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Scalenut
Gurugram-built AI SEO platform that turns a keyword into a SERP-driven brief and a long-form draft in one workflow.
FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
A solid, well-priced all-in-one for Indian solo marketers and small content teams who want SERP research plus drafting in one seat, but the raw output still needs a human editing pass and it bills in USD, so budget for forex.
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Should you use Scalenut?
Use it if indian solo marketers and freelancers who want SERP research and drafting in one seat. Avoid it if teams that need deep backlink analysis or granular rank-tracking (use a dedicated SEO suite).
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹2,382/mo$24/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Curated 6 Aug 2026
- Source trail
- 3 public sources
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Scalenut is a marketing & content / content & seo for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹2,382/mo for a GST-registered business ($24/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It issues an India GST invoice, so you can claim input credit. FindThatSoftware rates it best for indian solo marketers and freelancers who want SERP research and drafting in one seat, and a poor fit if teams that need deep backlink analysis or granular rank-tracking (use a dedicated SEO suite).
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Research, briefs, drafting, and on-page optimization live in one workflow instead of separate subscriptions
- Cruise Mode drafts a long-form article from a SERP brief in a few minutes
- Content-grade scoring against live SERP competitors is genuinely useful for on-page work
- Onboarding and live-chat support are included on every plan
The catch
- AI drafts still need a human editing pass for tone, accuracy, and the occasional grammar or plagiarism slip
- Analytics and customization are shallower than dedicated SEO suites like Ahrefs or Semrush
- Article and keyword-cluster caps on lower tiers fill up fast for active publishers
- Billing is in USD, so the real rupee cost swings with the exchange rate
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹2,382
Scalenut advertises $24/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹2,382 a month (₹28,580/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹2,810 a month.
- Sticker price
- $24/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹2,382
- Registered per year
- ₹28,580
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹2,810
- Try first
- Free trial before you commit budget.
- Watch for
- Priced in USD with a 7-day free trial and no permanent free plan. Annual billing is roughly 60% cheaper AND doubles every monthly limit (Starter goes from 5 to 10 GEO articles a month), so the monthly cycle is poor value: Starter is 59 USD a month month-to-month against about 24 USD a month billed annually. Quotas are per month and step up sharply by tier, so pick the tier on article and prompt volume rather than on features. VIP Service is a managed done-for-you retainer with a dedicated strategist and writers, not software, and is quote-only. The pricing page also renders a stray unlabelled '17 USD/mo' in its comparison header that maps to no named plan. Indian buyers pay the USD figure plus card forex markup.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Scalenut fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✓GST invoice
Issues a GST-compliant invoice, so a registered business can reclaim input tax.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✓India HQ
India-headquartered, so support, timezone, and context are local.
How Scalenut compares
Against the 2 other seo optimization toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 2 others, and for Scalenut.
- Internal linking suggestions
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Scalenut?
Scalenut pairs keyword research and SERP analysis with an AI writer, so you go from a target keyword to an outline, a content-grade score, and a full draft without switching tools. Cruise Mode assembles a long-form article from the brief in a few minutes, and the optimizer scores existing pages against what already ranks. It is aimed at teams that want research, writing, and on-page optimization in a single place rather than stitching several point tools together.
Best for
- Indian solo marketers and freelancers who want SERP research and drafting in one seat
- Small in-house content teams producing SEO articles at a steady clip
- Agencies drafting client blog content that an editor will polish
Who should avoid it
- Teams that need deep backlink analysis or granular rank-tracking (use a dedicated SEO suite)
- Anyone expecting publish-ready copy with no human editing
What we verified about Scalenut
Read from Scalenut’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed20
- Internal linking suggestions
- Internal linking is included from the Plus tier
- Advanced keyword planner
- Professional adds an advanced keyword planner
- AI prompt tracking
- Plans track 10, 25 or 100 prompts with weekly refresh
- Auto publish to cms
- Plus auto-publishes to WordPress and Shopify
- Backlink marketplace
- Backlinks Marketplace is unlocked at the Plus tier
- Cannibalization analysis
- Cannibalization analysis is a Professional-tier feature
- Chatgpt visibility tracking
- All tiers include ChatGPT visibility tracking
- Content audit
- Plus adds GEO content audit across 200 to 400 webpages a month
- Custom tone of voice
- Plus offers unlimited tone of voice settings
- Existing content optimization
- Every tier includes optimising existing articles for GEO
- Free SEO tools
- Vendor publishes a set of free AI-powered SEO and marketing tools
- Geo article generation
- Plans meter ready-to-rank GEO articles per month
- Google aio tracking
- Google AI Overviews tracking is included on every plan
- Keyword clustering
- Plans include building keyword clusters with monthly caps
- Multi workspace support
- Workspaces map to domains, from 1 on Starter to unlimited on Professional
- On page optimization
- On-page Pro is a Plus-tier feature
- Perplexity tracking
- Perplexity tracking is a Professional-tier addition
- Social content distribution
- Social Upreach is bundled from the Plus tier
- Team collaboration
- Plus allows up to 4 team members, Professional unlimited
- Topic gap analysis
- Topic gaps and recommendations arrive at the Plus tier
What people use it for3
- Write marketing copy
- Buyers hire it to turn a keyword into a publishable long-form draft
- Improve AI search visibility
- Whole platform is repositioned around AI search visibility and GEO
- Fix keyword cannibalisation
- Cannibalization analysis resolves competing pages on one term
Works with5
Terms, compliance and how you buy25
- Gurugram headquartered
- Our research records the company as Gurugram-based
- Dedicated account manager
- Professional includes a dedicated customer success manager
- Annual discount 60 percent
- Annual billing is advertised at 60% off the monthly rate
- Annual doubles quotas
- Annual billing doubles every monthly limit, not just the price
- Done for you agency option
- VIP Service supplies a senior strategist, writers, editors and 7 AI agents
- Hard monthly quotas
- Articles, optimisations, clusters and audits are all capped per month
- India built
- Scalenut is built in Gurugram, India
- Managed service upsell
- VIP Service is a quote-only done-for-you retainer, not software
- Monthly billing poor value
- Starter is 59 USD monthly against about 24 USD a month annually with double the quota
- No backlink analysis
- Vendor sells a backlinks marketplace rather than backlink analytics
- No free plan
- There is no permanent free tier, only a trial
- No INR pricing
- Indian buyers pay the USD figure plus card forex markup
- Onboarding bootcamp
- A free bootcamp course is offered to all users
- Output needs human editing
- Our research flags drafts still needing an editing pass for tone and accuracy
- Partner programme
- Vendor runs a partnership programme for resellers and agencies
- Permanent sale framing
- The 60% off is labelled a Limited Offer yet anchors all headline prices
- Quota based tiering
- Tier choice is driven by volume caps rather than feature access
- Quote only top tier
- VIP Service pricing is custom and booked via a strategy call
- Repositioned to geo
- Product marketing has moved from classic SEO writing to AI-visibility and GEO
- Seat limits on mid tier
- Plus caps team members at four
- Seven day free trial
- Monthly view offers Try 7 days for free on each tier
- Shallower than dedicated SEO suites
- Analytics and customisation lag Ahrefs and Semrush
- Solo and small team oriented
- Starter is explicitly for founders and small teams
- Usd billed
- All prices are quoted in US dollars with no rupee option
- Workspace domain limits
- Starter allows a single domain, Plus two, Professional unlimited
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Pricing caveat and source trail
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Priced in USD with a 7-day free trial and no permanent free plan. Annual billing is roughly 60% cheaper AND doubles every monthly limit (Starter goes from 5 to 10 GEO articles a month), so the monthly cycle is poor value: Starter is 59 USD a month month-to-month against about 24 USD a month billed annually. Quotas are per month and step up sharply by tier, so pick the tier on article and prompt volume rather than on features. VIP Service is a managed done-for-you retainer with a dedicated strategist and writers, not software, and is quote-only. The pricing page also renders a stray unlabelled '17 USD/mo' in its comparison header that maps to no named plan. Indian buyers pay the USD figure plus card forex markup.
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Where Scalenut fits in a workflow
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Does Scalenut give a GST invoice in India?
Scalenut issues an India GST invoice, so a GST-registered business can claim input tax credit on it directly.
Is Scalenut good for Indian small businesses?
Scalenut can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Scalenut have a free plan?
Scalenut does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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