Copy.ai's Free Plan Is Gone (2026): What Replaced It
If you're here for Copy.ai's free plan, the short answer is it no longer exists. The company repositioned into a GTM platform and collapsed its cheap writing tiers — leaving a $29-to-$1,000 cliff. Here's the verified current state.
Direct answer
Copy.ai no longer has a free plan. In its 2025 repositioning from a copywriting tool into a 'GTM AI platform,' Copy.ai removed the free tier and retired its cheap writing plans — the former Free (2,000 words/month), Starter/Pro (~$36–49/month, unlimited words) and Advanced ($249) tiers are gone. Current pricing, verified on copy.ai/pricing Jul 22, 2026: Chat ($29/month, unlimited chat words, 5 seats) and then a jump to Growth ($1,000/month) and above — a $29-to-$1,000 cliff with nothing between. A 'credit' is a variable amount of compute, not a fixed word count. You get a broad commercial license to output, though the terms name OpenAI as owner of title.
- Last verified
- Jul 22, 2026
- Confidence
- High — read on vendor pages
- Evidence
- 5 checks
- Sources
- 2 source links
Evidence used
- No free/Starter/Pro tier appears on copy.ai/pricing (confirmed twice, direct and via reader proxy), Jul 22, 2026 — the current lineup is Chat $29 then Growth $1,000/mo and up.
- The old tiers (Free 2,000 words, Starter/Pro ~$36–49 unlimited words, Advanced $249) are absent from the current page; their removal during the 2025 GTM repositioning is third-party-dated but the current absence is primary.
- The 'credit = variable computational power' definition is Copy.ai's own; there is no published fixed credit-to-word rate.
- Commercial rights: Copy.ai's Terms (dated 2023-10-12) grant a broad license to use, modify, sell and distribute Generated Content, while stating OpenAI owns title — a license, not ownership.
- The signup app is behind auth, so a hidden trial can't be 100% ruled out — but no free plan with a stated word/credit limit is documented anywhere on the site.
How we checked this
- The 'free plan is gone' claim rests on the current pricing page (primary); the retirement timing is labeled third-party.
- We separate the commercial-license grant from title ownership, because Copy.ai's own terms do.
Copy.ai current pricing (verified Jul 2026)
| Plan | Price | Seats | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free / Starter / Pro (old) | Retired | — | Gone — reviews citing these are stale |
| Chat | $29/mo ($24 annual) | 5 | Unlimited chat words, no workflow credits |
| Growth | $1,000/mo | 75 | 20,000 workflow credits/mo |
| Expansion | $2,000/mo | 150 | 45,000 credits/mo |
| Scale | $3,000/mo | 200 | 75,000 credits/mo |
The free plan and cheap writing tiers are retired. The current lineup jumps from $29 to $1,000/mo — there is no plan in between.
The free plan and cheap tiers are retired
Copy.ai removed its free plan and its affordable writing tiers when it repositioned as a GTM AI platform in 2025. The old Free (2,000 words/month), Starter/Pro (~$36–49, unlimited words) and Advanced ($249) plans no longer appear anywhere on the pricing page. The current entry point is Chat at $29/month.
This is the answer most searches for 'Copy.ai free plan' need and rarely get: it doesn't exist anymore. The homepage's 'Try for free' button routes to a signup/demo flow, not a described free plan with a word or credit allowance. Any review promising '2,000 free words a month' or a '$36 Pro plan with unlimited words' is working from pre-2025 information — a clean stale-review tell.
The bigger structural shift is the pricing cliff: after $29 Chat, the next plan is Growth at $1,000/month. There is nothing between them, because Copy.ai's product is now aimed at go-to-market teams running automated workflows, not individual copywriters. If you're a solo writer, the practical read is that Copy.ai has largely exited your segment — [Rytr's usable free tier](/blog/rytr-pricing) or [Sudowrite](/blog/sudowrite-pricing) fit that need better now.
What credits mean now, and who owns the output
On the paid platform, a 'credit' is a variable amount of compute per workflow step — there's no fixed credit-to-word rate. On rights, Copy.ai's terms grant a broad commercial license to use, modify and even resell generated content, but state that OpenAI owns the underlying title.
The credit model matches the platform pivot: credits meter automated GTM workflows (per AI step, per record), reset monthly, and test/build runs cost nothing. Copy.ai deliberately doesn't publish a credit-to-word conversion because the workflows vary too much — so, as with [Sudowrite](/blog/sudowrite-pricing), treat any '1 credit = X words' claim skeptically.
On ownership, the terms are worth reading closely and are themselves stale (last updated October 2023): you get a broad license to 'use, copy, modify, sell, create derivative works and distribute' generated content for business purposes, but the same terms state OpenAI exclusively owns title. So you can commercially use and resell what you make — you just don't hold the underlying rights. The terms also name only OpenAI as the model provider, even though the 2026 product advertises Anthropic and Gemini too, a sign of how far the legal text lags the product.
Sources checked
Official vendor pages used for pricing, rights and feature claims; checked Jul 22, 2026.
- Copy.ai pricing - free plan REMOVED + cheap writing tiers retired (2025 GTM repositioning); Chat $29/mo then $1,000/mo cliff; credit = variable compute, no fixed word rate
- Copy.ai terms of service - user gets broad commercial license to Generated Content incl. resale, but OpenAI holds title (ToS dated 2023-10-12, ~3yr stale vs product)