Koala AI
Free planAI writer and SEO agent that drafts full blog posts from a keyword and publishes them to your site.
Best for affiliate, niche and local business sites that publish SEO articles at volume
Facts checked November 4, 2026
The short answer
Koala AI suits site owners who want finished, formatted blog posts rather than a writing assistant: give KoalaWriter a keyword and it researches what ranks, writes the article with images and internal links, and sends it to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost. Its Brand DNA knowledge base and SEO agent plan topics from your own Search Console data. The entry plan is $25 a month, but Deep Research, the article editor and KoalaLinks start on Professional at $49, and the stronger models use your word allowance two or three times faster.
Choose it if
- You run affiliate or niche sites and want roundups and single-product reviews written from live Amazon product data
- You publish on WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost and want articles to arrive formatted, with images, a featured image and internal links already in place
- You want to queue 10 to 100 or more articles at once, or let the content calendar schedule and publish a month of posts after you approve the plan
- You run a local service business and want service pages written from your Google Maps profile, services and credentials
- You use Claude, ChatGPT or Codex and want them to run keyword, backlink and SERP research through the Koala AI MCP on credits your plan already includes
Skip it if
- Most of your writing is short marketing copy, such as ads, emails and social posts, for a team that needs brand approvals; Koala's tools center on long SEO articles
- You want research, writing and publishing for less than $25 a month: Wordze starts at $10 a month billed yearly
- You prefer the stronger models: GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5 count words at twice the rate and Claude Opus 5.5 at three times, so Starter's 45,000 words become 22,500 or 15,000
- You need Deep Research, the SEO-scored editor or automatic site-wide internal linking but only want to pay for Starter; all three begin on Professional at $49 a month
- You'd rather write your own drafts and only want a live content score while you type, which is what Surfer is built around
Main features
KoalaWriter
Enter a keyword and pick one of eight article types, from blog posts and listicles to how-to guides, rewrites and topical clusters. KoalaWriter reads the pages that rank, covers the terms they share and writes the full article with sources, images and internal links.
Brand DNA
Koala reads your website or Google Maps profile once and drafts a knowledge base of your services, credentials, service areas and voice. Articles then pull those details in, and you set how often each piece mentions your brand.
SEO agent
A chat agent with built-in keyword, backlink and SERP data that also reads your connected Search Console and Analytics, then suggests topics and hands them to KoalaWriter. Starter includes 25 messages a month, Professional 50, and Boost removes the cap.
Deep Research
From Professional up, KoalaWriter gathers sources for your topic and outline before it writes and can cite them in the article. Extended Research, a larger research setting, is also available from Professional.
Amazon affiliate articles
Roundups and single-product reviews built from live Amazon data, including product details and real customer reviews, on every paid plan.
KoalaLinks internal linking
From Professional up, KoalaLinks indexes your site, adds internal links and schema markup across existing pages and can run automatically as you publish. Each page it analyzes costs 2 credits, so Professional covers about 500 pages a month.
One-click publishing
Send articles to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Ghost as drafts or live posts, with formatting and images kept. Signed webhooks deliver finished articles to Zapier, Make or your own CMS.
Bulk mode and content calendar
Queue 10 to 100 or more articles in one batch with the same settings. On Boost and above, the agent plans a month of topics, schedules them and publishes through your connected site once you approve the plan.
KoalaChat and KoalaImages
A chat assistant with live web search and more than 30 SEO slash commands, plus an image generator using GPT Image 2.5 and Nano Banana 2.1, all paid from the same credit balance.
API and MCP server
Every paid plan can write articles, images and internal links through the API, or connect Claude, ChatGPT or Codex to 62 Koala tools through the MCP server. Simple research calls start at 0.1 credits.
Pricing
US dollar prices checked November 4, 2026, billed monthly unless noted. Yearly billing takes 20% off: Starter is $240 a year, Professional $468 and Boost $948. Yearly plans hand over the whole year's words and credits up front, valid for 12 months. On monthly plans, unused words and credits go to a rollover bank holding up to 3 months of your allowance. Word counts assume GPT-6 Luna; GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5 count double and Claude Opus 5.5 counts triple. Extra Brand DNA brands cost $29 a month each, up to 10. Changing plan restarts your billing period that day, and a downgrade takes effect at once.
Free
$0
5,000 words, 25 credits, 1 Brand DNA brand, 5 agent messages
Starter
$25 ($20 billed yearly) / month
45,000 words, 500 credits, 1 brand, 25 agent messages, bulk mode, Amazon data, publishing integrations, API and MCP
Professional
$49 ($39 billed yearly) / month
100,000 words, 1,000 credits, 50 agent messages, Search Console dashboard, article editor with SEO score, Deep Research, KoalaLinks for up to 50 sites, KoalaMagnets
Boost
$99 ($79 billed yearly) / month
250,000 words, 2,500 credits, full Brand DNA with no agent message cap, content calendar autopilot, faster bulk creation
Growth
$179 / month
500,000 words, 5,000 credits, 3 brands
Elite
$350 / month
1 million words, 10,000 credits, 7 brands
Advanced
$500 / month
1.5 million words, 12,500 credits, 12 brands
Scale I to III
$750 to $2,000 / month
2.5 million to 10 million words, 15,000 to 25,000 credits, 20 to 75 brands, 3x faster bulk creation
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Alternatives to Koala AI
| Product | Choose it instead if | Starts at |
|---|---|---|
| Wordze | You want keyword research, article writing and publishing to WordPress or Shopify for $10 a month billed yearly, with a 30-day money-back guarantee | $10 a month (Solo, bille... |
| Surfer | You write or edit drafts yourself and want a live content score while you work | $49 a month billed yearl... |
| Jasper | A marketing team needs brand rules applied across ads, emails and campaign copy as well as blog posts | $59 a month per seat (Pr... |
| SEOWriting.ai | You mainly push large batches of articles to WordPress and want to compare cost per article | Free (3 articles, no car... |
| Frase | You want content briefs and tracking of rankings and AI citations more than automatic article writing | $39 a month billed yearl... |
Questions people ask
Is Koala AI free?
Koala gives every new account 5,000 words and 25 credits once, with no credit card. That's enough to test a few articles. After that you need a paid plan, which starts at $25 a month or $20 a month billed yearly (checked November 4, 2026).
How much does Koala AI cost?
Starter is $25 a month, Professional $49 and Boost $99, with 20% off on yearly billing. Higher-volume plans run from Growth at $179 to Scale III at $2,000 a month. Most site owners will want Professional, because Deep Research, the editor and KoalaLinks start there.
What are Koala AI credits used for?
Articles come out of your word allowance. Credits are a separate balance shared by KoalaChat, KoalaImages, KoalaLinks, KoalaMagnets, the Brand DNA agent, the API and MCP research calls. For example, a keyword lookup costs 1 credit and a backlink lookup 2.
Does Koala AI publish to WordPress?
Yes. You connect one or more WordPress sites and Koala sends finished articles with headings, images and a featured image in place. It also publishes to Shopify, Webflow and Ghost, and to anything else through webhooks.
Which AI models does Koala AI use?
KoalaWriter offers GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5.5. Your word allowance assumes Luna: Sol and Sonnet use words at twice the rate and Opus at three times. KoalaChat also offers Gemini and Claude Haiku models.
Do unused words roll over?
On monthly plans, unused words and credits move to a rollover bank that holds up to 3 months of your allowance and doesn't expire while your plan is active. Yearly plans give you the full year's allowance at once, valid for 12 months.
Can I get a refund from Koala AI?
Koala offers refunds within 15 days of starting a new plan if you've used fewer than 15,000 words and 100 credits. You can cancel at any time from the Account page.
Who owns the articles Koala AI writes?
You do. Koala's terms assign you the rights to the output from KoalaWriter and KoalaChat, and you keep the rights to anything you put in.
Sources we checked 13
- koala.sh/pricing for plans, monthly prices, words and credits per plan, features by plan, free allowance, model word multipliers, rollover bank, extra brands, refunds, cancellation, ownership, payment methods, credit costs, MCP inclusion checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/_next/static/chunks/pages/pricing-e86636d27388aa7a.js for yearly prices from the pricing page's own data (monthly price times 0.8, rounded, billed as 12 months): Starter $240, Professional $468, Boost $948 checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh for product description, setup steps, Brand DNA, SEO agent, publishing targets, usage claims checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/features for feature list, article types, KoalaChat slash commands, image features, internal linking, Amazon articles checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/writer for eight article types, bulk mode batch sizes, content calendar autopilot checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/links for KoalaLinks credit cost per page and pages per plan checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/features/built-in-integrations for WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Ghost publishing details, signed webhooks, Zapier and Make checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/pages/api-docs for API availability on paid plans, Brands API, MCP with 62 tools, webhook payloads checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/changelog for recent changes: rollover bank and extra brands (October 22, 2026), GPT-6.1 Sol (October 15, 2026), Nano Banana 2.1 (October 13, 2026), MCP out of beta (September 26, 2026) checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/pages/terms-of-service for company name F5 Media, LLC, Florida registration and Gainesville address checked November 4, 2026
- koala.sh/pages/contact for support channels: live chat, email with 24-hour replies, help center, Discord checked November 4, 2026
- support.koala.sh/en for help center categories, integrations and developer docs checked November 4, 2026
- wordze.com/pricing for Wordze comparison price ($10 a month billed yearly, $15 monthly) and 30-day money-back guarantee checked November 4, 2026