Best AI writing tools
Pricing in this category moves faster than any other we track, and the plans are usually capped by words, credits or seats rather than by features. Every figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date beside it. The ordering is cheapest entry price first — a basis you can check rather than a ranking you have to trust.
What “best” means on this page
“Best” is not a mood — it is whichever axis you actually care about, measured. Our record can say which tool is cheapest to start, whose free plan is real, who bills local currency and whose prices just moved; it cannot say which tool fits your work, which is what the full comparisons are for. Cheapest never means best — it means cheapest. Each verdict below names its axis, and every tool links to its own site so you can check us against the source. No vendor paid for any position.
Entry at $9/mo — the lowest published paid plan in this set. Cheap is a fact, not a verdict; the profile below says what you get for it.
site ↗pricing ↗A plan priced at zero on the vendor’s own page — trials not counted. What each one caps differs; the profiles say.
A change only counts once a second clean read agrees. The change log →
Tool by tool
Rytrsite ↗pricing ↗
A low-cost AI writing assistant for short-form marketing copy. Paid plans start at $9/mo (Unlimited); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $29/mo (Premium).
GetGeniesite ↗pricing ↗
An AI writing and SEO assistant that runs inside WordPress, next to the post you are writing. Paid plans start at $10/mo (Starter); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 4 paid tiers, topping out at $99/mo (Agency). We read the same $10/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. Its published prices moved on 2026-10-10 — the change log holds the rows.
Frasesite ↗pricing ↗
An SEO content tool that researches what ranks for a query and drafts against it. Paid plans start at $39/mo (Starter); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $239/mo (Scale). It bills by country — entry $49/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
Jaspersite ↗pricing ↗
An AI writing platform aimed at marketing teams, with brand voice controls and campaign workflows around the model. Paid plans start at $69/mo (Pro); no free plan is published.
Side by side
| Tool | Paid from | Free plan | Currency | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rytr | $9/mo | Yes | USD | 2026-09-07 | page |
| GetGenie | $10/mo | — | USD | 2026-09-13 | page |
| Frase | $39/mo | — | USD | 2026-10-13 | page |
| Jasper | $69/mo | — | USD | 2026-08-27 | page |
How to choose in this category
- Find the cap that will actually bind you: the tool that is cheapest per seat is rarely the cheapest per word.
- Where a free row exists, read what it caps. A monthly credit allowance and an unlimited plan are not the same offer.
- Most headline figures here are the annual-billed rate; the pay-monthly figure sits higher.
Questions the record can answer
How much do AI writing tools cost?
Between $9/mo and $69/mo. The lowest entry price we hold for any of the 4 AI writing tools we track is Rytr, at $9/mo; the highest is Jasper, at $69/mo. Both are the vendor's own published list price, read on 2026-10-13. Cheapest is not best; it is cheapest, and it is the one axis a price record can settle on its own.
Which AI writing tools publish a plan priced at zero?
1 of the 4 we track: Rytr (Free) — the entry each zero price sits on is named beside it. A free trial is not counted here: a trial is a deadline, not a price.
Have any AI writing tools changed their prices recently?
One confirmed change in this category: GetGenie, on 2026-10-10. A change is confirmed only when the vendor's own page showed us one set of figures and then another; the old reading stays in the record rather than being overwritten.
How many AI writing tools does Wicketry track?
9 in this category, last read on 2026-10-13. 4 of them publish a plan ladder we can put in the table; we also track Copy.ai, Grammarly, Scalenut, Simplified and Writesonic, but hold no named ladder for them in US dollars yet, so they are absent rather than converted or guessed.