Scalenut vs Clearscope: Which Should You Choose in 2026?
Scalenut and Clearscope side by side, with Timothe's Growth Calendar as a third column. Every verdict and price below is verified against each company's official pages.
The short answer
Scalenut wins on cost per article and on what happens after the draft; Clearscope wins when the grade itself is the deliverable. Scalenut is $59, $89, and $199 month to month with 5, 30, and 75 written articles, doubled to 10, 60, and 150 under the standing 60% annual offer at $24, $36, and $80, plus the same number again as rewrites. Clearscope publishes two prices, $129 and $399 a month, and both include exactly 20 Drafts: the $270 step up buys tracked prompts and inventory pages, not articles, and extra Drafts bill automatically at $5 each on Essentials and $2 on Business.
After the draft they diverge completely. Scalenut's WordPress Publisher exports, schedules, and publishes posts from the Plus plan, where its interlinking and content audit also start. Clearscope never publishes at all: its WordPress plugin and Google Docs add-on run the other way, loading a shared Draft's scoring beside text you already have, and /api, /docs, /developers, /integrations, and /changelog all return 404, so there is no API, no MCP server, and no webhook to build around. Scalenut is no better on that last point, and answers it in its own help centre: it does not offer an API.
Scoring and AI tracking are on both sides, so neither settles it. Clearscope grades live to A++ against the top 30 ranking pages, flags AI Term Presence, and polls Gemini and GPT for tracked prompts; Scalenut runs a GEO score with one-click optimization on every plan and tracks ChatGPT and Google AI, adding Perplexity on Professional. What neither one does is begin: every Cruise Mode run and every Clearscope Draft starts when you click. Timothe's Growth Calendar plans the months first and writes on the dates, and it grades no page you already have.
Feature comparison
 |  | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning & research | |||
| Topic cluster planning | Yes | YesTopical groupings and subtopics | Yes |
| Real-time SERP research | Yes | YesTop 30 pages, live per Draft | Yes |
| Built-in keyword research | Yes | YesVolume, CPC, and intent analysis | Yes |
| Targeting a specific country | YesTarget location on every run | YesSearch locale, plus an optional city | YesA market is a language and a country |
| Writing & drafts | |||
| Scheduled autopilot writing | NoOne click per article; only publishing can be scheduled | NoEvery Draft is started by hand | Yes |
| Answer-first (AEO) article structure | Yes | YesAI Term Presence and audience questions | Yes |
| Source citations in drafts | Yes | PartialCitable sources listed, not inserted | Yes |
| Automatic internal linking | YesPlus and up, not on Starter | PartialOpportunities suggested, you insert them | Yes |
| Real screenshots in articles | NoAI images only | NoNot documented | Yes |
| YouTube videos embedded in articles | NoNot documented | NoNot documented | YesFound in research, then embedded |
| Brand voice settings | YesBrand Kit, unlimited tones | YesTone from a sample or a live page | YesWriting and image style |
| Writing in languages other than English | NoEnglish only, per their help centre | PartialEnglish, French, German, Italian, Spanish | YesAny language |
| Platform & measurement | |||
| API and AI-agent (MCP) access | NoNo API, no MCP | NoNot documented | YesMCP live |
| Auto-publishing to your CMS | YesWordPress, Plus and up | NoWordPress plugin scores, does not publish | YesWordPress, Ghost, Shopify, Notion |
| Delivery to your own endpoint (webhook) | NoNot documented | NoNot documented | YesMarkdown POSTed to your endpoint |
| AI mention tracking | YesChatGPT and Google AI; Perplexity on Professional | YesTracked Prompts on GPT and Gemini | No |
| Content scoring for drafts you write | YesGEO score, core feature | YesContent Grade, their core feature | No |
| Free trial | Yes7 days, no card | Yes14 days | Yes3 days |
Last verified: Scalenut 2026-08-04, Clearscope 2026-08-05
Which one to choose
Choose Scalenut if
You want the articles included and the invoice small. Scalenut bundles written articles into every plan, keeps the GEO score and keyword clustering on the cheapest tier, and its annual offer runs $24, $36, and $80 a month for 10, 60, or 150 articles plus the same number of rewrites. Three caveats that its pricing page will not lead with: its help centre says the software caters solely to English, there is no API and no MCP, and internal linking, content audit, and WordPress publishing all begin on Plus rather than Starter.
Choose Clearscope if
Your editorial process runs on a score. Clearscope grades every draft live to A++ against scraped top-ranking pages, ranks term importance 1 to 10, carries the same scoring into Google Docs, WordPress, and Microsoft Word, and includes unlimited users and projects on both plans, so seats never cost extra. It also writes: the Draft Builder produces a full article with tone taken from a writing sample, in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Accept 20 articles a month whichever plan you buy, and $129 as the floor.
Consider Growth Calendar if
You want the writing to happen without a trigger. Growth Calendar plans months of topics as clusters and writes them on schedule in any language, with source citations, internal links, and real screenshots already in the draft, then publishes into WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, or Notion or POSTs the Markdown to an endpoint of your own. It does not score the pages you already have and does not track AI mentions, which is exactly what both of these sell.
Plans and prices
Scalenut plans
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $24/mo billed yearly ($59/mo monthly) | 5 articles a month written for you, doubled to 10 on the current annual offer, plus 5 rewrites of existing pages |
| Plus | $36/mo billed yearly ($89/mo monthly) | 30 articles a month written for you, doubled to 60 on the current annual offer, plus 30 rewrites of existing pages |
| Professional | $80/mo billed yearly ($199/mo monthly) | 75 articles a month written for you, doubled to 150 on the current annual offer, plus 75 rewrites of existing pages |
Scalenut's pricing and features change; check their official site for the latest. Visit Scalenut
Clearscope plans
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $129/mo | 20 articles a month, drafted by Clearscope's AI; extra articles cost $5 each on top |
| Business | $399/mo | 20 articles a month, same as Essentials; the step up is tracking and inventory capacity, not articles, and extra articles cost $2 each |
Clearscope's pricing and features change; check their official site for the latest. Visit Clearscope
The same budget, in shipped articles
Growth Calendar plans are sized in finished SEO articles per month, with research, planning, writing, images, and screenshots included.
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The numbers behind each plan, side by side.
Free $0/mo | Starter $29/mo | Pro $59/mo | Max $99/mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Credits | ||||
Monthly credits Reset at the start of each billing cycle | Not included | 4,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
Buy extra credits Purchased credits never expire | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Scale monthly credits | Not included | Not included | Not included | Up to 5x |
Free trial First subscription only. Card required. | Not included | Not included | 3 days | 3 days |
Growth CalendarPaid plans | ||||
AI SEO articles 600 credits each, including research and images | Not included | 1 articles/wk | 4 articles/wk | 8 articles/wk |
Topic cluster planning | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Deep research before writing An agent reads the sources before the draft starts | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Real-time SERP research Reads the pages ranking right now, not a stored index | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Authoritative source citations Claims link out to where they came from | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Automatic internal linking Articles in the same cluster link to each other | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Real screenshots in articles Screenshots of the pages and tools the article describes | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
YouTube videos in articles Found during research, embedded in the draft | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Brand voice A writing style applied to every draft | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Brand visuals Image style presets, palettes, and a tuner, with alt text | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Run it from chat with an AI agent | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
MCP connection Drive it from Claude Code, Codex, and other MCP clients | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Scheduled publishing runs | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Publishing to your CMS WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, and Notion | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Delivery to your own endpoint Finished articles POSTed to a webhook as Markdown | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Keyword ResearchPaid plans | ||||
Keyword searches 50 credits each | Not included | 80 searches/mo | 200 searches/mo | 400 searches/mo |
Related keywords Up to 700 per search | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Search volume, CPC, and competition | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
12-month search trend | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
SERP results for the seed keyword | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Country and language targeting | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Image and video generationPaid plans | ||||
Image generation From 16 credits per image | Not included | 250 images/mo | 625 images/mo | 1,250 images/mo |
Video generation From 200 credits per 5-second 720p clip | Not included | 20 videos/mo | 50 videos/mo | 100 videos/mo |
Premium image and video models | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Image editing | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
Everything else | ||||
Free tools that cost no credits No usage limits | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Team members | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Security controls and audit log Rolling out | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
Support | Community | Chat | Chat | Priority |