Copy.ai pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Copy.ai (copy.ai) is a AI writing tool. Flat monthly plans: a $29 Chat plan for up to 5 seats, then annual-only workflow plans priced by seats and workflow credits.. No free plan.
What Copy.ai costs
- 1 writer: $29/mo (Chat plan $29/mo billed monthly ($24/mo billed annually), unlimited chat words, so it clears 20,000 words)
- 5 writers: $29/mo (Chat plan includes 5 seats for $29/mo billed monthly, with unlimited words)
Plan compared: Chat. Cheapest paid plan for one writer, billed monthly (plans metered by words or credits must include at least 20,000 AI words a month), and the total for 5 users on the cheapest self-serve option that covers them. Free plans are not counted; annual-only plans are divided by 12.
What Copy.ai does
Core: Custom AI assistants, Multi-lab model choice, Brand voice & style guide, AI chat assistant, Workflows & bulk generation, Multi-step workflows, Built-in AI steps.
Important: Schedules & event triggers (partly), Prebuilt app integrations (partly), Team workspace & sharing, Agent templates & gallery, Marketing copy templates (partly), Team workspace & admin (partly), Developer API (partly), AI agents (partly), AI workflow builder (partly).
Also has: Autonomous multi-step tasks (partly), Deep research reports (partly), Docs, slides & sites output (partly), Custom tools & MCP (partly), Company knowledge grounding (partly), Human approval steps (partly), AI long-term memory (partly), Deploy via API & channels (partly), SSO & compliance (partly), Grammar & spelling checks (partly), Style, clarity & readability (partly), Paraphrasing & rewriting (partly), Long-form drafting (partly), AI SEO writing (partly), Sourced writing & citations (partly), Multilingual checking (partly), Privacy & self-hosting (partly), Logic and data tools (partly), Webhooks and HTTP requests (partly), Browser and desktop RPA (partly), Built-in tables and forms (partly), Team collaboration and governance (partly), Security and compliance (partly).
Copy.ai price hikes
- Copy.ai dropped its free plan · May 2026
Copy.ai's long-running free plan was gone from its pricing page between March and May 2026, when the lineup went from 6 tiers to 2. The cheapest option is now the $29/mo Chat plan.
Cheaper alternatives to Copy.ai
At 1 writer, Copy.ai costs $29/mo. 1 AI writing tool costs less:
- QuillBot: $19.95/mo (Premium, monthly billing), covers 57% of Copy.ai; missing or partial: Brand voice & style guide (partly), AI chat assistant (partly), Workflows & bulk generation, Developer API, AI SEO writing
Copy.ai alternatives: 2 AI writing tools compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Copy.ai
- Claude (AI assistants): covers 93% of Copy.ai; missing or partial: Workflows & bulk generation (partly)
- ChatGPT (AI assistants): covers 87% of Copy.ai; missing or partial: Brand voice & style guide (partly), Workflows & bulk generation (partly)
- Gemini (AI assistants): covers 87% of Copy.ai; missing or partial: Brand voice & style guide (partly), Workflows & bulk generation (partly)
Every change we logged
- May 2026 · Free tier cut: Copy.ai's long-running free plan was gone from its pricing page between March and May 2026, when the lineup went from 6 tiers to 2. The cheapest option is now the $29/mo Chat plan.
Sources
Pricing page: copy.ai/prices. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from the official copy.ai/prices page and match PricingSaaS (Jun 2026). The free-plan removal is inferred from CostBench snapshots (a $0 tier in Mar 2026, none in May 2026) plus the current official page; the exact date isn't confirmed. Third-party claims of increases on the Scale and Expansion plans conflict with the official page and were not recorded.