Pay once a year. Refresh as much content as you want. Your AI provider bills you at cost; we never meter you.
The plugin itself. Real AI, no trial, no credit card.
$0forever
Perfect for solo creators and small blogs.
Founder$59/ year
Great for agencies and content teams.
Founder$149/ year
For publishers and teams with big content portfolios.
$299/ year
Subscription only. No unlimited LTD, ever.
14-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan. No questions asked.
A licence buys you the plugin. Every refresh still runs on your own AI provider account, billed at their price, not ours.
One Balanced-level refresh of an article of about 1,200 words, web research and fact-check included, on your own key. The plugin shows this estimate before a refresh you confirm from the editor, the posts list or Content health.
| Model | Input tokens | Output tokens | Est. cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | 239,736 | 20,328 | $0.81 |
| GPT-6 Sol | 239,736 | 20,328 | $0.81 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 18,312 | 20,328 | $0.09 |
Credit-based tools often start at $29 a month before you refresh a single post. Unstale's free plugin is $0, and Pro is a flat yearly fee. Neither one ever marks up your API bill.
| Capability | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Minimal and Balanced levels | Included | Included |
| Live web research and fact-check | Included | Included |
| Review queue with diff before publish | Included | Included |
| Batch size | Up to 50 posts per batch from the content health screen | Up to 100 posts, from the Bulk screen or the Posts list |
| Strong and Maximal levels (TL;DR, CTAs, quiz) | Not included | Included |
| Bulk refresh with a level per batch, or from the Posts list | Not included | Included |
| Scheduled automation and per-category rules | Not included | Included |
| Custom instruction for a refresh, from the editor or an AI agent | Not included | Included |
| Priority email support | Not included | Included |
| Credits or token markup | Never | Never |
Lifetime access to the plan you choose, with a permanent Founder badge. Available until the window below closes. No unlimited LTD, ever.
Window: until October 31, 2026
See lifetime pricing$149 one-time, 1 site
$349 one-time, 5 sites
Unstale is a WordPress plugin that rewrites, fact-checks and republishes stale posts with AI, using your own API key. The free plugin on wordpress.org runs real AI at the Minimal and Balanced levels, and sends batches of up to 50 posts from its content health screen. Pro adds the Strong and Maximal levels, scheduled automation, per-category rules, a custom instruction for a refresh from the editor or an AI agent, and bulk refresh of up to 100 posts at once, at any level from its Bulk screen or at your automation level from the Posts list.
Yes. Unstale is bring-your-own-key: use a key from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. You connect it in WordPress under Settings > Connectors, so WordPress keeps it and the plugin never stores it. Neither your key nor your content reaches our servers, and you pay your provider directly, at cost.
Every rewrite lands in a review queue with a side-by-side diff before anything goes live, and you approve or reject each refresh, unless you turn on automatic publishing, off by default. A refresh never moves the URL or the slug. The version from before is kept as a WordPress revision when revisions are on, or in the job snapshot on Elementor and SeedProd, and Restore brings it back as long as the post has not been edited since.
No. Install the plugin, connect an AI provider in WordPress, pick a level. The cost estimate is shown before a refresh you confirm from the editor, the posts list or Content health.
Yes. Plans differ only by the number of sites, and you can switch at any time.
Every plan comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. If Unstale is not the right fit, contact us within 14 days and we will refund your payment in full. See the refund policy. EU/EEA consumers also have a statutory right of withdrawal, explained in our terms.