A Frase alternative that leaves publishing to you

The short answer

Frase is a content platform. It researches a topic, writes the article with an AI agent, scores it for SEO and GEO, and can publish it to WordPress, Webflow, Sanity, Wix or its own hosted CMS. It also tracks AI visibility and audits your pages, from 50 pages a month on Starter to 1,000 on Scale.

Meelu covers much of the same ground from a different starting point. It crawls your site, up to 10,000 pages, and reads your Search Console data, so it can tell you which search to write for and which pages to link from. Then it drafts the page and checks it. Meelu never publishes on its own: you read it, change it and put it on your site, or have the CMS desk save it as a draft in Webflow, Contentful or WordPress.com.

Meelu vs Frase at a glance

	Meelu	Frase
Main job	Marketing for your own website	Content research, writing and optimization
Keyword choice	From your Search Console data and keyword research	Topic research in the app
Writes articles	Yes, each one charged at what the AI model costs	Yes, 10 articles a month on Starter
Publishes for you	Never	Yes, once you switch it on
Technical SEO	Crawl of up to 10,000 pages, with JavaScript rendering checks	50 audit pages on Starter, up to 1,000 on Scale
AI search visibility	ChatGPT, Claude and Google's AI Overview, checked against your pages, up to 100 questions per website	ChatGPT and Google AI on Starter, 20 prompts; up to ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini on Scale
Runs as	Desktop app for Mac and Windows	Web app
Starting price	About $15 a month per website, plus usage at cost	$49 a month, or $39 billed yearly

Where Frase is better

• Publishing. Frase can publish to your CMS, or host your content on FraseCMS for free.
• Content decay. Content Guard watches published pages for ranking drops and proposes fixes.
• A web app. You can use it from any browser. Meelu is a desktop app.

Where Meelu is better

• It starts from your data. Meelu reads your Search Console data and your crawled pages and finds the openings, so you can write for searches you can win.
• A full technical crawl. Meelu reads up to 10,000 pages, can render them as Googlebot does, and lists what stops search engines and AI crawlers from reading them.
• Nothing goes live without you. Every change is a suggestion you approve, edit or turn down.

Pricing

Frase Starter is $49 a month, or $39 a month billed yearly. It includes 1 seat, 1 site, 10 articles, 50 audit pages and 20 tracked AI prompts. There is a 7-day free trial with no card.

Meelu has no subscription and no tiers. Each of your first five websites costs 0.5 credits a day (1 credit is 1 US dollar), so about $15 a month, and each website after that costs 0.25 credits a day. AI model calls and keyword data are charged at what they cost, with no markup. Crawling and importing Search Console data are free. Your first website is free for the first day.