Clearscope

Clearscope is built for SEO teams that need content optimization at scale — agencies running dozens of content projects, enterprise in-house teams managing hundreds of pages, and content strategists who need reliable, repeatable processes. As of 2026 the product has expanded beyond traditional Google SEO into tracking brand visibility inside AI chatbot answers.

The Content Grade System

Clearscope's central feature is the content grade: after analyzing the top Google results for a keyword, it assigns your draft a letter grade (D through A+) based on how well your content covers the key terms appearing in those results.

The grade reflects:

• Term coverage — which related terms appear in top results and whether they appear in your content
• Frequency — how many times terms should appear based on top-result averages
• Content length — is your word count competitive with top-ranking pages?

Studies consistently show that A+ grades correlate strongly with first-page rankings. The grade turns "is this content good enough?" from a judgment call into a measurable target.

Term Recommendations

For any keyword, Clearscope shows a list of related terms derived from analyzing top-ranking pages via Google's Natural Language Processing API. Each term shows:

• Relevance score — how important this term is across the top results
• Recommended frequency — how often to include it
• Your current count — how many times it appears in your draft

The editor interface highlights these terms in your draft as you write, turning optimization into an interactive process rather than a post-draft checklist.

AI Visibility Tracking

Clearscope now tracks "prompts" — queries sent to ChatGPT and Gemini — to monitor whether and how a brand is mentioned in the resulting answers, and surfaces the underlying searches those systems ran to produce them. This sits alongside traditional Google-results tracking, positioning Clearscope as a visibility tool for both classic search and AI-chatbot answer surfaces.

Content Inventory

Clearscope integrates with Google Search Console to pull your existing content rankings. You can run your published pages through Clearscope to identify which pages have optimization gaps — then prioritize rewrites based on how close they are to an A grade.

Team Workflows

Editor assignments — assign content reports to writers with specific target grades. The editor link is shareable without a Clearscope account, so freelancers and external writers use the optimization interface without a seat.

Brief generation — export a content brief from a Clearscope report: keyword target, recommended grade, suggested terms, and top-competitor links.

CMS integrations — WordPress and Google Docs plugins bring the Clearscope grade display directly into your writing environment.

Audience

Clearscope skews toward enterprise and agency teams. Its pricing and feature set reflect teams producing high-volume, high-stakes content rather than individual bloggers.

Pricing

Essentials: $129/month (50 tracked prompts, 50 pages, 20 monthly topic explorations, 20 monthly drafts). Business: $399/month (300 tracked prompts, 300 pages, 50 monthly topic explorations, dedicated account manager). Enterprise: custom pricing (custom credits/agreements, crawler whitelisting, SSO). All tiers include unlimited user accounts.