Measurement has real, recurring API cost. We meter on the two things that drive it —
pages under management and tracked prompts — instead of an article count that means nothing.
Undercuts Slate's agency tier with twice the pages under management.
All plans bill monthly and cancel any time. Overages are never charged silently: every plan
has a fixed monthly API ceiling, reserved before each job rather than counted afterwards, and
work stops at the ceiling instead of arriving as a surprise line on your bill.
Free accounts, and trials until their first payment, draw their model work from one shared
monthly allowance as well as their own ceiling. When that allowance is spent, writing and
sampling pause for every unpaid account until 00:00 UTC on the 1st; Search Console gathering
and everything already published are not affected. A paid subscription is never part of it.
The engine count above is a ceiling, not a guarantee: an engine is sampled only once its key
is configured on this deployment, so what a plan permits and what it actually samples can
differ. Claude, with live web search, is always sampled; the rest come online as their key
and adapter are configured. We do not print today's number on this page — a sentence here
cannot know how the deployment is configured, and one that still says "one engine" the day a
second is switched on has quietly become a false price. The
free check names the engines this deployment can
sample right now, and every report names the engines that actually answered, not the number
a plan advertises.
Why it's metered this way
Article counts are the wrong unit
Pages under management
Maintaining a page that already ranks is the highest-return content work available in
2026. Metering on pages means the price tracks the asset you're protecting.
Tracked prompts
Every prompt is sampled repeatedly, on a schedule. That is a real, recurring API
cost — roughly 3¢ per sampled answer — so it has to be metered honestly.
Not articles
An article count rewards volume, and volume is exactly what stopped working. We'd rather
sell you fewer, better pieces and the evidence that they moved something.
Questions people actually ask
Can you guarantee I'll rank, or get recommended by ChatGPT?
No, and be wary of anyone who does. Ranking depends on your authority, your
competitors and algorithm changes nobody controls. What we guarantee is measurement you can
defend: honest sampling, stated intervals, and every change tied to what happened next.
Is AI-written content going to get me penalised?
Google's policy targets scaled, low-quality content — not AI as a method. The
sites that got hit share a fingerprint: low authority, high volume, no editorial review.
Penlid is built the other way round: majority refresh of existing pages, commercial-intent
content over generic volume, fact-check records, and a review workflow that makes human
sign-off actually happen. Volume is bounded by your plan's monthly article ceiling — the
number on the card above — and by one live article per target page, so a page cannot be
refreshed twice at once. There is no hidden drip beyond those two: what paces publishing
is a person approving each draft.
What happens if I cancel?
You keep everything published — it's on your CMS, not ours. Your history and
attribution ledger stay readable in the app after cancelling: writing stops, reading does
not, because the archive is the thing you were paying for.
Do you need write access to my site?
Only if you want Penlid to publish for you. Credentials are encrypted at rest and
scoped to a single site. A destination set to draft mode — a WordPress draft, a commit to a
drafts branch, or a copy kept in Penlid — never puts anything public; only a destination set
to publish does. Search Console access is read-only.