What is in RankReady Free, and what Pro adds

RankReady Free is the plugin on WordPress.org. It is a complete product, not a trial, and it is the one most sites should start with. RankReady Pro is a separate add-on you install alongside it when you need automation, scale, or a headless frontend.

The one rule worth knowing first

Manual generation is unlimited in Free. There is no monthly cap, no usage counter and no credit system. Write a post, click Generate, and you get a summary or an FAQ, as many times as you like, forever.

What Pro adds is not more of the same. It is a different mode of working: things that happen without you clicking, and things that operate across the whole site at once.

In Free

• AI summaries and FAQ generation, on demand, unlimited.
• llms.txt and llms-full.txt.
• Markdown versions of posts, including your RankReady summary, FAQ and author blocks, plus Accept: text/markdown content negotiation. The Markdown refreshes when you save a post.
• Open Knowledge Format output.
• AI crawler control in robots.txt, including Content Signals.
• FAQ, Article and Speakable schema.
• The E-E-A-T author box with basic Person schema.
• WebMCP manifest for posts and pages.
• Content freshness tracking, AI crawler visit logs, diagnostics.
• Blocks, Elementor widgets and shortcodes.
• The Bulk Author Changer.

What Pro adds

• Auto-generation on publish. Summaries and FAQs are produced when a post is published, with no editor action. See auto-generation.
• Bulk generation. Run summaries or FAQs across hundreds of existing posts as a background job. See bulk generation.
• The Headless Public API. A public, read-only, rate-limited API so a Next.js, Astro, Nuxt or SvelteKit frontend can read summaries, FAQs and JSON-LD. See the API reference.
• HowTo and ItemList schema, detected automatically, plus an extended Person node with sameAs, knowsAbout, credentials, memberOf, awards and publishing principles. See advanced schema.
• Custom post type exposure for WebMCP. Free exposes posts and pages; Pro lets you expose any public post type. See the CPT picker.
• Credit removal from llms.txt. See hide the credit line.
• WooCommerce product facts in Markdown. Price, currency, SKU and stock status for every product. See product facts.
• Custom fields in Markdown. Advanced Custom Fields and Secure Custom Fields values, added per post type and per field. Nothing is included until you tick it, and password fields, hidden fields and drafts are never read. See what is new in Pro 1.1.0.
• Agent discovery. Off by default. Publishes an API catalog and an agent skills index that list only the endpoints you have switched on. See what is new in Pro 1.1.0.

Which one you need

Stay on Free if you publish a handful of posts a month and are happy pressing Generate. Nothing is withheld from you and nothing expires.

Take Pro if you publish often enough that remembering to press Generate is a real cost, if you have a back catalogue to process, or if your frontend is not WordPress.

Pricing

Pro is a one-time payment, not a subscription. $49 lifetime for a single site, or $99 lifetime for up to 100 sites. There is a 14-day money-back guarantee. Current details are on the RankReady page. Billing, invoices and refunds are covered in Sign in to your RankReady account.

Running both at once

Pro does not replace Free. Both plugins stay active, and Pro will tell you plainly if the free base is missing. RankReady also runs alongside Yoast, Rank Math and AIOSEO without conflict.