# Which Plan Do I Need? Lite vs Publisher vs Studio

> **What it does:** Answers the only question that matters before you spend anything — what each Antradus AI plan actually does for you, and which one fits what you are running.
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> *Applies to Antradus AI Lite, Publisher & Studio v2.10.0 · Last updated 2026-09-09*

## The short answer

- Writing articles on a site you already have? **Lite** is free forever and does that whole job.
- Running a website that has to keep producing — dozens or hundreds of posts, linked together, ranking? **Publisher**.
- Running a podcast or video show, and the site exists to serve it? **Studio**.
- Want it done rather than doing it? **Managed**.

You only ever install one plugin. Which features appear is decided by your license key, not by which file you installed — so moving between plans means changing a key, never reinstalling anything, and your settings, prompts and API keys carry over untouched.

Inside the plugin, **Antradus AI → ✨ More Features** shows you this same list with a padlock beside everything your license does not cover, so you can see exactly what you would get before deciding. Online, the same comparison lives at [antradusai.com/plugin-features](https://antradusai.com/plugin-features/).

| | Who it is for | Price |
|---|---|---|
| **Lite** | Anyone who writes articles on WordPress | Free forever, from WordPress.org |
| **Publisher** | A website that has to keep producing | $275/month, up to 5 sites, 7-day trial |
| **Studio** | A podcast or video show and the site around it | $1,500/month |
| **Managed** | Someone who would rather we ran it | Talk to us |

## Lite — free forever

Lite is not a demo. It is the whole writing toolkit, and most people never need more than it.

- **Article from a keyword or URL** — describe a topic, or paste any external link, and get a complete, structured article.
- **SEO meta generation** — focus keyword, SEO title and meta description, with Copy buttons ready for Yoast, Rank Math or anything else.
- **In-editor AI assistant** — highlight any sentence and rewrite, enhance, expand, shorten, fix grammar, translate, or run your own instruction.
- **AI featured images** — drawn from what the article is actually about, uploaded and set as featured in one click, with 10 editable style presets.
- **AI disclosure line** — one sentence at the bottom of every article the plugin wrote, naming the model that wrote it. On by default, because the EU AI Act (Article 50) asks for it.
- Five providers on your own key, both editors, 5 styles × 5 tones × 17 languages, and every guide readable offline inside the plugin.

**Bring your own key** is the part people underestimate. There is no per-word fee and no middleman: you pay OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter or DeepSeek directly, at their prices, and OpenRouter has free models you can start on for nothing at all.

## Publisher — for a website at scale

Publisher is the answer to a specific problem: one good article is easy, and a hundred good articles that link to each other and do not read like a machine is not.

Three things in it are the reason people upgrade:

1. **Human Voice.** Articles written the way people write — varied rhythm, concrete detail, no "In conclusion" endings, and an editable list of ~60 phrases the AI may never use. Plus **rotating article structures**, because the second giveaway good sentences never fix is every post arriving in the same shape. There is an offline **Human Check** that scores a post and names each tell it finds, and it costs nothing to run because it makes no AI request at all.
2. **Bulk Publishing.** Paste up to 200 keywords or import a CSV; the AI writes, categorises and schedules every post, drip-scheduled and reviewable as drafts. **SEO clusters** turn one idea into a pillar plus 6–14 deep dives, and **internal linking** wires the whole batch together — including inbound links to the orphan posts nothing points at.
3. **AI Search (GEO).** Being on page one of Google no longer predicts being quoted by ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini. Publisher writes articles the way those assistants can actually quote them, scores how quotable a post is, and checks whether your site is accidentally blocking the AI search crawlers — which is a much more common own goal than people expect.

Also in Publisher: **Google Trends** (write about what your country is searching for right now, from news reports the plugin fetched and checked for a publication time inside the last 48 hours), **YouTube to Article**, the **WooCommerce product generator**, **album generation**, **live web search**, **merge 2 sources**, the **free-form post assistant**, **Yoast SEO & Rank Math auto-fill**, and **Reporting** with words, images, tokens and estimated cost per post.

Full write-up: [Antradus AI for publishers](https://antradusai.com/for-publishers/).

## Studio — for a whole show

Studio is Publisher plus a second pipeline, and the distinction is worth being precise about, because it is where most of the confusion sits:

> **Publisher already turns a single video into an article**, from the post editor. **Studio is that for an entire show, on a schedule** — the back catalogue, and everything you publish around each episode.

- **Podcast to Articles** — one episode becomes a set of articles built from the episode's own arguments, figures and examples. The whole transcript is read, not the first few minutes. **Every** quotation is checked word-for-word against the recording, and anything that does not match loses its quotation marks before the article is saved. Nothing is ever put in your guest's mouth.
- **Saved Plans** — every episode you plan is kept with the corrections you made on it. Open one months later and the screen comes back exactly as you left it, without re-reading the episode and without paying for it again.
- **Episode Assets** — a newsletter, quote cards and post copy from an episode you already planned. The cards are *drawn*, not generated: the letters come from a font file, and each quotation is re-checked against the recording in the instant before it is drawn.

Full write-up: [Antradus AI for studios](https://antradusai.com/for-studios/).

## Managed — we run it

Not software. We build or enhance the site, run the back catalogue and hand you the finished thing. There is no license key and nothing to install, because there is nothing for you to operate. It is sold after a conversation — [talk to us](https://antradusai.com/contact/).

## How to decide

Ask what the bottleneck actually is.

- **"I can write, I just want the first draft faster."** Lite. Stop there.
- **"I need fifty posts this month and they have to link together."** Publisher. Bulk Publishing plus internal linking plus clusters is the whole reason it exists.
- **"My content reads like AI and I can tell."** Publisher, for Human Voice — and run Human Check on something you already published first, since that check is free once you have the plan and will tell you exactly what is giving it away.
- **"Nobody finds us in ChatGPT."** Publisher, for AI Search (GEO). Start with the robots.txt crawler audit; blocking the AI *search* crawlers is a surprisingly common accident and costs nothing to fix.
- **"I have 80 episodes and a blog with 4 posts on it."** Studio. That is the exact shape it was built for.
- **"I do not want to operate any of this."** Managed.

## Tips & gotchas

- **Try before you decide.** Publisher has a 7-day trial with a card required. Studio is sold after a demo instead, because there is usually a real conversation to have about a show first. Lite runs the same writing engine as both, so you can judge the output quality for free, indefinitely, before spending anything.
- **Upgrading is not a migration.** Same plugin, same settings, same API keys, same generated content. Only the license key changes.
- **Publisher covers 5 sites.** If you run client sites, that is per-license, not per-site-you-happen-to-own.
- **An old Antradus AI Pro license carries the full Studio feature set**, permanently. Nothing was taken away from anyone who had already paid — see [Installation & License Activation](installation-and-license.md).

## Related

- [Installation & License Activation](installation-and-license.md)
- [Connect Your AI Provider](connect-your-ai-provider.md)
- [Your First Article in 5 Minutes](your-first-article.md)
- [Which AI Provider Can Do What?](../recipes/provider-capability-matrix.md)
- Online: [all plugin features](https://antradusai.com/plugin-features/) · [the documentation](https://antradusai.com/docs/) · [the Antradus AI blog](https://antradusai.com/blog/)