Pro vs Max: Which Unlimited Plan Should You Pick?
Both plans include unlimited sites and 100 articles per day. The difference is which AI models write your articles — and that decision is more interesting than it sounds. A practical buyer's guide.

The One-Line Difference
Pro ($100/mo) writes your articles with high-efficiency open models. Max ($200/mo) writes them with premium frontier models.
Everything else is identical: unlimited sites, 100 articles/day, AI Humanizer included, the full Pro plugin with Supermemory, trending topics, and Telegram control.
So the real question is: does model quality matter for your sites? Let's make that concrete.
The Pro Pool: GPT-5.6 Luna, Qwen 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Gemini Flash Lite
Don't let the prices fool you — this is not a "budget" tier. GPT-5.6 Luna leads the rotation with flagship-quality prose, Qwen 3.7 Flash (Alibaba) and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash are genuinely competitive with premium models on structure and fact-respect, and GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) rounds out the roster on news, tech, sports, and evergreen topics.
The pool rotates roughly 55/20/15/10 across those four. In practice:
- News and sports: excellent. These models follow our fact-injection pipeline tightly and rarely embellish.
- Evergreen guides and listicles: very good. Structure is reliable; prose is workmanlike.
- Long-form opinion and deeply technical analysis: good, occasionally great. This is where the gap to premium models shows.
The Max Pool: Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Grok 4.3
Max rotates across the frontier models at roughly 30/25/25/20. What you gain:
- Long-form architecture. Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5 hold a thesis across 2,000+ words, transition sections gracefully, and land conclusions that actually conclude.
- Tone control. Premium models bend further to a style brief — drier, wittier, more formal — without losing coherence.
- Fact discipline on thin sources. When the evidence pipeline has only two verified facts, frontier models speculate less.
The Honest Overlap
Here's what we see in our own output: for a 900-word news article with good source facts, the difference between a Pro-pool article and a Max-pool article is often invisible to readers. The gap appears in scale-dependent quality — the 2,000-word analysis, the buyer's guide that needs to actually rank, the piece where a mangled fact costs you credibility.
A practical pattern many publishers use: Pro for the newsroom agents, Max for the flagship site. Both plans run side by side on one account — Max simply replaces Pro for its 30-day term when purchased.
What About Coins?
Coins still make sense for three kinds of work:
- 1.Model-specific jobs. Need exactly Claude Sonnet 4.6 for a client with a preference? Coins give you per-article model choice, every model, no rotation.
- 2.Bursts without commitment. 30 articles one month, zero the next — $3 of coins beats a $100 plan.
- 3.Humanizer and AI images on free accounts. À la carte features stay coin-metered for non-plan users.
Decision Cheat Sheet
| Your situation | Pick |
|---|---|
| Solo publisher testing scale, budget-conscious | Lite |
| Volume niche sites, news, sports, non-English | Pro |
| Agency managing many client sites | Pro (upgrade specific clients to Max as needed) |
| Flagship content site, competitive SERPs | Max |
| Analysis, opinion, long-form bylined work | Max |
| Under ~30 articles/month total | Coins (pay-as-you-go is cheaper) |
| Just trying it out | Free (10 articles per site, no card) |
Compare both plans side by side on the pricing page.
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