Blog writing services, compared by a competitor
I build software that writes articles, which is exactly why I can tell you what these prices actually buy. I have been on both sides of this: I hired writers to run my own news sites before I built anything, and I have paid every kind of invoice on this page.
Most roundups for this search are written by agencies about agencies. This one has the real numbers in it, and one thing none of these companies publishes an answer to.
Every figure below comes from the company's own pricing page, read on 18 September 2026. Where something is not published, I say so rather than estimating it. Prices change, so treat these as a snapshot and click through.
The five shapes, and which one you actually want
Before the names, the shapes. Almost every option is one of these, and picking the shape matters more than picking the brand.
A marketplace. You browse individual sellers and hire one. Cheapest entry, widest quality spread, and the quality is the seller's rather than the platform's.
A managed agency. People who learn your business, usually with an account manager. Most expensive, and the only shape that reliably does the thinking about what to write.
A productised service. A fixed price per post, ordered like a product. Predictable, fast, and deliberately not strategic.
A hybrid platform. Software drafts, humans edit, sold per word. New, cheap, and increasingly where the middle of this market actually is.
Software with the evidence attached. The article, plus the record of how it was made: the pages it read, the claims it checked, what it could not settle. This is what I build, and it is the only shape on this list where you can verify a post without re-reporting it.
Fiverr
A marketplace. Their own page calls it "Article & Blog Post Writing Services by Freelance Blog Writers" and prints "32,000+ results".
Prices start at $5. On one load of the category page the eight sellers shown started at $5, $5, $10, $20, $20, $25, $25 and $100, carrying five different badge tiers between them. That spread is the point: you are not buying from Fiverr, you are buying from a person, and the range of people is enormous.
Nothing about word count, revisions or research is published by Fiverr itself. There is no platform policy on AI-written work on that page. Several sellers advertise the absence of it in their own gig titles, which tells you buyers ask.
Right for you if you want one post, cheaply, and you are willing to try three sellers to find one good one. Wrong if you need the same voice every week without managing it yourself.
Loganix
A productised service. One price, printed plainly: $60 per 500 words, with a "Predictable 5-day turnaround".
They are specific about the team: "Only in-house, experienced U.S. and Canadian writers working on your projects" and "Never Outsourced".
The thing to notice is what the base price excludes. Their own page says "Search optimization not included", and their FAQ repeats it: "Our 'Great Content' blog writing services do not include search optimization." Content strategy and content briefs are separate paid add-ons and their prices are not published. They make no statement either way about whether AI is used.
Right for you if you know your topics and want clean copy at a known price on a known day. Wrong if you expected SEO in the price, because it is explicitly not.
ContentWriters
Both a managed agency and a self-serve option. Self Service is "Starting at $99 per piece" with "No platform fee or commitment". By content type, their page prints "Blog posts start at $110 for 300-500 words" and "Web articles start at $110 for 300-500 words".
Managed Services is "Starting at $2500 per month including management fee and content spend", with a "Minimum commitment of 6 months required".
One honest note. Their pricing page says $2,500 a month; a second page of theirs describes Managed Services as starting "at a minimum spend of $2,000 per month on content and SEO keyword research services" plus a management fee. I am not going to reconcile two of somebody else's pages for them. Ask them which it is.
What is included, in their words: "Each piece of content includes human writing, editing and proofreading, AI and plagiarism scanning, and revising." Self Service gets two revision rounds and three business days to ask; Managed gets unlimited. SEO keyword research is an add-on, and only on the Managed tier. Publishing into your own site via their API is Managed only.
Right for you if you want a human writer, editor and proofreader on every piece and you can either pay per post or commit for six months. Wrong if you need keyword research included at the entry price.
Verblio
A hybrid platform, and the most interesting one on this list, because they are open about something most of this industry is coy about.
Two published tiers. "AI + HUMAN CONTENT" at $0.06 per word, plus a "Monthly platform fee of $49.50". And "100% HUMAN CONTENT" at $0.16 per word with no platform fee. There is no monthly minimum on either.
Their own feature list for the hybrid tier includes "Uses multiple models including GPT-4", "Writer oversight from start to finish", and, printed as a selling point, "Fact checking because AI makes things up".
Turnaround is published: 1 to 3 days for hybrid, 2 to 4 days for the human tier.
I want to be fair to them, because that AI + human tier is roughly two and a half times cheaper than their human one, and they say so on the page rather than hiding it. A 1,000 word post is $60 human or $60 at the hybrid rate for a thousand words plus the platform fee. If you want the category's honest middle, it is here.
Right for you if you want volume with a person in the loop and you are relaxed about a model writing the first draft. Wrong if "100% human" matters to you and you did not read which tier you were on.
The Writers For Hire
A managed agency, and the most old-fashioned in the good sense. Founded in 2003, a named team with published bios, a street address in Texas and two phone numbers on the page.
No pricing is published at all. Not a single figure appears on their blog writing page; it sends you to a quote form. No turnaround is published either.
What they describe is the part software genuinely cannot do: "we tactfully interview your SMEs, respecting their knowledge and their schedules. In addition, we do any further research needed to round out your blog."
That is the sentence worth paying for. If your blog needs the knowledge inside your own senior people's heads, no tool on this page extracts that. A person with a phone does.
Right for you if your best material is in your colleagues' heads and nobody has time to write it down. Wrong if you need a price before a conversation.
One I could not check
FatJoe ranks well for this search and I could not read their pages. Their whole site sat behind a bot check that returned an error to every attempt I made on 18 September 2026. So I have nothing to tell you about their pricing or their process, and I am not going to repeat what I half remember. Go and look yourself.
Mastheads
Every option above sells you prose. You read it, and then you either trust it or you check it yourself. Look back at the five: not one publishes an answer to "show me where this fact came from". ContentWriters run a plagiarism scan. That tells you the words are not copied. It does not tell you they are true.
Mastheads is built around the missing half.
Every article arrives with its working attached. The pages it actually read, cited inline. Each claim checked against the source it came from. A trace you open before anything publishes, showing what passed and what it could not settle. You verify the line that worries you in about a minute, instead of re-reporting the piece to find out whether to trust it.
It will not write what it cannot source. A topic with no real pages behind it comes back unwritten rather than confident and hollow. I would rather have the empty slot.
It runs at your volume, in your voice, to your site. Your topics and your times, per publication. Tone, reading level, point of view and your own banned words. Seven CMS platforms, or take it away as Markdown. Nothing publishes until you press the button unless you decide otherwise.
And the price is not close. Our published plans are $99 a month for 40 articles, $249 for 120 and $599 for 300. That is between $2.00 and $2.48 an article, against $60 per 500 words at Loganix or $110 a post at ContentWriters.
One thing it does not do, and I would rather say it than have you find out: it will not interview your head of engineering. If your best material is locked in your colleagues' heads, that is what an agency is for, and it is the one job on this page worth paying agency rates for.
Everything else on this list, we do faster, cheaper, and with the receipts.
What to ask any of them, including us
Five questions. The answers tell you more than any roundup.
- What exactly is included at the entry price? Loganix say SEO is not. ContentWriters put keyword research on the Managed tier. Ask before you are surprised.
- Is a model writing the first draft? Verblio publish the answer and the price difference. Most do not publish it at all. It is a reasonable thing to ask.
- Can you show me where a fact came from? This is the question I would ask hardest, and the one fewest can answer with anything but a person's word.
- What happens when a draft is wrong? Count the revision rounds and the window you have to ask. ContentWriters publish theirs; most do not.
- What do I still have to do every week? Whatever the answer is, that is your real price.
The short version
If you need thinking, hire an agency. If you need clean copy at a fixed price, buy a productised service. If you need volume with a human in the loop, the hybrid platforms are cheaper than everybody and honest about why. If you need one post tomorrow, a marketplace will do.
And if you want articles at volume that you can actually stand behind, with the sources attached and the checking already done, that is what we built.
Write one article free and read it with the trace open. No site needed to start, and the article is yours whether you stay or not. That is a faster way to settle this than any roundup, including mine.