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Plans and quotas
What each plan includes, the delivery speed, and the math behind it.
A typical SEO article from a competent freelancer costs $200–500 and takes 4–8 hours to research, write, optimize, and format. Here's what Quibo ships per dollar:
| Plan | Articles | Delivery | Sites | Keywords / mo | Team seats | Per-article cost | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Free | 1 total (lifetime) | Standard (next day) | 1 | 20 | 1 | — | | Starter ($89/mo) | 30 / mo | Standard (next day) | 1 | 150 | 1 | $2.97 | | Plus ($199/mo) | 50 / mo | Express (60-90 min) | 3 | 250 | 2 | $3.98 | | Pro ($399/mo) | 100 / mo | Express (60-90 min) | 5 | 500 | 3 | $3.99 | | Business ($1199/mo) | 300 / mo | Express (60-90 min) | 20 | 1,500 | 10 | $4.00 |
Annual billing locks in 12% off every paid tier. Cancel any time, prorated refund.
Standard vs Express delivery
Quibo runs every article through the same 12-stage agentic pipeline — research, outline, draft, humanize, critique, revise, internal linking, SEO assets, image, publish. The pipeline is identical across plans. The only difference is how the LLM calls are dispatched:
- Standard (Free, Starter): runs on the Anthropic Batch API. Same quality, but Anthropic processes batches asynchronously with a 24-hour SLA — articles are typically ready in 3-7 hours, sometimes overnight. Cheaper to operate, which is why Starter sits at $89 instead of $199.
- Express (Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise): synchronous calls. Articles are ready in 60-90 minutes from the moment you commit a batch. Recommended for time-sensitive content (news cycles, product launches, agency client deadlines).
The output is byte-for-byte equivalent — same prompts, same models, same persona — just dispatched on a different rail.
How the cycle works
Paid plans run on a monthly cycle that starts the day you first subscribe. On each cycle anniversary your monthly counters reset and the plan's quotas re-apply. If you upgrade mid-cycle, the new quotas apply immediately — no waiting.
Free is different: the 1-article quota is lifetime, not monthly. Once you've generated your free article, the counter never resets — you need to upgrade to keep generating. The 20-keywords-per-month allowance on Free does reset monthly so you can keep researching even after burning the article.
Note: upgrading from Starter to Plus also upgrades your delivery mode. In-flight batches keep their original mode (frozen at trigger time); new batches use the new mode.
Hitting a cap
- Article generation: blocked at the next batch. The UI offers an upgrade with the dollar delta.
- Keyword discovery: returns quota reached — manual additions still work and don't count toward the cap.
- Sites: blocked when you try to add one beyond your plan's limit.
Every cap message includes the cost of the unblock so you don't have to leave the page to decide.
Upgrading
Open Billing and click the tier card. Paddle handles the payment in 30 seconds; quotas update before you're back. If you're upgrading because a batch is too big, the new cap takes effect for that exact batch.
Downgrading or cancelling
Use Manage subscription in the same page. Cancellations take effect at the end of the current cycle — the day after, your plan reverts to Free. Articles, keywords, sites, and brand profiles stay in your account.
Why upgrade?
Pro is the plan that runs at the velocity vexp.dev used to hit 4.1% Google CTR and 674 AI citations in 90 days. If your goal is compounding organic traffic, that's the cadence the math is built around — plus express delivery so you can react to opportunities the same morning, not the next day.
Annual billing locks 12% off every paid tier — Starter saves ~$128/yr, Plus ~$288/yr, Pro ~$568/yr, Business ~$1,728/yr.