An Outrank alternative built to publish.
Mastheads is built to run the publishing operation: finding what is worth covering, researching it, writing from real sources, checking the claims and publishing 40 to 300 articles a month in your publication's voice.
Outrank approaches growth through SEO autopilot and a reciprocal backlink exchange, with article generation as the delivery mechanism. Mastheads starts with the newsroom.
I would never let a tool trade strangers' links into my articles, or mine into theirs, to move a ranking number. That is the whole of this page.
Mastheads starts from the publishing operation.
By default, a Mastheads article begins with sources, goes through claim-level checks and finishes with the sources attached. If something cannot be verified, the article says so. If nobody reviews an AI-published piece, Mastheads discloses that too.
Outrank's own pages describe 30 SEO-optimized articles a month generated and published on auto-pilot (scalable to 60 or 90 with paid add-ons), with no fact-check, citation or disclosure layer stated anywhere we read. Its most visible growth feature is a credit-based Backlink Exchange: Outrank places a link to another user's site inside articles it writes for you, and spends the credit that earns building links back to your own site elsewhere. That reciprocal-link mechanic is the pattern Google's link-spam policy discourages, and when a network like that gets flagged, the exposure lands on your domain, not Outrank's. Mastheads spends that same engineering on the opposite thing: checking claims and earning trust.
Mastheads vs Outrank.
Publishing automation, sourcing, fact-checking, languages and ownership, side by side.
Articles a month
Native languages
Runs autonomously on a schedule
Fact-checked against cited sources
Waits for your review before publishing
Real named byline / editor of record
Reciprocal link exchange with other users' sites
Auto-publishes to your CMS
EU AI Act disclosure · GDPR rights · DMCA agent
You own it + one-click export
Positioning
Compared against publicly available Outrank product and pricing information. Last checked September 2026. Features and limits can change. Sources: Outrank pricing, Outrank homepage, Outrank Backlink Exchange, Outrank privacy policy, Outrank blog (author/disclosure check). All product names and brands are the property of their respective owners.
Built like a newsroom, not just a content tool.
Sourced by default
By default, every article begins with real sources. Those sources are checked for the story, date and substance before writing begins. If a topic cannot be properly sourced, it is dropped rather than padded.
With Research on, no source means 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.
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.
How it worksCommon questions
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10 articles. Seven days. No card. See what Mastheads publishes for your site.