PRPosting alternative: Serpier and PRPosting compared
Serpier makes this page. Every fact about PRPosting comes from PRPosting's own website, and the facts on this page were last checked on . Sources are listed at the end.
Serpier and PRPosting both let you pay for publications on other companies' websites, and both offer monitoring and writing. Serpier also tracks AI visibility, so tracking and placements sit in the same account.
Stay with PRPosting if you want a stated guarantee on article placements and daily monitoring. Choose Serpier if you want a free account that shows every price, or AI visibility tracking next to your placements.
As of 28 October 2026, PRPosting sells no subscription. PRPosting states: No deposit fee from the vendor; the buyer pays only the payment gateway commission and the full credited amount is spendable. How the vendor earns (markup on publisher price) is not stated. Serpier states: Price per placement, plus monthly plans.
Where Serpier is better
Buying a link is one step. Serpier also suggests which step to take next, and does it once you approve.
- Navi, Serpier's AI agent, reads your website, SEO performance, AI visibility and link monitoring, and suggests what to do next, each with why it is there: for example ordering a placement from a shortlist of publishers to work on a keyword sitting just off page one, or fixing robots.txt, llms.txt, the sitemap or meta tags.
- You click Hand over to Navi or I'll do it myself.
- Navi does the work, and you approve before anything is bought or changed. As your rankings, AI visibility and links change, new suggestions keep coming.
PRPosting does not state whether it suggests next steps or whether it has a task board with an AI agent that can take tasks.
- Serpier's Marketplace offers 200,000 media agreements, with filters for country, content language and category. PRPosting lists more than 23,250 websites. The two numbers count different things, so ask each company what one site or agreement means.
- Serpier tracks AI visibility and sells placements in one account. Serpier tracks AI visibility on Serpier Starter, Serpier Growth and Serpier Enterprise. Serpier also sells an AI Publication: AI Publication: an article with no links or only nofollow links, for brand mentions that AI assistants pick up. PRPosting does not state whether it measures AI visibility, and PRPosting does not state placements sold for AI visibility.
- Serpier's prices are visible: No, a free account shows every price. Ordering works on the free Serpier Light plan. PRPosting does not state prices visible without an account.
- Serpier has an MCP server that can search the Marketplace, change the cart and place an order, and Serpier offers an API on Serpier Enterprise. PRPosting does not state whether you can order from an AI assistant through MCP, and PRPosting does not state whether you can order by API.
- Serpier also tracks your site's SEO performance and runs scheduled automations, such as a weekly summary. PRPosting does not state whether it tracks SEO performance or whether it runs scheduled automations.
Where PRPosting is better
- PRPosting gives a free guarantee for the safety of the published article for 3 months. Serpier's stated guarantee is that homepage placements last 12 months.
- PRPosting checks posted publications this way: yes: daily check of posted publications for indexation, text or link changes. Serpier's Publication Tracker also checks that each link stays live and unchanged.
- PRPosting reports Ahrefs Domain Rating, Ahrefs Traffic, Ahrefs Rank, Ahrefs Backlinks, Ahrefs Referring Domains. Serpier shows Price, Domain Rating (DR), organic traffic, referring domains, relevance score, country, content language and category.
- PRPosting states its pace: Placing a publication takes from several hours to several days, depending on the waiting list or approval by the site's editors.
What else you get with Serpier
Serpier is one platform for AI visibility, SEO and link building. Besides what this page compares with PRPosting, it includes:
AI visibility tracking
See how often AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity mention your brand, with share of voice, rank, sentiment and the sources they cite, next to the competitors you name.[14][10][24]
SEO performance
Track where your site ranks in search, find keywords close to page one, and see referring domains and page speed. With Search Console connected, Serpier also flags keywords losing clicks and pages competing for the same query.[18]
Suggestions and tasks with Navi
Navi, Serpier's AI agent, suggests next steps for your site, links, rankings and AI visibility. Hand a task to Navi and it quotes the order, drafts the change to your site or drafts an email to the publisher, and waits for your approval.[20][21]
Automations
Have Navi run a prompt on a schedule, such as a weekly summary of your SEO performance and AI visibility.[22]
Link monitoring
The Publication Tracker checks that every link you bought or added stays live, indexed and as ordered, and spots edits to the article before they cost you the link.[25]
Publishing to your own site
Connect WordPress, Shopify, Magento or Umbraco, and Navi publishes fixes and new pages after you approve them.[26]
Connections and MCP
Connect Search Console, Analytics, Shopify and other tools, and use Serpier from your own AI tools through MCP.[27][28]
Placements on real media
Order articles and links on other companies' websites in the Serpier Marketplace, including AI Publications: articles for brand mentions that AI assistants pick up.[29][13]
See Serpier with your own brand
PRPosting pricing and Serpier pricing
Serpier
€0 a month
Order placements on the free Serpier Light plan. You pay for each placement you order, and no subscription is needed.[10]
Monthly plans are optional and add tracking on top: Serpier Starter (€199 a month) adds SEO and AI visibility monitoring and watches up to 500 publications, and Serpier Growth (€599 a month) covers more projects, prompts and publications.[10][10] See all plans
PRPosting
We found no published prices on PRPosting's own website.
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Every feature, limit and term we compared, with the source for each value. Serpier on the left, PRPosting on the right.
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|---|---|---|
| What it does | Serpier is an AI-powered SEO and AI visibility platform. It combines SEO intelligence, prompt strategy, performance monitoring, and automated execution in one system, so you can rank on Google and get cited by AI.[1] | An outreach/guest posting platform for promoting sites using content.[2] |
| Link building | ||
| How you buy | Mix: a self-serve marketplace and link plans quoted by sales[3]Navi, the AI agent, can also search the marketplace and order. Third-party publishers publish the placements. | Outreach and guest posting platform for promoting sites using content[2] |
| Publishers | 200,000 media agreements[4]Across every category and country, with filters for country, content language and category. | More than 23,250 websites[5] |
| Prices visible without an account | No, a free account shows every price[6]Prices are shown per project, because some sites charge more for certain industries. | Not stated[7] |
| How the vendor charges | Price per placement, plus monthly plans[8]Serpier pays each publisher a separately agreed price and does not publish its markup. Ordering is also possible on the free Light plan. | No deposit fee from the vendor; the buyer pays only the payment gateway commission and the full credited amount is spendable. How the vendor earns (markup on publisher price) is not stated[2] |
| Published prices | UK media from €13, and half cost under €400[6]Prices differ by market and by your project's industry. | Not stated[7] |
| Minimum order | Not stated[9] | Minimum payment into the account: 10 USD[2] |
| Article writing | Included in publications[10]In the cart you choose whether Serpier writes the article or you supply it. Each writing product shows its fee, or Free, before you order. | PRposting specialists will prepare the content in 2-5 days, customized for the desired platform[2] |
| Time to publish | Not stated[11] | Placing a publication takes from several hours to several days, depending on the waiting list or approval by the site's editors[2] |
| Link guarantee | Homepage placements last 12 months[8]For article placements, Serpier does not state a guarantee period or a replacement if a link disappears. | A free guarantee for the safety of the published article for 3 months[2] |
| Checks after publishing | Yes[12]The Publication Tracker checks that each link stays live, indexed and as ordered, and that the article is unchanged. Live pages every 30 days, offline pages every 7 days. Up to 10 publications on Light, 500 on Starter, 2,000 on Growth and a custom number on Enterprise. | Yes: daily check of posted publications for indexation, text or link changes[2] |
| Publisher metrics shown | Price, Domain Rating (DR), organic traffic, referring domains, relevance score, country, content language and category[13] | Ahrefs Domain Rating, Ahrefs Traffic, Ahrefs Rank, Ahrefs Backlinks, Ahrefs Referring Domains[2] |
| Measures AI visibility | Yes, on Starter, Growth and Enterprise[14]Light has no AI visibility tracking. | Not stated[5] |
| Placements sold for AI visibility | AI Publication: an article with no links or only nofollow links, for brand mentions that AI assistants pick up[13]Writing options for it include Brand mention, PR Post and Co-citation. | Not stated[5] |
| Order by API | Partly[15]On Enterprise you can search the Marketplace through the API. The API reference lists no endpoint for placing orders. | Not stated[2] |
| Order from an AI assistant (MCP) | Yes[16]The MCP server can search the Marketplace, change the cart, place an order and read the Publication Tracker. Claude connects on any plan. ChatGPT cannot place orders, and other clients need Enterprise. | Not stated[2] |
| Refunds | No refunds unless agreed. If a publisher fails to deliver, Serpier may give an account credit.[3]A placement that a publisher declines is refunded, with suggested replacement sites. Subscription payments are non-refundable. | Refund policy page: strict non-refund policy once a service is paid[17] |
| Other features | ||
| SEO performance tracking | Yes[18]Included on Starter, Growth and Enterprise. SEO Performance tracks rankings in Google, Yahoo or Baidu, on desktop and mobile, daily, weekly or monthly. With Search Console connected it also flags keywords losing clicks, low click-through rates and pages competing for the same query. | Not stated[19] |
| Suggested next steps | Yes[20]Examples: order a placement for a keyword just off page one, fix robots.txt, llms.txt, the sitemap or meta tags, repair a dropped link, or write a page where competitors outrank you. | Not stated[19] |
| Task board and AI agent | Yes[21]Navi can quote an order, draft a change to your site, draft an email to a publisher about a link fix, or research. Nothing is bought or changed on your site until you approve. | Not stated[19] |
| Scheduled automations | Yes[22]Schedules: every hour, day, week or month, or a custom cron. | Not stated[19] |
| Data, contracts and switching | ||
| EU invoicing and VAT | EUR, prices exclude VAT[3]Your account currency can be DKK, EUR, USD or GBP. | Account balance in UAH, USD, EUR, PLN or GBP; VAT handling and invoicing not stated[2] |
| Company | ||
| Headquarters | Denmark[23]Headquarters in Aarhus. The company is Serpier ApS. | Not stated[5] |
| Founded | 2024[23] | Not stated[5] |
How to switch from PRPosting to Serpier
- Keep a list of the publications you bought on PRPosting, with the link and the target page, so you can set up the same monitoring elsewhere.
- Start on the free Serpier Light plan to see every price in the Marketplace. Serpier shows prices per project, because some sites charge more for certain industries.
- Add your key pages to the Serpier Publication Tracker. Serpier writes the article or you supply it: Included in publications.
- Check the terms of your PRPosting balance first. PRPosting has a refund policy page: strict non-refund policy once a service is paid, and its minimum payment into the account: 10 usd.
Questions and answers
How does PRPosting charge?
PRPosting: No deposit fee from the vendor; the buyer pays only the payment gateway commission and the full credited amount is spendable. How the vendor earns (markup on publisher price) is not stated. PRPosting also states: Minimum payment into the account: 10 USD. Serpier states: Price per placement, plus monthly plans. Serpier bills in EUR, prices exclude VAT.
How big is the PRPosting catalog?
PRPosting lists more than 23,250 websites. Serpier offers 200,000 media agreements. The units differ, so compare the sites you actually need.
Does PRPosting write the content?
Yes. PRposting specialists will prepare the content in 2-5 days, customized for the desired platform. At Serpier, included in publications.
What happens if I want a refund?
PRPosting has a refund policy page: strict non-refund policy once a service is paid. Serpier: No refunds unless agreed. If a publisher fails to deliver, Serpier may give an account credit..
Where do the facts on this page come from?
Every fact about PRPosting comes from PRPosting's own website, and every fact about Serpier comes from Serpier's own website. Review sites are not used. The facts were last checked on 28 October 2026, and each one links to its source at the end of the page.
What else does Serpier do?
Serpier is one platform for AI visibility, SEO and link building. Besides what this page compares, it includes AI visibility tracking, SEO performance, suggestions and tasks with Navi, automations, link monitoring, publishing to your own site, connections and MCP and placements on real media. See how often AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity mention your brand, with share of voice, rank, sentiment and the sources they cite, next to the competitors you name. Track where your site ranks in search, find keywords close to page one, and see referring domains and page speed. With Search Console connected, Serpier also flags keywords losing clicks and pages competing for the same query. Navi, Serpier's AI agent, suggests next steps for your site, links, rankings and AI visibility. Hand a task to Navi and it quotes the order, drafts the change to your site or drafts an email to the publisher, and waits for your approval. Have Navi run a prompt on a schedule, such as a weekly summary of your SEO performance and AI visibility. The Publication Tracker checks that every link you bought or added stays live, indexed and as ordered, and spots edits to the article before they cost you the link. Connect WordPress, Shopify, Magento or Umbraco, and Navi publishes fixes and new pages after you approve them. Connect Search Console, Analytics, Shopify and other tools, and use Serpier from your own AI tools through MCP. Order articles and links on other companies' websites in the Serpier Marketplace, including AI Publications: articles for brand mentions that AI assistants pick up.
Sources and method
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PRPosting: prposting.com/faq
Shows: what it does; how you buy; how the vendor charges; minimum order; article writing; time to publish; link guarantee; checks after publishing; publisher metrics shown; EU invoicing and VAT.
Does not state: order by API; order from an AI assistant (MCP).
Checked on 27 October 2026.
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Serpier: serpier.com/terms-conditions
Shows: how you buy; refunds; EU invoicing and VAT.
Checked on 27 October 2026. Archived copy
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PRPosting: prposting.com
Shows: publishers.
Does not state: measures AI visibility; placements sold for AI visibility; headquarters; founded.
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Shows: prices visible without an account; published prices; placement prices; prices shown.
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PRPosting: prposting.com/publishers
Does not state: prices visible without an account; published prices.
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Serpier: docs.serpier.com/publisher-deals
Shows: how the vendor charges; link guarantee.
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Serpier: docs.serpier.com/cart
Does not state: minimum order.
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Serpier: serpier.com/pricing
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Does not publish: the price of Enterprise.
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Serpier: docs.serpier.com/orders
Does not state: time to publish.
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Serpier: docs.serpier.com/publication-tracker
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Serpier: docs.serpier.com/marketplace
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Serpier: docs.serpier.com/ai-visibility
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Method and what each row means
We read each company's own website: its pricing page, docs, help center, terms and announcements. Review sites, directories and articles about a company are never a source. Every value links to its source, with the date we checked it. Serpier's facts follow the same rule and come from Serpier's own website.
Prices are per month and exclude VAT, in the currency the company publishes. A price in another currency is also shown in EUR, at the ECB reference rate of 26 October 2026. Some companies show other prices or currencies depending on where the visitor is, so the page says which visitor the prices were shown to.
Each value in the table is one of these, or the number or words the company uses:
- Yes:
- the company's own pages say the product has it.
- No:
- the company's own pages say it is not offered, or a complete plan table leaves it out.
- Partly:
- offered with a limit, written next to the value.
- Not stated:
- we could not find it on the company's own pages. It does not mean No.
- Not public:
- the company does not publish it, for example a price behind Contact sales.
What each row means
- What it does:
- What the product does in one sentence, based on the company's own website.
- How you buy:
- Whether it is a self-serve marketplace, a managed service, a digital PR agency or a mix.
- Publishers:
- How many publishers or sites the vendor says it offers, with its main markets and languages.
- Prices visible without an account:
- Whether you can see what each publisher costs before you sign up.
- How the vendor charges:
- How the vendor says it earns money: a markup or commission on the publisher's price, a subscription or a fixed price per link.
- Published prices:
- Prices the vendor publishes, for example a price per link at a given domain rating, with the plan or tier.
- Minimum order:
- The smallest deposit or order the vendor accepts.
- Article writing:
- Whether writing the article is included, costs extra and how much, or is left to you.
- Time to publish:
- How long the vendor says it takes to publish.
- Link guarantee:
- How long a link is guaranteed and what happens if it disappears, such as a replacement or a refund.
- Checks after publishing:
- Whether the vendor checks after publishing that a link stays live, indexed and unchanged.
- Publisher metrics shown:
- Which publisher metrics you see before you buy, such as Domain Rating, Domain Authority or traffic.
- Measures AI visibility:
- Whether the product measures how often AI answers mention your brand.
- Placements sold for AI visibility:
- A product the vendor sells for visibility in AI answers, named the way the vendor names it.
- Order by API:
- Whether you can order through an API.
- Order from an AI assistant (MCP):
- Whether you can order from an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT through an MCP server.
- Refunds:
- The vendor's refund policy in one line.
- SEO performance tracking:
- Whether the product tracks your own website in search: rankings, clicks, or keywords close to page one.
- Suggested next steps:
- Whether the product suggests what to do next for your site, rankings, links or AI visibility.
- Task board and AI agent:
- Whether you can track the work in the product and hand tasks to an AI agent that does them, with your approval.
- Scheduled automations:
- Whether the product can run a task or report on a schedule you set, such as a weekly summary.
- EU invoicing and VAT:
- How the company invoices a business in the EU: the currency, and whether VAT is charged or handled by reverse charge with a valid VAT number.
- Headquarters:
- The country of the company's headquarters, as its own website states it.
- Founded:
- The year the company was founded, as its own website states it.
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