The SEO Agent publishes thirty fact checked articles a month into your CMS, behind two approval gates. Blogged writes them and hosts the blog, from $99 a month.
The SEO Agent and Blogged charge the same monthly price for the same headline volume of thirty articles, and both refuse to publish a draft that fails a check, so governance is not the difference between them. The destination is. The SEO Agent publishes into a CMS you already run and hosts nothing, while Blogged hosts the blog itself. Blogged also reports on conversion rather than stopping at search data. Blogged starts at $99 per month per Project.
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Every row states what each product publishes about itself. A blank claim is recorded as not published rather than assumed absent.
| Capability | Blogged | The SEO Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Hosts the blog for you | Yes Blogged hosts the blog: a Blogged subdomain immediately, your own subdomain once connected, or your path by reverse proxy. | No The SEO Agent publishes into a site you already run and hosts nothing of its own. |
| Publishes into an existing CMS | No Blogged owns the destination rather than pushing posts into WordPress, Webflow or Shopify. | Yes Seven native destinations covering WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Wix, Notion and Framer, plus API and webhook. |
| Publishes the whole article, not just text | Yes Posts are published with their images, internal links, sources and metadata already in place. | Yes Approved articles ship with title, body, images, sources, internal links and metadata packaged together. |
| Several sites on one subscription | No Blogged is priced per Project, so a second blog is a second Project. | No The single plan covers one site. More sites are a sales conversation rather than a published tier. |
| Unlimited people on the account | Yes Team seats are unlimited on every paid plan, so adding people never changes the bill. | No The plan states one site with up to 3 publishers, so publishing rights are capped. |
| Capability | Blogged | The SEO Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Refuses to publish weak work | Yes Governance decides whether a post is allowed to go live rather than publishing everything drafted. | Yes A quality gate blocks publication until the score is high enough and the sources, links and images are ready. |
| Approve before writing starts | Partial Content Directions are approved up front, and Topics are generated under them, but outlines are not separately gated. | Yes An optional outline approval gate sits before drafting, so the angle is settled before the words exist. |
| Hold finished drafts for review | Yes Assisted autopilot is on every sold plan, so drafts can wait for a person rather than going live directly. | Yes Its own material repeats on every page that nothing publishes without approval from you. |
| Fact checks claims against sources | Yes Posts carry sources, so a claim can be traced rather than taken on trust. | Yes Fact checking is a named pipeline stage of its own, and drafts ship with citations attached. |
| Recovers from a failed step | Not published Blogged retries work internally, but no user facing resume from a failed stage is documented publicly. | Yes Resuming from any failed pipeline stage is listed as a plan feature rather than a support action. |
| Capability | Blogged | The SEO Agent |
|---|---|---|
| Search Console feeding decisions | Yes Search Console sync is on every sold plan rather than an upper tier upgrade. | Yes It seeds the first plan from your real pages, queries, clicks and impressions before any article is written. |
| Reports on conversion, not only ranking | Yes Newsletter lead capture is on every paid plan, so a published post can be joined to what it brought in. | No Measurement stops at search performance. Nothing public joins a published article to a signup or a lead. |
| Tracks named competitors | Yes Competitor watch is on every paid plan, tracking 7 on Starter and 25 on Ultra Growth. | Not published Competitive gaps are found during the initial scan, but no ongoing competitor tracking feature is described. |
| Improves posts already published | Partial Posts can be revised, 1 time per post on Starter and 3 on Ultra Growth. | Partial Internal linking updates older posts when new ones publish, though no article refresh cycle is described. |
| Writes for AI assistant citation | Yes Posts are optimized for SEO and GEO together rather than for classic search results alone. | Yes GEO formatting for AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity is a plan feature, aimed at named page formats. |
Read the two pipelines side by side and they rhyme: research the term, settle the angle, write, check the claims, gate the result, publish. The divergence is at the last step. The SEO Agent hands the finished article to a CMS you own and administer, which is ideal if you already have one and impossible if you do not. Blogged publishes to a blog that came with the subscription. For a founder without a blog, that difference is the entire decision, and for a team with a mature WordPress estate it points the other way.
This is the one comparison in the set where governance is not a Blogged advantage. The SEO Agent gates twice: optionally at the outline, before any writing happens, and then again at a quality score that refuses to publish a draft whose sources, links, images or metadata are not ready. Blogged also gates, deciding whether a post is allowed to go live, and can hold drafts for a person on every sold plan. The genuine difference is where the earlier gate sits: The SEO Agent can stop a wrong angle before it is written, which is cheaper than catching it afterwards.
The SEO Agent sells one plan deliberately, and says it would rather not punish you for picking the wrong row in a pricing matrix. That is a fair position and it makes the product easy to evaluate. The cost is that the plan's boundaries are also the product's boundaries: one site, up to three publishers, thirty articles. Past any of those, the answer is to contact them rather than to upgrade. Blogged publishes three tiers with rising posts, Topics, images, revisions and tracked competitors, and does not cap seats at all.
This page is published by Blogged, so treat it as a vendor comparison. These are the points where The SEO Agent is the stronger answer, stated plainly.
Read their own material at theseoagent.aiBlogged starts from your website, a product description, or product documents. No existing blog is required, and published work you already own can come with you.
Blogged presents a 3 day trial, which takes a card. A link under it takes a one-time Free allowance on your first Project instead: no card, claimed with a public post about your new blog. Nothing expires while that allowance lasts; a spent Free Project is archived after 14 days and unpublished after 30 unless you upgrade. When you need more, Blogged paid plans start at $99 per month per Project with 30 published posts a month.
See full pricingThe SEO Agent published into your own site, so those articles stay exactly where they are and keep their URLs. Blogged publishes to a blog it hosts, so decide whether the two archives sit apart or whether you serve the Blogged blog from your existing path by reverse proxy, before the new posts start accumulating.
Its outline gate means you already know which angles you approve and which you reject. Those decisions restate cleanly as Content Directions in Blogged, which then generate their own Topics. That is a better import than a queued title list, because the Topic supply is generated under a Direction rather than uploaded.
Blogged approves Content Directions up front and then decides at publication, rather than gating each outline. If your team relied on approving outlines one at a time, plan for that step to sit in a different place, and use assisted autopilot to hold drafts for review while you calibrate what the Directions are producing.
Both are on every paid Blogged plan. The SEO Agent already gave you Search Console, so the genuinely new signal is lead capture, which is what turns a ranking report into a conversion one. Connecting both before the first post means there is a baseline to judge the first month against.
Short answers to the questions buyers ask before they start with either product.
No. Its home page describes a free trial in two places, but its pricing page is explicit that you start for $1 for 3 days and then pay $99 a month if you keep it. There is a 30 day money back guarantee behind the subscription, and cancelling takes one click inside the app.
No. It publishes into a CMS you already run, natively to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Wix, Notion and Framer, and to anything else through its API or a webhook. The article arrives complete with images, sources, internal links and metadata, but the site it lands on has to be yours.
Both gate, and this is not a Blogged advantage. The SEO Agent adds an optional outline approval before writing and a quality gate that refuses low scoring drafts. Blogged approves Content Directions up front, decides at publication whether a post may go live, and can hold drafts for a person on every sold plan.
One site, with up to 3 publishers, on the only plan it sells. More sites, more volume, custom voice tuning or white labelling are handled by contacting them rather than by choosing a higher tier. Blogged is priced per Project but puts no cap at all on team seats.
Both connect Search Console, and The SEO Agent uses it well, seeding the first content plan from your real pages, queries and impressions before writing anything. Blogged adds newsletter lead capture on every paid plan, so a post can be joined to a signup rather than stopping at impressions, clicks and position.
Blogged presents a 3 day trial that takes a card, and offers a one-time Free allowance on a new account's first Project instead: 3 posts, 40 Topics, 15 delivered images and 7 competitors. Free takes no card, and you claim it rather than receive it: post publicly on X about your new blog, naming @blogged_app and your blog address, then paste that link within a day of posting. A verified email address is needed too. No clock runs on the allowance itself. Once the posts or images are used up, the Project is archived after 14 days and its blog is unpublished after 30 unless you choose a paid plan; upgrading reverses both.
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