Quick Answer

Vaza and Frase solve different jobs. Frase produces AI-generated content briefs and helps you write better articles before publishing. Vaza is an autonomous AI SEO agent that scans your live site daily and commits SEO, AEO, and GEO fixes directly to git. For SMBs without a developer to apply Frase's recommendations, Vaza usually replaces 60 to 80% of the stack with one tool. Content teams with a dedicated writer often run both.

What Each Tool Actually Does

Frase is an AI content optimisation platform. You give it a target keyword. It analyses the top-ranking pages and produces a content brief: target outline, recommended subheadings, FAQs, and a scoring editor that grades drafts in real time. It can also produce AI-drafted content. The output is an optimised article you publish through your CMS or git workflow.

Vaza is an autonomous AI SEO agent. You connect a git repository. Vaza scans the site daily, runs 87+ checks across SEO, AEO, GEO, performance, accessibility, schema, and security, then commits the fixes directly. The output is a git commit. You wake up to a green dashboard instead of a 200-item to-do list.

The two tools serve different jobs. Frase helps you write better. Vaza maintains the published site. Get a free side-by-side analysis and we will tell you which combination fits.

Capability Comparison

The clearest view is by capability area.

Capability	Frase	Vaza
AI content briefs	Yes	No
Real-time scoring editor	Yes	No
AI-generated drafts	Yes	No
Keyword research	Yes	Partial
Topic clusters and answer engine prep	Partial	Partial
Site-wide daily scan	No	Yes
Schema markup generation	No	Yes
Auto-fix metadata	No	Yes
Auto-fix image alt and srcset	No	Yes
Auto-fix internal linking	No	Yes
AEO optimisation (AI Overviews)	Limited	Yes
GEO optimisation (ChatGPT, Claude)	No	Yes
Voice search optimisation	No	Yes
Git integration with commits	No	Yes
Build verification before merge	No	Yes
Core Web Vitals fixes	No	Yes
Security headers	No	Yes
Accessibility fixes	No	Yes
llms.txt generation	No	Yes
LocalBusiness schema	No	Yes

Frase covers the content-writing surface. Vaza covers the published-site surface. The Venn overlap is small.

When Frase Wins

Frase is the right pick when:

You publish 4 or more articles per month and need fast, structured briefs
You have a writer who benefits from real-time scoring
Your bottleneck is brief quality, not publishing or schema work
You want AI-assisted drafts to speed up first-pass writing
Your CMS has good metadata and schema support already

Frase is genuinely strong for content teams. If your weekly job is "ship the next article," Frase reduces time-to-publish.

When Vaza Wins

Vaza is the right pick when:

Your site is git-backed (Next.js, Astro, Remix, SvelteKit, Hugo, Hydrogen)
You do not have a developer on hand for SEO fixes
You want AEO and GEO coverage, not just SEO
You publish fewer than 4 articles per month but maintain many pages
You are spending more than $500 a month across multiple SEO vendors
Every change should be a reviewable git commit

For the typical SMB with a marketing site, static blog, or headless commerce store, Vaza is the foundational tool.

85%

of the feature surface that Vaza covers is outside what Frase addresses, including schema, AEO, GEO, performance, and security

Pricing Comparison

Tier	Frase (per month)	Vaza (per month)
Entry	$45 (Solo)	$99 (1 site, daily scans, unlimited fixes)
Team	$115 (Basic)	$249 (3 sites, all 87 checks, AEO+GEO)
Growth	$315 (Team)	$499 (10 sites, priority support, custom skills)
Enterprise	Custom	Custom

Frase prices by document credits and seats. Vaza prices by site count with unlimited fixes. For SMBs publishing fewer than 10 articles per month and maintaining a small site, Vaza is usually less expensive overall. Content-heavy teams publishing 30+ articles per month often run both.

Who Should Use Both

If all three are true, run both:

A dedicated writer producing weekly content
A git-backed site that needs ongoing technical SEO maintenance
AEO and GEO ambitions requiring schema, llms.txt, and brand attribution

The combined setup is Frase for the writing workflow and Vaza for everything around it. Frase content goes into your repo as MDX or markdown, and Vaza maintains the published version.

Decision Matrix

Your situation	Best choice
Static marketing site, no writer on team	Vaza only
Heavy content publishing, no dev	Frase plus a freelance dev (or migrate to a Vaza-supported stack)
Mid-size content team plus git-backed site	Both
Agency serving many SMB clients	Both
WordPress without a theme repo	Frase plus a WordPress SEO plugin
Headless commerce or modern stack	Vaza only
Next.js with active content marketing	Both

The biggest decision factor is whether your site is git-backed. If yes, Vaza is the foundation. If no, Frase is the better one-tool starting point.

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Summary

Frase optimises content drafts. Vaza maintains the published site autonomously
The feature overlap is about 15%
Most SMBs save money by switching from Frase plus freelance SEO to Vaza alone
Heavy content teams often run both
The decision factor is git access. Git-backed sites favour Vaza, others favour Frase

If you are paying for Frase and still manually fixing schema, alt text, and metadata, the maths usually favours consolidation on an autonomous agent.

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FAQs

Is Vaza a Frase alternative?

Partially. Vaza replaces the site-maintenance portion of your stack (schema, metadata, AEO, GEO, performance, security). Frase optimises content drafts before publishing. For SMBs without a dedicated writer, Vaza alone usually covers the SEO workload. For content-heavy teams, Vaza and Frase are complementary.

Can Vaza generate content briefs like Frase?

Vaza handles structural content fixes (heading hierarchy, answer-first paragraphs, FAQ schema, question-form H2s for voice) but does not produce content briefs or AI drafts the way Frase does. If your bottleneck is content production, keep Frase. If your bottleneck is the published site, Vaza is the right tool.

Will I lose anything if I switch from Frase to Vaza?

You lose the AI brief generator, the scoring editor, and the AI draft assistant. You gain autonomous site maintenance, full AEO and GEO coverage, schema generation, image fixes, performance fixes, security headers, and continuous daily improvement. Most teams switching had been applying Frase recommendations manually anyway.

Does Vaza work for content-heavy blogs?

Yes. Vaza maintains the SEO of every published post automatically, ships Article and FAQ schema, generates breadcrumbs, optimises images, fixes internal linking, and adds GEO citation signals. You still write the posts. Vaza handles everything around them.

How does Vaza handle FAQ extraction the way Frase does?

Vaza adds FAQPage JSON-LD schema to pages that contain question-shaped content. It does not write new FAQs from scratch the way Frase does, but it makes existing FAQs machine-readable for AI Overviews, voice assistants, and ChatGPT search.

Can I trial Vaza alongside Frase?

Yes. The free Vaza audit shows you exactly which fixes the agent would commit on day one. You can keep Frase running, install Vaza in PR-mode, and see the actual diffs before deciding what to keep.

Does Vaza help with the answer-the-question patterns Frase is known for?

Yes. Vaza's aeo-answer-first and aeo-section-answer-first skills rewrite the first sentence under each H1 and H2 into a direct declarative answer, which is exactly the pattern AI Overviews extract. The output mirrors the same intent Frase encourages in their editor.

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