Service
Content writing services billed by the post, not the hour
Four, ten or twenty-five researched articles a month from $350/mo, each written to a keyword and entity brief, revised, and uploaded to your CMS rather than emailed as a document.
In one line
Content writing services produce researched articles to a brief, from $350/mo. Here that means a set number of posts per month at a stated word range, each with its own keyword and entity brief, a defined number of revision rounds, and publication into your CMS.
Content writing services and what each tier costs
Starter
4 posts/mo
$292/mo billed yearly
- 4 articles, 1,000 to 1,200 words
- Keyword + entity brief per piece
- 1 revision round
- Uploaded to your CMS
- Not included: Custom graphics
- Not included: Ghostwritten thought leadership
Growth
10 posts/mo
$650/mo billed yearly
- 10 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Starter
- 2 revision rounds
- Internal link mapping
Scale
25 posts/mo
$1,500/mo billed yearly
- 25 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Growth
- Dedicated editor
- Content calendar managed for you
These content writing services are billed at the price shown, with no scoping call in the way. First draft within 5 business days of each brief.
Every tier is billed monthly, and the scope is fixed by a brief you agree before anything is invoiced.
Page one for this search is dominated by marketplaces and agency home pages. Most state a per-word rate or nothing at all, and almost none state how many revisions are included.
Everything each tier includes and excludes
The same list that drives the price cards, laid out so the tiers can be read against each other. Exclusions are printed because an unstated exclusion is what turns a good month into an argument.
Starter
4 posts/mo
Included
- 4 articles, 1,000 to 1,200 words
- Keyword + entity brief per piece
- 1 revision round
- Uploaded to your CMS
Not included
- Custom graphics
- Ghostwritten thought leadership
Growth
10 posts/mo
Included
- 10 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Starter
- 2 revision rounds
- Internal link mapping
Scale
25 posts/mo
Included
- 25 articles, 1,200 to 1,500 words
- Everything in Growth
- Dedicated editor
- Content calendar managed for you
Which tier you actually need
The tiers are separated by output per month. The right one is set by how fast your side can approve topics and publish, not by how much content you would like in theory.
All three content writing services run the same process and the same reporting. What changes between them is volume.
Starter
A business publishing for the first time, or restarting after a gap, where four solid pieces a month is already a step change.
You are on this tier when: You currently publish less than once a fortnight, and approving four topics a month is comfortable.
Growth
A site with an existing content plan and a real keyword list, where ten pieces a month is the pace the plan needs.
You are on this tier when: You have a backlog of briefs or keywords longer than four a month, and internal links are becoming a real consideration.
Scale
A publishing operation: twenty-five pieces a month, a managed calendar, and a dedicated editor holding the standard.
You are on this tier when: You are coordinating multiple writers already, and the editing rather than the writing is the bottleneck.
What lands in your CMS
Every article arrives as a published draft in your own system, formatted, linked and ready to review.
- The article at the tier’s word range, with subheads and internal links in place
- A one-page brief showing the target keyword, the entities covered and the sources used
- Meta title and description written to length
- Image slots marked, with alt text drafted
Purely 100% AI generated does not work.
Why this matters
What a content month actually contains
Content retainers usually quote a word count and leave everything else vague. This one quotes a cadence: briefs in, drafts back inside five business days, revisions bounded. Step through a month below.
How a month actually runs
Order, brief, production, delivery, report. The same four steps every month, so a second month can be compared against a first.
- 1
Day 1
Topic list agreed
You approve the month’s topics before anything is written. Nothing gets drafted off a guess.
- 2
Per piece
Brief first
Each article starts as a brief: keyword, entities, sources, angle. You can reject a brief in two minutes rather than a draft in twenty.
- 3
Within 5 days
First draft
First draft within 5 business days of each brief being approved.
- 4
Then
Revision and upload
Your comments come back in one pass, then the piece is uploaded to your CMS as a draft.
Anything can be optimized, but if you are spamming it, they will see that... and then they will change your algorithm to prevent you from doing that.
Why this matters
Where AI sits in the process
Short answer
Research and outlining may use AI tools. Every published piece is written and edited by a person who is accountable for the claims in it, and undisclosed AI-only output is a vendor disqualifier under our content vetting criteria.
This matters commercially rather than philosophically. Unedited model output tends to be structurally identical to everything else on the search results page, which is the opposite of what a content investment is for.
If you would rather no AI touched the process at any stage, say so in the brief and it will be honoured.
A typical content agency
- Price
- Per word, quoted on enquiry
- Revisions
- Unstated
- Brief
- Written after the topic is assigned
- Delivery
- A document in your inbox
- AI disclosure
- Rarely addressed
The Super Panel
- Price
- Per month, published, by post count
- Revisions
- Counted per tier
- Brief
- Approved by you before drafting
- Delivery
- A draft in your CMS
- AI disclosure
- Stated below
Cost per word and cost per article, worked out
Short answer
Starter works out at about $88 an article, which is roughly $0.07 to $0.09 a word at the stated length. Growth is about $78, and Scale about $72, which is roughly $0.05 to $0.06 a word.
The market compares on price per word, so the price per word is published here rather than left for you to divide out.
For context, one ranking provider publishes $0.04 to $0.16 a word, another starts at $0.07, and a marketplace on the same page quotes $15 to $40 an hour, which cannot be compared with either.
Why the per-article price falls here but rises on other services
On the social media page the per-post price goes up with the tier, because each tier adds work to every post. Here it goes down.
The reason is that the article length band is the same at Growth and Scale. What gets cheaper per unit is the briefing, editorial set-up and calendar overhead spread across more pieces, not the writing itself.
That distinction is the difference between a reason and a discount, and it is worth asking any provider to give you.
What the price buys at each tier
What a brief contains, and why it is the thing you are buying
Short answer
Every article starts with a keyword and entity brief, written before anyone drafts. It sets the search intent the piece answers, the entities it has to name, and the internal links it points at.
An article without a brief is a guess with a word count attached, and it is the reason cheap content usually fails to earn anything.
- The search intent the piece is written to satisfy
- The questions it has to answer, taken from the live result set
- The entities a complete piece on the topic names
- Internal link targets from your own site, mapped from Growth upward
Who has to disclose the AI, and to whom
AI-assisted writing is now the default in this market, and the argument about it is usually aesthetic. There is a procurement question underneath it that is not.
The US Copyright Office requires an applicant registering a work to disclose AI-generated material in it, and to disclaim anything more than de minimis. The applicant in that transaction is the client, not the agency and not the production vendor.
So the disclosure obligation follows the asset to whoever ends up owning it, which is why the production method of a commissioned piece is worth recording rather than glossing.
That is a specific thing to ask a supplier for, and it is checkable: what was drafted with a model, what a person wrote, who did the topic research and the fact checking, and what the editorial process was between the two.
A white-label production vendor that will not describe its own quality assurance is a vendor whose work you cannot describe either, at the point where someone asks you to.
This is a fair question to put to anyone in the category. White-label production vendors sit behind a good share of all of them.
The content marketing budget that buys it is stated on the page.
No supplier can promise what a piece earns once it is live. Zero-click search and generative search have both moved between a ranking and a visit, and no marketing budget buys AI citations outright. A brief can only make the piece worth citing.
What this does not say: Registration practice is not the same as the scope of protection a court would find; the Office's position is administrative guidance, and litigation on the point is unsettled.
A prompt is not authorship, however good the prompt is
The Copyright Office’s January 2025 report goes further, and the finding is counter-intuitive if you write prompts for a living. However detailed the instruction, prompting a generative system does not by itself give you control of the result. Protection attaches to identifiable human contribution: selection, arrangement, and what a person actually changed.
This is administrative guidance, not a court’s holding, and the boundary is being litigated. But it reframes what a content package sells: judgement, not words.
It is also why updating old posts is treated here as production rather than maintenance. A rewrite that moves organic traffic is a human editorial judgement about what changed in the market, and that judgement is the part of the deliverable worth paying for.
What this does not say: An administrative position stated in a policy report, not a judicial holding; litigation on the boundary is ongoing.
| US Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability | 2025-01-29 |
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What content writing packages produce, and what you supply
Content writing, one of eight lines, produces a set number of articles at a stated time, published into WordPress or your CMS. B2B, SaaS and ecommerce, same terms.
You supply a tone of voice sample, publishing access and one approver. Outsourced content is no worse than an in-house writer; neither buys rankings.
What we cannot show you, and what to check instead
The providers ranking above this page name recognizable clients and publish case studies. There is none of that here, and none of it will be invented.
What is checkable instead is on this page: the article count, the word band each is written to, the price per article, the brief that precedes it, and how many revision rounds you get.
- Ask any provider for the word count behind their per-post price
- Ask what counts as one revision round
- Ask whether a brief is written before drafting, and who writes it
- Ask who owns the article once it is delivered
When more articles is the wrong purchase
If the problem is a library of existing posts that no longer earn anything, refreshing those posts beats adding to them, and these tiers are priced for new blog writing rather than for rewrites.
The same is true if nobody has decided what the site should rank for. Buying words before deciding the topics is how content budgets get spent twice.
The starting point is what to check before you buy words.
How billing works, and what cancelling changes
Short answer
Billed monthly in advance. There is no minimum contract and no notice period, so cancelling stops the next renewal. Articles already in production for the current month still ship, and you keep them.
Content is yours on delivery rather than licensed for as long as you keep paying, which is not universal in this market and is worth checking elsewhere.
The same policy is set out in what cancelling Content Writing means in the terms.
When this is the wrong service to buy
Short answer
Volume content is a poor fit when nobody on your side can approve topics, when the value is in an executive’s own opinions, or when the site has unresolved technical problems that stop new pages being indexed at all.
- You want ghostwritten thought leadership in a named person’s voice. Starter excludes it, and it needs interview time nobody has budgeted.
- Your site has indexing problems. New posts will not fix that, and fixing it first is cheaper.
- You cannot approve a topic list inside a week. The cadence is what makes the price work.
- You want custom illustration with each piece. Graphics are excluded at Starter.
Questions before you order
Every piece runs from a content brief and a monthly retainer with a stated delivery time, not a bid on Upwork, a Verblio or Stellar order, or an agency program like Siege Media.
A subject matter expert is used where the topic needs one. Topic clusters, the meta description and on-page optimisation come with the draft, into your CMS. This productized service reports monthly on what it produced, for B2B, SaaS or ecommerce.
If your queue is bigger or smaller than the tiers here, send the actual brief list and we will price it against the published rate rather than quote a range.
How much do content writing services cost per month?
Starter is $350/mo for 4 articles of 1,000 to 1,200 words. Growth is $780/mo for 10 articles of 1,200 to 1,500 words. Scale is $1,800/mo for 25 articles at the same length.
What does one article actually cost at each tier?
About $88 at Starter, $78 at Growth and $72 at Scale. At the stated word bands that is roughly $0.07 to $0.09 a word at Starter and $0.05 to $0.06 at Scale.
How long are the articles, and who decides the word count?
The tier does. Starter articles are 1,000 to 1,200 words; Growth and Scale are 1,200 to 1,500. The band is published because a per-post price without a word count cannot be compared with anything.
How many revisions do I get, and what counts as one?
One round at Starter, two at Growth and Scale. A round is one consolidated set of comments rather than one comment at a time. Factual corrections never count, and a rewrite caused by a changed brief is a new piece.
Are images or custom graphics included?
No. Custom graphics are excluded at Starter, and content design is a separate cost across this market. Articles are delivered as text, formatted and uploaded.
Who owns the content once it is delivered?
You do, on delivery rather than for as long as you keep paying. It is published to your systems and stays there if you leave.
Is there a minimum contract or a notice period?
Neither. Billing is monthly, cancelling stops the next renewal, and articles already in production for that month still ship.
Why is the per-article price lower on the bigger tier?
Because the article length band does not change between Growth and Scale. What spreads across more pieces is briefing and editorial overhead, not the writing, so the unit price falls rather than the work getting thinner.
Do you write the brief, or do I have to?
We do. Every piece gets a keyword and entity brief before drafting, covering search intent, the questions to answer and the entities to name. You approve the topic list.
Do you upload to my CMS or send me files?
Uploaded to your CMS, formatted, at every tier. Files sitting in a folder are not a published article.
Sources cited here
| Source | Cited |
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| Google’s guidance on helpful, people-first content | Cited for the editorial standard, not as an endorsement. |
| Google on AI-generated content | Cited in the AI section. |
Start Content Writing from $350/mo
Pick a tier and send the order. You get a brief form and a start date within one business day, and nothing is charged until that brief is agreed.
Entry point $300/mo. Cancel any time. No long contracts.
Still deciding?
Read how the process runs end to end: order, brief, production, delivery, report.
How it worksWords are usually bought with somewhere to put them: what a month of writing costs, and the SEO retainer that decides what gets written.
Sources
| Creating helpful, reliable, people-first content: the Who, How and Why test | Google Search Central, read 2026-09-06 |
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| Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: registration guidance for works containing AI-generated material | US Copyright Office, read 2026-09-06 |
Each link was opened on the date shown. Where a figure is illustrative rather than measured, the page says so beside it.