Rankli vs Byword
Articles aimed at the questions you are losing, re-asked after publish. From $99 a month.
7 days free, then your plan. Cancel before day 8 and nothing is charged.
Rankli and Byword, side by side
Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini your customers' questions every week, aims articles at the ones you are losing, publishes to 10 named connections and re-asks each question 7 and 14 days later. Byword is an article writer built for volume.
| Row | Rankli | Byword |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistants asked | ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini on every plan, with Perplexity added on Scale and Agency. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Questions tracked | 50 on Growth, 150 on Scale, 400 on Agency, asked every week. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Questions you are losing, and who wins them | Each round lists the questions where AI recommends someone else, and who it picks instead. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Writes the answer pages | About 30% of each month's articles are planned at the questions you are losing, and Rankli writes them. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Articles a month | 30 on Growth, 60 on Scale, 120 on Agency. | Starter 25 articles, Standard 80, Scale 300. |
| Publishes to your CMS | 10 connections: WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Ghost, Notion, Framer, Webhook and Next.js Blog. Live or as a draft. | WordPress, Webflow "and 4 more CMSs". |
| Re-asks the question after publishing | Each article's question is asked again 7 and 14 days after it goes live. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Before and after, per article | On every article: named in how many answers before and after, and whether AI cited the page. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Price | Growth $99, Scale $249, Agency $499, billed monthly. | Starter $99/month, Standard $299, Scale $999. |
| Free trial | 7 days free on every plan. A card starts it; cancel during the trial and nothing is charged. | "Start free with 5 articles". |
| Article length | 1,500 to 3,000 words, enforced: a draft outside the range is regenerated once. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Internal links | 2 to 5 links to your own pages, placed and checked on every draft. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Images | A hero and in-body images with alt text on every article; premium images included from Scale up. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Keyword volume and difficulty | Keyword research on every plan, with live volume and difficulty once your data provider is connected. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Backlink exchange | Included and opt-in: at most 1 exchanged link per article and 3 placements a week. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| What stops a weak draft publishing | Fifteen checks on every draft, a fabricated statistic among the hard failures, and a setting that holds a failing draft back. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Languages | 166, detected from your homepage and set per site. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
| Sold on top of the plan | Everything is in the plan price. | Not listed on the pages we read. |
Every Byword cell was read on from byword.ai/pricing and byword.ai. Every Rankli figure on this page is a rule, a limit or a price in the running product; every figure about the other product was read off their own live page on the date stamped above.
- Which AI assistants are asked, and re-asking after an article goes live: not stated in the HTML byword.ai serves.
- Article length, internal links, images, a pre-publish gate and the four unnamed CMSs: not stated there either.
Why teams switch
- 30 articles for $99, about 30% of them planned at the questions you are losing.
- 10 connections, every one named: WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Shopify, Wix, Ghost, Notion, Framer, Webhook and Next.js Blog.
- Every article is tied to a question, and that question is asked again 7 and 14 days after it goes live, with before and after on the article.
Questions
What decides which articles Rankli writes?
Keyword research, and the questions AI answers with someone else: about 30% of each month is planned at those, and each one is re-asked 7 and 14 days after it goes live.
Why is their side of the table short?
Because a cell appears only when their own page states it, and byword.ai renders most of its pricing page in the browser. Every Rankli figure here is on the Rankli pricing page.
How do I switch from Byword to Rankli?
Add the questions your customers ask, connect your CMS, and start the 7-day free trial. Rankli asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini that week, lists the questions you are losing and plans articles at them. It publishes to any of 10 connections and re-asks each one 7 and 14 days after it goes live.
Next: Rankli pricing, a free AI visibility check on your own business, or which AI search visibility tools AI assistants recommend.
See which questions you are losing this week.
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