Priced on answers hosted, not on how hard you work in one month
Everything that decides whether an answer is any good — Company Brain, Theme Canvas, the Answer Machine, Search Console and analytics — is in the free plan. What you pay for is scale, branding, conversion and the team around it.
Free
Get your first answers indexed. No card, no expiry.
- Up to 25 answers hosted
- 50 tokens a month
- Company Brain [AI] and Theme Canvas, in full
- First-party analytics on your hub
- Full statistics, per answer
One person, and AnswerLink branding stays on the hub.
Basic
A hub you are actively growing, on your own domain and your own brand.
- 4×Theme scan8
- 12×Question scan48
- 6×Trend scan24
- 35×An answer written245
- 4×An article written28
A month like that spends 353 of 500, leaving 147 to re-run what you change. An example, not a limit — spend it however you like.
- 500 answers hosted
- 500 tokens a month — top up any time
- Your own subdomain, AnswerLink branding removed
- Articles studio and value items
- Leads, with the page and question that produced them
Still one person. A team, tasks and auto-matching are Pro.
Pro
Answers are a channel you rely on, and a team works on them.
- Unlimited answers hosted
- 2,000 tokens a month — top up any time
- Up to 10 people, with tasks and assignment
- Automatic matching of relevant value items
- Company Brain API and Theme Canvas API
Self-serve. If you want us to do the first sprint, that is Managed.
Managed
You would rather we did it. We run the first sprint and keep it moving.
- 6,000 tokens a month, and the Answer Agent included
- A first sprint: Company Brain, Theme Canvas, your first answers live
- A monthly session to add answers and improve the ones you have
- Reporting written by a person, not a dashboard export
- Everything in Pro
Scoped per company — the first sprint is real work on both sides.
Answer AgentAI
An assistant on your hub that only says what you published.
- Answers from your published answers, and links to the one it used
- Hands over to a person when it cannot find one — never invents
- Logs every question it could not answer, with the trend behind it
- Question insights feed straight back into what to answer next
- Captures the lead inside the conversation
The rest of AnswerLink costs us something when you publish. The Agent costs us something on every visitor who talks to it — so it is priced on its own rather than hidden in a plan.
What is actually in each plan
| Free | Basic | Pro | Managed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokens and limits | ||||
| Tokens a monthThe AI work: scans, drafts and the Agent's replies. Priced per run, and the price list is the same one the meter inside the product charges against. | 50 | 500 | 2,000 | 6,000 |
| Top up mid-month100 for €9, 500 for €39, 2,000 for €139. Bought tokens carry over; the monthly allowance does not. | ||||
| Answers hostedA stock, not a monthly quota. Every answer keeps earning after the month you wrote it. | 25 | 500 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| People | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10+ |
| Your Answer Hub | ||||
| Hub on answerlink.io | ||||
| Your own subdomainanswers.yourcompany.com, one CNAME, TLS handled. | ||||
| Indexable, with schema, sitemap and canonicals | ||||
| Hub customiser — logo, colours, layout | Basic | Full | Full | Done for you |
| AnswerLink branding removed | ||||
| Call-to-action sidebar under every answer | ||||
| Company BrainAI | ||||
| Company Brain, with confirm-before-use | ||||
| Site scannerAI | ||||
| Document ingestionProcessed, anonymised, then deleted — the file never persists. | 1 site | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Conflict resolver | ||||
| Tone of voice read from your own writing | ||||
| Ask your Brain a question | ||||
| Company Brain APIPlanned — not shipped, and not invoiced as though it were. | Planned | Planned | ||
| Themes, questions and trends | ||||
| Theme canvas | ||||
| Question scans — from what you know, and from the market | ||||
| Trends — recent news read into questionsWatch one and it feeds the question scans and turns up as an article ingredient. | ||||
| Demand readings on themes and questionsThe traffic and search-trend figures in a theme's or question's preview. Included for whatever your scans produced — no separate tier — and refreshed monthly for as long as the record exists. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Theme canvas APIPlanned — not shipped, and not invoiced as though it were. | Planned | Planned | ||
| WritingAI | ||||
| Answer machine — planned, then written from your records | ||||
| AEO, GEO and technical checks before publish | ||||
| Every point traceable to a confirmed record | ||||
| Articles studioTwo illustrated templates, guided or generated, with ingredients, covers and links into your answers. | ||||
| Internal and external linking, written in | ||||
| Conversion and leads | ||||
| Contact call-to-action — phone, WhatsApp, email | ||||
| Value items — checklist, guide, assessment, template | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
| Automatic matching of value items to answers | ||||
| Leads, with the answer and question that produced them | ||||
| Lead pipeline — stages, list and board | ||||
| Consent log | ||||
| Tasks and assignment across a team | ||||
| CRM syncPlanned — not shipped, and not invoiced as though it were. | Planned | Planned | ||
| Measurement | ||||
| First-party analytics on your hubMeasured by the hub itself, on your own domain — no third-party tag, no shared cookie, nothing for a blocker to remove. It is why there is no Search Console or Clarity connector to buy. | ||||
| Full statistics per answer | ||||
| Observed engine citationsCounted when a page was seen being cited. Never estimated. | ||||
| Your starting point, keptThe quickscan you arrived with, stored as the baseline everything afterwards is measured against. | ||||
| Weekly note — what is worth answering | ||||
| Reporting written by a person | Monthly | |||
| Answer AgentAI | ||||
| Answer Agent on your hubA separate product — €49 a month on any plan, included in Managed. Its replies come out of your token allowance, one token each. | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Answers only from what you published, and links to the one it used | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Unanswered question log | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Handover to a person | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Lead capture inside the conversation | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on | |
| Getting going and support | ||||
| Guided setup, with a station per step | ||||
| Support | Docs | Email, 1 business day | A named person | |
| Setup sprintCompany Brain, theme canvas and a first batch of answers, done with you. | ||||
| Monthly optimisation session | ||||
The questions we would ask
What is a token, and how many do I need?
A token is one unit of AI work, and everything that runs a model costs a fixed, published number of them: 2 for a theme scan, 4 for a question or trend scan, 7 to plan and write an answer, 1 for a question the Agent answers. The price is quoted before the work starts and charged as quoted — never re-priced afterwards because a page turned out to be long. A typical month on Basic is a few theme scans, a dozen question scans, half a dozen trend reads and around thirty-five answers, which lands inside 500 with room to re-run things.
What happens when I run out?
Work stops rather than silently costing you money. You can top up — 100 for €9, 500 for €39, 2,000 for €139 — and bought tokens carry over month to month, while the monthly allowance does not. Nothing publishes, deletes or degrades because a balance ran out; the hub keeps serving everything already on it.
Why is the limit answers hosted rather than answers per month?
Because an answer keeps working after the month you wrote it. A monthly quota charges you for the burst of effort and nothing for the asset it produced, which is backwards. Twenty-five answers is enough to find out whether this works for your market; five hundred is more than most companies will ever have questions for.
Why is the Company Brain in the free plan?
Because charging for the research would mean selling worse answers to smaller companies. Everything that decides whether an answer is any good — your confirmed knowledge, your themes, the real questions, the pre-publish checks — is in Free. What you pay for is scale, branding, conversion, the team around it, and the tokens to run more of it.
Why is the Answer Agent priced separately?
Different cost shape. The rest of AnswerLink costs something when you publish; the Agent costs something on every visitor who talks to it. Folding it into a plan would either make the plan expensive for companies who never switch it on, or make us quietly ration it. Forty-nine a month on any plan, included in Managed — and each reply it gives spends one token from your allowance, so a busy hub is visible in the meter rather than in a surprise invoice.
What do I actually get in the Managed first sprint?
We sit down and build the Company Brain with you, map the Theme Canvas, and get a first batch of answers written, checked and live on your domain. After that it is a monthly session: what came in through search and the Agent, what to answer next, what to improve, and a written report. Scoped per company, because the first sprint is real work on both sides.
Why is a second person only on Pro?
Because a second person is a different way of working, not a bigger version of the same one. One person confirming records and approving answers needs no assignment, no tasks and no queue; two people need all three, and those are what Pro adds. Free and Basic are a single seat and priced as one.
Do I need Search Console or a Clarity connector?
No, and we do not sell one. Your hub measures itself: it is on your own domain, so the analytics are first-party, there is no third-party tag for a blocker to strip and no shared cookie to ask permission for. Statistics per answer, engine citations we actually observed, and the questions visitors asked all come from the hub itself.
What happens to my answers if I leave?
They are on your domain and they stay there — you export the pages and the hub keeps serving until you point the CNAME elsewhere. Your leads export too. There is no version of this where your content is hostage to a subscription.
How honest are you about what is finished?
Every feature on this site carries its state, and so does this table. Anything marked Planned is not shipped and is not invoiced as though it were.
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