Credit costs
What each RankX AI action costs, and the unit it is charged per. The only page in this documentation that prints a credit number.
What each action costs in credits, and the unit it repeats over. The second column matters more than the third: the most expensive misunderstanding available on this product is reading a visibility check as charged per prompt, when it is charged per prompt, per assistant, per run.
This is the only page in this documentation that prints a credit figure. Everywhere else describes what is charged and links here, because rates in RankX AI are versioned and republishable, and a number typed into prose is wrong the first time a new version is published.
What things cost
| Action | Charged | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| AI visibility check | per prompt, per assistant, per run | 5 |
| AI Shopping check | per shopping prompt, per surface, per run | 5 |
| Google rank check | per keyword, per check | 5 |
| AI Overview check | per keyword, per check, released if no AI Overview rendered | 5 |
| Site audit crawl | per page crawled | 1 |
| Instant page check | per page, minimum 10 pages | 2 |
| Chat message | per message, Ask and Act alike; approvals are free | 2 |
| Keyword research | per seed discovery run | 35 |
| AI prompt research | per run, up to 8 seeds | 35 |
| Trends analysis | per fresh analysis, free from the 7-day cache | 2 |
| Competitor discovery | per run | 20 |
| Article, short | per article of 800 to 1,200 words, research and writing included | 250 |
| Article, standard | per article of 1,200 to 2,200 words, research and writing included | 350 |
| Article, long | per article of 2,200 to 3,500 words, research and writing included | 450 |
| Page improvement | per page, a section-by-section rewrite proposal | 60 |
| Channel post | per post delivered in a channel pack | 15 |
| Press release | per press release | 100 |
| Listing-copy proposal | per proposal for one monitored product | 5 |
| Content brief | per brief, with research | 50 |
| Article draft | per 1,200 to 2,200 word draft | 300 |
The table above is generated from RankX AI itself rather than written by hand, as at 30 September 2026 (source b27dec96). When the product changes, this page changes with it.
Reading the unit column
Three actions multiply, and they are the ones that account for almost all recurring spend:
An AI visibility check is charged per prompt, per assistant, per run. Twenty-five prompts across five assistants is 125 charged checks every run, and across all six it is 150.
An AI Shopping check is charged per shopping prompt, per surface, per run. The same shape over a smaller set.
A rank check is charged per keyword, per check, with the AI Overview capture held speculatively and released in full when no overview rendered. So a tracked keyword settles at one of two prices on a given day, never in between.
Everything else is occasional rather than recurring: audits, research runs and content.
An article is one charge. An article from Write or Content Autopilot is priced by its length, and the one figure covers research, outline and writing. The Content brief and Article draft rows are the Customise path, where each step is priced on its own.
What is free
Reading is always free. Every report, every dashboard, every export, and every read tool on the MCP server.
A cache hit is free. Keyword discovery and search trends are cached, and repeating a recent request inside the window returns the stored result at no charge.
Onboarding is platform-funded. The brand scan, the Brand Hub build and the homepage check that run during setup do not touch your balance. See the free trial.
Failed work is refunded in full. Credits are reserved before the work and released if it does not produce a result, so a failure costs nothing and does not appear as spend in your usage report. An article whose draft was saved before its run stopped stays yours to edit, and is charged only for the writing steps that completed.
Where these figures come from
RankX AI keeps its prices in a versioned rate catalogue. A published version is immutable: changing a price publishes a new version rather than editing the old one, so the price a past charge was made at stays knowable.
Prices are also resolved live wherever they are shown in the product, and into the description of every MCP tool that spends, so an assistant sees the current figure rather than a documented one.
This page is generated from the same source the pricing page renders, which was reconciled cell by cell against the migrations that publish those rates. It is not a fourth copy of them.
Top-up packs
| Pack | Credits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Boost | 2,500 | $29 |
| Standard | 10,000 | $99 |
| Scale | 30,000 | $249 |
The account owner buys packs on the Billing page in Settings, on an active paid plan. See credits and billing.
Controlling what you spend
In order of effect:
- Prune the prompt panel. Pausing a prompt is instant, reversible and keeps its history, and it removes a multiplied charge rather than a single one.
- Match cadence to plan. Each plan's grant is sized for a cadence that answers real questions rather than the fastest cadence on a full panel. See check cadence.
- Untrack keywords you do not act on. Reversible, and it frees the plan slot too.
- Choose the audit page count deliberately. It is priced per page, with a cap that rises in bands.
Where to go next
- Credits and metering, for the model.
- Check cadence, for the multiplier.
- Plans and limits, for the monthly grants.
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