Rankli vs RankYak
RankYak is the product on this list most like what Rankli is trying to be: one price, a whole pipeline, articles researched, written and published on a schedule, and results read from your own Search Console. It is $99 a month for 30 articles, with a three-day full-access free trial and an agency model that prices every client site the same as the first. On volume for the money, they are ahead of us.
We are new. Rankli is new. We have no public customer results, no case studies and no star ratings, and we are not going to borrow anyone else’s. Everything claimed about Rankli below is a rule or a limit in the running product; everything claimed about the other product was read off their own live page on the date stamped above.
11 rows we could check on RankYak’s own pages.
A row appears here only when both sides of it are stated somewhere a reader can go and read. Where RankYak’s pages say nothing, the row is missing rather than filled in with a guess.
| What | Rankli | RankYak |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest way in | $1 once for the Trial — 3 finished articles, nothing renews. The cheapest subscription is Starter at $89/month. | RankYak Pro at $99/month, or $82.50/month billed yearly, which their page describes as two months free. |
| Articles a month | 15 on Starter ($89), 30 on Growth ($349), 60 on Scale ($899), 90 on Agency ($1,200). A regeneration spends one, and keeps both versions. | 30 SEO/GEO articles a month — their page says one per day, researched, written and published for you on the days you choose. |
| Free tier or trial | No free tier. The $1 Trial is a one-time charge that buys 3 articles on your own site plus one measurement round; trial drafts carry a one-line watermark. | A full-access three-day free trial, stated on the pricing page under the plan. |
| Sites per subscription | 1 on Starter, 2 on Growth, 4 on Scale, 5 on Agency — each with its own profile, voice, keywords, calendar and CMS connection. | One site per subscription, with an agency model their pricing page describes as every client site joining your account, priced the same as the first. |
| Publishes to | WordPress, Webflow, Shopify or a webhook. Each connection publishes as a draft or as a live post, and nothing is sent until the credentials have been verified to create posts. | WordPress, Webflow, Shopify "and more", or your own webhook. |
| Internal linking | 2–5 contextual links to your own pages, checked by the same scorer that can hold the draft. It advises instead of blocking when your site has fewer than two article-like URLs to link to. | Their feature list says each article is structured to rank "with internal links, visuals, and metadata done for you". |
| Images | A hero plus one or two in-body images with alt text. Photographic images need your own Replicate token; without one every article still gets deterministic SVG illustrations rather than a gap. | Visuals are listed as part of every daily article. |
| Keyword volume and difficulty | Researched on every plan. Volume, difficulty and CPC render “—” unless you connect DataForSEO — never a substituted number, and never a zero standing in for one. | A personalised keyword plan built from your site’s data, with keyword discovery scored and refreshed monthly, competitor analysis and a topical map. |
| Backlink exchange | An opt-in exchange, per site, confirmed before it is switched on: at most 1 exchanged link per article and 3 placements a week. | A backlink exchange is one of their listed features: "Hands-off backlink building to improve rankings". |
| Where reported results come from | Clicks, impressions and average position from your own Google Search Console, requested as final data. Nothing is estimated, interpolated or zero-filled; a day Google did not report renders “—”. | Search Console: their pricing page says RankYak watches your Search Console data and updates the articles losing ground, and lists Search Console integration among the features. |
| Add-ons on top of the plan price | None. One price per plan, no annual plan, no volume discount and no crossed-out anchor price. A promotion code at checkout is the only discount that exists. | Site Guard at $99/month, described as checking your existing pages against your real search data and writing the fix. |
What we left out, and why
- Article length. Not stated on either page we read.
- AI-answer visibility as a tracked, reported number. Their pages say articles are built to surface in AI answers, which is a different claim from measuring whether they do, so we have not put it in that row.
- A pre-publish gate, and how a draft is edited before it goes live.
- Languages.
None of these is a claim that RankYak lacks the feature. It is a claim that we could not read it on their site, which is a different and much smaller statement.
When RankYak is the better choice.
- 30 articles a month for $99 against our 30 for $349. Per published article they are several times cheaper, and that is the single biggest fact on this page.
- A three-day full-access free trial, versus our $1 charge for three articles. Theirs costs nothing and shows you the whole product.
- Their agency model prices every client site the same as the first, with no site cap. Our Agency plan is five sites at $1,200 and stops there — past a handful of clients they are cheaper and they scale further.
- Site Guard is a real thing we do not have: it works on the pages you already have rather than only writing new ones, which is often where the traffic actually is.
- They ship a Copilot, an MCP server, an API and a set of free tools; we ship none of those.
- They publish success stories. We have no customers to publish.
When Rankli is.
- Measurement is the product rather than a feature: every plan tracks questions across four AI engines, and from Growth up the readout is a pre-registered prediction tested against a held-out control, with the raw before/after shown beside the controlled number.
- A hard SEO check can fail a draft and hold it off your domain, and the fabricated-statistic detector is one of those hard rules.
- Edits are proposed, not applied: each change is a diff you accept or reject, and the score re-runs as you accept.
Each of these is a rule in the running product — the publish gate, the fabricated-statistic detector and the propose-and-accept editor are code, not positioning, and the pricing page states the limits they enforce.
The questions this page is meant to answer.
RankYak is cheaper per article. Why would I not just use them?
On cost per published article you should. The case for Rankli is the other half: whether the articles moved anything, measured against a control you held out on purpose, and a publish gate that can stop a draft. If those are not the questions you have, RankYak is the better buy.
You both read Search Console. What is different?
Their page describes using Search Console to find and update pages losing ground, which is a good use of it. We use it as the reporting source and refuse to substitute for it: nothing is estimated or interpolated, and a day Google did not report renders “—” rather than a zero.
Read three of them before you decide.
$1 once buys 3 finished articles on your own site, in your own voice, plus one measurement round. Nothing renews, and if the writing is not right you will know within a week.