Reviewer
Founder and lead reviewer
Dana spent nine years running a six-person marketing agency in Austin, where payroll depended on picking software that actually shipped work. She started Tested AI after buying one too many tools on the strength of a demo video. She has personally paid for and run every tool reviewed on this site for at least two weeks of real client work before scoring it.
Grammarly folded Premium and Business into one Pro plan in 2026. The price swings 150 percent on billing cycle alone. What Free covers, and what the prompt limits mean.
Adobe Express pricing, its generative AI credit system, and how the free and Premium tiers actually compare to Canva for a small business.
Canva Magic Studio is real and useful at $0. Its paid team pricing has repriced more than once. What to expect from each tier, and why to confirm the number yourself.
Copy.ai pricing, what the $29 Chat plan actually includes, and why there is no middle ground between it and a $1,000-a-month workflow plan.
Jasper AI pricing, Brand Voice training, and where the Pro plan hits a wall before Business pricing kicks in. Based on Jasper's own documentation and pricing pages.
Notion AI is not sold separately. Here is what plan you actually need to get full access, what Free and Plus users get instead, and whether it is worth the jump.
Surfer SEO pricing across four content-optimization tiers, what the Discovery plan actually limits, and when a small business should wait before buying it.
Canva and Adobe Express both offer a real free plan and a cheap Pro tier. The actual difference shows up in AI credit limits and where team pricing gets unpredictable.
Three genuinely different pricing models for AI writing, compared on what a small team actually pays and what each one assumes about how you already work.
Three AI marketing tools worth the money for a small business, ranked on price versus what you actually get, from content optimization to email automation.