Updated May 2026
Found by AI vs Writesonic AEO
Same price. Drafts you finish, or content shipped for you.
Writesonic AEO Growth is $399/month: visibility tracking plus 50 AI-drafted articles per month. Your team edits them and publishes them on your site. If you have editorial capacity to spare, that's a productivity win at a fair price. Found by AI Content Growth is €399/month: fewer pieces, but written, edited, and published for you (monitoring included). If your bottleneck is finishing content rather than generating it, that's where we fit. Pick the model that matches your team.
Stop at the dashboard.
Show the gap. Don't address it with content production. A client looking at a monitoring dashboard with no content production is not a recurring conversation; it's a quarterly question.
Write briefs from keyword tools.
Briefs come from search-volume guesswork. They produce useful articles, but the priorities don't reflect what AI assistants are actually citing for the client's category.
Turn monitoring evidence into the next brief.
Last month's monitoring evidence - competitor appearances, citation gaps, missing facts, weak topics - becomes next month's content brief. Then the monthly proof report shows what changed.
The wedge is the loop, not any single layer of it.
The Core Difference
Writesonic gives you drafts. We ship finished, published content.
Writesonic AEO is a serious product. Its Growth plan is $399/month and bundles two things: a visibility tracker that monitors brand mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and other AI engines - and an article-drafting engine that produces 50 long-form drafts per month tailored to your brand voice. Add 50 audits, prompt diversification, sentiment analysis, and multi-region/language support, and you have a high-volume draft pipeline for a team with the editorial capacity to actually finish and publish that much work.
Found by AI is built for the team that doesn't have that capacity. Our AI Content Growth tier is €399/month - the same headline price - but we don't deliver 50 drafts. We deliver 8 launch articles plus 4 articles per month, translated into 3 languages, written and edited end-to-end and shipped with publishing support. Fewer pieces, but they actually go live. If you have an editor who can polish 50 drafts a month and a CMS workflow ready to absorb them, Writesonic gets more text into the world than we do. If you don't - if drafts pile up unedited - we ship more visible work. Same invoice; different team fit.
Where each one sits
What Writesonic AEO is best at
- Multi-engine AI visibility tracking - ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and more - bundled with sentiment analysis and prompt diversification on Growth
- 50 article drafts per month on Growth ($399/mo). Each draft is a long-form, AI-optimized article in your brand voice, ready for editing and deployment on your own domain
- 50 audits per month and multi-region/language support - useful if you operate across markets and need localization at volume
- Lower tiers from $39/month for teams that want core writing and basic visibility - the Growth plan is where AEO and serious tracking kicks in
What Found by AI is doing instead
- Calm weekly monitoring at €14/month annual on Minimum; €39/month on Growth with a personalized site-aware monthly playbook. Citation, sentiment, and competitor benchmarking included on every tier
- Done-for-you AI Content: 8 launch articles, 4 articles per month, and an approved content plan translated into 3 languages on AI Content Growth (€399/mo annual, €479 monthly) - written, edited, shipped
- No draft queue to manage. Your team doesn't edit anything, schedule anything, or push anything live. We do the publishing work and the optional found-by.ai profile is included when useful
- One subscription handles both jobs: AI Content (€199-€799/mo) includes AI Monitoring Minimum on every plan
The operating difference
Monitoring shows the gap. AI Content does the work.
Found by AI pairs low-cost AI Monitoring with recurring content production. The found-by.ai profile is an optional included surface, not a separate product or proof claim.
| Generates content? | Publishes for you? | Publishing surface | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writesonic AEO | Yes (50 drafts/mo) | No | Customer's own site |
| Found by AI | Yes | Yes | Recurring AI Content; optional found-by.ai profile |
Writesonic AEO
Found by AI
AI Monitoring is the diagnostic. Recurring AI Content is the paid work; the optional profile is included and can be skipped without changing price.
Feature comparison
Writesonic Growth at $399/month and our AI Content Growth at €399/month are the directly comparable plans. Same headline price. Drafts you finish, or finished content shipped for you.
| Found by AI | Writesonic AEO (Growth) | |
|---|---|---|
| Headline plan price | €399/mo (AI Content Growth) | $399/mo (Growth) |
| Entry price for AI visibility tracking | €14/mo annual (Monitoring Minimum) | $39/mo lower tier; full AEO tracking begins on Professional/Growth |
| AI engines covered (top tier) | 5 (Minimum: ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Perplexity; Growth adds Microsoft Copilot and Claude) | 10 (ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and others) |
| Article drafts / generation volume | — (no drafts model) | 50 drafts/mo on Growth |
| Articles published for you | Growth €399/mo annual (€479 monthly): 8 launch, 4/month, approved plan translated into 3 languages | 0 - drafts only, customer publishes |
| Where content publishes | Customer-site publishing support; optional profile when useful | Customer's own site |
| Optional found-by.ai profile | Optional profile when useful | No |
| Monitoring inclusion | AI Content includes AI Monitoring Minimum on every plan | Tracking + drafts bundled inside one Growth plan |
Same price, different product
Choose Writesonic if...
- You have an in-house editor with capacity to finish and publish 50 drafts a month - that's a real productivity gain at this price
- You want broad AI engine coverage on the tracker (10 engines including Google AI Overviews) and a CMS workflow that's ready to absorb a steady draft stream
- You want sentiment, multi-region/language, and 50 audits stacked into one bundle and you're set up to act on it
Choose Found by AI if...
- You don't have editorial capacity to finish a queue of drafts each month - and you'd rather pay for fewer pieces that actually get published
- You want the writing, editing, and publishing handled end-to-end, with monitoring underneath at €14/month annual
- You'd rather measure outcomes (what shipped, what got cited) than measure draft volume
- You want one subscription for both jobs: AI Content (€199-€799/mo) includes AI Monitoring Minimum on every plan
Why this isn't 'AI in a coat'.
Every prospect asks the same question: why can't I just do this with ChatGPT myself? The honest answer: you can write one good article that way.
We built an engine for the next 50 - multi-pass humanization, structured review gates, and prompt engineering tuned specifically against the generic AI tone. It's a built product, not a single prompt to a chatbot - and not something a single ChatGPT session replicates.
See the case studies on AI Content → Real output. Read them and judge for yourself. Before/after samples available on a call.
Frequently asked questions
Are Writesonic and Found by AI the same price?
Yes, almost exactly. Writesonic Growth is $399/month and includes AI visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and more, plus 50 article drafts per month. Our AI Content Growth tier is €399/mo annual (€479 monthly) and includes 8 launch articles, 4 articles per month, targeted quarterly refreshes, publishing support, and Monitoring Minimum included at no added charge on annual. The price is the same; the product is not. Writesonic ships 50 drafts your team finishes and publishes. Found by AI ships fewer pieces - written, edited, and published for you. Two different products at the same price point.
Is 50 drafts better than 16 articles?
Depends entirely on your team. Writesonic's 50 drafts are AI-generated long-form articles tailored to your brand voice - but they're drafts. They need editing time and a CMS step before they go live. If you have an editor with capacity, 50 drafts is a serious productivity boost and likely the right call. If you don't - if drafts pile up unedited because nobody owns finishing them - then 16 finished, published pieces ship more visible work than 50 drafts that don't. Volume isn't the variable; it's whether the work actually reaches an audience.
Does Writesonic publish content for me?
No. Writesonic AEO generates drafts; your team handles the editing, the CMS, and the actual publishing. The visibility tracker tells you how you're doing across AI engines and the drafts give you raw material - but the finishing work stays with you. That's a real tool for a team that has editorial capacity. Found by AI is for the team that doesn't - we handle the writing and the publishing end-to-end.
Why do you also have a content-side comparison?
Writesonic does both - visibility tracking AND content drafting - so it shows up in two comparison pages. This page (the visibility tracking side) covers the tracking and how content flows out of it. The content-side comparison at /compare/writesonic goes deeper on the drafting model: 50 drafts your team finishes vs done-for-you finished content. Same competitor, viewed from each side. The product difference stays the same: drafts you finish, or finished content shipped for you.
Bottom line
Writesonic Growth is $399/month - visibility tracking plus 50 AI-drafted articles per month. For a team with an in-house editor and a CMS workflow ready to absorb that volume, it's a real productivity boost at a fair price. Our AI Content Growth is €399/month - the same headline number - but the product is different: fewer pieces, written and edited and published for you, with monitoring included. If you have editorial capacity and want maximum draft volume, Writesonic is the right call. If you don't - if your bottleneck is finishing and shipping content rather than generating it - Found by AI does the work end-to-end. Same invoice; different team fit.
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