Plans and Pricing
The key distinction: preview vs. publish
Every plan - including Free - can read, atomize, and preview your pages. Actually publishing to a connected channel starts on the Starter plan. Free is preview-only: it can't connect any social channel.
The plans
| Plan | Annual (per month) | Annual (billed yearly) | Monthly | Workspaces | Connected channels | Page capacity | Distribution credits/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 (no card) | - | $0 | 1 | Preview only (0) | 3 pages atomized/mo | - (no publishing) |
| Starter | $59/mo | $708/yr | $69/mo | Unlimited | 7 accounts | 10 pages | 60 |
| Growth ⭐ most popular | $179/mo | $2,148/yr | $209/mo | Unlimited | 25 accounts | 30 pages | 180 |
| Scale | $499/mo | $5,988/yr | $584/mo | Unlimited | 100 accounts | 100 pages | 600 |
Connected channels, page capacity and distribution credits are shared across all of your workspaces - they belong to your plan, not to each workspace. On Starter, for example, that is 7 channels in total, spread across as many workspaces and domains as you like. Splitting your brands or clients into separate workspaces is purely organisational and never costs you capacity.
Every paid plan can be billed monthly or annually - you choose at checkout. Annual is the better-value option: you pay for the year up front and the effective per-month rate is lower. Monthly is month-to-month with no commitment. Plan limits (channels, page capacity, distribution credits) are identical on both billing intervals - only the price and billing frequency differ.
What's included on every paid plan
Manual posting, cross-posting to multiple platforms, scheduled posting and campaigns, text and image posts, AI post generation, post and page performance analytics, GSC keyword grounding, site-wide SEO crawl insights, a stock image library, and your-own-image uploads.
Opportunity Mode: Growth and above
Keyword research - discovering searches your domain could win, scoring them, and turning them into keyword campaigns - is included on Growth and Scale.
It sits on the higher tiers for a cost reason, not a packaging one: every research run calls a metered third-party search-data provider on top of the AI spend, which is a real per-keyword vendor bill. Starter is not priced to absorb it.
Keyword campaigns spend the same distribution credits as any other posts. The plan also sets how many posts one keyword can earn before multipliers - Starter 3, Growth 5, Scale 8.
Founding members keep it for life. The first 25 paying customers have Opportunity Mode included permanently, on whatever plan they are on, including if they later move tiers.
→ Page Mode and Opportunity Mode · Turn Modules On and Off
What is a "distribution credit"?
Generating and distributing a post to a connected channel uses AI, so each paid plan includes a monthly allowance of distribution credits - the number in the table above, shown in the app as AI posts / month. This exists purely to keep AI cost bounded.
AI posts and amplification posts
Your plan includes two kinds of post:
- AI posts - original posts generated from your campaigns and content strategy. These are your distribution credits above.
- Amplification posts - lightweight posts designed to strengthen and distribute your parasite assets (a Reddit thread, a Quora answer, a LinkedIn article). Each one is written from the asset's own content and links to it, not to your page.
Amplification posts have their own monthly allowance and don't use your AI posts:
| Plan | AI posts | Amplification posts | Amplifications per asset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 60 / month | Up to 150 / month | Max 3 / week |
| Growth | 180 / month | Up to 500 / month | Max 5 / week |
| Scale | 600 / month | Up to 1,500 / month | Max 7 / week |
The per-asset limit is a quality rule, not an allowance: one thread getting a burst of links reads as spam and puts the thread and the accounts behind it at risk. The same connected account can point at the same asset at most once every 7 days on Starter, and every 3 days on Growth and Scale. Your usage shows in the Network area (left sidebar, under Plan) — "142 / 500 amplifications used this month".
Lifting the AI-usage caps: BYOK
If you connect your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key (Settings → AI), the Free plan's atomize cap and every paid plan's distribution-credit cap lift entirely, on any plan - your AI cost then goes directly to your own provider instead of being metered by us.
The amplification allowance is not lifted by BYOK: it is a plan feature limit, and it bounds how many links your channels send at other people's threads as much as it bounds cost.
BYOK only lifts the AI-cost caps. Your connected-account limit and page-capacity limit stay in place regardless - those are plan-tier features, not AI cost. Both are counted across all your workspaces.
X/Twitter is separate
X posting is pass-through pricing, not bundled into any plan. → X/Twitter Credits
Need more than Scale?
Agencies and multi-site teams beyond Scale's limits can email hello@parasiteseoposter.com for a custom package.