first step of a loop that finds issues, plans work, executes, re-measures and fixes supported issues as performance changes. 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 | Not listed No open source or self-hosting statement found. Search Atlas describes a proprietary hosted platform. 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 Public API docs exist at docs.searchatlas.com, but the features page says API access comes with custom enterprise plans. The help center has MCP articles (SEO research and backlinks, Cloud Stack) for AI assistants. Search Atlas Coworker runs in Slack and Teams and connects to 3,000+ external tools. No CLI found. SourceRead Oct 29, 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 Search Atlas 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.
Partial. The Content Genius FAQ says a Research Microagent pulls data from Google, industry publications and academic sources and a Citation Validation system checks source quality. SCHOLAR grades drafts on 12 dimensions including factuality, which its page describes as specificity and entity coverage. The pages do not say each claim is checked against saved source text (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 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.
Yes. OTTO SEO connects Google Analytics, Search Console and Google Business Profile for live performance data. The features page lists connected GSC data as the first step of a loop that finds issues, plans work, executes, re-measures and fixes supported issues as performance changes (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 2026). Paperboy reads Search Console, read-only, to choose the next topic and to report clicks and impressions per article.
The Search Atlas pages we read do not say (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 2026). The Paperboy engine is open source under AGPL-3.0 and runs with Docker and your own keys.
Public API docs exist at docs.searchatlas.com, but the features page says API access comes with custom enterprise plans. The help center has MCP articles (SEO research and backlinks, Cloud Stack) for AI assistants. Search Atlas Coworker runs in Slack and Teams and connects to 3,000+ external tools. No CLI found (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 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 Search Atlas
AI marketing platform that runs SEO, AI visibility, content, ads and site health, with OTTO SEO and Content Genius as core products. (its own description, read Oct 29, 2026)
The platform now centers on an agent (Atlas Agent) and OTTO SEO, with Content Genius as the writing skill. Content cost draws from the shared Universal Credits pool, not a per-article price. The Agency plan mentions 5 implementation hours on annual plans, so annual billing exists but annual prices are not shown. API access is listed for custom enterprise plans only.
| Plan | Price | What the page says it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99/month billed monthly | 50,000 Universal Credits a month (about 50 premium AI articles, 100 AI content edits or 1,500 rank checks), 1 project, 1 seat, Atlas Agent and OTTO SEO, Content Genius, AI Visibility (1 provider, 500 credits), publishing to any CMS, 2,000 tracked keywords. 7-day trial. |
| Growth | $199/month billed monthly | 120,000 Universal Credits (about 100 premium AI articles), 2 projects, 3 seats. Adds AI Visibility on ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode, and Meta and Google Ad Studio. 7-day trial. |
| Pro | $399/month billed monthly | 400,000 Universal Credits (about 350 premium AI articles), 4 projects, 5 seats. Adds Copilot, Perplexity and Claude visibility tracking and white-label dashboards. |
| Agency | From $999/month billed monthly | 1,000,000+ Universal Credits (about 900 premium AI articles), 10 projects, 10 seats, client portals, branded dashboards, unlimited keyword tracking. Talk to sales. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom quotas across every skill, API access, personalized onboarding, dedicated support (per the features page FAQ). |
From Search Atlas's pricing page, read October 29, 2026. Paperboy's own prices are on our pricing page.
FAQ
As of Oct 29, 2026, Search Atlas lists Starter $99/month billed monthly; Growth $199/month billed monthly; Pro $399/month billed monthly; Agency From $999/month billed monthly. searchatlas.com is the source, so confirm there before you buy.
Partial. The Content Genius FAQ says a Research Microagent pulls data from Google, industry publications and academic sources and a Citation Validation system checks source quality. SCHOLAR grades drafts on 12 dimensions including factuality, which its page describes as specificity and entity coverage. The pages do not say each claim is checked against saved source text (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Yes. The pricing FAQ says every plan connects and publishes to any CMS, including WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and custom stacks. Content Genius publishes to a connected CMS, with approval steps where the team sets them. OTTO SEO (otto-seo page) writes on-page changes through native connectors for WordPress, HubSpot, Webflow, Shopify, Contentful and Duda, and has an approval mode (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
The Search Atlas pages we read do not say (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Public API docs exist at docs.searchatlas.com, but the features page says API access comes with custom enterprise plans. The help center has MCP articles (SEO research and backlinks, Cloud Stack) for AI assistants. Search Atlas Coworker runs in Slack and Teams and connects to 3,000+ external tools. No CLI found (searchatlas.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Sources
Every cell above links the page we read, and every date is the day we read it. Facts about Search Atlas come from Search Atlas'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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