Is Frase or LowFruits cheaper?

Frase starts at $39 per month (Starter, billed yearly; $49 monthly) (7 days trial). LowFruits starts at About $25 for 2,000 pay-as-you-go credits, or about $29.90 per month for the Standard subscription (free trial).

Frase vs LowFruits

An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.

The short answer

Editorial assessment

LowFruits compared with Frase

Frase turns a chosen keyword into a research-backed brief and scores the draft against it, starting around $39 per month. LowFruits chooses the keyword. Neither replaces the other, and for a solo content operation the pairing of LowFruits credits for selection and Frase for execution costs less than a single Ahrefs subscription.

Choose Frase if

Small in-house content teams, solo founders, and freelance SEO consultants who want research, briefing, drafting, optimization, publishing, and basic AI-visibility tracking in one subscription under $50 per month, and who would rather have a broad tool that is adequate everywhere than three sharp tools they cannot afford together.

Choose LowFruits if

Niche site builders, affiliate publishers, new blogs with no domain authority, and content marketers at small businesses who need keywords they can actually rank for rather than a list of terms dominated by national brands.

Side by side

13 attributes

Attribute	Frase	LowFruits
Category	SEO	SEO
Starting price	$39 per month (Starter, billed yearly; $49 monthly) (7 days trial)	About $25 for 2,000 pay-as-you-go credits, or about $29.90 per month for the Standard subscription (free trial)
Pricing model	Tiered subscription metered on articles per month, audit pages, seats, sites, Content Guard pages, and which AI engines are tracked. Optional pay-as-you-go on higher tiers, off by default.	Credit-based, at one credit per SERP analysed, sold either as pay-as-you-go packs valid for a year or as monthly subscriptions whose credits reset and do not roll over.
Free plan	No	No
Free trial	7 days, no credit card required	A small allowance of free credits covering your first analysis
Best for	Small in-house content teams, solo founders, and freelance SEO consultants who want research, briefing, drafting, optimization, publishing, and basic AI-visibility tracking in one subscription under $50 per month, and who would rather have a broad tool that is adequate everywhere than three sharp tools they cannot afford together.	Niche site builders, affiliate publishers, new blogs with no domain authority, and content marketers at small businesses who need keywords they can actually rank for rather than a list of terms dominated by national brands.
Setup time	Under an hour to run a first research document and draft. Connecting a CMS and configuring Content Guard adds another hour or two. AI Visibility needs someone to write a sensible prompt set, which is the only part requiring real thought.	Minutes. There is no project setup, no crawling, and no verification. Enter a seed keyword or import a list, choose which terms to analyse, and spend credits. The free trial allowance covers a first real analysis.
Learning curve	Low to moderate. Individual screens are approachable, but the product has grown wide enough that a new user spends the first sessions figuring out which of the many modules they actually need.	Low, with one conceptual shift required. Users arriving from Ahrefs or Semrush habitually look for a difficulty score and have to retrain themselves to read weak spot counts instead, which is the whole value of the tool and takes about one session to internalise.
Platforms	Web app, WordPress integration, Webflow integration, Sanity integration, Wix integration, FraseCMS hosting	Web application, CSV import and export
Compliance	Not published in detail on the public site	GDPR
Founded	2016	2020
Headquarters	Remote-first; historically associated with Boston, Massachusetts, and with Birmingham, Alabama through its parent	Belgium
Ownership	Acquired by Copysmith in October 2022 and operated within that group	Owned by All in One SEO, part of Syed Balkhi's Awesome Motive, following an acquisition announced in May 2024

Strengths and limitations

Frase

Strengths

By far the lowest entry price for a complete workflow: $39 per month covers research, drafting, dual scoring, publishing, and AI visibility on two engines.
Dual SEO and GEO scores are a more honest model than a single blended number, because the two goals genuinely pull in different directions.
AI crawler monitoring is a concrete signal that most competitors do not offer, answering whether models are ingesting your pages at all.
Native publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, and Wix means Frase owns the last mile rather than handing you a document.

Limitations

Generalist depth: research, drafting, optimization, and AI tracking are each competent but none is best in class against a focused competitor.
AI engine coverage is heavily tiered, with Claude and Gemini gated behind the $239 Scale plan, which undercuts the value story for buyers who assumed the entry price covered AI search.
Per-seat pricing at $29 each makes larger teams expensive relative to seat-unlimited alternatives.
The 7 day trial is short for a tool with this much surface area; evaluating research, drafting, publishing, and tracking properly takes longer than a week.

LowFruits

Strengths

The weak-spot signal is genuinely differentiated. Nothing else at any price tells you which specific positions in a SERP are held by beatable sites.
Metering is completely transparent at one credit per SERP analysed, with no hidden charges for opening reports or applying filters.
Pay-as-you-go credits remain valid for a year, which matches how keyword research actually happens and avoids paying for idle months.
The vendor publishes guidance telling light users that a subscription would be worse value than credit packs, which is unusually straight commercial advice.

Limitations

It is a single-purpose research tool. No site audit, no technical crawling, no meaningful backlink index, and no content optimization.
No AI answer visibility tracking of any kind, which in 2026 is an increasingly conspicuous gap for a keyword research tool.
Subscription credits reset monthly and are lost if unused, which punishes variable workloads and makes the subscription the wrong default for most buyers.
The weak-spot premise loses value as your own domain gains authority, so the tool has a natural expiry date for a growing site.

Pricing compared

Frase

Tiered subscription metered on articles per month, audit pages, seats, sites, Content Guard pages, and which AI engines are tracked. Optional pay-as-you-go on higher tiers, off by default.

Starter$39
Professional$103
Scale$239
EnterpriseCustom

Frase is the best dollar-for-surface-area buy in this category and it is not particularly close. Nothing else under $50 per month gives a solo operator research, briefs, AI drafting, dual SEO and GEO scoring, native publishing, decay monitoring, and two-engine AI visibility tracking in one subscription. The honest counterweight is that every one of those modules is thinner than the specialist equivalent, and two pricing decisions push the effective cost up quietly: $29 per extra seat, and the fact that half the AI engines live behind the $239 tier. Price it for the team you have in six months, not the one seat you are starting with.

LowFruits

Credit-based, at one credit per SERP analysed, sold either as pay-as-you-go packs valid for a year or as monthly subscriptions whose credits reset and do not roll over.

Pay as you goFrom about $25
StandardAbout $29.90
PremiumAbout $79.90

LowFruits is cheap in absolute terms and unusually honest about when not to buy it, which is rare enough to be worth noting. The pay-as-you-go model at around $25 for 2,000 year-valid credits is the correct default for almost every individual buyer, and the vendor says so itself: subscription credits reset monthly, so a Standard plan only makes sense at roughly 100 analysed keywords a day. What you get for the money is one signal nothing else provides, namely which specific results in a SERP are weak enough to displace. That signal is worth disproportionately more to a site with no authority than a full research suite would be. What you do not get is anything else at all: no crawler, no real backlink index, no AI visibility, no client reporting. Buy it as a scalpel alongside a broader tool, not as a replacement for one.

Editorial verdict on each

Frase

Frase is the value pick and the honest one, provided you go in knowing what you are buying: breadth, not depth. For $39 per month a founder gets research, briefs, AI drafting, dual SEO and GEO scoring, native publishing, decay monitoring, and AI visibility on two engines, which is a complete workflow that no competitor comes close to matching at that price. Where the story frays is at the tier boundaries. Claude and Gemini tracking sit behind a $239 plan, extra seats cost $29 each, and the company discloses almost nothing about itself since the 2022 Copysmith acquisition. Buy it as a startup's first and only content tool, and expect to graduate to a specialist for whichever job turns out to matter most.

Read the full Frase profile

LowFruits

LowFruits does one thing and does it better than anything else on the market: it tells you which specific results in a search listing are weak enough to displace, which is the question that actually matters when your site has no authority and every difficulty score looks discouraging. Priced at around $25 for 2,000 year-valid credits, it is cheap enough to be a rounding error next to a real SEO subscription, and the vendor's willingness to tell light users that its own subscription would be poor value for them is a good sign about how the business is run. The limits are absolute and should be taken at face value: no crawler, no backlink index, no AI visibility, no client reporting, and diminishing usefulness as your own domain grows. Buy it as a scalpel alongside Mangools, Ubersuggest, or a bigger suite, and buy credits rather than a subscription unless you really are analysing a hundred keywords a day.

Read the full LowFruits profile

Frase profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; LowFruits last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.