Billing

Billing lives at the organization level: each organization holds one subscription, and every site in it is a line on that subscription. One invoice covers them all. Payments are processed by Stripe.

What a site costs

Each site is $99 per month, billed monthly or yearly. A year costs ten times the monthly price, so two months are free. There is no plan to pick and no site limit: you pay for the sites you run, and adding or stopping one changes the invoice by exactly one site.

That $99 is RankYak Pro, and it gives the site:

• One article a day, on the days you choose. Not a monthly bucket: a day. A site publishing every weekday gets around 21 articles a month, and one publishing every day gets around 30.
• Automatic content optimizations, on the days you mark for them. An optimization takes the article your Search Console data shows slipping furthest and rewrites it on the same URL. See article refreshes.
• Everything around the articles: keyword research, the topical map, the content plan, publishing through your integration, the backlink exchange, the copilot, the API, and the MCP server.

You set which days do which on the calendar. A day may write, optimize, or do nothing at all, and if a day is marked for both, the optimization wins when there is something worth optimizing and the site writes a new article when there is not.

Site Guard

Site Guard is a second $99 a month, added to a site whenever you want it and taken off again when you do not. It covers the two things RankYak does to the pages you already have:

• Page Guard. Fixes for the weak titles, weak descriptions, and lost clicks the Site Guard finds. RankYak re-checks every audited page against your Search Console data every day, and crawls the pages you select whenever you run an audit.
• Cannibalization Guard. Fixes for pages competing on the same searches. RankYak judges them automatically as soon as your search data shows a fight, rather than waiting for you to ask. See cannibalization.

Without Site Guard, a site still gets its audits and still sees how many issues each Guard found. What it does not get is the detail behind those numbers or the fixes.

Site Guard is bought per site, on the site's own Site Guard page, where the issues it would fix are counted. A site that needs it gets it; the others do not pay for it. Once it is on, the billing page shows it next to its site, and that is where you may turn it off again.

If you subscribed before this pricing, your organization keeps the price it is on, and your existing sites stay at their current rate for as long as the subscription runs.

When changes take effect

More takes effect at once. Adding a site or turning on Site Guard charges the rest of the current period straight away, and the site can use it immediately. Because a day cannot be spent early, a site added with a third of the month left simply gets the days that are left, at a third of the price.

Less takes effect at the end of the period. Stopping a site or turning Site Guard off leaves everything exactly as it is until your renewal date, and nothing is credited back. You keep what you paid for and use it however you like; at the renewal, the site or the Guard simply stops.

Anything on its way out is shown on the billing page with the date it stops, next to a button that takes the change back: Keep the site for a stopping site, and Keep Site Guard for a Guard on its way off. That works right up to the renewal.

The billing page

There are two ways to reach it, and both lead to the same place.

• From the organization overview, click the three dots next to the organization and choose Billing.
• From within a site, go to Settings, then Billing.

It lists one line per site, what each one costs, and whether it carries Site Guard. Stripe's own invoice groups by product, so this page is the only place your total is attributed back to the sites that make it up.

While your free trial is running, the page shows the date it ends, which is the date of your first charge. If your organization has no subscription at all, the page shows the price under Start your subscription instead, and Continue takes you to the checkout.

Payment methods and invoices

Click Open billing portal to manage the payment side of your subscription in Stripe's billing portal. There you may update your payment method, change your billing address and details, and view your complete payment history, including past invoices. Changes made in the portal apply to your subscription immediately.

Stopping a site

Open the site's Settings, then Billing, or use the billing page of the organization. The site runs until the end of the period you have paid for and stops at the renewal. Nothing is deleted: its keywords, articles, and settings are all kept, and adding it back to your subscription starts it again.

Canceling your subscription

To cancel everything, scroll to the bottom of the billing page and click Cancel subscription. Every site keeps running until the end of the current billing period, and no further payment is taken. Stopping your last remaining site does the same thing, because a subscription with no sites on it is a subscription that has ended.

Canceling during your free trial works differently, because you have not paid for a period yet. It takes effect at once: your sites stop, and the remaining trial days are not served out. You are charged nothing.

Nothing is deleted when you cancel: your sites, keywords, and articles remain in place. If you change your mind before the period ends, a Resume subscription option appears on the same page; after that, you may simply subscribe again and RankYak picks up where it left off. A canceled trial has no period left to resume, so you subscribe again instead.