Koala AI
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Koala AI is a text platform of five products, listed in the features block of the pricing page and on the integrations page.
KoalaWriter writes whole articles and rewrites finished ones, yours and other people's, with automatic optimisation for search results, internal linking and a bulk mode. The outline can be edited before generation starts — the plan editor is separate from the text — and there are 7 writing styles and 4 points of view. KoalaChat is a chat with access to internet data. Three more products are named without detail: KoalaImages, KoalaLinks, KoalaMagnets.
Input and output languages are named nowhere — not pricing, integrations, terms or privacy policy. Marked absent: read, and not answered. The models, by contrast, are named outright — GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, GPT-5 Mini — and that matters, because paid word consumption depends on which one you pick.
Which platforms it works with
One-click publishing reaches WordPress, keeping formatting and images, plus Shopify, Webflow CMS and Ghost — from the integrations page.
A webhook to an arbitrary address links on to Zapier and Make.com, so a chain to any other service is buildable. Named separately: a Google Sheets integration and the tool's own API. Both are marked in the comparison table only on the paid steps, from Essentials up.
Direct publishing to social networks is not in the list: text goes into site management systems and shops, not feeds.
Pricing
From the pricing page, US dollars, monthly billing as served by default.
Ordinary steps: Essentials 9 USD a month, Professional 49, Boost 99, Growth 179, Elite 350, Advanced 500. Volume steps: Scale I 750, Scale II 1250, Scale III 2000.
Annual billing discounts 20 percent and changes delivery: all credits arrive at once, in advance for the year, where monthly billing refreshes them each month and holds you inside it.
Entry minimum: 9 USD a month on Essentials.
What is free
No permanent free plan — marked absent. The pricing page shows no free step; the lowest-priced one is paid.
In place of a trial there is a refund: money back within 15 days if less than 15,000 words and 100 messages have been spent. Two numbers, neither to be exceeded.
Note the coincidence: 15,000 words is exactly the monthly quota of Essentials, the lowest-priced plan, so the refund right runs out with the entry step's monthly volume. And a refund is not a trial — you pay first, and money returns only if both thresholds hold.
A free trial may have been described on the sign-up page, which did not open during the check. So: not "there is no free trial", but "there is none on the pages read".
Restrictions
Counting runs in two units at once — words in KoalaWriter, messages in KoalaChat — and both quotas are monthly.
Essentials 15,000 words and 250 messages; Professional 100,000 and 1000; Boost 250,000 and 2500; Growth 500,000 and 5000; Elite 1,000,000 and 10,000; Advanced 1,500,000 and 12,500; Scale I 2,500,000 and 15,000; Scale II 5,000,000 and 20,000; Scale III 10,000,000 and 25,000.
A reservation from the pricing page, without which those numbers read wrongly: words are counted on GPT-5 Mini, and choosing GPT-5.2 or Claude 4.5 Sonnet doubles the word consumption for the same article. So 15,000 words on Essentials is 15,000 on GPT-5 Mini and 7500 on either senior model. Budget by the published quota with a senior model and you are out by half.
The two units do not grow together: words rise about 667-fold to the top step, messages 100-fold, so chat-heavy work should be budgeted by the second number. Credits arrive in advance for the year on annual billing, monthly otherwise.
Rights to the output
Rights pass to the user, said outright in section 2, "Intellectual Property Rights", of the terms of service: "Furthermore, we hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest in and to the Content".
What Content means there matters: input and output together. On input separately — "You retain all rights to your Input".
The tool keeps the right to use Content to run the service, comply with the law and enforce its policies.
By plan nothing differs: the 9 USD step and Scale III at 2000 USD get identical wording.
No requirement to mark generated text is raised — no watermarks, no metadata, no C2PA in the documents read. Marked absent.
Do they train on your data
No direct answer — marked absent. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy speaks of training models on what the user enters.
The terms grant the right to use Content in order to "provide and maintain the Services, comply with applicable law, and enforce our policies". Training is not among those purposes.
Koala AI runs on third-party models — GPT-5.2, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, GPT-5 Mini — whose suppliers' terms are not reflected in Koala's documents. Koala's silence does not answer for how a model supplier handles data.
No opt-out mechanism is described in the terms or the policy read — another absent fact.
How you earn with it
On commercial use the answer is direct: the terms assign you all rights to Content, and Content is input and output together. No separate ban on commercial use of what is written appears, and no differences by plan.
Two bans bear on earning. Using the tool to compete with it is forbidden. And reselling access through automation will not work: automated use through scripts and scrapers is named among the prohibited activities, even though the tool has an official API, opened from the paid steps. Anyone writing for clients in regulated industries should also read the next section.
What it will not do
Serve work under industry regulation it refuses outright. On HIPAA and FISMA: "if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services". Separately, use that breaches the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is forbidden. Medical, federal and financial data falling under those acts do not belong here.
Deceive users it will not permit, nor let data taken from the service be used for harassment. Spam and repetitive mailings are forbidden. Automated use through scripts and scrapers is forbidden — while the tool does have its own API. Address harvesting is forbidden separately. Circumventing technical limits it will not allow. Compete with itself it will not permit: building a competing product on it is named among the prohibited activities. All of that from section 7, "Prohibited Activities", and section 1.
Publish to social networks it cannot: the integrations lead to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow CMS, Ghost and a webhook.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
a text generation platform of five products: KoalaWriter writes and rewrites whole articles with automatic SEO optimisation for search results, internal linking and a bulk generation mode; KoalaChat is a chat with access to data from the internet; plus KoalaImages, KoalaLinks and KoalaMagnets; there is a mode for rewriting other people's and your own articles, a choice of 7 writing styles and 4 points of view, and an editor for the article's structure before generation
the list is taken from the features block on the pricing page and the integrations page; claims of the «best AI writer» kind were not carried over
source, checked 2026-08-07
Platforms
one-click publishing to WordPress with formatting and images preserved, and to Shopify, Webflow CMS and Ghost; a webhook to an arbitrary address and through it a link-up with Zapier and Make.com; integration with Google Sheets and an API of its own
the API and Google Sheets are not available on every plan — by the comparison table on the pricing page they are marked on the paid tiers from Essentials upwards
source, checked 2026-08-07
Pricing
Essentials 9 USD, Professional 49 USD, Boost 99 USD, Growth 179 USD, Elite 350 USD, Advanced 500 USD a month; plus the volume plans Scale I 750 USD, Scale II 1250 USD and Scale III 2000 USD a month; yearly billing gives a 20 per cent discount and all the credits are issued at once
the prices are given for monthly billing, as the page returns by default
source, checked 2026-08-07
9 USD a month (the Essentials plan)
source, checked 2026-08-07
Limits and restrictions
the limit is in words and messages a month: Essentials 15,000 KoalaWriter words and 250 KoalaChat messages, Professional 100,000 and 1000, Boost 250,000 and 2500, Growth 500,000 and 5000, Elite 1,000,000 and 10,000, Advanced 1,500,000 and 12,500, Scale I 2,500,000 and 15,000, Scale II 5,000,000 and 20,000, Scale III 10,000,000 and 25,000. An important caveat from the pricing page: words are counted for the GPT-5 Mini model, and choosing GPT-5.2 or Claude 4.5 Sonnet doubles the word consumption for such an article
on yearly billing the credits are issued in advance for the whole year; on monthly billing they renew once a month
source, checked 2026-08-07
Restrictions
the service is expressly not fitted for sector regulation: verbatim «if your interactions would be subjected to such laws, you may not use the Services» about HIPAA and FISMA, plus a separate ban on use in a way that breaches the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Deceiving users, using the data obtained for harassment, spam and repeated mailings, automated use through scripts and scrapers, harvesting addresses, circumventing technical restrictions and using the service to compete with it are all forbidden
section 7, Prohibited Activities, and section 1
source, checked 2026-08-07
Legal
the result is transferred to the user, verbatim: «Furthermore, we hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest in and to the Content», where Content means input and output together; the same place says «You retain all rights to your Input». The service reserves the right to use Content to run the service, to comply with the law and to enforce its policies. It does not differ by plan — there are no caveats for individual plans in the terms
the most direct transfer of rights in the output among the services checked, section 2, Intellectual Property Rights
source, checked 2026-08-07
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