European Alternatives to Clearscope
Looking for a European alternative to Clearscope? Clearscope is provided by Mushi Labs LLC, a Texas limited liability company, and its terms of service are governed by the laws of the State of Texas. Its public price list starts at $129 per month for 50 pages and 20 monthly drafts, with the Business plan at $399 per month and extra pages sold as add-ons.
The European tools below also score drafts against ranking pages. Some publish a self-serve price list or a free tier, others quote per workspace, and the contracting entities sit in Poland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
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11 European Alternatives to Clearscope
Surfer
Content editor with a live score, outline builder and AI visibility tracking
NeuronWriter
Content editor and planner built on SERP analysis, from Zamosc
YourText.Guru
SEO guides that list the words to use and the score to reach
Semji
Content scoring, briefs and GEO tracking for larger content teams
Inlinks
Entity-based content briefs plus internal linking and schema markup
SEOwind
AI article and content update agents with a brief generator
Textmetrics
Real-time editor for SEO, readability, tone of voice and inclusive language
cognitiveSEO
NLP content optimizer inside a backlink and site audit suite
Keyword Insights
Keyword clustering and content briefs with a credit-based writer
Seobility
TF*IDF content tool with a live editor inside an SEO suite
SEO.AI
Autopilot agent that writes and publishes pages for you
Key takeaways
- Clearscope is sold by Mushi Labs LLC, a Texas limited liability company based in Austin, and its privacy policy on the vendor site is dated 5 October 2017.
- Clearscope Essentials is $129 a month for 50 tracked queries, 50 pages and 20 drafts a month, and Business is $399 a month for 300 pages, according to the vendor pricing page.
- Surfer (Poland) publishes euro plans from EUR 49 a month billed yearly and is the closest European match to a live score editor.
- NeuronWriter (Poland) lists plans from $19 a month billed yearly with a 7-day trial, the lowest published entry price among the eleven European tools.
- SEOwind, SEO.AI and Keyword Insights generate or plan content, so they replace the writing workflow around Clearscope rather than its draft grader.
Why people leave Clearscope
Clearscope is a content optimization editor: you give it a keyword, it reads the pages that rank, and it grades the draft you are writing against the terms and questions those pages cover.
Its pricing page now also sells brand tracking in ChatGPT and Gemini, a module for ongoing content monitoring, a localization module and an internal linking module. People who use it daily tend to like one thing, the grade, and ask why the bill is built around so much else.
The contract is with Mushi Labs LLC, doing business as Clearscope, a Texas limited liability company with an office in Austin. Its privacy policy, last updated on 5 October 2017, says that employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may sit outside your home country and that you consent to the transfer by using the site. It also says data may be stored with third-party vendors and hosting partners. In the text we read, neither the GDPR nor the EEA is mentioned.
For a European agency or publisher that is a paperwork question first and a price question second. A US limited liability company is subject to US legal process wherever it hosts, so a data protection officer has a transfer to assess. The tools below are contracted from Poland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Romania, Denmark and the United Kingdom, and they differ a lot from each other in what they actually do.
- The price counts pages, drafts and tracked queries Essentials is listed at $129 a month for 50 tracked queries, 50 pages and 20 drafts a month. Business is $399 for 300 tracked queries, 300 pages and 50 topic explorations a month. Extra pages and drafts are add-ons. A team that scores 40 drafts a month hits the 20-draft ceiling before it hits anything else, and the add-on bill grows with output.
- The policy that governs your data is from 2017 The privacy policy on clearscope.io is dated 5 October 2017 and is adapted from another company's open policy. It tells you about storage with third-party vendors and about contractors outside your home country. It does not name regions, sub-processors or a data processing agreement. A buyer who has to file a record of processing will have to write to the company for those answers.
- AI visibility is bundled into every plan Query tracking across ChatGPT and Gemini, brand visibility and query fan-out data are listed as included in every plan. That helps a team that wants them. A team that bought a writing grader and has no use for AI tracking still funds that scope, and the European tools split the same ground differently, with some selling tracking and others leaving it out.
- Business is the first tier with a named contact A dedicated account manager is listed on Business at $399 a month, and SSO and crawler whitelisting only on Enterprise. Where a European buyer wants single sign-on or a signed processing agreement, Clearscope pushes the conversation to a custom plan. Surfer lists a success manager on its top plan, and Semji includes onboarding in its quote.
What you have to replace, not just match
The thing to replace first is the grade. Clearscope assesses your draft against the pages that rank for a keyword and gives a score that editors and freelancers use as a pass mark.
Of the eleven European tools, Surfer, NeuronWriter, YourText.Guru, Semji, Seobility and Textmetrics score a human draft in some form. SEOwind, Keyword Insights, Inlinks and SEO.AI start from the brief or the finished page and treat scoring as a by-product, so check which of the two your writers expect before you compare prices.
Then list the modules you use around the editor. Clearscope's pricing page names Discover for topic research, Protect for monitoring published content, Localize for local content, Linking for internal links and Expand for AI brand tracking. Inlinks covers internal links and schema, Keyword Insights and Semji cover the planning side, and cognitiveSEO and Seobility put the content tool inside an audit and backlink suite. No single European tool repeats the whole list, so a move often becomes two tools.
Finally, the unit you buy. Clearscope sells pages and drafts, YourText.Guru sells guides a month, Keyword Insights sells credits, Surfer sells documents, and SEO.AI sells a site. A conversion table kept in a spreadsheet, filled with your last three months of output, is the only reliable way to compare the quotes.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Surfer | Wrocław, Poland | Euro plans billed yearly: Discovery EUR 49/month, Standard EUR 99, Pro EUR 182, Peace of Mind EUR 299, AI Search Analytics EUR 82; Enterprise on request | EU (Poland) |
| #2 | NeuronWriter | Zamość, Poland | Bronze $19/month billed yearly ($23 monthly) up to Diamond $97/month billed yearly ($117 monthly); 7-day free trial with Gold-level features | EU (Poland) |
| #3 | YourText.Guru | Évreux, France | Lite $98/month, Essential $227/month, Enterprise $396/month, all excluding tax and paid annually; demo on request | EU (France) |
| #4 | Semji | Lyon, France | Pricing on request; no public price list | EU (France) |
| #5 | Inlinks | Biggleswade, United Kingdom | Free plan; Freelancer from US$49/month; Agency from $196/month; Enterprise on request | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #6 | SEOwind | Warsaw, Poland | Platform $189/month billed annually; SEO services from $3,000/month; white-label content on quote | EU (Poland) |
| #7 | Textmetrics | Arnhem, Netherlands | Custom pricing on request | EU (Netherlands) |
| #8 | cognitiveSEO | Iasi, Romania | Starter $129.99/month ($89/month billed annually) / Premium $199/month / Elite $499/month ($349/month annually) | EU (Romania) |
| #9 | Keyword Insights | United Kingdom, United Kingdom | Basic $58/month (10,000 credits), Professional $99/month (20,000 credits), Enterprise custom, $1 trial for 7 days | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #10 | Seobility | Bayreuth, Germany | Free (1 project, 1,000 pages) / Premium from about €50/month | EU (Germany) |
| #11 | SEO.AI | Kongens Lyngby, Denmark | Single Site $149/month; Multi Site $299/month for up to 3 websites or languages; 25% off with annual payment; 7-day trial | EU (Denmark) |
How each alternative compares to Clearscope
- Which law reaches it. EU (Poland). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Not stated as EU-only; the privacy policy lists sub-processors with EU and global processing locations.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Writers and SEO teams who want a live score on drafts and a euro price list
Surfer is the tool a Clearscope user will recognize fastest. You enter a keyword, write or paste a draft, and a Content Score moves as the draft covers more of the terms and topics found in the ranking pages. An Outline Builder proposes headings before the first paragraph, and integrations reach Google Docs, WordPress and Contentful. Plans are priced in euros and billed yearly, from Discovery at EUR 49 a month for 120 documents.
The company is Surfer sp. z o.o. in Wrocław, the entity named in its privacy policy as data controller. Its pricing page now leads with AI visibility tracking, so the scope is wider than a grader, and each plan caps documents. The sub-processor list includes processors with global locations, which keeps the transfer question alive in a smaller form.
What Surfer does better than Clearscope
- Plans are listed in euros, with a Discovery entry at EUR 49 a month billed yearly
- The contract and controller are a Polish company under EU law
- Editor integrations reach Google Docs, WordPress and Contentful
- The entry tier counts 120 documents, though documents and Clearscope drafts are not the same unit
Where Surfer is a step down from Clearscope
- Document caps on every plan, with the unlimited tier carrying an asterisk
- No claim of EU-only processing, since some sub-processors are global
Standout against Clearscope. It is the only European tool here with a euro price list, a live score editor and an outline builder in the same plan.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Poland). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Freelancers and small agencies who want to score drafts for under $100 a month
NeuronWriter scores a draft against the pages that rank for a target keyword, covering term coverage, structure and the questions competitors answer. Content Designer produces a full article from the same analysis, and Content Writer is the editor for building one by hand. Plans run from Bronze at $19 a month billed yearly to Diamond at $97, so the top plan sits below Clearscope's $129 entry price.
Conti sp. z o.o. in Zamość runs it, inside the Contadu group that has built semantic SEO tools since 2012. The site's own page says the scoring model rewards matching competitors, which can flatten originality, and that the company publishes no certification. Prices are in dollars and not euros.
What NeuronWriter does better than Clearscope
- Published prices start at $19 a month billed yearly
- A 7-day free trial with Gold-level features before any payment
- Search Console, WordPress and Shopify connect directly
- AI visibility monitoring covers Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity
Where NeuronWriter is a step down from Clearscope
- No published certification on its tool page
- Matching competitor terms can flatten a distinctive voice
- No dedicated module for monitoring published content
Standout against Clearscope. It does the core Clearscope job at a price where a freelancer can run it without a budget approval.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Hosted by Online SAS, an Iliad group company registered in Paris.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Freelancers and small agencies in French-speaking markets who work from a word list
YourText.Guru turns a query into a guide: the words to include and a score to reach. Chill Mode gives light guidance while you write, and PRO Mode shows detailed scores. All plans include every feature, so the difference between Lite at $98 a month, Essential at $227 and Enterprise at $396 is volume, from 50 guides a month on Lite to unlimited on Enterprise.
Babbar in Évreux operates it and the legal notice names Online SAS in Paris as host, which makes the hosting question simpler than at most tools in this list. The English pages are thinner than the French ones, the terms are in French, and the pages checked describe no CMS or Google Docs integration, so drafts move by copy and paste.
What YourText.Guru does better than Clearscope
- Hosting is stated: Online SAS in Paris, an Iliad group company
- Keyword Explorer, gap analysis and rank tracking come in every plan
- Two writing modes cover beginners and experienced SEOs
- Every plan has every feature, so there is no tier gating
Where YourText.Guru is a step down from Clearscope
- Lite is capped at 50 guides a month and costs about as much as Clearscope Essentials
- No documented CMS or Google Docs integration
- Legal notice and terms are in French
Standout against Clearscope. It hands the writer a plain word list and a target, which suits people who do not want SEO jargon.
- Which law reaches it. EU (France). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Not stated; the legal notice names Vercel Inc. as host of the website.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Brand and publisher teams with several markets that buy through procurement
Semji treats content as a workflow from opportunity to published page. The editor shows a Content Score, agents prepare drafts that you review, and the CMS Publisher sends the result to your CMS as a draft. It tracks visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and DeepSeek, and the pricing page says coverage of those engines is part of the platform and not a per-model add-on.
SEMJI SAS in Lyon, listed as founded in 2012, publishes no price, so a demo comes first. It names SOC 2 Type II, and customers shown on the site include Allianz, Otto, Randstad and Fox Sports. The legal notice names Vercel Inc. as host of the website, and the pages checked do not say where customer content is processed.
What Semji does better than Clearscope
- Seats are not charged per head, they sit inside the quote
- Planning, scoring, agents and CMS publishing share one record
- SOC 2 Type II is listed on the vendor site
- Six AI engines are tracked in the base platform
Where Semji is a step down from Clearscope
- No public price and no self-serve checkout
- A wide platform for a team that only wants a grade
- Processing location not stated on the pages checked
Standout against Clearscope. It connects a content score to the planning and publishing steps before and after, inside one quoted contract.
- Which law reaches it. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Not stated; the privacy policy says data may be transferred outside the EEA under safeguards.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Technical SEOs and agencies who want entities, internal links and schema in one account
Inlinks reads your content, identifies the main entities and the concepts around them, and builds briefs and audits from topic maps, header analysis and a Flesch readability model. A Topic Planner clusters site concepts into topics and points to gaps. Beyond the brief, it audits internal links, inserts them through a JavaScript integration or exports them, and generates schema markup from the entities it finds.
Inlinks Optimization LTD is registered at Companies House under number 12142035 with an office in Biggleswade. There is a free plan, Freelancer from US$49 a month, and Agency from $196 with unlimited projects and users. The product is not a live-score writing editor, and as a UK company it sits outside the EEA under an adequacy decision.
What Inlinks does better than Clearscope
- A free plan lets you test before paying anything
- Internal linking and schema in the same account as briefs
- Agency plan allows unlimited projects and users
- Company number can be checked at Companies House
Where Inlinks is a step down from Clearscope
- No live score on the text you write
- Free plan allows two content optimizations a month
- Prices in dollars and data location not stated
Standout against Clearscope. It builds briefs from entities and then fixes the internal links and schema for the same pages.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Poland). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages checked.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Agencies refreshing old articles who want briefs and E-E-A-T scoring from AI agents
SEOwind pulls the top ranking pages, clusters keywords and adds questions from People Also Ask, Quora and Reddit before it produces a brief. A content update agent then compares an old page with the top results, rewrites weak sections and, when Search Console is connected, inserts internal links. A before-and-after score covers Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trust.
The terms name Winter Group at ul. Pańska 7 in Warsaw without a legal form, and data location is not stated on the pages checked. The platform plan is $189 a month billed annually for up to 20 articles, SEO services start at $3,000 a month, and the trial lasts three days. Where Clearscope grades text, SEOwind writes it, so editors who want to keep their own drafts get less out of it.
What SEOwind does better than Clearscope
- A content update agent for old articles with a before-and-after score
- White-label content for agencies on quote
- Twelve languages across more than 180 locations
- Briefs use Reddit, Quora and People Also Ask data
Where SEOwind is a step down from Clearscope
- Not a live editor for human drafts
- The platform plan is capped at 20 articles
- Legal form of the Warsaw entity not stated
Standout against Clearscope. It rewrites an existing page against the current top results and shows what the rewrite changed.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Netherlands). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. EU (Netherlands).
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
- Independently checked. GDPR, ISO 27001.
Best for: Organisations that need many writers to sound the same and publish readable text
Textmetrics checks text while it is being written against inclusive language, tone of voice, readability and terminology. It is the odd one out on this page, since it is a checking layer for a whole organisation, not a ranking-page grader. Job adverts are where its effect is easiest to measure, and public-sector writing is where readability scoring matters.
Textmetrics BV in Arnhem was founded in 2014 and lists data location in the Netherlands, GDPR and ISO 27001. Pricing is custom and the way in is a demo. It does not write text, and it needs configuring to your organisation before it earns its price. Use it next to a ranking-page tool, not instead of one.
What Textmetrics does better than Clearscope
- Data location is stated as the Netherlands
- ISO 27001 and GDPR are listed
- Tone of voice and terminology are enforced across writers
- Inclusive language is checked while typing
Where Textmetrics is a step down from Clearscope
- It does not grade a draft against ranking pages in the way Clearscope does
- Pricing is by quote only
Standout against Clearscope. It flags exclusionary wording in a job advert before it is published, when fixing it costs nothing.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Romania). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Small agencies that want one subscription for audit, ranks, backlinks and content
cognitiveSEO bundles site audit, rank tracking across desktop, mobile and local results, backlink analysis, keyword research and content optimization into one subscription. Its penalty-recovery feature points to backlinks or on-page changes behind a ranking drop. Starter is $129.99 a month, or $89 billed annually, Premium is $199 and Elite is $499 a month, or $349 annually.
GESKIMO SRL in Iași has run it since 2010. The content module is one part of a suite, so it is shallower than a dedicated grader, and prices are in dollars. For a team that already pays for an audit tool and a backlink tool, folding the content score into the same plan replaces three vendors with one.
What cognitiveSEO does better than Clearscope
- Audit, ranks, backlinks and content under one plan
- Penalty-recovery diagnostics for ranking drops
- A 7-day trial with cancellation before billing
- Local, mobile and desktop rank tracking included
Where cognitiveSEO is a step down from Clearscope
- The content module is less deep than a specialist grader
- Starter costs about the same as Clearscope Essentials
- A card or PayPal is needed to start the trial
Standout against Clearscope. It tells you which backlinks or changes likely caused a drop, which no content grader attempts.
- Which law reaches it. United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages checked; a sub-processor list is published.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: SEO managers who plan site structure from clusters before they draft
Keyword Insights covers the stage before writing. It finds keyword ideas from autocomplete, Reddit, Quora and People Also Ask, then clusters them by SERP similarity so you can see which pages to create. A brief costs 100 credits, a Writing Assistant article 200 and an AI Writing Agent article 1,200. Basic is $58 a month for 10,000 credits, Professional $99 for 20,000, and a $1 trial runs seven days.
Snippet Digital Ltd trades as Keyword Insights from the United Kingdom, and the vendor pages checked give no registered address. A UK company falls under an adequacy decision and not the GDPR directly. Credits make the monthly cost depend on usage, which is harder to forecast than Clearscope's page counts.
What Keyword Insights does better than Clearscope
- Clustering and intent breakdown before any writing starts
- Entry price of $58 a month is under half of Clearscope Essentials
- Briefs and drafts share one credit balance
Where Keyword Insights is a step down from Clearscope
- No live score editor for a human draft
- Credit usage is hard to forecast
- No registered address on the vendor pages
Standout against Clearscope. It decides which pages to write by clustering the SERP, so the brief comes after the plan.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Germany). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Germany.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: German-speaking small businesses that want audits and a TF*IDF check cheaply
Seobility is an SEO suite with crawling, rank tracking, backlinks and on-page checks, and content analysis with a TF*IDF comparison against ranking competitors on the paid plans. Premium starts at about EUR 50 a month, and a free tier covers one project and 1,000 pages. A German data processing agreement and hosting in Germany are listed on the site's own page.
Seobility GmbH is a German company. It is not a writing editor with a live grade, and its keyword and backlink databases are smaller than those of the market leaders. It suits a small business that wants one cheap tool for the site and a basic content check, not a content team that lives in the editor all day.
What Seobility does better than Clearscope
- Data is hosted in Germany under a German processing agreement
- A free tier covers one project and 1,000 pages
- Premium at about EUR 50 a month is below Clearscope Essentials
Where Seobility is a step down from Clearscope
- TF*IDF comparison is a plain check, not a live editor with outlines
- Weaker outside German-language markets
Standout against Clearscope. It gives a small site audits, ranks and a content check for around EUR 50 a month.
- Which law reaches it. EU (Denmark). Clearscope is run from the United States, so the CLOUD Act obliges the provider to hand over data on a valid order regardless of which country the servers are in.
- Where the data sits. Hosted on Amazon Web Services; transfers outside the EEA under Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Source code. Closed source, as Clearscope is.
Best for: Small businesses and agencies with little time who accept review work and a link network
SEO.AI works the opposite way from Clearscope. You connect your website, and its agent plans, writes and publishes pages to WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify or Magento, as drafts if you prefer. Single Site is $149 a month and Multi Site is $299 for up to three websites or languages, with 25% off for annual payment and a 7-day trial.
SEO.ai Ninety ApS in Kongens Lyngby, registration 43096990, is the contracting entity, and the platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services with Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers outside the EEA. It does not score a draft you wrote. Its link exchange network deserves a check against search engine guidelines before you rely on it.
What SEO.AI does better than Clearscope
- Pages go to the CMS without an editor step
- A flat monthly price rather than page and draft counts
- The Danish entity is named with a registration number
Where SEO.AI is a step down from Clearscope
- No scoring of human drafts
- Hosting on AWS with transfers under Standard Contractual Clauses
- The link exchange network needs scrutiny
Standout against Clearscope. It is the only tool here that publishes to your site without you opening an editor.
What actually breaks when you switch
The first break is the history. Clearscope keeps tracked queries, pages and drafts inside the product, and its pricing page says sharing and exporting are unlimited. Export the reports you still need before you cancel, because the old numbers will not match the scale of any European tool. Expect the first month to run both tools side by side.
The second break is the workflow around the draft. Freelancers who score drafts in Clearscope will need a new habit, and anything built on its reports, such as an editor checklist with a minimum grade, has to be rewritten. Contracts need a look too: monthly Clearscope plans have no contract, so you can leave cleanly, whereas Semji and Textmetrics sit behind a quote and Surfer's listed prices are for yearly billing, so ask about the term before you sign.
Will my writers accept a different content grade?
Every tool here builds its score from a different reading of the ranking pages, so the numbers do not map across. A number in Surfer, a target score in YourText.Guru and a grade in Clearscope are three unrelated scales. Writers who treat the grade as a pass mark need a week to relearn what good looks like, and an editor who signs off on a number needs a new threshold.
The practical test is to take five published articles that performed, run them through the candidate tool, and see where they land. If your best pages score low, the tool is asking for something your results do not support, and you should judge it on its briefs rather than its number.
Is Clearscope a problem under the GDPR?
Not by itself. A European company can use a US vendor with the right paperwork, and the data a content grader processes is mostly keywords and draft text, not customer records. What you need from Clearscope is a processing agreement, a list of sub-processors and a transfer mechanism, none of which its public privacy policy provides. Ask for them in writing before renewal.
The case for moving is administrative. A vendor established in Poland, France or Germany puts the contract under EU law and a supervisory authority you can reach, and removes one transfer from your register. If the content team is small and the drafts are public once published, many buyers decide that is not worth a migration, and that is a fair call.
Which one to pick
If your writers live in a score editor, test Surfer and NeuronWriter first, in that order if you want euro pricing and the most complete tool, the other way round if price decides. Add YourText.Guru for French-language work and Semji if a procurement-led contract with planning and AI visibility is what you actually need. Run the five-article test from earlier and decide on the briefs as much as on the grade.
If the real need is planning or publishing, the picture changes. Keyword Insights and Inlinks answer what to write and how to link it, SEOwind rewrites old pages, and SEO.AI publishes for you.
Textmetrics belongs beside any of them where tone and inclusive language matter. And if the draft text is public anyway and the transfer is already documented, staying on Clearscope is a legitimate answer: it remains a focused grader, and none of the eleven is a copy of it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Surfer from Wrocław is the closest like-for-like: a live Content Score editor with an outline builder, plans in euros and an AI visibility add-on. NeuronWriter is the cheaper editor with a 7-day trial, YourText.Guru from Évreux gives each query a word list and a target score, and Semji from Lyon suits brands that want scoring, planning and AI visibility in one quoted contract. Inlinks, SEOwind and Keyword Insights each cover a different slice of the workflow.
Its privacy policy names Mushi Labs LLC, doing business as Clearscope, a State of Texas limited liability company, with an address on North Interstate 35 in Austin. The page behind the terms link returned a not-found error when we checked, so we cannot quote the governing law from the vendor site. The contracting company is American, which is the point that matters for a transfer assessment.
The pricing page lists Essentials at $129 a month and Business at $399 a month, both without a contract on monthly plans, plus a custom Enterprise tier. Essentials includes 50 pages and 20 drafts a month and Business includes 300 pages. Extra pages and drafts are sold as add-ons, and there is a 14-day free trial. Pricing was checked on 22 October 2026 and changes without notice.
Inlinks has a free plan with two content optimizations a month. NeuronWriter gives a 7-day trial with Gold-level features, SEO.AI and cognitiveSEO a 7-day trial, SEOwind a 3-day trial and Keyword Insights a $1 trial for 7 days. Seobility has a free tier, though its content analysis sits in the paid plans. Surfer, Semji and Textmetrics ask for a demo.
Yes, and several teams do. Keyword Insights from the United Kingdom clusters keywords and writes briefs, Inlinks handles entity briefs and internal links, and either can sit next to an existing Clearscope seat. It lowers the cost of the first change, though it leaves the transfer question for the editor untouched.
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