Outranking has many tools to help you write and optimize your content. The consumption of credits can be divided into the following categories:
- Documents
- Keywords
- AI characters
- Users
- Premium drafts
The below guide walks you through all the utilities and explains the type and number of credits consumed for each action.
Documents/Projects
| New SEO document | 1 document credit |
| New Actions project | 1 document credit |
| New Strategist project | 1 document credit |
Keywords/search
| New SEO document | 1 search credit |
| Multiple focus keywords | 1 search credit per focus keyword |
| Explore cluster | 1 search credit |
| Quick Wins – Initial score | 1 search credit |
| Internal link – Inbound | 1 search credit per search |
| Internal link – Outbound | 1 search credit per search |
AI characters
The consumption of AI characters depends on your usage and which Outranking features you use:
| AI Wizard – Title – Description – Outline | Output text |
| Concepts | Input text + output text |
| Methods | Output text |
| Write for me | Output text |
| Edit controls – Expand, Shorten, Command, Improve, and Convert to Question | Output text |
| AI Draft – Key points | Input text + output text |
| AI Draft – AI and snippets | Output text |
| Premium draft | Input text + output text |
Users
| Add team member | 1 user credit |
E. Premium first draft
| 1 premium draft | The whole process of creating one premium draft can consume 2–5 times the final amount of text generated. Premium drafts are generated after reviewing tons of text before conceptualizing it and using it as inspiration to write. They require more processing and more advanced AI models to generate the output and hence have a 100K AI credit balance requirement. |
F. Examples of credit consumption
Example of one complete premium draft with one focus keyword
| Type | Documents | Searches | AI characters |
|---|---|---|---|
| New document | 1 | 1 | – |
| Keyword | – | 1 | – |
| Outline | – | – | 423 |
| Premium draft | – | – | 32,519 |
| Inbound internal link (4) | – | 4 | – |
| Outbound internal link (1) | – | 1 | – |
The number of words generated for this draft was 3509, which is 19,535 characters.
Example of Quick Wins project with 50 pages updated with score
| Type | Documents | Searches |
|---|---|---|
| New project | 1 | – |
| Refresh | – | 1 |
| Actions | – | 1 |
| Full analysis | 1 | 1 |
Example page optimization with no AI utilization
| Type | Documents | Searches | AI characters |
|---|---|---|---|
| New document | 1 | – | – |
| Keyword | – | 1 | – |
| Inbound internal link (4) | – | 4 | – |
| Outbound internal link (1) | – | 1 | – |