Blog post cost calculator
What does a month of blog posts cost if you hire a writer, pay by the hour, do it yourself, or automate it? Estimate writing costs below, then compare PostSprout separately.
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What will your blog posts cost?
All amounts are USD. Change any value. Your inputs stay in your browser.
Editing, images and upload / SEO are optional add-ons. Empty, negative and non-numeric values count as zero. Reversed rate ranges are sorted. Totals beyond the numeric range are capped; annual cost is always monthly cost times 12. Cost per 1,000 words is zero when word count is zero.
| Cost | Low | High |
|---|---|---|
| Per post | $328.00 | $590.40 |
| Per month | $1,312.00 | $2,361.60 |
| Per year | $15,744.00 | $28,339.20 |
| Per 1,000 words | $250.00 | $450.00 |
Hours per month: 13.32
What does PostSprout cost?
PostSprout is an automated writing and publishing option, not an equivalent to a human-written post. These are monthly plans with their own article allowances, not estimates for your selected post count. Review and editing time is not included.
Prices as of November 2026. See current pricing.
| Plan | USD / month | Articles / month | USD / article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sprout | $29.00 | 10 | $2.90 |
| Grove | $79.00 | 30 | $2.63 |
| Greenhouse | $249.00 | 150 | $1.66 |
How are the costs calculated?
Per word: cost per post is words times the word rate, plus image cost, plus editing and upload / SEO hours times your hourly value.
Hourly: cost per post is writing, editing and upload / SEO hours added together, times the hourly rate, plus image cost. For your own time, use your hourly value as that rate.
Monthly cost is cost per post times posts per month. Annual cost is monthly cost times 12. Monthly hours are writing, editing and upload / SEO hours added together, times posts per month. Cost per 1,000 words is cost per post divided by words per post, times 1,000.
Writing hours are an estimate even in per-word mode. They do not change the per-word writing fee. The default 3.33 hours rounds the survey time to two decimals.
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