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Outrank

AI SEO platform that writes, publishes and backlinks daily articles to earn Google rankings and AI citations.

Outrank is an AI SEO platform that researches keywords, writes SEO articles with images, and publishes them to a brand's own CMS on a schedule. It also builds verified backlinks and rewrites pages that lose Google visibility.

Best for
Founders and small SaaS or e-commerce teams that want daily SEO content without writers

What we checked

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What we checked on Outrank

YesPartlyNo

What it doesNo

Monitors AI answers

The vendor states outright that it does not monitor AI assistants and tells readers to pair it with a dedicated tracker for prompt-level reporting; it works on the inputs instead.

No. Outrank does not monitor AI assistants. It works on the inputs that AI assistants draw on: published pages, backlinks and page maintenance. Use a…

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What it doesYes

Optimises your content

An improvements feature reads Search Console data, picks published pages with room to gain clicks and drafts a rewrite; pushing it live stays manual unless you switch automation on.

The improvements feature reads Google Search Console data and finds pages with at least 500 impressions and an average position between 4 and 25 that…

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What it doesYes

Generates content

Writing new articles is the core of the paid plan: 30 a month on the entry tier, with in-article AI images, research-sourced links and output in more than 150 languages.

30 SEO-optimized articles per month generated and published on auto-pilot, automated keyword research, automated backlink building, in-article AI…

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What it doesYes

Publishes to your site

Articles are pushed live to the customer's own CMS on chosen days, across eight named platforms plus a custom webhook, and later edits can be synced to the post already published.

Publishing: WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Framer, Notion, Ghost, Next.js blog, or any system through a custom webhook, as live…

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What it doesPartly

Technical AEO

Its own hosted blog sets up llms.txt, robots.txt, sitemaps and structured data automatically, but the vendor says it adds no schema markup to articles published into a customer's existing CMS.

Outrank does not add structured data markup to customer articles, so schema depends on the CMS or theme.

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What it doesPartly

Done-for-you service

Professional editors can review, fact-check, and polish articles through the paid Human Curated Service add-on.

Professional human editors review, fact-check, and polish every article before publication.

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What it reportsYes

Recommendations

It does not stop at reporting: the rewrite is drafted for you using current search results and fresh facts, and the free Page Inspector returns prioritised, plain-English fixes per URL.

Prioritized, plain-English fixes to move your answer up top and make every page easy for AI to quote.

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What it reportsPartly

Suggests prompts to track

It researches the questions buyers ask assistants and turns them into a dated content plan with live volume and difficulty data, but these become articles to write, not prompts to track.

Outrank researches your niche and competitors, finds the questions people ask assistants about your category, and turns them into a 30-day plan you…

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Plans and signing upYes

Projects or brands

One account runs many websites from a single dashboard, with automatic volume discounts from two sites upward and custom agency pricing above twenty-five.

Multiple websites: one account manages many sites, with volume discounts.

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Plans and signing upNo

Card required to start

The free hosted blog is explicitly usable without a card; the vendor does not say either way whether the three-day trial of the paid Organic Growth plan asks for one.

Price: free up to 10,000 visits a month per blog, with no credit card. Unlimited posts and pages.

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Plans and signing upYes

Self-serve signup

You sign up with Google, subscribe online through Stripe and cancel yourself; sales contact is only asked for agency pricing above twenty-five websites.

Cancel anytime. No questions asked!

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Access and integrationsYes

API

A documented REST API with bearer keys covers products, keywords, articles, blog posts, knowledge and Search Console data, rate-limited to 120 requests a minute per key.

Drive your Outrank organization programmatically — manage products, keywords, and articles from your own tooling or from an AI coding agent.

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Access and integrationsYes

MCP server

A hosted MCP server takes a single URL plus an OAuth sign-in, with a local npx server as an alternative and toolsets grouped by product area and a read-only switch.

Outrank hosts the server, so clients that connect to a URL need nothing on your machine. Add this URL and sign in to Outrank when the client asks:

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Outrank price and terms

Terms

Free to start
PartlyPartlyThe trial lets users see keyword research and article generation
The terms in full

trial articles include an Outrank watermark. No trial length is stated.

Card to start
YesNot required
Sign up without sales
YesYes

For AI agents

MCP server
Yes
API
Yes
Outrank's pricing page

Pricing page, captured

outrank.so/pricing, checked

Outrank alternatives

All 2 alternatives

Engines:on every planon some plansnot trackednot stated

Questions about Outrank

How much does Outrank cost?
Outrank costs $99 a month. From outrank.so/pricing, checked 31 October 2026.
Which AI engines does Outrank track?
Not stated: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Claude, AI Mode, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI.
Does Outrank have an API or an MCP server?
It has an API. It has an MCP server.
Can you start with Outrank without talking to sales?
You can start free, with limits. You can sign up without talking to sales.
What have we checked on Outrank?
13 facts, under these headings: What it does, what it reports, plans and signing up, access and integrations.
How do we check Outrank?
We hold 13 facts on Outrank, quoted from 6 pages. Facts and price last checked 31 October 2026.

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