AnswerThePublic pricing, and when paying per run makes more sense
Plans run from US$20 to US$199 a month and bundle a writing suite; founders who research questions now and then can pay by the run instead.
AnswerThePublic pricing starts at US$20 a month for the Starter plan on monthly billing, rising to US$99 for Growth and US$199 for Business, with yearly plans that work out at half the monthly rate. For a founder who only researches questions when a new page or launch is coming, a per-run tool such as seogeoaeo.ai's Question Finder is usually the better buy.
Those are the US dollar prices from AnswerThePublic's own pricing file, checked in October 2026. The company shows localized prices by region, so the number at checkout can differ.
The plans at a glance
| Plan | Monthly billing | Yearly billing |
|---|---|---|
| Free account | US$0, small daily search limit | n/a |
| Starter | US$20 a month | US$120 a year |
| Growth | US$99 a month | US$594 a year |
| Business | US$199 a month | US$1,194 a year |
Every paid plan includes Composeo, an AI content suite that writes and schedules articles and can publish to WordPress. The higher plans add more Composeo projects, credits and articles each month. There is also a 7-day free trial if you want to test a paid plan first.
What you are really paying for
Look at that table as an operator and one thing stands out: a large part of the step from Starter to Business buys content production, not just more question research. AnswerThePublic's core output, the questions, prepositions, comparisons and related searches around a keyword, is the same idea on every plan. The upgrade is about search limits, seats and the bundled writing tool.
That makes sense for an agency publishing every week. It is harder to justify for a five-person startup that writes a handful of pages a quarter. A research subscription keeps billing in the months you research nothing.
Is AnswerThePublic free?
Partly. A free account gives you a few searches a day and more results than you see logged out. That covers a quick look at one topic. It is not enough for a proper research session across several phrasings, and the free tier does not include the paid features such as search listening alerts.
The pay-per-run option
seogeoaeo.ai prices each tool by the run. Its Question Finder costs 15 credits per run, shows the price before it starts, and refunds the credits if the run fails. You give it a topic and a market, and it returns the questions from Google's live autocomplete, grouped by intent. Add a URL and it also tells you which of those questions your page already answers, which is the part a founder actually needs before a launch: what is missing from the page you have.
The same credits run the rest of the site's SEO, AEO and GEO checks, so question research is not a separate line item you have to remember to cancel.
How to choose
- Pick seogeoaeo.ai if you research questions now and then, want a gap check on your own pages, or want an agent to run the research for you over REST or MCP.
- Pick AnswerThePublic Starter or above if you publish weekly, want topic alerts by email, and will use the bundled writing suite.
- Stay on the free tier if you only need a glance at one topic now and then.
One honest limit: Question Finder does not show People Also Ask boxes or search volume per question. If your team plans content around volume, that gap matters, and a suite with keyword data is the better fit.
The short version
AnswerThePublic pricing is fair for teams that live in content production. For everyone else, the cost is mostly the bundle. Start with the per-run Question Finder, and move to a subscription only when your publishing pace justifies one.