Pricing that scales with your portfolio
You pay for the CMSes you’re working in. Every site you publish stays live, on every plan.
Base
Start owning your first properties
- 2 active CMSes
- Unlimited published sites
- Included AI usage: 1,000 credits per period
- Newsletter from your own domain · 10,000 emails a month included
- Custom domains
- No platform revenue cut
- Global CDN delivery
- Unmetered traffic
$15/mo per extra active CMS, from prepaid
Pro
The serious operator default
Everything in Base, plus:
- 4 active CMSes
- 25,000 newsletter emails a month included
- SEO intelligence dashboard
- Portfolio-level analytics
- Priority onboarding
$12/mo per extra active CMS, from prepaid
Business
Authority operations at scale
Everything in Pro, plus:
- 8 active CMSes
- 100,000 newsletter emails a month included
- Workspaces for team separation
- Advanced analytics & SEO intel
- Autonomous SEO monitoring agent
- Priority support
$8/mo per extra active CMS, from prepaid
Each paid plan includes the same 1,000 credits of AI usage per period, with an adjustable AI limit. A $10 top-up adds 1,000 prepaid credits. Prepaid first reserves your next base renewal; extras use prepaid, and AI uses what remains after its included allowance. Unpaid extras have 48 hours to top up before they freeze. Founding subscribers keep their price with the same tier benefits.
Enterprise
CustomFrom $999/mo — SAML/SSO, data sovereignty, advanced permissions, procurement, security review, custom contracts, and dedicated support.
Questions publishers ask
A $10 top-up buys 1,000 prepaid credits. Prepaid first is on by default and reserves up to the next base subscription price before extras or AI can use that balance. For example, $200 on Base with two extras reserves $49 for the base, leaves $0 due on card, then pays $30 for extras at renewal, leaving $121. You can turn prepaid first off to release the base hold.
Extra CMSes have a 48-hour grace period. A sufficient top-up during that period pays the whole extras cohort. If it expires unpaid, those extras freeze; included CMSes are unaffected. Extras never charge your card automatically.
No. Each paid period includes 1,000 credits of AI usage, consumed before prepaid. Your AI limit starts at 1,000 credits and is adjustable. Raising it adds no money; topping up does not raise it. A limit of zero pauses AI without affecting hosting.
Open the billing portal to update your card and retry the payment. Polar handles payment retries. If the subscription is revoked after failed retries, the account’s CMSes freeze. The separate 48-hour grace period applies only to prepaid extras.
Your sites stay online as long as your account is active. When you cancel, they go offline. Before you go, export everything: posts, pages, members and subscriber lists.
Upgrade anytime. Each plan includes a number of active CMSes, and you can add more from prepaid credits: $15 a month on Base, $12 on Pro or $8 on Business. A CMS added mid-period costs only the days left until billing day. Pause the CMS on a site you’re not working on and it stops counting, while the site stays published.
WordPress needs separate hosting, plugins, maintenance and invoices for every site. SMZD runs all of your sites from one account and one bill, with nothing to patch and SEO tools built in.
The site stays online and indexed, exactly as you last published it. Editing and newsletters stop until you turn the CMS back on, and nothing is lost in between.
No, but every plan comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee. If SMZD isn’t for you, ask for a full refund.
No. Your memberships, newsletter subscriptions and ad revenue are 100% yours. SMZD is paid by your plan, never by a share of your income.
You can, but sites grow on pages people want to read. SMZD’s AI does the work around your writing: keyword research, competitor pages, briefs and first drafts. You bring what you know.
No. Mass-produced spam sites violate our fair use policy and will be removed. SMZD is built for publishers who create real properties with helpful content that people and search engines both value. As for how many strong sites you can run — the only limit is your ambition.
Migrations preserve your URLs, redirects, canonical tags, and sitemap structure. Domain authority and indexed pages transfer cleanly. We do not break what you have already built.
Dear diary,what a time to Samizdat.
Start with one site or bring the whole pile. Everything you publish stays up while you work on the next one.
60-day money-back guarantee · Cancel anytime