Frase vs Semrush
Broad SEO suite with an AI visibility toolkit
Semrush monitors AI visibility. Frase closes the loop — research, write, optimize, monitor, and fix the content that wins citations, all in one workflow.
Read the full comparisonMarketMuse plans your content and stops. Frase writes it, optimizes it for AI search, and fixes it.
Verified June 2026
Trusted by brands and marketers of all sizes
Frase runs the whole loop in one place: it hears what your visitors ask, publishes with as much autonomy as you allow, and ships the fix when a page slips. Three moves that turn monitoring into a published result.
Frase Answers
Frase Answers sits on your own site and answers visitors from your own pages. Every question is first-party demand, so Frase turns the ones you have no page for yet into the next thing worth writing.
Autonomy you control
Every content type starts in review. Let a type publish on its own whenever you’re ready, and pause it the moment its quality dips. Frase does as much or as little as you allow.
Content Guard
When a page slips on Google, Content Guard catches the decay, drafts the revision, and sets it in front of you. You approve the change, and Frase republishes to your CMS, so the fix ships in the same place you spotted the problem.
| What it is | The platform that writes, optimizes, tracks AI citations, and fixes your content in one workflow | A content-planning tool that produces briefs and strategy docs, then hands the work to other tools (now part of Siteimprove) |
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| Best for | Content teams who want to act, not just plan — research a topic, write and publish it, optimize for SEO and AI search, monitor citations, and fix decaying content in one workflow, with self-serve access | Teams whose immediate job is planning what to write, and who are willing to take the plan elsewhere to actually write it, optimize it for AI search, publish it, and keep it from decaying |
| Key strengths | Full create-optimize-monitor-fix loop in one workflow, AI search visibility tracking, real-time dual SEO + GEO scoring, AI Agent, unlimited AI writing in 70+ languages, site-wide auditing with cannibalization detection, Content Guard decay fixes, CMS publishing | Built to plan and prioritize content. It does not write the draft, does not track AI search visibility, does not optimize for AI engines, and does not publish or fix the content that earns citations — those steps happen in other tools |
| Starting at | $49/month ($39/month annual) — AI visibility included at every tier, free trial | Free tier (10 queries/month); paid plans no longer publish prices and route through a demo request |
| What's distinct | Closed create-optimize-monitor-fix loop, real-time GEO scoring in the editor, AI search visibility tracking, Content Guard fixes for your approval, CMS publishing, MCP server | Planning and briefs only — no AI writing, no AI search visibility, no GEO scoring, no CMS publishing, no Content Guard; now part of Siteimprove's accessibility-and-compliance suite |
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MarketMuse excels at telling you what to write. The Frase Agent helps you actually write it — and optimize, audit, and track the results.
| Approach | With the Frase Agent | Without an agent |
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| What it does | The Frase Agent bridges strategy and execution. Describe your content goals in natural language, and the Agent researches, plans, writes, optimizes, and monitors — all in one flow. | MarketMuse provides strategic analysis, topic models, and content briefs — but executing on those insights requires separate writing tools and manual workflows. |
| One job | "Research 'enterprise content strategy,' create a brief that establishes topical authority, write the article, and check our AI visibility" | Run topic analysis → Export insights → Open separate writing tool → Manually translate strategy to content → Check Content Score → No AI visibility tracking |
| Where it lands | Agent analyzes competitors, maps topic gaps, writes optimized content, checks AI citations — in one flow | Deep strategy insights, but a gap between planning and execution |
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| Write the content, not just the plan | Unlimited AI words in the editor | Planning and briefs only |
| Track AI search visibility | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and more | |
| GEO scoring for AI search | Real-time in the editor | |
| Generate brief to close a gap | Research-backed, one-click from insight | Briefs, then you write elsewhere |
| Fix content in integrated editor | With real-time SEO + GEO scoring | |
| Catch decay and draft fixes (Content Guard) | GSC decay detection, fix drafted for approval | |
| Republish to your CMS | WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, FraseCMS | |
| AI Search Visibility | ||
| AI engines monitored | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and more | |
| Prompt tracking | Tracked prompts scale by plan | |
| AI bot/crawler analytics | GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and more (Professional+) | |
| AI visibility alerts | Slack + email | |
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| AI content writing | Unlimited AI words | |
| Content editor with real-time scoring | Dual SEO + GEO score | Scoring in planning docs, no writing editor |
| AI Agent (natural language workflows) | Specialized content skills | |
| Content briefs | ||
| AI image generation | Built-in, by plan | |
| Multilingual content | 70+ languages | English only |
| Unlimited AI words | ||
| Site & SEO Analysis | ||
| Keyword research | ||
| SERP analysis | ||
| Site-wide content audit | Bulk audit actions, cannibalization detection | Content inventory for planning |
| Google Search Console integration | ||
| Content Opportunities monitoring | Proactive GSC alerts | |
| Brand & Team Features | ||
| Brand voice control | Train AI on your brand voice | |
| Content governance | Approval workflows | |
| Team collaboration | Up to 5 seats (Scale) | Varies by plan |
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| WordPress | ||
| Google Docs | ||
| REST API | Full content lifecycle endpoints | |
| MCP Server (AI assistant integration) | Drive content workflows from any AI assistant | |
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| Chrome Extension | ||
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| AI search visibility included | Built in from the entry plan | |
| Transparent published pricing | $49 / $129 / $299 per month | Paid tiers routed through a demo request |
| Self-serve into a paid plan | Start in minutes, no call | Book a demo to buy paid tiers |
| Free trial | Free trial, no credit card | Free tier: 10 queries/month |
Content-to-Citation Workflow
Write the content, not just the plan
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GEO scoring for AI search
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Generate brief to close a gap
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Fix content in integrated editor
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Catch decay and draft fixes (Content Guard)
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Republish to your CMS
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AI Search Visibility
AI engines monitored
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Prompt tracking
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AI bot/crawler analytics
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AI visibility alerts
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Content Creation & Optimization
AI content writing
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Content editor with real-time scoring
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AI Agent (natural language workflows)
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Content briefs
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AI image generation
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Multilingual content
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Unlimited AI words
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Site & SEO Analysis
Keyword research
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SERP analysis
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Site-wide content audit
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Google Search Console integration
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Content Opportunities monitoring
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Brand & Team Features
Brand voice control
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Content governance
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Team collaboration
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Integrations & API
WordPress
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Google Docs
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REST API
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MCP Server (AI assistant integration)
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Webhook API
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Chrome Extension
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Pricing & Access
AI search visibility included
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Transparent published pricing
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Self-serve into a paid plan
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| Frase writes and ships the content. MarketMuse stops at the plan. | Frase: Takes a topic from idea to published page in one workflow. Frase researches, writes unlimited AI content in 70+ languages, optimizes it in an editor with real-time SEO + GEO scoring, generates images, and publishes to your CMS. The AI Agent runs the multi-step work in natural language, so the plan and the published page live in the same place. | MarketMuse: Produces briefs and strategy docs, then hands you a to-do list. It does not write the draft, optimize the live page for AI search, or publish anything. Every plan it gives you becomes work you re-key into separate writing, publishing, and tracking tools. |
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| Frase tracks AI search visibility. MarketMuse doesn't track it at all. | Frase: Monitors whether answer engines are citing you across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude, scores each page for AI search as you write, and connects what it finds to a content fix in the same workflow. Getting cited by AI is the job Frase is built to win. | MarketMuse: Has no AI search visibility tracking and no GEO scoring. Its model was built around traditional search-engine content, before answer engines existed. It cannot tell you whether ChatGPT or Perplexity cite your brand, or help you optimize the page so they do. |
| Frase keeps content ranking. MarketMuse hands it off and moves on. | Frase: Content Guard watches your pages for ranking and traffic decay through Google Search Console, drafts the fix when a page slips, and republishes once you approve. The loop closes: you do not just plan and publish, you keep the content winning as Google and AI answers shift underneath it. | MarketMuse: Ends at the strategy document. There is no decay monitoring, no drafted fix, and no republish step. Once you act on the plan in another tool, keeping that content ranking is entirely on you, in tools MarketMuse doesn't touch. |
| Frase is one workflow. MarketMuse is the first tab of several. | Frase: Research, writing, dual SEO + GEO optimization, AI visibility tracking, publishing, and remediation live in one workflow with your brand context carried through. An insight becomes a drafted, optimized, published page without re-explaining your brand to a new tool. | MarketMuse: Is the planning step at the front of a stack you assemble yourself. Acting on its output means moving to a separate writer, a separate AI-search tracker, a separate publisher, and a separate fix process, rebuilding context at every handoff. |
| Frase publishes its price. MarketMuse makes you book a call. | Frase: Three published tiers — $49, $129, and $299 per month — with a free trial and no sales call required to see pricing or get started. You can self-serve into the full create-optimize-monitor-fix workflow today. | MarketMuse: Stopped publishing dollar amounts on its paid plans after its acquisition. The paid tiers now route through a demo request, so you have to book a call to learn the price and cannot self-serve into a paid plan. |
| Frase is independent and points at one job. | Frase: An independent platform with a roadmap centered on the create-optimize-monitor-fix loop for Google and AI search. The whole product points at one outcome: getting your content cited and ranked, and keeping it that way. | MarketMuse: Now part of Siteimprove, a larger suite whose core focus is web accessibility and compliance. MarketMuse is one planning module inside that suite, with a roadmap that competes for attention against priorities far from getting your content cited by AI. |
Frase writes and ships the content. MarketMuse stops at the plan.
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Frase tracks AI search visibility. MarketMuse doesn't track it at all.
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Frase keeps content ranking. MarketMuse hands it off and moves on.
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Frase is one workflow. MarketMuse is the first tab of several.
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Frase publishes its price. MarketMuse makes you book a call.
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Frase is independent and points at one job.
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Plans open at $39/mo billed yearly, and most in-house teams and agencies settle on Professional at $129/mo. AI visibility tracking is included at every tier. Need more room? Add seats, credits, or AI prompts as you grow. Pay yearly and save 20%.
| In short | Full create-optimize-monitor-fix workflow | Plans and prioritizes content, then hands the work to other tools |
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| Entry plan | Starter$49/mo ($39 annual)
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| Next plan up | Professional$129/mo ($103 annual)
| Paid plans (Optimize / Research / Strategy)Demo required
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| Top plan | Scale$299/mo ($239 annual)
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MarketMuse plans and prioritizes content; it does not write, track AI citations, optimize for AI search, or republish. Paid pricing is no longer published and routes through a demo. Verified June 2026.
Stop planning content you can't track. Write it, rank it, fix it.
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Bring your content and keywords across, then set your brand voice and approval rules. You gain site-wide auditing, Content Guard, and an AI Agent that runs whole workflows, on top of everything you did before.
Why teams pick the full workflow over a planning tool
A planning tool tells you what to write and stops there. Frase does the rest in one place: it writes the page, scores it for Google and AI search, tracks whether AI engines cite you, and keeps it ranking as it decays.
Frase runs the loop that keeps your content ranking on Google and cited by AI. Start free, and see it on your own pages in a minute.