



Machined, published by Sibu Ventures Ltd, is a content cluster automation platform for bloggers, affiliate sites, SEO consultants and agencies that want topical authority at low cost. You enter a topic, and it researches and groups keywords, avoids cannibalization, writes long-form articles backed by cited sources, adds internal and external links and AI images, then publishes whole clusters to WordPress, Webflow or any tool through webhooks. Pricing is in US dollars: Launch at $19 per month (30 articles), Growth at $49 (100 articles) and Pro at $99 (250 articles), or $14, $37 and $74 per month billed yearly. Scale costs $249 for 750 articles, and a BYOK plan at $99 lets you use your own AI keys for up to 2,000 articles. A 7-day free trial gives access to the Launch plan.
Pros: very low cost per article, true topic clusters with internal linking, citations, 100+ languages, unlimited websites. Cons: no AI visibility tracking, no rank tracking, no competitor analysis, no scheduled autopilot, no refunds once charged.
Outrank is a French-built SEO autopilot for founders, online stores and agencies that want a blog that grows without writers. It studies your niche and competitors, builds a 30-day plan with one keyword per day, then writes and publishes an article every day in 150+ languages, with internal and external links, on-brand AI images and YouTube videos. It publishes to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Framer, Wix, Notion, Ghost, WordPress.com, Next.js or any tool through a webhook, and places links to your site inside articles on other blogs to raise your Domain Rating.
Prices in October 2026, in US dollars: one Organic Growth plan at $99 per month or $999 per year (about $83.25 per month), with 30 articles, backlinks and unlimited users, a free trial, volume discounts from 10% to 20% for 2 to 25 sites, and paid add-ons such as more articles, extra backlink credits and human editing.
Pros: one simple plan, daily publishing to 10 platforms, backlinks included, REST API, CLI and MCP server. Cons: no tracking of brand mentions in AI answers, no rank tracking, extra backlink volume and higher output cost more.




Machined is a content cluster automation platform published by Sibu Ventures Ltd. It researches and groups keywords, writes researched articles with citations, links them together and publishes whole clusters to WordPress, Webflow or other tools through webhooks. It focuses on content production and does not track rankings or AI visibility.
Launch costs $19 per month for 30 articles, Growth $49 for 100 articles and Pro $99 for 250 articles, or $14, $37 and $74 per month billed yearly. Scale costs $249 for 750 articles, and BYOK costs $99 plus your own AI costs for up to 2,000 articles. A 7-day free trial covers the Launch plan.
On the BYOK plan you pay a flat fee for the platform and connect your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or OpenRouter. The AI provider bills you directly, at about $0.20 per article on average according to Machined. It is designed for high volumes, with up to 2,000 articles per month.
Outrank is an SEO autopilot platform that researches keywords, plans one keyword per day, then writes and publishes an article daily to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Framer, Wix, Notion, Ghost and other platforms. It also places links to your site in articles on other blogs and offers a REST API, a CLI and an MCP server.
In October 2026, Outrank has one plan, Organic Growth, at $99 per month or $999 per year (about $83.25 per month), with 30 articles, backlinks and unlimited users. Volume discounts of 10% to 20% apply from 2 sites. Add-ons such as 60 or 90 articles per month, extra backlink plans and human editing cost extra, and a free trial is available.
Outrank writes content meant to be picked up by AI and publishes case studies about AI citations, but its website does not show a tool that tracks brand mentions in AI answers. Sorank asks ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini your customers' questions every week from its Essential plan and shows the brands and sources they cite.
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