Pricing
Free core. Priced per site. No exceptions.
The free core is non-negotiable. The Editor stays free on wordpress.org. Everything above it is priced against what these sites already pay for the tools RapidFire replaces.
The ladder
Editor
The free core, GPL, on wordpress.org.
Free
A clean writing surface with protected terms, version-aware saves, and no lock-in.
- The Lexical editor, in place of TinyMCE
- Slash menu, markdown shortcuts, floating bar
- Drag and drop, editable images
- Writing-rail basics, including reading ease
- The round-trip canary
- Block-editor round trip, per post type
- One AI verb: Fix this sentence
Advanced
Everything with no running cost behind it.
$35/ site / year
Tables, custom styles, paste cleanup, find and replace, stats, footnotes, and twelve more blocks in one upgrade.
- Tables and extra formatting
- Palette text color and custom styles
- Paste cleanup
- Find and replace
- Stats and footnotes
- Twelve more blocks
Most sites start here
Pro
Pro is about the writing.
$99/ site / year
AI-assisted writing with your organization's voice, grammar checks, protected terms, and whole-module tools in one workflow.
- Everything in Advanced
- AI with Voices, with a site spend cap
- LanguageTool grammar with protected terms
- Video search and Instant Images
- RapidFire on block-editor post types
- Whole-module tools
- Export to .docx and PDF
Studio
Studio is about the page, the design, the team and the audit trail.
$199/ site / year
Team controls, a page builder, design layer, migration tools, audit trail, and a written guarantee in one toolchain.
- Everything in Pro
- The page builder and Design Layer
- The RapidFire Theme
- Elementor migrator and site wizard
- Audit trail: AI request log export, a revision on every save, a per-post change log
- The written guarantee and priority support
- Real-time co-editing when it ships
Beside the ladder
Content Engine
Requires the Editor. One price per site, per year.
$149–199/ site / year
Turn documents and frameworks into structured course content inside WordPress without manual rebuilds.
- Course tree with outline numbers
- Proposed beside Live, with paragraph diff
- Import from a document, and Build from a framework
- Whole-module checks
- Tiles and statements Stage 8
Best value for a course site
Learning bundle
Studio and the Content Engine together.
$449
One writing toolchain, one design system, one support path, and one stylesheet across the whole course.
- Everything in Studio
- Everything in the Content Engine
- One stylesheet across the whole course
- Content that moves between hosts without conversion
Quoted, never published
Publisher / Enterprise
Studio for the whole organization, priced on the organization rather than the site.
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Organization-wide publishing standards, shared blocks, network audit exports, and consolidated billing.
- Every site, unlimited authors
- Network keys and site spend caps
- Network audit export
- Named compatibility notes
- The written guarantee and a named contact
What Studio and above put in writing
The guarantee is already true.
Charging for it is the point.
None of these is a new promise. They are the behaviors the build already enforces, written down in a form an agency can hand to a client.
Every save is a revision
Including a batch save across a whole module, which writes one revision per touched step.
Every diff is inside a text node
No tag, no shortcode and no protected term is ever touched by a rewrite. The build fails if one is.
A page that cannot round-trip is never written
The canary makes it read-only and offers the classic editor instead. Nothing is rewritten behind an author's back.
The honest notes
How this pricing was arrived at.
- Is this pricing final?
- No. Pricing is proposed, not decided. These are the launch prices the plan currently carries, set against what the target populations already pay. The Professional tier arrives at Stage 8, and prices may move before then.
- Why is the core free?
- Because the wordpress.org listing is the distribution, and nothing in the TinyMCE deprecation breaks a site. Urgency is not a reason to charge for a rescue, and the WordPress community is right to punish rescue pricing.
- Why is there no site pack and no agency bundle?
- RapidFire is priced per site, always, and an organization is quoted as an organization. There are no site packs and no volume discounts — the Publisher tier covers a whole network under one key.
- Why does Advanced exist at $35?
- It holds only the features with no per-site running cost behind them, so the ladder separates cleanly: Advanced is what we can ship at no marginal cost, and Pro is everything with a service behind it. Advanced is also the registration step that turns an anonymous install into an account.
- Do I pay for AI tokens twice?
- No. Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, and the AI features cost you nothing beyond your own provider bill. Studio-proxied AI is offered at cost plus a margin for people who would rather not manage a key. Either way the spend cap is set per site, and when it is reached the next request is declined. You do not find out at the end of the month.
- Is there a lifetime license?
- No, and there will not be. Multi-year prepaid is the only discount that exists: 15% off at two years, and 25% off at three, on any tier. Prepaid years fund the build; a lifetime license sells future revenue for a one-time sum and ends badly for the customer as often as for the vendor.
- What is shipping today?
- RapidFire 0.13.0 is already writing, editing and publishing real content in WordPress. The status table on the proof page lists every feature that is live now and every feature that is planned for upcoming releases.
Start with the free core.
Install it, run the three tests, and add a paid component only when you hit the thing it solves.