Writing, Communication & Language · verified 4 September 2026

Best AI for Content Writing

10 tools 8 with a free plan 4 built for this Prices verified 4 September 2026

The 10 that fit

ChatGPT

By OpenAISan Francisco, United States3 products across 8 categories

Built for this. Fastest for everyday drafting — emails, summaries, outlines — with the widest format support.

Free plan
Yes
Ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Month to month
$8/mo
Go
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published

Watch out: Default output has recognisable tics. Anything customer-facing needs an editing pass.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier, ad supported; unlimited everyday text chats, limited image creation, memory and voice
Go$8/mo
Plus$20/moadvanced models, higher quality image creation, Work agent, Codex, 20GB of storage
Pro$100/mo
Business standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Business premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly5x the usage and no five-hour limit
Open ChatGPT Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Claude

By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories

Built for this. Strongest at long-form drafting and holding a consistent voice across a whole document rather than a paragraph.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%

Watch out: It will happily rewrite your voice into its own. Give it a sample of your writing to work against.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with daily caps
Pro$20/mo · $17/mo yearly
Max$100/mo
Team standard seat$25/mo · $20/mo yearly
Team premium seat$125/mo · $100/mo yearly
Enterprise$20/mo
Open Claude Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Copy.ai

By Copy.aiMemphis, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Runs repeatable marketing and sales workflows rather than one-off prompts — briefs, sequences, competitor summaries.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan available
Month to month
$29/mo
Chat
Billed yearly
$24/mo
$288 a year, Chat plan −17%

Watch out: The ladder jumps steeply once you need more than one seat. Output needs an editor before it is publishable.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan available
Chat$29/mo · $24/mo yearly5 seats, unlimited words and chat projects, access to OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini models
EnterpriseCustomthe self-serve page carries only the Chat plan
Open Copy.ai Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Notion AI

By NotionSan Francisco, United States2 products across 2 categories

Strong fit. Writes and summarises inside the workspace where your notes already live, so it has the surrounding context.

Free plan
Yes
Trial of Notion AI on the free and Plus plans
Month to month
$24/mo
Notion Business, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
$20/mo
Notion Business plan −17%

Watch out: Only as good as how organised your Notion already is. Beyond the trial it is not sold on its own: the full AI features arrive with the Business plan.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Trial of Notion AI on the free and Plus plans
Notion Business$24/mo · $20/mo yearlythe first plan with Notion AI in full, including Notion Agent, AI meeting notes and enterprise search
Notion EnterpriseCustomadds zero data retention with LLM providers and admin controls over AI. Notion AI is part of these plans rather than sold separately
Open Notion AI Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Gamma

By GammaSan Francisco, United States1 product across 3 categories

Built for this. Turns a prompt or a pile of notes into a finished deck or document. The fastest route from rough thinking to something presentable.

Free plan
Yes
Free plan with no card, 400 credits at signup, up to 10 slides a prompt and export to PDF
Month to month
$12/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
$9/mo
$108 a year, Plus plan −25%

Watch out: House style is recognisable. Fine internally, worth restyling for anything external.

All plans (6)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free plan with no card, 400 credits at signup, up to 10 slides a prompt and export to PDF, PPTX, PNG and Google Slides
Plus$12/mo · $9/mo yearly1,000 credits a month, 100 slides a prompt, Gamma branding removed
Pro$25/mo · $18/mo yearly4,000 credits a month, premium image models, custom branding, API access
Ultra$100/mo · $90/mo yearly20,000 credits a month and the most advanced text, image and video models
Business$40/mo yearly10,000 credits a seat, SSO, SOC 2 documentation on request, advanced data controls
EnterpriseCustomcustom credits, admin and API governance, SCIM provisioning, dedicated onboarding
Open Gamma Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Rytr

By RytrWalnut, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. The cheapest usable option in this category by a wide margin, with a genuine free tier rather than a trial.

Free plan
Yes
Free forever with no card required: 10,000 characters a month of AI content generation, and no
Month to month
$9/mo
Unlimited
Billed yearly
$7.50/mo
Unlimited plan −17%

Watch out: Output needs more editing than the pricier tools, which is what you are trading for the price. The free tier is 10,000 characters a month, a few articles at most, and neither paid tier caps generation — the extra money buys tone matching across brands rather than volume.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free forever with no card required: 10,000 characters a month of AI content generation, and no tone matching
Unlimited$9/mo · $7.50/mo yearlyunlimited AI content generation and one tone match
Premium$29/mo · $24.16/mo yearlyunlimited generation with multiple tone matches, aimed at freelancers writing for several brands. The yearly rate is ten months of the monthly one, which is how the page frames it as two months free
Open Rytr Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

TextCortex

By TextCortexBerlin, Germany1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. A browser extension that writes inside whatever site you are already in, rather than a separate window you paste between.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a daily creation allowance and no card required: knowledge bases, up to 50MB of
Month to month
$29.99/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$23.99/mo
Premium plan −20%

Watch out: Breadth over depth against a dedicated tool. There is only one paid tier before Enterprise, and the model usage it includes is footnoted rather than stated, so check the allowance before committing.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a daily creation allowance and no card required: knowledge bases, up to 50MB of file storage and custom agents
Premium$29.99/mo · $23.99/mo yearlyeverything in the free tier plus access to all the major models and an included AI model usage allowance, which the page footnotes rather than states
EnterpriseCustomeverything in Premium plus single sign-on with SCIM and SAML, and dedicated deployment. Every figure on the page is quoted excluding VAT
Open TextCortex Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

HyperWrite

By OthersideAINew York, United States1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Learns from your own writing to match your voice, and will drive a browser to carry out a task rather than only draft text.

Free plan
Yes
Free tier with a monthly allowance
Month to month
$19.99/mo
Premium
Billed yearly
$16/mo
$192 a year, Premium plan −20%

Watch out: The agent features are the newest and least reliable part. The free tier is a small monthly allowance, and Premium is still capped at 250 AI messages a month — only Ultra is uncapped, at nearly twice the price.

All plans (3)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Free$0Free tier with a monthly allowance
Premium$19.99/mo · $16/mo yearly250 AI messages a month, citations and real-time information, 3 custom personas, the library of pre-made AI tools and unlimited TypeAheads
Ultra$44.99/mo · $29/mo yearlyunlimited AI messages, 10 custom personas, first access to experimental writing and agent features, and unlimited TypeAheads
Open HyperWrite Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Writesonic

By WritesonicBengaluru, India1 product across 1 category

Strong fit. Tracks how a brand turns up in ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, then drafts articles and audits the site to close the gaps it finds.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$99/mo
Starter
Billed yearly
$79/mo
Starter plan −20%

Watch out: Now sold as an AI search visibility platform rather than the copywriter it started as, and priced accordingly, from $79 a month. Plans are capped on prompts and answers tracked, not seats, and agencies are quoted on a separate page.

All plans (5)
PlanPriceWhat you get
Starter$99/mo · $79/mo yearly50 prompts and 50 answers tracked across ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with AI articles and site audits to close the gaps
Basic$249/mo · $199/mo yearly100 prompts and 300 answers tracked daily, with SEO and GEO on one platform
Growth$499/mo · $399/mo yearly200 prompts and 600 answers tracked daily, sentiment analysis, the Action Center and agentic workflows
EnterpriseCustomall 10 AI platforms tracked, custom prompts, regions and languages, the full Action Center and a dedicated strategy team
Agency Starter$250/mo · $200/mo yearlyup to 20 pitch projects and 2,000 answers a month, with Agency Enterprise priced by arrangement
Open Writesonic Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

Surfer SEO

By SurferWrocław, Poland1 product across 1 category

Built for this. Scores a draft against what already ranks for a term, and says which sections and phrases are missing. Built around the editor rather than a report.

Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$119/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
$99/mo
Standard plan −17%

Watch out: It optimises for resemblance to current winners, which is a floor rather than a ceiling. Paid from the start, and the entry plan is not cheap.

All plans (4)
PlanPriceWhat you get
AI Search Analytics$185/mo · $158/mo yearlytracks brand visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews, 100 AI prompts refreshed daily, mention gap and brand sentiment
Standard$119/mo · $99/mo yearly30 documents to create or optimise, 25 AI prompts refreshed weekly, brand knowledge
Pro$219/mo · $182/mo yearly50 AI prompts refreshed daily, 5 brand spaces, more integrations
Peace of Mind$359/mo · $299/mo yearlyunlimited documents and brand spaces, 100 AI prompts refreshed daily, API access and VIP support. There is no free plan, only a free start
Open Surfer SEO Pricing and company Prices checked 4 September 2026

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Every tool in the category most of these come from.

Every AI tool we track

All 750 products, one page each.

How to read this list

Two things separate these and both are on every card.

Fit

Whether a tool is built for this job, a strong fit for it, or able to do it without that being its focus.

Free plan

Whether there is a tier you can keep using rather than a trial that expires.

The order

Fit first, then a free plan, then alphabetical. There is no score, no weighting we decline to publish, and nothing on this site a company can buy.

Questions

What is the best ai for content writing?

There is no single answer, which is why this page lists 10 rather than one: ChatGPT, Claude, Writesonic, Copy.ai, Surfer SEO, Notion AI, Gamma, Rytr, TextCortex, HyperWrite. 4 of them are built for this kind of work rather than able to do it. Start with a free one.

Which of these have a free plan?

8 of the 10: ChatGPT, Claude, Copy.ai, Notion AI, Gamma, Rytr, TextCortex, HyperWrite. Free means a real free tier you can keep using, not a trial that expires.

How was this list chosen?

By hand, from the 750 products this site tracks, and it is checked against the catalogue on every build — a product renamed or removed breaks the build rather than quietly disappearing from here. Nothing on this site can be paid for: no listing, no position, no wording.