Does seodraft track my brand's visibility in ChatGPT?

seodraft does not track AI visibility, and that is the main reason to stay with Writesonic. What seodraft checks instead is whether the AI crawlers can read your site at all, and whether a finished draft passes the editorial and AI slop rules before you approve it.

Do I need a DataForSEO account to use seodraft?

You can run the whole product without one: profile, evidence bank, calendar, rules, review screen and delivery all work, and volumes are labeled as estimates. Add your own DataForSEO credentials and topics get measured Google volume, AI search volume, intent and a live SERP brief, each priced on screen before it spends a cent of your balance.

Which model writes the articles?

Whichever one you already pay for. seodraft never calls a model and never resells generation: your agent reads the profile, the evidence bank and the brief over MCP, writes into the post, runs the rules and waits for you to approve. That split is why the price is $5 a month.

A Writesonic alternative where the writing comes from the agent you already pay for.

This page is for someone paying Writesonic for an AI writer and wondering whether that money is going to the right place. The difference is where the words come from: seodraft never calls a model, so your own Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor subscription writes, and seodraft supplies the profile, the measured demand, the rules and the calendar around it. Below you get who should switch and who should stay, what Writesonic does well, why people leave it with sources, a dated side-by-side and the steps to move.

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Who should switch, and who should stay

When seodraft fits

Switch if you already pay for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and want that subscription to do the writing.
You publish a handful of posts a month, so a monthly article quota you cannot carry forward is capacity you paid for and lost.
You want the finished article committed to your own git repository as a file you approved, one at a time.
You run one blog on your own and have no use for seats, projects, demos or an account manager.

When Writesonic fits

Stay with Writesonic if you need to see how ChatGPT and Gemini answer prompts about your brand, because seodraft has no AI visibility tracking at all.
Stay if you want one platform that also audits your site, rewrites existing pages and drafts outreach to sites citing your competitors.
Stay if your requirement list has seats, several client projects, SSO, SOC 2 and a dedicated strategist on it.

What Writesonic does well

Writesonic's article agent runs a pipeline it describes as 100+ steps over live SERP research and returns a structured long draft in minutes, then publishes it to WordPress, Sanity, Contentful or Notion from the same screen.
Its AI visibility tracking reads how ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews answer prompts about your brand and who they cite instead of you, and seodraft has nothing equivalent to offer you.
The Action Center ranks what to fix first, and the crawler audit checks whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can reach your pages at all.
For a buyer with a procurement process, Writesonic carries SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance, with SSO and an account manager on Enterprise.

Why people look for an alternative

People leave Writesonic for reasons visible on its own pricing page and in public reviews.

The drafts arrive fast and still need a real editing pass. Reviewers report output that reads generic without human polish and long-form articles that get flagged by AI detectors. eesel AI, Writesonic review, January 2026
Articles are metered per month and the unused allowance does not carry into the next cycle. Reviewers call the credit system the single most consistent complaint, because it makes you plan production around the plan instead of around your business. AI Writing Pick, Writesonic review, March 2026
The plans have been restructured more than once. The old cheap entry tier is gone, the entry price moved up, and buyers of the old AppSumo lifetime deal were left out of newer features. AI Writing Pick, Writesonic review, March 2026
Independent reviewers document a recurring billing pattern: a charge landing after a cancellation, and refund requests going unanswered. The same reviewers advise paying monthly first and keeping proof of the cancellation. YourAISoft, Writesonic review, May 2026
The AI visibility work the home page leads with is thinnest on the cheapest plan. Starter tracks 50 prompts across three platforms, with Sentiment Analysis and the Action Center marked unavailable, and all 10 platforms reserved for Enterprise. Writesonic pricing

seodraft and Writesonic, side by side

	seodraft	Writesonic
Price	One plan: $5 a month, or $50 a year.	Starter $79 a month billed annually, Basic $199, Growth $399, Enterprise on request. Annual saves 20% per their FAQ, and the pricing page describes self-serve as starting at $99 a month.
Who writes the article	Your own agent in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, over a remote MCP server with OAuth.	Writesonic's article agent inside the platform, described as a 100+ step pipeline with 11 expert frameworks.
What you pay for the AI writing	Nothing extra. seodraft never calls a model, so generation stays inside the subscription you already have.	Included in the plan and metered: 15 articles a month on Starter, 25 on Basic, 50 on Growth, with $100 per 20 extra articles on Growth.
Keyword and SERP data	Your own DataForSEO account. Around USD 0.004 per SERP, with the estimate shown before anything is spent.	Bundled in the plan: Google Keyword Planner, Google SERPs and Reddit. AI search volume runs 5 one-time runs below Enterprise.
Quality control before publishing	Deterministic rules decide when a draft is ready: lengths, headings, keyword placement, three accepted pieces of evidence, filler and AI slop shapes.	The article pipeline includes its own review and humanizer steps. Content Optimization is marked unavailable on Starter.
Publishing	There is no publish button. You approve, the file is delivered as a draft, and you publish from your CMS.	One-click publish from the dashboard to WordPress, Sanity, Contentful or Notion.
Where the files end up	Committed to your git repository with draft: true forced, plus Markdown and HTML export.	In the platform, and in your CMS once you publish through an integration.
Seats and projects	One workspace per account. No teams, no seats, no client projects.	Starter is 1 user and 1 project; Growth is 3 users and 2 projects. Extra users cost $50 each per month.
Trial	7 days free without a card, and nothing is charged until you subscribe.	7-day free trial with no credit card, plus a 7-day refund window after you pay.

The Writesonic column was read on writesonic.com, its pricing page and its AI Article Writer page on September 24, 2026. Plans move, so check the price yourself before you decide.

What you get instead

seodraft replaces the writing engine with a harness around the agent you already pay for.

Your agent does the writing: Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor connects to seodraft.app/mcp with OAuth and gets 38 tools, so the words come out of the subscription already on your card.
Demand measured on your own account: Google volume, AI search volume, intent and a live SERP brief are bought from your DataForSEO balance, around USD 0.004 per SERP, with the estimate on screen first.
Rules that decide when a draft is ready: Deterministic code checks lengths, headings, keyword placement, evidence, filler and the contrastive shapes a model reaches for, so a draft that passed yesterday cannot fail today.
Three first-hand facts per article: Every article has to carry three accepted pieces of evidence from your own bank: a measured number, a named case, a mistake you made, a credential.
One question, one post: A topic that repeats something you already published is a hard stop, so two of your own posts never split the same query.
The file lands in your repository: Approving an article commits it to your git repository with draft: true forced, and you publish it yourself from your CMS.

How to move

Switching takes four steps, and nothing in your Writesonic account has to be deleted first.

1
Keep what you already published Articles you pushed from Writesonic already live in your CMS, so download or copy anything still sitting in the platform before you cancel.
2
Create the workspace Sign up for seodraft, which gives you 7 days without a card, and fill the profile: business, audience, voice, language and article preferences.
3
Connect your agent with one prompt Copy the prompt from the seodraft home page into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It connects over MCP with OAuth and runs the rest of the onboarding in chat.
4
Import your sitemap Point seodraft at your sitemap so the topic bank withholds questions your existing pages already answer, then let the agent schedule the next ones on the calendar.

Questions before you switch

Three answers that decide whether seodraft fits the job you hired Writesonic for.

Does seodraft track my brand's visibility in ChatGPT?: seodraft does not track AI visibility, and that is the main reason to stay with Writesonic. What seodraft checks instead is whether the AI crawlers can read your site at all, and whether a finished draft passes the editorial and AI slop rules before you approve it.
Do I need a DataForSEO account to use seodraft?: You can run the whole product without one: profile, evidence bank, calendar, rules, review screen and delivery all work, and volumes are labeled as estimates. Add your own DataForSEO credentials and topics get measured Google volume, AI search volume, intent and a live SERP brief, each priced on screen before it spends a cent of your balance.
Which model writes the articles?: Whichever one you already pay for. seodraft never calls a model and never resells generation: your agent reads the profile, the evidence bank and the brief over MCP, writes into the post, runs the rules and waits for you to approve. That split is why the price is $5 a month.