Enterprise content suites
As of October 29, 2026, Writer's pricing page shows no fixed self-serve plan price we could read. Writer serves a different buyer and job from Paperboy, and the table below shows where the two overlap.
| Row | Paperboy | Writer |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month | No fixed price shown |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes | Partly |
| Learns from Search Console | Yes | Not listed |
| Publishes to your site for you | Partly | Partly |
| MCP, API or CLI for agents | Yes | Yes |
Side by side
Every cell links the page it came from, with the day we read it.
| Feature | Paperboy | Writer |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Enterprise AI agent and workflow platform for marketing and other business teams 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 | Not verified on 2026-10-29. The plans page shows no dollar price for Starter (per-seat, monthly or annual). Enterprise is contact sales. Developer API use is billed per token, for example Palmyra X6 at $2.00 input and $8.00 output per 1M tokens. 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 Starter has a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. Starter covers up to 5 users and 5 Playbooks. 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 Playbooks can push finished assets to a CMS through connectors. Webflow, Contentful and Adobe Experience Manager are named. WordPress is not listed as a native connector. This is a general agent platform, not a scheduled blog autoposter. 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 Has a claim detection mode that scans an article and flags statistics, facts and quotes for a human to verify. Agent output also lists the sources it used. A Writer blog post says the tool cannot judge truth by itself. 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 | Not listed No Google Search Console connector appears on the connectors page or plans page. A Semrush connector is listed. 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 | Partly The platform is not described as open source. Writer's GitHub org hosts open-source tools: writer-framework (Apache-2.0), Python and Node API libraries (Apache-2.0) and writer-mcp (MIT). 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 | Yes Public API and SDKs, a hosted WRITER MCP server that runs published playbooks, custom connectors via OpenAPI spec or MCP server, and LangChain and AWS Strands support. API access is listed under Enterprise. No Zapier connector found on the pages checked. 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
Sometimes the other tool is the better fit. Here is how to tell.
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What Writer does well, from its own pages
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Write my first article freeWhat you get
The four that decide it for most people, each with the source for the other side.
Has a claim detection mode that scans an article and flags statistics, facts and quotes for a human to verify. Agent output also lists the sources it used. A Writer blog post says the tool cannot judge truth by itself (writer.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.
The Writer pages we read do not say (writer.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 platform is not described as open source. Writer's GitHub org hosts open-source tools: writer-framework (Apache-2.0), Python and Node API libraries (Apache-2.0) and writer-mcp (MIT) (github.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 and SDKs, a hosted WRITER MCP server that runs published playbooks, custom connectors via OpenAPI spec or MCP server, and LangChain and AWS Strands support. API access is listed under Enterprise. No Zapier connector found on the pages checked (dev.writer.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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Read the fact check. Every number and cited sentence is compared with the saved text of its source.
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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 Writer
Writer is an enterprise AI platform where agents and playbooks run business workflows, grounded in company data, brand rules and governance controls. (its own description, read Oct 29, 2026)
The plans page shows no dollar amount for Starter. /pricing and /plans show the same content. Not built as an SEO autoblogger: no keyword research or Search Console loop found on the pages checked. The fact-check source is a Writer blog post that may predate the current product.
| Plan | Price | What the page says it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | No dollar price shown. Described as monthly or annual per-seat plans with fixed credit limits. | 14-day free trial, no credit card. Up to 5 users, WRITER Agent access, up to 5 Playbooks, 1 team Personality profile, basic connectors (up to 3 active), 50 GB in one Knowledge Graph. |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Unlimited users and free collaborators, unlimited Playbooks and routines, advanced and industry connectors, full Knowledge Graph, departmental brand profiles, advanced orchestration and approvals, priority support, API access with expanded rate limits. |
From Writer's pricing page, read October 29, 2026. Paperboy's own prices are on our pricing page.
FAQ
Writer's pricing page did not show a price we could read on Oct 29, 2026. Check writer.com.
Has a claim detection mode that scans an article and flags statistics, facts and quotes for a human to verify. Agent output also lists the sources it used. A Writer blog post says the tool cannot judge truth by itself (writer.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Playbooks can push finished assets to a CMS through connectors. Webflow, Contentful and Adobe Experience Manager are named. WordPress is not listed as a native connector. This is a general agent platform, not a scheduled blog autoposter (writer.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
The platform is not described as open source. Writer's GitHub org hosts open-source tools: writer-framework (Apache-2.0), Python and Node API libraries (Apache-2.0) and writer-mcp (MIT) (github.com, read Oct 29, 2026).
Public API and SDKs, a hosted WRITER MCP server that runs published playbooks, custom connectors via OpenAPI spec or MCP server, and LangChain and AWS Strands support. API access is listed under Enterprise. No Zapier connector found on the pages checked (dev.writer.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 Writer come from Writer'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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