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.
A. Documents
New SEO document
1 document credit
New Quick Wins project
1 document credit
Quick Wins – Full analysis
1 document credit
B. Keywords
New SEO document
1 search credit
Multiple focus keywords
1 search credit per focus keyword
Quick Wins – New project
3 search credits
Quick Wins – Position update
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
C. 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
D. Users
Add team member
1 user credit
E. Premium first draft
1 premium draft
The full process for 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.
F. Related keyword research
We do not deduct any credits for related keyword research. If you have an active plan, you can use keyword research without any restrictions.
Plans and add-ons
Base plan (Recurring monthly)
Plan (Monthly)
Documents
Searches
AI characters
Base plan
10
100
150,000
Users
User
Monthly plan
1
$19 monthly
Add-ons (Rollover one time, pay as you go)
AI character add-ons
AI characters
Approx. AI words
Plan
100,000
~25,000
$19 plan
1,000,000
~200,000
$89 plan
10,000,000
~2,000,000 (2 million)
$799 plan
100,000,000
~20,000,000 (20 million)
$6999 plan
Document add-ons
Documents
Keywords
Plan
10
10
$29 plan
50
50
$119 plan
100
100
$199 plan
500
500
$799 plan
Search add-ons
Searches
Plan
1000
$69
Examples of credit consumption
Example of one complete premium draft with one focus keyword
Type
Documents
Searches
AI characters
New document
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
