A practical Readdy alternative for counting what each plan actually meters

Most builders meter one thing. Readdy meters three at once, and they do not move together. Credits pay for the AI work. Projects are capped by plan: two on free, ten on Starter, fifty on Pro. Published sites are a separate allowance again, and extra ones are billed monthly. Working out what a given month costs means checking all three.

Takeaway: A project is not a site, and neither is a credit. Three allowances, three ways to run out.

This is the one that catches agencies and anyone with more than a single site. Readdy's free plan includes zero sites, so it builds and previews but publishes nothing. Starter includes one, Pro two, and every site beyond that is $6 a month on Starter, Pro and Agency, or $4.80 on Agency Pro. Grigora's plans carry one, two or five sites and charge nothing extra per site.

Takeaway: Close on five sites, and the shape of the bill is different: one plan against a plan plus per-site fees.

The honest category, and Readdy wins it, with a caveat worth knowing. Grigora has no code export at all, so on that point there is no contest. The caveat is the tier. Readdy's homepage says site code can be exported and self-managed, without naming a plan. Its pricing table lists Export Code on Agency Pro and Ultimate only, not on Free, Starter, Pro or Agency. Agency Pro is $119 a month billed annually, or $199 monthly.

Takeaway: Readdy can hand back the code. Read which plan before assuming yours does.

Readdy's pricing page publishes allowances but no rate: nothing states what one credit buys or what a generation or an edit costs. Third-party reviews quote a figure, which is not the same as the vendor stating one. That makes the free plan's 250 credits a month and Starter's 30,000 hard to translate into work until you are inside. Grigora spends credits on generation and AI writing, and manual editing in the block editor spends nothing.

Takeaway: A larger allowance is only better if you know what it is spent on.

Readdy captures well. Its homepage describes a built-in form system for leads and messages, and plans carry lead-collection caps, a thousand on Starter and ten thousand on Pro. What the homepage does not describe is sending campaigns to those people. Grigora includes the subscriber list, the campaign builder, segmentation and automations.

Takeaway: Readdy collects the contact. Mailing it is another product.

Both sell, by different routes. Readdy's homepage says you can sell physical products, digital downloads and subscription services with Stripe or Shopify connected, which means an existing Shopify catalogue can stay where it is. Grigora's store is native with variants, stock and digital downloads, and takes no platform commission.

Takeaway: Readdy plugs into the checkout you have. Grigora gives you one and takes nothing.

Both publish, and Readdy's homepage is explicit that you can publish blogs and optimise for SEO. The difference is structure rather than existence: Grigora's CMS carries directories and collections, author profiles, and moderated comments with admin replies.

Takeaway: Readdy publishes posts. Grigora builds a structure around them.

Readdy has built for people running client work and it shows. Agency at $72 a month billed annually carries six sites, a hundred and fifty projects, client management, email, SEO analysis and outreach. Agency Pro adds white label and export. Grigora sells White Label as a separate plan at $199 a month, and its standard plans top out at five sites.

Takeaway: For a shop building client sites, Readdy's agency tiers are the more complete offer.

Both advertise annual rates, and both are honest about them. The difference shows once the site count moves. Grigora's plan price covers its sites; Readdy's grows with each one published, which is the intended design for an agency and an unwelcome surprise for a business that simply added a microsite.

Takeaway: The gap is not the headline price, it is what happens when you publish the second site.