Does Koala have a free plan?

Yes: 5,000 words and 25 credits with no time limit and no card, by its pricing page.

Content Autopilot vs Koala

Koala is an AI writer priced by words: a free plan of 5,000 words, paid plans from $25 a month, an editor that grades drafts, and publishing to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow and Ghost. Its content calendar autopilot is on the $99 plan. It has no dedicated AI visibility tracker and no link exchange. We publish daily on every plan and track four assistants. We have not published pricing yet.

Koala's details were read on its own site on 14 November 2026. We make Content Autopilot, so weigh this page accordingly.

Pick Koala if

You want to try it free, with no time limit.
You want to write articles one at a time at the lowest cost.
You want an editor that grades your draft against pages that rank.

Pick Content Autopilot if

You want a fixed daily schedule without buying words.
You want AI visibility tracked every week.
You want a backlink exchange.
You want each claim tied to a source at review.

Side by side

Feature	Content Autopilot	Koala
Articles	One a day, about 1,600 words by default	By word allowance: 540,000 words a year on the entry plan
Publishes on a schedule	Yes, daily	Content calendar autopilot on the $99 plan
AI visibility tracking	Built in: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, checked weekly	No tracker; its agent looks at where assistants mention competitors
Backlinks	Opt-in exchange with published rules	Backlink research and outreach targets; no exchange
Publishes to	WordPress, WordPress.com, Webflow, Shopify, Ghost, Wix, Notion, Strapi, GoHighLevel, Framer (beta), GitHub, webhook, plus a hosted blog	WordPress, Shopify, Webflow, Ghost, webhooks
For AI agents	MCP server and REST API	MCP server on paid plans; API from the entry plan
Price	Not published yet	Starter $25 a month, or $20 on yearly billing; nine tiers up to $2,000

Sources for the Koala column: Koala pricing. Prices and features change; check the vendor's site before you decide.

The difference that matters

Koala sells words and we sell a routine. If you want to choose each topic and press the button yourself, Koala costs less. If you want it to happen without you, its autopilot starts at $99 and ours is the whole product.

Koala's founder writes its blog in the first person and states his bias in the first line of his own comparison, which we respect and have tried to match here.

What we could not confirm

Koala names autopilot only on its $99 plan, while an auto-publish switch is described without saying which plans have it.

Questions

Does Koala have a free plan?: Yes: 5,000 words and 25 credits with no time limit and no card, by its pricing page.