You came for articles. They moved on.
Copy.ai was a copywriting tool. Today its own pricing page sells a go-to-market automation platform for sales and marketing teams, built around AI-powered actions, codifying processes and extending best practices across teams. If that is the problem you have, it is a serious product for it. If you arrived looking for something to write your articles, you are looking for an alternative because the product you wanted is no longer the product they sell.
I have watched tools I depended on turn into something else. It is not a betrayal, it is a business decision, but it does leave you needing a different tool.
There is nothing wrong with what Copy.ai is now. The mismatch is the point: a platform sold on workflow credits and seats for a revenue team is not built to hand a publisher a finished, sourced article with a byline on it. Their pricing page makes no mention of long-form article generation, source citations or publishing to a CMS. That is an absence on one page rather than a proven absence in the product, and it is the honest reason a content person ends up searching for something else.
The tape.
Built for publishing articles
Written from named external sources
Fact-checked against cited sources
Sources listed on the finished article
Draws its own images
Real named byline / editor of record
Auto-publishes to your CMS
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Sold by
EU AI Act disclosure · GDPR rights · DMCA agent
You own it + one-click export
Positioning
- A product that is still about articles, and is not going to become something else next quarter.
- Every article written from real sources, checked against them, with the source list on the finished piece.
- A named author and one editor of record, so the work can carry your masthead rather than a team account.
- Seven CMS platforms or draft-only, priced by articles a month rather than by seats and workflow credits.
What you get that Copy.ai doesn't.
Sourced, or it doesn't ship
Every article is written from cited sources and cross-checked against them before delivery. A judge vets each source for the specific story - right event, right dates, real substance - and a topic that can't be properly sourced is dropped, not padded. No source, no article.
A real editor of record
Nothing publishes anonymously. Each article carries a real named byline and a human editor of record, accountable for editorial standards, source policy, and disputes - the person whose name is on the door.
Review by default; auto-publish you can defend
Every claim is checked against its sources and the result is written on the article, and nothing ships silently. Auto-publish is opt-in and runs the very same checks - trustworthy when it's unattended, not merely unchecked.
Compliance built in, not bolted on
EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure on anything published unattended, self-serve GDPR export and account deletion with access and correction on request, a registered DMCA agent, and cover images we draw rather than take off the open web, so there is no stock-image rights question to clear - standard on every plan.
A newsroom in any language
Any language, for any country - written in its own grammar and idiom rather than translated, held to the same quality bar, all under one subscription. Where we curate a local newsroom register, it takes that too.
Your content, never locked in
A pull API, and one-click export to WordPress WXR, Ghost, and Markdown with every image. You own the articles outright - no royalty, no attribution back to us.
This is not a feature-by-feature fight, because the two products are no longer aimed at the same person. Copy.ai sells a go-to-market platform to a revenue team. Mastheads sells finished, sourced, bylined articles to whoever has to publish them. If your reason for searching is that the writing tool you used has become a sales tool, the thing to look for is not a cheaper version of what Copy.ai was, but a product built for publishing in the first place.
Under the hood: it discovers stories in your niche, writes them in your voice, fact-checks against sources, illustrates, and publishes to your CMS, on your schedule.
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