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Frase alternative

The Frase alternative with backlinks and Reddit built in

Frase is now an all-in-one for AI search: research, an SEO and GEO editor, an agent that writes and publishes, and daily citation tracking. Rankbox does less, costs less per article, and adds the off-page work: backlink credits and Reddit reply drafts, for $49.50 a month.

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At a glance

Checked Sept 2026
Rankbox
Frase
Best for
Founders with no content teamTeams who edit, and want tracking
Price
$49.50/mo$129/mo · Professional
Articles included
30 a month40 a month
Publishing
Partly, or via an add-onPublishing API; plugins comingIncludedWordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix
Backlinks
Included30 credits a month, includedPartly, or via an add-onResearch and outreach drafts only
AI visibility
Partly, or via an add-onReadiness scoring, no monitoring yetIncludedDaily, 2–5 engines by plan

Frase facts from their own pages; Rankbox facts are what ships today. Every row and the sources are below.

The short answer

Frase is an SEO and GEO content platform: it researches topics and questions, scores drafts for SEO, GEO, and EEAT in its editor, writes and publishes through an AI agent, and tracks how often AI engines cite you. Its Starter plan is $49 a month for 10 articles and tracking in ChatGPT and Google AI; Professional is $129 for 40 articles and adds Perplexity. Rankbox is $49.50 a month for 30 articles on autopilot, about $1.65 each, and adds a backlink exchange and Reddit reply drafts that Frase doesn't offer. Choose Frase if you edit your own content or need AI citation tracking today. Choose Rankbox for more finished articles per dollar, plus off-page authority.

Rankbox

30 articles on autopilot, backlinks, and Reddit, for $49.50.

Frase

Research, editor, agent, and citation tracking, for teams who edit.

articles for $49.50; Frase's $49 Starter covers 10
30
per article, against Frase's $3.23 on Professional
$1.65
backlink credits placed through the member exchange
30/mo
reply drafts for the threads your buyers read
Reddit
The real difference

Frase closes the on-page loop. Rankbox adds the off-page one.

The new Frase covers research, writing, scoring, publishing, and tracking, with a person approving along the way. Rankbox covers fewer of those, runs them for you, and adds the links and forum presence that decide who gets trusted.

Where Rankbox differs

An engine, not an editor

  • 30 articles a month for $49.50, about $1.65 each
  • 30 backlink credits a month through the member exchange
  • Reddit threads found and reply drafts written for you to post
  • Autopilot on the one plan, writing on your cadence
  • Every draft re-run against its failing SEO checks until it passes

Where Frase differs

SEO & GEO content platform

  • Daily AI citation tracking, from ChatGPT and Google AI up to five engines
  • An editor that scores SEO, GEO, and EEAT from 0 to 100
  • Question research from People Also Ask, Reddit, Quora, and AI answers
  • Content Guard: finds ranking decay and drafts the fix
  • Several sites and seats per plan, 70+ languages, API, MCP, and CLI
Side by side

Rankbox vs Frase, in 15 rows

Every row is something a growth programme needs. Where Frase isn’t built for one, we say what it is built for instead.

IncludedPartly, or via an add-onNot what it's built for

Finding what to write

Topic and question research

Does the tool decide what to write about, or do you?

Rankbox
Included

Reads your site and builds a plan of the questions your buyers ask, with estimated demand and intent

Frase
Included

SERP briefs plus questions from People Also Ask, Reddit, Quora, and answer engines

Keyword volume & difficulty

Knowing a topic is winnable before an article is spent on it.

Rankbox
Partly, or via an add-on

Demand and competition are AI estimates, not figures from a keyword database

Frase
Included

Volume, difficulty, coverage, and intent in its research flow

Writing the article

Long-form with live research

Whether the draft is grounded in current pages or model memory.

Rankbox
Included

About 2,750 words by default, drafted from live research of the pages ranking now

Frase
Included

Writes from its research brief; length guidance adapts to the content type

Inline source citations

AI engines cite pages that themselves cite sources.

Rankbox
Included

Cites the sources its research found, inline and in a References list

Frase
Included

Cites research sources inline, filters by authority, never links competitors

Brand voice

Sounding like you without an editing pass.

Rankbox
Included

Tone, audience, and voice read from your site at setup, editable any time

Frase
Included

Brand Hub voice profiles, generated from your site

SEO and GEO scoring

Whether a page is shaped to rank and to be quoted.

Rankbox
Included

Each draft is re-run against its failing SEO checks until it passes

Frase
Included

SEO, GEO, and EEAT scores from 0 to 100, against the ranking pages

Shipping it

Publishes to your CMS

Whether content leaves the tool without a copy-paste.

Rankbox
Partly, or via an add-on

Any site can pull finished articles through the Rankbox publishing API, which a developer sets up once. One-click plugins for Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Square, and Framer are in development.

Frase
Included

WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, and Wix, or hosted on FraseCMS

Runs on a schedule

Consistency is the whole game in search.

Rankbox
Included

Writes on the weekly cadence you set, up to one article a day

Frase
Partly, or via an add-on

Content calendar from Professional; publishing without review is switched on per content type

Refreshes old articles

Pages that slip get fixed before they fall away.

Rankbox
Not what it is for

Not its focus — Rankbox writes new articles

Frase
Included

Content Guard spots ranking decay and drafts the fix for approval

Growing authority

Backlink building

Links are still how search decides who to trust.

Rankbox
Included

30 backlink credits a month through the Rankbox exchange, on paid plans

Frase
Partly, or via an add-on

Gap scans, prospect scoring, and drafted outreach; Frase says it doesn't build or buy links

Reddit presence

AI engines lean heavily on forum discussion.

Rankbox
Included

Finds the threads your buyers read and drafts a reply for you to post

Frase
Partly, or via an add-on

Reddit questions feed its research; it doesn't draft replies

Measuring AI visibility

AI citation tracking

Knowing whether AI answers name you when it matters.

Rankbox
Partly, or via an add-on

Grades every article for AI-answer readiness. Live citation monitoring is not available yet.

Frase
Included

Daily tracking: ChatGPT and Google AI on Starter, Perplexity on Professional, Claude and Gemini on Scale

Share-of-answer reporting

How often you appear versus your competitors.

Rankbox
Not what it is for

Not available yet

Frase
Included

Cited URLs and positions per prompt, benchmarked against an industry median

Plan & team

Price for 30 articles

The same output, priced side by side.

Rankbox
Included

One flat plan: 30 articles a month for $49.50, everything included

Frase
Partly, or via an add-on

Starter covers 10; 30 a month means Professional at $129 for 40

Sites and seats

Room to grow past one site and one person.

Rankbox
Partly, or via an add-on

One login per account today; team invites are not available yet

Frase
Included

Professional: 5 sites and 3 seats; Scale: 10 sites and 5 seats

Compiled from Frase’s public documentation and pricing pages, last reviewed 21 September 2026. Products change — check theirs before you decide, and tell us if we have a row wrong.

What it costs

The number that matters is cost per article

A monthly price only means something next to what it produces. Here is Frase's published plan beside ours.

Rankbox

$49.50/month

30 researched, written, and SEO-checked articles

Per article

$1.65

  • Research, writing, and SEO checks included
  • 30 backlink credits a month, on the paid plan
  • Editor rewrites are not metered
  • No setup fee, no contract

Frase· Professional

$129/month

40 articles, 5 sites, 3 seats, tracking in 3 AI engines

Per article

$3.23

Starter at $49 covers 10 articles and one site, so 30 a month means Professional. Yearly billing brings it to $103 a month. The plan includes AI citation tracking, which Rankbox's doesn't yet.

Every Frase plan

List prices, shown per month

PlanMonthlyPer article
Rankbox Business$49.50$1.65
Starter1 site · ChatGPT and Google AI tracked$49$4.90
Professional5 sites · 3 seats · adds Perplexity$129$3.23
Scale10 sites · 5 seats · adds Claude, Gemini$299$2.99
EnterpriseCustomCustomNot per article

Frase list prices taken from their public pricing page on 21 September 2026, on the plan closest in scope to ours; annual billing and promotions may lower it. Compare both pricing pages before deciding.

Where it's decided

Where the two actually differ

Frase is ahead on tracking and editing. These are the three places Rankbox gives you something Frase's plans don't.

01

Links placed, not just prospected

Frase's backlink tools scan your gaps, score prospects, and draft outreach, and it says plainly that it doesn't build or buy links. Rankbox runs a member exchange: 30 credits a month on the paid plan, spent on links placed inside other members' relevant articles.

  • 30 credits granted monthly on the paid plan
  • A link costs 1–3 credits, set by the host site's tier
  • Credits held in escrow until the link is published and verified
How Authority Backlinks works
Authority BacklinksSample

Domain Rating

12+0

Referring domains

14

AprSep
Recent placementsThis month · 4 of 30 credits
lleanops.blogDR 71Live

“kanban vs scrum”plannora.io/blog/kanban-vs-scrum

ffoundernotes.coDR 64Live

“project tools for small teams”plannora.io/blog/best-project-tools

ssprintweekly.ioDR 58Live

“async standups”plannora.io/blog/async-standups

tteamcraft.reviewDR 52Pending

“Plannora”plannora.io/pricing

DofollowNiche-relevantVerified sitesNo PBNs · no link farms
02

Reddit replies, not just Reddit research

Frase reads Reddit to find the questions people ask. Rankbox goes one step further: it finds the threads where your buyers are asking now, and drafts a reply in your voice for you to post under your own name.

  • Threads found from the searches your buyers run
  • A reply drafted for each, written to help first
  • You post it yourself; nothing goes out automatically
How Reddit Presence works
Reddit PresenceSample
Opportunity Ranks #3 Cited by PerplexityMeasured 2 days ago · thread 3 days old
124

Rr/startups · u/tiny_team_tom

What’s the best project tool for a 4-person startup?

Jira felt like overkill. We just need to see who’s doing what this week.

37 comments

u/ops_mara · ▲ 31

Same boat. We tried three tools and none of them stuck.

Suggested replyDraft · you review

Answers the question Discloses affiliation Follows r/startups rules
03

Three times the articles for the Starter price

Frase's $49 Starter plan covers 10 articles on one site. Rankbox is $49.50 for 30, each about 2,750 words, researched from the pages ranking now, and written to be quoted: a direct answer, key takeaways, cited sources, and an FAQ.

  • 30 articles a month on the one plan
  • About 2,750 words by default, from live research
  • Sources cited inline and listed in a References section
How Citation-Ready Writer works
Citation-Ready WriterSample
Research24 sources
Outline8 sections
Writing1,646 words
Kanban vs Scrum12 min read · English · Plannora voice

Kanban vs Scrum: Which Framework Fits a Small Team?

Quotable definition

Kanban is a visual workflow that limits work in progress. Scrum organizes work into fixed-length sprints with defined roles.1

When Kanban wins

Sources24 searched · 9 cited
1scrum.org2atlassian.com3hbr.org4pmi.org
The honest part

When Frase is the better choice

We'd rather you picked the right tool than churned in a month. Frase is genuinely the better buy in these cases.

You need AI citation tracking now

Frase tracks your prompts daily in ChatGPT and Google AI from its Starter plan, and in up to five engines on Scale, with cited URLs and positions. Rankbox doesn't monitor citations yet.

Your team writes and edits

Frase's editor scores SEO, GEO, and EEAT live, lets writers approve facts and sources in the brief, and splits drafting between a person and the agent. If people on your team write, Frase supports them better.

You're protecting a large existing library

Frase audits up to 1,000 pages a month, spots ranking decay, and drafts the fix, across several sites and seats. It publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, and Wix. Today articles reach your site through the Rankbox publishing API, which a developer sets up once, and one-click plugins for Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Square, and Framer are in development.

Switching

Running Rankbox alongside Frase

Plenty of teams could run both: Frase for editing and tracking, Rankbox for the daily articles and the off-page work. Nothing you published with Frase needs to move.

  1. 1

    Point us at your site

    Paste your URL. Rankbox reads what is already published and learns your voice from it.

  2. 2

    Approve the plan

    You get a ranked list of buyer questions built around what the site already covers. Approve the ones you want and set a cadence.

  3. 3

    Compare in Frase

    Open a Rankbox article in Frase's editor and see how it scores. Keep whichever setup earns its price.

FAQ

Rankbox vs Frase, answered

The questions people ask before switching from Frase.

Partly. Both research, write, score, and publish articles. Frase also tracks AI citations and gives editors a live SEO, GEO, and EEAT score. Rankbox writes more articles for the money on autopilot, and adds a backlink exchange and Reddit reply drafts that Frase doesn't offer.

Per article, Rankbox: $49.50 for 30, about $1.65 each. Frase's Starter plan is $49 for 10 articles, about $4.90 each, and Professional is $129 for 40, about $3.23 each. Frase's plans include AI citation tracking, so compare what you would use. Prices were checked on Frase's pricing page on 21 September 2026.

Yes. Frase tracks your prompts daily in ChatGPT and Google AI on Starter, adds Perplexity on Professional, and adds Claude and Gemini on Scale, showing which URLs are cited and where.

Not yet. Rankbox grades every article for how ready it is to be quoted by an answer engine, but live citation monitoring is not available yet. If tracking is what you need today, Frase has it.

Today articles reach your site through the Rankbox publishing API, which a developer sets up once, and one-click plugins for Shopify, WordPress, Webflow, Square, and Framer are in development. Frase publishes directly to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, and Wix, or hosts pages on FraseCMS.

Yes. A reasonable split is Rankbox for the daily articles, backlinks, and Reddit, and Frase for editing and citation tracking. Try opening a Rankbox article in Frase's editor to see how it scores.
Sources

How this comparison was checked

Every Frase fact on this page comes from Frase’s own public pages, read on 21 September 2026. Anything we could not confirm there is left out. Rankbox facts describe what ships today, not what is planned.

Spotted something out of date? Email Rankboxai@gmail.com and we will fix the row.

  1. 01Frase pricingfrase.io/pricing
  2. 02Frase homepagefrase.io
  3. 03AI visibilityfrase.io/features/ai-visibility
  4. 04Integrationsfrase.io/integrations
  5. 05Backlinksfrase.io/features/backlinks
  6. 06Content scores explaineddocs.frase.io/feature-reference/content-scores-explained
  7. 07What's new (changelog)docs.frase.io/whats-new

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