About Frase
Frase is a commercial content tool for SEO and content marketing teams. It analyzes what already ranks for a topic and turns that research into a brief, then helps writers draft and refine articles so they cover the subject thoroughly.
The platform has expanded to cover both traditional search and AI-generated answers. Its modules include SEO research, topic clusters, an AI writing agent that can follow a brand voice, content scoring, optimization aimed at being cited by AI systems, monitoring of where AI search mentions a brand, a site audit and a built-in publishing option called FraseCMS. Frase is a hosted subscription product used by in-house marketers, agencies and freelance writers.
Key features
- SEO research that ends in a content brief
- Topic cluster mapping
- AI writing agent with brand voice
- Content scoring and optimization
- Optimization for citations in AI search
- Monitoring of AI search visibility
Good fit for
- →Producing briefs for freelance writers
- →Optimizing articles for Google and AI answers
- Tags
- seo
- content-briefs
- content-optimization
- ai-writing
- geo
- topic-clusters
- marketing
Frase: questions and answers
- What is Frase used for?
- Frase is a writing and research assistant that turns search results into SEO content briefs, and it now also tunes content to be cited by AI search. It is a good fit for producing briefs for freelance writers, and optimizing articles for Google and AI answers.
- How much does Frase cost?
- Paid plans for Frase start at $49 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Frase open source?
- No. Frase is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Frase include GEOFlow.
- What are some alternatives to Frase?
- Frase competes with Surfer, Clearscope and MarketMuse. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Frase alternatives.
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