I first heard about Writesonic back in 2025, when a few people from their team reached out and asked if I wanted to test the tool. At the time, I was deep in other website projects, so I didn’t really give their software much attention.

This year, I set a pretty bold goal for myself: hitting a 6-figure income from my website while running everything solo. Honestly, I don’t see how that’s possible without AI-powered SEO automations.

To me, 2026 feels like the year when companies and creators fully lean into AI to cut costs and get more done in less time.

This goal also means publishing a lot of long-form content to rank in organic and AI search results and build authority on social media. Doing all of that manually just isn’t realistic anymore.

So I started looking more seriously at how to use AI for SEO the right way. That’s when Writesonic came back on my radar.

In January 2026, I signed up for the Writesonic Professional plan at $249/month. It combines content generation, AI search tracking, and optimization. They do offer cheaper plans, but those don’t include the AI features.

$249+ per month is a serious investment, so a tool at that price needs to truly earn its place in my stack.

If Writesonic can actually support solid, AI-driven SEO workflows, then it might be worth it. That’s why I decided to upgrade and dive in.

Below, I’ll break down everything I’ve learned about Writesonic and how it really works.

What’s Writesonic?

Writesonic is an AI-powered SEO tool that can help your brand boost its visibility in AI search results and automate the content creation process.

From what I’ve seen, it feels like one of the first tools that’s built for how AI search works today, not an old-school SEO tool with a bunch of features and reports.

Here’s what you can do with Writesonic AI:

You can teach Writesonic your writing style, so the generated content feels like you.
Track how your brand shows up in LLMs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, including visibility, rankings, and sentiment.
Run a free site audit for up to 100 pages. On a paid plan, you can scan bigger sites (200+ pages).
Get content ideas specifically for your site and build an SEO content strategy around them.
Do keyword research and find topics people are searching for, similar to Answer the Public.
Group keywords into clusters to plan pillar pages and supporting posts.
Generate different content types, like listicles, how-to guides, or news-style articles.
Generate outlines and tweak them however you want.
Optimize content for rankings using the SEO Checker and Optimizer.
Spy on competitors, compare performance, and get ideas on what to improve.
Humanize AI-generated content.
See which keywords and pages are performing best on your site.

Additionally, Writesonic connects with tools like Ahrefs, Google Analytics, and Google Search Console, so it can pull in real keyword data, domain insights, and site audit info instead of guessing.

AI Writer testing

In my opinion, Writesonic has one of the most detailed content creation workflows I’ve seen.

It’s designed to help you “train” the AI to create content that replicates your tone of voice. Even if you plan to build your own AI SEO agents one day, this workflow is worth exploring.

The content process has 10 steps. It starts by choosing the article type (I picked a listicle) and how the AI should gather research.

Since I’ve already created a detailed brief and I know exactly what I want, I chose the “Custom Sources” option below.

The workflow itself is very well thought out.

If you don’t like the suggested outline, you can update it, even in terms of how deep each paragraph should go.

Once you fill in all your requirements, which takes a lot of time if you want decent output, the AI generates content while:

Analyzing your links to understand your writing style
Reviewing competitor content for your target keywords
Adding internal links automatically (you can add up to 15 links per article)
Including quotes based on your preferences
Matching your tone of voice
Optimizing the content for SEO

At the end, you get an AI-generated article with images.

In my case, the images actually looked good, but they didn’t align with my brand, so I removed them.

Chatsonic also added quotes from competitor sites. Since those weren’t real expert quotes, I deleted them too.

Content quality check

Before generating content, I spent some time collecting my writing samples, sharing about 300 words on my background and experience, and writing a very detailed prompt for a listicle generation.

Writesonic lets you upload all of this to customize the AI’s writing style, which is honestly a great feature.

Eventually, I didn’t end up using content generated by Writesonic. It didn’t meet my personal quality bar.

That doesn’t mean Writesonic is bad. My content quality standards are very high, and I know many people would be totally fine publishing the content as-is.

What this really tells me about Chatsonic and any AI SEO agent is this:

Everything depends on how well you train the AI to match your voice and include your real experience.

That’s it. Nothing fancy.

Yes, prompts matter. But what matters even more is helping the AI actually understand you before expecting great results.

I shared more details about my Writesonic content experiment in my newsletter.

AI Search Visibility (GEO) tools

Writesonic also offers GEO functionality for AI search and visibility tracking.

Let me tell you that I had a rough start. The feature didn’t work for almost two weeks after I upgraded. I emailed the founder, but didn’t hear back. I also contacted support, but they don’t offer live chat, which was frustrating.

When their team finally replied, they suggested what I had to do on my end to fix things. Surprisingly, the feature started working right after their response, so it seems like the issue may have been on their side.

Here’s what you can do with the GEO feature:

See how your site ranks in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews compared to competitors
View AI citations and which of your pages are being cited
Track brand mentions
Use suggested prompts based on your niche or add your own
Research prompts using the Topics & Prompts feature
Track AI bot visits and errors using AI Bot Analytics (requires a WordPress plugin)

Overall, the AI search tracking is solid. I started by tracking citation share for my site, but the numbers don’t match what I see in other tools.

For example, the Semrush AI Visibility toolkit shows 117 mentions and 179 cited pages worldwide. Writesonic shows just 1 cited page and 0 mentions. If this changes over time, I’ll update the article, but for now, something feels off.

Chatsonic AI agent: My thoughts

The way we all used to interact with SEO tools is gone.

In my experience, more and more SEO software companies are adding AI-powered chats to make the user experience more conversational. It’s good on one hand, since you can always ask your questions instead of digging into the reports and toolkits manually.

However, it also requires a new set of skills to communicate your requests clearly and get good results. And that’s what I’ve been learning to do with Chatsonic — Writesonic’s AI agent.

In fact, it combines several different AI agents to help you with different tasks:

SEO agent: Best for real-time SEO analytics, strategy planning, and execution
Content agent: Best for content generation
LinkedIn agent: Best for helping you create content for LinkedIn
Auto: Automatically picks an agent based on your question

In my experience, Chatsonic can help you with many SEO and content-related tasks.

Instead of conducting keyword research and manually analyzing the top-ranking pages for your next blog post, you can ask Chatsonic SEO agent to do it for you.

Below, you can see the result of the keyword research and SERP analysis from Chatsonic. I’d say the output is pretty decent. I’ve got keyword suggestions for the article, a detailed SERP analysis for the “Writesonic review” keyword, title suggestions, an outline suggestion, and on-page optimization tips for the article.

You can ask Chatsonic to analyze your previously created content and your writing style to create a social media content plan, just like I did for my LinkedIn account.

I basically shared my top-performing LinkedIn posts for analysis and asked to repurpose my blog posts into a monthly content plan.

You can see the output below:

In case you don’t have a specific prompt in mind that you want to use for communication, Writesonic has a Prompt Templates library that you can use for inspiration.

Writesonic limitations

Even though I’m generally satisfied with Writesonic’s features, I believe there are some drawbacks they could address.

For example, the Writesonic navigation bar isn’t user-friendly. Perhaps that’s just me, but I honestly struggle to find what I need every time I look at their menu in the left sidebar.

For example, I was struggling to access the Chatsonic AI agent from the menu. I thought it wasn’t there, so to access my previous chats, I had to start a new one.

Later, I noticed that Chatsonic is accessible from the menu, but it’s labeled Other Content, which isn’t clear to me.

Another thing that I’ve noticed, which is even more significant, is the quality of the output.

I didn’t use content generated by the AI agent because it didn’t meet my quality standard, even though I provided very detailed instructions in the Writing Style tab.

I’ve also noticed that the Claude LLM can produce high-quality output, depending on the input data.

As an SEO content strategist and site owner, I can pretty much use Claude for everything that I used Writesonic for. The only condition is to train the LLM before using it.

There’s something interesting that I’ve noticed about Writesonic.

They say that their AI agent is powered by the following LLMs:

“Access to AI Models (GPT4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and more)” — Retrieved from Writesonic’s pricing page.

But you can easily access Claude Sonnet 4.5 for free. Just a quick FYI.

Below is just one example of the keyword research and search engine results analysis that Claude did for my article on “Writesonic review” and put all the findings together in a digestible document. I’m honestly impressed.

To tell you a bit more, I use Claude extensively at my full-time job for strategy and content creation. It’s a powerful tool and a free alternative to many conventional SEO tools.

It’s worth mentioning that Writesonic doesn’t offer a live chat client support.

If you have a question or need help, you’ll need to reach out to them via email.

I personally think this is a drawback. They charge a pretty high monthly fee and could have offered live support at least to users of their Professional, Advanced, and Enterprise plans.

Pricing

Writesonic offers five paid monthly plans with custom pricing for enterprise clients.

Even though you can access Writesonic’s SEO and content features for just $49 per month, all the AI search tracking and optimization features start at $249 per month.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t see a point in the Lite and Standard plans, which lack AI features. Dealing with SEO nowadays means optimizing your website for LLMs and AI Overviews. Therefore, any tool that lacks AI SEO features isn’t really helpful.

Writesonic starts at $249/month for the Professional plan and $499/month for the Advanced plan, which includes more prompts for tracking, sentiment analysis, 75 AI-generated articles per month, and more!

What users say about Writesonic

I’m sure my review of Writesonic and its performance provides a solid overview of the tool. However, I know that my readers also want to hear from other users.

Since they have almost no mentions and comments on LinkedIn, I dug deeper into what people say about Writesonic on Reddit.

Actually, Reddit appears among the top results when searching for Writesonic. Here are the latest comments from Reddit users I could find about Writesonic.

Contrary to what others are saying, I had a positive experience with Writesonic’s support team. Even though you don’t have live chat support, they are pretty responsive via email.

I also think this AI summary of over 2,000 user reviews on G2 perfectly reflects my opinion after using Writesonic Professional plan for a month.

It’s so easy to use, and the user interface is well-designed. The content generation flow is well thought out and time-saving. On the other hand, high monthly costs, issues with content quality, and software bugs might prompt users to seek alternatives.

For comparison, Semrush One, priced at $199 per month, gives you access to their SEO + AI Visibility Toolkits. It’s basically all you need for doing SEO in the age of AI.