Clearscope

Clearscope is the content optimization tool that has stayed deliberately narrow. Where competitors bolted on everything from keyword research to site audits, Clearscope's core is still the report: you enter a target query, it analyzes what ranks, and you write against a grade and a term list until the draft covers the topic the way the winning pages do. The company's 2026 pitch adds a second axis, "discoverability across SEO + GEO," with tracking of how AI answers mention your brand.

For a content team, the appeal is predictability. Unlimited users and projects on every plan, no contracts, and a term list that editors trust more than they trust a raw score.

Highlights

• Optimize with a content grade. Clearscope's "best-in-class term suggestions" guide the writing and a grade summarizes coverage. Editors collaborate on the same report.
• Query Discovery. Enter a topic or a URL and Clearscope surfaces the queries that generate traffic and attention across Google, Gemini, GPT, and Claude, including the "query fan-out" searches AI platforms trigger to build an answer.
• Prompt Tracking. Track specific prompts across ChatGPT and Gemini to see when and how your brand gets mentioned, and where competitors are recommended instead. Every plan includes it.
• Write and Localize. An AI drafting and editing workflow for first passes (20 drafts a month on both self-serve plans) and a Localize product for locally targeted versions.
• Protect and Linking. Ongoing monitoring of pages or whole sites (Content Inventory) so decayed content shows up before the traffic loss does, plus internal-link suggestions drawn from the same inventory.
• Google Docs and WordPress. The support center documents a Google Docs add-on that scores your document in place and a WordPress plugin that links drafts to reports.

In a content team's workflow

Clearscope fits cleanly in front of and behind an agent. In front: run the report and a Query Discovery pass, then hand the term list and the related queries to Claude Code as a brief. Behind: paste the draft into the report (or write it in the Google Docs add-on) and let the grade tell you what the model skipped.

Attached is the Clearscope report for "customer onboarding email sequence":
the term list with target counts and the top related queries. Draft a
1,600-word guide from ./briefs/onboarding.md in our voice (./brand/voice.md).
Cover every term at least once where it fits, answer the top three related
queries as H2 sections, and mark unsupported claims [CITE].

The SEO content workflow with Claude Code guide shows how to turn that into a reusable command with the brief as input, and the Claude Code for marketers pillar covers the folder layout that makes it repeatable.

Good to know

Clearscope is a hosted web app with a Google Docs add-on and a WordPress plugin. As of September 2026 the pricing page lists Essentials at $129 per month (50 tracked prompts, 50 pages, 20 monthly topic explorations, 20 monthly drafts) and Business at $399 per month (300 tracked prompts, 300 pages, 50 topic explorations, 20 drafts, and a dedicated account manager), both with unlimited users and projects, a 14-day free trial, and no contracts. Enterprise is custom and adds custom credits, custom agreements, crawler whitelisting, and SSO. Additional pages and drafts are sold as monthly add-ons. Clearscope says every plan includes priority support, free training and onboarding, and unlimited sharing and exporting. Customers named on the site include Webflow, Optimizely, Shopify, Adobe, and Animalz.

The trade-off is scope and entry price. The product menu has no technical site audit and there is no free tier, and $129 is more than double the entry price of Surfer, so teams that want one subscription for the whole SEO job usually look there first. The Surfer vs Clearscope guide makes the call in detail, AI content and search in 2026 explains why prompt tracking now matters, and the best AI tools for marketers in 2026 roundup puts Clearscope in the full stack.